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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Libertarian Candidate Drops Out of Arizona Senate Race and Endorses Masters  —  “This is another major boost of momentum as we consolidate our support,” Blake Masters said.  —  The Libertarian candidate running for Senate in Arizona — who had threatened to play spoiler in the closely watched race …
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The Phillips Academy Poll:
Arizona decides: Kelly and Masters locked in tight battle, Kari Lake dominates Hobbs  —  Arizona is heating up, and we're not just talking about temperature.  Arizona Democrats are trying to preserve their seat, currently held by Mark Kelly, while the GOP hopes to gain a majority in the Senate.
Joshua Jamerson / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Prospects Rise Amid Economic Pessimism, WSJ Poll Finds  —  Survey shows Republicans with an edge in voting enthusiasm; inflation overshadows abortion as a key issue  —  Voters are giving Republicans a late boost in support just ahead of the midterm elections, as pessimism about the economy …
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Colorado 2022: Senate Race Tightens but Bennet Maintains Lead; Polis Holds 14-Point Lead Over Ganahl  —  Home Polls Colorado 2022: Senate Race Tightens but Bennet Maintains Lead; Polis Holds 14-Point Lead Over Ganahl  —  The latest Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey …
Cassidy Johncox / WDIV-TV:
Poll: Where Michigan voters stand on Whitmer, Dixon 1 week before election
Discussion: The Hill and The Post Millennial
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Chief Justice Roberts temporarily blocks release of Trump's tax records to House Democrats  —  Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily blocked a congressional committee from accessing former President Donald Trump's tax records.  —  Trump, unlike other recent presidents …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Chief Justice Roberts temporarily delays release of Trump tax records  —  Lawmakers have said they need Trump's tax returns from his time in office to help evaluate the effectiveness of annual presidential audits.  —  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday temporarily halted the release …
TMZ.com:
Migos Rapper Takeoff Dead at 28, Shot in Houston  —  7:11 AM PT — In a new video you can hear Quavo on the phone, presumably with a 911 operator, and he's asking ... “What does she need to do?”  A woman on the scene had said she was a nurse and was offering to help Takeoff.
Bloomberg:
Twitter Limits Content-Enforcement Tools as US Election Looms  —  Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used for content moderation and other policy enforcement, curbing the staff's ability to clamp down on misinformation ahead of a major US election.
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Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk Is No Aberration  —  Sign up for Yair's newsletter, Deep Shtetl, here.  —  Did you hear about the miracle Cuban coronavirus cure that we never got because of capitalism?  If not, you probably aren't on Twitter, where this fictitious remedy went, well, viral.
William Saletan / The Bulwark:
Even the Sane Republicans Are Embracing Election Deniers  —  Chris Sununu is just the latest to put party before country.  —  Chris Sununu, the governor of New Hampshire, is one of the saner people in today's Republican party.  He concedes that the 2020 election was free and fair.
Bloomberg:
NSA Watchdog Concluded One Analyst's Surveillance Project Went Too Far  —  An “experienced” analyst working at the National Security Agency developed a surveillance project about a decade ago that resulted in the unauthorized targeting and collection of private communications of people …
Washington Post:
MAGA porn, hate for Trump: China-based accounts stoke division  —  A fake China-based account called MAGA ‘Hot Babe’ was among nearly 2,000 that sought to influence America's midterms and were removed by Twitter  —  Twitter has disrupted three China-based operations that were covertly trying …
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Aaron Schaffer / Washington Post:   Nearly 2,000 fake Twitter accounts were trying to churn up U.S. voters even more
Doug Heye / Washington Post:
I helped run the ‘Fire Pelosi’ effort.  Our toxic politics goes too far.  —  Doug Heye is a former communications director of the Republican National Committee and founder of communications firm Douglas Media.  —  As communications director for the Republican National Committee in the 2010 election cycle …
Kylie Atwood / CNN:
Iran is preparing to send additional weapons including ballistic missiles to Russia to use in Ukraine, western officials say  —  Iran is preparing to send approximately 1,000 additional weapons, including surface-to-surface short range ballistic missiles and more attack drones …
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Washington Post:
Mehmet Oz's medical research was rejected in 2003, resulting in 2-year ban  —  At issue were questions about the strength of the data used by Oz to reach an important medical conclusion, according to several of those who recalled the events  —  In May 2003, Mehmet Oz was the senior author …
Discussion: Jezebel and Raw Story
Slate:
The Supreme Court Has No Reason to End Affirmative Action.  They're Doing It Anyway.  —  Oral arguments in a pair of much-anticipated cases about the future of affirmative action sprawled over almost six hours on Monday, yet the outcome was obvious within the first 30 minutes …
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Scientific American:
Why Scientists Must Stand for Affirmative Action and against Scientific Racism
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover  — Tesla CEO Elon Musk, now sole director and CEO of Twitter, is asking employees of the social network to redesign their subscription and verification systems within one week.  — Musk has authorized dozens …
Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
Early Turnout Appears to Be Highest in 23 Years … Here's what's at stake as Israelis cast their ballots.  —  As Israelis vote on Tuesday in their fifth parliamentary election in less than four years, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to return to power, but polls are predicting another deadlock.
Lydia DePillis / New York Times:
Job Openings Rose in September Despite Higher Interest Rates  —  The labor market has remained stronger than expected even as the Federal Reserve has tried to get inflation under control.  —  The nation's extreme shortage of job seekers worsened in September, the Labor Department reported Tuesday …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Americans' Thought, Enthusiasm About Midterms Down From 2018  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 49% of Americans who say they have given “quite a lot” of thought to this year's congressional elections is essentially unchanged from the previous reading in June.  In addition, 2% volunteer …
Discussion: The Hill
J.B. Shurk / American Thinker:
Pelosi Got Hammered  —  When a story comes out about a Pelosi getting hammered, a normal person assumes the news has something to do with a drunk speaker of the House named Nancy slurring through a staged press conference with her Pravda media friends.  You do not expect to find …
Bart Jansen / USA Today:
Mark Meadows loses federal case in fight over House Jan. 6 committee subpoena  —  Meadows filed one of dozens of lawsuits challenging the committee's subpoenas, but federal courts have upheld the panel's validity and authority.  —  WASHINGTON - A federal judge has thrown out former White House chief …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
DeSantis' voter fraud arrests unravel  —  In August, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) held a “campaign-style event” and announced that 20 people had been arrested “for breaking Florida's elections laws.”  In a press release, DeSantis' office set aside the presumption of innocence, branding the group “election criminals.”
Discussion: Raw Story and Tampa Bay Times
New York Times:
Truth Social's Influence Grows Despite Its Business Problems  —  The right-wing social network faces two federal investigations and an uncertain financial future.  But it has still managed to outpace its rivals.  —  Truth Social, the right-wing social network, has faced one business calamity …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
If Oregon Turns Red, Whose Fault Will That Be?  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — An ad for one of the candidates for governor of Oregon begins with shots of trash and the tarp-covered tent encampments that line many of Portland's streets.  “Nobody in Oregon would say, 'Let's keep doing exactly what we've been doing,'” says the candidate.
Discussion: Common Sense and Washington Post
Andrew Lapin / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
An evangelical GOP House candidate in Texas wrote a novel about Anne Frank finding Jesus  —  (JTA) — The Republican nominee for Congress in Texas' 7th district is a self-proclaimed history buff, but his take on Anne Frank is not one that most historians would endorse.
Tressie McMillan Cottom / New York Times:
Trevor Noah, Samantha Bee, and the Future of Liberal Late Night T.V.  —  Trevor Noah recently surprised fans (and, according to some accounts, also Comedy Central management) when he announced plans to leave “The Daily Show.”  His departure is one of many notable personnel changes in late-night television …
Taylor Telford / Washington Post:
U.S. workers have gotten way less productive.  No one is sure why.  —  Bosses and economists are troubled by the worst drop in U.S. worker output since 1947  —  Employers across the country are worried that workers are getting less done — and there's evidence they're right to be spooked.
Discussion: KTLA
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Requests for abortion pills soar after Roe reversal, study finds  —  WASHINGTON — Requests for pills used to self-manage abortions rose significantly in 30 states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Daniel Greenfield / Frontpage Mag:
The Midterm Election Rigging is Underway  —  “This delay does not mean anything nefarious is happening.”  —  Election Day results, like clean streets and easily available products in supermarkets, have become artifacts of a recent glorious past.  Don't count on finding eggs and milk …
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Terrorist Weapons Trafficking Network in Eastern Africa  —  WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against the Islamic State in Somalia (ISIS-Somalia), its first designations against this affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Discussion: Associated Press and Al Jazeera
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Top GOP Secretary of State Candidates Hobnob with Extreme Conspiracy Theorists  —  Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.  —  If you want to see just how crazy the GOP has become, you need only watch the video recording of a conference on …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Fetterman on debate: ‘I thought it was important that I show up’  —  Pennsylvania Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman anticipated that his debate against Republican Mehmet Oz “wasn't going to be easy” following a stroke earlier this year but “thought it was important that I show up,” …
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Arizona GOP nominee Kari Lake mocks attack on Paul Pelosi at campaign event  —  The remark by the candidate for governor drew laughter from the crowd.  The House speaker's husband remains in intensive care.  —  The Republican nominee for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake …
Emily Oster / The Atlantic:
Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty  —  In April 2020, with nothing else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes.  We all wore cloth masks that I had made myself.  We had a family hand signal, which the person in the front would use if someone was approaching on the trail and we needed to put on our masks.
 
 
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Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
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John Gramlich / Pew Research Center:
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Discussion: Breitbart, CNN and New York Times
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Candidate for Fayette Pa. House seat assaulted amid warnings about election-related threats and violence
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Paige Williams / New Yorker:
The Right-Wing Mothers Fuelling the School-Board Wars
Jessica Huseman / Votebeat Texas:
Two leaders of True the Vote jailed by federal judge for contempt of court
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