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Jessica Taylor / Cook Political Report:
Arizona Senate Shifts Back To Toss Up — As the overall environment continues to improve in the Republicans' direction, the closer we get to Election Day, just 12 days out, we are shifting another race rating in the GOP's direction. A month after we initially moved Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Why Arizona's Senate race is moving to ‘Toss Up’ in our latest forecast update
Why Arizona's Senate race is moving to ‘Toss Up’ in our latest forecast update
USA Today:
Exclusive poll: Republican support rises ahead of Election Day, with inflation driving voters
Exclusive poll: Republican support rises ahead of Election Day, with inflation driving voters
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The Federalist, New York Magazine and KABE-LP
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Election Day is Nov. 8, but legal challenges already begin
Election Day is Nov. 8, but legal challenges already begin
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Gummi Bear Deepdives …, UPI, Orlando Sentinel and Washington Post
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democrats grasp for third rail
Democrats grasp for third rail
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Washington Post, Reason, New York Times and The National Interest
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Democrats scramble into defensive posture in final stage of midterms
Democrats scramble into defensive posture in final stage of midterms
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The Hill, New York Post, The Daily Beast and Bloomberg
Sarah Chaney Cambon / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. GDP Grew 2.6% in Third Quarter — While key segments remained resilient, economists are worried about a possible recession — Mortgages, Cars and Credit Cards: How Interest-Rate Hikes Are Hitting Americans' Wallets — Created with sketchtool. … 1x
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Ben Casselman / New York Times:
US Economy Grew at 2.6% Annual Rate in Q3, GDP Report Shows — Gross domestic product increased 0.6 percent after two quarters of decline, but key components continue to show an economic slowdown. — Gross Domestic Product — Note: Quarterly changes in gross domestic product …
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Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
U.S. economy grows in third quarter, reversing a six-month slump
U.S. economy grows in third quarter, reversing a six-month slump
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The Guardian
TMZ.com:
Kanye West Shows Up Uninvited to Skechers Headquarters in Wake of Adidas Fallout — 5:48 AM PT — 10/27 — TMZ just obtained 2 additional photos of Kanye West at Manhattan Bread & Bagel in Manhattan Beach on Wednesday. We're told Kanye was with a friend who ordered some food for them and they sat at a table in the corner of the shop.
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Mike Calia / CNBC:
Ye escorted out of Skechers office in Los Angeles after he showed up unannounced — Ye, who is also known as Kanye West, was escorted out of the Los Angeles office of shoe maker Skechers, the company said. — The incident comes after Adidas terminated its relationship with the fallen rapper …
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Mark Pazniokas / CT Mirror:
New poll gives GOP challenger George Logan slight edge over Jahana Hayes in 5th District — Republican George Logan has a one-point lead over U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-5th District, in the first public poll in Connecticut's nationally watched congressional contest. — CT's 5th District Race
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Harvard University:
FALL 2022 POLL — A national poll released today by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School indicates that 40% of 18-to-29-year-olds state that they will “definitely” vote in the November 8 midterm elections, on track to match or potentially exceed the record-breaking 2018 youth turnout in a midterm election.
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The Hill and Mother Jones
Shirin Ali / Slate:
Actually, John Fetterman's Debate Performance Was Fine — Pennsylvania has one of the most contentious Senate races in the country this term, and on Tuesday night, during the one and only debate between candidates, eyes were on Democrat John Fetterman, who had a stroke in May just days before his party's primary.
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Matt Mathias / WJET/WFXP/YourErie.com:
Fetterman, Oz face off in Senate debate; energy, crime, abortion among issues discussed
Fetterman, Oz face off in Senate debate; energy, crime, abortion among issues discussed
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Texas Goes Permitless on Guns, and Police Face an Armed Public — A new law allowing people to carry handguns without a license has led to more spontaneous shootings, many in law enforcement say. — HOUSTON — Tony Earls hung his head before a row of television cameras, staring down, his life upended.
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Lucianne Goldberg, 1935-2022 — Lucianne Goldberg was—she owned the term proudly—a broad. A grand broad—big, blowsy, sexy, and up for a good time from morning till night. She was the first and the last person I ever knew to spend her days inserting cigarettes into a cigarette holder …
Grant Stern / The Dworkin Report:
Author reveals how GOP became toxic from the rise of Gingrich to Trump — Share now: — — Princeton political history Professor and CNN Commentator Julian Zelizer returns to the Dworkin Report to discuss his book, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker …
Arizona Republic:
Break-in at Arizona governor candidate Katie Hobbs' campaign office in Phoenix; several items taken — Stacey Barchenger Taylor SeelyArizona Republic — The Phoenix campaign headquarters of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs was burglarized earlier this week, Phoenix police and a campaign official said Wednesday.
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NBC News:
Herschel Walker denies new abortion allegation — Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker denies new abortion pressure allegation — Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker denied a new allegation from a woman Wednesday that the former football star, who is running …
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Brad Plumer / New York Times:
War in Ukraine Likely to Speed, Not Slow, Shift to Clean Energy, I.E.A. Says — While some nations are burning more coal this year in response to natural-gas shortages spurred by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, that effect is expected to be short-lived. — WASHINGTON — The energy crisis sparked …
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IEA:
World Energy Outlook 2022
World Energy Outlook 2022
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Politico, Outside the Beltway, Inside Climate News, Fortune and Al Jazeera
Politico:
Judge to consider unsealing Trump grand jury filings — A federal judge is considering whether to unseal secret court documents detailing former President Donald Trump's effort to prevent former aides from providing testimony to a grand jury investigating efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
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Raw Story, Insider, PoliticusUSA, Political Wire and Washington Times
New York Times:
Prosecutors Seek Testimony on Trump's Claims to Have Declassified Documents — The Justice Department is seeking to compel Kash Patel, an ally of the former president, to answer questions about assertions that material taken from the White House had been declassified.
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David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View — You can never really see the future, only imagine it, then try to make sense of the new world when it arrives. — Just a few years ago, climate projections for this century looked quite apocalyptic, with most scientists warning that continuing …
Miriam Berger / Washington Post:
As protests rock Iran, its most feared security force is lying in wait — Thousands of people poured into the streets of Mahsa Amini's hometown Wednesday and marched to her grave. Iranian security forces responded — as they have throughout the course of the nationwide protests inspired by her death — with violence and arrests.
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Politico:
Trump to hold rally in Florida with Rubio — but not DeSantis — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump is coming to Miami just two days before Election Day. But one Republican won't be there — Gov. Ron DeSantis. Not yet anyway. — Trump on Wednesday said he'll hold a rally with Sen. Marco Rubio on Nov. 6.
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Stanley Reed / New York Times:
Shell Reports Its Second-Highest Profit, at $9.5 Billion, and Raises Dividend — The oil and gas giant said it had avoided Britain's “windfall” tax because of big capital expenditures in the North Sea. — The good times continue at Shell. The London-based energy giant reported adjusted earnings …
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CNN, Metro.co.uk and Cyprus Mail
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump lets the truth slip about the MAGA base — and today's GOP — Donald Trump has long harbored a tendency to confess to his sins in public. Now he's done it again, revealing a large truth about today's Republican Party in the process: He declared that his lies about the 2020 election …
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Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Flees Interview After Callers Grill Her—'She's Gone' — Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene abruptly left an appearance on a local TV show in which she was taking questions, prompting confusion from the hosts. — Greene took part in the call-in show Night Talk on North Georgia's UCTV on Monday night.
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Slate:
The Supreme Court Is Headed for a Self-Imposed Voting Caseload Disaster — On December 7, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Moore v. Harper, a radical case on the fate of the so-called “independent state legislature” theory which could end the ability of state courts to interpret …
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CNN, New York Times and Election Law Blog
New York Times:
How Mike Lindell's Pillow Business Propels the Election Denial Movement — Many American entrepreneurs have mixed politics and business. No one has fused the two quite like the chief executive of MyPillow. — Three days after federal agents seized his cellphone as part of an investigation …
Bryan Metzger / Insider:
Lindsey Graham says there are ‘gonna be people jumping off bridges in San Francisco by the thousands’ if Jim Jordan becomes chair of the House Judiciary Committee — GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham campaigned in Ohio for Senate candidate JD Vance. — During a speech at a Republican Party dinner in Lima …
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Raw Story