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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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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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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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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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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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IJR, Fox News, National Review and New York Post
ABC News:
Trump planning to host 1st in-person event since diagnosis at White House on Saturday: Sources
Trump planning to host 1st in-person event since diagnosis at White House on Saturday: Sources
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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
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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Washington Post:
Two students and a teacher at school attended by Barrett children test positive for coronavirus
Two students and a teacher at school attended by Barrett children test positive for coronavirus
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ABC News, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Hill and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: The Northeast Held the Virus in Check. Now Cases Are Inching Up Again.
Covid-19 Live Updates: The Northeast Held the Virus in Check. Now Cases Are Inching Up Again.
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Washington Post, Iowa Starting Line and Daily Kos
CNN:
Commission cancels second debate between Trump and Biden
Commission cancels second debate between Trump and Biden
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump invites thousands to hear him speak from White House balcony on Saturday
Trump invites thousands to hear him speak from White House balcony on Saturday
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NPR, Mediaite, Bloomberg and Outside the Beltway
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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Raw Story, Mediaite, Forbes and POLITICUSUSA
Politico:
Republicans are finally ready to diss Don — For Republicans, fearful of a possible electoral disaster just weeks away, it has become safe at last to diss Donald Trump — or at least to distance themselves from him in unmistakably purposeful ways. — A barrage of barbed comments …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
‘The president is likely toast’: Trump's woes raise GOP fears of a blue wave
‘The president is likely toast’: Trump's woes raise GOP fears of a blue wave
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Raw Story, CNN, Political Wire, Slate and National Review
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 — President Trump publicly pressured the Justice Department on Friday to move against his political adversaries and complained that Attorney General William P. Barr is not doing enough to deliver results …
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Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Russia Probe Ordered by Barr Won't Release Findings Before Election
Russia Probe Ordered by Barr Won't Release Findings Before Election
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Pompeo says he's working to release Clinton's State Department emails
Pompeo says he's working to release Clinton's State Department emails
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New York Post, WHDH-TV, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Moderate Voice, The Hill, National File, TheBlaze and Mediaite
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
US judge blocks Abbott order limiting ballot drop-off locations — A federal judge issued an order Friday night barring enforcement of Gov. Greg Abbott's Oct. 1 proclamation that limited counties to one mail-in ballot drop-off location. — U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Abbott's order placed …
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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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Jonathan Tilove / Austin American-Statesman:
Royce West won't vote for MJ Hegar, says 'she's had a problem all along with Black folks' — State Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, who finished a close second to MJ Hegar in the runoff for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in July, said Friday that he is not voting for Hegar in her bid to unseat Sen. John Cornyn.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The 1619 Chronicles — Journalism does better when it writes the first rough draft of history, not the last word on it. — If there's one word admirers and critics alike can agree on when it comes to The New York Times's award-winning 1619 Project, it's ambition. Ambition to reframe America's conversation about race.
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The Federalist
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
AJ Dellinger / Mic:
These shadowy groups are spending millions to put Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court — Senate Republicans have made it clear that nothing — not their own words, not the overwhelming public disapproval for a rushed nomination, not even the coronavirus — will stop them from putting Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
At Disney World, ‘Worst Fears’ About Virus Have Not Come True — Attendance has been low since the July reopening, but health officials and worker unions also say safety protocols have kept the coronavirus at bay. — In July, one infectious disease expert said Walt Disney World's reopening was a …
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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New York Times and FOX 11 Los Angeles
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Justice Department cancels diversity training, including for immigration judges — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has suspended all diversity and inclusion training and events for its employees, according to a memo obtained by The Chronicle, which would include judges in San Francisco …
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New York Times
Ali Harb in / Middle East Eye:
Trump says Iran is on notice not to ‘f**k around’ with US — President Donald Trump says 'you don't see terror' in Middle East because of his sanctions against Iran — US President Donald Trump talked up his Iran policy in a profanity-laden tirade on Friday, telling conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh …
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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Reed Galen / Salt Lake Tribune:
Mike Lee doesn't need your democracy — Mike Lee, Utah's senior U.S. senator, hasn't said or done much of note in his nine years in office. The past two weeks have been busy for him, though. — First, Lee was one of 34 people to test positive for COVID-19 after attending a White House event …
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Steph Bazzle / HillReporter.com:
Fair Count Rallies To Protect Black Voters From Being Silenced In Presidential Election — Fair Count is an organization devoted to making sure that some of the voices in America that are often targeted for suppression are, instead, amplified and included. They're doing work …