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Orange County Register:
Unofficial ballot drop boxes popping up throughout the state worry elections officials — In a photo posted to social media last week, a young man wearing a mask with Orange County congressional candidate Michelle Steel's name on it is holding a mail ballot and giving a thumbs up next to a box …
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
California GOP installed unofficial ballot drop-off boxes. State officials say they're illegal. — The metal boxes have popped up around Southern California in recent weeks, from churches to gun stores to gyms. On the front, an authoritative-looking sign beckons to voters: “Official ballot drop-off box.”
Jacob Jarvis / Newsweek:
California GOP Accused of Setting Up Fake Official Ballot Drop-Off Boxes Across State — The California Republican Party has faced questions over unofficial drop-off boxes set up to collect mail-in ballots across the state. — Reports of such boxes, which claim to be official …
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The Week and Orange County Register
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans face the prospect of more House losses — DRIVING THE DAY — THE UNDERTOLD STORY in Washington right now is how KEVIN MCCARTHY'S House Republican minority is likely to thin quite significantly after this election. STEVE SHEPARD, our election guru …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Majority says wait on the SCOTUS seat; 6 in 10 favor upholding Roe: POLL
Majority says wait on the SCOTUS seat; 6 in 10 favor upholding Roe: POLL
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Political Wire and The Hill
Adam J. Levitin / American Prospect:
Supersize the Supreme Court to Save It
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett to begin in Senate
Confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett to begin in Senate
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Issues & Insights:
Beyond Court Packing: Here's How Dems Plan To Create A One-Party State
Beyond Court Packing: Here's How Dems Plan To Create A One-Party State
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Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and American Thinker
Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
Biden Campaign Continues To Deflect On Court-Packing
Biden Campaign Continues To Deflect On Court-Packing
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Scott Lemieux / NBC News:
Republicans aren't being honest about why Amy Coney Barrett has their support. They can't be.
Republicans aren't being honest about why Amy Coney Barrett has their support. They can't be.
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Barrett Supreme Court hearing expected to focus on health care, with the pandemic looming over the proceeding
Barrett Supreme Court hearing expected to focus on health care, with the pandemic looming over the proceeding
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump takes his Covid misinformation machine back on the road
Trump takes his Covid misinformation machine back on the road
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Associated Press:
Trump's task: Resetting campaign that GOP fears is slipping — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is running out of time to recover from a series of self-inflicted setbacks that have rattled his base of support and triggered alarm among Republicans who fear the White House is on the verge of being lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
New York Times:
The Billionaire Who Stood by Jeffrey Epstein — Leon Black, whose $9 billion fortune could buy the best counsel in the world, paid at least $50 million to Mr. Epstein for advice and services after most others had deserted him. — The billionaire financier Leon Black …
Politico:
How Biden could end 2020 on election night — and why Trump's path is unlikely — President Donald Trump has demanded to know the results of the 2020 election on election night, even though some states warn that it will take days to count their votes. But if there is a winner declared on Nov. 3 …
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ABC News, Florida Politics and Raw Story
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
CNN exclusive: Fauci says he was taken out of context in new Trump campaign ad touting coronavirus response — (CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci did not consent to being featured in a new advertisement from the Trump campaign touting President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Raheem Kassam / The National Pulse:
VOTE BIDEN GET ‘CROOKED’: Hillary Auditions For SecDef In 5000-Word Pro-Biden Article Which Admits Massive Defense Jobs Cuts Plan — FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, U.S. SENATOR, AND BENGHAZI BELITTLER HILLARY CLINTON HAS PENNED A 5000-WORD OPINION EDITORIAL FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE …
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Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
The Lincoln Project: Career Republicans call on Americans to vote out President Trump — A group of longtime Republican strategists who have worked with the likes of John McCain and George W. Bush have launched a scorching campaign against the president. Lesley Stahl reports.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
An Arrest in Canada Casts a Shadow on a New York Times Star, and The Times — A top editor is now reviewing Rukmini Callimachi's reporting on terrorism, which turned distant conflicts into accessible stories but drew criticism from colleagues. — Derek Henry Flood wasn't looking for work in March of 2018 …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans' Readiness to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Falls to 50% — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' willingness to be vaccinated against the coronavirus has dropped 11 percentage points, falling to 50% in late September. This sharp decline comes after the percentage dwindled from 66% in July to 61% in August.
Alex Turner-Cohen / news.com.au:
Coronavirus: WHO backflips on virus stance by condemning lockdowns — Lockdowns have been used to control the coronavirus around the world. Now a WHO official has questioned the success of them. — Video — Image — WHO's huge lockdown backflip (VIDEO: The Spectator)
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The Gamble — Long before COVID-19 or the economic collapse that followed in its wake, President Trump gambled his re-election prospects on the assumption that his base would be enough to ensure his re-election. Since the first days of his presidency, Trump rewarded those who already liked …
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Pam Belluck / New York Times:
‘I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors — The condition is affecting thousands of patients, impeding their ability to work and function in daily life. — After contracting the coronavirus in March, Michael Reagan lost all memory of his 12-day vacation in Paris …
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Althouse, Gothamist and Occupy Democrats
Craig Gilbert / USA Today:
These 6 swing states are pivotal in the White House race. But what are the keys to winning each state? — USA TODAY Network reporters explore battlegrounds within 6 swing states- the keys to the political map in the states likely to choose the next president. — Michigan again expected to be a key battleground
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
The New York Times Guild Once Again Demands Censorship Of Colleagues … The New York Times Guild, the union of employees of the Paper of Record, tweeted a condemnation on Sunday of one of their own colleagues, op-ed columnist Bret Stephens. Their denunciation was marred by humiliating typos …
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Reason, Power Line, Twitchy and Instapundit
Politico:
‘Green tsunami’: Inside Senate Republicans' financial freak-out — In mid-April, senior advisers to a dozen Republican senators gathered on the second floor of the National Republican Senatorial Committee's offices, where NRSC executive director Kevin McLaughlin detailed …
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Political Wire
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
Florida Sees Signals of a Climate-Driven Housing Crisis — Home sales in areas most vulnerable to sea-level rise began falling around 2013, researchers found. Now, prices are following a similar downward path. — If rising seas cause America's coastal housing market to dive — or …
Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
Trump taps U.S. Marine Band for White House event and raises questions about employing the military for political purposes — When President Trump, recovering from the novel coronavirus, welcomed hundreds of people on Saturday to what resembled a campaign rally on the White House grounds …
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The Moderate Voice
Rachel M. Cohen / The Intercept:
Locked in Tight Race, GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan Caught in Environmental Scandal … In the final month of his reelection campaign, Alaska's one-term Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan is fighting to recover from a scandal that ties him more closely to a controversial mining project opposed by the majority of voters in his state.
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Daily Kos and Anchorage Daily News
Kevin Vaughan / KUSA-TV:
Suspect in Denver shooting near dueling rallies wasn't licensed as a security guard, officials say — Matthew Dolloff was being held Sunday without bail on suspicion of first-degree murder following the shooting that left one man dead. — DENVER — Records show the man being held …
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Redstate, Denver Post, Fox News and KVIA-TV