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Axios:
Scoop: Senate GOP to send $5m to shore up Graham in South Carolina  —  The main super PAC supporting Republican Senate candidates plans to inject $5 million into the South Carolina campaign as an “insurance policy” to help GOP nominee Darline Graham, a source familiar with the move tells Axios.
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Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina  —  Annie Andrews is a physician running against Sen. Darline Graham.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Grandpa Trump Is Getting Desperate  —  The hot-mic moments just keep coming for Texas GOP Senate hopeful Ken Paxton.  Last week, it was leaked audio of Paxton admitting that Trump's ballyhooed midterm convention had actually hurt his numbers.  This week, it's audio of Paxton complaining …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Politico:
Obama returns as closer-in-chief  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  Good Tuesday morning.  Election Day is exactly four weeks out and — like Rep. Haley Stevens tackling her fourth hot wing — we're eager to get this over with.  Toss us a note.  —  In today's Playbook ...
Fox News:
Fox News Power Rankings: The biggest surprises come after October
Discussion: Newsweek
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Top Democratic Super PAC Raised Record Amount in Third Quarter
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Republicans fight red-state midterm chaos with hundreds of millions in late money
Laura Chung / New York Times:
Fury in California After Trump Suggests Iran ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”  —  California leaders condemned …
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump suggests letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego at campaign rally  — 3 min Click here to listen to this article  — California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president ‘deranged and dangerous.’  — The crowd in Grand Island, Neb., cheered the remarks about Los Angeles and San Diego.
Megan Brand / NBC News:
California officials condemn Trump for saying Iran could ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego
ProPublica:
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump's Immigration Crackdown  —  Experts have long warned that immigration dragnets and the erosion of civil rights for immigrants will inevitably result in the erosion of rights for citizens.
Discussion: New Republic
Axios:
Missing details keep U.S. plague response on hold  —  Two big unknowns stand in the way of determining how serious the plague threat in Russia is and whether travel advisories, restrictions at U.S. ports of entry or other precautions are warranted.  — We still don't know which pathogen killed …
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Rubio calls for more information from Moscow after researcher's suspected plague death
Reuters:
Rubio tells Russia to share more information about plague death
Mallory Wilson / The Hill:
Trump won't reimburse government for controversial ads  —  The White House clarified Tuesday that President Trump will not pay back the federal government for money already spent on controversial political TV ads after he said he would start paying for the ads himself.
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New York Times:
Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads
Jeff Stein / The Washington Sun:
Trump's Meme Coin Firm Wants You to Buy.  Insiders Are Preparing to Sell.  —  President Donald Trump's meme coin saw a brief price spike as the crypto firm behind it promoted a major perk for investors: a “gala dinner” attended by the president himself.  —  But as the company encouraged …
Casey He / Politico:
Alito says he won't retire during lame duck session  —  Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he plans to stay on the court through next year, brushing aside speculation that he could retire early and let President Donald Trump fill his seat after the election but before a new Congress is sworn in next year.
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Law:
Supreme Court's Alito Will Stay Even If Democrats Win Senate
Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
Olympian cleared in vandalism case seeks watchdog probes of Trump's Reflecting Pool project  —  Lawyers for a former US Olympian accused and then cleared of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool demanded on Tuesday that two government watchdogs investigate the botched renovation …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Former Olympic canoeist asks government watchdogs to probe ‘nightmare’ Reflecting Pool case
Discussion: Alternet.org
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
This Lawsuit Could Make Big Oil Pay for the Harm It's Caused  —  The question is whether the Supreme Court will let it.  —  Pocket  —  The Supreme Court began its new term on Monday by hearing oral arguments in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County.
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
If the polls end up missing, this may have been our early warning sign  —  “Low-effort” survey respondents vote very differently than other poll-takers, and that could be biasing polls by up to 3.5 points against  —  The biennial freak-out over potential error in election polls is now in full force.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Paramount Closes Deal for Warner Bros. Discovery, Creating Media Behemoth  —  After a legal battle, Paramount has finally acquired Warner Bros. Discovery.  In a memo to employees, the combined company's leaders hinted at cost cuts.  —  Paramount closed its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday …
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
Jim Bakker, Television Preacher Felled by Sex and Financial Scandals, Dies at 86  —  With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.  —  Jim Bakker, a television evangelist who lost his popular and prosperous ministry in a 1980s sex scandal …
Sam Ogozalek / Politico:
Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding  —  Communities with high birth and marriage rates could soon gain an advantage in securing federal transit money — a long-sought goal of the Trump administration but one that a top Democratic appropriator calls “bizarre and dystopian.”
Discussion: Alternet.org and The Independent
Steve Vladeck / One First:
256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito's Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense  —  Justice Alito's new book purports to answer the Court's shadow docket critics—by rebutting a caricature and by ignoring the ways in which his own behavior has contradicted nearly every claim he makes.
Discussion: DeLong's Grasping …
Jimmy Tobias / The Guardian:
Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump's interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’  —  John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists  —  An 18-year veteran of the US Department …
Jasmine Fernández / The Independent:
Trump says journalists should be ‘arrested’ for reporting on empty seats at rally  —  The president claims upper-level empty seats were simply attendees moving down to the main floor during the Vandalia, Ohio event  —  Become an Independent member to bookmark this article
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Says, ‘If Abdul Can Win in Michigan, Anybody Can Win Anywhere’  —  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, as she considers whether to run for president in 2028.
Marist Poll:
Midterm Elections in Maine, October 2026  —  Jackson and Collins Competitive in Senate Contest in Maine... Pingree Leads Charles by Double Digits in Race for Governor  — Jackson (51%) is +4 points against Collins (47%) among registered voters in the U.S. Senate race in Maine.
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters  —  The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration pushed the FBI …
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Trump Rages at ‘Loser’ Female Fox Host in New Tirade  —  FOX FURY  —  The president is not happy with his favorite TV network.  —  President Donald Trump has labeled Fox News host Jessica Tarlov a “loser” in a fiery new tirade just hours after he criticized two female reporters.
Paul Krugman:
AI Versus Everything Else  —  Until now, discussions of the potential economic problems created by the AI boom have mostly focused on the future.  Will it destroy millions of jobs?  Is there a bubble and will it cause a severe recession if it bursts?  Will it destroy humanity?
Discussion: New York Times
Politico:
Judge's active role at PR firm prompts ethics complaint from senators  —  Delaware's senators are calling for federal court officials to review a judge's conduct following a POLITICO report that she ran a Washington public affairs firm for at least six months after taking the bench.
New York Times:
Potential Iranian Drone Attack Led to Exit of U.S. Aircraft From British Air Base  —  According to U.S. and British officials, 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from R.A.F. Fairford air base were withdrawn because of the risk of a drone attack ordered by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Mac William Bishop / Rolling Stone:
As Trump Dithers, Ukraine War Is Approaching a ‘Fatal Point of No Return’  —  Russia is escalating while the Trump administration pursues deals that could help Moscow's war economy  —  The war in Ukraine is becoming increasingly dangerous, with the risk of escalation spilling further into Europe.
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Natalie Muller / Agence France-Presse:
Germany's ex-spy chief arrested for espionage  —  August Hanning, the man who once led Germany's spy service, is now under investigation for passing on state secrets.  —  Police have arrested the former head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency, August Hanning, on suspicion of espionage …
Milena Wälde / Politico:
AfD wins state parliament speakership in Saxony-Anhalt with far-left backing  —  Far-right lawmaker Tobias Rausch won the presidency of Saxony-Anhalt's state parliament Tuesday, backed by the left-populists.  —  Rausch secured 48 votes, with 29 lawmakers voting against him and five abstaining.
 
 
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Clara Ence Morse / Washington Post:
In Texas governor's race, Abbott spends big to try to stay in office
Discussion: Newsweek
Josh Kelety / Associated Press:
Trump criticizes election officials in Arizona's Maricopa County over error affecting 3,000 ballots
KFF:
KFF Health Tracking Poll: Health Care Issues in the Lead-Up to the 2026 Midterm Election
Discussion: The Hill, Forbes and STAT
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
US, Israeli and European far-right figures to gather for conference in Israel
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Jose Lev Alvarez / Washington Examiner:
Spain is becoming Europe's Cuba — and American capital is the next target
Discussion: Political.org and openDemocracy
Associated Press:
Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portraying lazy welfare recipient as white
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
“Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The permitting deal is good and should pass
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump wants to rewrite the midterm lexicon
Politico:
Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
 

 
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