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NBC News:
Mueller refers sex assault scheme targeting him to FBI for investigation  —  “We immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” said Peter Carr, spokesperson for the special counsel.  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller last week asked the FBI to investigate a possible scam …
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him  —  A company that appears to be run by a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist offered to pay women to make false claims against Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the days leading up to the midterm elections—and the special counsel's office has asked the FBI to weigh in.
The Daily Beast:
Inside the Crazy Cabal Trying to Smear Robert Mueller  —  A Seth Rich conspiracy pusher and fringe online figures appear to be working behind the scenes.  —  One of the shadier characters in politics, along with a number of fringe internet figures, appears to be behind an attempt to pay women …
Jay Willis / GQ:   MAGA Trolls' Efforts to Take Down Robert Mueller Flame Out in Hilarious and Spectacular Fashion
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Update on Mueller Accusations
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Boing Boing
Adam Goldman / New York Times:   Plot to Smear Mueller Unravels as F.B.I. Is Asked to Investigate
Nelson W. Cunningham / Politico:   Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President?
Washington Post:
Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional  —  George T. Conway III is of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  Neal Katyal is a partner at Hogan Lovells and former acting U.S. solicitor general in the Obama administration.  —  Sometimes the Constitution's text …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Campaign's Homestretch, Trump Tosses Out Ideas to See What Sticks  —  WASHINGTON — First there was the middle-class tax cut that even his allies and many of his aides had not heard about.  Then troops were dispatched to the border to counter an “invasion of our country” by impoverished migrants about 900 miles away.
Wall Street Journal:
Rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment
Discussion: Raw Story
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trump's birthright citizenship comments just made life harder for Republicans in tight races
David Hudnall / Kansas City Pitch:
Steve Bannon draws crowd of tens to rally for Steve Watkins in Topeka  —  “Any honeybuns left over from the continental this morning?”  —  Sherman Smith Twitter  —  I highly recommend that you take a look at Topeka Capital-Journal managing editor Sherman Smith's Twitter thread about attending …
Dominique Jackson / Raw Story:
WATCH: Trump's motorcade forced to turn around after thousands of protesters flood Pittsburgh streets  —  On Tuesday, despite many people's wishes, President Donald Trump traveled to Pittsburgh to pay his respects to the lives lost in the synagogue massacre.
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New York Times:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Shape Trump's Pittsburgh Response
Kevin Cullen / BostonGlobe.com:
Freddy Geas, suspected killer of Whitey Bulger, didn't like informants  —  When private investigator Ted McDonough heard that Freddy Geas was suspected by authorities of taking part in the murder of James “Whitey” Bulger, he knew immediately why Geas might have done it.
Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered four weeks ago.  We're still waiting for answers.  —  JAMAL KHASHOGGI walked in to the Saudi Consulate four weeks ago on Tuesday to obtain a simple document allowing him to marry.  Instead, he was brutally murdered by a team of 15 agents sent from Riyadh.
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New York Times:
Senior Saudi Prince Returns to Kingdom as Royals Confront Khashoggi Crisis  —  LONDON — A senior member of the Saudi royal family, who had feared returning to the kingdom, flew back to Riyadh from London on Tuesday in the most significant move in the royal family since the killing of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
Discussion: ABC News
Bim Adewunmi / BuzzFeed News:
Oprah Is Going To Georgia To Campaign With Stacey Abrams  —  Oprah Winfrey, the Oscar-nominated, self-made billionaire and media icon, is heading to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams.  —  The star will join Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, on Thursday.
Mike Allen / Axios:
The midterms' split decision  —  With less than a week until Election Day, top operators in both parties tell me the events of the past week have helped lock in the split decision they have long seen coming: The House flips to Dems (probably decisively), and Republicans hold the Senate (and perhaps gain two seats).
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Reuters:   U.S. House within Democrats' grasp, Senate a long shot
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Authorities probing immigrant Saudi sisters' mystery deaths  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating the mysterious deaths of two sisters from Saudi Arabia whose bodies, bound together with tape, washed up on New York City's waterfront last week.  —  The sisters, Tala Farea, 16 …
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Kenneth Lovett / New York Daily News:   Cuomo ready to rename a Long Island City creek the Amazon River to woo Amazon into opening …
Defense One:
Mattis Sets 30-Day Deadline for Yemen Ceasefire  —  “We've admired this problem for long enough down there,” the defense secretary said.  —  Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis called for a ceasefire in Yemen within 30 days, seeking to end the U.S.-backed and Saudi-led bombing campaign …
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Grace Segers / CBS News:
Mattis calls for ceasefire in Yemen within 30 days
Discussion: Splinter
Washington Post:
Zinke's own agency watchdog just referred him to the Justice Department  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has come under scrutiny on multiple fronts  —  The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General has referred one of its ongoing probes into the conduct of Secretary Ryan Zinke …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP Senate candidate Martha McSally: 'I'm getting my ass kicked' because of vote to repeal Obamacare  —  Republican Senate candidate Martha McSally (R-AZ) complained in a recent interview that she is getting her “ass kicked” because she voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health care reform law.
Discussion: Arizona Republic
John Foley / Reuters:
Breakingviews - Exclusive: FedEx drops NRA deal by snail-mail  —  NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Mass shootings happen in an instant and grab headlines.  A business and investment shift away from the firearms industry is happening more subtly.  FedEx, the U.S. shipping group …
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Jews assail ‘Christian rabbi’ who appeared with Pence, and so does his own movement  —  Loren Jacobs, who spoke at a rally with the vice-president, was stripped of his ordination by the Messianic movement in 2003.  —  The “Messianic rabbi” who outraged many Jews by invoking the name of Jesus …
Stephanie K. Baer / BuzzFeed News:
Three Men Convicted Of Plotting To Bomb Somali Refugees Say They Were Encouraged By Trump's Rhetoric  —  Three men who were convicted of plotting to bomb an apartment building that housed a mosque and dozens of Muslim Somali refugees in Kansas were encouraged by President Donald Trump's rhetoric …
TMZ.com:
Kanye West Breaks From Politics and Says 'I've Been Used'  —  Breaks From Politics  —  4:15 PM PT — Kanye contacted us to make it clear he did not mention Donald Trump in his tweets, and he's getting out of politics altogether.  —  As for being “used” ... he says he was specifically referencing Blexit, and that's it.
Discussion: Townhall and Raw Story
KMBC:
Orman campaign treasurer resigns, endorses Kelly  —  Tim Owens: ‘Kobach must be stopped’  —  TOPEKA, Kan. —  Independent candidate Greg Orman's campaign treasurer, Tim Owens, resigned Tuesday and endorsed Democrat Laura Kelly in the race for Kansas governor, according to KMBC 9's Micheal Mahoney.
Stephanie Perry / NBC News:
Record turnout?  Not for millennials — just a third say they'll vote.  —  That number has remained steady since August, according the results of a new NBC News/GenForward survey.  —  About a third of millennials say they will definitely vote in November, according to results …
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Our descent into vitriol began long before Trump — and Democrats are culpable too  —  After a deranged Democrat living in his van nearly assassinated Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) firing more than 70 rounds at House Republicans practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game …
CNN:
The radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist  —  Woman warned Twitter about bomb suspect  —  New York (CNN)Cesar Sayoc's social media accounts read like a blueprint for the radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist.  —  A CNN KFile analysis of thousands of tweets sent …
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
A Supreme Marriage Proposal  —  Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious.  So it is with the story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s.
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Standing ‘Against White Supremacy,’ G.O.P. Campaign Chief Rebukes Steve King  —  WASHINGTON — As Pittsburgh began burying the victims of Saturday's synagogue massacre, the head of the House Republican campaign arm all but jettisoned Representative Steve King of Iowa from the House Republican Conference …
Discussion: Vox, Vanity Fair, Axios and The Intercept
Daily Mail:
Bernice and Sylvan Simon, aged 84 and 86  —  Bernice and Sylvan Simon, 84 and 86  —  The Simons, who had been married for 62 years, were sitting in the back of the main sanctuary when the gunman opened fire.  Sylvan, a retired accountant, was still recovering from recently breaking his arm and the couple had no time to escape.
Sam J. / twitchy.com:
OMG THIS!  Conservative woman writes thread shredding each and every Leftist talking point and it's SPECTACULAR  —  If you read no other tweets or threads on Twitter today, read THIS ONE.  —  Heather's thread takes each and every Leftist talking point you've seen in both traditional …
 
 
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Moving day’: White House staffers set to split for 2020 campaign
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
Gab's CEO Says Pittsburgh Suspect Doesn't Represent The Site.  But He Spent Years Recruiting Racists Like Him.
Discussion: KTVQ-TV and The Daily Beast
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Internet Will Be the Death of Us
Discussion: Mother Jones
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Synagogue Suspect's Guns Were All Purchased Legally, Inquiry Finds
CNN:
How Lindsey Graham shifted from Trump detractor to defender
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
John Solomon / The Hill:
Silence of ‘the lambs’: The deafening quietude of the FISA court and John Roberts
Eline Schaart / Politico:
Standard & Poor's: No-deal Brexit would plunge Britain into recession
Rick Klein / ABC News:
The Note: Red swirls with blue in races that will define midterms
 Earlier Items: 
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Democrats make late bid for governorships in deep-red Great Plains
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Missouri parents call BS on “racial equity” training
Daily Mail:
Out of jail: Mounir el-Motassadeq in Marrakesh
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, undeterred by bomb threat, leaves the door open …
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Cultural appropriation turns Halloween into a nightmare
Roxane Gay / New York Times:
You're Disillusioned. That's Fine. Vote Anyway.
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
In North Dakota, Native Americans Try to Turn an ID Law to Their Advantage
Discussion: HuffPost