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Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk's Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin — Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters — Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts …
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Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg:
Putin Says Russia Won't Make Concessions to End War on Ukraine
Putin Says Russia Won't Make Concessions to End War on Ukraine
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CBS News, Atlantic Council, The Hill, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Breitbart and Politico
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Ex-Trump aides emerge to back Kelly's harsh warnings — The letter from former White House officials comes as Harris is leaning into her closing argument that Trump is a threat to democracy. — More than a dozen former Trump administration officials on Friday came out in support of former chief …
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The Hill, NBC News, Alternet.org, The Independent, Raw Story and New York Times
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
The double standard for Harris and Trump has reached a breaking point — One candidate can rant about gibberish while the other has to be perfect. — Something is wrong with this split-screen picture. On one side, former president Donald Trump rants about mass deportations and claims to have stopped …
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The Guardian, BizPac Review, Democrats, USA Today, The Hill, Vanity Fair, Off Message, IJR, CBS News, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Independent, HuffPost and Ned Hamson's Second Line View …
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
13 former Trump administration officials sign open letter backing up John Kelly's criticism of Trump — Kelly told the New York Times that Trump meets the definition of a fascist and also said he observed the former president on multiple occasions praising Adolf Hitler.
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New York Times, HuffPost, Washington Post, Politico, New Jersey Online, Alternet.org, The Daily Caller, USA Today and Washington Times
Joanne Haner / The Hill:
Half in new survey view Trump as fascist — Nearly half of Americans say they view former President Trump as a fascist, according to a recent survey. — The ABC News/Ipsos poll, released Friday, defined a fascist as “a political extremist who seeks to act as a dictator …
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Trump praises Hitler. ADL remains silent.
Trump praises Hitler. ADL remains silent.
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Waddy Is Right, The Independent, PolitiFact, Media Matters for America, HuffPost, The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali and Axios
Jordan King / Newsweek:
Donald Trump's McDonald's Shift Went Down Best With Gen Z
Donald Trump's McDonald's Shift Went Down Best With Gen Z
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Twitchy, HotAir, Blaze Media and acecomments.mu.nu
New York Times:
Harris and Trump Deadlocked to the End, Final Times/Siena National Poll Finds — The electorate has rarely seemed so evenly divided. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll found Harris and Trump tied 48 to 48. — Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump are locked in a dead heat for the popular vote …
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The Hill, USA Today, Fox News, New Jersey Online, Forbes, Daily Mail, New York Post and Siena College Research …
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Christian Paz / Vox:
Polls say voters back “mass deportation.” That's misleading. — This spring, an eye-opening poll from Axios suggested what once seemed unthinkable: Four in 10 Democrats were open to the idea of the US government deporting undocumented immigrants en masse.
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Weekend Reading and The National Pulse
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
‘Big lie’ 2.0: How Trump's false claims about noncitizens voting laid the groundwork to undermine the election — In 2020, Donald Trump and his backers tossed out an array of false election interference allegations. Republicans now have a sharper focus. — The “big lie” of the 2024 election is being workshopped on Webex.
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ABC News, The 19th, Iowa Capital Dispatch and Issue One
Politico:
Playbook: Normal Trump vs. Dangerous Trump — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — THE POLL WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR — “Harris and Trump Deadlocked to the End, Final Times/Siena National Poll Finds,” by NYT's Adam Nagourney and Ruth Igielnik …
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Harris continued to heavily outraise and outspend Trump in early October
Harris continued to heavily outraise and outspend Trump in early October
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Forbes
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
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Ingrid Vasquez / People:
Former Model Alleges Donald Trump Groped Her After Being Introduced to Him By Jeffrey Epstein in 1993
Former Model Alleges Donald Trump Groped Her After Being Introduced to Him By Jeffrey Epstein in 1993
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The Guardian, CNN, PJ Media, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Daily Mail, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Deadline, al.com, LGBTQ Nation, New York Magazine, Global News, The Independent and New Republic
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Election Is Happening Too Soon — I had hoped this election would be a moment of national renewal. I had hoped that the Democrats could decisively defeat MAGA populism and send us down a new national path. — That's clearly not going to happen. No matter who wins this election …
KASW-TV:
Phoenix police ID suspect in arson of USPS mailbox that damaged ballots — PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A suspect has reportedly been taken into custody in connection with a fire in a United States Postal Service Collection Box in Phoenix overnight, which damaged over a dozen ballots inside.
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
Two More LA Times Editorial Writers Quit Over ‘Chickens—’ Owner's Block of Kamala Harris Endorsement | Exclusive — Karin Klein and Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Greene follow editorial editor Mariel Garza, who resigned Wednesday — The Los Angeles Times has lost two more longtime editorial writers …
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Status, Semafor, Adweek and HotAir, more at Mediagazer »
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New York Post:
The Post endorses Donald Trump for president — the clear choice for a better future — Voters carry a heavy responsibility in this election — one of the most consequential in the history of this great nation. — The choice will have reverberations for decades, deciding …
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RedState
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Bluesky:
Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users — Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we've shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video. We're excited to announce that we've raised a $15 million Series …
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Music Ally, Fortune, jwz, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian:
Tucker Carlson is fantasizing about Daddy Donald Trump spanking teenage girls — The former Fox host once said he hated the ex-president. Now his display of serious daddy issues is striking a terrifying chord — Welcome to another normal day in Magaland.
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Salon, Washington Post, Alternet.org, New Republic, The Daily Beast, USA Today, Raw Story, Boing Boing, Vanity Fair, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, New York Times, New Jersey Online, The Independent, RedState, BizPac Review, New York Daily News, Mediaite, CNN, The Hill, HuffPost and The Wrap
Washington Post:
Satellite images show major expansion at Russian site with secret bioweapons past — New construction at a military research site near Moscow reveals a specialized laboratory complex designed to research and handle deadly pathogens, experts say. — Sorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time.
Wall Street Journal:
Harris Struggles to Distinguish Candidacy From Biden — Majority of voters say Democratic presidential candidate would largely continue the unpopular incumbent's approach and policies — WASHINGTON—Vice President Kamala Harris has presented herself as the candidate who will help the nation …
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Twitchy
Wall Street Journal:
Playing the Führer Card — Senate Democrats associate with a man fellow Democrats claim is like Adolf Hitler. — Is Sen. Bob Casey a closet fan of Adolf Hitler? How about Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin? We ask because both Senate Democrats are running ads as part of their re-election campaigns …
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RedState, Loomered, The American Spectator and Twitchy
Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
Trump calls in to Vance town hall on NewsNation, asks ‘How brilliant is Donald J. Trump?’ — Former President Trump phoned in to NewsNation's town hall featuring his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), on Thursday night to ask what he called “quite an interesting” question.
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Louder With Crowder, HuffPost, IJR, The Independent, New York Times, The Wrap, Washington Examiner and NewsNation
Washington Post:
Trump alumni warn he could deploy troops against Americans — “It's not the American way,” said his former chief of staff, John Kelly. — As protests swept the nation after the murder of George Floyd and some rioting broke out in Washington, President Donald Trump demanded in a White House meeting …
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Reuters and The Korea Herald
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Elon Musk dropped eight figures to help GOP retake Senate — Tech CEO Elon Musk dropped major money to help Republicans take back the Senate this month. Musk gave $10 million to the Mitch McConnell-linked Senate Leadership Fund on Oct 1., according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday.
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Forbes, Bloomberg and New York Times
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Montana Senate candidate says he was ‘medically discharged’ from the Navy. Records say otherwise. — The disclosure comes as Tim Sheehy was already facing scrutiny for questionable claims he has made about his military career. — Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL running for the Senate in Montana …
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Raw Story and Daily Montanan
Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
CDC recommends second COVID vaccine dose for those 65 and older — Immunocompromised adults or those who are older than 65 should get a second dose of the latest COVID-19 vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended. — The CDC on Wednesday adopted …
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CBS News, New York Times, CDC Newsroom and Mercury News
Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press:
County judge strikes down Ohio abortion ban, citing voter-approved reproductive rights amendment — The most far-reaching of Ohio's laws restricting abortion was struck down on Thursday by a county judge who said last year's voter-approved amendment enshrining reproductive rights renders the so-called heartbeat law unconstitutional.
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North Dakota Monitor, The Hill, Ohio Capital Journal and Plain Dealer