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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago classified papers held U.S. secrets about Iran and China  —  Iran's missile program, U.S. intelligence work aimed at China were among the most sensitive material seized by the FBI, people familiar with the matter say  —  Some of the classified documents recovered by the FBI …
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:   ‘Bless His Heart’: Jeb Bush Responds to Trump's False Allegation About His Father's Handling of Government Documents
New York Times:
Bannon Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison for Contempt of Congress  —  Stephen Bannon was found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress this summer for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee.  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday sentenced Stephen K. Bannon …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas former President Donald Trump  —  Jan. 6 committee issues subpoena for Trump testimony and records  —  The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot subpoenaed former President Donald Trump on Friday for testimony and documents on his actions surrounding …
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
Associated Press:
Jan. 6 panel issues subpoena to Trump, demanding he testify  —  The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena Friday to Donald Trump, exercising its subpoena power against the former president who lawmakers say “personally orchestrated” …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump allies have amassed nearly 30 years in prison sentences  —  Eleven Trump allies have been convicted or pleaded guilty.  He's shaved nearly 11 years off their sentences with pardons.  —  Eleven allies of and advisers to former president Donald Trump have been convicted or pleaded guilty …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Steve Bannon sentenced to 4 months in jail for contempt of Congress
Miles Cohen / ABC News:
Voter fraud charge dismissed in Florida after arrest  —  The accused was facing up to five years in prison and $5,000 in fines and fees.  —  A Florida man had his election fraud charges dismissed on Friday, making him the first of 20 people who Gov. Ron DeSantis announced had been charged with voter fraud in August, to beat his case.
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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Miami judge dismisses voter fraud case trumpeted by DeSantis  —  Case is one of the 19 voter fraud prosecutions, and involves man who says he registered to vote in 2020 without knowing he was ineligible  —  A Miami judge on Friday dismissed one of the 19 voter fraud prosecutions loudly trumpeted …
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: After Ukraine, Biden administration turns to Musk's satellite internet for Iran  —  The White House has engaged in talks with Elon Musk about the possibility of setting up SpaceX's satellite internet service Starlink inside Iran, multiple officials familiar with the discussions told CNN.
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Bloomberg:
Twitter Tumbles After US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk Deals
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why I'm Telling My Friends That The Senate Is A Toss-Up  —  The Senate started out as a toss-up when we launched our forecast in June — and after a summer in which political developments mostly played to Democrats' favor, there is now clear movement back toward Republicans.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Joe Biden's Walk-and-Chew-Gum Campaign  —  The President says the midterms are “the most consequential” elections in recent history, but he's not acting like he means it. … For most of President Joe Biden's tenure, Fox News's Peter Doocy has played the role of pressroom scourge.
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Susan Cover / Spectrum News Maine:   Mills leads LePage by 10 percentage points in new poll
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
National Poll: Biden Approval Drops As Republicans Congressional Control Chances Improve
Discussion: The Daily Caller and HotAir
Joelle Diderich / WWD:
EXCLUSIVE: Balenciaga Severs Ties With Ye  —  The French fashion house, which collaborated with the rapper on a line sold at Gap, is walking away from the relationship after he repeatedly used hate speech. … “Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related …
Washington Post:
Sorry you went viral  —  TikTok's explosive stardom has created a new kind of celebrity.  But nothing goes viral like rage.  —  When Junna Faylee started making money on TikTok, the 21-year-old anime and gaming fan in London made it the centerpiece of her life.  She devoted every night and weekend to making videos.
Discussion: Althouse
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Donald Trump's Boeing 757 rehabbed and back in West Palm Beach  —  Trump's 757 seen on tarmac with updated paint job  —  What this defamation attorney thinks could have happened in Trump's deposition  —  Trump in 2021: ‘Is this a good Jewish character right here?’
Discussion: HuffPost
Amanda Macias / CNBC:
U.S. Defense secretary speaks with Russian counterpart as war in Ukraine enters ninth month  — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke with his Russian counterpart Friday morning.  — The last known instance of the two leaders speaking was in May.  — The call comes as the war enters …
NBC News:
Warnock releases two new TV ads hitting Herschel Walker on abortion allegations  —  Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., has launched two new hard-hitting TV ads in Georgia, going after Republican challenger Herschel Walker over allegations that he paid for an ex-girlfriend's abortion and threatened his ex-wife.
Paul Berger / Wall Street Journal:
Southern California's Notorious Container Ship Backup Ends  —  Slump in imports, cargo diversions to other ports help shrink queue of dozens of vessels  —  The backup of container ships off Southern California's coast that was at the heart of U.S. supply chain congestion during the Covid-19 pandemic has effectively disappeared.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Please don't play it again, Boris  —  I fear the Conservative party has forgotten that Johnson was the least popular postwar prime minister until Liz Truss  —  This article is an on-site version of our Swamp Notes newsletter.  Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Monday and Friday
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Before resigning, Charlie Crist's campaign manager was arrested in domestic violence case  —  The manager for Charlie Crist's Florida gubernatorial campaign was arrested in a domestic violence case a day before he resigned his political position, NBC News has learned.
Bryan Metzger / Insider:
Why former staffers for Alaska's long-serving GOP Rep. Don Young are backing Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola over Sarah Palin  — Some of Alaska Rep. Don Young's former staffers are backing Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat.  — They say she'll carry on the long-serving Republican's legacy better than Sarah Palin or Nick Begich.
American Prospect:
A Memo to Democrats  —  We will win this election if we convince voters we care about their economic well-being.  —  President Biden meets with Pennsylvania's Democratic nominee for Senate John Fetterman, along with his wife Gisele, on October 20, 2022.  —  The four of us have been around politics a long time.
Discussion: Raw Story
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
Adults who choose to bully LGBTQ+ children are weird — and profoundly broken  —  The Michigan Pride rally at the state Capitol in Lansing on June 26, 2022.  Photo by Andrew Roth  —  Twelve years ago, the LGBTQ+ community started a powerful campaign to help young people with three simple words: “It gets better.”
NBC News:
The decider: Jill Biden's unparalleled influence and impact on the president  —  WASHINGTON — Whenever his aides are pressed about President Joe Biden's political future, they'll often point to one person as the true decider: his wife of 45 years, Jill Biden.  —  She is, after all, her husband's foremost defender.
Emily Flitter / New York Times:
Where $30 Billion to Fix Systemic Racism Actually Goes  —  In 2020, JPMorgan pledged to invest significant resources in closing the racial wealth gap.  Here is what the bank did, and what it looks like when a private-sector company tries to fix a societal problem.  —  It seemed like a big number.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Newsmax Bans Lara Logan After She Goes Full QAnon, Spews Blood Libel on Network  —  “Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan,” the network said in a statement.  “We have no plans to interview her again.”  —  Nearly a year after she was kicked …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Recession warnings are growing.  Almost no one is prepared.  —  Virtually no one seems ready for the dark clouds gathering over the domestic and global economies.  Not most Americans, and certainly not the politicians who govern them.  —  Economic and business leaders have been sounding alarms recently …
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
James Corden Would Rather Not Talk About That Omelet  —  In an interview to promote his coming series, “Mammals,” the actor and late-night host dismissed a flap stemming from an Instagram post accusing him of boorish restaurant behavior.  “I think it's so silly,” he said.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The only thing the debt limit is used for is political blackmail  —  On Friday, President Biden rejected calls from some in his party to permanently eliminate the debt limit.  The idea, he said, was “irresponsible.”  This article assessing the utility of the debt limit first ran in September.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and CBS News
 
 
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Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
Lee Zeldin Targets New York City Crime as Polls Show Tightening Governor's Race
Discussion: New York Post and Breitbart
Hamed Aleaziz / Los Angeles Times:
Ethiopians in the U.S. will be eligible to stay for 18 months due to civil war
Discussion: Washington Times
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Blake Masters' campaign has had a far-right Christian nationalist on its payroll for months
Washington Post:
Trump's rally schedule slows as GOP sees narrowing demand for his help
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Wire and Raw Story
Nicole Friedman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Home Sales Drop for Eighth Straight Month in September
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Examiner:
The complete and total failure of the Jan. 6 committee
Discussion: The Liberty Loft
Barbara Hoberock / Tulsa World:
Hofmeister, Stitt face each other in gubernatorial debate
 Earlier Items: 
William Saletan / The Bulwark:
Here's How the Election Deniers Are Performing in the Polls—and Why
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
What if We Let Majoritarian Democracy Take Root?
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Liz Truss's fall is a warning to populists everywhere
The Daily Beast:
Inside Trumpworld's Dark Obsession With the GOP Whip Race
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Laura Wagner / Defector:
Semafor Is The Problem  —  All around the world, and especially in the United States …
 

 
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks

Christine Lemmer-Webber / Dustycloud Brainstorms:
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Financial Times:
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