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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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Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: Alleged Hunter Biden Emails Circulated in Ukraine as Rudy Giuliani Dug for Dirt There Last Year — Explicit photos and emails purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden were circulating in Ukraine last year at the same time that Rudy Giuliani was searching for dirt …
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Fox News:
Laptop connected to Hunter Biden linked to FBI money laundering probe — It is unclear, at this point, whether the investigation is ongoing or if it was directly related to Hunter Biden — FBI, DOJ agree Hunter Biden emails were not Russia disinformation
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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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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Meadows tempers expectations of Hunter Biden probe — White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday attempted to temper expectations about a possible investigation into Hunter Biden, one day after President Trump urged the attorney general to launch a probe into his political rival's son.
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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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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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Associated Press:
Face to face: Trump and Biden to meet for final debate
Face to face: Trump and Biden to meet for final 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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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Rudy Giuliani caught in compromising position in new ‘Borat’ film
Rudy Giuliani caught in compromising position in new ‘Borat’ film
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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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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
The stunning hypocrisy of the Trump family's attacks on Hunter Biden
The stunning hypocrisy of the Trump family's attacks on Hunter Biden
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Sonia Saraiya / Vanity Fair:
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Brings Back Borat, With His Daughter in Tow
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Brings Back Borat, With His Daughter in Tow
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Washington Post:
Trump weighs firing FBI director after election as frustration with Wray, Barr grows — President Trump and his advisers have repeatedly discussed whether to fire FBI Director Christopher A. Wray after Election Day — a scenario that also could imperil the tenure of Attorney General William P. Barr …
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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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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Obama: Trump emboldens people to be “cruel and divisive and racist” — In his first campaign rally appearance on behalf of Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama urged Americans to vote, saying “we can't afford another four years” of a Trump presidency. — Why it matters via Axios' Hans Nichols …
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CNN:
Obama delivers a blistering rebuke of Trump in his return to the campaign trail
Obama delivers a blistering rebuke of Trump in his return to the campaign trail
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate Democrats to boycott Barrett's Judiciary Committee vote Thursday — Senate Democrats plan to boycott Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's Judiciary Committee vote Thursday in an act of protest, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday.
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Chris Christie / Wall Street Journal:
I Should Have Worn a Mask — It's not a partisan or cultural symbol, not a sign of weakness or virtue. — For seven months I was very careful about mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing. As someone with asthma, I knew I faced heightened risk.
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CNN:
Feds say Russia and Iran have interfered with the presidential election — (CNN)Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Wednesday both Iran and Russia have obtained US voter registration information in an effort to interfere in the election, including Iran posing …
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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.
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump administration considers labeling top humanitarian groups ‘anti-Semitic’
Trump administration considers labeling top humanitarian groups ‘anti-Semitic’
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Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Week That Shook the Trump Campaign — Polls show that Trump has only partly recovered from his performance in the first debate and his management of the coronavirus at the White House — WASHINGTON—In the days after the first debate Sept. 29 between President …
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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
Horrified by Jeffrey Toobin's penis? Put it away, for now
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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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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 …
Politico:
The news media helps Trump avoid the stench of death — As President Donald Trump heads into his final sprint to Election Day, nearly every news report notes that he is running behind in the polls. Journalists aren't shying away from describing his wilder rhetoric as “studded with lies and falsehoods.”
Bloomberg:
Trump Envoy Grenell Tried to Secretly Negotiate Maduro Exit — Former German ambassador met Maduro representative in Mexico — Talks unsuccessful, as Trump seeks foreign policy victories — An influential Trump administration official secretly met with a representative …
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Kyle Smith / National Review:
A Bizarre and Revealing Biden Interview — William Voegeli of the Claremont Review of Books brought up a strange Joe Biden interview from 1974 I hadn't seen before in which Biden emerges as arrogant and determined to make more money, one way or another. Biden also speaks of his first wife Neilia …
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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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Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
Supreme Court puts curbside voting on hold in Alabama — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday put on hold a lower court order that would have permitted curbside voting in Alabama in November. — The justices' vote was 5-3, with the court's three liberals dissenting.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump gains in Ohio, Biden ahead in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin — Donald Trump holds a narrow advantage in Ohio, while voters in the three battleground states that put him over the top in 2016 prefer Joe Biden — How the campaigns are preparing for presidential debate changes
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Tobias Siegal / Jerusalem Post:
Sudan agrees to normalize relations with Israel -report — The report indicated that the formal and public announcement on the normalization of relations is expected to take place in the next few days. — Sudan has reportedly agreed to fully normalize relations with Israel …
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.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Potential courtroom showdown in Trump defamation case fizzles — An expected courtroom showdown over the Justice Department's move to have the federal government step in for President Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit was a bust on Wednesday, after a government lawyer was denied access …
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Court ruling could block thousands of Iowa ballot requests — IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A split Iowa Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a new Republican-backed law that could bar county elections commissioners from mailing absentee ballots to thousands of people who omitted information on their applications.
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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 …