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CNN:
‘That son of a bitch’: New Woodward book reveals candid behind-the-scenes conversations of Biden, Trump, Harris and Putin  —  Editor's Note: The story below contains explicit language  —  In his new book, legendary journalist Bob Woodward offers a remarkable look behind the scenes …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Book Raises Unverified Claims About Trump's Ties to Putin  —  A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward reports that Donald J. Trump has secretly spoken as many as seven times with Vladimir V. Putin, even as the former president has resisted aid for Ukraine's war against Russia.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says  —  “War,” by Bob Woodward, traces how Trump and Biden responded to international crisis and concludes that Trump is worse than Nixon, the president exiled by the Watergate scandal.
Paige Oamek / New Republic:
Trump Lashes Out After Damning Report on His Close Ties to Putin  —  Donald Trump's campaign team is lashing out against a journalist following news that the former president secretly kept in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin after leaving the Oval Office.
emptywheel:
As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin  —  According to CNN, Bob Woodward's latest book reveals that Trump has spoken to Vladimir Putin as many as seven times since leaving the Presidency. … According to WaPo's version of the Woodward story …
Discussion: Mediaite
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Eleven years later, Trump may finally have the best friend he wanted
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Kamala Harris' Support Among Republicans Almost Doubles: NYT-Siena Poll  —  in November has nearly doubled over the past month according to a major new survey from  —  .  —  It found nine percent of likely voters who describe themselves as  —  plan to back the Democratic candidate in November …
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New York Times:
Poll Finds Harris Rising as She Challenges Trump on Change
Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
Kamala Harris makes the case in 60 Minutes interview for why she should be president
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
55/45 is a really close race  —  After a drought, we finally have enough interesting polling …
Discussion: The Hill
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Cesar's Conspicuous Call  —  Questions are mounting over why NBCU has opted to shelve the well-reviewed documentary from an Oscar-winning filmmaker until after the election.  —  NBCU News Group boss Cesar Conde is — yet again — facing questions about an eyebrow-raising editorial decision that was made within his palace's walls.
Discussion: Newsbusters
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Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:
MSNBC delays documentary over fears it could ‘offend Donald Trump’: report  —  A documentary about the Trump administration's family separation policy will not air before Election Day because MSNBC is concerned about offending the Republican presidential nominee, according to new reports.
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
NBC Set Post-Election MSNBC Premiere of Errol Morris Doc ‘Separated’ to Avoid Offending Trump | Report
Discussion: Vanity Fair
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI arrests Afghan man who officials say planned Election Day attack in the US
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People's Twitter Accounts To Promote Donald Trump  —  How quickly do you think we'd be having Congressional hearings about “election interference” if Mark Zuckerberg so much as posted a “Harris/Walz” lawn sign in front of his house?
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
FBI probe of Kavanaugh constrained by Trump White House, report finds  —  A Democratic senator's report finds new evidence of the White House controlling an FBI investigation into sexual assault claims against the Supreme Court nominee.  —  In September 2018, as allegations of sexual misconduct …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
‘Eternally sorry’: Journalist confesses his biggest error in covering ‘buffoon’ Trump  —  Former President Donald Trump's behavior has been enabled by a mainstream press that “never took him seriously,” Lucian Truscott wrote for Salon on Tuesday in a damning indictment of the media's enabling …
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Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon:   The problem with reporting on Donald Trump is the press never took him seriously
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Cook Political Report shifts Wisconsin Senate race toward GOP  —  The Cook Political Report on Tuesday shifted the Wisconsin Senate race from “lean Democrat” to “toss up,” handing Republican Eric Hovde a boost as he tries to unseat Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.).
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Politico:
Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts  —  The billionaire is using the power of his social media platform to spread falsehoods that officials say are hampering recovery efforts.  —  Elon Musk is using his social media network …
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Deepa Shivaram / NPR:
Harris proposes Medicare cover home care costs to help the ‘sandwich generation’  —  Vice President Harris on Tuesday laid out a proposal to expand Medicare coverage to help cover the costs of home health care aides for seniors.  —  Harris announced the plan — squarely aimed at …
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Will Propose Major Initiative To Help Millions Of Seniors — And Their Caregivers
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Trump Gets Unhinged, Even for Him, Over Kamala Harris ‘60 Minutes’ Interview  —  CLUCK CLUCK  —  The former president claimed the vice president's sitdown with “60 Minutes”—something he bailed on after agreeing to—was “the WORST Interview.”  —  Donald Trump—who agreed to an interview …
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CBS News:
How 60 Minutes found out Donald Trump would not participate in an election special
Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
The Cataclysmic Post-Election Scenario No One's Bracing For  —  At the start of the 118th Congress in January 2023, I sat in the press gallery of the House chamber and watched Republicans fail to elect a speaker, as Kevin McCarthy didn't have the votes.  What is traditionally accomplished …
Discussion: Associated Press
Pluralistic:
Google's new phones can't stop phoning home (permalink)  —  One of the most brazen lies of Big Tech is that people like commercial surveillance, a fact you can verify for yourself by simply observing how many people end up using products that spy on them.  If they didn't like spying, they wouldn't opt into being spied on.
Discussion: The Register
Christopher Steele / Newsweek:
I'm Behind the Trump-Russia Dossier.  We Gave the FBI More Than People Know  —  My wife Katherine called me up to the bedroom and told me that BuzzFeed had published our memos: The so-called “dossier” on  —  .  —  It was the night of January 10, 2017.  The publication of the news story …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Oklahoma shifts Bible rules after accusations of pro-Trump bias, but will schools comply?  —  Oklahoma is shifting its requirements for which Bibles will be put in classrooms in the face of criticism that it was essentially feeding the contract to former President Trump …
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Citing omelets and chili, justices seem likely to uphold ghost gun rules  —  A majority of Supreme Court justices seem skeptical the government overstepped in requiring serial numbers and background checks for ghost guns  —  The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a major gun regulation imposed …
emptywheel:
Disaster Disinformation Is This Year's John Podesta Emails  —  I've already focused on these three paragraphs, but want to return to them.  They're from NYT's article anticipating how the apparently tied race will roll out in the next 30 (now 28) days.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. Scott Perry Went From Hailing Project 2025 To Knowing Nothing About It  —  “I don't even know how many pages it is,” the Pennsylvania Republican told a constituent, a month after praising the far-right policy roadmap for its “accountability.”  —  LOADING
Discussion: Meidas+
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DeSantis Threatening Jail Time for Running Abortion Rights Ads in Florida  —  Florida has become the state where elements of a future, second-Trump-presidency America already come into view.  We're seeing some of these things happening right now in Florida.  The example I'm about to share with you legitimately shocked me.
 
 
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
What Will Happen If Trump Wins the 2024 Election?
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
The latest union snub for Harris and Walz underscores a bigger problem for their campaign
Tatyana Tandanpolie / Salon:
Expert: Analysis shows Trump tax plan “taking money” from bottom 95% and “giving it” to richest 5%
Discussion: ITEP
Joan Biskupic / CNN:
John Roberts remains confounded by Donald Trump as election approaches
Discussion: Above the Law and Alternet.org
Azeen Ghorayshi / New York Times:
3% of American High Schoolers Identify as Transgender, First National Survey Finds
Alex Nguyen / Mother Jones:
Report: Mark Robinson Skips Vote on Hurricane Helene Support—Again
Discussion: Climate Desk and Alternet.org
 Earlier Items: 
SiriusXM:
Watch and Listen to Kamala Harris' Full Interview with Howard Stern
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Inside a Harris Ad in Which Ex-Trump Aides Blast Him as Unfit for Office
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump and Republicans Bet Big on Anti-Trans Ads Across the Country
Discussion: Semafor and NBC News
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
Doug Emhoff was a foul-mouthed ‘a**hole’ and ‘misogynist’ who hired a ‘trophy secretary’ because she was ‘pretty’ and 'retaliated against women who didn't flirt …
Kathryn Wilkens / Mediaite:
CNN's Chris Wallace on Why He Left Fox News: I Have A Problem With ‘Conspiracy and Lies’
Discussion: The Hill, Associated Press and HuffPost
Associated Press:
A former aide to New York Mayor Eric Adams is charged with destroying evidence as top deputy quits