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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Jared and Ivanka threaten to sue the Lincoln Project for ‘enormous’ damages over Times Square billboards on COVID: report — Attorneys representing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are threatening to sue the Lincoln Project over two Times Square billboards criticizing the administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Politico, Law & Crime, The Guardian and Alternet.org
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Bill Sanderson / New York Daily News:
Ivanka, Jared: Don't blame us on Times Square billboards for Trump administration COVID-19 death toll — we'll sue — “The billboards will stay up,” it went on. “We consider it important that in Times Square, the crossroads of the world, people are continuously reminded of the cruelty …
Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump threaten to sue Lincoln Project over Times Square ads … Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are threatening to sue over a pair of giant, side-by-side, pro-Joe Biden campaign billboards in Times Square that blast the couple's response to the coronavirus crisis.
Thomas Rid / Washington Post:
Insisting that the Hunter Biden laptop is fake is a trap. So is insisting that it's real. — The lesson of 2016 is to be even more careful with potential disinformation in 2020. — “You mean the laptop is now another Russia, Russia, Russia hoax? You got to be kidding me,” …
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Politico, Axios, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Daily Kos and Mother Jones
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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
The MAGAverse tries to summon another Clinton-FBI moment
The MAGAverse tries to summon another Clinton-FBI moment
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Raw Story, Washington Post and USA Today, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Fearful calls flood election offices as Trump attacks mail-in voting, threatening participation in GOP strongholds — Weber County, a majority-Republican community of 260,000 on the eastern shores of Utah's Great Salt Lake, held its first by-mail election in 2013.
USA Today:
Trump's campaign made stops nationwide. Coronavirus cases surged in his wake in at least five places. … As President Donald Trump jetted across the country holding campaign rallies during the past two months, he didn't just defy state orders and federal health guidelines.
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POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
Michael Ellsberg / The Daily Beast:
Meet the Dominatrix Forcing Trump Supporters to Vote Biden — PAYBACK'S A B*TCH … Empress Delfina is talking her submissive fans into seeing the error of their ways for the low price of $1.99 a minute. — This election season, many people who wouldn't be natural allies …
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
While Her Father Rails Against ‘Idiot’ Scientists, Ivanka Trump Talks Ice Cream — The first daughter is trying to woo the white suburban female voters who have become her father's demographic kryptonite. — FRANKLIN, Wis. — President Trump had just been on Fox and Friends …
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Wall Street Journal and Electronics Ward News
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
The White Issue: Has Anna Wintour's Diversity Push Come Too Late? — Vogue's September issue celebrated Black culture and contributors. But some employees say the magazine's powerful editor fostered a workplace that sidelined women of color. — Vogue's September issue was different this year.
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump voting in Florida; Bon Jovi joining Biden — President Donald Trump is casting his ballot Saturday morning, taking advantage of Florida's early voting system. — Trump will be voting in West Palm Beach, Florida, near his private Mar-a-Lago club.
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Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Trump campaign flouted agreement to follow health guidelines at rally, documents show — The start of President Trump's rally was still hours away when it became clear that his campaign would not keep its promise. — In the days leading up to the Sept. 30 event in Duluth, Minn. …
New York Times:
U.S. Sets Coronavirus Case Record Amid New Surge — More than 79,000 new cases of the virus were reported across the country on Friday, shattering an earlier single-day record and stirring new fears about the months ahead. — The United States is in the midst of one of the most severe surges …
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The Signorile Report and The Week
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
National Republican Party Formally Backs QAnon Supporter — A $5,000 September donation formalizes the GOP's acceptance of Marjorie Taylor Greene's candidacy after top officials in the party had signalled hesitancy in backing her. — After weeks of wavering, the national Republican party …
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Associated Press and The Hill
CNN:
Fauci says it might be time to mandate masks as Covid-19 surges across US — See what Dr. Fauci thinks about Biden's mask plan — (CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci has been reluctant to support a federal mask mandate. — “A national mandate probably would not work,” he said on Sept 15 during a news conference with Vermont Gov. Phil Scott.
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Talking Points Memo, IJR, Forbes, Cyprus Mail, Political Wire and Axios
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
Biden says he would if elected mandate masks in interstate transportation
New York Times:
Trump's Philanthropy: Big Tax Write-Offs and Claims That Don't Always Add Up — Hidden financial records cast doubt on a number of his charitable commitments and show that most of his giving came from land deals that offset his income. — In President Trump's telling …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Forbes, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Electronics Ward News
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Paranoia and finger-pointing in Trumpworld as election approaches — President Donald Trump's top advisers have plunged into a bitter round of finger-pointing and blame-shifting ahead of an increasingly likely defeat. — Accusations are flying in all directions and about all manner of topics …
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Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, Washington Times and Raw Story
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
She Used to Clean City Hall. Now, She Runs It. — In Russia, elections are typically theatrical affairs with the winner and loser preordained. Sometimes, though, they go off script. — POVALIKHINO, Russia — With election day looming, Nikolai Loktev was in a panic …
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine — Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire. — For years, The Epoch Times was a small, low-budget newspaper …
McSweeney's:
Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump's Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes — THE COMPLETE LISTING (SO FAR): ATROCITIES 1- 944 … Early in President Trump's term, McSweeney's editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration.
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
‘There is a voter-suppression wing’: An ugly American tradition clouds the 2020 presidential race — A Memphis, Tenn., poll worker turned away people wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts, saying they couldn't vote. Robocalls warned thousands of Michigan residents that mail-in voting could put …
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Alternet.org, KXAN-TV, Electronics Ward News and Daily Kos
Harry Enten / CNN:
How Trump is dragging down fellow Republicans — (CNN)President Donald Trump's struggles in the polls have been well documented. He entered the final debate down about 10 points to former Vice President Joe Biden and trailed in key swing states. — Less discussed is that Trump has hurt …
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Alternet.org, Raw Story, Associated Press and Fox News
Tim Alberta / Politico:
The Unspectacular Excellence of Joe Biden's Slow and Steady Campaign — It was a frigid night in mid-Michigan on November 2, 2018, when Joe Biden jogged onto the stage inside an overheated gymnasium at Lansing Community College, a rowdy audience of several thousand people chanting his name.
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Fox News, Grist, ABC News, Daily Kos, Wall Street Journal, Axios and New York Post
Harriet Alexander / Yahoo News:
Republican party spends nearly $1 million to make Fox News' Sean Hannity a bestseller — A stridently pro-Trump Fox News host has seen his book reach the top of the bestsellers list, after the Republican Party spent nearly $1 million buying up copies. — Sean Hannity, the highest-paid star …
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New York Daily News, POLITICUSUSA and Salon
Jenny Gross / New York Times:
Far-Right Groups Are Behind Most U.S. Terrorist Attacks, Report Finds — White supremacist groups have carried out a majority of “terrorist plots and attacks” this year, according to a report by a think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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The Trace
NBC News:
For second straight day, U.S. Covid cases reach new high … For the second day in a row, the United States set a daily record for coronavirus cases when more than 79,000 infections were reported. — Friday's 779,303 cases, as tallied by NBC News, topped Thursday's 77,640.
Washington Post:
Trump's historic assault on the civil service was four years in the making — President Trump's extraordinary directive allowing his administration to weed out career federal employees viewed as disloyal in a second term is the product of a four-year campaign by conservatives working from a little-known West Wing policy shop.
6abc:
Nearly 1.5 million Pennsylvanians have already cast ballots ahead of election — PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — The Pennsylvania Department of State announced Friday that 50% of requested mail-in ballots have been cast, that is 1.5 million Pennsylvanians that have already voted by mail-in or absentee ballots 11 days prior to the election.
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Political Wire and The Hill
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Biden is highest-spending political candidate on TV ads — After spending an additional $45.2 million on political ads this week, former Vice President Joe Biden has become the highest-spending political candidate on TV ads ever, according to data from Advertising Analytics.
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Political Wire and The Wrap
BuzzFeed News:
A Leaked Internal Report Reveals The Wall Street Journal Is Struggling With Aging Readers And Covering Race — A brutal internal Wall Street Journal report obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals how the 130-year-old broadsheet is struggling mightily in the current digital and cultural age …
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