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10:00 PM ET, October 17, 2024

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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Harris's Harsh Takedown of Fox's Bret Baier Exposes MAGA's Biggest Lie  —  Judging by the video that Kamala Harris's campaign is circulating, her aides are pleased with one particular exchange during her interview with Fox News's Bret Baier.  In it, Harris dressed down Baier for playing video …
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Axios:
Scoop: Former GOP Rep. Charlie Dent voted for Kamala Harris … - Some are going as far as to actively campaign for Harris, with former Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) appearing with the vice president at a rally in the key battleground of Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Even Fox News's Bret Baier Admits Harris Outsmarted Him in Interview  —  Fox News's Brett Baier went on the offensive during an interview with Kamala Harris Wednesday night, but even he had to admit she got the best of him.  —  In a segment reacting to his own contentious interview …
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Fox News's interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism  —  Brett Baier interrupted Harris so much she could barely finish a sentence.  She still injected some reality into Fox News's world  —  Bret Baier started off his Wednesday evening interview with Kamala Harris …
Kevin Manahan / New Jersey Online:
Fox News anchor Bret Baier admits Kamala Harris did damage to Trump: ‘She was on a mission’
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Arrived for a Fox Interview. She Got a Debate.
Mark McKinnon / Vanity Fair:   This Race Is Kamala Harris's to Lose. Here's Why.
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Death of Yahya Sinwar  —  Early this morning, Israeli authorities informed my national security team that a mission they conducted in Gaza likely killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.  DNA tests have now confirmed that Sinwar is dead.
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Associated Press:
Israel confirms Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in Gaza  —  Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas' top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year's attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday.  Troops appeared to have run across him in a battle …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Biden tells Netanyahu it's time to end Gaza war after Sinwar's elimination
Michael Collins / USA Today:
Yahya Sinwar is dead. What we know about death of Hamas leader behind Oct. 7 attacks
The Times of Israel:
Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar killed by IDF troops in Gaza
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Biden tells Obama 'she's not as strong as me' — and ex-prez agrees 'that's true' at Ethel Kennedy service  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden griped to former President Barack Obama that “she” is “not as strong as me” — with Obama agreeing “that's true” — in a stunning off-mic conversation deciphered …
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump's Meandering Speeches Motivate His Critics and Worry His Allies  —  Some advisers and allies of former President Donald J. Trump are concerned about his scattershot style on the campaign trail as he continues to veer off script.  —  In the final weeks of the 2020 election …
Discussion: Alternet.org and Mediaite
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
McConnell called Trump 'stupid" and ‘despicable’ in private after the 2020 election, a new book says  —  Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist,” …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Google will block election ads after polls close … - Google is implementing the policy “out of an abundance of caution and to limit the potential for confusion, given the likelihood that votes will continue to be counted after Election Day,” per a spokesperson.
Discussion: IJR, more at Mediagazer »
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Google to block election ads after polls close on Election Day
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Trump assassination suspect demands Judge Cannon recuse from case  —  Ryan Routh, the man charged with attempting to assassinate former President Trump at his Florida golf course last month, asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday to recuse herself from the case because Trump appointed …
Discussion: ABC News, Politico, RedState, IJR and KDFX-TV
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Donald Trump's other mental health problem that we're not talking about  —  Donald Trump may be running again for the presidency, but some days on the campaign trail it feels like he's minoring in psychology.  At a rally Monday night in Atlanta, the GOP nominee added Black and Latino voters …
NBC News:
Texas AG sues doctor who allegedly provided transgender care to 21 minors  —  The suit is the first by an attorney general against an individual doctor for allegedly violating a restriction on gender-affirming care for minors.  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a Dallas doctor Thursday accusing …
Adam Van Brimmer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump NRA rally in Savannah canceled  —  Former president was to make second visit to coastal Georgia city in less than a month for ‘Defend the 2nd’ event at Savannah Convention Center  —  SAVANNAH ― The National Rifle Association on Thursday canceled an Oct. 22 rally featuring …
David French / New York Times:
Let's Take the Republican Policy Challenge  —  If you live in Red America, as I do, you're familiar with two conceptually incompatible arguments for Donald Trump.  We'll call them the MAGA argument and the Republican argument.  —  The MAGA argument can be summed up in three words: Burn it down.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jackie Llanos / Florida Phoenix:
U.S. judge blocks DeSantis admin's threats to broadcasters over Amendment 4 ads  —  Update: A federal judge temporarily barred the DeSantis administration from intimidating and coercing television stations that air ads in support of the proposed Amendment 4, which would bar government interference in abortion.
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Ruben, Kate Gallego's divorce records unsealed.  Here's what is in them  —  (This story was updated to add new information.)  —  U.S. Senate candidate Ruben Gallego filed suit to end his marriage with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego just before she gave birth to their son and sought to keep …
David Strom / HotAir:
META/Facebook Engineer Admits That Company Is Rigging the Election  —  James O'Keefe strikes again.  —  At this rate, lefties are going to quit dating people since the technique he uses is the “honeypot” in which people open up on what they assume are legitimate dates.
Adam Wren / Politico:
Vance requested first-class flights and speaking fees up to $40,000 on 2017 book tour  —  JD Vance requested first-class flights, private cars and speaking fees as high as $40,000 from Midwestern public universities during his 2017 book tour — with one university breaking off negotiations for a campus visit in part over the fee.
Discussion: RedState and Twitchy
Ivan Pereira / ABC News:
Trump lashes out at Harris for missing traditional NYC Catholic charity event  —  The Alfred E. Smith dinner has hosted presidential candidates since 1960.  —  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and others listen as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during …
Katie Clancy / Center for American Rights:
CBS Accused of News Distortion in Vice President Kamala Harris Interview — Center for American Rights Files Formal FCC Complaint  —  The Center for American Rights (CAR) has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against WCBS-TV, a CBS-owned station …
Kimberly Atkins Stohr / The Boston Globe:
Trump's decline is too dangerous to ignore  —  We can see the decline in the former president's ability to hold a train of thought, speak coherently, or demonstrate a command of the English language, to say nothing of policy.  So why are Republicans and the press holding Trump to a different standard than Biden?
 
 
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Dems use cardboard cutouts to mock Virginia candidate over viral ‘fake family’ photo
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michigan judge says RNC suit challenging overseas voters could ‘disenfranchise an entire group of citizens’
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Mattis Told Woodward He Agreed Trump Was a Uniquely Dangerous Threat
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Trump suggests Zelenskyy is to blame for the Russia-Ukraine war
Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Teen suspect and his father indicted in Georgia school shooting
New York Times:
Inside the Secretive $700 Million Ad-Testing Factory for Kamala Harris
Discussion: Raw Story
Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
JD Vance Spreads Election Lie, Press Makes it Worse
Mary Ann Akers / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Cancels Second Mainstream Interview in Days
Discussion: New Republic, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
 

 
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