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7:25 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 …
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.
Hanna Panreck / Fox News:
Ye locked out of Twitter due to ‘violation’ of policies  —  Ye has traded public barbs with fellow rappers on social media  —  Kanye West sets the record straight on his clothing line  —  Ye's Twitter account was locked on Sunday due to a violation of the social media platform's policies, according to the company.
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Haaretz:
Kanye West Threatens to Go ‘Death Con 3 on Jewish People’
Michael Starr / Jerusalem Post:
Kanye West warns Jews about ‘toying’ with him and those opposing ‘agenda’
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Putin's Regime Faces the Fate of His Kerch Strait Bridge  —  The attack on the crucial link between Russia and Crimea matters less for its tactical significance and more for what it says about the course of the war.  —  On Saturday, the Ukrainians hit the Kerch Strait Bridge …
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.
G. Elliott Morris / Democracy:
The polling website where Republicans are winning in a landslide |  #206 - October 9, 2022  —  A math and history lesson on why “unskewing” the polls is so hard  —  Over the weekend, a new series of charts appeared on the webpages of RealClearPolitics.com, the right-leaning news aggregation website …
Discussion: Politico
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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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.
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 …
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
Kyle Morris / Fox News:
Jennifer-Ruth Green takes aim at political opposition after Politico publishes records of her sexual assault  —  Green tells Fox News Digital that Politico ran the information about her assault after she pleaded with them not to do so  —  Jennifer-Ruth Green, the Republican candidate …
Meduza.io:
Police arrest fifth-grader during class A Moscow school principal reported her student for a yellow and blue profile picture  —  The human rights organization OVD-Info reports that a school principal in Moscow contacted the Ministry of Internal Affairs about a fifth-grader who used a yellow …
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.
Associated Press:
Trump speaks via video at rally of global far-right in Spain  —  Former U.S. President Donald Trump threw his weight behind Spain's far-right Sunday in a video shown at a rally in Madrid that also featured messages by the leading stars of Europe's populist right like Italy's Giorgia Meloni and Hungary's Viktor Orban.
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
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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Nikolas Lanum / Fox News:
Conservative frustration with fact checkers grows after several dubious PolitiFact articles in one week
MacKenzie Ryan / The Guardian:
‘We must defeat them’: new evidence details Oath Keepers' ‘civil war’ timeline
Detroit Free Press:
Endorsements: Give Democrats a chance to lead Michigan Legislature
New York Times:
Another Challenge to New York's Gun Law: Sheriffs Who Won't Enforce It
Reuters:
Bullet-proof glass, guards: U.S. election offices tighten security for Nov. 8 midterms
 Earlier Items: 
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
BLM founder Patrisse Cullors spends thousands renovating backyard of posh $1.4M LA home
Discussion: HotAir
Washington Post:
In Russian-occupied Izyum, she was raped and tortured