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Politico:
High on hopium  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  Good Tuesday morning.  We're exactly three weeks out from Election Day, and early voting begins today in Georgia and Idaho.  Get in touch.  —  In today's Playbook ...  — Abdul El-Sayed and Chris Pappas show off Democrats' doubtless demeanor.
Discussion: Mediaite
Matthew Choi / Washington Post:
Ken Paxton took campaign funds from donors with interests before his office
Washington Post:
Elon Musk's megaphone propels conspiracy theory about James Talarico  —  The billionaire has a history of elevating false claims like the one about the Democratic Senate nominee, but his control of X gives him outsize influence ahead of the midterms.  —  SummaryLoading...
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Bayliss Wagner / New York Times:
Republicans Promoted a False Rumor That James Talarico Was in Ohio
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:   Billionaire Elon Musk has already funneled at least $366 million into the midterms to try to make sure voters elect Republicans. …
Bridget Brown / Associated Press:
Live updates: Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's ambassador to Greece, is asked to resign, White House says  —  Trump going to Kentucky on Saturday  —  White House press secretary Katie Zacharia said the president's midterm election blitz will take him to Kentucky on Saturday.
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Wall Street Journal:
White House Asks Kimberly Guilfoyle to Resign
Shrai Popat / The Guardian:
White House says it has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as US ambassador to Greece - live
Laura Chung / New York Times:
Trump Says He Is ‘Looking at’ Firing Kimberly Guilfoyle
Mira Bhakta / The Hill:
Omar fundraising off federal investigation  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) released a fundraising email focused on her federal investigation included federal agents raiding her home on Monday.  —  “Stand with Ilhan Omar,” the email read, according to a screenshot obtained by The Hill's partner network, NewsNation.
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
What to know about the search of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's home
Chadwick Moore / New York Post:
‘Compelling evidence’ of criminal activity drove feds to raid Rep. Ilhan Omar's home: sources
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Trump rally crowd chants ‘deport’ as president rips Ilhan Omar after federal raid
Alex Nguyen / Mother Jones:
Pete Hegseth's Firing Squad Livestream Is Finding Fans in the Defense Industry  —  Co-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending “public and brutal” executions.  —  “I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.”
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The fascist spectacle of streamed executions
Discussion: The Transom and The Moderate Voice
Politico:
GOP readies for an underwhelming lame duck  —  IN TODAY'S EDITION:  — Johnson scrambles leadership outlook  — Emmer endorses Trump's raid on Omar  — Dems gear up for trade oversight  —  Republicans' dreams of a productive lame-duck session are dimming.
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Politico:   Republicans doubt their big lame-duck ambitions pan out
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Review Dispute Over Access to DOGE Records  —  A nonprofit watchdog group sued the Department of Government Efficiency, asserting that it should be subject to federal Freedom of Information Act discovery requests.  —  The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it would review …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Mike Zapler / Axios:
Dems' red-state showings raise prospect of a bigger 2028 map  —  Move over Wisconsin and Arizona. … Sure, this could be a blip — or a reminder that it's a 50-50 moody nation, even in a bunch of red states.  — The conditions that helped Barack Obama carry conservative states like Indiana …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump to fly 3,400 miles to Alaska in hopes of saving a Senate seat
Discussion: Associated Press
Fox News:
Fox News Power Rankings: As the House falls, the Senate stays in play
Discussion: Political.org, NewsMax.com and The Hill
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, claims she's a lawyer.  Is she?  —  There is no evidence Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law — and the White House did not provide any  —  When President Trump plucked Katie Zacharia from obscurity and appointed her as his new press secretary, he called her “an attorney.”
Discussion: New Republic and Associated Press
New Republic:
MAGA Voters Turn on Trump in Focus Group Bombshell: “Nothing but Lies”  —  Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark recently held a focus group with people who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 that took an extraordinary turn.  After being shown Trump's vile taxpayer-funded ad, in which he rages about expelling …
Discussion: Newsweek and The Bulwark
Christopher Wiggins / Advocate:
Dan Levy demands men speak up after Shane Gillis demeans women on ‘SNL’  —  Comedian Shane Gillis said “f*ck” during a sketch on live network television and referenced Joe Rogan on Saturday.  It may have been the least offensive thing he said all night.  —  The comedian's latest turn hosting …
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Mouthpiece Hit With Brutal Reviews for Big Debut … The reviews are in for President Donald Trump's new press secretary.  —  Katie Zacharia, 41, suffered savage reviews from administration insiders and critics alike within minutes of taking the podium as White House press secretary for the first time Tuesday morning.
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Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Yells at Trump Administration for Cutting Down Golf Course Trees  —  Several government officials called to testify about hasty removal on Washington site where president dreams of building championship-level course  —  An angry federal judge overseeing litigation challenging President Trump's plan …
Kate Shaw / New York Times:
Democrats Need a Plan for Supreme Court Reform.  Here's a Start.  —  The Supreme Court justices took the bench last week to hear oral arguments, but the start of this term feels different from previous ones.  For one thing, with the sharp increase in activity on the shadow docket …
Discussion: The Nation
Associated Press:
Trump says he cares for Americans.  They think he's more focused on his wealth, an AP-NORC poll finds  —  Most Americans think Donald Trump is profiting off the presidency in unethical or illegal ways and is focused more on his wealth than helping people like them, a new AP-NORC poll finds.
Discussion: AP-NORC, Daily Kos and Mediaite
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Top G.O.P. Groups Pull Support From First House Incumbents  —  Two major Republican super PACs are said to be withdrawing cash from the races of the incumbent Representatives Thomas H. Kean Jr. of New Jersey and Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa in an effort to triage the midterm map.
Tariq Panja / New York Times:
FIFA's Trump Tower Deal: 7 Years, $4 Million, One Mostly Unused Office  —  The deal is another sign of how Gianni Infantino, the leader of soccer's global governing body, has sought closer ties to President Trump.  —  About a year before the World Cup, FIFA held a splashy opening for its latest office …
Eli Hager / ProPublica:
Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients.  Congress Could Fix It — but Won't.  —  It wasn't the kind of call a grocery store gets every day.  A customer with a thick Eastern European accent was on the phone saying he wanted to buy several thousand cans of Red Bull.
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: “Medicare for All” support surges  —  Supporters of “Medicare for All” now outnumber opponents by nearly 2-to-1, according to a new survey of U.S. adults from the Axios-Ipsos American Health Index. … - But the public's openness is driven more by desperation than by confidence in government.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
German Lopez / New York Times:
We Know How to Fix Homelessness.  Why Don't More Cities Do It?  —  Homelessness, all appearances to the contrary, is a long-solved problem.  We know both the causes and the cure.  You wouldn't think that's the case from visiting many U.S. cities.  Stymied by political and financial hurdles …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
New White House press secretary has a history of conspiracy-laced social media posts  —  Donald Trump Fighting disinformation Social media Epstein files  —  President Donald Trump's incoming White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, repeatedly made baseless accusations of pedophilia …
Discussion: NPR, more at Mediagazer »
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
DOJ apologizes after campaign-style Trump ads air in violation of judge's order  —  The Department of Justice apologized late Monday that a controversial ad featuring President Trump continued to run after a court sided with government watchdog groups in temporarily blocking the ads.
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
RFK Jr. Shows Off Son's Lavish 3-Day Pop Star Wedding in Rio … Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pulled back the curtain on his son's lavish three-day wedding to a pop star in Brazil.  —  Conor Kennedy, 32, reportedly married Giulia Be, 27, in a civil ceremony in Los Angeles in March.
Jeff Stein / The Washington Sun:
The FTC Is Beginning to Probe the Sports Gambling Industry  —  Officials at the Federal Trade Commission are probing the $167 billion online sports gambling industry, which has been celebrated by the White House but faces mounting skepticism from some conservative activists.
 
 
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Washington Examiner:
House GOP investigates DC activists training jurors to undermine prosecutions
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Will Doran / WRAL-TV:
Cooper up big on Whatley as Trump approval sinks, WRAL/WSOC Poll shows
Discussion: The Hill
Paul Krugman:
Elon Musk Shows Us Why Oligarchy is a Danger
Discussion: New York Times
Philip Elliott / Time:
The New Campaign Strategy: Don't Debate
CBS News:
Multiple protesters removed from raucous Trump rally in Ohio
 Earlier Items: 
Alex Miller / Fox News:
Trump vanishes from GOP senator's campaign website as poll numbers plunge weeks before election
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Alexei Koseff / Washington Post:
House Speaker Mike Johnson's wife ministers to Hill staffers, but nonprofit funding is a mystery
Jessica Hill / Associated Press:
AI data centers are coming for federal land. They are roiling the Nevada governor's race
Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Mary Peltola raises $17M in Q3 in Alaska's Senate race
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Newsweek
Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Spend Big to Defend Nebraska Senate Seat
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and NewsMax.com
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House Dems launch ads in four more Trump districts
Josh Dawsey / Wall Street Journal:
I Went Home to South Carolina to Ask Young Voters About Trump and the Economy
 

 
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Rhea Rose Abraham / Reuters:
Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale

CNN:
Sources: WH officials and advisers panned press secretary Katie Zacharia's first briefing as awkward, and one called it “brutal”; Trump said she was “very good”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton and Kara Swisher partner to launch High Stakes, a weekly midterm election podcast produced by Vox Media that will run through mid-November
 
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