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Washington Post:
Russia is grabbing men off the street to fight in Ukraine — Police and military officers swooped down on a Moscow business center this week unannounced. They were looking for men to fight in Ukraine — and they seized nearly every one they saw. Some musicians, rehearsing. A courier there to deliver a parcel.
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Wall Street Journal, Insider, The Mahablog and The Western Journal
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Washington Post:
Iran plans to send missiles, drones to Russia for Ukraine war, officials say — Increased flow of weapons from Iran could help offset steep Russian weapons losses, rebuild supply of precision-guided munitions — Iran is strengthening its commitment to supply arms for Russia's assault on Ukraine …
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Breitbart, Fox News, The Times of Israel, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Agence France-Presse
Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
Russian man arrested for flying drone over Norwegian airport — Norwegian police arrested a Russian man after he was caught flying a drone above an airport in northern Norway, the police said Saturday, the second such incident in the past week. — The 51-year-old man was arrested Friday morning …
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Russia's escalation won't turn tide of the war, experts say
Russia's escalation won't turn tide of the war, experts say
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New York Times and TASS
Plain Dealer:
Tim Ryan for U.S. Senate — This election season's battle for control of the U.S. Senate that has been raging across the 35 states where Senate seats are up for grabs portends significant, long-range consequences for how this country is governed, as each party tries to break the current 50-50 partisan deadlock.
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PoliticusUSA and The Hill
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CBS News:
GOP keeps lead for House control, Democrats' momentum stalls amid economy worries — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll — For two months the Democrats chipped away at the Republicans' lead in the battle for House control, helped by motivated abortion-rights voters and what turned …
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Los Angeles Times and The Hill
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Democrats Spent $2 Trillion to Save the Economy. They Don't Want to Talk About It. — Polls show voters liked direct payments from President Biden's 2021 economic rescue bill. But they have become fodder for Republican inflation attacks. — In the midst of a critical runoff campaign …
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Washington Examiner, Althouse, The National Interest and Bloomberg
CNN:
Kari Lake won't commit to accepting 2022 election results — Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake won't tell CNN's Dana Bash whether she will accept the 2022 election results if she loses her race.Source: CNN — FOLLOW CNN POLITICS
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New York Times, Breitbart and Raw Story
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Ruby Cramer / Washington Post:
On Kari Lake's campaign for Arizona governor, the mic is always hot
On Kari Lake's campaign for Arizona governor, the mic is always hot
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CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Western Journal and Blue Virginia
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Dana Bash, Kari Lake clash over 2020 election fraud claims
Dana Bash, Kari Lake clash over 2020 election fraud claims
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Axios, Digby's Hullabaloo, RedState, Vanity Fair, Washington Examiner, The Post Millennial and CNN
Summer Concepcion / NBC News:
Kari Lake refuses to say whether she would accept loss in Arizona election
Kari Lake refuses to say whether she would accept loss in Arizona election
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Arizona Republic, Insider, The Daily Beast, RedState, Washington Times, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Hill, Political Wire and Breitbart
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Trump attacks American Jews, posting they must ‘get their act together’ on Israel — Former president Donald Trump attacked American Jews in a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, saying Jews in the United States must “get their act together” and show more appreciation for the state of Israel “before it is too late.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
John Fetterman is the best choice to represent Pennsylvania's priorities in the U.S. Senate | Endorsement — By many measures, the first two years of the Biden administration have been fruitful for Pennsylvania.The president's plan to slash prescription-drug costs for older Americans …
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The Hill and New Jersey Online
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Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
Do Voters Care About John Fetterman's Stroke?
Charlotte Higgins / The Guardian:
Russian troops kill Ukrainian musician for refusing role in Kherson concert — International condemnation swift after conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko shot dead in his home — Charlotte Higgins and Artem Mazhulin in Kyiv — Russian soldiers have shot dead a Ukrainian musician in his home …
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Al Jazeera, Vanity Fair and Reuters
Sebastian Payne / Financial Times:
'We've messed this up': Tories plan for life after Liz Truss … “The question is when — not if — she goes,” one minister remarked on Sunday, a sign that the mood against Liz Truss is hardening within the Conservative party despite her efforts to steady the government with the appointment of a new chancellor.
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Telegraph, Bloomberg, Metro.co.uk, The Sun, Washington Post, Politico, Latest - Truthout, The Guardian, Cyprus Mail and New York Times
Zach Everson / Forbes:
A Trump Political Committee Bought $131,000 Worth Of Books. Four Days Later, Jared Kushner's Hit The Best-Seller List — One of Donald Trump's political committees spent $158,000 on books just weeks after the release of Jared Kushner's memoir. — “Breaking History: A White House Memoir” hit book shelves on Aug. 23.
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Political Wire
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
We Should Try to Prevent Another Alex Jones — Alex Jones achieved the epitome of despicability and now has been ordered to pay for it. His lies — that parents of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 had been actors taking part in a government plot to manufacture a pretext for stricter gun control — were blatant.
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Insight
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Who's behind those vile, right-wing political TV ads during the baseball playoffs — If you live in Philadelphia or thereabouts, the October baseball playoffs have brought almost unbridled joy from a Phillies hot streak, punctuated by an epic bat flip and an inside-the-park home run …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money