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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Ukraine's Starlink restrictions raise suspicions of Musk, Trump retaliation — The rupture between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over last week's diesel deal deepened Wednesday after an Elon Musk-owned satellite system used by Ukraine unexpectedly restricted service …
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Amid Ukraine uproar, Musk says decisions to restrict Starshield up to president — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said decisions to restrict the speed or usage of Starlink's Starshield are made by the U.S. military and, ultimately, the president, as confusion swirls over Ukraine's loss of military access to the systems.
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Constant Méheut / New York Times:
Ukraine's Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates — A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning. — 1.1k — Nearly five years into its fight for national survival …
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Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine Says New Limits on Starlink Are Disrupting Its Military Operations
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Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Trump admin silent as Russia hits American businesses with ‘drones and missiles’ in Ukraine
Trump admin silent as Russia hits American businesses with ‘drones and missiles’ in Ukraine
Financial Times:
Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps during Russian attack
Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps during Russian attack
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Brett Meiselas / MeidasTouch:
GOP Congressman Blasts Trump as Putin ‘Apologist’ Being Played by Kremlin
GOP Congressman Blasts Trump as Putin ‘Apologist’ Being Played by Kremlin
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Politico:
House control all but gone, top Republicans privately concede — Some top congressional Republicans have privately concluded that it is likely impossible for them to keep control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, and they are now focused on limiting the scale of the defeat …
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Eric Benson / Texas Monthly:
Dade Phelan Says Republicans Are “Freaking Out” — The former Texas House speaker and Paxton antagonist on why he's buying a blue wave. — Digital subscribers can listen to this article. — Early voting in the midterm election starts next week, and for the first time in decades …
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
If Democrats Win the Senate, They Cannot Mess Around
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
‘Abbott Is Struggling’: Ken Paxton Gripes About Texas GOP and Campaign Woes in New Leaked Audio
‘Abbott Is Struggling’: Ken Paxton Gripes About Texas GOP and Campaign Woes in New Leaked Audio
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Nicole Cobler / Axios:
Poll: Democrats hold slight edge in Texas races
Poll: Democrats hold slight edge in Texas races
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CNN:
Exclusive: Judge limited Justice Department access to Rep. Ilhan Omar's records in sprawling immigration fraud probe — Donald Trump Federal agencies Immigration politics Immigration — The Trump administration pushed for an unusually aggressive search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's house in recent days …
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NBC News:
Feds seized Rep. Ilhan Omar's phone, subpoenaed family members in immigration status probe — The subpoenas were sent just days before federal agents searched the progressive ‘Squad’ member's home, a person familiar with the investigation told NBC News. — Federal agents seized Democratic …
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Issues Subpoenas in Ilhan Omar Investigation
Justice Dept. Issues Subpoenas in Ilhan Omar Investigation
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive: White House probes claims of missing Kennedy Center money in “MAGA blood feud” — President Trump has directed his White House counsel to examine explosive allegations dropped on him Friday in the Oval Office: — Former Trump attorney Alina Habba told the president that another …
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Rachel Lerman / Washington Post:
Prices increased sharply in September in last inflation report ahead of elections — Inflation increased in September to a 3.7 percent annual pace, higher than expected. — SummaryLoading... Inflation rose to a 3.7 percent annual pace in September, extending a relentless climb …
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Courtenay Brown / Axios:
New inflation warning sign
New inflation warning sign
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
In this deep-red city, rising costs test Trump's affordability message
Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
'I'm Not Going to Have Blood on My Hands' — Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest. — For years, ESPN wanted nothing to do with sports gambling. That stance had softened a bit as of 2018, when the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on bookmaking …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Katie Zacharia's disastrous response to Popular Information's report — For years, President Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, has publicly claimed she is a lawyer. Zacharia has repeatedly said she was “outside counsel” to the World Bank and “general counsel” to a California non-profit.
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Michelle Del Rey / The Washington Sun:
Trump's New Press Secretary Faces Bar Complaint in California
Trump's New Press Secretary Faces Bar Complaint in California
New York Times:
U.S. Is Sending Hundreds of Troops to Latin America — The Pentagon is expanding its fight against drug traffickers, even as the plans recall a long and bloody history of U.S. intervention in the region. — The United States is sending several hundred Army soldiers to train and conduct exercises …
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Appeals Court Questions Trump's National Guard Deployment in D.C.
Appeals Court Questions Trump's National Guard Deployment in D.C.
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Chris Marquette / Politico:
2 Senate Republicans tell Supreme Court to review John Eastman's disbarment over Jan. 6 — Two prominent Senate Republicans are asking the Supreme Court to review the disbarment of John Eastman for helping orchestrate the plot to overturn the 2020 election for President Donald Trump.
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Erin Doherty / Politico:
Whatley campaign is currently dark on TV as GOP groups retreat from North Carolina — Michael Whatley's campaign has temporarily gone dark in North Carolina. The Republican Senate nominee does not currently have future linear TV ad reservations booked in the race, a highly unusual move less …
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NewsMax.com, The Daily Caller, The Hill and WRAL-TV
Fox News:
American-made goods also got more expensive under Trump tariffs, new research finds — Americans aren't just seeing the price tag increase for imported goods. Thanks to President Donald Trump's tariffs, they are now paying more for products made in the U.S.A., according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Political.org and National Review
Stephen Neukam / The Washington Sun:
Freedom Caucus Chair Freaks Out Over Being Recorded in Public — Republican Rep. Andy Harris demanded that police remove a journalist from a press availability he was holding Tuesday night after a campaign forum with a Democratic challenger in Maryland, erroneously citing the state's wiretap law.
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Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Ramaswamy Campaign Ad Accidentally Featured a Sex Offender — PROPERTY TAXES ARE A HOT-BUTTON ISSUE in Ohio, where Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is trying to run as a change candidate for governor in a state long run by Republicans. And in his latest campaign ad, he tried to press the button hard.
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David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Trump Didn't Know Fort Hood Killer is Paralyzed as He Weighs Execution Livestream: CNN — President Donald Trump reportedly did not initially know convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down as his administration moved toward livestreaming his execution by firing squad.
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Associated Press:
Nancy Mace's Ex-Fiance Charged With Sex Crimes She Detailed in a House Speech — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace's former fiance and two of his business associates were charged with sex crimes and voyeurism on Wednesday over an episode the South Carolina congresswoman described …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox News: Where Ken Paxton partying with fugitives is much less interesting than James Talarico getting the flu — Just a minute and a half of coverage after days on Talarico's campaign trail absence — Fox News barely covered Monday's report that Texas attorney general and GOP nominee …
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Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Fact-Checking Senate Debates in Georgia, Maine and Michigan — With control of Congress hanging in the balance, nominees have attacked their rivals' records, stock portfolios and families, with varying degrees of accuracy. — Senate nominees are making their cases in the final stretch …
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Breitbart and Newsweek
Herb Scribner / Axios:
Americans are losing faith in their fellow voters — Americans' trust in their fellow citizens' democratic judgment has fallen to its lowest recorded level in more than five decades, according to a new Gallup survey. … - That's the lowest reading since Gallup began tracking the measure in 1974.
Daily Mail:
Kimberly Guilfoyle's burn book revealed. Her MAGA secrets kept in a journal so potent it has nervous Trump insiders fearing revenge: ‘She knows where the bodies are buried’ — Trump advisers had been wrangling to save Kimberly Guilfoyle's job as US ambassador to Greece before she was asked …
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Administration delays release of IRS data showing impact of GOP tax cuts — The Trump administration is delaying the release of detailed data showing how Republicans' 2025 tax cuts affected millions of Americans' taxes, even as it tries to sell voters on the law ahead of the midterm elections.
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CNN:
Greenland contradicts Trump's claim that ‘massive’ oil and gas drilling is about to begin there — Greenland's government pushed back against President Donald Trump's claim on Wednesday that “massive oil, gas and mineral exploration is getting ready to begin” in the Arctic territory.
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Jackson Thompson / Fox News:
Washington girls walk off cross country meet in protest of male athlete, parents reveal how it came to this — About a dozen Camas High School runners sat out after learning a competitor had switched from the boys' team — Holly Burns and about a dozen other girls walked away from a cross-country race in Washington on Tuesday.
Hannah Marr / MS NOW:
Ohio early in-person voting nearly quadruples from 2022 midterms — Nearly 195,000 Ohioans have voted in person as of Oct. 13, compared with about 50,000 at the same point in 2022. But mail ballot requests are down as Ohio's closely watched Senate and gubernatorial races draw national attention.
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Zack Colman / Politico:
AI killed the climate star — With help from Benjamin Storrow and Sara Schonhardt in the U.S., Brian Dabbs in Singapore, Charlie Cooper in the United Kingdom, Zia Weise in Belgium, Elena Giordano, Alexandre Léchenet and Nicolas Camut in France, and Mike Blanchfield in Canada. — SURGE PREVIEW
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Britta Miller / Washington Examiner:
Indiana Democrat Jaime West slurs words during interview and says she'll fire ‘all Republicans’ — Indiana Democratic county council candidate Jaime West is making headlines for her interview performance, slouching, slurring her words, and making a sound that viewers believe to be a fart.
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Union leader quoted in Maine Senate attack ad sends ‘cease and desist’ to GOP PAC — The ad quotes a union official slamming Democrat Troy Jackson's healthcare plan. He told NBC News he never commented on Jackson's plan and was “shocked” to see the quote.
ProPublica:
These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead. — They were victims, not abusers. That's what they told police officers, attorneys, visitors and anyone else who would listen. It didn't matter. The women were all taken to a sprawling immigration detention center …
Gavin J. Quinton / The Washington Sun:
Judge Blocks Trump's Taxpayer-Funded Ads Through the Midterms — President Donald Trump has to keep his administration's taxpayer-funded political ads off the air through the midterms, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. — Judge Jennifer Rochon's decision extends her earlier 14-day pause to Nov. 8 …
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Whitney Curry Wimbish / American Prospect:
ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program — This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement is fast-tracking a $100 million domestic surveillance program to put 142 intelligence agents …
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