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9:50 PM ET, October 26, 2016

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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Watch Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star Get Destroyed  —  EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Donald Trump's star on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed early Wednesday morning by a man dressed as a city construction worker wielding a sledgehammer and pick-ax.
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star Vandalized By Sledgehammer  —  EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump took a lot of hits today and not just in the Presidential race.  With less than two-weeks to go before America decides if the ex-Apprentice host will pull off a surprise victory over Hillary Clinton …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Former congressman says he will literally engage in armed rebellion if Trump loses  —  He's suggesting actual treason.  —  Joe Walsh, who was a United States congressman from 2011 until 2013, declared on Wednesday afternoon that he will take up arms if Donald Trump is not elected to the presidency.
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Gary Johnson for President:
STATEMENT BY GOV. BILL WELD REGARDING THE FINAL WEEKS OF THIS ELECTION  —  Gov. Bill Weld delivered the following statement this afternoon at a press conference in Boston:  —  “It is a privilege and an honor to participate in this year's national election campaign.
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Bill Weld Wants a Seat at the Table
Discussion: Associated Press
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Libertarian VP Candidate Admits Defeat, Tells Voters To Pick Clinton Over Trump
Discussion: AOL and Gary Johnson for President
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Megyn Kelly Seeks Salary North of $20 Million in Contract Talks With Fox News  —  ‘The Kelly File’ host is in active negotiations; keeping her at the network is a priority for management, including Rupert Murdoch.  'It's up to her' and others ‘would give their right arm for her spot,’ he says.
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
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Brian Naylor / NPR:
WATCH: Megyn Kelly And Newt Gingrich Spar Over ‘Sexual Predators’
David Weigel / Washington Post:
House Republicans are already preparing for ‘years’ of investigations of Clinton  —  SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — Jason Chaffetz, the Utah congressman wrapping up his first term atop the powerful House Oversight Committee, un-endorsed Donald Trump weeks ago.  That freed up him to prepare for something else …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans in Congress Fear Losses, and Then the Hard Part.  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have come to grudgingly accept an unfolding reality: Things are not looking good.  —  Donald J. Trump is lagging in polls and pulling down the party's congressional candidates …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
Ilya Shapiro / The Federalist:
The Senate Should Refuse To Confirm All Of Hillary Clinton's Judicial Nominees  —  When Sen. John McCain said last week that he would work to block any Supreme Court nominee a president Hillary Clinton would name, it raised some eyebrows.  Republican senators pledged not to take up any nominee …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz: GOP may block Supreme Court nominees indefinitely  —  In a vintage return to his confrontational style, Sen. Ted Cruz indicated that Republicans could seek to block a Democratic president from filling the vacant Supreme Court seat indefinitely.  —  After staking his endorsement of Donald …
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:   Cruz Suggests Leaving Vacancy on Supreme Court
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
What the Right's Intellectuals Did Wrong  —  Every political movement in a democracy is shaped like a pyramid — elite actors on the top, the masses underneath.  But the pyramid that is modern American conservatism has always been misshapen, with a wide, squat base that tapers far too quickly at its peak.
Washington Post:
Inside ‘Bill Clinton Inc.’: Hacked memo reveals intersection of charity and personal income  —  When top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band wrote the memo, he was a central player at the Clinton Foundation and president of his own corporate consulting firm.  He made a case that his work had served …
Discussion: Politico
Ylan Q. Mui / Washington Post:
A Chinese billionaire is staking his legacy — and thousands of American jobs — on this factory in Ohio  —  MORAINE, OHIO — Shortly after his private plane landed in Ohio on a recent morning, the Chinese billionaire set off down Interstate 75 to inspect the factory on which he has staked …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Trump booster Alex Jones: I'm not anti-Semitic, but Jews run an evil conspiracy  —  Radio host Alex Jones is a big Trump fan — and Trump, for his part, has returned the favor.  In December, he went on Jones's show, telling the host, “your reputation is amazing” and promising him that “I will not let you down.”
Yashar Ali / The Daily Beast:
Jill Stein's Ideology Says One Thing—Her Investment Portfolio Says Another  —  Green Party Presidential Nominee Jill Stein has largely based her campaign on her uncompromising positions on the environment, opposition to big banks and Wall Street, defense contractors, and the pharmaceutical industry.
Amber Tamblyn / Glamour:
Amber Tamblyn: What My Mother's Experiences With Misogyny Mean for the Future  —  Somewhere between Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton a woman with “tremendous hate in her heart” and “a nasty woman,” I found myself making a phone call to my mother I was hoping I could avoid forever.
Dean Seal / Daily Progress:
Article presented ‘fictionalized version’ of events, former friends of ‘Jackie’ say … In the article that first exposed the world to her allegations of having been gang-raped by seven men in a fraternity house, three former friends of “Jackie” are described as coming to the then-freshman's aid …
Discussion: Hot Air and CBS Miami
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Polls tighten for Trump, Clinton  —  Polls are tightening in the presidential race with less than two weeks to go before Election Day.  —  Some new surveys show Democrat Hillary Clinton  —  's national polling edge narrowing and Republican Donald Trump  —  performing more strongly in the swing state of Florida.
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Donald Trump Says He'll Teach Military Expert ‘a Couple of Things’ About Mosul  —  Donald Trump went on the offensive against a military expert and former dean of the Army War College, Jeff McCausland, who said the Republican nominee's comments this weekend about the battle to reclaim Mosul …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Guardian
Fortune:
Fewer Than 1 in 4 Women Say They Would Buy Ivanka Trump's Clothes  —  #GrabYourWallets.  #Ivankant.  —  You may have seen these hashtags trending on your Twitter feed recently, thanks to a now two-week long boycott of Ivanka Trump-branded clothing—and the retailers that carry it.
Julie Sedivy / Politico:
Donald Trump Talks Like a Woman  —  In the 2016 presidential contest, there has been one thing that supporters and detractors of Donald Trump have agreed on.  The chest-pounding real estate mogul from New York has emerged as the quintessentially masculine candidate.
Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Althouse
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
What We Learned From Five Hours of Trump on Tape  —  Michael D'Antonio never planned to release the recordings of his interviews with Donald J. Trump.  The intimate conversations, which totaled five hours, were a research tool for his 2015 biography of the real estate mogul.  —  But something changed.
Discussion: Scripting News
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Trump Has 2-Point Edge in Bloomberg Politics Poll of Florida  —  In the U.S. Senate race, Republican incumbent Marco Rubio leads by 10 percentage points.  —  McCormickJohn  —  Donald Trump has a slim advantage in Florida as critical independent voters narrowly break his way in the must …
Matt Miller / Esquire:
Why Are Influential Celebrities Remaining Silent This Election?  —  From Taylor Swift to Mark Wahlberg.  —  In a normal election, many people would likely discredit a celebrity's endorsement of a presidential candidate as a meaningless gesture.  But when an election involves cruel insults hurled …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Clinton leads Trump by three points  —  With less than two weeks to go, the race for the White House has narrowed as Hillary Clinton now has a three-point advantage over Donald Trump.  —  That's within the margin of error of the national Fox News Poll of likely voters.
Matthew Sheffield / Salon:
Michael Moore: People will vote for Donald Trump as a giant “F**k you” — and he'll win  —  Forget the polls, boho-proletarian filmmaker tells movie audience: Trump's “legal terrorism” will win  —  Despite most indicators showing Donald Trump well behind his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: AOL and Mediaite
David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement:
Would Be Obama's 13th Veto  —  President Barack Obama is prepared to veto a crucial $600 billion annual defense spending bill if Republican lawmakers insist on including a controversial provision that would effectively void his executive orders banning anti-LGBT nondiscrimination.
Discussion: Towleroad
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Donald Trump Slams Hillary Clinton for Taking Time Off for Adele Concert  —  Donald Trump today blasted his critics for complaining that he is tending to business matters rather than his presidential campaign, arguing that Hillary Clinton takes time off the trail for less important matters.
Gerry Ricciutti / WKBN-TV:
Defendant says Jesus told him ‘to get the demons out’ of woman  —  AUSTINTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) - Things got heated in court Wednesday when a kidnapping and assault suspect started screaming about why he may have committed the crime he is accused of.  —  Christopher Hyler, 28, of Salem …
Discussion: WDTN-TV
Jesse Singal / New York Magazine:
The Internet's Fever Swamps Aren't Going Anywhere.  We Need to Learn to Live With Them.  —  This week, two of the top papers in the country have run op-eds about the widespread problem of misinformation and rumor-mongering in online conservative media, and how to begin solving it.
Discussion: RealClearPolicy
Art Swift / Gallup:
In U.S., Support for Assault Weapons Ban at Record Low  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The fewest Americans in 20 years favor making it illegal to manufacture, sell or possess semi-automatic guns known as assault rifles.  Thirty-six percent now want an assault weapons ban, down from 44% in 2012 …
Brett Norman / Politico:
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Obamacare wars outlast Obama  —  As Obamacare opponents intensify attacks on soaring rate hikes and shrinking insurance options, a majority of voters believe the health care law is failing and there's no consensus on what to do about it — findings that bode badly …
 
 
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Clinton's Allies Promise a Tougher Line on Iran
Discussion: New York Magazine
Amy Butler / USA Today:
Church pastor: The truth about my late-term abortion
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New York Post:
Justice Department to charge cop in death of Eric Garner
Reuters:
Britain, U.S. sending planes, troops to deter Russia in the east
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Hot Air
Sarah Dean / Daily Mail:
Does anyone object to this marriage... Migrant screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ …
Discussion: Walid Shoebat and Jihad Watch
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple delays AirPod rollout, don't expect them in October
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Hotel CEO openly celebrates higher prices after anti-Airbnb law passes
Discussion: Above the Law
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Evan McMullin Isn't Just Running For President — He's Literally Building A New Party
Discussion: Yahoo
Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:
National Intelligence Director Says Data Suggests ‘Nonstate Actor’ Was Behind Cyberattack
Patrick Hogan / Fusion:
Hillary Clinton says she won't be the next ‘deporter-in-chief’
Discussion: WANE-TV