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9:20 PM ET, November 6, 2022

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New York Times:
Twitter Said to Delay Changes to Check Mark Badges Until After Midterm Election  —  Users and employees had raised concerns that Elon Musk's plan to give check marks to those who paid a monthly fee could be misused to sow discord.  —  Twitter is delaying the rollout of verification check marks …
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Bloomberg:
Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back  —  Twitter Inc., after laying off roughly half the company on Friday following Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition, is now reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs and asking them to return.
Katie Akin / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Voters prefer Republicans in all 4 Iowa congressional races  —  Iowa's likely voters and those who already have cast ballots prefer Republican candidates in all four of the state's congressional districts, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll found.
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Bridget Bowman / NBC News:   NBC News poll: Voters most blame social media, cable news and Trump for political violence
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Almost half want ‘great deal’ of change in how Biden has been leading US: survey
NBC News:   A spiral of violence and fear is creating angst for many voters ahead of the midterm elections
New York Times:
Trump-DeSantis Rift Grows, With Dueling Rallies in Florida  —  The Republican Party's top two stars are campaigning, separately, in the midterms' last days.  —  SUN CITY CENTER, Fla. — Former President Donald J. Trump hasn't endorsed Gov. Ron DeSantis this year because, as he has explained, his fellow Floridian never asked.
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Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Some conservatives turn on Trump for attacking Ron DeSantis ahead of midterms: ‘What an idiot’
Wall Street Journal:
Senior White House Official Involved in Undisclosed Talks With Top Putin Aides  —  Jake Sullivan has had confidential discussions with Russian counterparts amid concerns over escalation and nuclear threats  —  WASHINGTON—President Biden's top national-security adviser has engaged …
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Trump May Pose a Test No Special Counsel Can Pass  —  Former President Donald J. Trump's apparent plan to soon announce his candidacy is challenging Attorney General Merrick B. Garland's desire to show that the Justice Dept. can operate above partisanship.  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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Politico:   Biden won on infrastructure. Democrats are struggling to get voters to care.
CNN:
Kari Lake's campaign headquarters receives ‘suspicious’ mail containing white powder  —  An envelope containing “suspicious white powder” was received Saturday at the campaign headquarters of the Republican nominee for governor in Arizona.  —  A staffer at Kari Lake's campaign headquarters …
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Brad Dress / The Hill:
Kari Lake's campaign received envelope with ‘suspicious’ white powder
Rob Crilly / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - FBI called to Kari Lake's campaign office after staff received suspicious white powder in two envelopes with ‘threatening’ messages for Republican Arizona Governor candidate
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday's Midterms  —  Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.  —  The user on Gab who identifies as Nora Berka resurfaced in August …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Cotton passes on 2024 presidential run after considering campaign  —  Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton has decided that he won't run for president in 2024 — making him the first big-name Republican to step aside as former President Donald Trump and others make moves toward running.
New York Times:
Ronald Lauder: New York's Billionaire Political Disrupter  —  The cosmetics heir has pumped at least $11 million into efforts to elect Representative Lee Zeldin, a Republican, as governor of New York.  —  Ronald S. Lauder, a 78-year-old cosmetics heir, philanthropist and art collector …
Discussion: New York Post and Politico
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Ex-Gov. Pataki says Zeldin on cusp of upset like his own 1994 victory
Discussion: City & State New York
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
How Molly Jong-Fast Tweeted Her Way to Liberal Media Stardom  —  She wasn't a political expert.  But her Trump-era angst found a following among Democrats — and even the White House is interested.  —  Molly Jong-Fast had just finished interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris for her podcast …
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Reuters:
‘Kill them’: Arizona election workers face midterm threats  —  Election workers in Arizona's most fiercely contested county faced more than 100 violent threats and intimidating communications in the run-up to Tuesday's midterms, most of them based on election conspiracy theories promoted by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
Discussion: NewsNation and TIME
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week  —  Social-media company's planned cuts expected to affect many thousands of its workforce  —  Meta Platforms Inc. META 2.11%increase; green up pointing triangle is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week …
Tokyosand / Political⚡Charge:
The Week's Best Cartoons: The GOP Chooses Violence  —  My only message to you today is to please, please be sure you vote by Tuesday.  As this week's cartoons clearly demonstrate, the GOP is eager to continue to drag us down a dark, dark path.  We must keep them out of power at every level of government.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Salena Zito: Oz aims to complete transformation from television talker to practical politician  —  Had you just followed the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman's tweets — or the staffer the Fetterman campaign says does much of his tweeting — you would be led to believe voters …
Discussion: Power Line
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump ‘Apologizes’ to Matt Gaetz on Behalf of America.  America Rolls Its Eyes  —  At a Florida rally, the former president said the congressman deserved an apology for being under investigation for sex trafficking a minor  —  In his second rally of the weekend, Donald Trump spewed …
 
 
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Ron Johnson pushes racial divisions in his closing message to Wis. GOP voters
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Samuel L. Katz, a Developer of the Measles Vaccine, Dies at 95
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Andy Bounds / Financial Times:
EU accuses US of breaking WTO rules with green energy incentives
Discussion: Bloomberg
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘He was chosen’: the rightwing Christian roadshow spreading the gospel of Trump
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
A Key Polling Warning Sign Has Dimmed Since September
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump
Discussion: Page Array and Occupy Democrats
 

 
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