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NBC News:
Inside the campaign to ‘pizzagate’ Hunter Biden … Some of the same people who pushed a false conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton that first emerged in 2016 are now targeting Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, with similar falsehoods. Their online posts are garnering astronomical numbers of shares on social media.
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Wall Street Journal:
Hunter Biden's Ex-Business Partner Alleges Father Knew About Venture — Former vice president says he had no involvement; corporate records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show no role for Joe Biden — An ex-business partner of Hunter Biden, in a news conference organized by the Trump campaign …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Biden ‘Family Legacy’ — What we learned from the text messages of Hunter's partner Tony Bobulinski. — Joe Biden has a problem, and his name is Hunter. Because the former vice president hasn't had to answer any questions on this topic, that problem could soon become America's.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trumpworld Wraps Up Campaign by Going Full Q — From the president on down, the closing pitch to voters is to signal acceptance of a conspiracy theory that the FBI considers dangerous. — Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon had a message for his podcast listeners on Tuesday …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: Joe Biden (sort of) addresses Hunter Biden accusation
Byron York's Daily Memo: Joe Biden (sort of) addresses Hunter Biden accusation
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Harris, prominent Democrats listed as ‘key contacts’ for Biden family business venture projects
Harris, prominent Democrats listed as ‘key contacts’ for Biden family business venture projects
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Now Corruption Story Is About Joe, Not Hunter
Now Corruption Story Is About Joe, Not Hunter
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Hunter Biden business associate's text messages indicate meeting with Joe Biden
Hunter Biden business associate's text messages indicate meeting with Joe Biden
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump will attack Biden's son at the debate. It will likely backfire on him.
Trump will attack Biden's son at the debate. It will likely backfire on him.
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Kelly McBride / NPR:
Michigan militia language
Michigan militia language
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Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Takeaways: Four things to watch for in the Trump-Biden debate — (Reuters) - Trailing in opinion polls with the Nov. 3 election fast approaching, President Donald Trump is under pressure to revive his flagging campaign in Thursday's final presidential debate with Democratic rival Joe Biden.
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Nick Arama / redstate.com:
Rasmussen Says Trump Just Hit the ‘Holy Grail’ of Reelection Numbers — We're now counting down to the election with just 12 days left. — We're seeing all kinds of things exploding off in the Biden scandal as more and more information keeps dropping. It's clear Joe Biden is going to have serious problems over it.
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Trump and Biden clash in final debate over federal Covid-19 response
Trump and Biden clash in final debate over federal Covid-19 response
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Trump and Biden clash over immigration, family separation policy
Trump and Biden clash over immigration, family separation policy
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
After Barrett meeting, Murkowski still opposes election-year confirmation
After Barrett meeting, Murkowski still opposes election-year confirmation
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Nick Ochsner / WBTV-TV:
Man arrested in Kannapolis with van full of guns and explosives, researched killing Joe Biden — KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (WBTV) - A man was arrested in Kannapolis with a van full of guns and explosives with plans to carry out an act of terrorism, including trying to assassinate Joe Biden.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Trump releases unedited “60 Minutes” interview days early — President Trump tweeted on Thursday a link to an unedited 38-minute clip of his interview with Lesley Stahl of CBS' “60 Minutes” — days before its planned Sunday airdate. — Why it matters: Trump, who threatened yesterday to release the clip …
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Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness on behalf of 60 Minutes and CBS. Tonight’s anchor, Kristen Welker, is far worse! #MAGA:
Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness on behalf of 60 Minutes and CBS. Tonight's anchor, Kristen Welker, is far worse! #MAGA
Reuters:
Exclusive: ‘Dumb mistake’ exposed Iranian hand behind fake Proud Boys U.S. election emails - sources — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at U.S. voters …
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Washington Post:
Russia remains more potent threat of election interference despite administration focus on Iran
Russia remains more potent threat of election interference despite administration focus on Iran
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New York Times:
Russia Poses Greater Election Threat Than Iran, Many U.S. Officials Say
Russia Poses Greater Election Threat Than Iran, Many U.S. Officials Say
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Orange County Register, Deseret News, electionlawblog.org, Alternet.org, Electronics Ward News, Vox, Slate, The Week and Axios
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How the Iran news actually undermines one of Trump's biggest lies
How the Iran news actually undermines one of Trump's biggest lies
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Florida Phoenix, MSNBC, Orlando Sentinel, The Root and POLITICUSUSA
Business Insider:
Jared Kushner floating launch of a new Trump-branded media outlet, GOP sources say. It's another sign of a looming 2020 defeat. … - Jared Kushner has been talking about starting a Donald Trump-themed news outlet or another media company, perhaps as soon as after the November election …
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Politico:
Bernie Sanders makes a play for Biden Labor secretary — Sen. Bernie Sanders is hoping to be a part of Joe Biden's potential administration and has expressed a particular interest in becoming Labor secretary, two people familiar with the conversations tell POLITICO.
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Politico:
The presidential transition is already underway — Welcome to the first edition of POLITICO's 2020 Transition Playbook, your guide to what could be one of the most consequential transfers of power in American history. Our mantra, one embraced by operatives in both parties, is that “personnel is policy.”
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New York Times:
Trump Campaign Draws Rebuke for Surveilling Philadelphia Voters — President Trump's campaign has been videotaping voters at ballot drop boxes, a tactic that could amount to illegal voter intimidation, Pennsylvania's attorney general says. — PHILADELPHIA — The Trump campaign …
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Anand Giridharadas / The.Ink:
Judge Barrett is family to me. Don't confirm her — A relative of the Supreme Court nominee speaks out in The.Ink — Welcome to The.Ink, my newsletter about money and power, politics and culture. If you're joining us for the first time, hello! Click the orange button below to get this in your inbox, free.
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Rod Dreher:
No Families, No Children, No Future — Here's a fascinating article from New York magazine on the massive gender gap between Trump and Biden supporters. It contains this eye-popping claim, buried deep down: … David Shor is one of the best data people the Democratic Party people has.
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Trump campaign press secretary suspended on Twitter over mail-in voting tweet — The Trump campaign accused Twitter of seeking to ‘silence’ the campaign, hours before a presidential debate. — Trump 2020 spokesman Gidley on Trump campaign reportedly dwarfed by Biden's in fundraising
Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Burn It All Down A growing number of liberal lawyers want more than court-packing. — Christopher Kang knows the judicial nominations process as well as anyone — he spent seven years in the Obama White House getting judges through, including two Supreme Court nominations …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Madison Cawthorn's Racist Website — A new attack website put up by the Madison Cawthorn campaign includes an explicitly racist broadside against his opponent, Moe Davis (D-NC), for associating himself with people who want to “ruin white males.” — For real.
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New York Times:
Trump Holds Small Lead in Conservative Kansas, Poll Shows — President Trump won Kansas by more than 20 points, but he leads Joe Biden by only seven in a Times/Siena College poll. The Republican Senate candidate leads his Democratic rival by an even smaller amount, 46 percent to 42.
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Washington Post:
Trump issues sweeping order for tens of thousands of career federal employees to lose civil service protections — President Trump has fired his biggest broadside yet this week against a federal bureaucracy he has moved to remake with an executive order that would remove job security …
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
US signs anti-abortion declaration with group of largely authoritarian governments — Move is part of a campaign by Trump administration to reorient US foreign policy in a more socially conservative direction — The US has today signed an anti-abortion declaration with a group …
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us-cert.cisa.gov:
Alert (AA20-296A) — Russian State-Sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Compromises U.S. Government Targets — Summary — This joint cybersecurity advisory—written by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Federal Judges Claim It's Unconstitutional for States to Protect Voting Rights — The federal judiciary is on the brink of mandating voter suppression—even in states that don't want it. — The Supreme Court consistently upholds states' voter suppression schemes—stringent ID laws …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Trump campaign ad about America's comeback features footage from Russia and Slovenia — President Donald Trump's campaign used stock footage from Russia and Slovenia in a digital ad intended to convince voters that America is bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic.
CNN:
White supremacist group talked about paramilitary training in secret vetting calls — (CNN)Young men hoping to join a White supremacist group spoke about hosting paramilitary trainings and how to legally bring firearms to those events, according to secret recordings of vetting calls published …
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Rapid City Journal:
GOV. NOEM: Update on South Dakota's COVID-19 response — It has been nearly eight months since COVID-19 first hit our state. Though there is still much to learn, we are fortunate to have a much better sense of the common enemy we're fighting today than we did back in March.