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Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say
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More than 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter casting doubt on the provenance of a New York Post story on the former vice president's son.
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POLITICO More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” 6h
Senate panel delays vote to subpoena Twitter, Facebook CEOs as some Republicans waver
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The subpoenas would require the tech moguls to testify on the alleged "suppression and/or censorship" of the New York Post reporting.
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POLITICO The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed plans to vote on subpoenas to compel the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook to testify on allegations of anti-conservative bias after some panel Republicans expressed reservation about the maneuver 9h
‘Fauci’s a disaster’: Trump attacks health officials in fiery campaign call
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The infectious disease expert spoke frankly about the president’s pandemic response in a “60 Minutes” interview over the weekend.
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POLITICO President Trump attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci and his administration’s other public health officials as “idiots” in a fiery call with his campaign staff today, even musing about potentially firing the nation’s top infectious disease expert 16h
An education in adapting to Covid
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'We won't be back to normal until probably the spring term of 2022' — Classrooms aren't the problem
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POLITICO We asked University of Arizona President Robert Robbins — a heart surgeon and former Texas health executive — to discuss his school's Covid-19 fight, worries about Halloween parties and the potential for a campus-wide coronavirus vaccine mandate 17h
Canada keeps border closed as Covid-19 cases spike in U.S.
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Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced Monday that Canada will extend the border restrictions until Nov. 21.
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POLITICO Canada is keeping its land border with the United States closed to nonessential travel for another month as the Trudeau government expresses concerns about coronavirus caseloads south of the frontier 18h
Biden would revamp fraying intel community
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Intelligence has become a political weapon under Trump, the Democratic nominee's advisers say.
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POLITICO Trump’s actions, and the endless partisan battles over the Russia probe and impeachment, have left the intelligence community bruised and battered 22h
'It needs to stop': Whitmer blasts Trump over Michigan rally rhetoric
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Trump was speaking in Western Michigan as part of a swing through the Rust Belt.
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POLITICO Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer excoriated President Donald Trump for continuing his incendiary rhetoric toward her in the wake of an alleged plot to kidnap her 55h
David Perdue mocks Kamala Harris' name in Trump rally warm up
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“Kamala? Kamala? Kamala-mala-mala? I don’t know. Whatever,” Perdue (R-Ga.) said at a rally in Macon.
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POLITICO Republican Sen. David Perdue mocked Sen. Kamala Harris on Friday, derisively mispronouncing the Democratic vice presidential candidate's name during a campaign rally in Georgia 3d
Federal deficit triples to $3.1T, Treasury data shows
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Government spending exceeded more than $6.5 trillion in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, up from $4.4 trillion in fiscal 2019.
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POLITICO The federal deficit tripled to a record $3.1 trillion in fiscal year 2020, with the budget gap ballooning to a share of economic output unseen since World War II 3d
Adelsons pour $75M into last-ditch effort to save Trump
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The GOP megadonors gave to Preserve America, a new anti-Biden super PAC that suddenly became one of the biggest 2020 spenders last month.
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POLITICO Preserve America, which has quickly become one of the top-spending super PACs in the presidential race, has one primary funder: Sheldon and Miriam Adelson. The couple gave $75 million, roughly 90 percent of its funding. 4d
What Trump's and Biden’s town halls tell us about our pandemic future
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Hospitals are running out of room again — Meet the ’nerdy virologists’ on the Covid vaccine hunt
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POLITICO In flipping channels between Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s simultaneous town halls Thursday night, you’d be forgiven for wondering if the two candidates were also on different planets 4d
Pfizer won't seek coronavirus vaccine authorization until after election
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The move by Pfizer continues the company's push to publicly distance itself from the presidential race.
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POLITICO Pfizer will not seek an emergency authorization for its coronavirus vaccine until after the election, the final blow to President Donald Trump's repeated pledges to make a shot available before Americans cast votes 4d
Hospitals search for enough beds and nurses as virus rebounds
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The pandemic is spawning new infections at a rate not seen since the end of July.
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POLITICO The coronavirus is engulfing big city hospitals in states including Utah, Wisconsin and Indiana that are running low on nurses and beds and are being forced to set up overflow facilities 4d
Schwarzenegger: California Republicans 'off the rails' with 'fake' ballot boxes
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"I think it's just Mickey Mouse stuff that, you know, has serious kind of effects," the former governor said.
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POLITICO Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday night that the state Republican Party is "off the rails" and doing a "stupid thing" by placing unauthorized ballot boxes in counties with battleground congressional districts 4d
Trump refuses to denounce QAnon — and other key moments from tonight’s town halls
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The president wouldn't say whether he was tested for coronavirus before the first debate.
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POLITICO Trump tonight refused to denounce QAnon, saying he doesn’t know whether there is a secret government cabal of pedophiles as the theory claims. “I know nothing about QAnon,” he said. “I do know that they are very much against pedophilia. I agree with that” 4d
Why Barrett is the anti-Kavanaugh
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POLITICO The low-key Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett are the antithesis to the ugly Brett Kavanaugh hearings that turned Capitol Hill into a war zone two years ago 5d
'He’s getting a bit desperate': Trump tramples government boundaries as election nears
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As his fundraising has slipped, Trump has upped his use of federal resources to compensate.
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POLITICO The farther behind Donald Trump has fallen in the competition for campaign dollars, the more he’s milked government resources to make up the difference 5d
Biden campaign lashes out at New York Post
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The campaign cast the allegations against Joe and Hunter Biden in the New York tabloid as "Russian disinformation," while Republicans complained that social media companies were censoring the story.
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POLITICO Social media companies throttled sharing the New York Post article on their platforms, fueling complaints from conservatives that information critical of the Bidens was being censored 5d
'Dripping sarcasm': Graham clarifies comment about segregation
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Graham's opponent in the S.C. Senate race had quickly seized on the remark.
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POLITICO Sen. Lindsey Graham clarified that he was being sarcastic this morning when he referred to the “good old days of segregation” during the Barrett confirmation hearing. "It blows my mind that any rational person could believe that about me,” he said. 6d
Eugene Scalia’s wife tests positive for coronavirus
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The Labor Department said Trish Scalia “is experiencing mild symptoms but doing well,” while the secretary has tested negative.
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POLITICO The Labor Department said Trish Scalia “is experiencing mild symptoms but doing well,” while the secretary has tested negative 6d