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John Duffy / Teacher-Scholar-Activist:
An Open Letter to Judge Amy Coney Barrett From Your Notre Dame Colleagues  —  We write to you as fellow faculty members at the University of Notre Dame.  —  We congratulate you on your nomination to the United States Supreme Court.  An appointment to the Court is the crowning achievement …
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CBS News:
Live updates: Amy Coney Barrett faces questions on Day 2 of Senate hearings  —  Washington — Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, declined to wade into the hot-button legal issues she is likely to face if confirmed to the bench, repeatedly telling senators she could not discuss potential cases.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump's words haunt Amy Coney Barrett as she vows not to be a ‘pawn’ on Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON — Again and again, Amy Coney Barrett insisted to senators on Tuesday that she has no “agenda” on issues like the Affordable Care Act, the future of abortion rights or same-sex marriage …
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Graham Takes Lead Over Harrison in South Carolina Amid Supreme Court Confirmation Fight
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Hill
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Justice Department sues author of Melania Trump tell-all book, says she broke non-disclosure agreement  — The Justice Department on Tuesday sued the author of a book about first lady Melania Trump, claiming the writer violated a non-disclosure agreement.  — The lawsuit in federal court …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
DOJ sues Melania Trump's former adviser for disclosures in her tell-all book  —  The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former adviser and confidant of first lady Melania Trump, alleging she breached a nondisclosure agreement when she published a scathing tell …
WRAL-TV:
Poll: Trump losing ground in NC  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Three weeks out from Election Day, President Donald Trump is losing ground to Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the battleground state of North Carolina, according to the results of a WRAL News poll released Tuesday.
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Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Prez Race Stays Tight; Dem Senate Candidate Gains  —  Incumbent maintains lead in governor's race  —  West Long Branch, NJ - It continues to be a very tight race for president in North Carolina according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.  The race for U.S. Senate has grown …
Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court ends Democratic lawmakers' anti-corruption lawsuit against Trump  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday put an end to a lawsuit brought by congressional Democrats that accused President Donald Trump of violating anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution with his business dealings.
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Trump asks Supreme Court to block subpoena for tax returns  —  President Trump's attorneys filed an emergency request on Tuesday asking the Supreme Court to block a lower court's ruling that would allow the Manhattan district attorney to enforce a subpoena for his personal and corporate tax returns.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Lets Trump Officials End Census Count Early
Discussion: Political Wire, Raw Story and The Week
Mary McNamara / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Make way for Slayer Pete.  Buttigieg is the Biden campaign's ruthless secret weapon  —  Mayor Pete has found his format: the five-minute, remote-feed evisceration.  —  He always looks so nice, Pete Buttigieg — handsome in that white, Midwestern, college yearbook way …
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Mamma Mia!  Rudy Giuliani Threw a Potential Superspreader Event for Trump on Columbus Day  —  It was Columbus Day in Pennsylvania, and in 2020 that could only mean one thing: Rudy Giuliani was in Philadelphia sounding like Livia Soprano.  —  As Donald Trump traveled to Florida …
Discussion: WHYY
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
How the 1619 Project took over 2020  —  One morning in mid-September, Nikole Hannah-Jones woke to a text message from a friend noting an unusual event on President Trump's schedule: the first “White House Conference on American History.”  —  It might have sounded banal, but Hannah-Jones …
Jessica Taylor / The Cook Political Report:
What is The Cook Political Report?  —  The Cook Political Report is an independent, non-partisan newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns for the US House of Representatives, US Senate, Governors and President as well as American political trends.
Mike Baker / New York Times:
Anchorage Mayor Admits to ‘Inappropriate’ Relationship With TV Anchor  —  Mayor Ethan Berkowitz apologized for engaging in a “consensual, inappropriate messaging relationship” with a local news anchor after she posted a photo on social media.  —  The mayor of Anchorage, Ethan Berkowitz …
Christopher Bing / Reuters:
Twitter suspends accounts for spam and manipulation that claim to be Black Trump supporters  —  (Reuters) - Twitter Inc suspended a group of accounts for spam and manipulation on Tuesday that commonly claimed to be African-American supporters of President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign, according to a company spokesperson.
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Washington Post:   Fake Twitter accounts posing as Black Trump supporters appear, reach thousands, then vanish
Brad McElhinny / WV MetroNews:
West Virginians favor Trump over Biden for president, latest poll shows  —  West Virginia once again overwhelmingly favors Donald J. Trump for president, although not by the dominating margin he achieved in his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton.  —  The latest edition of the MetroNews West …
Discussion: Washington Post
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI: Whitmer plotters also discussed kidnapping Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam  —  Accused conspirators charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also discussed “taking” Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, an FBI agent testified at a court hearing Tuesday.
New York Times:
California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State  —  Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to voter fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.  —  The California Republican Party has admitted responsibility for placing …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Campaign Suggests Omarosa Manigault Newman Pay for $1 Million in Ad Spending  —  The suggestion emerged in an arbitration case over the critical comments Ms. Manigault Newman, a former White House aide, made about President Trump in her 2018 book “Unhinged.”
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Incompetence Does Not Excuse His Authoritarianism  —  Three weeks from now, President Trump will probably — probably — lose a reelection campaign to an opponent he has trailed consistently for three years.  And he will probably — probably — lose by a large enough margin to moot …
Kelsey Bradshaw / Austin American-Statesman:
Travis County early voting: 14,000 people cast ballots as of noon Tuesday  —  Noon update: As of noon, 14,000 people voted in Travis County, Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said.  —  She said the first day of early voting tends to be the busiest, but expects lines and wait times to thin out over the next few days.
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Tara Reade penning memoir on coming forward as a Biden accuser, will be released before election  —  'Left Out: When The Truth Doesn't Fit In' will be released Oct. 27  —  EXCLUSIVE: Tara Reade is writing a memoir about the turbulent journey she has taken since coming forward with her allegation …
Felix Salmon / Axios:
Exclusive: America's true unemployment rate  —  A person who is looking for a full-time job that pays a living wage — but who can't find one — is unemployed.  If you accept that definition, the true unemployment rate in the U.S. is a stunning 26.1%, according to an important new dataset shared exclusively with “Axios on HBO.”
BuzzFeed News:
Bank Of America Raised Concerns About Michael Flynn's Suspicious Transfers — But Not Until Eight Months Later  —  In 2017, Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, acknowledged that he concealed lobbying work that may have helped another country, Turkey.
CNBC:
Facebook says it will finally ban anti-vaccination ads  — Facebook said Tuesday it is launching a new global policy that bans ads that discourage people from getting vaccines.  — The company previously had a policy against vaccine hoaxes that were publicly identified by global health organizations.
Joanne Rosa / ABC News:
Cindy McCain gives update on daughter Meghan McCain's baby: 'She's just perfect'  —  The widow of Sen. John McCain guest co-hosted “The View.”  —  Cindy McCain discusses Joe Biden endorsement  —  The widow of the late Sen. John McCain talks to “GMA” about her decision as a prominent Republican …
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Obama to hit the campaign trail for Biden ‘soon’ as race enters final weeks  —  The former president also appears in a new DNC ad out Tuesday.  —  Big turnout for early in-person voting leads to long lines in Georgia  —  Early voters in Georgia waited up to six hours to cast a ballot …
Discussion: Reuters and The Hill
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
The outlook for House Republicans keeps getting worse  —  Here's how grim things look for House Republicans three weeks out from the election: They're struggling to win back seats even in conservative bastions like Oklahoma and South Carolina, where Democrats staged shocking upsets in 2018.
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Andrew Cuomo book: Meadows threat over hydroxychloroquine  —  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo writes in “American Crisis,” out Tuesday, that White House chief of staff Mark Meadow implied a threat about federal funding for hospitals in New York state, after he demanded results from tests on hydroxychloroquine.
David Jackson / The Lancet Infectious Diseases:
Genomic evidence for reinfection with SARS-CoV-2: a case study  —  Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA  —  University of Nevada, Reno Center for Bioinformatics, Reno, NV, USA  —  Theiagen Consulting LLC, Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
American Enterprise Institute - AEI:
An analysis of Joe Biden's tax proposals, October 2020 update … - Using the Tax-Calculator (3.0.0) microsimulation model, we estimate that Joe Biden's propos­als would raise federal revenue by $2.8 trillion over the next decade (2021-30).  — The majority of new federal revenue …
 
 
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David Enrich / New York Times:
No, There Isn't Evidence That Trump Owes Money to Russia
Benjamin Rosenberg / Vox:
Trump and Biden will hold dueling town halls instead of a debate this Thursday
Zachary Brennan / Politico:
Eli Lilly antibody trial paused over safety concerns
Bloomberg:
Trump Demands a Plan to Withdraw U.S. Troops From Somalia
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Turkish Defector Says He Was Ordered to Kill Politician in Austria
Michael R. Pompeo / United States Department of State:
On Transparency and Foreign Funding of U.S. Think Tanks
Discussion: The Federalist
The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Polluting the Planet With a Thousand Mini-Dons
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Eric Trump rallies Republicans in Menomonee Falls while Pete Buttigieg speaks with Green Bay Democrats
Discussion: UpNorthNews and Bulwark+
 Earlier Items: 
Curbed:
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Romney decries state of America's ‘vile, vituperative, hate-filled’ politics, puts blame largely on Trump
Lydia DePillis / ProPublica:
Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.
Khalida Volou / wusa9.com:
Virginia voter registration down on last day to register to vote before election
New York Times:
How Quickly Will Your Absentee Vote Be Counted? A State-by-State Timeline
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Axios:
Always Trumpers: The president's unbreakable wall
Discussion: Maryland Matters
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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