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Laura Wagner / VICE:
New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Zoom Dick Incident — In a statement to VICE, Jeffrey Toobin apologized for the “embarrassingly stupid mistake.” — Laura Wagner — The New Yorker has suspended reporter Jeffrey Toobin. Sources tell VICE it's because he exposed himself during …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
EXCLUSIVE: Fox News Passed on Hunter Biden Laptop Story Over Credibility Concerns — Mediaite has learned that Fox News was first approached by Rudy Giuliani to report on a tranche of files alleged to have come from Hunter Biden's unclaimed laptop left at a Delaware computer repair shop …
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FBI Examining Hunter's Laptop As Foreign Op, Contradicting Trump's Intel Czar — DNI Ratcliffe said on Monday there was no intel to support Russia being behind Hunter Biden's laptop contents. But investigators are still looking into it. — The FBI is investigating the purloined laptop materials …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Fox News may be continuing to undermine Trump's reelection hopes — If President Trump does end up losing reelection, one big area that will be ripe for an autopsy is the role that Fox News played in making that happen. — A mammoth new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute …
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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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The latest outbreak of GOP panic about Trump contains a key tell — With President Trump trailing by large margins in national polls and by smaller but meaningful ones in states he must win, Republicans are frantically sending up flares. In comments to news organizations …
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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 …
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump trashes Fauci and makes baseless coronavirus claims in campaign call — (CNN)President Donald Trump claimed on a campaign call that people are tired of hearing about coronavirus, which has killed more than 215,000 Americans and trashed Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “disaster” who has been around for “500 years.”
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The Latest: Trump says people tired of hearing about COVID
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New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: Trump Dismisses Fauci as a ‘Disaster’ in Call With Campaign Staff
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Bloomberg:
Trump Turns Fauci Into Campaign Pawn, Assailing Him as ‘Idiot’
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Washington Post:
Trump attacks ‘Fauci and these idiots,’ says public is tired of pandemic, public health restrictions as infection rates rise
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Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
Yahoo News/YouGov poll: The tide turns against Trump as Biden surges to his largest-ever lead among likely voters — With only two weeks left until Election Day, Joe Biden's lead over President Trump has widened to 11 percentage points — Biden's biggest margin among likely voters in any Yahoo News/YouGov poll to date.
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Sarah Longwell / The Atlantic:
Why People Who Hate Trump Stick With Him — President Donald Trump is losing to former Vice President Joe Biden by more than 10 percentage points in both the Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight national polling averages. This historically large margin suggests that something amazing has happened …
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Scott Rasmussen / Political IQ:
“Never Trumpers” are key to Biden's Lead in the polls — A new PoliticalIQ.com national survey shows that so-called “Never Trumpers” are the key to former Vice President Joe Biden's lead in the polls. — The survey offered voters a choice between 4 presidential candidates with equal skills and temperaments.
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Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
Inside the empty promises and empty buildings of Wisconn Valley. — THE 8TH WONDER OF THE WORLD* — *wonder not guaranteed — HOPES WERE HIGH — among the employees who joined Foxconn's Wisconsin project in the summer of 2018. In June, President Donald Trump had broken ground …
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Washington Post:
U.S. charges Russian intelligence officers in several high-profile cyberattacks — The United States on Monday unsealed criminal charges against six Russian intelligence officers in connection with some of the world's most damaging cyberattacks, including disruption of Ukraine's power grid …
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
US Indicts Sandworm, Russia's Most Destructive Cyberwar Unit
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Six Russian GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Destructive Malware and Other Disruptive Actions in Cyberspace
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Says Trump's Denial of Rape Accusation Was an Official Act — The writer E. Jean Carroll sued the president for defamation after he denied sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. Now the government wants to defend him. — The Justice Department said on Monday that President …
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
How Failures of the Obama-Era Stimulus Could Guide a Biden Administration — One crucial lesson: aim big, because there may be only one chance, and an overheating economy is easier to fix than a halting recovery. — The person taking the oath of office on Jan. 20 will face an economic mess.
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POLITICO Playbook PM: Trump's closing message: Fauci is a dope
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Lobbyists begin to prepare for a potential Biden presidency
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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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Martin Matishak / Politico:
Mark Warner keeps his head down on way to the election — and a possible Intel gavel
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Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Republican Voters Take a Radical Conspiracy Theory Mainstream — QAnon, with encouragement from the president himself, has moved from online message boards to political rallies and congressional campaigns. — DALTON, Ga. — Sitting in the local Republican office most days …
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Eyal Press / New Yorker:
Trump's Labor Secretary Is a Wrecking Ball Aimed at Workers — As Election Day looms, Eugene Scalia, a cunning lawyer committed to dismantling regulation, is weakening one employee protection after another. — On February 24, 2010, during a show at SeaWorld Orlando, a trainer named Dawn Brancheau …
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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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 …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Debate commission to meet Monday to discuss potential rule changes ahead of final contest — (CNN)The Commission on Presidential Debates will meet Monday afternoon to discuss potential rule changes to the final contest between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, two members of the commission tell CNN.
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Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:
Auditor: Iowa misallocated at least $21 million in COVID-19 funds — Iowa's government misallocated at least $21 million of federal assistance intended for COVID-19 relief and must correct the error by the end of the year or face having to repay the money, State Auditor Rob Sand says.
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Peter D. Greenberger / Washington Post:
I ran political advertising for Twitter. It's time for platforms to mute Trump. — Social media platforms should silence the president until the winner of the election is clear — In just the past week, President Trump has retweeted a QAnon conspiracy theory alleging that Joe Biden …
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Sakshi Venkatraman / NBC News:
Texas social workers can now turn away LGBTQ, disabled clients — Texas social workers can now turn away LGBTQ clients and those with a disability. — The state Board of Social Work Examiners voted unanimously to change a section of its code of conduct last week following a recommendation …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
David Perdue attacked Kamala Harris with a racist trope. These corporations are still backing his Senate campaign. — U.S. Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) — On Friday at a Trump campaign rally, Senator David Perdue (R-GA) purposely butchered the name …
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Scott Powers / Florida Politics:
Poll shows Patricia Sigman up 9 over Jason Brodeur in SD 9 — Democrat Patricia Sigman may be on her way to grabbing the open seat long held by Republicans in the Seminole County-based Senate District 9, fresh polling shows. — A new survey conducted by St. Pete Polls finds Sigman leading Republican former …
Jan Ransom / New York Times:
‘Vile, Racist Postings’ by N.Y. Court Officers Included Obama in a Noose — A new report found pervasive examples of racial bias — some explicit, some subtle — in New York State's court system. — One white court officer in Brooklyn posted an illustration of President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck on social media.
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
FEMA Threw Out The Faulty Ventilators Russia Gave The US Without Ever Using Them — As the US was bracing for a major wave of seriously ill coronavirus patients in March, President Donald Trump asked President Vladimir Putin in a phone call for help. In response, Moscow sent 45 ventilators …
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Senior U.S. officials self-isolate after meeting Lebanese spymaster who's positive for Covid — Several U.S. officials, including a senior figure at the State Department, are now self-isolating after meeting with a Lebanese spymaster who has tested positive for the coronavirus.
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