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Washington Post:
‘Unmasking’ probe commissioned by Barr quietly concludes without charges or any public report — The federal prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William P. Barr to review whether Obama-era officials improperly requested the identities of individuals whose names were redacted …
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CNN, Political Wire, The Gateway Pundit, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Barrett apologizes for calling sexual orientation a ‘preference’ — Amy Coney Barrett apologized Tuesday for referring to sexual orientation as a “preference” during the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. — “I certainly didn't mean and would never mean to use a term …
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Vox, Fox News and New York Times
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 …
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CBS News:
Live updates: Amy Coney Barrett faces questions on Day 2 of Senate hearings
Live updates: Amy Coney Barrett faces questions on Day 2 of Senate hearings
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CNN, BBC, Vanity Fair, Transgender Legal Defense …, The Atlantic, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Florida Phoenix, IJR, Mic, Minnesota Reformer, Raw Story, CBS Los Angeles and The Week
Ginger Gibson / NBC News:
Group of 88 Notre Dame faculty pens letter asking Barrett to refuse nomination
Group of 88 Notre Dame faculty pens letter asking Barrett to refuse nomination
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POLITICUSUSA, Mother Jones and Raw Story
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Why The Amy Coney Barrett Hearings Are Verging On The Absurd
Why The Amy Coney Barrett Hearings Are Verging On The Absurd
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Axios, Washington Post, The Guardian and Raw Story
Reuters:
U.S. Justice Department accuses Melania Trump book author of breaking nondisclosure pact — The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday accused Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, author of a tell-all book about first lady Melania Trump, of breaking their nondisclosure agreement and asked a court …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
First lady unseen as Trump restarts campaign after COVID-19 — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his wife received their positive COVID-19 tests on the same day. He's already returned to campaigning, but there's been no public sighting yet of the first lady.
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Political Wire and Associated Press
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 …
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New York Times:
‘Straight to Gunshots’: How a U.S. Task Force Killed an Antifa Activist — New accounts from the scene raise questions about whether Michael Reinoehl, suspected of killing a far-right Trump supporter, pulled out a gun before officers fatally shot him. — Michael Reinoehl was on the run.
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Lets Trump Officials End Census Count Early — The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration end the census count more than two weeks early, dealing a blow to civil rights groups that said minorities will be undercounted as a result.
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Trump asks Supreme Court to block subpoena for tax returns
Trump asks Supreme Court to block subpoena for tax returns
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Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Supreme Court halts census in latest twist of 2020 count
Supreme Court halts census in latest twist of 2020 count
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CNN, Townhall, Good Day Sacramento, The Hill, Axios, The Daily Caller, Reuters and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Trump's campaign nearly went broke for the 2020 home stretch amid Brad Parscale's $200 million budgeting misfire, Republicans tell Insider … - Before his ouster earlier this summer as President Donald Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale had been banking on a $200 million cash surge for October, Republicans told Insider.
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 …
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Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sun-Sentinel, The Hill and Fox News
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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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The National Interest and Washington Times
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Pelosi chafes at Wolf Blitzer's questions on Covid talks — An interview between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and CNN's Wolf Blitzer grew uncharacteristically tense on Tuesday as the California Democrat was pressed to explain why she had rejected the GOP's latest coronavirus stimulus proposal.
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Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
Pelosi Calls CNN ‘Apologists’ For Republicans In Heated Interview With Wolf Blitzer
Pelosi Calls CNN ‘Apologists’ For Republicans In Heated Interview With Wolf Blitzer
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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
DOJ says Trump's tweets “declassifying” Russia documents are not orders — Attorneys from the Department of Justice argued in court on Tuesday that President Trump's tweets authorizing the “total declassification of any & all documents” related to the Russia investigation and Hillary Clinton's emails …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Biden and Trump step up their fight for older voters — Joe Biden on Tuesday made his most direct appeal yet to older voters, seeking to lock in support from a group that favored President Trump four years ago but has emerged as one of the most significant groups to potentially shift toward Biden in 2020.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
How can 42 percent of Americans still support the worst president in our history? — I have some good news and some bad news. The good news: 52 percent of Americans support Joe Biden in the FiveThirtyEight poll average. The bad news: 42 percent support President Trump. Why isn't Trump losing by a whole lot more?
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The Guardian, NPR and New York Post
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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, The Philadelphia Inquirer, WHYY and Mediaite
Kathleen Ronayne / Associated Press:
Trump intensifies focus on Harris in final weeks of campaign — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Grasping for a comeback, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are intensifying their focus not on Democratic nominee Joe Biden, but on his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris …
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Benjamin Rosenberg / Vox:
Trump and Biden will hold dueling town halls instead of a debate this Thursday
Trump and Biden will hold dueling town halls instead of a debate this Thursday
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Washington Times, The Hill and Just The News
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Touts Falconer's Benghazi Blood-Sacrifice Conspiracy Theory — Trump's endorsement of the insane story shot it to national prominence, fueling the bizarre allegations about blood sacrifice and Bin Laden body doubles. — President Donald Trump backed a budding conspiracy theory …
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Raw Story
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: White House Embraces ‘Herd Immunity’ Declaration — The Midwest and West are driving a virus surge in the U.S. The Eli Lilly antibody trial is paused because of potential safety concerns, just a day after Johnson & Johnson announced the pause of its coronavirus vaccine trial because of a sick volunteer.
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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 …
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The Daily Caller, The Hill, New York Post and Anchorage Daily News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump admits it: The intervention he desperately needs isn't going to come — President Trump has been reliving the glory days of 2016 a lot lately. — At a rally in Florida on Monday night, Trump waxed nostalgic: “Did we win Florida last time? Was that beautiful?”
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Redstate, CNN, The Capitolist, Washington Times and Alternet.org
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Another pro-Trump ad uses footage from Russia — A new pro-Trump super PAC ad uses stock footage from Russia and Belarus in a major ad buy that's airing in three swing states. It's the fourth time in three months that an ad promoting President Donald Trump's reelection has used footage from Russia.
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The Hill and Political Wire
Davey Alba / New York Times:
Riled Up: Misinformation Stokes Calls for Violence on Election Day — Baseless claims are circulating online about a Democrat-led coup, inflaming tensions in an already turbulent election season. — In a video posted to Facebook on Sept. 14, Dan Bongino, a popular right-wing commentator and radio host …
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 …
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Breitbart and No More Mister Nice Blog
Larry McShane / New York Daily News:
Multi-billion dollar Nike kicks popular Bronx sporting goods store to the curb after a half-century — Nike just did it: The global powerhouse, with its $250 Air Jordan Retro sneakers, is kicking the venerable Frank's Sport Shop to the Bronx curb. — The multi-billion dollar corporation sent …
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 …
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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.
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 …
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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.”