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Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal:
A Mystery $30 Million Wave of Pro-Trump Bets Has Moved a Popular Prediction Market  —  Four Polymarket accounts have systematically placed frequent wagers on a Trump election victory  —  Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck and neck in the polls.
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Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump cancels a streak of events with only days until election … - Vice President Kamala Harris, on the other hand, has been on a media blitz after enduring criticism from Republicans about a perceived lack of interviews.  — And while Harris has ventured into the unfriendly territory …
Politico:
Playbook: Trump's media backout  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  A ONE-TWO PUNCH — With 18 days left until Election Day, VP KAMALA HARRIS will be hitting the road with the two most popular members of her party: BARACK and MICHELLE OBAMA.
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Critics Slam Al Smith Charity Dinner For Normalizing ‘Deranged Madman’ Donald Trump  —  Critics didn't find the former president's attendance at the white-tie event funny, with emcee Jim Gaffigan drawing ire too.  —  LOADING  —  Critics condemned the appearance of Donald Trump …
Griffin Eckstein / Salon:
“I did make a mistake”: Baier apologizes for playing edited Trump clip in Harris interview  —  The Fox News anchor's deceptive video clip left out Trump's remarks about “enemies from within”  —  Fox News anchor Bret Baier is apologizing for playing a misleadingly edited clip in an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
An ‘exhausted’ Trump says no to another interview  —  Recently, it's become something of a pattern: Donald Trump is scheduled for an interview with a neutral media outlet, the date nears and then ... things fall apart.  It happened just this week to planned Trump sit-downs with NBC in Philadelphia and CNBC's …
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump ‘Exhausted and Refusing Interviews’: Report  —  NAP TIME  —  A campaign adviser suggested The Shade Report interview Waka Flocka Flame instead of Trump.  —  Former President Donald Trump is “exhausted and refusing interviews,” a campaign adviser reportedly told producers at the pop culture news site The Shade Report.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Independent
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Univision Town Hall Participants Unimpressed With ‘Arrogant’ Trump  —  Participants in the event expressed frustration with the former president in interviews with Rolling Stone … Three participants in the event expressed their frustration over Trump's failure to answer them directly …
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Fox News disputes Trump's claim that its employees helped write his jokes  —  Donald Trump says Fox News employees helped him write his jokes for the Al Smith dinner.  Fox says that's fake news.  The former president, whose roast of Kamala Harris and other Democrats at Thursday's Al Smith dinner pulled …
Nicholas Liu / Salon:
“Horrible mess”: Trump called out for “ungodly” profanity-laced tirade at Catholic event
Discussion: Megyn Kelly and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump delivers profanity, below-the-belt digs at Catholic charity banquet
Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
Former GOP adviser: White House race is Harris's to lose
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CBS News:
Judge in Trump 2020 election case unseals more evidence from special counsel  —  The judge overseeing President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case released more evidence collected by special counsel Jack Smith on Friday, unveiling an enormous batch of heavily redacted records.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Turns out we'll see a big Jack Smith document dump before the election
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini  —  To support The Atlantic's journalism, please consider subscribing today.  —  Rhetoric has a history.  The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers became important in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Discussion: Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
New York Times:
How Silicon Valley Billionaires Became Trump's Biggest Donors … Last February, the billionaire financier Nelson Peltz summoned a group of about 20 wealthy, predominantly Republican donors and a handful of G.O.P. strategists to dinner at his $334 million waterfront estate in Palm Beach …
Discussion: The Guardian and Forbes
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
How Republican Billionaires Learned to Love Trump Again
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages  —  An Elon Musk-funded group called Future Coalition PAC is targeting Muslim voters in Michigan and Jewish voters in Pennsylvania with diametrically opposed political advertisements about Kamala Harris.
Discussion: The Independent
Ryan Nobles / NBC News:
Trump overcharged Secret Service agents to stay at his D.C. hotel, new Democratic report says  —  Then-President Donald Trump also benefited from U.S. officials and others seeking jobs and pardons who paid for stays at his downtown Washington hotel, House Democrats allege.
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Trump hotel overcharged Secret Service, report by House Democrats finds
Discussion: CBS News, PoliticusUSA and Joe.My.God.
Emilio Casalicchio / Politico:
Republicans livid UK Labour staffers will stump for Harris  —  Republicans and mini-MAGA Brits are flipping their lids after a U.K. Labour aide let slip almost 100 political foot soldiers from the governing party in Britain are preparing to jet to the U.S. to knock doors for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.
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Mary Claire Evans / Gallup:
Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago  —  Economic Confidence Index remains negative at -26  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than half of Americans (52%) say they and their family are worse off today than they were four years ago, while 39% say they are better off and 8% volunteer that they are about the same.
Public Notice:
Julian Zelizer on Trump's increasingly dire rhetoric  —  “He doesn't even really use code words or anything.  He's just all in.”  —  ∙ Paid … In the closing days of the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump is talking a lot about “the enemy within.”  He's threatened to deploy the US military against his domestic political foes.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's hysterical closing argument: Save the cows!  —  Among the beefs I have with his prophecies for a Harris administration: They aren't even original.  —  They're eating the dogs.  They're eating the cats.  And now, they're banning the cows.  —  Or so says Donald Trump.  No bull!
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's talk of tariffs, like the wall, puts punishment over policy  —  And, like the wall, he'll push to ensure that some version of his proposal gets implemented.  —  Donald Trump has long argued that he avoids policy specifics because it limits his ability to negotiate.
Liz Goodwin / Washington Post:
Montana ranger comes forward with account of Sheehy gun incident  —  Candidate says he was shot in Afghanistan; ranger witness to gun incident questions that account  —  Over 35 seasons working as a ranger in Glacier National Park, Kim Peach, 67, recalls only two incidents in which he responded …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
When the Top General in the U.S. Says You're ‘Fascist to the Core’  —  Toward the end of his tenure, Gen. Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023, told Bob Woodward of The Washington Post that Donald Trump was a fundamental threat to the safety and integrity of the United States.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Maybe if Trump spent less time selling shoes, he could afford more staff  —  Hardly anyone works for Trump's campaign, in part because the campaign is struggling to raise money.  —  On the lengthy menu of unusual aspects to Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, one item stands out …
Discussion: USA Today and NBC News
 
 
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Calder McHugh / Politico:
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Discussion: The Independent
Washington Post:
Trump, RFK vow to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ raising hopes and doubts
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Rick Mayer / Health News Florida:
Judge orders state to end threats against TV stations: 'It's the First Amendment, stupid'
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's age finally catches up with him
Discussion: Mediaite
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 17, 2024  —  In a new rule released yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission requires sellers …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump says Fox shouldn't air negative ads
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Corey Walker / Washington Examiner:
Harris's pandering to black men won't work
Discussion: NBC News
Washington Post:
Trump has vowed to gut climate rules. Oil lobbyists have a plan ready.
ProPublica:
JD Vance Campaign Event With Christian Right Leaders May Have Violated Tax and Election Laws, Experts Say
 

 
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CNBC:
Comcast confirms plans to spin off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks, including MSNBC and CNBC, with Mark Lazarus as CEO; the separation may take about a year

James Warrington / Telegraph:
Almost 93% of 600 Guardian and Observer staff organized by the NUJ vote in favor of strike action over the proposed sale of The Observer to Tortoise

Kanis Leung / Associated Press:
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai testifies for the first time in his years-long national security trial; he is already serving a jail term for a fraud conviction
 
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