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New York Times:
Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally — Bret Stephens: Please don't tell me you're going to ask how I'm going to vote. — Gail Collins: Well, Bret, why would you imagine such a thing? Just because I keep getting stopped by people on the street, demanding to know whether you're going to support Kamala Harris.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Harris leads Trump 2-1 among the earliest voters, many driven by abortion access: new poll — Democrat Kamala Harris has a sweeping lead over Republican Donald Trump − among voters who have already cast their ballots, that is. — A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows …
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New York Times, The Mahablog, The Texas Tribune and Washington Times
CBS News:
“Election protection” activist says he plans to flag voters with “Hispanic-sounding” names as “suspicious” — In a video obtained by CBS News, the leader of an “election protection” activist group of 1,800 volunteers in North Carolina is seen instructing attendees at a virtual meeting to flag voters with …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“I started to learn what patriarchy was”: How Donald Trump pushed Republican women out of the GOP — Former Republican women explain why they finally broke with Trump: “I was ashamed” — PHILADELPHIA — Melanie Barton-Gauss, a retired teacher from Florida, traveled to the City of Brotherly Love …
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Raw Story
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Republicans set stage for PA vote counting shenanigans
Republicans set stage for PA vote counting shenanigans
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Cardinal News, Spotlight PA and Bloomberg
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
NYT's Bret Stephens explains why he's backing Harris
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls
Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls
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Raw Story
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
What Would the Trump Campaign Plans Mean for Social Security? — The Social Security trust funds will be insolvent by Fiscal Year (FY) 2034, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), at which point the law calls for a 23 percent cut in benefits.
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Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post:
Trump proposals could drain Social Security in 6 years, budget group says — The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget predicts many of Trump's policies could hasten the looming depletion of the Social Security Trust Fund. — A new report projects that the Social Security Trust Fund might run …
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
McDonald's Donald Trump Worked at Failed Last Health Inspection — briefly worked on Sunday failed its last health inspection, documents show. — and served takeout to people in the drive-thru lane in Feasterville-Trevose in Bucks County, a key swing voter area in battleground Pennsylvania.
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Piers Morgan / New York Post:
Trump's genius McDonald's stunt will fry Kamala at the ballot box
Trump's genius McDonald's stunt will fry Kamala at the ballot box
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Washington Post:
Trump serves McDonald's fries to supporters in stage-managed campaign stop
Trump serves McDonald's fries to supporters in stage-managed campaign stop
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Washington Post:
Harris and Trump locked in dead heat in seven-state poll, with some voters still deciding — Former president Donald Trump shows strength in Arizona while Vice President Kamala Harris runs strongest in Georgia, according to a Post-Schar School survey.
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John Della Volpe / New York Times:
Trump's Bro-Whispering Could Cost Democrats Too Many Young Men
Trump's Bro-Whispering Could Cost Democrats Too Many Young Men
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American Prospect, Raw Story and No More Mister Nice Blog
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
State of the Race: A Slight Shift Toward Trump but Still No Clear Favorite
State of the Race: A Slight Shift Toward Trump but Still No Clear Favorite
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Oregonian, Reason, The Hill, New Jersey Online and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Viral attack on Walz features fake former student making false claim — Hawaii man who attended a school where Walz taught — but says they never met — was dismayed to see person in video using his name to make a false allegation against the vice presidential candidate — Using a stolen identity to attack Tim Walz
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Raw Story
Tom D'Angelo / Palm Beach Post:
Arnold Palmer's daughter on what he would think of Donald Trump today: 'I think he'd cringe' — Donald Trump's opening at his rally Saturday in Latrobe, Pa., birthplace of the late Arnold Palmer, was a boast about how close he was to the legendary golfer. — But that relationship …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Fear and loathing in Latrobe: Freedom, tyranny, and Arnold Palmer's private parts — LATROBE, Pa. — When fascism finally went mainstream in America, it came hawking a $60 made-in-China Bible and shadowed by a 50-foot American flag braced by construction cranes — and it opened with a story …
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Forbes, McSweeney's, Daily Kos, Global News and The Daily Beast
Deidre McPhillips / CNN:
Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows — In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows.
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Los Angeles Times
Sarah Rainsford / BBC:
Moldova says ‘Yes’ to pro-EU constitutional changes by tiny margin — BBC Eastern Europe correspondent, Chisinau — People in Moldova have backed the Eastern European country's proposed changes to its constitution and commitment to joining the EU by the thinnest of margins in a referendum.
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Michael Kransz / MLive.com:
Gerald Ford's daughter endorses Kamala Harris for president — GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The daughter of Michigan's only president, Gerald R. Ford, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.The youngest child of the late Republican president, Susan Ford Bales, issued the endorsement Monday, Oct. 21 …
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The Hill
Steven Shepard / Politico:
He Runs Fox News' Decision Desk. Here's How He Sees Election Night Coming. — In a new interview, Arnon Mishkin opens up about controversial election calls and makes some predictions for what's to come. — Arnon Mishkin poses for a photo at the Fox News headquarters on Oct. 16 in New York.
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Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Faces Defamation Suit From Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ — Trump is sued over comments he made in presidential debate — Five teenagers wrongfully convicted in 1989 jogger rape case — Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit over comments he made during …
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NBC News:
Israel strikes banks across Lebanon to hit Hezbollah's finances; IDF making life ‘impossible’ in northern Gaza, U.N. says — Secretary of State Antony Blinken was heading to the Middle East on Monday to push for a diplomatic solution to the intensifying regional conflict after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen's civil rights claim against Trump — The justices turned away Cohen's appeal over his claim that Trump and other officials put him in solitary confinement in order to silence him. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen's …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The thin veneer over Trump's fascistic rhetoric — The former president knows what he's not supposed to say, but he often can't help saying it anyway. — Former president Donald Trump participated in an interview that aired on Fox News on Sunday. If so inclined, as many Fox News viewers presumably …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
TD Bank executives oversee $670 million drug money laundering scheme, avoid jail — On March 7, 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaking at the American Bar Association's 39th Annual White Collar Institute, gave an impassioned soliloquy on the importance of criminally prosecuting …
Joanne Haner / The Hill:
Biden to honor Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Ken Burns with National Medals of Arts — President Biden will present the 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts (NEA) on Monday to a group that includes rapper Melissa “Missy” Elliot, the film directors Steven Spielberg and Spike Lee …
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National Endowment …, National Endowment … and UPI
USA Today:
Nebraska independent Dan Osborn could be poised to shake up U.S. Senate — Former union leader Dan Osborn's independent run for U.S. Senate in deeply Republican Nebraska has shown unexpected strength and if he pulls off an upset victory, it could make the Navy veteran a Washington wild card next year.
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The Hill, Semafor and Washington Examiner