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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 …
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.
The Supreme Court will not protect our voting rights. Here's who actually might.
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LGBTQ Nation
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
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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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
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.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
U.S. GDP booms at 33.1% rate in Q3, better than expected — U.S. GDP accelerated at a 33.1% annualized pace in the third quarter. — That was better than the 32% estimate from a Dow Jones economist survey. — A surge in business and residential investment along …
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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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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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redstate.com, Fox News, New York Post, Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
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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The Daily Beast, The Week and Mediaite
Eric Gaillard / Reuters:
Three dead as woman beheaded in France, gunman shot dead in second incident — NICE, France (Reuters) - A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist act at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday …
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James McAuley / Washington Post:
Man shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ kills three outside French church, terrorism investigation opened
Man shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ kills three outside French church, terrorism investigation opened
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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, Roll Call, Washington Post and Vox
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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Raw Story
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
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
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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Business Insider, @politifact, Raw Story, The Conversation, POLITICUSUSA and Daily Kos
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Michael Stokes Paulsen / The Bulwark:
The Pro-life Case Against Trump — Deals with the Devil don't ever turn out well. — This is a story about selling one's soul. — Specifically, it is a story about those who would trade away their political, moral, and ethical souls and support Donald Trump—against their own better judgment …
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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Talking Points Memo and The Week
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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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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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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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
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Biden holds narrow lead in Florida — WASHINGTON — Joe Biden holds a slight 4-point lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground of Florida, fueled by his standing among seniors and independents, according to the final NBC News/Marist poll of the state before Tuesday's presidential election.
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CNN:
They call themselves ‘Wives of the Deplorables’ because their husbands support Trump — (CNN)Carole Catherine did not know her husband, Tim, supported Donald Trump until the day after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. She called him the next morning crying. — “And he was like, 'Yeah, of course she lost.
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Raw Story
Helen Branswell / STAT:
It may be time to reset expectations on when we'll get a Covid-19 vaccine — The ambitious drive to produce Covid-19 vaccine at warp speed seems to be running up against reality. We all probably need to reset our expectations about how quickly we're going to be able to be vaccinated.
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Bloomberg and New York Post
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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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
Dan Diamond / Politico:
‘Helping the president’: HHS official sought to rebrand coronavirus campaign — The Trump appointee who steered a $300 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign to “defeat despair” about the coronavirus privately pitched a different theme last month: “Helping the President will Help the Country.”
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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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Fox News, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth and Twitchy
Max Boot / Washington Post:
We have to destroy the Republican Party in order to save it — “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” That famous, if probably apocryphal, quote from the Vietnam War describes how I feel about the Republican Party. We have to destroy the party in order to save it.
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Reuters, The Guardian, Wisconsin Examiner, NPR, Fox News and redstate.com
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.
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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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