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CNN:
‘That son of a bitch’: New Woodward book reveals candid behind-the-scenes conversations of Biden, Trump, Harris and Putin  —  Editor's Note: The story below contains explicit language  —  In his new book, legendary journalist Bob Woodward offers a remarkable look behind the scenes …
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says  —  “War,” by Bob Woodward, traces how Trump and Biden responded to international crisis and concludes that Trump is worse than Nixon, the president exiled by the Watergate scandal.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Book Raises Unverified Claims About Trump's Ties to Putin  —  A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward reports that Donald J. Trump has secretly spoken as many as seven times with Vladimir V. Putin, even as the former president has resisted aid for Ukraine's war against Russia.
Paige Oamek / New Republic:
Trump Lashes Out After Damning Report on His Close Ties to Putin  —  Donald Trump's campaign team is lashing out against a journalist following news that the former president secretly kept in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin after leaving the Oval Office.
emptywheel:
As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin  —  According to CNN, Bob Woodward's latest book reveals that Trump has spoken to Vladimir Putin as many as seven times since leaving the Presidency. … According to WaPo's version of the Woodward story …
Discussion: Mediaite
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Eleven years later, Trump may finally have the best friend he wanted
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Kamala Harris' Support Among Republicans Almost Doubles: NYT-Siena Poll  —  in November has nearly doubled over the past month according to a major new survey from  —  .  —  It found nine percent of likely voters who describe themselves as  —  plan to back the Democratic candidate in November …
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Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
Kamala Harris makes the case in 60 Minutes interview for why she should be president
New York Times:
Poll Finds Harris Rising as She Challenges Trump on Change
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
55/45 is a really close race  —  After a drought, we finally have enough interesting polling …
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Kamala Harris Struggling to Break Through With Working Class, Democrats Fear
Discussion: Power Line and BizPac Review
Li Zhou / Vox:
Donald Trump's many, many lies about Hurricane Helene, debunked  —  Since Hurricane Helene decimated parts of western North Carolina last week, former President Donald Trump has seized on the tragedy to perpetuate lies about the federal response, sowing chaos and confusion as officials scramble to help those affected.
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Politico:
Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People's Twitter Accounts To Promote Donald Trump  —  How quickly do you think we'd be having Congressional hearings about “election interference” if Mark Zuckerberg so much as posted a “Harris/Walz” lawn sign in front of his house?
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Cesar's Conspicuous Call  —  Questions are mounting over why NBCU has opted to shelve the well-reviewed documentary from an Oscar-winning filmmaker until after the election.  —  NBCU News Group boss Cesar Conde is — yet again — facing questions about an eyebrow-raising editorial decision that was made within his palace's walls.
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Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:   MSNBC delays documentary over fears it could ‘offend Donald Trump’: report
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
NBC Set Post-Election MSNBC Premiere of Errol Morris Doc ‘Separated’ to Avoid Offending Trump | Report
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
‘Eternally sorry’: Journalist confesses his biggest error in covering ‘buffoon’ Trump  —  Former President Donald Trump's behavior has been enabled by a mainstream press that “never took him seriously,” Lucian Truscott wrote for Salon on Tuesday in a damning indictment of the media's enabling …
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Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon:   The problem with reporting on Donald Trump is the press never took him seriously
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
FBI probe of Kavanaugh constrained by Trump White House, report finds  —  A Democratic senator's report finds new evidence of the White House controlling an FBI investigation into sexual assault claims against the Supreme Court nominee.  —  In September 2018, as allegations of sexual misconduct …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
The latest union snub for Harris and Walz underscores a bigger problem for their campaign  —  Even with a union member on the presidential ticket, Democrats are struggling to hold back a changing cultural tide.  —  It was a viral moment for a campaign that needed one: A chorus …
US Department of Justice:
Afghan National Arrested for Plotting an Election Day Terrorist Attack in the Name of ISIS  —  For Immediate Release  —  Note: View the unsealed criminal complaint here.  —  The Justice Department today announced charges against a citizen of Afghanistan residing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI arrests Afghan man who officials say planned Election Day attack in the US
Christopher Steele / Newsweek:
I'm Behind the Trump-Russia Dossier.  We Gave the FBI More Than People Know  —  My wife Katherine called me up to the bedroom and told me that BuzzFeed had published our memos: The so-called “dossier” on  —  .  —  It was the night of January 10, 2017.  The publication of the news story …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
What Will Happen If Trump Wins the 2024 Election?  —  And why it matters in 2024. … Former President Donald Trump has threatened a campaign of retribution if he returns to the White House, signaling that he will seek to prosecute rivals and enemies while stocking a second administration with loyalists who will carry out his wishes.
Pluralistic:
Google's new phones can't stop phoning home (permalink)  —  One of the most brazen lies of Big Tech is that people like commercial surveillance, a fact you can verify for yourself by simply observing how many people end up using products that spy on them.  If they didn't like spying, they wouldn't opt into being spied on.
Discussion: The Register
Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
The Cataclysmic Post-Election Scenario No One's Bracing For  —  At the start of the 118th Congress in January 2023, I sat in the press gallery of the House chamber and watched Republicans fail to elect a speaker, as Kevin McCarthy didn't have the votes.  What is traditionally accomplished …
Discussion: Associated Press
Axios:
Scoop: Senate Democrats go to war over GOP ad spending loophole … - The FEC will decide this week if one GOP strategy can keep going, with a vote expected Thursday.  — People who closely follow the commission tell Axios the expectation is for the vote to split along party lines …
Discussion: HuffPost
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DeSantis Threatening Jail Time for Running Abortion Rights Ads in Florida  —  Florida has become the state where elements of a future, second-Trump-presidency America already come into view.  We're seeing some of these things happening right now in Florida.  The example I'm about to share with you legitimately shocked me.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. Scott Perry Went From Hailing Project 2025 To Knowing Nothing About It  —  “I don't even know how many pages it is,” the Pennsylvania Republican told a constituent, a month after praising the far-right policy roadmap for its “accountability.”  —  LOADING
Discussion: Meidas+
emptywheel:
Disaster Disinformation Is This Year's John Podesta Emails  —  I've already focused on these three paragraphs, but want to return to them.  They're from NYT's article anticipating how the apparently tied race will roll out in the next 30 (now 28) days.
Deepa Shivaram / NPR:
Harris proposes Medicare cover home care costs to help the ‘sandwich generation’  —  Vice President Harris on Tuesday laid out a proposal to expand Medicare coverage to help cover the costs of home health care aides for seniors.  —  Harris announced the plan — squarely aimed at …
 
 
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Tatyana Tandanpolie / Salon:
Expert: Analysis shows Trump tax plan “taking money” from bottom 95% and “giving it” to richest 5%
Discussion: ITEP
Joan Biskupic / CNN:
John Roberts remains confounded by Donald Trump as election approaches
Discussion: Above the Law and Alternet.org
Azeen Ghorayshi / New York Times:
3% of American High Schoolers Identify as Transgender, First National Survey Finds
Alex Nguyen / Mother Jones:
Report: Mark Robinson Skips Vote on Hurricane Helene Support—Again
Discussion: Climate Desk
SiriusXM:
Watch and Listen to Kamala Harris' Full Interview with Howard Stern
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
Doug Emhoff was a foul-mouthed ‘a**hole’ and ‘misogynist’ who hired a ‘trophy secretary’ because she was ‘pretty’ and 'retaliated against women who didn't flirt …
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Citing omelets and chili, justices seem likely to uphold ghost gun rules
Kathryn Wilkens / Mediaite:
CNN's Chris Wallace on Why He Left Fox News: I Have A Problem With ‘Conspiracy and Lies’
Discussion: The Hill, Associated Press and HuffPost
Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
Buttigieg Rips Trump's Dangerous Hurricane Lies to Shreds
Discussion: New Republic, CBS News and Daily Kos
Associated Press:
A former aide to New York Mayor Eric Adams is charged with destroying evidence as top deputy quits
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Trump Gets Unhinged, Even for Him, Over Kamala Harris ‘60 Minutes’ Interview