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New York Times:
Trump Records Shed New Light on Chinese Business Pursuits — As he raises questions about his opponent's standing with China, President Trump's taxes reveal details about his own activities there, including a previously unknown bank account. — President Trump and his allies have tried …
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New York Times:
Trump cuts a ‘60 Minutes’ interview short, and then taunts Lesley Stahl on Twitter. — President Trump abruptly cut off an interview with the “60 Minutes” star Lesley Stahl at the White House on Tuesday and then taunted her on Twitter, posting a short behind-the-scenes video of her at the taping …
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Trump abruptly ends ‘60 Minutes’ interview before taping joint appearance with Pence — (CNN)President Donald Trump abruptly ended a solo interview with CBS News' “60 Minutes” Tuesday and did not return for an appearance he was supposed to tape with Vice President Mike Pence, according to multiple sources familiar with what happened.
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump ends ‘60 Minutes’ interview, attacks Lesley Stahl on Twitter — At the White House on Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump ended a fiery interview taping with CBS News' “60 Minutes,” proceeded to launch an attack against the interviewer on Twitter for not wearing a mask, and threatened to post the interview before it aired.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP pollster Luntz blasts Trump campaign as worst he's ever seen — Prominent Republican pollster Frank Luntz blasted President Trump and his campaign on Tuesday for focusing on Hunter Biden in the stretch run to Election Day, calling Trump's campaign the worst he's ever seen and saying …
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Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Photo shows Joe Biden meeting Hunter's alleged business partner from Kazakhstan
Photo shows Joe Biden meeting Hunter's alleged business partner from Kazakhstan
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Giuliani: Even if Hunter Laptop Story 'Isn't Accurate,' Americans ‘Are Entitled to Know It’
Giuliani: Even if Hunter Laptop Story 'Isn't Accurate,' Americans ‘Are Entitled to Know It’
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
FBI and DOJ do not believe Hunter Biden laptop part of Russian disinformation campaign
FBI and DOJ do not believe Hunter Biden laptop part of Russian disinformation campaign
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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Glenn Greenwald: Media and Intel Community Working Together To Manipulate The American People
Glenn Greenwald: Media and Intel Community Working Together To Manipulate The American People
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump begs William Barr to save him, revealing weakness and panic
Trump begs William Barr to save him, revealing weakness and panic
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Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“If There Is Another Tick Down, It's a Total Bloodbath”: How Trump's Self-Destructive Candidacy Could Blow Up the Electoral Map — Democrats' massive fundraising, downballot energy, and seniors turning against Trump signal a potential blue-wave election with unexpected flips.
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New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: Crowds Gather for Wisconsin's First Day of In-Person Voting, and Florida Breaks an Early Voting Record — President Trump and Joe Biden are tied in Georgia, a New York Times/Siena College poll found, and Democrats are gaining in both Senate races there.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Democrats Gain in Georgia Senate Races as Presidential Race Remains Tied — Our latest survey shows a shift toward Biden among college-educated white voters, but surprising Trump gains among nonwhite voters. — A shift against President Trump among white college-educated voters in Georgia …
Washington Post:
McConnell warns White House against making stimulus deal before election, sources say — Suggests Pelosi is not negotiating in good faith and could disrupt Supreme Court nomination — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told Senate Republicans on Tuesday that he has warned …
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McConnell advises White House not to strike pre-election stimulus deal with Pelosi.
McConnell advises White House not to strike pre-election stimulus deal with Pelosi.
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Senate Republicans try to ignore Trump's attacks on Fauci
Senate Republicans try to ignore Trump's attacks on Fauci
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Associated Press:
How Trump plowed through $1 billion, losing cash advantage — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's sprawling political operation has raised well over $1 billion since he took the White House in 2017 — and set a lot of it on fire. — Trump bought a $10 million Super Bowl ad when he didn't yet have a challenger.
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New York Times:
Trump's Campaign Cash Dwindled to $63 Million Entering October — New financial filings showed the extent of the president's cash troubles, as he is now badly outmatched by Joe Biden. — President Trump's re-election campaign committee ended September with only $63.1 million …
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Rick Linsk / Reuters:
Lawyers spurn Trump campaign in individual donations, including from Jones Day
Lawyers spurn Trump campaign in individual donations, including from Jones Day
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Tess Owen / VICE:
‘Proud Boys’ Emails Threatening Florida Voters Appear to Use Spoofed Email Address — The emails, which read ‘Vote for Trump or else!’ have been delivered to Democratic voters using Estonian internet infrastructure. — Some Democratic voters in Florida have been receiving unsolicited emails purportedly …
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Nathaniel Herz / Alaska Public Media:
Emails sent to Alaskans on Tuesday warned them to “vote for Trump or else”
CNN:
Election officials in at least two states contact law enforcement after threatening emails sent to voters
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon / Florida Today:
Threatening emails telling voters to vote for Trump target Brevard County residents
Threatening emails telling voters to vote for Trump target Brevard County residents
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Mike Thompson / USA Today:
Elect Joe Biden. Reject Donald Trump. — Our View: In 2016, we broke tradition in urging you not to vote for Trump. Now we're making our first presidential endorsement. We hope it's our last. — The Editorial Board, USA TODAY — Show caption Hide caption
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump Is Giving Up — Against both the coronavirus and Joe Biden, the president's strategy increasingly accepts defeat.
Trump Is Giving Up — Against both the coronavirus and Joe Biden, the president's strategy increasingly accepts defeat.
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The new debate rules will make it very hard for Donald Trump to be Donald Trump
The new debate rules will make it very hard for Donald Trump to be Donald Trump
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Scaachi Koul / BuzzFeed News:
Jeffrey Toobin Can't Be The Only Person Masturbating On Work Zoom Calls — I mean, who among us, you know? — Yesterday was a fun day on Media Twitter, routinely the worst of all Twitter subcultures. (Except, maybe, leg-washing Twitter, which I have decided we shall never speak of again after the end of this sentence.)
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Jeffrey Toobin will ‘probably’ return to CNN after masturbation scandal dies down, insiders say
Jeffrey Toobin will ‘probably’ return to CNN after masturbation scandal dies down, insiders say
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NBC News:
Lawyers say they can't find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by Trump administration — WASHINGTON — Lawyers appointed by a federal judge to identify migrant families who were separated by the Trump administration say they have yet to track down the parents of 545 children …
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
51% in U.S. Want Amy Coney Barrett Seated on Supreme Court — WASHINGTON, D.C. — A slim 51% majority of Americans support federal judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last month. At the same time …
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Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Silicon Valley megadonors unleash a last-minute, $100 million barrage of ads against Trump — Billionaire Dustin Moskovitz is making his biggest political play of the cycle. Asana — Facebook billionaire co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has put more than $20 million into a little-known Democratic super PAC that is spending big.
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Politico:
Bloomberg knocks Trump back on his heels in Florida — Billionaire Michael Bloomberg's $100 million investment in Florida to defeat Donald Trump is recasting the presidential contest in the president's must-win state, forcing his campaign to spend big to shore up his position and freeing …
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Administration officials alarmed by White House push to fast track lucrative 5G spectrum contract, sources say — Washington (CNN)Senior officials throughout various departments and agencies of the Trump administration tell CNN they are alarmed at White House pressure to grant what would essentially …
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Politico:
Biden eyes GOP candidates for Cabinet slots — Joe Biden's transition team is vetting a handful of Republicans for potential Cabinet positions — despite doubts it will win him new support from the right and the risk it will enrage the left. — Reaching across the aisle to pick senior members …
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Wall Street Journal:
Google's Exclusive Search Deals With Apple at Heart of U.S. Lawsuit — Hitting ‘Code Red’; lucrative partnership between tech giants in the antitrust spotlight — Inside Google, they called the scenario “Code Red,” so stark was the prospect of losing the search engine's lucrative pipeline from Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
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New York Times:
U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
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John C. Danforth / Washington Post:
Trump's attack on the debate commission is an attack on the election itself — John C. Danforth, a Republican, represented Missouri in the U.S. Senate for three terms and has served on the Commission on Presidential Debates since 1994. — Like all members of the Commission on Presidential Debates …
Bloomberg:
Biden Looking to Longtime Aide Ron Klain for Chief of Staff — Klain worked on Obama administration's economic recovery plan — Steve Ricchetti also still in running for top staff job — Longtime Democratic aide Ron Klain is the leading candidate to be presidential nominee Joe Biden's chief …
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
The coronavirus pandemic has caused nearly 300,000 more deaths than expected in a typical year — The coronavirus pandemic has left about 299,000 more people dead in the United States than would be expected in a typical year, two-thirds of them from covid-19 itself and the rest from other causes …
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Washington Post:
Republicans, it's time to choose between autocracy and a republic — Republicans Reed Galen, Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson are co-founders of the Lincoln Project. Stuart Stevens is a senior adviser to the Lincoln Project. — This is for the many men and women in Washington with whom we have worked over the past 30-plus years.
New York Times:
How the F.D.A. Stood Up to the President — After months of caving to pressures from the White House, Commissioner Stephen Hahn and a band of agency scientists have eked out a few victories. — On Sept. 23, Dr. Stephen M. Hahn left a virtual meeting of the White House's coronavirus task force …
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Tim Teeman / The Daily Beast:
Tiffany Trump's Ridiculous Election Campaign Hits Its ‘LGBQIA’ Nadir — Tiffany Trump lied and gaslit through a “TrumpPride” speech, claiming her father was pro-"LGBQIA," when in fact his administration's homophobia and transphobia has been relentless. … There is no need, if you are a Trump supporter, to respond to this.
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