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Zeteo:
Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: 'People Don't Want Him There' — Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy's bus tour with other GOP candidates. 'It's that damn ad,' a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo. — ∙ Paid
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CNN and Washington Post
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Storms Onto Campaign Trail With Harsh Words for Trump — The former president, typically circumspect when criticizing Trump, gave an unusually sharp rebuke at an Ohio rally — Former President Barack Obama harshly criticized President Trump and Republicans in an Ohio rally Saturday …
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Al Jazeera, Politico, NewsNation, The Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Associated Press, The Hill, Signal Ohio, Washington Post, The Guardian, PolitiFact and Fox News
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Obama describes Trump as an agent of ‘chaos and cruelty’ in midterm elections pitch — The former president also criticized Republican Vivek Ramaswamy's attack ad featuring the estranged mother of Amy Acton, his Democratic rival for governor. — CLEVELAND — Former President Barack Obama …
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Agence France-Presse, MS NOW, Reuters, Bloomberg, RedState, Newsweek, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Mediaite and New York Times
NBC News:
Ramaswamy ad puts Acton's estranged mother in spotlight as records reveal family's troubled past — Vivek Ramaswamy faces bipartisan backlash over an ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother, whose rocky history emerges in court records and interviews. — Amy Acton's estranged mother …
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ABC News
Washington Post:
These are the midterm deciders: They voted for Trump and now disapprove of him — They're a small but crucial piece of the electorate. Here's what they say about how they'll vote — decisions that will strongly shape the GOP's fortunes this year. — SummaryLoading...
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CNN
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Introducing a New Way to Understand the Election: Times Voter Trends — A timely demographic story we've never been able to tell before. — When the dust settles on election night, the story won't simply be about who won, but who decided the outcome: Which demographic groups shifted the most …
New York Times:
Latinos Are Now America's Most Important Swing Voters — Latinos helped fuel President Trump's return to the White House. But Democrats have won back the trust of many Hispanic voters over the past two years. — In the 1990s, politicians fought for the support of soccer moms.
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Texan
New York Times:
Democrats Have Edge Across Four Key House Races in Pennsylvania, Polls Find — Democratic candidates are ahead in two, hold a narrow edge in a third and are tied in a fourth, new polling shows. The seats embody the fights playing out nationwide in the midterms.
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NewsNation
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Republicans Are Crude, Craven, Cruel. It's Not Working Anymore.
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Los Angeles Times and Mediaite
New York Times:
A New Level of Threat and Fear Risks Pushing the U.S. and Iran Back to Full War — With new intelligence and the possibility of all sides seeking pretexts for action, the war in Iran is entering a dangerous phase ahead of elections in the United States and Israel.
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NewsNation, Daily Mail, Al Jazeera and Fox News
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Reuters:
Iran has ramped up efforts to target US personnel, intelligence memo warns — Iran has ramped up efforts to target US personnel, and lethal plots by Tehran against American citizens have reached “advanced stages”, a senior intelligence official in the Trump administration warned in a memo seen by Reuters.
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Washington Examiner, American Greatness, CNBC, Financial Times, NBC News and NewsMax.com
New York Times:
In Second Term, Trump's Justice Dept. Submits to His Election Demands — With moves in Alaska and California, the department has stepped up interventions in the midterm elections as the president's instrument of unmediated executive power. — The Justice Department is sharply intensifying efforts …
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Civil Discourse … and PBS NewsHour
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Politico:
Facing an electoral wipeout, Trump goes after the system
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Straight Arrow, Election Law Blog, Newsweek and France 24
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Democrats, voting-rights groups challenge Trump's bid to block Alaska Senate certification
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New York Times, Democracy Docket, The Hill, Breitbart and MS NOW
Clarissa-Jan Lim / MS NOW:
Democrats take legal action against Trump bid ‘to rig’ Alaska Senate race
New York Times:
An Iowa Republican's Unusual Connection to the Kochs (and Kansas) — In his campaign for governor, Zach Lahn has pitched himself as a self-made businessman. His backstory is more complicated. — If there is one thing that Zach Lahn, the Republican nominee for governor of Iowa …
Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
A Black Democrat has a chance to win in Mississippi's Senate race — Scott Colom has a shot to make history in Mississippi with massive Black voter turnout and fed-up White voters willing to back a Democrat. — SummaryLoading... STARKVILLE, Mississippi — Michael Ward walked past …
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HuffPost
CBS News:
North Korea's Kim Jong Un touts ties, opens bridge with China on first trip in a year — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited China on Saturday, inaugurating a new bridge that connects the two countries and vowing to expand cooperation with his powerful neighbor.
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Reuters, Associated Press, Straight Arrow and New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
As AOC's Ambition Grows, Her Tactics Soften—Risking Support on the Left — Following setbacks, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tries broadening her outreach to draw voters and lawmakers from both parties — Days after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman elected to Congress …
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Associated Press
Jessica Contrera / New York Times:
She Planned to Protest Trump. She Didn't Plan on Getting Punched. — Blake Miley yelled “fascist” as President Trump spoke at a midterm campaign rally. The violence that followed “was not right,” she said. — The night before President Trump spoke in Youngstown, Ohio, this month …
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Newsweek
Financial Times:
US executives quit $25bn gas venture over claims of secret Russian control — Former CEO of Polar Train LNG tells FT that energy giant Novatek financed and held reins of strategic Alaska project without Washington's approval — The former chief executive of a $25bn US gas export venture …
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NewsMax.com, Stories Framing the Globe and Bloomberg
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 23, 2026 — Despite Trump's statement yesterday that billionaire Elon Musk had removed …
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The Kyiv Independent and New York Times
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