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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Judge imposes sweeping emergency order halting DOJ pressure campaign on election officials — Federal agencies Voting rights Election security — A federal judge imposed a sweeping emergency order halting various aggressive tactics employed by the Trump administration in recent days to pressure election officials across the country.
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Politico:
Judge orders DOJ to stop threatening to prosecute election officials — A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to stop threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution over their handling of disputes about voter qualifications.
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Politico:
DOJ dangles legal threats over state election officials days before the midterms — The Department of Justice on Thursday sent letters to elections officials in multiple states threatening potential prosecution if they fail to preserve election records, an unusually aggressive posture toward …
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Gary Grumbach / NBC News:
Judge orders Trump administration to stop threatening election officials with criminal charges
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Andrew Pantazi / Axios:
Judge blocks DOJ from threatening election workers before midterms
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Inside Trump's Dark Plot to Keep Senate in GOP Hands Even If Dems Win — On Thursday night, the Republican governor of Alaska refused to commit to certifying the outcome in the Senate race if Democrat Mary Peltola wins. Which means that if she does triumph, refusing to seat Peltola …
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Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
The New York Times invents a Democratic scandal while ignoring a new Trump rape allegation — America is four days out from the end of an election in which America's deeply unpopular fascist ruling party is trying to retain control of Congress. The week began with yet another new rape allegation …
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CNBC:
Trump rallies in Kansas and Iowa are back on after RNC said they were canceled: Source … President Donald Trump will host campaign rallies in Iowa and Kansas after all, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC on Friday, hours after the Republican Party said those events would be scrapped in lieu of a series of tele-rallies.
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CBS News:
Why Trump is spending time campaigning in deep red Florida — President Trump is set to appear at rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Friday night. This also comes after Mr. Trump reversed course on his decision to cancel upcoming weekend rallies in Kansas and Iowa. CBS News correspondent Cristian Benavides reports.
Ayah Ali-Ahmad / The Washington Sun:
Trump Says Donalds and Moody Called to Ask Him to Approve Florida Hurricane Funding
Rena Rowe / Washington Examiner:
WATCH LIVE: Trump holds rally in Daytona Beach
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Politico:
El-Sayed campaign wants Stevens to stay away after day of back-and-forth sniping — Michigan's Democratic coalition is fragmenting in real time days before a critical Senate election. — After it seemed like former primary rivals Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens might finally appear together …
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Isaac Schorr / New York Post:
The soul of the Democratic Party is on the line in Michigan
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New York Times:
Alina Habba's Husband Ignited a White House Drama. Now His Background Is Under Scrutiny. — Turhan Mildon, who married Alina Habba this summer, presents himself as a 29-year-old billionaire with ties to global leaders. His story has inconsistencies. — President Trump's former lawyer …
New York Times:
Obamacare Policies Hit Again With Steep Premium Increases for 2027 — Premiums will increase an average 13 percent next year for millions of Americans, on top of an earlier steep increase. It adds to the problems facing the program, which the Trump administration has weakened.
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Jonah Kaplan / CBS News:
Daniel J. Sullivan left his Alaska hometown before Senate election, sources say — Petersburg, Alaska — Daniel J. Sullivan, the independent candidate running for Senate in Alaska whose name is almost identical to the Republican senator running for reelection, left his hometown of Petersburg earlier …
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Kendall Staton / The Washington Sun:
Trump Lawyers Call His Arch a High Priority. Some Veterans Call It Disrespectful. — Michael Lemmon didn't get a celebratory welcome back to D.C. when he returned from the Vietnam War in 1970. He still grapples with how that felt, even 56 years later. — He often visits Arlington …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge weighs blocking construction of Trump's triumphal arch
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Euronews:
Polish president turns back mid-flight amid court ‘coup d’état' claims — Police were deployed outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal following security warnings. Tribunal President Bogdan Święczkowski was suspended from his duties, while Polish President Karol Nawrocki cut short his trip to Senegal.
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New York Times:
U.S. to Send Dozens Back to Afghanistan, Despite Risk of Persecution — The Trump administration plans to fly the Afghan immigrants from Louisiana to Pakistan, where they are expected to be expelled over the border to Afghanistan. — The Trump administration has detained dozens …
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Taylor Goldenstein / The Texas Tribune:
Rick Perry loses reelection to board of Fermi, the data center company he co-founded — Fermi, slated to build the largest data center and power generation campus in the U.S., has had a tumultuous first couple years including a turbulent ownership battle between Perry and his co-founder Toby Neugebauer.
Blake Paterson / Perdido Street:
Louisiana Senate contest is a tossup, poll finds — GOP Congresswoman Julia Letlow and Democrat Jamie Davis were tied in a poll released by the Davis campaign Friday — New poll shows GOP Rep. Julie Letlow (left) and Democrat Jamie Davis (right) tied in Senate contest
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Felicia Schwartz / MS NOW:
Trump plans to resume strikes on Iran day after midterm elections — President Donald Trump is planning to resume strikes on Iran after the midterm elections, with his domestic political power set to wane during his final two years in office, and his attention expected to shift to foreign policy.
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Ford McCracken / The Hill:
Bessent alleges anti-fraud guardrails are ‘loosest’ in blue states — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Democratic-led states Friday of having poor fraud prevention mechanisms while at a Minnesota press conference. — The state has been at the center of a healthcare fraud scandal …
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Lauren Windsor / The Alaska Current:
EXCLUSIVE: Data center utility execs maxed out donations to Dan Sullivan — Within a nine-day period last spring, executives tied to a data center utility investor with major public projects in the Arctic dumped more than $50,000 into Alaska's tightly contested US Senate race between Republican …
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Elon Musk Made Off With $16 Billion of Taxpayer Money — Did you know that there's a law barring federal contractors from making campaign contributions to a political party, committee, or candidate for federal office? Don't feel bad if you don't, because neither, it seems, does Elon Musk.
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Ro Khanna backs challengers to three fellow House Dems — Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is endorsing a trio of insurgent Democratic candidates who are challenging his fellow California House Democrats, Axios has learned. … - He has backed members of the progressive “Bloc” …
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Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Prediction Markets Face Their Biggest Accuracy Test Yet: The Midterms — As polls closed in Brazil last week, online bettors appeared convinced that Flávio Bolsonaro would become president, placing his odds of winning around 80 percent. — They were wrong.
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Reuters:
Russia's Lavrov says inviting Poland to attend G20 meeting breaks diplomatic rules — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Friday that inviting Poland to attend G20 meetings was counter-productive and broke with diplomatic practice of seeking consensus at such gatherings.
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Politico:
Carney says he can wait out Trump for trade deal — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that if his government could not successfully negotiate a suitable trade pact with the Trump administration, he was prepared to wait for a new American president to close the deal.
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Jackie Llanos / The Washington Sun:
Appeals Court Keeps Restrictions on DHS's Door-Knocking Voter Investigations — A federal appellate court on Friday upheld a lower court order that restricted Department of Homeland Security agents from door-knocking at homes of citizens as part of the preelection voter fraud probe in nine states.
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