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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 …
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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.
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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.
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LGBTQ Nation
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Girl Scouts deletes social media congratulations to Amy Coney Barrett on Supreme Court seat after angry backlash — The Girls Scouts sparked a wave of angry comments — and praise — with Facebook and Twitter posts congratulating the conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett for her controversial appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, Fox News and Townhall
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' only way to win is to stop people from voting
Republicans' only way to win is to stop people from voting
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Law & Crime and Associated Press
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
How to make an election crisis — Fun fact: With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett …
How to make an election crisis — Fun fact: With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett …
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MyNorthwest.com, New York Times and Law & Crime
Associated Press:
Supreme Court leaves NC absentee ballot deadline at Nov. 12
Supreme Court leaves NC absentee ballot deadline at Nov. 12
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MyNorthwest.com, New York Post, Townhall and Politico
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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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Suggests His Hunter Biden Dirt Was Intercepted in the Mail — The Fox News star heavily implied that his “confidential documents” on Hunter Biden were stolen as part of a nefarious plot. — Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has devoted the lion's share of his airtime recently …
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Fox News:
Jim Biden refuses to answer questions about family's business dealings
Jim Biden refuses to answer questions about family's business dealings
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Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Senate Committee Successfully Verifies All Bobulinski Materials Reviewed To Date
EXCLUSIVE: Senate Committee Successfully Verifies All Bobulinski Materials Reviewed To Date
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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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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.
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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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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 …
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Reuters
Washington Post:
Millions of mail ballots have not been returned as window closes for Postal Service delivery — Election officials said many may belong to those who requested them early, then decided to vote in person — Amid a record surge in early voting, millions of mail ballots remained unreturned Wednesday …
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FiveThirtyEight, Political Wire, CBS Pittsburgh, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart and BuzzFeed News
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Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Judge: Virginia can't count ballots with missing postmarks
Judge: Virginia can't count ballots with missing postmarks
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NBC4 Washington and Breitbart
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 …
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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.
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The Week
Politico:
Trump confronts his 50 percent problem — Donald Trump won the presidency with 46 percent of the popular vote. His approval rating, according to Gallup, has never hit 50 percent. He remains under 50 percent in national polling averages. — The president's inability to capture a majority …
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The Hill, Al Jazeera, NPR, Roll Call, Washington Post and Vox
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.
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden and Trump to tangle in Tampa on Thursday — In rare crossing of paths, the two presidential nominees campaign in the same city on the same day — Trump, Biden campaigns flood battleground Florida with surrogates — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump …
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CNN, Politico, CBS Miami, One America News Network and Reuters
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Shawna Chen / Axios:
Polls: Biden leads Latino voters in key battleground states
Polls: Biden leads Latino voters in key battleground states
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Washington Post and Politico
New York Times:
Turkish Bank Case Showed Erdogan's Influence With Trump — New details of the Justice Department's handling of the accusations against Halkbank reveal how Turkey's leader pressured the president, prompting concern from top White House aides. — WASHINGTON — Geoffrey S. Berman was outraged.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression — The drop in tax revenue has led to a total shortfall expected in the hundreds of billions of dollars—greater than 2019's K-12 education budget for every state combined, or more than twice the amount spent that year on state roads and other transportation infrastructure
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Trump stokes suburban fears after Philadelphia shooting — PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump is making a last-ditch effort to rattle the suburbs. — In the wake of civil unrest sparked by a fatal police shooting here Monday, the president returned to fear-mongering about big-city chaos and violence …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Unrest in Philadelphia after police kill a Black man roils the presidential campaign
Unrest in Philadelphia after police kill a Black man roils the presidential campaign
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Spectator USA and The Week
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 …
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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 …
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NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Fox News and Twitchy
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 …
Li Zhou / Vox:
Exclusive: Biden leads Trump by 12 points in a national UT Dallas poll — The survey also finds that more stimulus is respondents' top priority for a new Congress. — Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by more than 10 points in a national poll by researchers at the University of Texas Dallas.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The Hill and Justice News
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Texas Is a Tossup. So Why Won't Trump or Biden Campaign There? — A victory by the Democrats would herald the arrival of a formidable multiracial coalition in the country's largest red state. — BROWNSVILLE, Texas — When Senator Ted Cruz of Texas spoke with President Trump on the phone last week …