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Lawrence Mower / Tampa Bay Times:
Police cameras show confusion, anger over DeSantis' voter fraud arrests — Local police carrying out the arrests were patient, understanding — almost apologetic. — TALLAHASSEE — When police went to arrest Tony Patterson outside his Tampa home in August, he couldn't believe the reason.
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Lawrence Mower / Miami Herald:
‘What is wrong with this state?’ Video shows stunned Floridians arrested for voting — When police went to arrest Tony Patterson outside his Tampa home in August, he couldn't believe the reason. — “What is wrong with this state, man?” Patterson protested as he was being escorted to a police car in handcuffs.
New York Times:
Voters See Democracy in Peril, but Saving It Isn't a Priority — A New York Times/Siena College poll found that other problems have seized voters' focus — even as many do not trust this year's election results and are open to anti-democratic candidates. — Voters overwhelmingly believe …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: Republican JD Vance has slight lead on Democrat Tim Ryan in Senate race in Ohio
Exclusive: Republican JD Vance has slight lead on Democrat Tim Ryan in Senate race in Ohio
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A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark:
Mike Lee's Golden Rule — “He's tasted the wine and he wants more and he loves power and thinks that means sticking with Donald Trump now, regardless of what he represents.” — Beseeching Mitt Romney for help—on Tucker Carlson's show of all places—would have been unthinkable to Sen. Mike Lee, even recently.
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Sam Metz / Associated Press:
Mike Lee tries to distance himself from Trump in Utah debate — Fending off attacks from his independent challenger, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah worked to distinguish himself from former President Donald Trump in a contentious debate Monday evening. “I stood against my party time and time again to oppose reckless spending.
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Louis Casiano / New York Post:
More lethal strain of COVID created in Boston University lab, researchers say — ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY: — Researchers at Boston University say they have developed a new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate following a series of similar experiments first thought to have started the global pandemic that began in China.
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
Boston University researchers' testing of lab-made version of Covid virus draws government scrutiny — Research at Boston University that involved testing a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is garnering heated headlines alleging the scientists involved could have unleashed a new pathogen.
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Washington Post:
Retired U.S. brass cash in with Saudis, other repressive governments … More than 500 retired U.S. military personnel — including scores of generals and admirals — have taken lucrative jobs since 2015 working for foreign governments, mostly in countries known for human rights abuses …
Gordon Corera / BBC:
Ex-UK pilots lured to help Chinese military, MoD says — Former British military pilots are being lured to China with large sums of money to pass on their expertise to the Chinese military, it is claimed. — Up to 30 former UK military pilots are thought to have gone to train members of China's People's Liberation Army.
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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
The Sources of Russian Misconduct
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Turnout on first day of Georgia early voting breaks midterm record — Competitive elections drive Georgia voters to the polls — The first day of early voting in Georgia set a new midterm turnout record, with nearly 123,000 in-person voters casting their ballots, an early sign of strong interest in this year's elections.
Maurice Chammah / The Marshall Project:
We Surveyed America's Sheriffs. Their Views May Surprise You. … Over the last decade, debates about police violence, mass incarceration and other criminal justice issues have generally focused on police chiefs and prosecutors. But sheriffs demand equal attention.
MPR News:
U regent Sviggum wonders if Morris campus is ‘too diverse’ — A member of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents is coming under fire for a suggestion he made that the Morris campus is “too diverse” and that diversity might be making it harder to draw students there.
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Grant Stern / The Dworkin Report:
Top Georgia journalist warns about Herschel Walker's political assets — Award-winning journalist and author Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution joined our show to talk about what lessons can be learned from the 2020 special elections in Georgia and shared wisdom about Herschel Walker's campaign.
MaryAnn Martinez / New York Post:
Biden admin pressured Dem El Paso mayor not to declare state of emergency over city's migrant crisis — The White House pressured the Democratic mayor of El Paso, Texas, to not declare a state of emergency over the city's migrant crisis due to fear it would make President Biden look bad, The Post has learned.
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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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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Americans' Trust In Media Remains Near Record Low — WASHINGTON, D.C. — At 34%, Americans' trust in the mass media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly” is essentially unchanged from last year and just two points higher than the lowest that Gallup has recorded, in 2016 during the presidential campaign.
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CNN:
Why Wakanda might be a model for our future cities — Wakanda is a marvel. The fictional country of the Marvel Universe is the most advanced civilization in the world, years beyond the rest of the world in technological learning. — But it's a little-noticed part of Wakanda that may predict …
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Trump Says He Wants Marjorie Taylor Greene in His Next Administration — “Wouldn't she be great?” former president tells confidants of a person who mocked a school shooting survivor and blamed wildfires on a secret space laser … As he lays the groundwork for a 2024 presidential run …
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New York Times:
Cross-Tabs for October 2022 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters … Do you think the United States is on the right track, or is it headed in the wrong direction? — REGISTERED VOTERS — AGE — GENDER — EDUCATION — RACE/ETHNICITY — RACE AND EDUCATION — REGION — COMMUNITY
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Detroit News:
Lee Chatfield suspected of engaging in criminal enterprise — Lansing — Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is under investigation in connection with an alleged “criminal enterprise,” potentially involving embezzlement, bribery, campaign finance violations and controlled substances …
Tom Mitchell / Financial Times:
What the eclipse of Tencent by a liquor company says about Xi's China — Kweichow Moutai has overtaken the tech group in market capitalisation thanks to the whims of one man — What would it say about US innovation and President Joe Biden's stewardship of the economy if America's largest beer company …
Iain Marlow / Bloomberg:
Blinken Says China Wants to Seize Taiwan on ‘Much Faster Timeline’ — China has made a decision to seize Taiwan on a “much faster timeline” than previously thought, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, shortly after China's leader reiterated his intent to take the island by force if necessary.
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NBC News:
Death toll rises to 13 after military bomber crashes into Russian apartment complex — Moscow says the crash was the result of an accident in which the plane's engine ignited at takeoff. At least 19 people were injured. — The death toll from a Russian military bomber's crash …
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Bloomberg:
White House to Tap Oil Reserve Again Amid High Fuel Prices — The Biden administration is moving toward a release of at least another 10 million to 15 million barrels of oil from the nation's emergency stockpile in a bid to balance markets and keep gasoline prices from climbing further, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Punchbowl News:
10/18/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … THE NATION'S STATUTORY BORROWING CAP WILL NEED TO BE LIFTED AT SOME POINT IN 2023, PROBABLY DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR. — MCCARTHY SIGNALED THAT REPUBLICANS WOULD AGAIN HOLD THE DEBT LIMIT UP FOR POLICY CHANGES.
Leor Sapir / City Journal:
No Laughing Matter — John Oliver badly botches the “gender-affirming care” debate. — The Social Order — Health Care — Yesterday, John Oliver devoted an episode of Last Week Tonight to transgender rights, specifically the controversy over “gender-affirming care” for minors.
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Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
Desperate pleas and smuggled pills: A covert abortion network rises after Roe — Amid legal and medical risks, a growing army of activists is funneling pills from Mexico into states that have banned abortion — Monica had never used Reddit before. But sitting at her desk one afternoon in July …
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Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Biden's Blessing — Biden's inner circle is pondering throwing their juice behind a Silicon Valley-inflected outside political group. The move would represent a break with the past, and the unmistakable westward march of Democratic influence. — In the argot of today's soft-money political …
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Sara Novak / New Scientist:
Menstrual cycle lengths vary between people of different ethnicities — Cycles may be 1.6 days longer in people who self-identify as Asian compared with their white non-Hispanic counterparts — A person's ethnicity may influence the length of their menstrual cycle.
Marisa Kabas / MSNBC:
In Kari Lake and Tudor Dixon, the GOP offers a cynical alternative to Trump — Arizona Republican nominee for governor Kari Lake declared in a Sunday interview on CNN that she will accept the results of her state election in November — if she wins. — In that declaration …
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News Execs Hunt Down the Tucker-Kanye Video Leaker … This reporting appears as one of several scooplets featured in this week's edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.
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