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2:45 PM ET, October 18, 2024

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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 …
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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Trump delivers profanity, below-the-belt digs at Catholic charity banquet
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's hysterical closing argument: Save the cows!
Discussion: Raw Story and New Republic
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump ‘Exhausted and Refusing Interviews’: Report
Discussion: Raw Story and The Independent
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Trump's age finally catches up with him
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Trump World in Talks With Haley for Eleventh-Hour Joint Campaign Event
Discussion: Semafor, Raw Story and The Hill
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.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump admits he's demanding Rupert Murdoch stop running ‘negative ads’ on Fox News
Stephanie Lai / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He's Meeting Murdoch, Will Ask to Curb Negative Ads
Discussion: Mediaite
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump says Fox shouldn't air negative ads
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
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.
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Business Insider:
Trump judge's latest release of Jan. 6. evidence was heavily redacted.  Here's what was included.  — A federal judge has released additional evidence against Donald Trump in his election interference case.  — The release follows a previously unsealed motion with new evidence against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith.
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
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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Tony Diver / Telegraph:
Labour activists campaigning for Kamala Harris in US ‘likely to break electoral law’
Discussion: New Republic and Guido Fawkes
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
UK Labour Party risks Trump ire with ill-judged Harris campaign effort
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
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 and Joe.My.God.
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
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
ProPublica:
JD Vance Campaign Event With Christian Right Leaders May Have Violated Tax and Election Laws, Experts Say  —  Ziklag and the Courage Tour, the far-right groups that hosted the Republican vice-presidential nominee, are charities that can't legally intervene in political campaigns.  —  Co-published with Documented
 
 
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 17, 2024  —  In a new rule released yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission requires sellers …
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Mary L. Trump / The Good in Us:
The Republican Candidate Knows Nothing
Discussion: Raw Story
Erin Reed / Erin In The Morning:
Tim Walz Defends Queer And Trans Youth At Length In Interview With Glennon Doyle
Corey Walker / Washington Examiner:
Harris's pandering to black men won't work
Discussion: NBC News
Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
Former GOP adviser: White House race is Harris's to lose
Washington Post:
Trump has vowed to gut climate rules. Oil lobbyists have a plan ready.
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Harris Will Campaign With the Obamas Next Week
John Hendel / Politico:
The DC bureaucrat who could deliver billions to Elon Musk
Discussion: Above the Law and Reuters
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When the Top General in the U.S. Says You're ‘Fascist to the Core’
 

 
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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:
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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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