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• On the Ground: Two Candidates Vie for One House Seat (for the Fourth Time)

  29-10-2016 23:59 via nytimes.com
  Frank Guinta, a Republican, and Carol Shea-Porter, a Democrat, have been in a tug of war over a congressional seat that one of them has held for a decade.
  
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• It's Officially the Weird Twitter Election - Gizmodo

  29-10-2016 23:44 via gizmodo.com
  
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  It's Officially the Weird Twitter Election
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  Some pundits have aptly declared this the Twitter Election. The alt-right's enormous pro-Trump presence on the struggling platform and Hillary “Yaaas Kween” Clinton's 'epic clap backs' have shown this to be true. Today at a rally in Golden, Colorado ...and more »
  
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• Trump campaign gambles on blue state play in race's final days

  29-10-2016 23:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump is spending his last 10 days on the campaign trail traipsing into blue terrain.
  
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• Tarred by Trump, Paul Ryan Tries to Safeguard Both Party and Job

  29-10-2016 23:08 via nytimes.com
  This election season constitutes a shift in which Republicans must come to grips with the factions tearing it apart, a fight Mr. Ryan may not survive.
  
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• Bill Maher is about to interview the most candid version of Barack Obama as president - Quartz

  29-10-2016 22:22 via qz.com
  
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  Bill Maher is about to interview the most candid version of Barack Obama as president
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  Comedian Bill Maher finally got his birthday wish. US president Barack Obama will appear on his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher on Nov. 4, four days before the presidential election. Last January for his 60th birthday, Maher called on Obama to ...
  Obama to make his first appearance on HBO's 'Real Time With Bill Maher'Los Angeles Times
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• Concert plus campaign: Clinton turns to celebrities in homestretch

  29-10-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Roberta Rampton DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - Heading into the homestretch of the presidential campaign, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is looking to harness some celebrity star power to help get out the vote and energize volunteers in battleground states. Jennifer Lopez will headline a free concert for Clinton supporters in Miami on Saturday, giving the former secretary of state a chance to connect with the key demographic of millennials she has sometimes struggled to reach - and som
  
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• Trump tears into US judicial system

  29-10-2016 22:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump warned voters Saturday about the "cancer" of public corruption and argued the US judicial system is like that of a "third-world country" after new reports surfaced about disagreements between top officials at the FBI and Department of Justice.
  
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• Florida Democrat Patrick Murphy stands by claim his family never did business with Trump

  29-10-2016 22:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Patrick Murphy, the Democrat in Florida trying to unseat Sen. Marco Rubio in November, is standing by his claim that his family has never done business with Donald Trump.
  
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• Missouri Voters to Weigh Ban on Expanding Sales Tax to Services

  29-10-2016 21:54 via nytimes.com
  The state will vote on an amendment prohibiting the collection of sales tax on a range of services, including car repairs, haircuts and legal work.
  
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• Tyra Banks: 'Enough of the damn emails'

  29-10-2016 21:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Model and TV personality Tyra Banks is on the campaign trail, encouraging voters in Georgia to vote for Hillary Clinton. But when asked by CNN's Frederika Whitfield Saturday if reports of a new probe into Clinton's emails had made campaigning more difficult, Banks quoted the Democratic presidential nominee's former rival.
  
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• Factbox - How Carlos Danger got tangled up in the Clinton email scandal

  29-10-2016 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former U.S. congressman, has emerged as an unexpected figure in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's inquiry into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified government information on a private email server she used while secretary of state. The FBI said on Friday it is examining newly discovered emails related to the server investigation, giving new life to a scandal less than two weeks before Clinton stands as the Democratic ca
  
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• Road to 270: 2016 electoral map

  29-10-2016 21:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump says he wants to redraw the political map to take the white house. pick a map — based on CNN's, the 2008 or 2012 election results or start from scratch — and decide if Trump or Hillary Clinton will win the battleground states and the presidency.
  
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• WikiLeaks Lays Bare a Clinton Insider’s Emphatic Cheers and Jeers

  29-10-2016 21:01 via nytimes.com
  Neera Tanden, through her leaked emails, has emerged as a loyal but insistent straight-talker and acute assessor of her candidate’s stubbornness and weaknesses.
  
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• 'Corruption and racism:' US millennial voters abroad cast wary gaze at general election - CNBC

  29-10-2016 21:01 via cnbc.com
  
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  'Corruption and racism:' US millennial voters abroad cast wary gaze at general election
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  "'Who are you voting for'" is one question asked, along with expressions of admiration for current President Barack Obama, the 27-year-old start-up founder told CNBC recently. Yet more recently, he'll get an occasional shameful shake of the head, along ...and more »
  
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• Clinton campaign wages new war against Comey

  29-10-2016 20:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign is waging a full-out war on FBI Director James Comey in the final 10 days of the election.
  
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• Comey notified Congress of email probe despite DOJ concerns

  29-10-2016 20:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  FBI Director James Comey said Friday the bureau is reviewing new emails related to Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state, according to a letter sent to eight congressional committee chairmen.
  
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• Peter Thiel Defends His Most Contrarian Move Yet: Supporting Trump

  29-10-2016 20:32 via nytimes.com
  The tech billionaire is known for bucking convention, but his backing of Mr. Trump’s presidential bid has outraged much of Silicon Valley.
  
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• Clinton campaign urges FBI to detail new developments in email case

  29-10-2016 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday insisted there is "no evidence of wrongdoing" following the FBI's notification to the U.S. Congress on Friday that it is again looking at Clinton's use of a private server for emails when she was secretary of state. "There's no evidence of wrongdoing, no charge of wrongdoing," Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told reporters by telephone. Podesta, following up on calls by Clint
  
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• Ad of the Week: Singing Hillary Clinton’s Praises, in Morgan Freeman’s Voice

  29-10-2016 20:00 via nytimes.com
  A new ad, with the theme “Our Children,” presents Mrs. Clinton as “the steady hand” and Donald J. Trump as “a loose cannon.”
  
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• N.S.A. Appears to Have Missed ‘Big Red Flags’ in Suspect’s Behavior

  29-10-2016 19:56 via nytimes.com
  Harold T. Martin III kept his security clearance despite a record that included drinking problems, unpaid tax bills and an episode in which he posed as a police officer.
  
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• Surprise, Surprise, Donald Trump's Supporters Are Trying To 'Rig' The Election - Huffington Post

  29-10-2016 19:45 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Surprise, Surprise, Donald Trump's Supporters Are Trying To 'Rig' The Election
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  Donald Trump's complaints about a “rigged” election are quickly becoming self-fulfilling prophecies. The GOP presidential nominee has repeatedly called for his supporters to watch polling places throughout the election and intimidate voters. His ...
  America, Your Election Is Not RiggedNew York Times
  Is this proof of voter fraud or election rigging?: A user guideWashington P
  
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• Hacked emails: Clinton campaign welcomed 'optics' of Secret Service protection

  29-10-2016 19:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Top Hillary Clinton campaign aide Huma Abedin said last year that an upgrade in US Secret Service protection for Clinton would be "a huge help for us optics-wise."
  
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• Increase in Health Act Premiums May Affect Arizona Vote

  29-10-2016 19:44 via nytimes.com
  Republican candidates here seized on the rate hikes, counting on the issue to buoy them with Election Day imminent and Donald J. Trump losing ground.
  
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• FBI Head Under Fire For Clinton Email Scrutiny Days Before Election - NPR

  29-10-2016 19:29 via npr.org
  
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  FBI Head Under Fire For Clinton Email Scrutiny Days Before Election
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  FBI Director James Comey is facing criticism for turning the agency's attention to newly discovered emails that could be linked to Hillary Clinton, again focusing on the former secretary of state just days before Election Day. Former prosecutors and ...
  Election Update: Four Ways Forward For Clinton After The FBI NewsFiveThirtyEight
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• No Concession, No Sleep: Glued to the TV on Election Night 1960 - New York Times

  29-10-2016 19:20 via nytimes.com
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  No Concession, No Sleep: Glued to the TV on Election Night 1960
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  John F. Kennedy, with his brother Robert and Robert's wife, Ethel, behind him, watching election coverage at Hyannis Port, Mass., on the morning of Nov. 9, 1960. (Image taken from the book “The Kennedy Years,” Viking Press.) Credit Jacques Lowe.
  
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• HistorySource: No Concession, No Sleep: Glued to the TV on Election Night 1960

  29-10-2016 19:20 via nytimes.com
  The shifting returns of the Kennedy-Nixon race tested the fledgling television news operations and kept viewers in suspense until well past dawn.
  
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• He said, she said, he interrupted. How this election has illuminated decades of workplace sexism - Los Angeles Times

  29-10-2016 18:54 via latimes.com
  
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  He said, she said, he interrupted. How this election has illuminated decades of workplace sexism
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  From the moment in the Democratic debates when Bernie Sanders snapped at Clinton, “Let me finish,” to the recent sight of Newt Gingrich accusing Megyn Kelly of being “fascinated with sex,” this campaign has been the embodiment of a growing awareness of ...
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• New national poll, taken before FBI review, finds Clinton, Trump neck and neck

  29-10-2016 18:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A new national poll that was taken before Friday's bombshell announcement that the FBI was reviewing emails related to Hillary Clinton's private server finds the Democratic nominee and Donald Trump in a tight race.
  
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• Lynch objected to Comey's decision to notify Congress of email review

  29-10-2016 18:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  FBI Director James Comey said Friday the bureau is reviewing new emails related to Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state, according to a letter sent to eight congressional committee chairmen.
  
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• News Analysis: A Scandal Too Far? Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton, and a Test of Loyalty

  29-10-2016 18:17 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Abedin once seemed like sure thing for a Clinton White House. But when your estranged husband calls himself “Carlos Danger,” all bets are off.
  
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• Clinton enjoys solid lead in early voting: Reuters/Ipsos poll

  29-10-2016 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Maurice Tamman NEW YORK (Reuters) - With 11 days to go before the U.S. presidential election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 15 percentage points among early voters surveyed in the past two weeks, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project. An estimated 19 million Americans have voted so far in the election, according to the University of Florida’s United States Election Project, accounting for as much as 20 percent of the electorate
  
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• Biden: 'I thought I could beat Hillary'

  29-10-2016 17:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Vice President Joe Biden says that had he run for president, he would have defeated Democratic standard-bearer Hillary Clinton in the primaries.
  
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• Obama Ramps Up Appearances In Final Campaign Sprint - NPR

  29-10-2016 17:00 via npr.org
  
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  Obama Ramps Up Appearances In Final Campaign Sprint
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  On Tuesday — exactly one week before Election Day — he will head to Ohio to campaign for Clinton at a "Get Out The Early Vote" campaign in Columbus. The next day, he'll be in North Carolina for a similar event in Raleigh. And on Thursday, Obama will ...
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• Will Ferrell to campaign for Clinton in North Carolina

  29-10-2016 15:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton will get some help from comedian Will Ferrell on Saturday.
  
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• Donald Trump Kicks In $10 Million to Campaign

  29-10-2016 15:14 via nytimes.com
  The candidate’s donation to his own campaign, which was running low on cash, came at a critical time in the race.
  
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• At-risk Republicans revel in FBI's Clinton email announcement

  29-10-2016 14:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Vulnerable down-ballot Republican candidates seized on the news Friday that the FBI was reviewing new emails tied to the investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private server, arguing the GOP must remain in charge of Congress so they can keep check on a potential Clinton presidency.
  
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• What are poll watchers and what are they allowed to do?

  29-10-2016 14:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  With early voting underway in a growing number of states and Donald Trump talking about a "rigged" election and warning about what he says will be voter fraud, there have been significant discussions about "poll watchers," and concerns that certain individuals may try to intimidate their fellow voters.
  
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• Panic 101: Don't flee stock market because of election - USA TODAY

  29-10-2016 12:03 via usatoday.com
  
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  Panic 101: Don't flee stock market because of election
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  Dear Pete,. I don't feel good about the upcoming presidential election. My gut tells me the stock market is going to go into the tank on Nov. 9. Do you think I should sell everything, move to cash and wait out the volatility? — Jim, San Antonio. Dear ...
  
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• Table for Three: Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books

  29-10-2016 12:00 via nytimes.com
  The two women discuss the temperamental forebears of Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, the ambitions of candidates and their skills for the job.
  
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• Fast Times on the Campaign Trail in ‘Embeds’

  29-10-2016 12:00 via nytimes.com
  The show will take a comic look at young political reporters against the backdrop of covering a presidential campaign.
  
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• Obama ratchets up fight to unseat Rubio - Politico

  29-10-2016 06:58 via politico.com
  
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  Obama ratchets up fight to unseat Rubio
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  It's President Barack Obama who has come to Murphy's rescue, touting the two-term congressman during his second trip to Florida in just eight days. And, the White House announced, Obama will head to both Miami and Jacksonville on Thursday.
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• The bizarre day that blunted Clinton's good mood

  29-10-2016 05:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton was riding high. Then Anthony Weiner resurfaced.
  
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• Trump reinvigorated by FBI Clinton probe

  29-10-2016 05:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump pounced on the news that the FBI is reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, saying Friday the Democratic presidential nominee displays corruption "on a scale we have never seen before."
  
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• Trump campaign manager: FBI director in 'terrible spot'

  29-10-2016 05:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, suggested Friday night that she did not envy the position of FBI Director James Comey, who announced earlier in the day that the bureau was reviewing emails related to Hillary Clinton's private server.
  
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• US intercepts multiple shipments of Iranian weapons going to Houthis in Yemen

  29-10-2016 05:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  American warships have intercepted five shipments of weaponry to the Houthis in Yemen from Iran in the past year and a half, according to US Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan, who is in charge of American naval operations in the Middle East.
  
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• Three in Florida, Virginia charged with voter fraud

  29-10-2016 04:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The charges targeted a Florida woman and a Virginia man accused of filing bogus voter registration forms and a Florida woman alleged to have tampered with absentee ballots she was opening at the Miami-Dade Elections Department. In the Iowa capital of Des Moines, county election officials referred three cases of suspected voter fraud to police earlier this week, leading to one arrest on Thursday, police said.
  
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• Biden on Weiner: 'I'm not a big fan'

  29-10-2016 04:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Vice President Joe Biden is "not a big fan" of disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner.
  
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• Trump looks for boost from Clinton's new email problem

  29-10-2016 04:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shifted quickly on Friday to take advantage of a new twist in Democrat Hillary Clinton's long-running email saga, seeking a much-needed boost in the campaign's waning days. The FBI's disclosure that it is investigating more emails as part of a probe into Clinton's use of a private email server gave fresh energy to Trump. At rallies in New Hampshire, Maine and Iowa, Trump hit hard on his message that
  
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• Kaine predicts Supreme Court rule change by Senate Democrats

  29-10-2016 04:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is predicting that Senate Democrats will "change the Senate rules" to confirm a ninth Supreme Court justice if Republicans continue to block confirmation of any new appointments.
  
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• Obama jokes with Samantha Bee about Halloween

  29-10-2016 03:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Samantha Bee jabbed President Barack Obama about his aging appearance in a clip for "Full Frontal" that aired Friday.
  
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