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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
New York Post Published Hunter Biden Report Amid Newsroom Doubts — Some reporters withheld their bylines and questioned the credibility of an article that made the tabloid's front page on Wednesday. — The New York Post's front-page article about Hunter Biden on Wednesday was written mostly …
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Peter Sterne / New York Magazine:
New York Post Insiders Slag ‘Very Flimsy’ Hunter Biden Stories
New York Post Insiders Slag ‘Very Flimsy’ Hunter Biden Stories
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Stratechery, New York Post, Raw Story and The Week, more at Techmeme »
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Charlie Kirk says he's in ‘a hostage situation’ with Twitter after social media giant blocks his account
Charlie Kirk says he's in ‘a hostage situation’ with Twitter after social media giant blocks his account
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Breitbart
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Ratcliffe says Hunter Biden laptop, emails ‘not part of some Russian disinformation campaign’ — ‘There is no intelligence that supports that,’ Director of National Intelligence Ratcliffe says — FBI faces calls for answers on Hunter Biden emails — Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe …
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New York Post, The Daily Caller, National Review, The Post Millennial, JONATHAN TURLEY and Mediaite
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Politico:
Biden would revamp fraying intel community — President Donald Trump was in the middle of receiving a highly classified briefing on Afghanistan at his New Jersey golf club when he suddenly craved a malted milkshake. — “Does anyone want a malt?” he asked the senior defense …
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CNN, Washington Post, Breitbart and Political Wire
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
The Biden Corruption Scandal Isn't About Hunter, It's About Joe — The Hunter Biden scandal indicates that Joe Biden, while vice president of the United States, knowingly allowed his son to sell access to the Obama administration, then lied about it. — Hunter Biden's addiction is not the issue.
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The Post Millennial, Redstate, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and Conservative News Today
Raheem Kassam / The National Pulse:
Presidential Debate Commission Ditches Foreign Policy Focus Following Hunter Biden Laptop Leaks — THE THIRD PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE - SET TO TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY - WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO CENTER ON FOREIGN POLICY. BUT FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF THE HUNTER BIDEN E-MAILS/LAPTOP DETAILS IN THE NEW YORK POST …
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New York Post, PhillyVoice and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Trump's den of dissent: Inside the White House task force as coronavirus surges — As summer faded into autumn and the novel coronavirus continued to ravage the nation unabated, Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist whose commentary on Fox News led President Trump to recruit him to the White House …
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NBC News, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Political Wire and CNBC
Jonathan LaPook / CBS News:
Fauci admits administration has restricted his media appearances, says he's not surprised Trump got COVID — In a wide-ranging 60 Minutes interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci expresses his frustration with a Trump campaign ad; explains why, early in the pandemic, masks were largely recommended …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, CNN, IJR, Conservative News Today, Mediaite, Balloon Juice, The Guardian, The Hill and Axios
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Rolling Stone endorses Biden, calls Trump ‘categorically unfit to be president’ — Rolling Stone magazine is endorsing Democratic nominee Joe Biden, saying in a piece on Monday that America has lived “under a man categorically unfit to be president” for the last four years.
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump mocks Biden for trusting scientists while Biden slams Trump for Covid-19 ‘lie’
Trump mocks Biden for trusting scientists while Biden slams Trump for Covid-19 ‘lie’
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Associated Press:
2016 sequel? Trump's old attacks failing to land on Biden — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump stood before a crowd in a state that had once been firmly in his grasp. There were fewer than three weeks left in the campaign, one reshaped by a virus that has killed more than 215,000 Americans …
The Federalist:
We Gamed Out The 2020 Election And Found Our Constitution Can Handle The Madness — Risks this year include no certain presidential results on election night, and high-stakes struggles up to 79 days afterward, including foreign disinformation, fake news, and big-tech censorship.
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David Siders / Politico:
The hidden factors that could produce a surprise Trump victory — By almost every measure that political operatives, academics and handicappers use to forecast elections, the likely outcome is that Joe Biden will win the White House. — Yet two weeks before Election Day …
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CNN, National Review, Breitbart, Real Clear Politics, IJR and WTOP
The Dworkin Report:
Meet the journalist who asked Trump if he “regrets all the lying” to the American people — Scott talks to S.V. Daté the world traveler who is now White House Correspondent for HuffPost. Daté is the author of a new book entitled, “The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed …
New York Times:
As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place — A nationwide operation of 1,300 local sites publishes coverage that is ordered up by Republican groups and corporate P.R. firms. — The instructions were clear: Write an article calling out Sara Gideon …
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Bangor Daily News, Electronics Ward News and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
With Covid-19 Under Control, China's Economy Surges Ahead — Exports jumped and local governments engaged in a binge of debt-fueled construction projects. Even consumer spending is finally recovering. — BEIJING — As most of the world still struggles with the coronavirus pandemic …
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Wall Street Journal, National Review and Instapundit
Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Pollster Who Thinks Trump Is Ahead — NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he polling aggregator on the website RealClearPolitics shows the margin in polls led by Joe Biden in a blue font and the ones led by Donald Trump in red. For a while, the battleground states have tended to be uniformly blue …
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Washington Post
Yalman Onaran / Bloomberg:
Black Homeowners Pay $13,464 More on Their Mortgages, Study Says — The ‘Black tax’ persists because of risk-based loan pricing — Policy makers can reverse the negative impact, co-author says — Black borrowers pay $13,464 more over the life of a home loan, with interest …
Washington Post:
Socialists claim massive victory in Bolivia, one year after being ousted — LA PAZ, Bolivia — Exit polls issued early Monday showed Bolivia's socialists taking a seemingly insurmountable lead in the country's bitterly fought presidential election, a result that, if confirmed by the official tally …
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The Guardian, Raw Story, The Week, UPI and Electronics Ward News
New York Times:
Surprising Results in Initial Virus Testing in N.Y.C. Schools — The absence of outbreaks, if it holds, suggests that the city's efforts to return children to classrooms could serve as an influential model for the nation. — For months, as New York City struggled to start part-time …
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The Hill
Victoria Colliver / Politico:
California's $100M dialysis battle comes with ancillary benefits for labor union — OAKLAND — In initiative-happy California, one set of ads stands out — those involving dialysis clinics, an industry that's historically been a lower-profile player in politics.
FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Is Losing Ground With White Voters But Gaining Among Black And Hispanic Americans — There's a well-known truth in politics: No one group swings an election. — But that doesn't mean that the demographic trends bubbling beneath the surface can't have an outsized effect. Take 2016.
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Outside the Beltway and CNN
Megan Henney / Fox News:
Delaware senator says he's open to packing the Supreme Court — The Supreme Court has had nine justices for more than 150 years — Joe Biden vows to reveal court-packing position before Election Day — A Democratic senator from Delaware said Sunday that he is open to adding more justices …
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New Republic and The Hill
New York Times:
How Prepared Are These 7 Battlegrounds for the Election? A Readiness Report — Short on money and under enormous pressure, many swing states are still trying to shore up a democratic process challenged daily by court cases, new laws and surges in the coronavirus.
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Political Wire, Raw Story and Electronics Ward News
ABC News:
Trump heads into final campaign stretch forced to play defense against Biden — The president's team is growing concerned over key battleground states. — 'I'm seeing more enthusiasm than I saw in 2016': RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel is interviewed on “This Week.”
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Politico, Raw Story, Fox News, The American Spectator and America's Voice News
Issues & Insights:
5 Other Things We'll Learn About Biden After The Election — For weeks, Joe Biden has played coy about whether he'd pack the Supreme Court with liberals should he win the White House and Democrats take control of the Senate. The media has largely ignored the issue, as they have anything that might harm Biden's chances.
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USA Today and Denver Post
American Greatness:
The Unapologetic Bias of the American Left — Today's Left sees their efforts bending in a preordained historical arc that ends with ultimate progressive justice—and retributions. … An avuncular Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, Jim Lehrer, or Abe Rosenthal at least went through the motions …
Emily Larsen / Washington Examiner:
McClatchy rejects NRSC web ads on Cal Cunningham affair with little explanation — McClatchy, the publisher of several North Carolina newspapers, refused to allow the National Republican Senatorial Committee to place ads that targeted Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham's sexting scandal and affair.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
It's always the most important election in our lifetime, and it always will be — Supporters of George W. Bush and Al Gore protest outside the Supreme Court December 1, 2000, ahead of the Court's ruling on that year's presidential election winner. Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Trump Will Have $900 Million Of Loans Coming Due In His Second Term If He's Reelected — The president would likely have to engage in a series of high-stakes transactions that could produce unfathomable conflicts of interest. — Whether or not Donald Trump wins the election …
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Ellen L. Weintraub / New York Times:
Justice Kavanaugh Unlocked Ways to Fight Foreign Interference — He made clear the constitutional rights of foreign actors abroad cannot be violated, because they have no constitutional rights. — Ms. Weintraub is a commissioner on the Federal Election Commission.
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Do Originalists Ignore the Reconstruction Amendments? — Critics of originalism sometimes claim that originalists focus only on the original 1787 Constitution, while ignoring the Reconstruction amendments, which transformed the Constitution after the Civil War.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Losing His Touch. So Is the TV Producer Who Shaped His Image. — Mark Burnett helped turn Donald Trump into a national figure with “The Apprentice.” But since 2016, his impact “has kind of gone bust.” — Did you catch Steve Harvey's “Funderdome” on ABC?
New York Times:
Has Trump Drawn the Water for a ‘Republican Blood Bath’? — And if he has, what should Biden do with his first term? — Bret Stephens: Good morning, Gail. I was reading on social media that Osama bin Laden is alive and well and that he's living inside Donald Trump's brain. Care to comment?
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