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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Michael Cohen Says Trump Repeatedly Used Racist Language Before His Presidency  —  As he awaits sentencing, Trump's former lawyer says that he wants to clear his conscience and warn voters about what he sees as the president's true nature in advance of the midterm elections.  —  BY - EMILY JANE FOXNovember 2, 2018,
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New York Times:
Nigerian Army Uses Trump's Words to Justify Fatal Shooting of Rock-Throwing Protesters  —  DAKAR, Senegal — The Nigerian Army, part of a military criticized for rampant human rights abuses, on Friday used the words of President Trump to justify its fatal shootings of rock-throwing protesters.
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Matthew Champion / BuzzFeed News:
Nigeria's Army Used A Trump Speech To Justify Shooting Protesters
Discussion: Raw Story
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump eases off threat that rock-throwing migrants will be treated as armed
Discussion: Breitbart and DownWithTyranny!
Agence France-Presse:   An army spokesman said the demonstrators were armed with stones, petrol bombs, machetes and knives
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
In the Aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi's Murder, Saudi Arabia Enters a Dangerous Period  —  After a month, it seems we finally have a good picture of Jamal Khashoggi's last moments.  In early October, the Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul …
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia still has many questions to answer about Jamal Khashoggi's killing  —  Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the president of Turkey.  —  The story is all too familiar: Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and a family man, entered Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 for marriage formalities.
Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:   Netanyahu: Saudi Arabia deserves a pass for Khashoggi murder
Washington Post:
The future of the Middle East depends on justice for Jamal Khashoggi
The Daily Beast:
Jacob Wohl's Fake P.I. Firm Ghosted on Ex-Homeless Woman Looking For Her Stolen Truck  —  At the same time he was trying to frame Robert Mueller, the Trump-loving huckster took on another case.  It, too, has gone poorly.  —  Julienne Adams began to suspect something was awry …
The Daily Beast:
Russian Propaganda Veterans Push Candace Owens' ‘Blexit’ Campaign  —  It claims to be an online movement of African-Americans.  But tens of thousands of the tweets were sent from accounts that previously pushed Russian disinformation.  —  We're not saying that Russia helped make #Blexit trend …
CNN:
Pentagon rejected request for troops to act as emergency law enforcement at border  —  Hagel: Trump is using our troops as pawns  —  Washington (CNN)When the Trump administration first asked the Pentagon to send troops to the southern border, they wanted them to perform emergency law enforcement functions, CNN has learned.
Discussion: KTVQ-TV and POLITICUSUSA
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The Daily Beast:
Senate Intelligence Wants Documents on NRA's Russia Trip  —  The Senate intelligence committee has asked the National Rifle Association to provide documents on its connections to Russia—including documents related to a 2015 trip some of its top leaders made to Moscow.
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC New York:
Alec Baldwin Arrested After Fight Over Manhattan Parking Spot  —  President Trump, Baldwin's frequent target, said “I wish him luck”  —  Actor Alec Baldwin was arrested Friday after allegedly punching someone in the West Village.  —  Law enforcement sources told News 4 the dispute was over a parking spot.
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TMZ.com:
Alec Baldwin Released After Being Arrested and Charged in Fight Over Parking Spot
Discussion: WTKR-TV and Deadline
Karl Etters / Tallahassee Democrat:
4 wounded, shooter dead at Tallahassee yoga studio on Thomasville Road  —  An unidentified man shot and killed himself Friday evening after wounding at least four people at Hot Yoga, according to Tallahassee officials.  —  City spokeswoman Alison Faris confirmed that the shooter is dead …
Christopher Bing / Reuters:
Exclusive: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts seeking to discourage voting  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday's U.S. election and wrongly appeared to be from Democrats …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:   Twitter took down thousands of accounts that discouraged voting in midterms
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KTFT:
‘We are better than this:’ Middleton teachers dress up as border wall, Latinos for Halloween
Discussion: Raw Story
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Why Aren't Democrats Walking Away With the Midterms?  —  Democrats miss Trump's political gifts and the real threat he represents.  —  The night Donald Trump was elected was supposed to be, for most liberals and a few conservatives, the beginning of the end of the world.  The economy would surely implode.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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Paul Theroux / Washington Post:
A blue wave is predicted for the midterms. I'm not convinced.
Discussion: Spectator USA and Althouse
Caroline Zhang / CREW:
CREW Discovers Previously Undisclosed Ethics Waiver for Solicitor General Noel Francisco  —  CREW has uncovered a previously undisclosed ethics waiver that may represent an effort to clear one of the obstacles to Solicitor General Noel Francisco replacing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein …
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Once Reluctant to Speak Out, an Energized Obama Now Calls Out His Successor  —  MIAMI — Former President Barack Obama's voice has a way of lifting into a high-pitched tone of astonishment when he talks about his successor, almost as if he still cannot believe that the executive mansion …
Yahoo News:
The CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise.  It started in Iran.  —  In 2013, hundreds of CIA officers — many working nonstop for weeks — scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions: a compromise of the agency's internet-based covert communications system used …
The Hill:
Democrats, beware: We are leaning left too far  —  As the 2018 election seasons draws to a climax, political junkies — and I confess, I remain one — already are looking to 2020 and expounding theories about what could happen.  In one sense, that's a foolish venture because politics is hard …
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Times
ACLU of Kansas:
Transportation for voters seems covered—but we're not finished.  —  The outpouring of support from across the country has been heartening as concerned citizens have flooded the ACLU of Kansas with emails, calls, and messages asking to help transport voters to the single poll on the edge of town in Dodge City, Kansas.
Discussion: HuffPost
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Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
Judge troubled by clerk's ‘LOL’ remark, but won't order another Dodge City polling site
Discussion: Splinter and ACLU of Kansas
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
No One Wants to Campaign with Bill Clinton Anymore  —  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — When a Republican state legislator in Arkansas pushed last year to rename the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Clarke Tucker stood up for the former president.
Virginia Heffernan / Wired:
The Real Houseguest of the Ecuadorian Embassy  —  IF JULIAN ASSANGE of WikiLeaks denies the Ecuadorian government's stinging charge that he's a disgusting houseguest, he'd do well not to deny that charge “categorically.”  As a category, crimes against hospitality are one of Assange's many fortes.
Discussion: emptywheel, CNN and The Week
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court allows census trial to go forward  —  The Supreme Court is allowing a trial over the decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census to go forward over the Trump administration's objection.  —  The justices' issued a brief order Friday rejecting the administration's request …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Wisconsin conservative admits he'd shoot his sister in the face for Trump: ‘She has to know how passionate I am’  —  A Wisconsin conservative admits he would turn against his own family to back President Donald Trump if the United States slid into civil war.
Discussion: The Root
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“Blowing Smoke”: Sorry, Pundits, But You Have No Clue What Will Happen on Tuesday  —  Electorates mutate every two years.  Using past turnout patterns can be useful when modeling a universe of voters, but the polls cannot tell us with certainty what will happen on Election Day anymore.
Discussion: New Republic and TheBlaze
Jonathan S. Tobin / National Review:
Conservatives Need to Draw the Line at Steve King  —  His support for far-right extremists makes him more trouble than he's worth.  —  Republicans are fighting for their lives in the House this year, with the odds against their holding on to their majority.
Discussion: DC Tribune
Julia Craven / HuffPost:
Andrew Gillum Is At Home With His Blackness  —  Florida's Democratic nominee for governor is black in a way that is commonplace in real life but basically nonexistent in high-level American politics.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It's 8:15 a.m., and a group of 40 or so people await him.
Discussion: CNN
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump says Democrats could take House: 'I can't go everywhere'  —  President Donald Trump said Friday that Republicans could lose the House and that Democrats may “squeak” by in Tuesday's midterms — and if it happens, it will be because he wasn't able to campaign in every district.
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
Washington Post:
Army assessment of migrant caravans undermines Trump's rhetoric  —  Military planners anticipate that only a small percentage of Central American migrants traveling in the caravans President Trump characterizes as “an invasion” will reach the U.S. border, even as a force of more than 7,000 …
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Troop deployment creates tense atmosphere on US border  —  BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — As the first active-duty military troops sent to the U.S. border with Mexico installed coils of razor wire on a bridge and a riverbank Friday, a sense of unease spread across Texas' Rio Grande Valley.
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Obama boosts Abrams, bashes Kemp on voting rights in Georgia speech  —  ATLANTA — Former President Barack Obama joined the chorus of Democrats criticizing Georgia Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp for his record on voting rights, contrasting the Georgia secretary of state …
Discussion: ABC News
Washington Post:
Trump request to stay emoluments suit denied, potentially allowing plaintiffs to seek details on his D.C. hotel's foreign customers  —  U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte in Greenbelt, Md., denied the Justice Department's request that he pause the emoluments case alleging that the president …
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Sarah Lawrence Professor's Office Door Vandalized After He Criticized Leftist Bias  —  After penning an op-ed for The New York Times decrying the ideological homogeneity of his campus administration, a conservative-leaning professor at Sarah Lawrence College discovered intimidating messages …
Roll Call:
You Don't Know Them, But You May Know Their Voices  —  Political voiceover actors are on call right up to Election Day  —  National Democrats Invest in Minnesota Senate Race The North Carolina Race That Wasn't Supposed to Be in Play He Helped Write the GOP's Health Care Bill.  Now It's Catching Up With Him
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Democrats refuse to take Trump's home stretch bait  —  Analysis: As the president launches a wide array of policy proposals and political attacks, his opponents have stuck to their script.  —  ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Democrats are refusing to take President Donald Trump's bait.
Aaron Rodriguez / CREW:
CREW Files Hatch Act Complaint Against CMS Administrator Seema Verma  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Washington — Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Seema Verma likely violated the Hatch Act by using her official government Twitter account to advocate …
 
 
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Steve Sadin / Chicago Tribune:
Man accused of making threatening call to Highland Park synagogue charged with hate crime
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Angie Schmitt / Streetsblog USA:
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George Joseph / The Appeal:
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Nic Garcia / Denver Post:
Special session possible if Colorado voters OK Prop 112, Gov. Hickenlooper says
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Washington Post:
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Discussion: Splinter
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
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The Roanoke Times:
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CNN:
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
White House prepares to spin defeat as victory
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire