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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Racist tweets quickly surfaced after Musk closed Twitter deal — A wide range of anonymous Twitter accounts celebrated Musk's takeover and argued it meant the old rules against bigotry no longer applied — An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter …
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Top Twitter executives fired as Elon Musk takeover begins — Musk's $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company closed on Thursday night. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk took control of Twitter late Thursday as his $44 billion deal to takeover the company closed.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Welcome to hell, Elon — You break it, you buy it. — Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous compromises that will ultimately destroy your reputation …
Bloomberg:
Musk Takes Twitter Helm, Enacts Sweeping Change as Deal Closes — Elon Musk wasted no time taking complete control of Twitter Inc. The billionaire appointed himself chief executive officer, dismissed senior management and immediately began reshaping strategy at one of the world's …
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CNBC:
Elon Musk now in charge of Twitter, CEO and CFO have left, sources say
Elon Musk now in charge of Twitter, CEO and CFO have left, sources say
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New York Times:
Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal to Own Twitter
Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal to Own Twitter
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Kate Conger / New York Times:
Musk Said to Begin Firing Twitter's Top Executives
Musk Said to Begin Firing Twitter's Top Executives
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Wall Street Journal:
WSJ News Exclusive | Elon Musk Says Twitter Won't Be ‘Free-for-All Hellscape,’ Addressing Advertisers' Concerns
WSJ News Exclusive | Elon Musk Says Twitter Won't Be ‘Free-for-All Hellscape,’ Addressing Advertisers' Concerns
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Spokesperson Statement on Violent Assault on Paul Pelosi — Washington, D.C. — Drew Hammill, spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, issued this statement: — “Early this morning, an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi.
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Man who assaulted Pelosi's husband with hammer was looking for House speaker, source says — Speaker Pelosi's husband attacked in home invasion Schumer caught on hot mic giving Biden bad news — Tapper asks GOP lawmaker if enough Republicans will be ready to govern if they take House
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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Spokesman: Speaker Pelosi's husband assaulted in break-in — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, was “violently assaulted” by an assailant who broke into their San Francisco home early Friday, and he is now in the hospital and expected to make a full recovery, said her spokesman, Drew Hammill.
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Fox News:
Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul attacked in San Francisco home by intruder shouting ‘where is Nancy?’: source — The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul, has been assaulted with a hammer this morning in a San Francisco home invasion by an attacker who was shouting “Where is Nancy …
Washington Post:
Assailant shouted ‘Where is Nancy?’ in break-in at speaker's home, attack on Paul Pelosi — The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was attacked during an early-morning break-in at the couple's San Francisco home by an assailant who was searching for the speaker and shouted …
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Insider:
Nancy Pelosi's husband was severely beaten with a hammer during an early-morning break-in, according to authorities and reports
Nancy Pelosi's husband was severely beaten with a hammer during an early-morning break-in, according to authorities and reports
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New York Times:
The 2022 Race for the House, in Four Districts, and Four Polls — Swing-district polls by The New York Times and Siena College show how the midterm races are being shaped by larger, surprising forces, beyond the traditional red and blue divide. — President Biden is unpopular everywhere.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
With Majority in Sight, Republicans Hush Talk of Impeaching Biden
With Majority in Sight, Republicans Hush Talk of Impeaching Biden
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Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Barack Obama gets a midterm do-over to help boost Democrats
Barack Obama gets a midterm do-over to help boost Democrats
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The Economist:
Russia's elite begins to ponder a Putinless future — Once unthinkable, the president's removal can at least be contemplated — “What is next? Is there life after Putin? How does he go and who replaces him?” Such are the questions that weigh heavily these days on the minds of the Russian elite …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Putin demands we listen to him. The U.S. should take him up on it.
Putin demands we listen to him. The U.S. should take him up on it.
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Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
‘Innuendos and baseless allegations’: Milwaukee claps back after Ron Johnson sows doubts about early voting in the city — As voters have already begun streaming to the polls, Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson this week raised doubts about early in-person absentee voting in Milwaukee and suggested …
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Jessica Piper / Politico:
Young voters MIA as Dem base flocks to vote early — Add this to the list of Democratic worries ahead of the midterms: Younger voters — a cornerstone of the party's electoral coalition — make up a smaller share of early and absentee voters so far than they did in 2020.
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Washington Post:
Inside the secretive effort by Trump allies to access voting machines — How rural Coffee County, Ga., became an early target in the multistate search for purported evidence of fraud after the 2020 election — A week after the 2020 election, as Donald Trump raged over what he claimed was rampant fraud …
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Election deniers hope a hand count in Nevada offers a roadmap for the future
Election deniers hope a hand count in Nevada offers a roadmap for the future
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
The sleeper county that could decide the Senate
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
James Bennet was right — Controversy over an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) consumed the New York Times in June 2020 and claimed the job of then-editorial page editor James Bennet. Two-and-a-half years later, Bennet has shared some thoughts about the episode — and, in particular, the role of Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger.
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Why St. Louis hero teacher Jean Kuczka did what 376 Uvalde cops couldn't — There were two stories out of the American heartland this week that mostly got lost in a frenetic autumn of political anxiety and baseball joy (or sorrow), but demand a few moments of our attention …
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Benjy Sarlin / Semafor:
More Americans than ever think crime is up in their neighborhood — Benjy is Semafor's Washington Bureau Chief, joining us from NBC News. Sign up for the daily Principals newsletter to get our insider's guide to American power. — Dave is a Political Reporter for Semafor, joining us from the Washington Post.
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William Saletan / The Bulwark:
What It Means to Be a Republican Today — Evan McMullin's lesson on what his former party now stands for—and what it can't stand. — The most interesting political race of 2022 isn't between a Democrat and a Republican. It's in Utah, where incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Lee faces independent challenger Evan McMullin.
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Catherine Belton / Washington Post:
Russia's security service works to subvert Moldova's pro-Western government — A trove of sensitive materials obtained by Ukrainian intelligence and reviewed by The Washington Post illustrates how Moscow continues to try to manipulate countries in Eastern Europe
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Many Military U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash — Forget space aliens or hypersonic technology; classified assessments show that many episodes have ordinary explanations. — WASHINGTON — Government officials believe that surveillance operations by foreign powers …
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Fetterman Fades in Post-Debate Poll — Republican Mehmet Oz has pulled ahead of John Fetterman in the first Pennsylvania Senate poll released after this week's highly anticipated debate. — According to a survey of 1,000 likely voters from Wick Insights, 47.6 percent of respondents …
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
So far, this flu season is more severe than it has been in 13 years — Influenza is hitting the United States unusually early and hard, already hospitalizing a record number of people at this point in the season in more than a decade and underscoring the potential for a perilous winter …