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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 2020 campaign closes on the coronavirus — WASHINGTON — The October surprise in this presidential election hasn't been the Supreme Court vacancy. Or Hunter Biden. Or what Joe Biden said at Thursday's debate about transitioning away from oil. — Instead, it's been the coronavirus.
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Reuters, Political Wire and Reason
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Trump breaks with Meadows, says he hasn't given up on controlling virus — President Donald Trump on Monday insisted that his administration was still working to curb the spread of the coronavirus, even as White House chief of staff Mark Meadows doubled down on his acknowledgment that the United States would not “control” the pandemic.
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Pence not expected at Barrett's Monday night confirmation vote
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
White House to host swearing-in event for Barrett on Monday night
White House to host swearing-in event for Barrett on Monday night
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Business Insider, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Political Wire, IJR, POLITICUSUSA, MyNorthwest.com, CBS Los Angeles, SCOTUSblog, Washingtonian and Mediaite
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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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Fact check: Trump makes at least 16 false or misleading claims to ‘60 Minutes’
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Raw Story
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Lesley Stahl Is Wrong And Trump Is Right: The Obama Administration Spied On The Trump Campaign
Lesley Stahl Is Wrong And Trump Is Right: The Obama Administration Spied On The Trump Campaign
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With Weakness Among Hispanic Voters, Biden Trails in Texas — Large Democratic gains among white suburbanites suggest risks down the ballot for Republicans in congressional and state House races, our poll shows. — President Trump maintains a narrow lead in Texas, according …
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The American Independent
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AJC poll shows deadlocked races for president, Senate seats in Georgia — 'It's a real barnburner' — The race for president in Georgia is deadlocked in the final week of the campaign, with President Donald Trump and Joe Biden in a statistical tie in a state that hasn't voted Democratic for president since 1992.
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Washington Post, Politico, The Hill and Political Wire
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FBI Sits on Report Detailing White-Supremacist Terror Threat — WHITE FLIGHT … In violation of the law, the FBI won't deliver a legally required report on domestic terrorism before an election that many security veterans fear may spark some level of violence.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
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Enablement The tortured self-justification of one very powerful Trump-loathing anonymous Republican. — One afternoon this year, a Washington Republican wove through packs of tourists on the Mall and considered, as he often did, the collapse of America. How would all of this appear from a distance?
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
How Trump Took the Middle Class to the Cleaners
How Trump Took the Middle Class to the Cleaners
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Raw Story
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Democrats already angling to take out Ron Johnson in 2022 — Democrats are coming after Ron Johnson in 2022. — With the presidential election not yet even in the books, Democratic opposition is already lining up to run for the Republican's Senate seat two years from now in Wisconsin.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Hill and Raw Story
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House already won? Pelosi thinks so, and reaches for more
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
ACB on the verge of confirmation
ACB on the verge of confirmation
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Townhall, Breitbart, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, New York Post, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Times
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Trump's conservative imprint on the federal judiciary gives Democrats a playbook — if they win — ‘The 45th President’: One in a series looking back at the Trump presidency — President Trump's first-term record on the federal judiciary — which will reach its apex Monday …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
GOP bets Democrats won't expand Supreme Court. Progressives say: Call their bluff.
GOP bets Democrats won't expand Supreme Court. Progressives say: Call their bluff.
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Washington Post, Fox News, Townhall, Political Wire, Daily Kos, WKRG-TV, Bangor Daily News, UPI, NPR and Politico
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A President Looks Back on His Toughest Fight — The story behind the Obama Administration's most enduring—and most contested—legacy: reforming American health care. — Our first spring in the White House arrived early. As the weather warmed, the South Lawn became almost like a private park to explore.
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Business Insider, CNN, Vanity Fair, The Week, The Guardian and Washington Post
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Pair of studies confirm there is water on the moon — New research confirms what scientists had theorized for years — the moon is wet. — There is water on the moon's surface, and ice may be widespread in its many shadows, according to a pair of studies published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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MIT Technology Review, Cosmos Magazine and 6abc
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Loren Grush / The Verge:
Water ice on the Moon may be easier to reach than we thought, new studies claim
Water ice on the Moon may be easier to reach than we thought, new studies claim
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Gizmodo, The Atlantic, New York Times and Wired
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Biden flips script on Trump in campaign's final week — Donald Trump is chasing every possible opening across the electoral map. Joe Biden is sitting on his lead, carefully surveying the landscape for states that might serve as insurance policies. — It's a jarring flip of the script …
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The New York Post endorses President Donald J. Trump for re-election — We can return to the explosive job creation, rising wages and general prosperity we had before the pandemic. We can have economic freedom and opportunity, and resist cancel culture and censorship.
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Trump appointee resigns over the president's order removing job protections for many civil servants — The Trump administration-appointed head of a key advisory council on the civil service has resigned over an executive order to strip away protections against political interference in hiring …
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Inside Decades of Nepotism and Bungling at the N.Y.C. Elections Board — Some staffers read or watch Netflix at the office, while others punch in and then go shopping or to the gym, current and former employees said. — The official who oversees voter registration in New York City is the 80-year-old mother of a former congressman.
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Trump Is the Best Candidate for the Illiberal Left — A number of influential commentators who firmly opposed Donald Trump in 2016 recently announced their intention to vote for him in 2020. Nearly all of them, including James Lindsay, Danielle Pletka, and Ben Shapiro, blamed illiberalism on the left.
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Wall Street Journal, Columbia Journalism Review and Outside the Beltway
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The Only Middle Finger Available — The Barrett Vote: There's Not a Good Reason for Mike Pence to Preside Over It — Homeowners with Trump Yard Signs Receive Ominous Warning — A President Biden Would Be Disastrous on Energy — If Trump wins, it will be as a gigantic rude gesture to the cultural Left.
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The Week, Al Jazeera and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Why Many Americans Don't Vote — And why for some, this year could be different. — Illustrations by Laura Lannes — The last time Richard Brown voted was in 2008. He had caught a couple of presidential debates on TV, and found himself liking what the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, had to say.
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Republicans closely resemble autocratic parties in Hungary and Turkey - study … The Republican party has become dramatically more illiberal in the past two decades and now more closely resembles ruling parties in autocratic societies than its former centre-right equivalents in Europe, according to a new international study.
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What's Going on with Republican Women? — There's something going on with Republican women—a troubling feedback loop between these women, their support for the president, and their interest in social media-driven conspiracy theories. — Let's start with some of the data on the support of Republican women for the president.
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Raw Story
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The Two Americas Financing the Trump and Biden Campaigns — Estimated donors by ZIP code since April — ◄ MORE BIDEN DONORS MORE TRUMP DONORS ► — Notes: The map shows which candidate had more donors in each ZIP code from April 1, 2020, to Oct. 14, 2020.
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National Review and Political Wire
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Office of Special Counsel investigating whether Pompeo broke federal law — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo violated the Hatch Act by giving a speech to the Republican National Convention from Jerusalem, House Foreign Affairs Chair Eliot Engel …
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‘A mass exodus’: HHS staffers jumping ship amid pandemic, fears of Trump loss — At least 27 political appointees have exited the embattled Health and Human Services department since the start of the Covid-19 crisis in February, according to a POLITICO review, and senior leaders are bracing …
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GovExec.com
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Georgia's legacy of voter suppression is driving historic Black turnout — ATLANTA — Almost every Black Georgia voter queuing up at the polls has a story about 2018. — Most waited for hours in lines that wrapped around their voting locations. Some were removed from the voter rolls arbitrarily …
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Raw Story
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Jared Kushner Says African-Americans Must ‘Want to Be Successful’ — President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner said Black people must “want to be successful” in order for his father's policies to help them. — “One thing we've seen in a lot of the Black community …
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Business Insider, The Hill, The Daily Beast, Raw Story, TMZ.com and The Week
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Florida Man Accused of Stealing Bulldozer to Dig Up Biden Signs — HAINES CITY, Fla. - Former vice Mayor Adam Burgess told Spectrum Bay News 9 he is happy his grandmother wasn't alive to see a man bulldoze over their property because of their political choice. — What You Need To Know
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Washington Post, Raw Story, The Hill, Mediaite and Florida Politics
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VMI superintendent resigns after Black cadets describe relentless racism — The superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute resigned Monday morning after Black cadets described relentless racism at the nation's oldest state-supported military college, and Gov. Ralph Northam (D) …
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UPI
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Israel's Repressive Diplomacy — ON OCTOBER 23RD, Donald Trump announced that Sudan would begin the process of normalizing relations with Israel. The declaration, which was part of a deal to remove Sudan from the US list of state sponsors of terror, follows last month's pledges …
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Townhall, middleeastmonitor.com, Washington Post, israpundit.org, Boston Herald and The American Spectator
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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 …