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Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: Republican JD Vance has slight lead on Democrat Tim Ryan in Senate race in Ohio — Republican J.D. Vance has opened a narrow edge over Democrat Tim Ryan in the Senate race in Ohio, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, as President Joe Biden's unpopularity complicates …
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
GOP wants to push to extend Trump tax cuts after midterm elections — Republican lawmakers gear up to push 2017 tax law after midterm elections, despite potential impact on inflation — Republicans plan to push to extend key parts of President Donald Trump's tax cuts if they take control …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Republicans Gain Edge as Voters Worry About Economy, Times/Siena Poll Finds
Republicans Gain Edge as Voters Worry About Economy, Times/Siena Poll Finds
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Scalise acknowledges GOP plan to change Social Security, Medicare
Scalise acknowledges GOP plan to change Social Security, Medicare
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New York Times, Media Matters for America, TheBlaze and Bloomberg
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump and Kanye West speak amid rapper's antisemitic rants, acquisition of Parler — Former President Donald Trump spoke with Kanye West over the phone following the rapper's decision to buy his own social media platform, a person familiar with the call told POLITICO.
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Bloomberg:
Ye Says He Bought Parler Because Instagram, Twitter Penalized Him — Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, said he was motivated to acquire the conservative social media service Parler by his belief that existing platforms like Instagram and Twitter are too restrictive when it comes to user speech.
Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
White House calls Trump's attack on American Jews antisemitic
White House calls Trump's attack on American Jews antisemitic
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Kanye West plans to acquire Parler
Kanye West plans to acquire Parler
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Maura Reynolds / Politico:
Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’ — It's been nearly eight months since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops and tanks over the border into Ukraine, and a lot has changed in that time. Ukraine has shown itself to be a far more robust military force than pretty much anyone predicted.
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Boris Bondarev / Foreign Affairs:
The Sources of Russian Misconduct … For three years, my workdays began the same way. At 7:30 a.m., I woke up, checked the news, and drove to work at the Russian mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva. The routine was easy and predictable, two of the hallmarks of life as a Russian diplomat.
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene — What the rise of the far-right congresswoman means for the House, the G.O.P. and the nation. — “There's going to be a lot of investigations,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said, describing what she anticipates if the Republicans regain the House majority this November.
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Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The End of the Good Republicans — Ben Sasse is retiring from the Senate at the youthful age of 50. We know why. Politicians who thought they could wait out Trump now see the writing on the wall. — The party's over. — For years we watched the GOP defenestrations: Will Hurd …
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Marisa Kabas / MSNBC:
In Kari Lake and Tudor Dixon, the GOP offers a cynical alternative to Trump
In Kari Lake and Tudor Dixon, the GOP offers a cynical alternative to Trump
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Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia sentences U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets — The Saudi government has sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets he posted while inside the United States, some of which were critical of the Saudi regime.
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ rates at his hotels, records show — Former president Donald Trump's company charged the Secret Service as much as five times more than the government rate for agents to stay overnight at Trump hotels while protecting him and his family, according to expense records newly obtained by Congress.
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New York Times:
Trump Hotels Charged Secret Service Exorbitant Rates, House Inquiry Finds — Records obtained by the House Oversight Committee show the former president's properties charged more than $1.4 million to agents protecting him and his family. — WASHINGTON — The Trump Organization charged …
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Eric Garcia / The Independent:
Exclusive: Gisele Fetterman calls for NBC to apologise following ‘shocking’ interview with husband John Fetterman — John Fetterman's wife speaks to Eric Garcia about closed captioning and the controversy after Senate candidate's interview with NBC News — Pennsylvania Democratic Senate …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Jury gets Danchenko case in what may be Durham's swan song — A federal jury in Virginia began deliberating Monday in the criminal case expected to be the final courtroom test for Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the FBI's inquiry of ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Jury begins deliberating in case of Steele dossier source
Jury begins deliberating in case of Steele dossier source
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New York Post, CNN, The National Interest and American Thinker
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Durham slams FBI for botching Trump-Russia investigation in closing Danchenko arguments
Durham slams FBI for botching Trump-Russia investigation in closing Danchenko arguments
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New York Post, National Review, Washington Times and Fox News
Caitlin Tilley / Daily Mail:
Boston University CREATES a new Covid strain that has an 80% kill rate — echoing dangerous experiments feared to have started pandemic — Researchers added Omicron's spike protein to the original Wuhan Covid strain — Omicron's spike is highly mutated which made it the most infectious variant ever
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
Boston University researchers' testing of lab-made version of Covid virus draws government scrutiny
Boston University researchers' testing of lab-made version of Covid virus draws government scrutiny
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Daily Mail
Leor Sapir / Manhattan Institute:
‘Trust the Experts’ Is Not EnoughU.S. Medical Groups Get the Science Wrong on Pediatric ‘Gender Affirming’ Care — The Claim: Most major American medical organizations support “gender affirming care.” — The Response: — Guidelines Based on No Solid Evidence
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Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Oath Keepers Trial Rocked by Wacky Sexts Between Militia Boss and Lawyer — The case against the far-right group for its role in the Capitol riot was already disturbing. Then came evidence of what prosecutors say is an inappropriate relationship. — Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes …
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House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis:
New Select Subcommittee Report Details Trump Administration's Assault on CDC and Politicization of Public Health During the Coronavirus Crisis — Report is the third installment detailing findings from investigation into Trump Administration's political interference with federal coronavirus response
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Washington Examiner and Reuters
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Jeannie Baumann / Bloomberg:
Trump's CDC Changed Covid Reports Under Political Pressure, Panel Finds
Trump's CDC Changed Covid Reports Under Political Pressure, Panel Finds
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Dan Snyder / KOKH:
New poll shows Hofmeister leading Stitt in Oklahoma Governor's race — New polling from Oklahoma-based political consulting firm Ascend Action shows a close gubenetorial race just weeks ahead of November's midterm elections.
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Herschel Walker tries to turn ‘prop’ badge controversy into campaign gold — GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker discusses why he flashed a badge during Friday's debate — Herschel Walker was widely mocked and criticized for flashing an honorary deputy sheriff's badge onstage …
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The Root, Hunter Walker's Substack, New York Post, al.com, HuffPost, The Daily Beast and Washington Examiner
Liz Ruskin / Alaska Public Media:
Peltola trounces Palin and Begich in September fundraising, wins over Don Young loyalists — Campaign contributions are flooding in for Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola to keep the U.S. House seat she won in a special election this summer. — Peltola raised $2.3 million in September …
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Juneau Empire, The Daily Wire and Must Read Alaska
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Johnson's campaign is paying the law firm of a Trump attorney allegedly connected to Jan. 6 fake elector plot — Sen. Ron Johnson recently made two payments to a law firm led by a Wisconsin attorney embroiled in the Justice Department's Jan. 6 probe, tapping the firm in part to assist in a possible recount …
Hanna Kang / Insider:
Trump-backed congressional candidate Bo Hines says he 'can't afford' to give up his salary. But federal records show he has no salary. — Bo Hines, a congressional candidate from North Carolina, twice claimed that he and his wife “can't afford to give up a month's salary.”
Steve Schmidt / The Warning:
The country is edging towards an abyss — American democracy is both severely threatened and more resilient than her attackers — like Kari Lake — may imagine. — Today, Kari Lake is simply a conspiracy theorist and certified liar who jumped from the local news chair to the fame and adulation of MAGA stardom.
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Hannah Dellinger / Houston Chronicle:
New law asks Texas schools to distribute kits to students to keep DNA samples in case of emergencies like Uvalde — Texas public school systems are set to distribute DNA and fingerprint identification kits for K-8 students to parents who wish to store their child's DNA is case of emergency.
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Julia Rock / The Lever:
Ted Budd Aided Donors Trying To Bypass Predatory Lending Laws — North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Ted Budd used his congressional office to press federal regulators to let financial institutions evade his own state's prohibitions against predatory lending, despite warnings …
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