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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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CNN:
Democrats know they will lose on Barrett, but are aiming for a bigger win  —  Elie Honig is a CNN legal analyst and former federal and state prosecutor.  The views expressed in this commentary are his own.  View more opinion on CNN.  Watch Honig answer readers' questions on “CNN Newsroom with Ana Cabrera” on weekends.
Discussion: New York Post, WISH-TV and The Wrap
The Daily Beast:
Trump World Prays He Can Shut Up for Amy Coney Barrett Week
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Graham Takes Lead Over Harrison in South Carolina Amid Supreme Court Confirmation Fight
Discussion: The Hill
Gabriel Hays / Newsbusters:
‘Clown Car Vagina’: Feminists Hurl Sexist Attacks at Amy Coney Barrett's Motherhood
Discussion: Redstate and Twitchy
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
The Irony at the Heart of the Amy Coney Barrett Fight
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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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 …
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 …
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.
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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 …
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Khalida Volou / wusa9.com:
Virginia voter registration down on last day to register to vote before election  —  Officials say that a cut cable is to blame for the “temporary” system shutdown.  —  WASHINGTON — An accidentally cut cable has caused the entire Virginia voter registration system to go down on the last day to register to vote before election day.
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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.
New York Times:
How Quickly Will Your Vote Be Counted?  A State-by-State Timeline  —  A lot of voters are asking these questions right now: How quickly will ballots be counted in the presidential election?  Which states will have results — and possibly a winner — on election night?
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Wall Street Journal:   Mail Balloting Is Fueling Historic Early Voting in the 2020 Election
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.”
Axios:
Always Trumpers: The president's unbreakable wall  —  More than 85% of elected Republicans who have been in Congress throughout President Trump's term have largely stood by him through seven crises that would have crushed most politicians, according to a comprehensive new study by “Axios on HBO.”
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: Raw Story
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.
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 …
Discussion: Townhall
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 …
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
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Romney decries state of America's ‘vile, vituperative, hate-filled’ politics, puts blame largely on Trump  —  Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Tuesday he's fed up with how “vile” and “vituperative” American politics have become, placing the blame largely on President Donald Trump.
Tim Alberta / Politico:
3 More Funny Feelings About 2020  —  Donald Trump has recovered from Covid-19 and emerged from quarantine telling Americans that he feels 20 years younger.  Now if only the president could put his poll numbers on steroids.  —  I told you last Tuesday that while it's no time to be making predictions …
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Eric Trump rallies Republicans in Menomonee Falls while Pete Buttigieg speaks with Green Bay Democrats  —  MENOMONEE FALLS - With three weeks to go to the Nov. 3 election, President Donald Trump's campaign is back on the road in Wisconsin.  —  Eric Trump, the president's middle son …
Megan Thee Stallion / New York Times:
Why I Speak Up for Black Women  —  I'm not afraid of criticism, and “Protect Black women” should not be controversial.  —  Megan Thee Stallion is an entertainer, philanthropist and entrepreneur.  —  In the weeks leading up to the election, Black women are expected once again to deliver victory for Democratic candidates.
Elizabeth Neumann / USA Today:
Trump made it hard for me to protect America.  How could I vote for him again?  How could anyone?  —  My job was to keep Americans safe and Trump was my biggest obstacle.  He ignored white nationalist violence, ignored COVID-19, and nearly started a war.
WKRC:
Local 12 speaks 1-on-1 with Joe Biden as he visits Cincinnati for campaign event  —  CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The battle for Ohio voters is heating up with polls showing the race essentially tied right now.  Democratic nominee Joe Biden made his way to Cincinnati Monday evening to speak directly to voters.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Imagining the Trump Presidency That Wasn't  —  A politically incorrect administration might have succeeded where this one failed.  —  Where would we be now if we had a truly politically incorrect president?  Donald Trump is supposed to be politically incorrect, but, for the most part, he isn't.
Curbed:
Curbed Is Now at Home at New York We can't imagine a better fit.  —  Today, the pioneering website Curbed is joining New York as our home for coverage of cities and city life.  We can't imagine a better fit.  For almost 16 years, we at New York have watched as Curbed documented …
Maj. Adam DeMarco / Task & Purpose:
Why I blew the whistle on the forceful clearing of Lafayette Square  —  National Guard Maj. Adam DeMarco explains why he chose to testify before Congress on the precarious position the U.S. military was put in during the June clearing of Lafayette Square — and what it means for civil-military relations
Lydia DePillis / ProPublica:
Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy.  Nobody Knows What Happens Next.  —  Trump's trade representative joined the administration with one mission: Bring factory jobs back from overseas.  The results so far?  Endless trade wars, alienated allies, and a manufacturing recession.
 
 
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Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Manhattan federal prosecutors declined to pursue Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell case in 2016: sources
Discussion: The Guardian, The Daily Beast and UPI
Houston Chronicle:
Early voting opens with long lines at some Houston polling sites, glitches in Fort Bend
Connor Harris / City Journal:
Fighting Racism Instead of Disease
Hailey Fuchs / New York Times:
With Polling Sites Lacking Workers, a New Generation Steps Up
Bonchie / Redstate:
Dr. Fauci Isn't Stupid, He Just Thinks You Are
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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Texas' Abbott praises court ruling reinstating 1 ballot drop box per county
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Pushing ‘Brain Room’ to Lend Credibility to Trump's Voter Fraud Paranoia, Insiders Say
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan donate $100 million more to election administrators, despite conservative pushback
The Daily Beast:
Dr. Fauci: The Trump Campaign Is ‘In Effect, Harassing Me’
 

 
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The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
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