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Catherine Shoard / The Guardian:
Rudy Giuliani faces questions after compromising scene in new Borat film — Trump's personal attorney has indiscreet encounter with actor playing Borat's daughter in hotel room during pandemic — • This article contains spoilers about Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
How Rudy Giuliani Got Caught Red-Handed With Borat's Daughter — When Rudy Giuliani first revealed his run-in with Sacha Baron Cohen, he didn't mention the compromised position he was in when Borat burst into the room. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.) — When the trailer for Borat Subsequent …
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Nikki Schwab / Daily Mail:
Rudy Giuliani was tricked by Sacha Baron Cohen into going to hotel room with 'Borat's daughter' and is shown lying back with his hand down his pants before actor bursts in on them — President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani appears in the forthcoming ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani Claims Borat ‘Hit Job’ Is Retaliation for Hunter Biden Attack — Rudy Giuliani is defending himself against allegations of inappropriate behavior in the new ‘Borat’ sequel by claiming he was just tucking his shirt in. — Rudy Giuliani issued his first public defense …
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Sonia Saraiya / Vanity Fair:
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Brings Back Borat, With His Daughter in Tow — Sacha Baron Cohen reprises his most famous role, heckling Mike Pence and pranking Rudy Giuliani alongside excellent new sidekick Maria Bakalova. — The brilliance and the horror of Sacha Baron Cohen's oeuvre is what his gonzo comedy elicits in others.
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QU Poll:
Texas In Play: Biden And Trump In A Dead Heat, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; In Pennsylvania, Biden's Lead Returns To Single Digits — In the home stretch of the 2020 presidential election campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden is in a tied race with President Donald Trump in the reliably red state …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Biden Takes Likely Voter Lead; Greenfield Maintains Narrow Senate Edge — Senior voters prefer the Democrat — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden has taken a small likely voter lead in the presidential race in Iowa, after Donald Trump had the edge in prior polls.
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CNN:
CNN Polls: Biden leads in Pennsylvania and tight race remains in Florida — (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a lead in Pennsylvania and neither he nor President Donald Trump leads in the critical state of Florida, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Biden leads by 8% in new Pennsylvania poll
Biden leads by 8% in new Pennsylvania poll
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Polls show Biden and Trump deadlocked in Texas, Biden up by 8 in Pennsylvania
Polls show Biden and Trump deadlocked in Texas, Biden up by 8 in Pennsylvania
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Biden Has Narrow Lead in Iowa, and Senate Race Is Tight, Poll Shows
Biden Has Narrow Lead in Iowa, and Senate Race Is Tight, Poll Shows
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The Daily Caller, The Hill and The Nation
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
The stunning hypocrisy of the Trump family's attacks on Hunter Biden — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump in London in June 2019. Manden Ngan/AFP via Getty Images — If there's any family that should sit out attacking others for alleged corruption, it's the Trumps.
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New York Times:
How Trump and Biden Are Gearing Up for the Last Presidential Debate
How Trump and Biden Are Gearing Up for the Last Presidential Debate
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Meet the Bidens — What happens after the world's most expensive introduction?
Meet the Bidens — What happens after the world's most expensive introduction?
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Meadows tempers expectations of Hunter Biden probe
Meadows tempers expectations of Hunter Biden probe
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Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
Nasa to make major announcement of ‘exciting news’ about the moon — Flying observatory that made new discovery is able to ‘pick up phenomenon impossible to see with visible light’, space agency notes — Nasa will hold a major event to announce an “exciting new discovery” about the Moon, it has said.
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Jonathan Zimmerman / New York Daily News:
Jeffrey Toobin and the m-word: Let's be honest about what makes this scandal so scandalous — So let's suppose Jeffrey Toobin had been caught on camera having sex with a partner instead of touching himself. Would he be the most mocked man in the United States right now? — Of course not.
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Vinay Menon / Toronto Star:
Horrified by Jeffrey Toobin's penis? Put it away, for now — Just when the world needs him most, Jeffrey Toobin exposes himself on Zoom. … The U.S. election is less than three weeks away. The Supreme Court is hurtling toward momentous change. Legal analysts are the tour guides …
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Law & Crime and Twitchy
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Hawley predicts Democrat attempts to ‘slow down the process’ as Barrett confirmation set for Monday vote — The Judiciary Committee senator predicted ‘votes on extraneous matters,’ further attacks on nominee, as confirmation fight barrels toward conclusion — Sen. Hawley accuses Dems of ‘attempted Borking’ of Judge Barrett
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Wall Street donors keep their distance from cash-strapped Trump in campaign's final days — President Donald Trump is apparently no longer considered a worthy investment for several prominent Republicans and conservatives in the finance community. — People in the industry gave $20 million to back Trump in 2016.
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Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Mark Meadows' FEC filings raise questions of unlawful spending, campaign coordination — The White House chief of staff quit Congress in March — but his campaign kept on racking up dubious expenses — White House chief of staff Mark Meadows reported spending tens of thousands of dollars through …
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American Oversight:
Pompeo's Use of Personal Email While CIA Director Highlights State Department's Failure to Produce His Emails as Secretary — Last week, as the president dredged up his favorite accusations about Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised to release the former secretary's emails ahead of the November election.
Elaina Plott / New York Times:
Around Atlanta, Many White Suburbanites Are Sticking With Trump — Nationwide, such voters are tilting toward Biden. But in Georgia, the president's law-and-order message seems to be keeping the bulk of them in his column. — Natalie Pontius is an interior decorator, married with two children and a University of Georgia alumna.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
A Biden Landslide? Some Democrats Can't Help Whispering
A Biden Landslide? Some Democrats Can't Help Whispering
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Chico Harlan / Washington Post:
Pope Francis calls for civil union laws for same-sex couples — Pope Francis, in a new documentary, has called for the creation of civil union laws for same-sex couples, in what amounts to his clearest support to date for the issue. — In the documentary, according to the Catholic News Agency …
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Michael J. O'Loughlin / americamagazine.org:
Pope Francis declares support for same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope
Pope Francis declares support for same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope
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Catholic News Agency, Reason and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Ex-Spy Was Central to Project Veritas Hiring Effort, Testimony Shows — A British former intelligence officer was said to have recruited and interviewed potential hires as the conservative group sought to have former spies train employees. — WASHINGTON — A British former spy recruited by Erik Prince …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Graham wants to review ActBlue's source of small-dollar contributions — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has seen a tsunami of Democratic small-dollar donations flood the South Carolina Senate race, says the sources of the massive amounts of money flowing through ActBlue …
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Mother Jones:
Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say — For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. — Near the close of the first year of the Trump presidency, executives at Facebook …
George Will / Washington Post:
Trump will end his presidency as he began it: Whining — As the Donald Trump parenthesis in the republic's history closes, he is opening the sluices on his reservoir of invectives and self-pity. A practitioner of crybaby conservatism — no one, he thinks, has suffered so much since Job lost …
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Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose:
The Marine Corps is investigating a deployed machine-gunner who seems to be a Nazi fanboy — More than two dozen Marines have been investigated over extremist or racist ties since 2017, including at least one officer. — The Marine Corps is investigating a deployed machine-gunner …
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
What is The Cook Political Report? — The Cook Political Report is an independent, non-partisan newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns for the US House of Representatives, US Senate, Governors and President as well as American political trends.
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Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
‘Not a fair fight’: In Kansas, GOP frustrated as money rolls in for Democrat and Senate race tightens — TONGANOXIE, Kan. — In any other year, Rep. Roger Marshall would have been a slam dunk to fill the state's open Senate seat, held by Republicans since 1932.
Simon Marks / Washington Post:
Foreign correspondents in the United States aren't the enemy — Simon Marks is president and chief correspondent of Feature Story News, a global news agency covering events in the United States for broadcasters worldwide. — For foreign journalists based in Washington …
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USA Today:
19 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct. Here's what their stories have in common. — Allegations of women who've accused Trump of non-consensual sexual contact share many details, from forced kisses to where it took place. — Today, writer E. Jean Carroll goes to court in a unique case …
Patrick Ruffini / Echelon Indicators:
America is Headed for Record Turnout. Here's What That Looks Like. — U.S. general election turnout is likely to break through 150 million votes for the first time in history. Based on our turnout modeling for the general election, we at Echelon Insights think it will be 157 million.
Associated Press:
Barrett was trustee at private school with anti-gay policies — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served for nearly three years on the board of private Christian schools that effectively barred admission to children of same-sex parents and made it plain that openly gay and lesbian teachers weren't welcome in the classroom.
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Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast:
Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition, Discussing Sex Life and Jeffrey Epstein, Ordered Released by Thursday at 9 a.m. — The 400-page plus document has been ordered to be unsealed by Thursday. It is expected to shine an unprecedented light on the murky world of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
U.S. weighs labeling leading human rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’ — The Trump administration is considering declaring that several prominent international NGOs — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam — are anti-Semitic and that governments should not support them, two people familiar with the issue said.
Julia Musto / Fox News:
Dem lawmakers accuse Postal Service of illegally blocking visits — The congress members from New Jersey pinned the incidents on US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the Trump administration — Postal officers sue after USPS ends daily patrols against mail theft
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
She's Evangelical, ‘Pro-Life’ and Voting for Biden — Billy Graham's granddaughter says, “This president doesn't represent our faith.” — A granddaughter of the Rev. Billy Graham, Jerushah Duford, is a committed evangelical Christian who describes herself as “pro-life.”
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FiveThirtyEight:
Explore The Ways Trump Or Biden Could Win The Election — Pick the winner of each state to see how FiveThirtyEight's presidential forecast would change. — 2020 election forecast How our forecast works — Key StatesAll States … Reset — Candidates can't be selected if they start off …