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Politico:
DOJ dangles legal threats over state election officials days before the midterms  —  The Department of Justice on Thursday sent letters to elections officials in multiple states threatening potential prosecution if they fail to preserve election records, an unusually aggressive posture toward …
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Judge imposes sweeping emergency order halting DOJ pressure campaign on election officials  —  Federal agencies Voting rights Election security  —  A federal judge imposed a sweeping emergency order halting various aggressive tactics employed by the Trump administration in recent days to pressure election officials across the country.
Discussion: MS NOW, RedState and KDFX-TV
Politico:
Judge orders DOJ to stop threatening to prosecute election officials  —  A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to stop threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution over their handling of disputes about voter qualifications.
Gary Grumbach / NBC News:
Judge orders Trump administration to stop threatening election officials with criminal charges  —  The Justice Department recently sent letters to state and local election officials across the country warning them of criminal penalties related to failing to comply with records retention.
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
In new escalation, DOJ wants to force Alaska to segregate ballots in Senate race
Safiyah Riddle / Associated Press:
Appeals court rejects Justice Department request for California to set aside disputed ballots
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Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
The New York Times invents a Democratic scandal while ignoring a new Trump rape allegation  —  America is four days out from the end of an election in which America's deeply unpopular fascist ruling party is trying to retain control of Congress.  The week began with yet another new rape allegation …
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Confirms Alaska Inquiry Even as Its Focus Remains Unclear
CNBC:
Trump rallies in Kansas and Iowa are back on after RNC said they were canceled: Source … President Donald Trump will host campaign rallies in Iowa and Kansas after all, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC on Friday, hours after the Republican Party said those events would be scrapped in lieu of a series of tele-rallies.
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Ayah Ali-Ahmad / The Washington Sun:
Trump Says Donalds and Moody Called to Ask Him to Approve Florida Hurricane Funding
Discussion: Newsweek and Politico
Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump adds weekend rallies back after canceling a day earlier
Rena Rowe / Washington Examiner:
WATCH LIVE: Trump holds rally in Daytona Beach
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
El-Sayed campaign wants Stevens to stay away after day of back-and-forth sniping  —  Michigan's Democratic coalition is fragmenting in real time days before a critical Senate election.  —  After it seemed like former primary rivals Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens might finally appear together …
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Isaac Schorr / New York Post:
The soul of the Democratic Party is on the line in Michigan
Discussion: NewsNation
Tim Balk / New York Times:
El-Sayed Clashes With Former Primary Rival Who Demanded His Apology
New York Times:
Alina Habba's Husband Ignited a White House Drama.  Now His Background Is Under Scrutiny.  —  Turhan Mildon, who married Alina Habba this summer, presents himself as a 29-year-old billionaire with ties to global leaders.  His story has inconsistencies.  —  President Trump's former lawyer …
Blake Paterson / Perdido Street:
Louisiana Senate contest is a tossup, poll finds  —  GOP Congresswoman Julia Letlow and Democrat Jamie Davis were tied in a poll released by the Davis campaign Friday  —  New poll shows GOP Rep. Julie Letlow (left) and Democrat Jamie Davis (right) tied in Senate contest
Discussion: NewsMax.com, The Hill and Politico
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:   Low-engagement voters are swinging hard toward Democrats
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
We polled Kansas. Democrats wanted to talk. Republicans, not so much.
New York Times:
Obamacare Policies Hit Again With Steep Premium Increases for 2027  —  Premiums will increase an average 13 percent next year for millions of Americans, on top of an earlier steep increase.  It adds to the problems facing the program, which the Trump administration has weakened.
Jonah Kaplan / CBS News:
Daniel J. Sullivan left his Alaska hometown before Senate election, sources say  —  Petersburg, Alaska — Daniel J. Sullivan, the independent candidate running for Senate in Alaska whose name is almost identical to the Republican senator running for reelection, left his hometown of Petersburg earlier …
New York Times:
U.S. to Send Dozens Back to Afghanistan, Despite Risk of Persecution  —  The Trump administration plans to fly the Afghan immigrants from Louisiana to Pakistan, where they are expected to be expelled over the border to Afghanistan.  —  The Trump administration has detained dozens …
Discussion: Reuters and The Independent
Rick Maese / Washington Post:
Judge orders inquiry into whether DOJ lawyers misled court on Trump's golf plan  —  U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes opened another heated hearing by reading the D.C. Bar rules about truthfulness in court.  —  SummaryLoading...  A federal judge on Friday opened a formal inquiry …
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Judge opens East Potomac Park probe into potential DOJ misconduct
Discussion: WTTG-TV
Euronews:
Polish president turns back mid-flight amid court ‘coup d’état' claims  —  Police were deployed outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal following security warnings.  Tribunal President Bogdan Święczkowski was suspended from his duties, while Polish President Karol Nawrocki cut short his trip to Senegal.
Kendall Staton / The Washington Sun:
Trump Lawyers Call His Arch a High Priority.  Some Veterans Call It Disrespectful.  —  A judge said she will rule “expeditiously” on whether the project can proceed and whether the veterans have standing to pursue the case.  — Copy  —  Michael Lemmon didn't get a celebratory welcome …
Discussion: MS NOW and Newsweek
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Taylor Goldenstein / The Texas Tribune:
Rick Perry loses reelection to board of Fermi, the data center company he co-founded  —  Fermi, slated to build the largest data center and power generation campus in the U.S., has had a tumultuous first couple years including a turbulent ownership battle between Perry and his co-founder Toby Neugebauer.
Felicia Schwartz / MS NOW:
Trump plans to resume strikes on Iran day after midterm elections  —  President Donald Trump is planning to resume strikes on Iran after the midterm elections, with his domestic political power set to wane during his final two years in office, and his attention expected to shift to foreign policy.
Edgar Sandoval / New York Times:
Houston Grand Jury Indicts ICE Agent on Charges of Ramming Man in Chase  —  The agent is facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, officials said Friday.  —  A grand jury on Friday indicted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who struck and injured a Mexican construction worker …
Ford McCracken / The Hill:
Bessent alleges anti-fraud guardrails are ‘loosest’ in blue states  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Democratic-led states Friday of having poor fraud prevention mechanisms while at a Minnesota press conference.  —  The state has been at the center of a healthcare fraud scandal …
Greg Evans / Deadline:
Tony-Winning Broadway Director Daniel Sullivan Announces Retirement After 55-Year Career; Jonathan Kent Steps In For Upcoming ‘Montauk’  —  Daniel Sullivan, the Tony-winning Broadway director of Proof, The Heidi Chronicles, Glengarry Glen Ross and numerous other acclaimed productions …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Ro Khanna backs challengers to three fellow House Dems  —  Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is endorsing a trio of insurgent Democratic candidates who are challenging his fellow California House Democrats, Axios has learned. … - He has backed members of the progressive “Bloc” …
Discussion: The Hill
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Elon Musk Made Off With $16 Billion of Taxpayer Money  —  Did you know that there's a law barring federal contractors from making campaign contributions to a political party, committee, or candidate for federal office?  Don't feel bad if you don't, because neither, it seems, does Elon Musk.
Paige Huffman / The Washington Sun:
RFK Jr. Puts Out a Call to Rebuild the Vaccine Advisory Panel  —  The Trump administration is officially seeking new members for the nation's influential vaccine advisory panel, indicating a renewed effort to remake the group in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s image.
Discussion: Associated Press
Lauren Windsor / The Alaska Current:
EXCLUSIVE: Data center utility execs maxed out donations to Dan Sullivan  —  Within a nine-day period last spring, executives tied to a data center utility investor with major public projects in the Arctic dumped more than $50,000 into Alaska's tightly contested US Senate race between Republican …
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Prediction Markets Face Their Biggest Accuracy Test Yet: The Midterms  —  As polls closed in Brazil last week, online bettors appeared convinced that Flávio Bolsonaro would become president, placing his odds of winning around 80 percent.  —  They were wrong.
 
 
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Jasmine Garsd / NPR:
ICE activity is surging ahead of midterms. So is voter turnout.
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Democrats weigh Israel election results amid lingering uncertainty
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Los Angeles Times:
9th Circuit again denies Trump administration request to block 20,000 California ballots
Joan Walsh / The Nation:
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Eli Okun / Politico:
Bloomberg drops $36M more for Dems
Discussion: The Daily Caller and NewsMax.com
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Financial Times:
Chainalysis says Binance hackers used automated money-laundering patterns not seen before; Elliptic: almost all of the $6.3B was taken in the first 30 minutes

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
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