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5:25 PM ET, October 9, 2022

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Los Angeles Times:
In leaked audio, L.A. council members make racist remarks, mock colleagues  —  Three Latino members of the Los Angeles City Council and a top county labor official held a conversation last fall that included racist remarks, derisive statements about their colleagues and council President Nury Martinez saying …
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Jon Peltz / Knock LA:
Council President Martinez on DA Gascón: 'Fuck That Guy...He's with the Blacks.'  —  This is a developing story.  It will be updated as appropriate.  —  Earlier this month, an anonymous Reddit account posted several shocking audio recordings.  The recordings seem to contain the voices …
Ralph Vartabedian / New York Times:
How California's Bullet Train Went Off the Rails  —  America's first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare.  Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
Discussion: National Review and Althouse
Adam B. Vary / Variety:
Nikki Finke, Deadline Founder and Iconoclastic Journalist, Dies at 68 … Nikki Finke, a tenacious journalist who revolutionized entertainment reporting with what became the Hollywood trade website Deadline, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Fla. after a prolonged illness.  She was 68.
Discussion: Deadline and New York Post
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Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
Nikki Finke Dies: Deadline Founder & Longtime Entertainment Journalist Was 68  —  Nikki Finke, the veteran entertainment journalist who founded Deadline in 2006 and helped grow it into a major player among Hollywood trades, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, FL after a prolonged illness.  She was 68.
Brad Dress / The Hill:
House Republican defends Tuberville over reparation remark  —  Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Sunday defended Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) after the senator said Democrats want reparations for minorities because their party is “pro-crime.”  —  Bacon told NBC's “Meet the Press” …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Alabama's Tommy Tuberville injects the ghost of Bull Connor into 2022 midterms  —  In the morally downhill midterms of 2022, there are dog whistles ... and then there are just whistles.  Nowhere is that more obvious than a place called Minden, Nev. — a small town near the California border …
Discussion: al.com and PoliticusUSA
Michael Weiss / Yahoo News:
‘Ukraine will win’: Estonia's departing spy chief opens up on Putin's war  —  TALLINN, Estonia — “Early retirement” is a strange way to describe a 44-year-old's acceptance of a new government role, but for Mikk Marran, Estonia's spymaster, it feels a lot like that.
Discussion: Telegraph
The Economist:
The war in Ukraine has battered the reputation of Russian spies  —  As they take greater risks, they are getting caught  —  Viktor muller ferreira was a young Brazilian with impressive credentials and a big break.  Fresh from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington …
Associated Press:
‘A time bomb’: Anger rising in a hot spot of Iran protests  —  Growing up under a repressive system, Sharo, a 35-year-old university graduate, never thought she would hear words of open rebellion spoken out loud.  Now she herself chants slogans like “Death to the Dictator!” …
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Michael Starr / Jerusalem Post:
Kanye West warns Jews about ‘toying’ with him and those opposing ‘agenda’  —  Kanye West said that he couldn't be antisemitic, because black people are actually Jews.  —  American rapper Kanye West threatened Jewish people about a supposed conflict with him over a Jewish agenda …
Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
Trumpism Has Found Its Leading Lady  —  As election returns rolled in on the evening of November 3, 2020, a local news host in Phoenix was starring in an intensely awkward broadcast.  The Fox 10 anchor Kari Lake was refusing to call Arizona for Joe Biden—even though her network had already done so.
New York Post:
Two shot outside NY gov. hopeful Rep. Lee Zeldin's Long Island home while twin daughters inside  —  Two people were shot outside the Long Island home of GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin on Sunday while his teenage twin daughters were at home, he confirmed to The Post.
Paul Adams / BBC:
Crimean bridge: Excitement and fear in Ukraine after bridge blast  —  Ukraine is exploding with excitement this morning.  —  Videos of the damaged Crimean bridge have spread like wildfire on social media; this is already being compared to the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva in April.
 
 
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Detroit Free Press:
Endorsements: Give Democrats a chance to lead Michigan Legislature
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Trump speaks via video at rally of global far-right in Spain
Reuters:
Bullet-proof glass, guards: U.S. election offices tighten security for Nov. 8 midterms
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BLM founder Patrisse Cullors spends thousands renovating backyard of posh $1.4M LA home
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