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Washington Post:
Trump worker told FBI about moving Mar-a-Lago boxes on ex-president's orders — Key witness and security-camera footage offer evidence of Trump's actions after government subpoena, people familiar say — A Trump employee has told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago …
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Pamela Brown / CNN:
Trump employee tells FBI that Trump directed boxes to be moved at Mar-a-Lago after subpoena served — A Trump employee has told the FBI about being directed by the former President to move boxes out of a basement storage room to his residence at Mar-a-Lago after Donald Trump's legal team received …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
New evidence to show Trump was warned of violence on Jan. 6 — The Jan. 6 select committee's hearing this week is expected to corroborate parts of the more-startling accounts of that day — The probably final public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 …
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NBC News:
Oath Keeper testifies about massive gun pile stashed in hotel on the eve of Jan. 6 — WASHINGTON — A member of the Oath Keepers who brought an AR-15 to a Virginia hotel on the eve of Jan. 6 described entering a room filled with a large stash of weapons in a seditious conspiracy trial on Wednesday.
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Raw Story and Washington Examiner
CNN:
Oath Keeper testifies about mass of guns allegedly stored near DC on January 6 — A veteran and member of the Oath Keepers testified Wednesday that the far-right group amassed more weapons outside Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, than he had seen since his days in the military.
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Violent threats against Jan. 6 witnesses spread on fringe sites
Violent threats against Jan. 6 witnesses spread on fringe sites
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Raw Story
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
5 big questions left for the Jan. 6 committee
5 big questions left for the Jan. 6 committee
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NBC News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, Roll Call, Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, NPR, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times and HuffPost
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Oath Keeper describes group's large weapons cache ahead of Jan. 6
Oath Keeper describes group's large weapons cache ahead of Jan. 6
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Washington Post and Associated Press
Joanna Slater / Washington Post:
Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook families — A Connecticut jury ordered Infowars founder Alex Jones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook shooting for the suffering caused by years of lies that the massacre was a hoax.
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Live Updates: Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Sandy Hook Victims' Families Nearly $1 Billion — A jury in Connecticut awarded damages to the families of eight victims killed in the 2012 shooting and an F.B.I. agent who responded to the scene. Jones had already been found liable for defamation …
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Anna Merlan / VICE:
Connecticut Jury Orders Alex Jones and Infowars to Pay $965 Million to Sandy Hook Families — Another very, very large civil judgment for a large, red man. — Anna Merlan — A civil jury in Connecticut has ruled that Alex Jones and his company Infowars should pay a total of $965 million …
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Georgia Senate Race Unchanged: Warnock Leads Walker 52% - 45%, Quinnipiac University Georgia Poll Finds; Gov Race Between Kemp And Abrams Remains Too Close To Call — mail_outline — In the wake of a controversy that's landed Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker in the national spotlight …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
UGA poll: Warnock-Walker close; Kemp builds lead over Abrams — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker remain in a neck-and-neck race for the state's wildly competitive Senate seat, according to a University of Georgia poll released Wednesday, while GOP Gov. Brian Kemp …
KFF:
KFF Health Tracking Poll October 2022: The Issues Motivating Voters One Month Before The Midterm Elections
KFF Health Tracking Poll October 2022: The Issues Motivating Voters One Month Before The Midterm Elections
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Media's Misguided Love Affair with John Fetterman
The Media's Misguided Love Affair with John Fetterman
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Mediaite
James Wigderson / Journal Sentinel:
I'm a lifelong Republican but sometimes party loyalty asks too much. I'm voting for Mandela Barnes and Tony Evers. — In his book about President John F. Kennedy, “A Thousand Days,” the historian Arthur Schlesinger wrote about Kennedy's disappointment with the Massachusetts Democratic Party's nominee for Senate, Gov. Foster Furcolo.
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Washington Examiner and The Nation
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Jacob Solis / The Nevada Independent:
Fourteen members of Laxalt family endorse Democratic rival, Cortez Masto, in Senate race — Fourteen members of Republican Senate candidate and former Attorney General Adam Laxalt's family announced Wednesday that they would collectively endorse his Democratic opponent …
NBC News:
Full Fetterman interview: 'I believe I'm going to be able to serve effectively' after stroke — In an exclusive broadcast interview with NBC News taped Friday at his home, John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in a crucial Pennsylvania Senate race, tells NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns …
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast:
Trump Must Face Grilling in E. Jean Carroll Defamation Suit, Judge Rules — FACE THE MUSIC — A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that Donald Trump will have to sit for a deposition next week, despite attempts by Trump's attorneys to delay the testimony.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Judge rules Trump must sit for deposition in rape accuser's lawsuit next week
Judge rules Trump must sit for deposition in rape accuser's lawsuit next week
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Dennis Prager / Media Matters for America:
“There's no secular argument against adult incest” — QAnon and white nationalist-linked media provide friendly platform for Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake — Spotify's Joe Rogan has repeatedly spread the baseless conspiracy theory that January 6 was a false flag orchestrated by the FBI
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Mediaite and Crooks and Liars
Meduza.io:
Russia's ‘irrecoverable losses’ in Ukraine: more than 90,000 troops dead, disabled, or AWOL — More than 90,000 troops make up Russia's “irrecoverable” military losses in Ukraine, as reported by the Russian media project iStories (or Vazhnye Istorii). One of the two sources of this information works …
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CBS News, Fox News and PravdaReport
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Tim Ryan's Alpha Maneuver — If Trump insists on being the ultimate alpha male, what does that make all of his supporters? — At least one Democrat has started to figure out how to exploit a GOP weakness. He's Tim Ryan, who is running against J.D. Vance for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat.
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Erick Erickson Show Notes and Alternet.org
Jeremy Shapiro / War on the Rocks:
We Are On a Path to Nuclear War — In war, nothing is inevitable and not much is predictable. But the war in Ukraine has a direction that observers can see and that we should name. What began as a criminal Russian aggression against Ukraine has become a proxy war between Washington and Moscow.
Axios:
Scoop: Peter Thiel offers to double down on Arizona Senate race — Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel has told the McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund he is willing to make a multimillion-dollar investment in the Arizona race on the condition the super PAC finds matching funds, Axios has learned.
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Washington Examiner, The Federalist and The Daily Beast
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple to Withhold Its Latest Employee Perks From Unionized Store — Apple Inc. is withholding its latest employee benefits from staff who work at its sole unionized retail store, a move that could potentially inflame labor tensions at the technology giant. — The company told retail …
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Engadget, Latest - Truthout and Detroit Metro Times, more at Techmeme »
ABC News:
Treasury Department to probe DeSantis' use of COVID relief money to fund migrant lights — “We plan to get this work underway as quickly as possible,” Treasury said. — Ron DeSantis speaks during the 2022 Victory Dinner in Hollywood, Fla., July 23, 2022. — Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE
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Michael R. Gordon / Wall Street Journal:
U.S., Allies to Help Ukraine Build Air Defense Against Russian Attacks — Pentagon envisions technically complicated project stitched together from different countries' missile systems — The U.S. and its allies plan to help Ukraine field an integrated air-defense system to protect …
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CNN
Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Historically, Toss Up Races Break Decidedly Toward One Party — In the Cook Political Report vernacular, the classification of “Toss Up” is used to refer to races that are the most competitive of the cycle, and which either party stands a reasonable chance of winning.
Kadia Goba / Semafor Media:
Republican senators balked at demands from an anti-abortion group. So the advocates backed down. — The anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America issued an ultimatum, but they couldn't bring powerful conservatives along. … On September 19, Republican senators received …
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NBC News:
Some of Katie Hobbs' supporters are concerned MAGA firebrand Kari Lake is outshining her low-key campaign — Katie Hobbs: Debating Kari Lake 'doesn't do any service to the voters' — PHOENIX — In the homestretch of Arizona's high-stakes contest for governor, Democratic Secretary …
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Arizona Republic, The Right Scoop, Conservative Brief, PolitiFact, Mediaite, RedState, MSNBC and Breitbart
Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
How Far Would a Republican Majority Go? — In 2011, the new House Republican majority, egged on by Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy and led by radical Tea Party rightists such as Jason Chaffetz, brought the U.S. to the brink of a default. The disaster was headed off by a last-minute compromise …
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The Hill
Los Angeles Times:
Nury Martinez announces resignation from L.A. City Council in wake of audio leak scandal — Nury Martinez resigned her seat on the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday, days after the release of an explosive leaked audio of a racist, crude conversation. — “It is with a broken heart …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party — The hostile, paranoid, and increasingly authoritarian path ahead for American conservatism. — In mid-September, I attended the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, where Republican politicians, right-wing thought leaders, and various party apparatchiks …
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Twitchy
Telegraph:
Liz Truss doubles down on tax cuts at £1,500-a-head Tory fundraising dinner — Prime Minister among a host of Cabinet ministers to attend the Carlton Political Dinner at The Dorchester this week — Liz Truss gave a private speech outlining her economic approach and doubling …
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Bloomberg
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Media Can't Gaslight the Public about John Fetterman's Health — Like it or not, voters are going to discuss Fetterman's condition, and trying to browbeat them into silence won't work. — Herewith, some news for those within the press who are attempting to bat away scrutiny …
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