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Dan Berman / CNN:
Kavanaugh tweaks voting opinion after Vermont official asks for correction  —  Law professor cited by Kavanaugh responds  —  (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday night tweaked a line in his controversial opinion on Wisconsin mail-in voting this week …
Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Let Pennsylvania and North Carolina Accept Absentee Ballots After Election Day  —  The pair of decisions were welcomed by Democrats.  Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was expected to cast a deciding vote, did not participate in either decision.
Joyce Vance / MSNBC:
The Supreme Court will not protect our voting rights.  Here's who actually might. … As we make our way to the polls, either in-person or via mail, we need to remember that in addition to sending elected officials to Washington, D.C., we are voting for governors, state legislators, mayors and, in some states, judges.
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and New York Times
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' only way to win is to stop people from voting
Discussion: Law & Crime and Washington Times
Doug Richards / WXIA-TV:
Sen. Loeffler: ‘Not familiar’ with Access Hollywood tape  —  Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she will “always” defend President Donald Trump.  —  BUFORD, Ga. — Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she doesn't disagree with anything President Donald Trump has said or done.
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Miles Taylor / Medium:
A Statement  —  Why I'm no longer “Anonymous”  —  More than two years ago, I published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times about Donald Trump's perilous presidency, while I was serving under him.  He responded with a short but telling tweet: “TREASON?”  —  Trump sees personal criticism as subversive.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Miles Taylor, a Former Homeland Security Official, Reveals He Was ‘Anonymous’
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump's Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters' Lives  —  The president has continued to downplay he severity of the coronavirus and declare before largely maskless crowds that it is vanishing.  The surge in new cases across the country suggests otherwise.
Discussion: Raw Story, Political Wire and JSOnline
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Officials Warn of Cyberattacks on Hospitals as Virus Cases Spike  —  Government officials warned that hackers were seeking to hold American hospitals' data hostage in exchange for ransom payments.  —  Hundreds of American hospitals are being targeted in cyberattacks by the same Russian hackers …
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Bloomberg:   FBI, DHS Warn Hospitals of ‘Credible Threat’ from Hackers
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Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Judge: Virginia can't count ballots with missing postmarks
Discussion: NBC4 Washington and Breitbart
Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
Millions of mail ballots not yet returned in key states
Discussion: Breitbart and Reuters
NBC News:
‘Quick, quick, quick’: Trump rushes McSally at rally as she fights to hold her Senate seat  —  President Donald Trump offered a not-very warm welcome to Sen. Martha McSally on Wednesday at his campaign rally in Arizona, where his fellow Republican is fighting to hold on to her seat.
Discussion: The Week
EL PAÍS:
A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air … Six people get together in a private home, one of whom is infected.  Some 31% of coronavirus outbreaks recorded in Spain are caused by this kind of gathering, mainly between family and friends.
Shawna Chen / Axios:
Polls: Biden leads Latino voters in key battleground states  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Trump among Latino voters in Texas, Arizona, Florida and Nevada, with the narrowest margin in Florida, according to a collection of state polls conducted by Telemundo.
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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New York Times:
Facing Gap in Pennsylvania, Trump Camp Tries to Make Voting Harder  —  Trailing in the polls, President Trump and his campaign are pursuing a three-pronged strategy that would effectively suppress the mail-in vote in the critical state of Pennsylvania.  —  PHILADELPHIA — President Trump's campaign …
Discussion: Politico, Reuters and NPR
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump's COVID Advisers: He's Now Pushing Herd Immunity  —  Scott Atlas, the president's most favored adviser, says it's not true.  But others working on the pandemic say it's merely a game of semantics.  The policy is increasingly clear.  —  Despite publicly downplaying it …
CNN:
Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country ‘back from the doctors’  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising …
Detroit News:
Whitmer kidnap plotter also wanted to hang Trump, other politicians, FBI says  —  A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump and posted a hit list on Facebook targeting other elected leaders, including former President Barack Obama …
Laina G. Stebbins / Michigan Advance:
Nessel: Capitol officials stalling gun ban are ‘cowards’  —  Attorney General Dana Nessel has had a lot on her plate during the COVID-19 pandemic.  —  Most recently, her office has been collaborating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Michigan State Police to thwart …
James McAuley / Washington Post:
Man shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ kills three outside French church, terrorism investigation opened  —  PARIS — Three people were killed in a knife attack outside a church in the southern French city of Nice on Thursday morning, French authorities said.  —  France's national anti-terrorist prosecutor announced …
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Jared Kushner, Peggy Noonan and White problems with Black ambition  —  When you're Black in America, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.  You're either shiftless or too ambitious.  If you're too ambitious, you better not for one moment show a sense of comfort in your own skin lest …
Discussion: Mediaite and Los Angeles Times
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
After 12 Years, Arrest Made in Abduction of Former Times Journalist David Rohde  —  A former Taliban commander was arrested in the November 2008 kidnapping of Mr. Rohde and two others in Afghanistan.  He was brought to the United States to face charges.  —  Twelve years after a New York …
Discussion: The Hill and Justice News
Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Swing Toward The Democrats  —  But most voters still expect Trump to win  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Georgia's electoral votes remains very close, but Joe Biden has gained ground on Donald Trump in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
SpyTalk:
Moscow on the Potomac?  —  A D.C. Council candidate's father has longtime business ties to Russia, worrying some CIA veterans  —  Are the Russians meddling in a Washington D.C. city council election?  —  That's the question that keeps Lauren Wolfe up at night.
Washington Post:
How polling works and how it's changed since 2016  —  Right before the election four years ago, polls showed Hillary Clinton holding small but shrinking leads in key states.  Donald Trump outperformed those polls to win 304 electoral votes — though with a margin of fewer than 80,000 votes across three states.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden, if elected, would consult allies on future of U.S. tariffs on China - advisers  —  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrat Joe Biden would immediately consult with America's main allies before deciding on the future of U.S. tariffs on China, seeking “collective leverage” …
Discussion: Axios and Associated Press
Dan Diamond / Politico:
‘Helping the president’: HHS official sought to rebrand coronavirus campaign  —  Documents reveal how political considerations shaped planning for a taxpayer-funded ad blitz to ‘defeat despair’ over Covid-19.  —  Michael Caputo arrives at the Hart Senate Office building on May 1, 2018 in Washington, DC.
Politico:
Trump's path begins in Florida  —  With help from Renuka Rayasam and Myah Ward  —  TAMPA TWO — Good evening and hello from the state of election cliffhangers, where on Thursday, in a rare crossing of paths, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will campaign in the same city, Tampa.
 
 
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
‘We Merely Need to Dampen Turnout’: Leaked Docs Show Top Trump Allies' 2016 Plan to Suppress Black Voters
Nick Aspinwall / Foreign Policy:
Guo Wengui Is Sending Mobs After Chinese Dissidents
Sydney Morning Herald:
Vaccine is imminent, but virus fight has long way to go: Fauci
Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart and The Week
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
New challenge seeks to void thousands of Harris County drive-thru votes
Discussion: Texas Monthly
 Earlier Items: 
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal:
Hacker Releases Georgia County Election Data After Ransom Not Paid
ABC News:
Man arrested at Trump rally with South Dakota's Noem
Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Hill and Fox News
The Daily Beast:
Why Hasn't Trump Come to Lindsey Graham's Rescue?
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian:
Trump aide Stephen Miller preparing second-term immigration blitz
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Wall Street Journal:
Russian in Cyprus Was Behind Key Parts of Discredited Dossier on Trump
Discussion: redstate.com