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12:30 AM ET, October 10, 2022

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Los Angeles Times:
Racist remarks in leaked audio of L.A. council members spark outrage, disgust  —  Behind closed doors, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez made openly racist remarks, derided some of her council colleagues and spoke in unusually crass terms about how the city should be carved up politically.
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Jon Peltz / Knock LA:
Council President Martinez on DA Gascón: 'Fuck That Guy...He's with the Blacks.'  —  This is a developing story.  It will be updated as appropriate.  —  Earlier this month, an anonymous Reddit account posted several shocking audio recordings.  The recordings seem to contain the voices …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Hanna Panreck / Fox News:
Ye locked out of Twitter due to ‘violation’ of policies  —  Ye has traded public barbs with fellow rappers on social media  —  Kanye West sets the record straight on his clothing line  —  Ye's Twitter account was locked on Sunday due to a violation of the social media platform's policies, according to the company.
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David Mack / BuzzFeed News:
Twitter Has Locked Kanye's Account After He Posted An Antisemitic Tweet  —  Jewish groups condemned the rapper for his recent posts and statements.  —  After more than a week of disturbing behavior that has seen him condemned by many (and yet praised by House Republicans) …
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
NY Rep. Lee Zeldin says 2 people shot in front of his home  —  New York congressman and Republican candidate for governor Lee Zeldin says his family is safe after two people were shot outside his Long Island home on Sunday.  Zeldin said in a statement that he does not know the identities …
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Putin's Regime Faces the Fate of His Kerch Strait Bridge  —  The attack on the crucial link between Russia and Crimea matters less for its tactical significance and more for what it says about the course of the war.  —  On Saturday, the Ukrainians hit the Kerch Strait Bridge …
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Reuters:
Putin accuses Ukraine of Crimea bridge blast, calls it terrorism
Paul Adams / BBC:
Crimean bridge: Excitement and fear in Ukraine after bridge blast
Adam B. Vary / Variety:
Nikki Finke, Deadline Founder and Iconoclastic Journalist, Dies at 68 … Nikki Finke, a tenacious journalist who revolutionized entertainment reporting with what became the Hollywood trade website Deadline, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Fla. after a prolonged illness.  She was 68.
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New York Times:
Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Struggles  —  Meta's push to develop virtual and augmented reality technology has had a bumpy year.  —  Last October, when Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, announced that the company would change its name …
Discussion: Althouse and ScreenRant
G. Elliott Morris / Democracy:
The polling website where Republicans are winning in a landslide |  #206 - October 9, 2022  —  A math and history lesson on why “unskewing” the polls is so hard  —  Over the weekend, a new series of charts appeared on the webpages of RealClearPolitics.com, the right-leaning news aggregation website …
Discussion: Politico
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.
Sophia Cai / Axios:
The politics of Biden's marijuana pardons  —  President Biden's marijuana pardons are a small policy change to entice young voters, but they've immediately become a political lightning rod in at least one battleground state. … In Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Gov. and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman …
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New York Post:
NYC feels unsafe ‘for the first time in my life,’ ex-Gov. Paterson says  —  Former Gov. David Paterson said Sunday that he has never felt less safe in the Big Apple — and warned local Democrats they could be in for an electoral “monsoon” if they don't get crime under control.
Brad Dress / The Hill:
House Republican defends Tuberville over reparation remark  —  Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Sunday defended Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) after the senator said Democrats want reparations for minorities because their party is “pro-crime.”  —  Bacon told NBC's “Meet the Press” …
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Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Parties starving weak candidates in final midterm crunch  —  With 30 days until the midterms, party leaders are making ruthless calculations to cut funding for underachieving candidates in a push to sharpen their top targets.  In other cases, party committees and super PACs aren't spending …
The Economist:
The war in Ukraine has battered the reputation of Russian spies  —  As they take greater risks, they are getting caught  —  Viktor muller ferreira was a young Brazilian with impressive credentials and a big break.  Fresh from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington …
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Abortion measure brings a hint of uncertainty to California's midterms  —  Proposition 1 would add the right to abortion to the state's constitution.  Will it also impact tight congressional races?  —  SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — This is quintessential Southern California suburbia …
 
 
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Associated Press:
‘A time bomb’: Anger rising in a hot spot of Iran protests
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Michael Weiss / Yahoo News:
‘Ukraine will win’: Estonia's departing spy chief opens up on Putin's war
Discussion: Telegraph
Detroit Free Press:
Endorsements: Give Democrats a chance to lead Michigan Legislature
New York Times:
Another Challenge to New York's Gun Law: Sheriffs Who Won't Enforce It
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
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Reuters:
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Washington Post:
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