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Catherine Shoard / The Guardian:
Rudy Giuliani faces questions after compromising scene in new Borat film  —  Trump's personal attorney has indiscreet encounter with actor playing Borat's daughter in hotel room during pandemic  —  • This article contains spoilers about Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
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Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: Alleged Hunter Biden Emails Circulated in Ukraine as Rudy Giuliani Dug for Dirt There Last Year  —  Explicit photos and emails purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden were circulating in Ukraine last year at the same time that Rudy Giuliani was searching for dirt …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
How Rudy Giuliani Got Caught Red-Handed With Borat's Daughter  —  When Rudy Giuliani first revealed his run-in with Sacha Baron Cohen, he didn't mention the compromised position he was in when Borat burst into the room.  (Warning: Spoilers ahead.)  —  When the trailer for Borat Subsequent …
Washington Post:
Trump weighs firing FBI director after election as frustration with Wray, Barr grows  —  President Trump and his advisers have repeatedly discussed whether to fire FBI Director Christopher A. Wray after Election Day — a scenario that also could imperil the tenure of Attorney General William P. Barr …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump tells rally about ‘60 Minutes’ interview  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump is keeping up a public feud with “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl, who he says took him too seriously after he pleaded for suburban women to love him.
Discussion: Breitbart and Axios
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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Obama: Trump emboldens people to be “cruel and divisive and racist”  —  In his first campaign rally appearance on behalf of Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama urged Americans to vote, saying “we can't afford another four years” of a Trump presidency.  —  Why it matters via Axios' Hans Nichols …
CNN:
Obama delivers a blistering rebuke of Trump in his return to the campaign trail
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama delivers blazing critique of Trump in 2020 campaign trail debut
Chris Christie / Wall Street Journal:
I Should Have Worn a Mask  —  It's not a partisan or cultural symbol, not a sign of weakness or virtue.  —  For seven months I was very careful about mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing.  As someone with asthma, I knew I faced heightened risk.
Discussion: New York Post
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate Democrats to boycott Barrett's Judiciary Committee vote Thursday  —  Senate Democrats plan to boycott Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's Judiciary Committee vote Thursday in an act of protest, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday.
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Washington Post:
Why Mitch McConnell is trying to kill a big stimulus before the election
Associated Press:
Democrats to boycott Barrett vote at Senate Judiciary
Politico:
The news media helps Trump avoid the stench of death  —  As President Donald Trump heads into his final sprint to Election Day, nearly every news report notes that he is running behind in the polls.  Journalists aren't shying away from describing his wilder rhetoric as “studded with lies and falsehoods.”
CNN:
Feds say Russia and Iran have interfered with the presidential election  —  (CNN)Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Wednesday both Iran and Russia have obtained US voter registration information in an effort to interfere in the election, including Iran posing …
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Kylee Zempel / The Federalist:
FBI: Lincoln Project Never Trumpers Peddled Iranian Disinformation Meant To Help Biden
Discussion: Twitchy and Raw Story
QU Poll:
Texas In Play: Biden And Trump In A Dead Heat, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; In Pennsylvania, Biden's Lead Returns To Single Digits  —  In the home stretch of the 2020 presidential election campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden is in a tied race with President Donald Trump in the reliably red state …
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Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
Supreme Court puts curbside voting on hold in Alabama  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday put on hold a lower court order that would have permitted curbside voting in Alabama in November.  —  The justices' vote was 5-3, with the court's three liberals dissenting.
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Blocks Curbside Voting In Alabama, An Option During Pandemic  —  The Supreme Court has sided with Alabama state officials who banned curbside voting intended to accommodate individuals with disabilities and those at risk from the COVID-19 virus.
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
U.S. weighs labeling leading human rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’  —  The Trump administration is considering declaring that several prominent international NGOs — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam — are anti-Semitic and that governments should not support them, two people familiar with the issue said.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Hamodia
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump administration considers labeling top humanitarian groups ‘anti-Semitic’
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Week That Shook the Trump Campaign  —  Polls show that Trump has only partly recovered from his performance in the first debate and his management of the coronavirus at the White House  —  WASHINGTON—In the days after the first debate Sept. 29 between President …
Discussion: Washington Times
New York Times:
Ex-Spy Was Central to Project Veritas Hiring Effort, Testimony Shows  —  A British former intelligence officer was said to have recruited and interviewed potential hires as the conservative group sought to have former spies train employees.  —  WASHINGTON — A British former spy recruited by Erik Prince …
New York Times:
Grenell Pursued Talks Over Change of Power in Venezuela  —  A close ally of President Trump quietly met with an associate of President Nicolás Maduro, whom the United States does not recognize as the leader of Venezuela.  —  WASHINGTON — Richard Grenell, a close Trump ally …
Discussion: Political Wire and Fox News
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Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
Nasa to make major announcement of ‘exciting news’ about the moon  —  Flying observatory that made new discovery is able to ‘pick up phenomenon impossible to see with visible light’, space agency notes  —  Nasa will hold a major event to announce an “exciting new discovery” about the Moon, it has said.
Discussion: Deseret News
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump gains in Ohio, Biden ahead in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin  —  Donald Trump holds a narrow advantage in Ohio, while voters in the three battleground states that put him over the top in 2016 prefer Joe Biden  —  How the campaigns are preparing for presidential debate changes
WFLA-TV:
Armed guards at St. Pete early voting site told deputies they were hired by Trump campaign, election officials say  —  PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) - Two armed guards set up in a tent outside an early voting location in downtown St. Petersburg claiming to be with the Trump campaign …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Let's not mince words.  The Trump administration kidnapped children.  —  THE TRUMP administration's immorality, cruelty and bureaucratic malpractice in tearing migrant toddlers, tweens and teens away from their parents in 2017 and 2018 were the work of many co-conspirators …
Discussion: Reason, Daily Kos and The Guardian
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Court ruling could block thousands of Iowa ballot requests  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A split Iowa Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a new Republican-backed law that could bar county elections commissioners from mailing absentee ballots to thousands of people who omitted information on their applications.
Discussion: Reuters
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump national security adviser says president will respect results of election  —  But Robert O'Brien cautions: “We've got to make sure there's no fraud.”  —  National security adviser Robert O'Brien.  BATH, Maine — Robert O'Brien, President Donald Trump's national security adviser …
Washington Post:
After a college town's coronavirus outbreak, deaths at nursing homes mount  —  ‘The very thing we worried about’: In La Crosse, Wis., students partied in September.  Then infections and deaths among the elderly began to rise.  —  Mayor Tim Kabat was already on edge as thousands …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Wall Street donors keep their distance from cash-strapped Trump in campaign's final days  — President Donald Trump is apparently no longer considered a worthy investment for several prominent Republicans and conservatives in the finance community.  — People in the industry gave $20 million to back Trump in 2016.
Discussion: Raw Story and New Republic
Tobias Siegal / Jerusalem Post:
Sudan agrees to normalize relations with Israel -report  —  The report indicated that the formal and public announcement on the normalization of relations is expected to take place in the next few days.  —  Sudan has reportedly agreed to fully normalize relations with Israel …
Kyle Smith / National Review:
A Bizarre and Revealing Biden Interview  —  William Voegeli of the Claremont Review of Books brought up a strange Joe Biden interview from 1974 I hadn't seen before in which Biden emerges as arrogant and determined to make more money, one way or another.  Biden also speaks of his first wife Neilia …
Discussion: Power Line
Mother Jones:
Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say  —  For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.  —  Near the close of the first year of the Trump presidency, executives at Facebook …
 
 
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ICE:
ICE implements July 23, 2019 expedited removal designation
Discussion: Mother Jones
American Greatness:
The Antifa Industry at Work
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Slate:
How to Survive Election Night
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The Marine Corps is investigating a deployed machine-gunner who seems to be a Nazi fanboy
Elaina Plott / New York Times:
Around Atlanta, Many White Suburbanites Are Sticking With Trump
American Oversight:
Pompeo's Use of Personal Email While CIA Director Highlights State Department's Failure to Produce His Emails as Secretary
USA Today:
19 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct. Here's what their stories have in common.