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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 …
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 TheDonald.win, a far-right message board, was hinting at and promoting a series of dubious articles from the New York Post about Hunter Biden days before they were published.
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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Washington Post, Vox, Alternet.org, Althouse, The Week, Cyprus Mail, Asia Times, KVIA-TV, Fox News, Raw Story and SFist, more at Mediagazer »
Rod Dreher:
Shhh! Don't Talk About Hunter Biden
Shhh! Don't Talk About Hunter Biden
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Townhall, Wall Street Journal, New York Post and spiked
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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Alternet.org, DemCast, New York Times and Yahoo News
Russel Dye / House Judiciary Committee Republicans:
Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
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The Federalist, Hotair, The Daily Caller, Jacobin, Fox News, The Atlantic, Redstate, Townhall, National Review, New York Post, The Guardian, The Wrap, Washington Times, Breitbart, Wall Street Journal, Power Line, Twitchy, The American Spectator, The Gateway Pundit, Bloomberg, Conservative News Today and National File
Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
Anti-Biden Disinformation Decried by Disinfo Experts, Social-Media Giants
Anti-Biden Disinformation Decried by Disinfo Experts, Social-Media Giants
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Axios, Washington Post, Redstate, Breitbart, Fox Business, The Right Scoop, The Federalist, Deadline, Mother Jones, Variety and Bloomberg
Politico:
Biden campaign lashes out at New York Post
Biden campaign lashes out at New York Post
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CNN:
Notre Dame calendars show more events not listed on Amy Coney Barrett's Senate paperwork — (CNN)Public calendars from the University of Notre Dame's law school show at least seven additional talks not listed on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Senate paperwork, including one with the law school's …
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USA Today, Vox, Daily Kos, New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, The Week, Liberty Unyielding, The College Fix, Raw Story, The Hill, Reason, Washington Post and Althouse
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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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Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Fox News, Alternet.org, The Hill, Bloomberg, Washington Post, NPR, Forbes, LifeNews.com, Duluth News Tribune, POLITICUSUSA, WOWK-TV and ABC11
Luke Ramseth / The Clarion-Ledger:
Espy wants a debate. Hyde-Smith doesn't. Will voters get to see the candidates before Nov. 3?
Espy wants a debate. Hyde-Smith doesn't. Will voters get to see the candidates before Nov. 3?
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Mississippi Today and The Hill
Hannah Jones / City Pages:
Garrison Keillor says Roe v. Wade not ‘worth fighting for anymore’
Garrison Keillor says Roe v. Wade not ‘worth fighting for anymore’
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Queerty and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Samantha Raphelson / NPR:
Booker Doubles Down On Barrett In Continued Exchange About Racism
Booker Doubles Down On Barrett In Continued Exchange About Racism
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Slate and Washington Post
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Barrett seeks refuge in ignorance and evasion
Barrett seeks refuge in ignorance and evasion
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Business Insider, Raw Story, Vox and DSCC
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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Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Alternet.org and The American Independent
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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Political Wire
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Harris cancels travel after Biden campaign announces positive Covid tests — Sen. Kamala Harris has canceled all campaign travel through this weekend “out of an abundance of caution” after a flight crew member and her communications director tested positive for coronavirus, the Biden campaign announced Thursday.
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Associated Press:
Dueling town halls for Trump, Biden after debate plan nixed
Dueling town halls for Trump, Biden after debate plan nixed
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Variety, Redstate, Mashable, Deadline, Mediaite, The Wrap and Newsbusters, more at Mediagazer »
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Biden campaign halts Kamala Harris' travel after two people in campaign's orbit test positive for coronavirus
Biden campaign halts Kamala Harris' travel after two people in campaign's orbit test positive for coronavirus
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ABC News, The Root, The Daily Caller, NPR, Washingtonian, The Wrap, Daily Kos, Deadline, UPI, New York Post and TheBlaze
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump says he doesn't get COVID-19 tests “every day” — President Trump told Fox Business on Thursday that he's tested for the coronavirus “a lot,” but “not every day.” — Why it matters: The White House relied heavily on testing as a protective measure against COVID-19 …
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Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
Trump would go higher than $1.8 trillion on coronavirus stimulus deal
Trump would go higher than $1.8 trillion on coronavirus stimulus deal
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One America News Network
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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Axios, Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Hill, Forbes and Political Wire
Eliza Collins / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Has 11-Point Lead Over Trump Less Than Three Weeks to Election Day — A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll of registered voters shows Joe Biden leading the president 53% to 42% — Joe Biden holds a double-digit lead over President Trump less than three weeks from Election Day …
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Slate, Florida Politics and Politico
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Biden continues to hold double-digit national lead over Trump in NBC News/WSJ poll
Biden continues to hold double-digit national lead over Trump in NBC News/WSJ poll
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Daily Kos, Reuters, The Hill, CNBC, Washington Times, Bloomberg, The Week and NBC4 Washington
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 …
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blog.youtube, BuzzFeed News, The Daily Beast, Axios, Variety, CNBC and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
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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Washington Post, The Wrap, Page Six, NBC10 Philadelphia, Vanity Fair, Newsbusters, The Week, The Verge, Florida Phoenix, Deadline, National Review and Mediaite
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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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National Review, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, Newsbusters, The Wrap, TVLine, IndieWire, Fox News, Raw Story, The Hill, The Week, ABC7, Redstate, Poynter, One America News Network, TheBlaze, Page Six and Forbes, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
As Virus Spread, Reports of Trump Administration's Private Briefings Fueled Sell-Off — A hedge fund consultant's summary of private presentations by White House economic advisers fanned investor worries. — On the afternoon of Feb. 24, President Trump declared on Twitter that the coronavirus was …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Patterico's Pontifications, Daily Kos, Alternet.org, The Week, Mediaite and Raw Story
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The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani Posts Footage of Himself Mocking Asians to YouTube — The president's personal lawyer gleefully pantomimed a bow while putting on a stereotypical Chinese accent in footage he apparently posted accidentally. — Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was caught mocking Asians …
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Talking Points Memo, Mashable, Raw Story and Mediaite
Politico:
'He's getting a bit desperate': Trump tramples government boundaries as election nears — The farther behind Donald Trump has fallen in the competition for campaign dollars, the more he's milked government resources to make up the difference. — Millions of boxes of food doled out to needy families …
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NBC News, Duluth News Tribune, Al Jazeera and Raw Story
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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Raw Story
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.
Adrian Wojnarowski / ESPN:
Daryl Morey stepping down as Houston Rockets GM, sources say — Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey is stepping down, sources told ESPN. — In the aftermath of Houston's elimination from the NBA's restart in Orlando, Florida, Morey approached owner Tilman Fertitta with the idea of leaving the job …
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The Daily Caller, The Source and Sports Illustrated
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 …
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 …
New York Times:
As Trump's Language Grows More Heated, Fears Rise of Political Violence — The plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan is only the latest in a growing list of election-related threats. Some experts say the president is emboldening extremists. — The arrest of more than a dozen right-wing extremists …
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Raw Story, Political Wire and Talking Points Memo
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
Your Local Bookstore Wants You to Know That It's Struggling — Independent booksellers are desperate for customers to return, and not just for an online reading. — The signs started appearing in bookstore windows this week. — “Buy books from people who want to sell books, not colonize the moon.”
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 …