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Herschel Walker Urged Woman to Have a 2nd Abortion, She Says — The Georgia Senate candidate's ex-girlfriend says he wanted her to terminate a pregnancy in 2011. She chose to have their son instead. — ATLANTA — A woman who has said Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia …
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CNN:
Herschel Walker's campaign fires its political director in key Georgia Senate race — Herschel Walker's Senate campaign cut ties with its political director on Wednesday, CNN has learned, the move coming just days after The Daily Beast reported that the Georgia Republican paid for a woman's abortion more than a decade ago.
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Susan Rinkunas / Jezebel:
Dr. Oz Stood in Front of One of Hitler's Cars at a Fundraiser and Had Jordan Peterson Call In — Matt Gaetz's in-laws hosted the high-dollar dinner from hell. What is this campaign doing? — Alerts — In what continues to be an incredibly puzzling campaign, Dr. Mehmet Oz attended …
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Rolling Stone:
Justice Department Asking if Trump Stashed Documents in Trump Tower — Investigators have quizzed multiple witnesses about whether Trump is holding sensitive government documents at other properties outside Mar-a-Lago, including at his Manhattan tower and his New Jersey club
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Donald Trump seeks to withhold two folders seized at Mar-a-Lago — The former US president is trying to exclude a specific set of seized documents from an inquiry into his handling of government records — Donald Trump is seeking to withhold from the justice department two folders marked …
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Washington Post:
Putin confronted by insider over Ukraine war, U.S. intelligence finds — The disagreement by a member of Putin's inner circle was deemed significant enough that it was included in President Biden's daily intelligence briefing — A member of Vladimir Putin's inner circle has voiced disagreement directly …
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Financial Times:
Ukrainian forces report Starlink outages during push against Russia — Some of Elon Musk's SpaceX devices stopped working when Ukrainian soldiers liberated territory, Kyiv officials say — Ukrainian troops have reported outages of their Starlink communication devices on the frontline …
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John Leland / New York Times:
How a Dog's Killing Turned Brooklyn Progressives Against One Another — After a sudden confrontation that left a golden retriever dead, neighbors came together online to support the owner of the dog. But then things changed. — Real-world ethics question: In a well-used city park …
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ABC News:
Uvalde school district suspends entire police force, superintendent to retire amid fallout from shooting — The district has faced withering criticism over its police department's actions. — An officer walks outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022.
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Politico:
How Influential Senate Democrats Shut Down a Bid to Call Witnesses Against Trump — Jamie Raskin's eyes bulged as he skimmed the CNN story on his phone. Huddled with his team in the impeachment managers' holding room after the Senate trial proceedings had finished on Friday evening …
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Jessica Piper / Politico:
Why Trump's last-minute super PAC spending doesn't go as far — The new super PAC is the latest outside group to face jacked-up prices for ads ahead of the election. — Former President Donald Trump's new super PAC is hitting the airwaves backing GOP Senate candidates in five key races.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Quit dragging Maggie Haberman — A traitor is defined as someone who “betrays another's trust or is false to an obligation or duty,” according to Merriam-Webster. The dictionary people, however, might soon have to add an emerging variation: “A journalist who doesn't give me my juicy tidbits …
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Roula Khalaf / Financial Times:
Elon Musk: 'Aren't you entertained?' … Dinner with Elon Musk begins with a drive in a Tesla. I am seated in the back, next to X, the billionaire's two-and-a-half-year-old son. It's around 7pm in Austin, and X is, as one would expect, cranky. We had set off to Fonda San Miguel …
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
At the Athletic and New York Times, a marriage with promise and tension — Not long after the New York Times bought the Athletic earlier this year, the founders of the popular sports website held an all-staff call. — Most Athletic staffers were pleased with the purchase.
Nature:
Cable news and COVID-19 vaccine uptake — 12, Article number: 16804 (2022) Cite this article — Abstract — COVID-19 vaccines have reduced infections and hospitalizations across the globe, yet resistance to vaccination remains strong. This paper investigates the role of cable television news …
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Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
Florida may have violated its own guidelines in flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard — Documents obtained from the state agency charged with managing the controversial migrant relocation program explicitly say that its mission was “to relocate out of the State of Florida foreign nationals …
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Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Utah GOP congressman says it ‘stinks’ that he has to decide abortion issues for women — 'I wish, as a man, I didn't have to make this decision. I wish women could make this decision,' Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) said during a debate on Oct. 6. — Incumbent Republican Rep. John Curtis of Utah …
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Fox News:
Las Vegas stabbing suspect is in US illegally, has criminal record in California: source — Yoni Barrios allegedly stabbed eight people on the Las Vegas Strip in a fit of rage, authorities have said. — Fox News Flash top headlines for October 7 — The suspect accused of killing …
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Grid News:
Mark Finchem says Google and the ‘deep state’ are blocking his campaign site. The truth is simpler — and implicates his own team. — If he wins in November, the Trump-backed “Stop the Steal” proponent would run Arizona's elections as secretary of state. — The Trump-endorsed …
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Associated Press:
Biden's ‘Armageddon’ talk edges beyond bounds of US intel — President Joe Biden's warning that the world is at risk of a nuclear “Armageddon” was designed to send an unvarnished message that no one should underestimate the extraordinary danger if Russia deploys tactical nuclear weapons …
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Jack Mukand / The Times of Israel:
Gay Palestinian living under asylum in Israel murdered, beheaded in Hebron — Suspect uploaded footage of murder to social media; unclear how the victim ended up in the West Bank, with some claiming he was kidnapped — A gay Palestinian man living under asylum in Israel was murdered …
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Politico:
Biden's inside man in Trump land — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. … In the spring of 2020, JOE BIDEN's transition team viewed CHRIS LIDDELL skeptically. — As a deputy chief of staff to DONALD TRUMP …
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CNN:
Republicans called Biden's infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money. — Last November, GOP Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota released a statement slamming the passage of the freshly approved infrastructure law he referred to as “President Biden's multi-trillion dollar socialist wish list.”
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta's flagship metaverse app is too buggy and employees are barely using it, says exec in charge … Meta's VR social network Horizon Worlds — the company's flagship “metaverse” app — is suffering from too many quality issues and even the team building it isn't using it very much, according to internal memos obtained by The Verge.
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Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
Kanye West, Herschel Walker and the politics of toxic Black men — America seems to love tragic, toxic Black men. — This week, the dusty behavior of two of them in particular provide a sad look into the way that toxic masculinity gets rewarded in this country. — Exhibit A: Kanye West.
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
House Democrats seek to censure Marjorie Taylor Greene over ‘Biden is Hitler’ comment — House Democrats are again seeking to censure Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) over “Joe Biden is Hitler” social media posts. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) introduced a resolution on Thursday.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
White House Tightens Rules on Counterterrorism Drone Strikes — A classified new policy requires President Biden's approval to add suspected terrorists to a kill list. The Trump administration had decentralized control over targeting decisions. — WASHINGTON — President Biden has signed …
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CNN, Associated Press and The Daily Caller
Nate Hochman / National Review:
Exclusive: Another Federal Judge Joins Boycott of Yale Law — Elizabeth Branch becomes the 14th federal judge to refuse to hire clerks from the school over free-speech concerns. — Elizabeth Branch, a federal judge serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit …
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Jim Treacher / Who the Heck Is Jim Treacher?:
Old Man Yells at Mushroom Cloud — Maybe Grandpa Joe Should Stop Rambling About Nuclear War — Okay, this one requires a couple of soundbites to set the stage. The first is from 10 years ago this month: — “Governor Romney... a few months ago, when you were asked what's …
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