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Lex Haris / CBS News:
Trump administration violates agreement and releases “60 Minutes” interview ahead of Sunday broadcast — President Trump on Thursday violated an agreement with CBS News and released the White House's recording of an interview with “60 Minutes,” three days ahead of the expected Sunday airing on CBS.
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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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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump seems confident court to end ‘Obamacare’
The Latest: Trump seems confident court to end ‘Obamacare’
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Talking Points Memo and Florida Politics
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Trump on Supreme Court opportunity to overturn Obamacare: “I hope they end it”
Trump on Supreme Court opportunity to overturn Obamacare: “I hope they end it”
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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Harris, prominent Democrats listed as ‘key contacts’ for Biden family business venture projects — Email is unrelated to the laptop or hard drive purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden — Hunter Biden's ex-business associate now in fear for his life — EXCLUSIVE: A list of …
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Hunter biz partner confirms email, details Joe Biden's push to make millions from China
Hunter biz partner confirms email, details Joe Biden's push to make millions from China
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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
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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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Townhall, Vanity Fair, New York Post, TheBlaze, National Review and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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Townhall, TheBlaze and New York Post
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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New York Times:
Trump Posts ‘60 Minutes’ Interview He Cut Short After Bristling at Questions — Republican senators advanced President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, setting up a final vote on Monday. Joe Biden, pressed to take a stand on court packing, said courts were “getting out of whack” …
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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 …
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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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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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The fight is for democracy — President Trump disembarks from Air Force One on October 21.
The fight is for democracy — President Trump disembarks from Air Force One on October 21.
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First Things, The Atlantic, Crooked Media, NBC Boston and DSCC
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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Washington Post, Political Wire and One America News Network
ABC News:
Senate Republicans move Barrett Supreme Court nomination toward final vote
Senate Republicans move Barrett Supreme Court nomination toward final vote
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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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Talking Points Memo and Electronics Ward News
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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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Trump's Twitter hacked after Dutch researcher claims he guessed password - report … Donald Trump's Twitter account was hacked last week, after a Dutch researcher correctly guessed the president's password: “maga2020!”, Dutch media reported. — Victor Gevers, a security expert …
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
President Trump's Twitter accessed by security expert who guessed password “maga2020!”
President Trump's Twitter accessed by security expert who guessed password “maga2020!”
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
My Wild 2 Weeks Inside the Trump Campaign Bubble — LAS VEGAS — Monday was a day of rage for Donald Trump. — He woke up at his Las Vegas hotel, a gold brick of glass on the edge of the Strip next to an abandoned lot, and was already in a foul mood. The previous day he had seen a TV ad …
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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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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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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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Political Wire and The Week
Washington Post:
Senate Republicans fume as Mnuchin gives ground to Pelosi in search of deal — Pelosi cites progress in talks with Mnuchin, but Republicans say Mnuchin is capitulating to the Democratic leader — Senate Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin …
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Meghan McCarthy / COURIER:
All of the Times Republicans Have Refused to Help Americans During the Coronavirus Pandemic
All of the Times Republicans Have Refused to Help Americans During the Coronavirus Pandemic
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump, U.S. intelligence chief push to declassify document on Russia's 2016 election role: sources — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and his intelligence chief have pushed for quick declassification of a document disputing the 2017 intelligence community finding …
Eric Yoder / Washington Post:
Trump issues sweeping order for many career federal employees to lose civil service protections — Career federal employees whose work involves making policy would no longer be hired under competitive procedures and would lose some civil service protections from being fired as well as eligibility …
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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 …
Liz Kotalik / KUSA-TV:
Trailer park tenants say landlord sends note implying a vote for Biden is a vote for increased rent — “We are not telling you how to vote,” a copy of the letter sent to 9NEWS says. “We are just telling our tenants what we will do according to the results.”
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The Atlantic:
The Case Against Donald Trump — In 1973, a United States Air Force officer, Major Harold Hering, asked a question that the Air Force did not want asked. Hering, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, was then in training to become a Minuteman-missile crewman. The question he asked …
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IJR, The Hill, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
The US Eliminated Nearly 21,000 Election Day Polling Locations for 2020 — Exclusive VICE News analysis shows a 20% cut in election locations nationwide, and much deeper cuts in California, Maryland, Kentucky, New Jersey, and North Dakota. — CJ — RA
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New York Times:
Russia Poses Greater Election Threat Than Iran, Many U.S. Officials Say — Russia's hackers appeared to be preparing to sow chaos amid any uncertainty around election results, officials said. — WASHINGTON — While senior Trump administration officials said this week that Iran …
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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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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Madison Cawthorn's Racist Website — GOP Wunderkind Attacks Opponent's Attempt to “Ruin White Males” — 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.”
Wall Street Journal:
Declassified Files Reveal a Possible Spy in Poland—Named James Bond — Discovery creates a new mystery; ‘a totally laid-back person’ — WARSAW, Poland—A mystery left unsolved by the spies of the Communist era reopened one recent morning, when an archivist found a curious folder sheltered …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How the Iran news actually undermines one of Trump's biggest lies — There's a lot to scrutinize about John Ratcliffe's big announcement about Iran and Russia, but an important piece of news about it is getting lost: Without doing so directly, President Trump's own director …
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Florida Phoenix, MSNBC, Orlando Sentinel, Responsible Statecraft and POLITICUSUSA
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
The first debate was a horror. The second was scrapped. Now it's up to Kristen Welker. — The NBC News rising star and the youngest of the 2020 debate moderators has her work cut out for her in the final Trump-Biden faceoff. — Kristen Welker was handed a daunting enough task …