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2:40 PM ET, November 3, 2016

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Wall Street Journal:
Secret Recordings Fueled FBI Feud in Clinton Probe  —  Agents thought they had enough material to merit aggressively pursuing investigation into Clinton Foundation  —  Secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation fueled an internal battle between FBI agents who wanted …
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Bret Baier: FBI Sources Believe Clinton Foundation Case Moving Towards “Likely an Indictment”  —  Fox News Channel's Bret Baier reports the latest news about the Clinton Foundation investigation from two sources inside the FBI.  He reveals five important new pieces of information in these two short clips:
Wayne Barrett / The Daily Beast:
Meet Donald Trump's Top FBI Fanboy  —  Two days before FBI director James Comey rocked the world last week, Rudy Giuliani was on Fox, where he volunteered, un-prodded by any question: “I think he's [Donald Trump] got a surprise or two that you're going to hear about in the next few days.
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
‘The FBI is Trumpland’: anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaks, sources say  —  Highly unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton intensified after James Comey's decision not to recommend an indictment over her use of a private email server  —  Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI …
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
FBI launches internal investigation into its own Twitter account  —  An FBI tweet may have crossed the line.  —  The FBI has launched an internal investigation into one of its own Twitter accounts.  —  The account at issue, @FBIRecordsVault, had been dormant for more than a year.
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
The FBI Wants to Make America Great Again  —  Maybe it's just me, but I think the FBI is trying to send a message about next week's election.  —  It's not just that FBI Director James Comey informed Congress that there may be things on Anthony Weiner's computer pertinent to his investigation of Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server.
Fox News:
Sources: 99 percent chance foreign intel agencies breached Clinton server
Discussion: RedState and Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Senior FBI officials were told of new emails in early October but wanted more information before renewing Clinton probe
Joe Pappalardo / Dallas Observer:
The Dallas IRS Office That's Quietly Determining the Fate of the Clinton Foundation
Discussion: Instapundit
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Report: Indictment ‘likely’ in FBI's Clinton Foundation probe
Discussion: Mediaite
Sharon Churcher / RADAR:
Megyn Kelly Gone Rogue!  Fox News Star Claims Perv Boss Roger Ailes Harassed Her Too!  —  The network's prize anchor drops a bombshell amid contract talks.  Is she ready to go?  —  Fox News star Megyn Kelly has unveiled explosive new charges against the network's founder, Roger Ailes …
CBS News:
Five days to go: The presidential race tightens - CBS/NYT poll  —  Where the Race Stands  —  The race for president has tightened since mid-October: Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump by three points nationally.  Just over two weeks ago, after the second debate and amid accusations …
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Bloomberg.com:   Jill Stein: Hillary Clinton Is ‘Queen of Corruption’
BBC:
Brexit court defeat for UK government  —  Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled.  —  This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - beginning formal exit negotiations with the EU - on its own.
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Griff Witte / Washington Post:
British court delivers blow to E.U. exit plan, insists Parliament has a say
David Macanally / WALV-TV:
Cubs fan shares World Series with late father at Greenwood cemetery  —  GREENWOOD, Ind. (WTHR) - A North Carolina man drove back home to Indiana to keep a decades-old promise to his father.  —  Wayne Williams drove in for the Game 7 of the World Series.  —  “The gate was open,” he says as he drives in.
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Nick Kalman / Fox News:
Casting notice goes out for new ‘up-and-coming’ conservative news network  —  Donald Trump denies he is interested in launching a new conservative news venture, but somebody sure is.  —  What's being billed as an “up-and-coming conservative media network currently in development” …
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Ex-KKK leader David Duke gets into shouting match at debate, says Hillary Clinton ‘should be getting the electric chair’  —  Candidates vying for a Louisiana US Senate seat met on the debate stage in New Orleans on Wednesday night.  —  Among the candidates — which included Republican …
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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Clinton inches ahead, with enthusiasm back on par with Trump, Post-ABC Tracking poll finds  —  Hillary Clinton has recovered from a brief dip in enthusiasm this weekend, and now holds a narrow two percentage-point edge over Donald Trump in the latest Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll.
Discussion: Power Line and Guardian
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Beneath a Close Election Contest Lie Deep Rifts Among Groups (POLL)
Kyle Dropp / Morning Consult:
How We Conducted Our ‘Shy Trumper’ Study  —  Are there “shy Trump” voters?  It's a question that many have asked since Morning Consult released a blockbuster study during the primaries that showed GOP voters were less likely to say they support Donald Trump to a live interviewer than via a self-administered interview online.
Discussion: Politicus USA
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: ‘Shy Trump’ voters are a mirage
Discussion: The Week
RT:
Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE) … In a John Pilger Special, to be exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday courtesy of Dartmouth Films, whistleblower Julian Assange categorically denied that the troves of US Democratic Party …
Tim Alberta / National Review:
Life on the Inside: Mike Pence's Turbulent Trip with Donald Trump  —  The vice-presidential nominee reflects on a whirlwind campaign in its final days.  —  LaGuardia Airport, N.Y. — We struck the runway with a thud and felt the wheels clawing for traction on the rain-blanketed tarmac, but it hardly seemed an emergency.
Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
‘Voter fraud’?  California man finds dozens of ballots stacked outside home  —  Two stacks of ballots that were found outside Jerry Mosna's home in San Pedro, Calif. (FoxNews.com)  —  Jerry Mosna was gardening outside his San Pedro, Calif., home Saturday when he noticed something odd: Two stacks of 2016 ballots on his mailbox.
Manu Raju / CNN:
First on CNN: McConnell super PAC to drop $12 million to save majority, includes Florida, Wisconsin  —  ‘Inside Politics’ forecast: Democrats' Deja vu  — The Senate Leadership Fund is putting additional resources in Florida, Wisconsin, Missouri and others
Jim Messina / New York Times:
The Election Polls That Matter  —  With just days left in the 2016 presidential election, Americans are wondering if polling is accurate or if we'll see a Brexit-style shock.  —  It's not just voters who ask these types of questions.  On the eve of Election Day in 2012 …
J. Stephen Clark / The Hill:
Should Obama just pardon Hillary?  —  “Lock her up!” has become a perpetual chant at Donald Trump  —  rallies.  At the same time, aggressive elements within the FBI are apparently resisting career prosecutors, who have determined that evidence does not warrant new criminal investigations of Hillary Clinton
Discussion: RedState
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Trump's tone resonates in strongman-weary Africa  —  's presidential campaign has­­ had surprising resonance in parts of Africa where people are weary of the political establishment and see the real estate mogul as a global force for change.  —  Despite famously pushing an …
Discussion: The Week, alicublog and Althouse
 
 
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