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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification … Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave. — The directive is to change Twitter Blue …
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Siva Vaidhyanathan / The Guardian:
Like Trump, Elon Musk reveals a vapid mind super-charged by wealth and ego — Musk, despite his wealth, good fortune and global influence, is not a serious person - but he is toying with dangerous ideas — t took less than 48 hours for Elon Musk to reveal just how dangerous his new toy can be to this world.
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New York Times:
Senate Control Hinges on Neck-and-Neck Races, Times/Siena Poll Finds — The contests are close in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Many voters want Republicans to flip the Senate, but prefer the Democrat in their state. — Control of the Senate rests on a knife's edge …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Final AJC midterm poll: Kemp leads Abrams, deadlocked Senate race — Gov. Brian Kemp maintains a solid lead over Democrat Stacey Abrams in the latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll, while the race between U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker remains a neck-and-neck contest that could be headed toward a runoff.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Times/Siena Polls Show Democrats Slightly Ahead in Key Senate Races — Respondents said they preferred Republicans to control the Senate, but individual matchups showed a different story. — Eight days before the election, we have our final* midterm surveys: polls of the four states likeliest to determine control of the Senate.
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NBC News:
Biden lost temper with Zelenskyy in June phone call when Ukrainian leader asked for more aid — It's become routine since Russia invaded Ukraine: President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak by phone whenever the U.S. announces a new package of military assistance for Kyiv.
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Rolling Stone:
Dr. Oz's Campaign Is Stocked With Jan. 6ers — The Republican has kept his distance from the “stolen election” lie while running for Senate, but records obtained by Rolling Stone reveal some of his staffers have embraced it wholeheartedly — and even attended the Jan. 6 rally to overturn the election
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POLITICO Playbook: The next big precedent SCOTUS is set to overturn
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Washington Post:
Election denier Mark Finchem's sleeper campaign closes in on MAGA prize
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ambitious GOP senators dive into midterms while Trump weighs his 2024 plans
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: Attack on Paul Pelosi a ‘terrible thing’ — Former President Donald Trump in an interview Sunday called the attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) husband in their San Francisco home a “terrible thing” as he railed against crime in Democrat-led cities.
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Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Republicans amplify misinformation, falsehoods about attack on Paul Pelosi
Mike Allen / Axios:
First look: Mike Pence's new book reveals key moment before Jan. 6 — In former Vice President Mike Pence's “So Help Me God” — out Nov. 15 — he describes a scene in November 2020, just after the election, when he and former President Trump met in the Oval Office to review legal challenges with the campaign's lawyers.
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Jack Nicas / Reuters:
Lula's victory likely means big changes for Brazil, though his specific plans are vague. — Maria Magdalena Arréllaga for The New York Times — Maria Magdalena Arrellaga for The New York Times — Victor Venco Moriyama for the New York Times — Maria Magdalena Arrellaga for The New York Times
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CNN:
Brazil's Bolsonaro loses bid for second term in fiercely contested presidential vote
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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Laxalt campaign paid thousands to political operative linked to Twitter account that denigrated Jews, women — A Twitter account connected to former Laxalt staffer Michael Pecjak has compared abortion to the Holocaust and claimed that “Jews are not a religious sect and are a cult,” among other comments
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David Weigel / Semafor:
Happy Halloween, there's a candy-colored fentanyl scare on the campaign trail — MESA, Ariz. - It was the talk of Republican candidates over Halloween weekend: A rumor that their trick-or-treating kids might get candy-colored fentanyl from strangers. — “The cartels, they're dressing …
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The Intercept:
Leaked Documents Outline DHS's Plans to Police Disinformation — The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents …
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Nora Mishanec / San Francisco Chronicle:
Ex-girlfriend of suspect in Paul Pelosi attack says he struggled with mental illness, drugs, believed he was ‘Jesus for a year’ — The imprisoned longtime partner of David DePape, the suspect in the attack on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, said Sunday that mental illness …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Economy Is Top Election Issue; Abortion and Crime Next — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Among the policy issues being debated and discussed this election year, the economy leads in importance to Americans. Nearly half of U.S. registered voters, 49%, say the economy will be extremely important to their vote for Congress.
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Kurt Schlichter / Frontpage Mag:
Everyone is Laughing at the Ridiculous Pelosi Big Lie — Meet the underwear-clad MAGA assassin from a hippie commune in Berkeley. — How dare you reject the Official Approved Narrative parroted by the regime media about the weird Schiff that went down at Casa de Pelosi the other night.
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NBC News:
Capitol Officer Harry Dunn testifies Oath Keepers weren't helping him on Jan. 6 — “We have dozens of officers down, they're taking them out on stretchers. Ya'll are f—ing us up,” Harry Dunn says he told rioters. — WASHINGTON — Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn testified during …
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Crime Wave That Republicans Defend — Corporate theft and fraud is not only tolerated by the GOP, it's shielded. Yet Democrats rarely use this to attack Republican messaging on crime. — CEOs of some of the nation's largest banks testify before the Senate Banking Committee during …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Right-wing ‘zombie’ papers attack Illinois Democrats ahead of elections — Since late summer, many Illinois residents have been receiving newspapers that they haven't paid for nor, in many cases, even heard of. — Each paper bears a clear-cut tagline: Real data, real news.
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Lawrence Mower / Tampa Bay Times:
After voter fraud arrests, Florida issues new forms that could bolster future cases — “This is just going to make future prosecutions easier for the state,” an attorney said. “I think it's horrifying.” — TALLAHASSEE — A week after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the arrests of 20 people …
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