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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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Bloomberg, The Hill, Raw Story, CBS Los Angeles, The Week and electionlawblog.org
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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.”
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Talking Points Memo, CBS Los Angeles and Vox
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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Raw Story, The Week and Orange County Register
Issues & Insights:
Beyond Court Packing: Here's How Dems Plan To Create A One-Party State — Joe Biden has so far refused to answer the question of whether he'd pack the Supreme Court with leftist justices. But he hasn't even been asked about a more worrisome scheme he and his party are cooking …
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Fox News, Townhall, Vox, Bloomberg and American Thinker
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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, The Hill, Slate, New York Times and Washington Post
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans face the prospect of more House losses
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans face the prospect of more House losses
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Fox News and Talking Points Memo
Max Burns / The Daily Beast:
Will Amy Coney Barrett Finally Explain Her Ties to Anti-Gay Hate Group?
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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Fox News, Axios, New York Times, The Hill, NBC News, The Boston Globe, Breitbart, Reuters, Columbia Journalism Review, Slate, CNN, USA Today, NPR, LewRockwell, One America News Network, Bloomberg, Redstate, CNBC, Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, SCOTUSblog, Forbes and WSPA-TV, more at Mediagazer »
Adam J. Levitin / American Prospect:
Supersize the Supreme Court to Save It
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Schumer says Democrats won't give GOP quorum to advance Barrett nomination
Schumer says Democrats won't give GOP quorum to advance Barrett nomination
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The American Independent, Townhall, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TheBlaze, NPR, UPI and Raw Story
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.
Brian Fung / CNN:
Microsoft takes down massive hacking operation that could have affected the election — Washington (CNN Business)Microsoft has disrupted a massive hacking operation that it said could have indirectly affected election infrastructure if allowed to continue. — The company said Monday it took …
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Washington Post:
Microsoft disrupts Russian criminal botnet it fears could seek to sow confusion in the presidential election
Microsoft disrupts Russian criminal botnet it fears could seek to sow confusion in the presidential election
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth and Political Wire
Tom Burt / Microsoft on the Issues:
New action to combat ransomware ahead of U.S. elections
New action to combat ransomware ahead of U.S. elections
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Reuters and The Daily Caller
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Heavy turnout creates lines as polls open in Georgia for early voting — By Mark Niesse - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Kristal Dixon - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ben Brasch - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tyler Estep - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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
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:
‘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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Raw Story and Political Wire
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
Portland protesters topple statues of Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln in ‘Day of Rage’; police declare riot — Protesters topple statues of former presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln — A group of protesters toppled statues of former presidents Theodore Roosevelt …
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Redstate, National Review, KGW-TV, Fox News, WOWK-TV, The Hill, The Right Scoop, The Guardian, New York Post, Breitbart and Reason
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.
Hunter Woodall / The Daily Beast:
Sanford, Florida, Braces for Trump's ‘Crazy’ COVID Roadshow — “Do I think it's safe to have this rally? No I don't,” one business owner told The Daily Beast. — If it was up to Patrick Austin, President Donald Trump would hold off from heading to Sanford, Florida …
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Daily Kos and One America News Network
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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 …
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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Military.com
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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 …
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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The Federalist, Townhall, Redstate, The Daily Caller, Twitchy, TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop and Washington Examiner
Public Policy Polling:
Montana Senate Tight As Can Be — PPP's new Montana poll finds the race for Senate as tight as it can be. Steve Bullock and Steve Daines are each at 48%. Beyond that, they have nearly identical approval ratings for their work in their current offices. Bullock has a net +4 rating as Governor …
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Political Wire
Investor's Business Daily:
IBD/TIPP Presidential Election Tracking Poll 2020 — From now through election day on Nov. 3, the IBD/TIPP Presidential Tracking Poll will post daily results of the race for the White House between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. — Update: Joe Biden holds …
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Political Wire
Monika Bickert / About Facebook:
Removing Holocaust Denial Content — Today we are updating our hate speech policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust. — Organizations that study trends in hate speech are reporting increases in online attacks against many groups worldwide, and we continue our efforts to remove it.
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TechCrunch, Variety and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Mark Zuckerberg is spending millions like never before to overhaul a landmark law — The billionaire Facebook founder is making the most expensive electoral play of his career. — SHARE All sharing options — Mark Zuckerberg is politically worn down these days — besieged from both the left …
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.
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Axios
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, Fox News, Joanne Jacobs, Mediaite, Twitchy and Power Line, more at Mediagazer »
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
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