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NBC News:
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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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 …
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 …
New York Times:
Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter's Staff  —  The layoffs hit across many divisions, including the engineering and machine learning units, the teams that manage content moderation, and the sales and advertising departments.  —  SAN FRANCISCO …
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Lawyer Suing Twitter Over Layoffs Says Musk Now Trying to Comply
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Jessica Taylor / Cook Political Report:
In Final Push For Senate Control, Republican Momentum Grows
Discussion: NBC News, NPR and Forbes
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Democrats' ‘optimistic apostle’ offers hope for the midterms
Discussion: HotAir
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 …
Reuters:
What if Biden does not run again?  —  The U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday will do much more than shape the next two years of Joe Biden's presidency.  They will also help determine whether he will run in 2024 as well, political analysts and advisers believe.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Politico:   Will Biden take his medicine?  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook …
Washington Post:
'With Mike's help': Biden makes case for Calif. congressman
Discussion: DNyuz and Associated Press
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.
Discussion: The Hill, Insider and PolitiFact
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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
Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and Herald and News
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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TODAY.com:
Paul Pelosi released from the hospital six days after intruder attack
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and NBC Boston
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 …
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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.
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
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.
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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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.
Anna Lynn Winfrey / USA Today:
Suspect arrested in Colorado voter machine tampering case, could face felony under new law  —  A Colorado man has been arrested on suspicion of tampering with voting equipment by allegedly inserting a USB thumb drive into a voting machine at a polling station during the primary election in June, authorities said.
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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 …
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 …
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
How to be a widow: A guide from a wife who doesn't know either  —  When I lost my husband to brain cancer, I learned there is no road map for grief  —  Since my husband, Bill, died of brain cancer in June, I've found myself unclear about what it means to grieve.
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 …
New York Post:
Ex-NYC buildings boss Eric Ulrich spent $40K at eateries with past reported links to mobsters: records  —  MORE ON:  —  Former Buildings Commissioner and onetime political candidate Eric Ulrich spent nearly $40,000 in campaign funds at several food businesses with past reported links to mobsters, a review of records shows.
 
 
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
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Discussion: Raw Story and Sputnik News
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Newsweek Embraces the Anti-Democracy Hard Right
Discussion: DNyuz
Washington Post:
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Oprah Winfrey backs John Fetterman over Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania Senate race
Mike Allen / Axios:
Stunning poll: 44% of voters see “secret cabal”