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New York Post:
Emails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big on behalf of family with Chinese firm — Hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving China's largest private energy company — including one that he said would be “interesting for me and my family,” emails obtained by The Post show.
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Rupert Murdoch Predicts a Landslide Win for Biden — The Australian mogul is disgusted by Trump's handling of COVID-19, remarking that the president is his own worst enemy and telling associates, ‘people are ready for Sleepy Joe.’ … President Trump's influential supporter Rupert Murdoch …
New York Times:
Allegation on Biden Prompts Pushback From Social Media Companies
Allegation on Biden Prompts Pushback From Social Media Companies
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David Harsanyi / National Review:
Twitter's Un-American Censorship of the New York Post
Twitter's Un-American Censorship of the New York Post
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Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
A user on a far-right message board was promoting the NY Post Hunter Biden articles days in advance
A user on a far-right message board was promoting the NY Post Hunter Biden articles days in advance
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Sonam Sheth / Business Insider:
US intelligence analysts feared Russia would dump hacked and forged Burisma emails targeting Biden as an ‘October surprise,’ report says
US intelligence analysts feared Russia would dump hacked and forged Burisma emails targeting Biden as an ‘October surprise,’ report says
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Daily Kos, The National Interest, DemCast and TheBlaze
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
NBC Actors, Producers Protest Network's Decision to Host Trump Town Hall at Same Time as Biden's ABC Event — In letter to executives, the group demand Trump event be moved to different time slot — More than one hundred prominent actors, writers and producers are protesting NBC News's decision …
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Hollywood Reporter:
J.J. Abrams, Ava DuVernay, Mariska Hargitay Among 100 Top Hollywood Players Protesting NBC's Trump Town Hall — “You are enabling the president's bad behavior while undercutting the Presidential Debate Commission and doing a disservice to the American public,” the group …
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Jordan Moreau / Variety:
More Than 100 Hollywood Stars Demand NBC Moves Trump Town Hall … The lengthy list of signees includes Ava DuVernay, J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Aaron Sorkin and many more who have worked with NBCUniversal at some point. The protest letter was addressed to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts …
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Redstate, Breitbart, The Hill, Bloomberg and Press Enterprise
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
‘Undecided Voter’ at NBC Town Hall Informed Producer He Would Vote for Biden
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
By giving Trump a town hall to rival Biden's, NBC is playing into his ratings obsession — again
By giving Trump a town hall to rival Biden's, NBC is playing into his ratings obsession — again
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CNN, Reason, Mediaite, Deseret News and The Wrap
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump town hall sparks behind-the-scenes fury at NBC
Trump town hall sparks behind-the-scenes fury at NBC
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New York Times, Florida Politics, UPI and Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »
The Daily Beast:
NBC Staffers Seethe as Trump Gleefully Uses the Network Against Biden
NBC Staffers Seethe as Trump Gleefully Uses the Network Against Biden
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Caroline Rose Giuliani / Vanity Fair:
Rudy Giuliani's Daughter Caroline on Voting for Joe Biden — I have a difficult confession—something I usually save for at least the second date. My father is Rudy Giuliani. We are multiverses apart, politically and otherwise. I've spent a lifetime forging an identity in the arts separate …
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Fox News, The Hill, IJR, Power Line, CANNONFIRE and Politico
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: GOP Sen. Sasse says Trump ‘kisses dictators’ butts' and mocks evangelicals — Republican Sen. Ben Sasse, in a private call with constituents, excoriated President Trump, saying he had mishandled the coronavirus response, “kisses dictators' butts,” “sells out our allies,” spends …
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Biden Takes Double-Digit Lead Over Trump — With less than three weeks to go until Election Day, Democrat Joe Biden has taken a double-digit lead over President Trump, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. — The former vice president leads Trump 54% to 43% among likely voters in the poll.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
C-SPAN suspends Scully after he admits to lie about hack — NEW YORK (AP) — C-SPAN suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely Thursday after he admitted to lying about his Twitter feed being hacked when he was confronted about a questionable exchange with former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci.
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Phillip Halpern / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Commentary: I won't work in Attorney General William Barr's Justice Department any longer — After 36 years, I'm fleeing what was the U.S. Department of Justice — where I proudly served 19 different attorneys general and six different presidents. For the last three-plus decades …
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Raw Story
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
8 Million Have Slipped Into Poverty Since May as Federal Aid Has Dried Up — Two new studies show the effect of the emergency $2 trillion package known as the Cares Act and what happened when the money ran out. — WASHINGTON — After an ambitious expansion of the safety net …
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Lauren Leatherby / New York Times:
U.S. Virus Cases Climb Toward a Third Peak — The number of new coronavirus cases in the United States is surging once again after growth slowed in late summer. While the geography of the pandemic is now shifting to the Midwest and to more rural areas, cases are trending upward in most states …
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Wall Street Journal:
A Demoralized CDC Grapples With White House Meddling and its Own Mistakes — Trump advisers made line-by-line edits to official health guidance, altering language written by scientists on church choirs and social distancing — President Trump and his advisers have taken a more hands-on role …
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
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Dan Primack / Axios:
McConnell says he will not put $1.8 trillion stimulus bill on Senate floor — The stimulus negotiations are beginning to remind me of running on a treadmill — lots of effort, no forward motion. — Driving the news: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that he would not put …
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Politico:
McConnell plots out preelection endgame with Barrett, Covid relief
McConnell plots out preelection endgame with Barrett, Covid relief
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Forbes, Fox News, Reuters, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, The Hill, Breitbart, The Guardian, NPR, IJR, LifeNews.com, Duluth News Tribune, WHYY and POLITICUSUSA
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Mnuchin says he'll give ground in stimulus talks while Trump says he would raise his offer
Mnuchin says he'll give ground in stimulus talks while Trump says he would raise his offer
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New York Times, Reuters, Washington Post, The Cain Gang, The Hill, Raw Story and Forbes
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Lindsey Graham Leads Jaime Harrison in South Carolina Race, Poll Shows — Mr. Graham, in a tough fight for re-election, is ahead by six percentage points, a Times/Siena College poll shows. President Trump leads Joseph R. Biden Jr. by eight points in a state he won by 14 in 2016.
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Slate, Townhall, Political Wire, Politico and IJR
Politico:
Adelsons pour $75M into last-ditch effort to save Trump — Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Adelson gave $75 million to a super PAC that flooded battleground states with anti-Joe Biden ads in September, a huge investment from the GOP megadonors as President Donald Trump slipped in the polls.
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NBC News:
YouTube bans QAnon, other conspiracy content that targets individuals — YouTube said Thursday that it would no longer allow content that targets individuals and groups with conspiracy theories, specifically QAnon and its antecedent, “pizzagate.” — “Today, we are taking another step …
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Kamala Harris cancels travel after top aide tests positive for Covid-19 … Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., has canceled travel through Sunday after two people involved in the campaign tested positive for Covid-19, Joe Biden's campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillon, said in a statement Thursday.
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Matthew Zeitlin / New York Magazine:
Nerd Wars Nate Silver and G. Elliott Morris are trying to make sense of the 2020 election — and each other. — The forecasters are fighting. Sometimes it's a subtweet: “The blindingly obvious lesson of 2016 for election modelers is 'it's super easy to build an overconfident model …
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James Carville / The Bulwark:
A Crusade for Something Noble — Americans are coming together to save our Republic, right now. And it means something. — In 1948, General Dwight D. Eisenhower released an expansive memoir that transcribed his personal account as Supreme Allied commander in Europe during World War II …
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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
He Won't Concede, but He'll Pack His Bags — The day after the 2016 election, I ran into a journalist who'd covered Donald Trump in the 1980s and once knew the man well. “Trump will be a one-term president—maximum,” he said, with what seemed unwarranted confidence, given the previous day's result.
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Fox News veterans face a hurdle in the job market: Having Fox on the résumé — When Eboni Williams was first exploring leaving her job at Fox News in 2018, she kept hearing the same thing in her conversations with news executives at rival networks.
Concepción de León / New York Times:
Jetpack Sighted Again Above Los Angeles, This Time at 6,000 Feet — Federal officials are looking into the second such sighting in just six weeks. Two airline pilots previously spotted a man in a jetpack at an altitude of 3,000 feet. — For the second time in six weeks …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dem Gains in Key Races — Support ticks up for legalizing marijuana — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in Arizona, making small gains in the past month. The Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll finds the Democrat maintaining a large advantage among Latino voters …
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
11 Hacks, Leaks, And Hoaxes That Twitter And Facebook Didn't Throttle — Because They Hurt Trump — Twitter's technicality is a fig leaf to enable continued control of public discourse by an unelected private industry that is 9-to-1 in the tank for Democrats and can decide what Americans are allowed to know.
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Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Police find cash hidden between Bolsonaro ally's buttocks — Brazilian senator Chico Rodrigues is caught with notes during a search of his home — Jair Bolsonaro's efforts to portray himself as an anti-corruption crusader have suffered another blow after police reportedly seized a wad …
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed News:
John Kennedy Is America's Folksiest Senator. Some People Who Know Him Say It's An Act. — WASHINGTON — It was entering hour five of the first day of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings — and the energy level in the room was winding down — when John Kennedy …