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11:35 AM ET, October 9, 2022

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CBS News:
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 …
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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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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: HotAir
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.
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.
Reuters:
Bullet-proof glass, guards: U.S. election offices tighten security for Nov. 8 midterms  —  When voters in Jefferson County, Colorado, cast their ballots in the Nov. 8 midterm election, they will see security guards stationed outside the busiest polling centers.
 
 
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Marc Caputo / NBC News:
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify plans to pay incentives to video creators who hit certain viewing thresholds and, in January, to let Premium subscribers view podcast videos without ads

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Don Lemon, who sued Elon Musk and X after a deal fell apart, says he's leaving X on November 15, citing X's new ToS that moves legal disputes to Texas courts

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