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Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Russia appoints notorious general to lead Ukraine offensive — Sergei Surovikin appointed on same day as explosion on Kerch bridge that has dealt blow to Vladimir Putin — Russia has appointed a notorious general who opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in the 1990s as its first overall commander …
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Roland Oliphant / Telegraph:
Why blowing up the Crimea bridge is a double blow for Putin — Until now an attack on the Kerch bridge seemed unthinkable - for both practical and political reasons — Just before dawn on Saturday morning, a security camera filmed two lorries and two cars driving west on the Crimea road bridge.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Guardian, Clayton Cramer, TASS and Reuters
Associated Press:
Crimea bridge blast damages key Russian supply route; 3 dead — An explosion caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia on Saturday, damaging a key supply artery for the Kremlin's faltering war effort in southern Ukraine. Three people were killed in the blast, Russian authorities said.
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Wall Street Journal:
Crimea Bridge Explosion Disrupts Crucial Supply Route for Russian Forces — Russian officials blame Kyiv; Ukrainian officials have repeatedly threatened to hit the 12-mile bridge — Video: Massive Explosion Destroys Part of Russia's Crimea Bridge — Created with sketchtool.
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Meduza.io, 19FortyFive, TASS and The Guardian
Associated Press:
The Crimea bridge explosion prompts calls for revenge from Russian hard-liners. — Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images … Blast on key bridge linking Crimea with Russia deals blow to Moscow's war effort. — KYIV, Ukraine — A fireball consumed two sections …
New York Times:
4 Weeks Out, Senate Control Hangs in the Balance in Tumultuous Midterms — The G.O.P. claimed the momentum in the spring. Then the overturning of Roe v. Wade galvanized Democrats. As the momentum shifts again, the final stretch of the 2022 midterms defies predictability.
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New York Magazine, Breitbart, Raw Story, Missouri Independent, Slate, Tangle, Media Matters for America, The Daily Caller, Bloomberg, NBC News, Townhall and Washington Post
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Will old rules of politics apply to Herschel Walker? They did 2 years ago to a N.C. Democrat.
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CNN, HotAir, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Townhall
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Fetterman's Blue-Collar Allure Is Tested as Pennsylvania Race Tightens
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The Hill, RedState, New York Post, Breitbart and Townhall
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Nevada Democrats sound alarm as election denier leads secretary of state race
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CNN and Destabilized
David Smith / The Guardian:
Help or hindrance? Biden takes a back seat as Trump goes all in on midterms
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RedState, Sacramento Bee, The Hill, Letters from an American, Washington Times and Politico
Caroline Downey / Yahoo News:
PayPal Pulls Back, Says It Won't Fine Customers $2,500 for ‘Misinformation’ after Backlash — PayPal has backtracked on its new restricted activity policy, clarifying that it won't fine $2500 users who engage in “misinformation” or “hatred” against protected identities.
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New York Times:
How Trump Deflected Demands for Documents, Enmeshing Aides — The former president exhibited a pattern of dissembling about the material he took from the White House, creating legal risk not just for himself but also some of his lawyers. — Late last year, as the National Archives ratcheted …
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Washington Examiner, Insider, Occupy Democrats, Mediaite, Raw Story, PoliticusUSA and Latest - Truthout
David A. Fahrenthold / New York Times:
J.D. Vance's First Attempt to Renew Ohio Crumbled Quickly — In 2017, the Republican candidate for Senate started a nonprofit group to tackle the social ills he had written about in his “Hillbilly Elegy” memoir. It fell apart within two years. — J.D. Vance was not running for office.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Valeriy Tarasenko, associate of fake heiress who wandered Mar-a-Lago and posed with Donald Trump, shot outside Canadian resort — A close associate of a woman who posed as a member of a famous banking family and spent days at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was shot Friday outside …
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New York Post
David Griffin / news9.com:
Poll: Hofmeister Holds Edge On Stitt 1 Month From Election — Gubernatorial challenger State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister holds a slight lead on incumbent Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, according to new polling released Friday. — The exclusive News 9 / News On 6 poll, conducted between Oct. 3 and 6 …
New York Times:
‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions — By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud. — Accused — of fraud by — whistle-blower
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Rick Scott, Tom Cotton to rally in Ga. for embattled Herschel Walker — The Republican senators will travel Tuesday to show their support for the GOP senatorial candidate in Georgia — National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (Fla.) will travel to Georgia on Tuesday …
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Fox News, ArkansasTimes and Political Wire
Susan Edelman / New York Post:
NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks, Eric Adams put each other's girlfriends in top posts — Schools Chancellor David Banks quietly promoted Mayor Adams' girlfriend to a top job at the Department of Education, just months after Adams hired Banks' girlfriend as a deputy mayor, The Post has learned.
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Howard Schultz's fight to stop a Starbucks barista uprising — Starbucks's CEO saw his unionizing baristas as a threat to his life's work. They said he didn't understand how the country and their lives had changed. — SEATTLE — Howard Schultz, the billionaire founder of Starbucks …
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Who Gets the Bird?, Bloomberg, New York Post and Detroit Metro Times, more at Mediagazer »
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Kari Lake was booted from Arizona town hall audience before Hobbs took the stage — Democrat Katie Hobbs won't debate her opponent in Arizona's race for governor, yet Republican Kari Lake tried to make it happen at a candidate town hall that organizers say she disrupted.
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Phoenix Clocktower and The Gateway Pundit
NBC News:
Overwhelmed medical examiners grapple with grim task after Hurricane Ian — In the wake of Hurricane Ian, the living have struggled to account for all the dead. — Overwhelmed by the number of bodies to autopsy and thrown into a political debate over precisely how many lives the storm has claimed …
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