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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn't Buy It. — Inside the White House's secret, last-ditch effort to change the narrative, and the election — and the return of the media gatekeepers. — By early October, even people inside the White House believed President …
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The Hill, Raw Story and Breitbart, more at Mediagazer »
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New York Times:
Questions and Answers About the Bidens and a Deal in China — There is no evidence that the former vice president was involved in or profited from a joint venture pursued by his son and brother. — In the closing days of the campaign, President Trump and his allies are engaged …
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Conservative News Today
Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Joe Biden ‘has been caught in repeated lies over Biden Inc’: Sen. Johnson
Joe Biden ‘has been caught in repeated lies over Biden Inc’: Sen. Johnson
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Breitbart, USA Today and Business Insider
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
The 60 Minutes interview that President Trump cut short — In an interview that's made headlines this week, Lesley Stahl presses President Trump on once-again rising coronavirus cases and what his priorities would be if re-elected. Stahl also speaks with Mr. Trump's running mate, Vice President Mike Pence.
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Axios, Political Wire, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill and Raw Story
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CBS News:
Joe Biden makes the case for why he should be president — The former vice president talks with Norah O'Donnell about the pandemic, taxes, the Supreme Court, and the “stark” differences between himself and President Trump. O'Donnell also speaks with Mr. Biden's running mate, California Senator Kamala Harris.
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National Review, Washington Times, Raw Story, The Hill, Mediaite and Breitbart
The Texas Tribune:
Kamala Harris to make campaign stop in Texas — Harris will be the highest-profile representative from the Biden campaign to visit Texas in person during the general election. — Copy link — Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's running mate and the California U.S. senator, will be visiting Texas on Friday …
New York Times:
Infection of Pence Aides Raises New Questions About Trump's Virus Response — From the beginning, the president has turned mask wearing and other preventive measures into a loyalty test. He and his aides have taken the same approach inside the White House. — WASHINGTON — “Covid, Covid.
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Associated Press, The Hill, KRON4, Axios, Vox, Daily Kos, National Review and Talking Points Memo
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Washington Post:
White House signals defeat in pandemic as coronavirus outbreak roils Pence's office — The presidential campaign was roiled this weekend by a fresh outbreak of the novel coronavirus at the White House that infected at least five aides or advisers to Vice President Pence that President Trump's …
Politico:
Trump pitches an alternate reality as coronavirus troubles deepen
Trump pitches an alternate reality as coronavirus troubles deepen
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Associated Press, New York Times and One America News Network
Devan Cole / CNN:
White House chief of staff: ‘We are not going to control the pandemic’
White House chief of staff: ‘We are not going to control the pandemic’
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BuzzFeed News, Breitbart, Yahoo News, The Moderate Voice, Slate, UPI, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Business Insider, The Root, TheStreet, New York Post and Mother Jones
Axios:
Trump plans to fire heads of FBI, CIA and Pentagon if he wins re-election — If President Trump wins re-election, he'll move to immediately fire FBI Director Christopher Wray and also expects to replace CIA Director Gina Haspel and Defense Secretary Mark Esper, two people who've discussed …
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Fox News, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Political Wire, Raw Story, Mediaite and POLITICUSUSA
Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
Putin rejects Donald Trump's criticism of Biden family business — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden's past business ties with Ukraine or Russia, marking out his disagreement with one of Donald Trump's attack lines in the U.S. presidential election.
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Washington Times, Political Wire and New York Post
Associated Press:
GOP slowly gaining as early vote total surpasses 2016 — With nine days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year's presidential election than voted early or absentee in the 2016 race as the start of in-person early voting in big states led to a surge in turnout in recent days.
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Political Wire, The Hill and Associated Press
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Erin Alberty / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah's hospitals prepare to ration care as a record number of coronavirus patients flood their ICUs … Editor's note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning.
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The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Health Agency Scraps Coronavirus Ad Campaign, Leaving Santa Claus in the Cold — The $250 million federally funded effort had aimed to ‘defeat despair, inspire hope’ on pandemic — A federal health agency halted a public-service coronavirus advertising campaign funded by $250 million …
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Topeka Capital-Journal:
Our vote is going to Joe Biden — By The Editorial Advisory Board — Joe Biden should be the next president of the United States. — He should be the next president of the United States because he is caring, trustworthy and experienced. He should be the next president of the United States …
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New York Times
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UnionLeader.com:
Our choice is Joe Biden*
Our choice is Joe Biden*
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POLITICUSUSA, Axios, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Fox News, NBC Boston, Forbes, The Mahablog, The Hill, Business Insider and Mediaite
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Enlarging the Supreme Court is the only answer to the right's judicial radicalism — There is only one good thing that can come from the power-mad Republican rush to jam Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court before Election Day: Of a sudden, as the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say …
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CBS News and Florida Politics
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Todd Ruger / Roll Call:
Senate cuts off debate on Barrett nomination, moves to final vote on Monday
Senate cuts off debate on Barrett nomination, moves to final vote on Monday
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The Hill, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, Al Jazeera, 6abc, NPR, Deadline, UPI and New York Post
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Conservative News Sites Fuel Voter Fraud Misinformation — Breitbart, The Washington Examiner and others amplify false claims of rampant cheating in what a new Harvard study calls a “propaganda feedback loop.” — In the final stretch of the 2020 campaign, right-leaning news sites with millions …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The big Trump rallies you don't see — WASHINGTON, Pennsylvania — “I can't believe there aren't any newspeople here,” said Linda of Greene County, Pennsylvania, as she stood among hundreds of cars and pickup trucks idling in long parallel lines in a vast big-box-store parking lot Saturday …
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Power Line
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump, TV pundits don't have a fracking clue about Pennsylvania and fossil fuels
Trump, TV pundits don't have a fracking clue about Pennsylvania and fossil fuels
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Associated Press and Fox News
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Conspiracy Theories — Fringe movements will persist long after Election Day. Here's how to help. — Opinion writer at large. — Increasingly, friends, colleagues and readers share the same story with me: Online, somebody they know and love …
Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News:
Biden rebounds to edge over Trump in Texas, as Hegar slightly narrows Cornyn's lead in Senate race — A new Dallas Morning News/UT-Tyler poll shows Texas is up for grabs, with the former vice president posting gains among independents, Hispanics. — AUSTIN — Former Vice President Joe Biden …
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POLITICUSUSA and Associated Press
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Rosanna Xia / Los Angeles Times:
L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground. — Not far from Santa Catalina Island, in an ocean shared by divers and fishermen, kelp forests and whales, David Valentine decoded unusual signals underwater that gave him chills. — The UC Santa Barbara scientist was supposed to be studying methane seeps …
Tim Miller / The Triad:
A Message for Reluctant Trumpers of Good Faith — 1. Moms and Politics — I was talking to my mother about politics last night. — That's a dangerous sentence for most of us these days, but in this case it was refreshing and illuminating. I got out of my bubble a bit …
CBS News:
Trump-Biden race is tight in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll — In the final stretch of the campaign, we find three Southern battlegrounds that could still go either way. Our estimates show Joe Biden with just a two-point edge over President Trump in Florida …
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CNN, Vox, Slate, The Hill, YouGov, Breitbart, Florida Politics, Rolling Stone, WWLP-TV and Politico
theepochtimes.com:
New York Times' 8-Month-Long ‘Investigation’ of The Epoch Times: Light on Facts, Heavy on Bias — The New York Times on Oct. 24 published an article by tech columnist Kevin Roose about The Epoch Times. The article was published on the front page of the NY Times' Sunday edition on Oct. 25.
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New York Times:
Fights Erupt During ‘Jews for Trump’ Rally in Manhattan — Seven people were arrested, and protesters screamed at Rudy Giuliani. Separately, a police officer was suspended for voicing support for the president on the job. — Political tensions over the upcoming presidential election escalated …
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ABC News and New York Post
Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Divided States of Pennsylvania … On a sunny day in Philadelphia this fall, James McFadden worried about the future of America as he loaded groceries into his Toyota Prius. — “It's been the worst time that I have ever seen,” said McFadden, 81. — That was saying something …