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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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The Daily Beast:
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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The Daily Caller, Fox News, Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Twitchy
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 …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Ratcliffe says Hunter Biden laptop, emails ‘not part of some Russian disinformation campaign’
Ratcliffe says Hunter Biden laptop, emails ‘not part of some Russian disinformation campaign’
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New York Post, Townhall, Raw Story, TheBlaze, Washington Times, JONATHAN TURLEY, The Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial, Breitbart and Mediaite
Raheem Kassam / The National Pulse:
Presidential Debate Commission Ditches Foreign Policy Focus Following Hunter Biden Laptop Leaks
Presidential Debate Commission Ditches Foreign Policy Focus Following Hunter Biden Laptop Leaks
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The Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial, Raw Story, Mediaite, PhillyVoice and Fox News
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
The Biden Corruption Scandal Isn't About Hunter, It's About Joe
The Biden Corruption Scandal Isn't About Hunter, It's About Joe
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Redstate, The Post Millennial, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and Conservative News Today
Brittany Bernstein / National Review:
DNI Ratcliffe: Hunter Biden Emails, Laptop ‘Not Part of Some Russian Disinformation Campaign’
DNI Ratcliffe: Hunter Biden Emails, Laptop ‘Not Part of Some Russian Disinformation Campaign’
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Townhall, Fox News, The Federalist and Redstate
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Peter Schweizer: Hunter Biden's Flipped Business Partner Provided 26,000 Emails
Exclusive — Peter Schweizer: Hunter Biden's Flipped Business Partner Provided 26,000 Emails
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CANNONFIRE and The American Spectator
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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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Charges Six Russian Intelligence Officers With Hacking — Indictment links Russian hackers to several prominent cyberattacks in recent years, including the global 2017 NotPetya attack — WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors on Monday unsealed charges against six Russian intelligence officers accused …
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
6 Russian military officers charged in vast hacking campaign — WASHINGTON (AP) — Six Russian military officers sought to disrupt through computer hacking the French election, the Winter Olympics and U.S. businesses, according to a Justice Department indictment unsealed Monday that details attacks …
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ABC News, Bloomberg, Politico, WTOP and New York Post
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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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 …
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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New York Times, Vanity Fair, Daily Kos and The American Independent
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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Political Wire
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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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says people tired of hearing about COVID — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times local): — President Donald Trump says people are tired of hearing from Dr. Anthony Fauci “and all these idiots” about the coronavirus.
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Washington Post, ABC News, Reuters and One America News Network
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Mario Parker / Bloomberg:
Trump Was Unsure of Victory Until Recently, He Tells Staff
Trump Was Unsure of Victory Until Recently, He Tells Staff
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Political Wire
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 …
Erica Orden / CNN:
Decision on subpoena for Trump tax returns now in hands of Supreme Court — Analyst reveals who poses biggest legal threat to Trump if he loses election — (CNN)With just over two weeks until the presidential election, a decision on whether to further delay handing over President Donald …
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Political Wire
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court to review legality of Trump's ‘remain in Mexico’ asylum policy
U.S. Supreme Court to review legality of Trump's ‘remain in Mexico’ asylum policy
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Associated Press, Washington Post, Townhall, Fox News, Bloomberg, IJR, The Guardian and Washington Times
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court to hear case over Trump border wall
Supreme Court to hear case over Trump border wall
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National Review, USA Today, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, Roll Call, CNN, The Week, IJR, UPI, Forbes, Electronics Ward News, Daily Kos, NPR, SCOTUSblog and Associated Press
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
‘A Republican bloodbath’: GOP senators voice fears of a painful Trump defeat — WASHINGTON — Republican senators are increasingly voicing fears that President Donald Trump could lose the election, and some are openly fretting that he'll turn the party's candidates into electoral roadkill …
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Washington Post, Roll Call, Raw Story and Vox
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump aide Meadows unsure Senate GOP will approve a $1.8 trillion coronavirus stimulus
Trump aide Meadows unsure Senate GOP will approve a $1.8 trillion coronavirus stimulus
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WHNT-TV, Associated Press, Electronics Ward News, Daily Kos, NBC Boston, Boston Herald and Vox
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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The Week, Breitbart, CNN and Washington Post
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Conservatives voting Joe Biden over Donald Trump are patriots. Thanks for the inspiration. — Conservatives are setting aside policy priorities to vote for Biden and other Democrats. Would I be this honorable if our situations were reversed? — | USA TODAY
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Bloomberg and Florida Politics
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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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Steven Pearl / Rolling Stone:
Joe Biden for President
Joe Biden for President
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Mother Jones, Breitbart, The Guardian and POLITICUSUSA
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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Axios, The Hill, IJR, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, The Week, CNN, Boston.com, Talking Points Memo, Conservative News Today, Balloon Juice and The Guardian
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The stunning extent to which Trumpism is centered among Fox News-watching Republicans — From the outset of his presidency — or, really, his 2016 campaign — President Trump's approach to politics has been to get those who agree with him to agree with him more and more and more.
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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Fortune, Electronics Ward News and Outside the Beltway
Mother Jones:
A Long List of Shady Financial Mysteries Trump Still Refuses to Explain — If Trump is going to ask Biden to reveal info about his family... For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.
Charlotte Graham-McLay / The Guardian:
Why New Zealand rejected populist ideas other nations have embraced … Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's Labour prime minister who was returned to power for a second term with a commanding majority, has often been hailed internationally as a foil to global surges in right-wing movements and the rise …
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Claire Galofaro / Associated Press:
‘Our house is on fire’: Suburban women lead a Trump revolt — TROY, Mich. (AP) — She walks with the determination of a person who believes the very fate of democracy might depend on the next door she knocks on, head down, shoulders forward. She wears nothing fussy, the battle fatigues of her troupe: yoga pants and sneakers.
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Michigan Democratic Party and Raw Story
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 …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
It's Republicans like John Cornyn who deserve to lose — The Post reports on an interview Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) had with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial board: “Cornyn was asked about his relationship with the president. Cornyn responded with an analogy, describing himself …
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CNN, Raw Story, Dallas Morning News, National Review, The Guardian, POLITICUSUSA and The Hill
Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Bolivia election: exit polls suggest thumping win for Evo Morales's party — Presidential election win for Luis Arce would mark stunning leftwing political comeback — Exit polls suggest Evo Morales's leftwing party has pulled off a stunning political comeback in Bolivia's presidential election …
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Washington Post, Raw Story, The Intercept, Foreign Policy and UPI
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. — Trump, Biden campaign in swing states as early voting hits record high — With 15 days until Election Day, 28.1 million Americans …
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Politico, Raw Story and The American Spectator
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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Bulwark+ and Washington Post