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7:05 PM ET, October 20, 2022

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KFTC-TV:
InsiderAdvantage/FOX 29 poll: Fetterman, Oz neck and neck as Shapiro's lead over Mastriano narrows  —  PHILADELPHIA - As Election Day nears, a new InsiderAdvantage/FOX 29 poll shows Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz has gained ground on Democratic nominee John Fetterman in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The growing warning signs for Democrats in 2022
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Shapiro emphasizes Jewish faith as he warns of Mastriano's extremism
Politico:
Loeffler's texts post-2020 election go public, raising new investigative questions  —  A log of text messages sent and received by former Sen. Kelly Loeffler during the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is raising questions about potentially unauthorized access to investigative material relevant …
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CNN:
Loeffler, Cipollone testify to grand jury in Georgia  —  Prosecutors in Georgia have secured grand jury testimony from two prominent witnesses - former US Sen. Kelly Loeffler and former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone - in their investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in that state …
Discussion: The Hill, Insider and Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Texts from Loeffler's phone shed light on activities ahead of Jan. 6 and 2021 runoff  —  Tricia Raffensperger's text message, six days after the 2020 elections, was as blistering as it was direct.  —  Hours after Kelly Loeffler, then Georgia's junior U.S. senator, called for her husband …
Washington Post:
Documents detail plans to gut Twitter's workforce  —  Previously unreported details shed new light on Twitter's motivations for selling the company — and Elon Musk's plans to transform it  —  Twitter's workforce is likely to be hit with massive cuts in the coming months, no matter who owns the company …
The Times:
Liz Truss resigns as prime minister — follow latest … Liz Truss has announced she is resigning after 44 days in office, becoming the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.  —  She announced that she would stand down after losing the confidence of Tory MPs and cabinet ministers.
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New York Times:
U.K. Live Updates: Liz Truss Resigns as Prime Minister
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
The Lettuce Outlasts Liz Truss
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives  —  The conservative project has failed, and conservatives need to forge a new political identity that reflects our revolutionary moment.  —  Given the state of America in 2022, conservatives should stop calling themselves conservatives.  —  Why?
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy's ugly new Ukraine threats should prod Democrats to act  —  We learned this week that a Republican-controlled House could very well move to oppose continued U.S. military aid to Ukraine.  In response, a few voices have arisen — including ones from inside the Biden administration …
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Biden Promotes Infrastructure Law in Pennsylvania Swing With Fetterman
Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens  —  The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users' devices without their knowledge or consent.
Politico:
Parler was jubilant about Kanye West buying it.  Then the problems started.  —  On the afternoon that Parler, a social media platform popular with conservatives, announced its acquisition by Ye, better known as Kanye West, the site emailed hundreds of VIP members to excitedly share the news.
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham must testify in 2020 election investigation, court rules  —  Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) must appear before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible attempts by former president Donald Trump and his allies to disrupt the state's 2020 presidential election, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Kevin Spacey found not liable in sex abuse suit brought by Anthony Rapp  —  Spacey flatly denied Rapp's allegations, saying under oath that “they are not true.”  His lawyers argued that Rapp “created a story” in large part because he was jealous of their client's success in the entertainment industry.
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Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Saudis Sought Oil Production Cut So Deep It Surprised Even Russia … The Saudi-led oil cartel OPEC+'s announcement earlier this month that it was cutting 2 million barrels of oil per day — a move that would drive up the price of oil just a month before midterm elections — rankled Democrats in Washington.
Discussion: Political Wire, Axios and The Hill
Politico:
Trump taps firm to handle his Jan. 6 committee subpoena  —  Former President Donald Trump has hired a firm to engage with the Jan. 6 select committee on its forthcoming subpoena of him, POLITICO has learned.  —  The firm, The Dhillon Law Group, already represents multiple witnesses …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
‘Gaffes’ aside, I once assumed GOP goodwill on race.  I was wrong.  —  What does the return of unvarnished racism to the center of our political culture mean?  —  For decades, the Martinez model of scandal has been the (more or less) typical response to gaffe-revealed racism in both parties.
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexander Sammon / Slate:
A Crypto Titan Hinted He'd Spend $1 Billion to Elect Democrats.  You'll Be Shocked—Shocked!  —What Happened Next.  —  Billionaire FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said he'd spend lavishly to elect Democrats in the coming years.  But with midterms looming, his wallet is suddenly shut.
Discussion: Roll Call
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Barrett denies emergency bid to block Biden's student debt forgiveness plan  —  Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday denied an emergency bid by a group of Wisconsin taxpayers to block the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program.  —  Barrett, who handles emergency matters arising …
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Cleta Mitchell Is Training Thousands of Trump Loyalists to Monitor the Polls on Election Day … I don't care what anybody says.  You can tell me I'm ‘the Big Lie.’ Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  Cleta Mitchell had just gotten into her car from her home in central North Carolina for a long drive east.
Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Anti-'woke' school board candidate facing furious backlash for suggesting that all Nazis weren't bad  —  A candidate for an Indiana school board in under fire over a Facebook comment where he seemed to suggest that not all Nazis during World War II were bad, WTHR reports.
Discussion: WALV-TV and HuffPost
Robert C. O'Brien / Deseret News:
Why I'm supporting Mike Lee  —  Everyone in Washington knows that Utah's senior senator is guided by the Constitution, no matter who the president is and what party is in charge  —  I first met Utah Sen. Mike Lee after I left the George W. Bush administration.  We were both practicing law at the time.
Associated Press:
Afghan couple accuse US Marine of abducting their baby  —  The young Afghan couple raced to the airport in Kabul, clutching their baby girl close amid the chaotic withdrawal of American troops last year.  —  The baby had been rescued two years earlier from the rubble of a U.S. Special Forces raid …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New York Post
Lauren Leone / WHEC.com:
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Race for NY governor tightens as midterm election approaches  —  ROCHESTER, N.Y. A new exclusive poll by SurveyUSA and News10NBC shows the race for New York governor continues to tighten.  —  It shows a six-point difference between Democrat incumbent Kathy Hochul and Republican congressman Lee Zeldin.
Discussion: WNYT-TV
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
A Fed President Spoke at an Invite-Only, Off-the-Record Bank Client Event  —  James Bullard, who leads the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, appeared at a Citigroup forum last week in Washington.  Reporters were not invited.  —  James Bullard, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Okla. governor mocks Democratic challenger for accurately noting state's crime rate  —  In a debate Wednesday night between Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) and his Democratic challenger, Joy Hofmeister, the governor took issue with Hofmeister pointing out — accurately — the state's violent crime problem.
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Military suicide rate among active forces has ‘gradual’ increase over past decade  —  The number of military suicides among active forces has increased marginally over the last decade.  However, the rate in 2021 was lower than that of the previous year, according to new data from the Department of Defense .
 
 
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Emily Jashinsky / The Federalist:
McCarthy In The Middle: How The Last ‘Young Gun’ Sought To Rebuild Conservative Trust As Pelosi Went Scorched Earth
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Ahead of the Midterms, Energy Lobbyists Plan for a Republican House
Discussion: Common Dreams and NBC Boston
Sarah Ewall-Wice / CBS News:
Rep. Jim Banks: Debt limit would be “major leverage point” for House GOP majority
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon will pay for service members to travel for abortions
Dallas Morning News:
Dallas cop running for Texas House faced nine brutality investigations early in career
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Washington Post:
Alleged voter intimidation at Arizona drop box puts officials on watch
Mike Allen / Axios:
1 big thing: Ditching 9-to-5
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 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Dr. Oz made reputation as a surgeon, a fortune as a salesman
Stephen A. Crockett Jr / HuffPost:
This Rapper Is More Politically Dangerous Than Kanye West
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Republicans aim to pass national 'don't say gay' law
Discussion: Political Wire
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Anti-Woke Superhero Movie Blown Up in $1 Million Con
Discussion: Raw Story
CBS News:
Cortez Masto and Laxalt neck and neck in Nevada Senate race — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll
John F. Harris / Politico:
Sorry, Ron DeSantis, You Are No Donald Trump
 

 
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