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Matthew Champion / VICE:
Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report — The world's richest man spoke directly with Vladimir Putin, Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer wrote. — MC — Elon Musk spoke directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin before tweeting a proposal to end the war …
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Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
Elon Musk Has the World's Strangest Social Calendar — When the world's richest man isn't tweeting, he's flying to Burning Man, trying to impress comedians and hopping on yachts. — When a snapshot of Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell surfaced on social media in 2020, the Tesla …
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Anna Merlan / VICE:
Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn't Put on Air — Motherboard obtained footage of Ye making bigoted statements about Jewish people and bizarre claims about “fake children,” as well as describing visions of “kinetic energy” cities sent to him by God. — Anna Merlan
Washington Post:
Woman says she had to press Herschel Walker to pay for abortion he wanted — The account, echoed by a person she confided in at the time, deepens the questions swirling around the anti-abortion Senate GOP candidate in Georgia. — The mother of one of Herschel Walker's children …
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Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
“Election Interference”: Oil Price Hike Is Saudi Arabia's October Surprise Against Biden … When, just one month before midterm elections, Saudi Arabia announced it would be slashing oil production by 2 million barrels a day, White House officials called it a “hostile act” and said the administration was …
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NBC News:
Fetterman says his stroke recovery ‘changes everything,’ but that he's fit to serve as senator — BRADDOCK, Pa. — John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in a crucial Pennsylvania Senate race, still struggles to understand what he hears and to speak clearly following a stroke in May.
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Eli Stokols / Los Angeles Times:
Biden calls on Nury Martinez, other L.A. councilmembers to resign after audio leak — President Biden believes Nury Martinez and other councilmembers should resign from the Los Angeles City Council over racist remarks heard in leaked recordings that were made public this week, a White House spokesperson said Tuesday.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Plan Debt Crisis to Force Cuts to Medicare, Social Security … The November elections will likely give Republicans control of the House of Representatives as a platform from which to oppose the Democratic-controlled White House. And one thing Republicans will do with this power …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden says Putin ‘totally miscalculated’ by invading Ukraine but is a ‘rational actor’ — Watch Jake Tapper's exclusive interview with President Joe Biden on CNN Tonight with Jake Tapper at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday. — CNN — President Joe Biden said in an exclusive CNN interview Tuesday …
Manu Raju / CNN:
Exclusive: McConnell ignores Trump's attacks and says ‘I have the votes’ in quest to make history — It's become a throwaway line at former President Donald Trump's campaign rallies: GOP senators must boot Mitch McConnell from the leadership position he's held longer than any Republican in American history.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
U.K. Businessman Graham Bonham-Carter Indicted for Sanctions Evasion Benefitting Russian Oligarch Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska — Deripaska's Property Manager Arrested in U.K. for Funding U.S. Properties for Deripaska's Benefit and Attempting to Expatriate Deripaska's Artwork from U.S. through Deception
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Joe Biden Just Crushed China's Semiconductor Industry — Dark Brandon strikes again. — 1. Chips — There was some big, important news on Friday and no one really noticed: The Biden administration hit China, hard, with a series of export controls that are going to hurt.
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Secret Service has given investigators over 1 million electronic communications sent by agents before and on Jan. 6, 2021 — The Secret Service has handed congressional investigators more than 1 million electronic communications sent by agents in the lead-up to and during the Jan. 6, 2021 …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Next Jan. 6 committee hearing will reveal ‘pretty surprising’ new material, Rep. Zoe Lofgren says — The House Jan. 6 Capitol riot select committee's next public hearing will reveal new material about former President Donald Trump's plans as well as how much he knew, Rep. Zoe Lofgren said.
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New York Times:
She Went Out on a Limb for Trump. Now She's Under Justice Dept. Scrutiny. — Christina Bobb is a former Marine and a fervent believer that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald J. Trump. She went to work for him and quickly found herself enmeshed in an obstruction investigation.
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CNN:
DOJ urges Supreme Court to stay out of Mar-a-Lago documents fight — The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject former President Donald Trump's request that it intervene in the dispute over classified documents seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in August.
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New York Times:
Biden's Folksiness Can Veer Into Folklore, or Falsehoods — President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity. — WASHINGTON — Standing in front of Floridians who had lost everything during Hurricane Ian …
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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
What does Madison Cawthorn do now? — The defeated congressman's next chapter may offer insight into how redemption works, or doesn't, for a scandal-plagued Republican who still loves Trump — Madison Cawthorn left his Capitol Hill office on a recent afternoon like a man with a purpose …
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Bolts:
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2022 General Elections — As the battle for Congress rages, voters are also deciding the fate of thousands of ballot measures and public offices. — Bolts editor-in-chief Daniel Nichanian lays out 468 elections to watch closely up and down the ballot …
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Manisha Sinha / CNN:
Why I hope 2022 will be another 1866 — Editor's Note: Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of multiple works on the history of slavery and abolition, the Civil War and Reconstruction, including the forthcoming …
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Georgia 2022: Sen. Warnock Leads Walker by Two; Gov. Kemp Leads Abrams by Five — Home Polls Georgia 2022: Sen. Warnock Leads Walker by Two; Gov. Kemp Leads Abrams by Five — The latest Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey of Georgia voters finds incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock …
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to prove dossier claims, senior FBI analyst testifies — Shortly before the 2016 election, the FBI offered retired British spy Christopher Steele “up to $1 million” to prove the explosive allegations in his dossier about Donald Trump, a senior FBI analyst testified Tuesday.
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Breakthrough Diplomacy in the Middle East — Today, I am pleased to announce a historic breakthrough in the Middle East. After months of mediation by the United States, the Governments of Israel and Lebanon have agreed to formally end their maritime boundary dispute …
Tom Joyce / Washington Examiner:
The Biden administration acknowledges biological reality — To President Joe Biden's administration , men are men, and women are women — at least in one instance. — While Biden may be a part of the political party that thinks gender is limitless and people are whatever …
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Parisa Hafezi / Reuters:
Iranian journalist who broke news on Mahsa Amini pays heavy price — Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist specialising in women's rights, got away with hard-hitting stories for years - until the day she took a photo of Mahsa Amini's parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital where their daughter was lying in a coma.
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Rupa Subramanya / Common Sense:
Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada's Assisted Suicide Program — What do you do when you discover your son has made an appointment for his death? — On September 7, Margaret Marsilla called Joshua Tepper, the doctor who planned to kill her son. — Marsilla is 46, and she lives outside Toronto …
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
That Fake Newspaper in Your Mailbox Was Paid For by Peter Thiel — A conservative media network is sending local-looking papers to homes in Arizona and Illinois to push MAGA candidates like Blake Masters. — It was as if the Grand Canyon Times' sports section had put a list of local football stars …
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CNN:
Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers — New York CNN Business — US factories are humming, and manufacturers are scrambling to find workers as the pace of hiring hits levels not seen in decades. — Friday's September jobs report showed US …
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CNN:
Supreme Court declines to hear fetal personhood case — The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to wade into the so-called fetal personhood debate, deciding not to take up a case out of Rhode Island over whether fetuses should have constitutional rights. — A Catholic group and two pregnant women wanted …
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ABC News:
Herschel Walker claims ex-girlfriend, whose identity he says he knows, is lying about abortion — Walker said he's had no conversations with her since reports of the allegation. — Herschel Walker talks to ABC's Linsey Davis, Oct. 11, 2022, in Atlanta. — Senate hopeful Herschel Walker …
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Federal court leaders agree to refund fees for online records — The proposed settlement would resolve a long-running lawsuit aimed at reducing the cost to access court records through PACER, an acronym for Public Access to Court Electronic Records — The federal judiciary has agreed …
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