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9:15 AM ET, October 31, 2018

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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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Wall Street Journal:
Rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment  —  Trump's order on birthright citizenship violates the Constitution.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  President Trump really, really wants to make the midterm election about immigration, and for a while it looked like he had an edge due to Democratic excess.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Pelosi: Democrats are going to win the House
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Daily Kos
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trump's birthright citizenship comments just made life harder for Republicans in tight races
Alex Daugherty / Tampa Bay Times:
Rick Scott walks away when asked if he supports Trump ending birthright citizenship
Discussion: National Journal
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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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 …
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him
Jay Willis / GQ:   MAGA Trolls' Efforts to Take Down Robert Mueller Flame Out in Hilarious and Spectacular Fashion
Adam Goldman / New York Times:   Plot to Smear Mueller Unravels as F.B.I. Is Asked to Investigate
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Update on Mueller Accusations
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Boing Boing
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  —  WASHINGTON — Amid the storm of criticism over his response to the synagogue killings in Pittsburgh and the accusations that his messaging created the atmosphere that caused them, President Trump has turned to the people he trusts most for advice — his family.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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
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Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered four weeks ago. We're still waiting for answers.
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 HuffPost
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
Raul Reyes / USA Today:
Latino voters like me need to grab our chance to push back against Donald Trump  —  President Trump is very comfortable disrespecting Latinos.  By voting in the midterm election we can take charge of our destiny and change history.  —  CONNECT  —  Democrats have a Latino voter problem.
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 …
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.
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
Nelson W. Cunningham / Politico:
Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President?  —  These months before the midterm elections are tough ones for all of us Mueller-watchers.  As we expected, he has gone quiet in deference to long-standing Justice Department policy that prosecutors should not take actions that might impact pending elections.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
Gab's CEO Says Pittsburgh Suspect Doesn't Represent The Site.  But He Spent Years Recruiting Racists Like Him.  —  Andrew Torba has promoted white nationalists and looked the other way as Gab users posted racist death threats on his platform.  —  Soon after Robert Bowers was accused …
Discussion: KTVQ-TV and The Daily Beast
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Democrats make late bid for governorships in deep-red Great Plains  —  Democrats are making a surprise play for a trio of governorships deep in the heart of Trump country.  —  South Dakota hasn't elected a Democratic governor since the 1970s, and Kansas and Oklahoma have swung hard toward Republicans since …
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 …
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Internet Will Be the Death of Us  —  It casts rogue grievances as legitimate obsessions and gives prejudices the shimmer of ideals.  —  Nora Ephron once wrote a brilliant essay about the trajectory of her and many other people's infatuations with email, from the thrill of discovering …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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 …
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 …
John Solomon / The Hill:
Silence of ‘the lambs’: The deafening quietude of the FISA court and John Roberts  —  Two years ago this month, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) issued a warrant authorizing the FBI to spy on Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Trump.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Moving day’: White House staffers set to split for 2020 campaign  —  The White House is poised for a wave of post-midterm departures as staffers leave for President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, an indication that the administration is shifting its focus to 2020.
 
 
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Americans Are Easy Marks for Russian Trolls, According to New Data
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
How an internet meme became a Trump campaign slogan
Diana Stancy Correll / Washington Examiner:
Kellyanne Conway removes White House title from Twitter bio
CNN:
How Lindsey Graham shifted from Trump detractor to defender
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Joey Garrison / The Tennessean:
2 new polls show Blackburn leading Tennessee's US Senate race a week from Election Day
Discussion: Townhall and Daily Wire
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Missouri parents call BS on “racial equity” training
KMBC:
Orman campaign treasurer resigns, endorses Kelly
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Sam J. / twitchy.com:
OMG THIS!  Conservative woman writes thread shredding each and every Leftist talking point and it's SPECTACULAR
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