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Days before the midterms, Twitter lays off employees who fight misinformation — Mass layoffs at Twitter on Friday battered the teams primarily responsible for keeping the platform free of misinformation, potentially hobbling the company's capabilities four days before the end of voting …
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Jason Koebler / VICE:
Twitter Recommends Ye as Top Follow on ‘The Jews’ as Company Does Mass Layoffs — “The Jews” and “#IStandWithKyrie” are trending on Elon Musk's Twitter. — Jason Koebler — “The Jews” is trending on Twitter, and its algorithm has selected Ye as a “Top” person to follow …
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The Verge:
Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted — About half of Twitter's 7,500 employees are now gone, with teams focused on trust and safety issues hit the hardest. — Elon Musk has now purged roughly half of Twitter's 7,500 employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near completely gutted …
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Lawyer Suing Twitter Over Layoffs Says Musk Now Trying to Comply — The lawyer who sued Twitter Inc. “pre-emptively” on the eve of mass layoffs by Elon Musk said she's “pleased” to learn at least some employees will continue being paid until Jan. 4. — Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan …
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New York Times:
Elon Musk Begins Layoffs at Twitter
Elon Musk Begins Layoffs at Twitter
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why isn't Trumpism hurting the GOP? Some Democrats see vexing answers. — Something extraordinary just happened: In the space of just this week, a president and an ex-president warned that the opposition poses an existential threat to our political way of life.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Stand on the Verge of Total, Veto-Proof Power
Wisconsin Republicans Stand on the Verge of Total, Veto-Proof Power
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC Cuts Ties Unexpectedly With Weekend Host Tiffany Cross … Tiffany Cross, the MSNBC weekend host who was known for running the freewheeling Saturday commentary program “Cross Connection,” is leaving the NBCUniversal-owned cable-news outlet. — Her production staff was informed …
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Ohio 2022: Vance Extends Lead Over Ryan for US Senate — Home Polls Ohio 2022: Vance Extends Lead Over Ryan for US Senate — The final Emerson College Polling survey of the Ohio Midterm Elections finds 51% of voters support Republican JD Vance for US Senate, while 43% support Democrat Tim Ryan.
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Oregon 2022: Independent Candidates' Support Melts As Democrat Tina Kotek Leads Republican Christine Drazan by Four for Governor
Oregon 2022: Independent Candidates' Support Melts As Democrat Tina Kotek Leads Republican Christine Drazan by Four for Governor
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Arizona 2022: US Senate and Gubernatorial Elections in Dead Heat
Arizona 2022: US Senate and Gubernatorial Elections in Dead Heat
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump team eyes Nov. 14 announcement — Former President Trump's inner circle is discussing announcing the launch of a 2024 presidential campaign on Nov. 14 — with the official announcement possibly followed by a multi-day series of political events, according to three sources familiar with the sensitive discussions.
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Asmita Pant / cnbctv18.com:
Some of world's biggest brands have quietly paused ads on Twitter — The advertising giant Interpublic Group has also reportedly recommended that IPG Media Brands agencies' clients suspend all their paid advertising on Twitter for at least a week. — General Motors last Friday temporarily …
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Andrea Cavallier / Daily Mail:
NBC News mysteriously PULLS its exclusive report on how Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul, 82, calmly opened door to cops in his underpants - and then walked TOWARDS ‘hammer intruder’ who bludgeoned him — The NBC News report cited sources close to the investigation and was published on Friday morning, but was pulled down by the afternoon
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CNN:
House January 6 committee interviewing Secret Service agents in Trump's motorcade on day of attack — The House January 6 select committee is getting a window into former President Donald Trump's motorcade on the day of the US Capitol attack, interviewing on Friday the Secret Service agent …
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Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner:
How Biden's record on jobs so far compares to Bush, Obama, and Trump — Friday's employment report is the final one before President Joe Biden faces his first midterm elections. Here is how his job record stacks up with that of recent presidents. — The economy added 261,000 jobs in October …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The big-stack-of-paper strategy comes to House Judiciary Republicans — News broke early Friday: The Republican minority on the House Judiciary Committee was releasing a “1,000 Page Report” on alleged politicization of the FBI and the Justice Department. The length was mentioned …
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Nadgey Louis-Charles / House Committee …:
Republicans Release 1,000 Page Report on FBI & DOJ Politicization
Republicans Release 1,000 Page Report on FBI & DOJ Politicization
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘It was always a lie’: Dan Crenshaw rips into pro-Trump election deniers — During his “Hold These Truths” podcast, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) told electoral reform advocate Nick Troiano that “behind closed doors” pro-Donald Trump lawmakers admit they know accusations of a stolen 2020 presidential election …
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Election Deniers Admit It's A Lie Behind Closed Doors
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Election Deniers Admit It's A Lie Behind Closed Doors
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ABC News:
Trump ally Tom Barrack found not guilty on foreign lobbying charges — Barrack was accused of acting as a foreign agent for the UAE. — Tom Barrack, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump and his one-time inaugural committee chairman, was found not guilty on Friday …
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Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Former Trump Adviser Acquitted on Charges of Acting as Emirati Agent
Former Trump Adviser Acquitted on Charges of Acting as Emirati Agent
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
New York Democrats are bracing for stunning Election Day losses, and they already have a fall guy — Democratic officials and strategists in New York tell CNN they are bracing for what could be stunning losses in the governor's race and in contests for as many as four US House seats largely in the suburbs.
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Amudalat Ajasa / Washington Post:
A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red on Election Day — The total eclipse will last for nearly 90 minutes from coast to coast across the U.S. — Hours before citizens across the country cast their votes in a contentious midterm election, a sinister red moon will loom in the sky.
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent — Early this Sunday morning, Americans will engage in the annual autumnal ritual of “falling back” — setting their clocks back one hour to conform with standard time. — If some lawmakers had their way …
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Dylan Byers / Puck:
Can Licht Make the Cuts? — A brutal $100 million financial engineering effort begins at CNN. — When Chris Licht became chairman and chief executive of CNN, back in May, his boss David Zaslav asked him to conduct a six-month review of the 4,500-person global news business.
New York Times:
F.B.I. Locates Suspect After Warning of Security Threat at New Jersey Synagogues — Officials said the man holds “radical extremist views.” On Thursday, they had alerted congregations across the state to be on alert. — Hours after issuing a rare warning about a security threat at New Jersey synagogues …
Washington Post:
Investigators search for pricey gifts to Trump from foreign leaders — Golf clubs, diamond earrings and a soccer ball from Putin are among the gifts that House Oversight has asked the National Archives to find. — Congressional investigators are looking for dozens of pricey mementos gifted …
The Hill:
Barrett again denies emergency bid to block student loan forgiveness plan — Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Friday denied an emergency effort to block the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program, her second such ruling in recent weeks. — Barrett, who handles emergency matters arising …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Stunning poll: 44% of voters see “secret cabal” — Joel Benenson, the renowned pollster for President Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns, gave a first look at the results of a question he'd never asked before: “We wanted to test QAnon's language that the world is controlled by a secret cabal.”
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Oprah Winfrey backs John Fetterman over Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania Senate race — Oprah Winfrey said Thursday she would vote for Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman over Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz in the must-win Senate race in Pennsylvania. — Oz, a former talk-show host backed …
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Fox News:
House Majority Whip: US ‘on track to repeat’ Nazi Germany, downplays inflation ahead of midterms — House Majority Whip James Clyburn claims US will soon resemble Germany in the 1930s, pointing blame at far-right extremism — EXCLUSIVE — House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C. …
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Democrats' ‘optimistic apostle’ offers hope for the midterms — Veteran Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg explains why he's Twitter's apostle of liberal optimism and how early midterm voting data is giving him hope. — Simon Rosenberg is the head of the progressive think tank NDN …
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