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Sheila Kaplan / New York Times:
White House Blocked C.D.C. From Requiring Masks on Public Transportation — The order would have mandated that both passengers and employees wear face coverings on planes, trains, buses and subways and in airports, stations and depots. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drafted …
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: With Clock Ticking Down, Trump Lashes Out — President Trump, down by double digits in national polls, is attacking his enemies and even his aides. His doctor said the president could return to public engagements tomorrow. Joe Biden heads to Nevada today.
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Trump planning to host 1st in-person event since diagnosis at White House on Saturday: Sources — His doctor said the president can hold “public engagements” starting Saturday. — Trump calls virtual debate ‘waste of time’ — The latest on the next presidential debate …
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New York Times:
Trump's Struggles Ripple Across the Sun Belt, Endangering G.O.P. Stronghold — President Trump is fading nationally as he alienates women, seniors and suburbanites, polls show. But private G.O.P. surveys show he is in close races in solidly red states, too.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Barr tells Republicans Durham report won't be ready by election
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Washington Post:
Trump will speak at a public event at the White House; it is not clear if he's still contagious with coronavirus
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump invites thousands to hear him speak from White House balcony on Saturday
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
On Hannity's show, Trump reveals his corrupt, panicky endgame
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Timothy Annett / Bloomberg:
Fauci Calls White House Ceremony a ‘Super-Spreader Event’ — Trump, others tested positive for coronavirus after event — Many attendees had shunned masks, mingled closely indoors — Anthony Fauci, the U.S.'s top infectious-disease expert, said that a gathering in the White House Rose Garden …
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump launches his post-coronavirus recovery tour — President Donald Trump on Saturday will address hundreds of supporters on the South Lawn of the White House before traveling to Florida on Monday for a rally, marking his return to public events after being hobbled by the coronavirus.
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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: The Northeast Held the Virus in Check. Now Cases Are Inching Up Again.
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CNN:
Commission cancels second debate between Trump and Biden — Next debate up in the air after COVID-infected Trump refuses to do it remotely — (CNN)The Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday canceled the second debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden after the President declined …
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Plans In-Person White House Event for Saturday — President Trump is planning to hold his first in-person event since being treated for coronavirus — WASHINGTON—President Trump is planning to hold his first in-person events since being treated for Covid-19, with a gathering …
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ABC News:
2nd presidential debate between Biden and Trump canceled
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Bob Dole ‘concerned’ debate commission full of never-Trumpers
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
‘The president is likely toast’: Trump's woes raise GOP fears of a blue wave — WASHINGTON — A series of setbacks for President Donald Trump has left some Republican operatives and donors fearing that the race for the White House is slipping away and proposing that the party shift focus to protecting seats in Congress.
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Politico:
Republicans are finally ready to diss Don
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else's. — Donald Trump was on the phone, and he was talking about dying. It was Saturday, October 3, and while his doctor had told the outside world …
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
South Carolina Debate Canceled After Lindsey Graham Refuses COVID Test — The debate cancelation announcement: … Advertisements — The only reason for the cancelation of the Senate debate is Lindsey Graham's refusal to be tested for the coronavirus. — Either Lindsey Graham knows …
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Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
SC Senate debate replaced by separate interviews after Harrison insists on COVID tests — COLUMBIA — Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison will no longer debate Friday night after Harrison declined to participate unless Graham took a coronavirus test in advance and Graham denied the request.
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New York Times:
TRUMP ENGINEERED A SUDDEN WINDFALL IN 2016 AS CAMPAIGN FUNDS DWINDLED — Tax records expose more than $21 million in highly unusual payments from the Las Vegas hotel Donald Trump owns with Phil Ruffin, routed through other Trump companies and paid out in cash. — Donald J. Trump needed money.
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New York Times:
Election Less Than a Month Away, Trump Leans on Barr and Pompeo for a Lift — The secretary of state said he would make Hillary Clinton's emails public, handing the president a weapon to attack his political foes as the attorney general resisted his overtures to prosecute them.
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Washington Post:
Trump, lagging in polls, pressures Justice Dept. to target Democrats and criticizes Barr
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Pompeo says he's working to release Clinton's State Department emails
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump personnel office weighs asking appointees to offer their resignations — The White House Presidential Personnel Office is considering asking nearly every political appointee in the Trump administration to write and tender provisional letters of resignation right before the election …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Cyber Command has sought to disrupt the world's largest botnet, hoping to reduce its potential impact on the election — In recent weeks, the U.S. military has mounted an operation to temporarily disrupt what is described as the world's largest botnet — one used also to drop ransomware …
Paul John Scott / Duluth News Tribune:
9 COVID cases linked to Trump's Bemidji rally; 2 hospitalized, 1 in ICU, state says — ST. PAUL — Minnesota's current COVID-19 surge shows no signs of slowing. The Health Department on Friday, Oct. 9, reported another 1,401 newly confirmed cases and 14 more deaths. Hospitalization rates continue to trend upward.
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Sixteen ‘Boogaloo’ Followers Have Been Busted in 7 Days — The takedown of the plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was just the tip of the iceberg. — A Madison Heights, Michigan, man killed by FBI agents during a still-murky standoff over a weapons warrant.
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Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:
Alleged Baltimore-area member of far-right ‘Boogaloo’ movement arrested on federal gun charge
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CBS News:
Longtime Republican strategists behind the Lincoln Project mounting rogue offensive against Donald Trump — Former operatives for John McCain and George W. Bush are calling on Americans to vote for a Democrat in the presidential election. Sunday, Lesley Stahl reports on the Lincoln Project …
CNN:
Amy Coney Barrett failed to disclose talks on Roe v. Wade hosted by anti-abortion groups on Senate paperwork — (CNN)Judge Amy Coney Barrett failed to disclose two talks she gave in 2013 hosted by two anti-abortion student groups on paperwork provided to the Senate ahead of her confirmation hearing …
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Washington Post:
Hope Hicks returned to the White House to pull Trump across the finish line. Then coronavirus hit. — When she returned to the White House on March 9 after two years away and a lucrative stint in corporate PR, Hope Hicks was supposed to be a talisman to re-create the magic of President Trump's against-the-odds 2016 campaign.
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Ben Popken / NBC News:
Regeneron board member and executive sell $1 million in stock after Trump touts treatment — A Regeneron executive and one of its directors sold $1 million worth of stocks two days after President Donald Trump announced he was taking their therapeutic, recent filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal.
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Evan Siegfried / NBC News:
Covid isn't why Trump is losing seniors' support. But it isn't helping him. … The current thinking is that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are faring so poorly with America's senior voters because of their response to Covid-19 — in particular, the president's severely inadequate actions …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's 11th Hour Campaign Gambit: Give Voters Cash — MORE MONEY, LESS PROBLEMS — The president ran successfully as a populist in 2016. But as he tries to recapture the formula, he's running into some hurdles—mainly, his record. — Hitting the closing stretch of the election …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump chose his political brand over his presidency — WASHINGTON — Less than a month out from Election Day, President Donald Trump is dealing with a hostage crisis of sorts — he is both the captor and the captive of a badly tarnished political brand. — The more it fades, the more he tends to it.
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Congressman Jamie Raskin:
Raskin Reintroduces 25th Amendment Legislation Establishing Independent Commission on Presidential Capacity — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi today convened a press conference to introduce legislation establishing a Commission on Presidential Capacity …
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Rachel Sandler / Forbes:
60 Employees Leave Coinbase Over CEO's Pledge To Be Apolitical — More than 60 Coinbase employees have taken an exit package after CEO Brian Armstrong said in a controversial blog post last month that the company would not participate in social activism. — KEY FACTS
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