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Bend the Arc:
Letter to President Trump from Pittsburgh Jewish Leaders  —  We are the Pittsburgh affiliate of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice.  —  President Trump:  —  Yesterday, a gunman slaughtered 11 Americans during Shabbat morning services.  We mourn with the victims' families and pray for the wounded.
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Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Had to Persuade President to Explicitly Denounce Anti-Semitism After Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: Report  —  President Donald Trump's statement denouncing anti-Semitism after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Saturday reportedly came at the behest …
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:   Media Tout ‘Jewish Leaders’ In Pittsburgh Telling Trump He's Not Welcome. …
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
‘There Is Still So Much Evil’: Growing Anti-Semitism Stuns American Jews
Discussion: The Guardian and Daily Kos
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P.R. Lockhart / Vox:
Former President Jimmy Carter calls for Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to resign
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's hate and lies are inciting extremists.  Just ask the analyst who warned us.  —  President Trump and Republicans are lashing out at the notion that they bear primary responsibility for the climate of rage and hate that has consumed our politics, now that a man has allegedly gunned …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
What I learned as an American Jew after the Pittsburgh synagogue attack  —  On this day of all days it needs to be said: America has been a blessing for the Jewish people unlike any other blessing given any other people in the history of the world.  —  One crime — or 29 separate crimes …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Patricio G. Balona / Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Republican Party headquarters vandalized by gunfire in Volusia  —  SOUTH DAYTONA — The windows of Volusia County's Republican Party headquarters were found shot out Monday morning and four bullet holes were discovered inside the offices.  —  Police were investigating shattered glass …
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Jack Crowe / National Review:
Shots Fired into GOP Campaign Office in Florida  —  At least four shots were fired into a Republican campaign satellite office in Volusia County, Fla. on Sunday, police announced after a campaign volunteer reported the shooting Monday morning.  —  No one was injured in the shooting …
Bianca Padró Ocasio / Orlando Sentinel:
Shots fired into Volusia County Republican Party satellite office, police say
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Sun-Sentinel
Wall Street Journal:
Military to Deploy 5,000 Troops to Southern Border, U.S. Officials Say  —  The U.S. military is deploying 5,000 troops to the southern border, U.S. officials say, an increase from the initial estimate of 800.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Enough platitudes: Let's name names  —  President Trump's defenders and even some of his tepid critics on the right seem determined to keep their moral blinders firmly affixed so as to narrow the discussion about the horrible incidents such as the mass murder at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Discussion: New York Times and Althouse
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Ron DeSantis Spread George Soros Fear Days After a Bomb Was Sent to Soros  —  Attacks against the Democratic financier just haven't stopped.  —  Just days after federal authorities discovered a bomb left on George Soros' property, Ron DeSantis, the Republican candidate for governor of Florida …
Discussion: Raw Story and Salon
New York Times:
Trump Persuaded Struggling People to Invest in Scams, Lawsuit Says  —  A new lawsuit accuses President Trump, his company and three of his children of using the Trump name to entice vulnerable people to invest in sham business opportunities.  —  Filed in federal court in Manhattan on Monday …
Margi Murphy / Telegraph:
Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate  —  Twitter is planning to remove the ability to “like” tweets in a radical move that aims to improve the quality of debate on the social network.  —  Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event …
YouTube:
We Can't Go Back … Things are getting better - we can't go back!  Learn how to vote now at: https://vote.donaldjtrump.com/  —  This dramatic, high-quality ad depicts the new optimism of a working mom and the very real way that the future of her family is at stake in this election.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump's closing television ad for midterms doesn't include Trump
Discussion: HuffPost
Associated Press:
Iranian official says president's cellphone was tapped  —  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian officials say President Hassan Rouhani's mobile phone was tapped, without providing details on who was behind it or what information they might have gleaned.  —  The semi-official ISNA news agency …
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal.  Barrio Residents Remember.  —  EL PASO — At a special City Council meeting in 2006, a billionaire real estate investor unveiled his vision for redeveloping downtown El Paso.  To replace tenements and boarded-up buildings …
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
‘Nothing to Gain,’ Kavanaugh Accuser Raises Nearly $1 Million  —  During the crucible of Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats repeatedly asserted that Christine Blasey Ford had “nothing to gain” by coming forward with her explosive accusation of attempted rape against the Supreme Court nominee.
New Jersey Online:
Choke it down, and vote for Menendez |  Editorial  —  Gallery: U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez Speaks in Newark  —  By Star-Ledger Editorial Board eletters@starledger.com  —  This year's U.S. Senate race presents the most depressing choice for New Jersey voters in a generation …
BuzzFeed News:
This Cop Was Accused Of Putting An 11-Year-Old Girl In A Chokehold And Lying About It.  He Kept His Job.  —  Confidential department documents show that then-NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton shut down disciplinary proceedings.  The officer has also shared Facebook posts that denigrate black people and Muslims.
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
'Trump's deporting your illegal cousins today!' man shouts at mother who was on her way to vote  —  The man's racist rant against a Houston mother was recorded and uploaded to Facebook.  —  A man was caught on video last week spewing hateful rhetoric and obscenities at a Houston mother who said she was on her way to vote.
Tim Mak / NPR:
Devin Nunes' Re-Election Tests Whether All Politics Are Now National  —  In 2016, Rep. Devin Nunes coasted to re-election by a double-digit margin.  Now the eight-term Republican is in for the tightest race of his political life — all thanks to his views on the Russia investigations.
Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton leaves door open for 2020 run: 'I'd like to be president'  —  Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during an event over the weekend left the door open to a possible 2020 run, saying that even though she doesn't want to run, “I'd like to be president.”
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Inside a Trump rally: Stelter's view from the press pen  —  (CNN)The first thing you see at a Trump campaign rally is the line.  —  There was a long line in the pouring rain ahead of the October 26 rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Some devotees had started lining up the night before.
Discussion: Raw Story
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Suspicious package headed to CNN's Atlanta headquarters intercepted  —  (CNN)For the third time in a week, a suspicious package has been addressed to CNN.  This time, on Monday morning, the package was intercepted in Atlanta, the home to CNN's worldwide headquarters.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
US Government-Run Network Pulls Segment Calling Soros ‘Multimillionaire Jew’  —  Radio Televisión Martí, a network overseen by the U.S. government that broadcasts to Cuba, pulled a video segment it produced months ago that relied on material from the conservative group Judicial Watch …
Arne Delfs / Bloomberg:
Merkel Steps Down as Party Leader as Election Setbacks Take Toll  — German leader makes dramatic concession to her party critics  — Power waning after leading Christian Democrats for 18 years  —  Germany's Angela Merkel will quit as head of her Christian Democratic party and won't run …
Discussion: Vox, CNN, Shakesville, The Week and NTK Network
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
However the Midterms Go, the Republican Party Is Going to Get More Extreme  —  Politics since Donald Trump's election has felt like a static state of misery, as the president's approval ratings have been surprisingly stable and the only apparent variable has been each party's chances of gaining or consolidating power in the midterms.
Discussion: Althouse
U.S. Department of Justice:
Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks to the Boston Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society  —  Thank you Andy for that kind introduction, for your 18 years of service to the Department of Justice and for your leadership as United States Attorney.  I think that you'll agree with me that it's the best job in the world.
Discussion: RedState, Splinter and IJR
Stavros Agorakis / Vox:
A Financial Times editor calls for a Fox News advertiser boycott  —  Edward Luce said sponsors “bankroll the poison.”  —  The US editor of the Financial Times is calling for a boycott of companies that advertise on Fox in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the pipe bombs sent to leading Democrats.
New York Times:
American ISIS Suspect Is Freed After Being Held More Than a Year  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has freed an American citizen whom the military imprisoned without trial for more than 13 months as a suspected Islamic State member, United States officials said on Monday.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Democrats Blaming Normal Americans for Nuts Will Blow Up In Their Faces at the Ballot Box  —  You know, there's nothing that Normal Americans can identify with more than a guy living in a Ford panel van covered with Trump memes and soccer manifestoes who sends bombs that don't work to Democrats who support policies that don't work.
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Will Fort Worth's Tarrant County remain America's most conservative large county?  —  Cruz and O'Rourke's U.S. Senate race highlights how the GOP stronghold in North Texas is a statewide battleground between Republicans and Democrats. … FORT WORTH - Long before most Texans had ever heard …
Discussion: Off the Kuff
Noreen Malone / The Cut:
The Skimm Brains 7 million people wake up to their newsletter, and their voice, every morning.  —  In early September, the whole staff of the Skimm, a current-events newsletter aimed at millennial women, gathered on gray couches for an all-hands meeting.  Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg …
 
 
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Amina Dunn / Pew Research Center:
Elections in America: Concerns Over Security, Divisions Over Expanding Access to Voting
Discussion: Politico and Washington Times
David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
In a highly partisan era, those who dislike both sides could have the deciding votes
Michael McCarthy / Axios:
Bolsonaro's politics of nationalist redemption
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Jerry Taylor / Niskanen Center:
The Alternative to Ideology  —  When we launched the Niskanen Center …
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
Illinois Is a Mess. Here's Why.
PRRI:
Partisan Polarization Dominates Trump Era: Findings from the 2018 American Values Survey
Brian Welk / The Wrap:
Lena Dunham Tapped by Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams to Adapt Syrian Refugee Story
Discussion: IndieWire and Front Page Magazine
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed News:
First Came Trump, Then Came Beto: Ted Cruz And The Brutal Politics Of Likability
Discussion: Harper's
Associated Press:
The Latest: High school student shot by other student dies
Discussion: Splinter
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
‘A very different world’ - inside the Czech spying operation on Trump
Discussion: Sputnik International
Patti Davis / Washington Post:
Let's stop asking Trump for comfort after tragedies
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Mediaite
Rachel Bitecofer / The Judy Ford Wason Center …:
Republican Brat and Democrat Spanberger in dead heat as Virginia's GOP-leaning 7th District …
Discussion: Political Wire
Desmond Butler / Associated Press:
Russian held as agent studied US groups' cyberdefenses
 

 
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New York Times:
Sources: in a revised bid, Skydance offered Paramount shareholders a larger stake in the combined company and a $3B cash infusion to pay debt and buy back stock

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: Nicholas Carlson, who has been the global editor-in-chief of Business Insider since 2017, is expected to leave the publication later this summer

 
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