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Ron Johnson and Mandela Barnes in tight Senate race in Wisconsin — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll — It seems like Wisconsin elections are always pretty close these days, and here are two more following that trend. The Senate race has incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson running …
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Michael Starr / Jerusalem Post:
Kanye West warns Jews about ‘toying’ with him and those opposing ‘agenda’ — Kanye West said that he couldn't be antisemitic, because black people are actually Jews. — American rapper Kanye West threatened Jewish people about a supposed conflict with him over a Jewish agenda …
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Haaretz, Twitchy, The Times of Israel, Deadline, Rolling Stone, Forbes and The Daily Wire
Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
Trumpism Has Found Its Leading Lady — The Republican candidate for Arizona governor not only won Trump's endorsement but has emerged as his most talented emulator. Is Kari Lake the new face of the MAGA movement? — As election returns rolled in on the evening of November 3, 2020 …
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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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Washington Post:
In Russian-occupied Izyum, she was raped and tortured — IZYUM, Ukraine — Soon after Russian forces took her prisoner, the 52-year-old woman picked up a nail and carved her name into a brick wall. — A-L-L-A, she wrote. — Below, she scratched how many days she had been held in the shed outside a medical clinic in her hometown.
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
The Power of Joe Biden's Anti-Charisma — According to Gallup, 56 percent of Americans disapprove of the job President Biden is doing. Around 80 percent say the country is on the wrong track. Eighty-two percent say the state of the economy is “fair” or “poor,” and 67 percent think it's only getting worse.
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The Hill, Michigan Advance, RedState, Raw Story, The Guardian and Washington Times
Ralph Vartabedian / New York Times:
How California's Bullet Train Went Off the Rails — America's first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
New York Times:
Judge Narrows Trial of Analyst Who Reported Salacious Claims About Trump — Matters deemed tangential to the charges of making false statements, including a notorious and uncorroborated rumor of a sex tape, will be excluded from the case. — WASHINGTON — John H. Durham …
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Andrew Stanton / Newsweek:
Trump Blames U.S. for ‘Almost Forcing’ Putin to Invade Ukraine — Former President Donald Trump blamed the United States for “almost forcing” Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. — Trump's remarks came as Russia continued to stall in their struggling “special military operation …
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
New Florida records raise more questions about DeSantis's migrant flights — The governor's administration had been orchestrating the flights for several months — In the request for bids to round up migrants to transport across the country, the administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …
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Financial Times:
China's chip industry set for deep pain from US export controls — Experts predict ‘tsunami of change’ for semiconductor industry as Washington wields tools tested on Huawei — Two years after the US hit Huawei with harsh sanctions, the Chinese technology group's revenue has dropped …
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Ex-partner of Ukrainian ‘heiress’ who infiltrated Mar-a-Lago club shot outside Canada resort — Valeriy Tarasenko was left with ‘significant injuries’ but expected to survive, according to Quebec police — An associate of the Ukrainian woman who posed as a member of the Rothschild banking family …
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Raw Story, New York Post and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
BLM founder Patrisse Cullors spends thousands renovating backyard of posh $1.4M LA home — The controversial Marxist co-founder of Black Lives Matter recently completed tens of thousands of dollars in renovations at her posh Los Angeles home, including building a new plunge pool and backyard sauna, according to a new report.
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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.