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Dan Berman / CNN:
Kavanaugh tweaks voting opinion after Vermont official asks for correction  —  Law professor cited by Kavanaugh responds  —  (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday night tweaked a line in his controversial opinion on Wisconsin mail-in voting this week …
Discussion: Raw Story, Law & Crime and WCAX-TV
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Let Pennsylvania and North Carolina Accept Absentee Ballots After Election Day  —  The pair of decisions were welcomed by Democrats.  Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was expected to cast a deciding vote, did not participate in either decision.
Joyce Vance / MSNBC:
The Supreme Court will not protect our voting rights.  Here's who actually might. … As we make our way to the polls, either in-person or via mail, we need to remember that in addition to sending elected officials to Washington, D.C., we are voting for governors, state legislators, mayors and, in some states, judges.
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and New York Times
Washington Post:
Millions of mail ballots have not been returned as window closes for Postal Service delivery  —  Election officials said many may belong to those who requested them early, then decided to vote in person  —  Amid a record surge in early voting, millions of mail ballots remained unreturned Wednesday …
Associated Press:
Supreme Court leaves NC absentee ballot deadline at Nov. 12
Discussion: Townhall and MyNorthwest.com
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' only way to win is to stop people from voting
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Democrats in Pennsylvania, North Carolina claim key wins at Supreme Court ahead of election
Miles Taylor / Medium:
A Statement  —  Why I'm no longer “Anonymous”  —  More than two years ago, I published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times about Donald Trump's perilous presidency, while I was serving under him.  He responded with a short but telling tweet: “TREASON?”  —  Trump sees personal criticism as subversive.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Miles Taylor, a Former Homeland Security Official, Reveals He Was ‘Anonymous’  —  Mr. Taylor, whose criticisms of President Trump in a New York Times Op-Ed article and subsequent book, roiled Washington and infuriated Mr. Trump, resigned from the administration last year and endorsed Joe Biden this summer.
Doug Richards / WXIA-TV:
Sen. Loeffler: ‘Not familiar’ with Access Hollywood tape  —  Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she will “always” defend President Donald Trump.  —  BUFORD, Ga. — Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she doesn't disagree with anything President Donald Trump has said or done.
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Senate Committee Successfully Verifies All Bobulinski Materials Reviewed To Date  —  The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has successfully verified all materials reviewed so far from Hunter Biden's ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski, the Daily Caller has learned.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Suggests His Hunter Biden Dirt Was Intercepted in the Mail  —  The Fox News star heavily implied that his “confidential documents” on Hunter Biden were stolen as part of a nefarious plot.  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has devoted the lion's share of his airtime recently …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump's Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters' Lives  —  The president has continued to downplay he severity of the coronavirus and declare before largely maskless crowds that it is vanishing.  The surge in new cases across the country suggests otherwise.
CNN:
Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country ‘back from the doctors’  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising …
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Officials Warn of Cyberattacks on Hospitals as Virus Cases Spike  —  Government officials warned that hackers were seeking to hold American hospitals' data hostage in exchange for ransom payments.  —  Hundreds of American hospitals are being targeted in cyberattacks by the same Russian hackers …
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NBC News:
‘Quick, quick, quick’: Trump rushes McSally at rally as she fights to hold her Senate seat  —  President Donald Trump offered a not-very warm welcome to Sen. Martha McSally on Wednesday at his campaign rally in Arizona, where his fellow Republican is fighting to hold on to her seat.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Judge: Virginia can't count ballots with missing postmarks  —  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge ruled Wednesday that Virginia elections officials cannot count absentee ballots with missing or illegible postmarks unless they can confirm the date of mailing through a barcode, granting an injunction requested by a conservative legal group.
Discussion: Breitbart
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Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
Millions of mail ballots not yet returned in key states
Discussion: Breitbart and Reuters
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Unrest in Philadelphia after police kill a Black man roils the presidential campaign  —  The deadly police shooting of a Black man in Philadelphia has roiled the presidential campaign in a key battleground state just days before the election, igniting tensions over race …
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Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Swing Toward The Democrats  —  But most voters still expect Trump to win  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Georgia's electoral votes remains very close, but Joe Biden has gained ground on Donald Trump in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
Discussion: Political Wire, Politico and Daily Kos
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump's COVID Advisers: He's Now Pushing Herd Immunity  —  Scott Atlas, the president's most favored adviser, says it's not true.  But others working on the pandemic say it's merely a game of semantics.  The policy is increasingly clear.  —  Despite publicly downplaying it …
Detroit News:
Whitmer kidnap plotter also wanted to hang Trump, other politicians, FBI says  —  A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump and posted a hit list on Facebook targeting other elected leaders, including former President Barack Obama …
Discussion: Fox News, Associated Press and Twitchy
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Jared Kushner, Peggy Noonan and White problems with Black ambition  —  When you're Black in America, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.  You're either shiftless or too ambitious.  If you're too ambitious, you better not for one moment show a sense of comfort in your own skin lest …
Discussion: Mediaite
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
After 12 Years, Arrest Made in Abduction of Former Times Journalist David Rohde  —  A former Taliban commander was arrested in the November 2008 kidnapping of Mr. Rohde and two others in Afghanistan.  He was brought to the United States to face charges.  —  Twelve years after a New York …
Politico:
Ratcliffe went off script with Iran remarks, officials say  —  Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe went off script when he alleged during a press conference last week that Iran was sending intimidating emails to Americans in order to “damage President Trump,” …
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden and Trump to tangle in Tampa on Thursday  —  In rare crossing of paths, the two presidential nominees campaign in the same city on the same day  —  Trump, Biden campaigns flood battleground Florida with surrogates  —  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump …
Discussion: Reuters, Associated Press and CBS Miami
Politico:
Trump's path begins in Florida  —  With help from Renuka Rayasam and Myah Ward  —  TAMPA TWO — Good evening and hello from the state of election cliffhangers, where on Thursday, in a rare crossing of paths, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will campaign in the same city, Tampa.
SpyTalk:
Moscow on the Potomac?  —  A D.C. Council candidate's father has longtime business ties to Russia, worrying some CIA veterans  —  Are the Russians meddling in a Washington D.C. city council election?  —  That's the question that keeps Lauren Wolfe up at night.
Nick Aspinwall / Foreign Policy:
Guo Wengui Is Sending Mobs After Chinese Dissidents  —  Steve Bannon's billionaire funder claims to be a foe of the Chinese Communist Party, but his targets are fellow exiles.  —  A prominent Chinese dissident pulls his children from school and flees his Texas home.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Stench of Trump's Racism Will Cling to His Enablers Forever  —  A month ago, President Trump added to his rally speech a new riff about Ilhan Omar, expressing indignation that the Democratic member of Congress would dare to express opinions about American government.
Discussion: ProPublica and National Review
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian:
Trump aide Stephen Miller preparing second-term immigration blitz … The architect of Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy, senior adviser Stephen Miller, is said to have a drawer full of executive orders ready to be signed in “shock and awe” style if Trump is re-elected.
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal:
Hacker Releases Georgia County Election Data After Ransom Not Paid  —  County among entities whose ‘time to pay is over,’ according to review of hacker's website  —  A computer hacker who took over networks maintained by Hall County, Ga., escalated demands this week by publicly releasing …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Girl Scouts deletes social media congratulations to Amy Coney Barrett on Supreme Court seat after angry backlash  — The Girls Scouts sparked a wave of angry comments — and praise — with Facebook and Twitter posts congratulating the conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett for her controversial appointment to the Supreme Court.
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
‘We Merely Need to Dampen Turnout’: Leaked Docs Show Top Trump Allies' 2016 Plan to Suppress Black Voters
Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden, if elected, would consult allies on future of U.S. tariffs on China - advisers
Discussion: Associated Press
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
New challenge seeks to void thousands of Harris County drive-thru votes
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida man charged after altering governor's voter registration
 Earlier Items: 
The Daily Beast:
Why Hasn't Trump Come to Lindsey Graham's Rescue?
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Biden Holds 8-Point Lead in Michigan as He Tries to Reconstruct the ‘Blue Wall’
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Russian in Cyprus Was Behind Key Parts of Discredited Dossier on Trump
BuzzFeed News:
Herman Cain's Life And Death Were More Complicated Than That
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Biden's Path to 270 Widens, Trump's Path Narrows, as Texas Moves to Toss Up
 

 
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