Sunday, October 14, 2018

Evening Edition: Voters say they are more likely to cast ballots in this year’s midterm elections

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Voters say they are more likely to cast ballots in this year's midterm elections
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that enthusiasm is up across almost all demographic groups. But the increases are greater among younger adults, nonwhite voters and those who say they favor Democrats for the House. At the same time, President Trump's job approval rating has risen five points after tying a record low point in August.
GOP claims of voter fraud threat fuel worries about ballot access in November
Numerous studies have found no evidence of large-scale voter fraud in the United States, but Republican officials are going after what they describe as threats to voting integrity — moves that critics see as attempts to keep some Americans from casting ballots in the midterms.
 
Michael Cohen: 2018 midterms 'might be the most important vote in our lifetime'
President Trump's former personal attorney, who pleaded guilty in August to eight violations of tax, banking and campaign finance laws, last week changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat.
 
 
Elizabeth Warren builds expansive Democratic campaign effort ahead of likely 2020 bid
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has quietly built a wide-ranging network in all 50 states that is aimed at some of the early-primary contests that will be influential in the 2020 presidential race.
 
Trump unsure whether Mattis will leave, says he is 'sort of a Democrat'
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has often publicly walked back some of President Trump's more controversial statements on foreign policy, and the two have a strained relationship, veteran journalist Bob Woodward has reported in his book "Fear."
 
After journalist vanishes, focus shifts to charming Saudi prince's 'dark,' bullying side
The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi has thrown a spotlight on the authoritarian rule of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Turkish authorities allege the self-exiled Saudi journalist was killed and gruesomely dismembered earlier this month by Saudi agents inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
 
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Saudi Arabia rejects 'threats' after Trump vows 'severe punishment'
The kingdom's government is as "glorious and steadfast as ever" and neither threats of sanctions nor the repetition of "false accusations" will hurt it, the country's official news agency said, even as the Saudi financial market plummeted.
 
'Back to frontier days': Hurricane Michael turns many rural Floridians into unwilling 21st-century pioneers
The storm delivered misery to one of the poorest regions of Florida, where a large percentage of people live in mobile homes and other vulnerable structures, and where many of the homes have no insurance.
 
Kudlow defends Trump for calling Fed 'crazy,' says president respects central bank's independence
White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on "Fox News Sunday" that the president was not telling the central bank what to do but was merely expressing his view that interest rates are being raised too quickly.
 
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Exit polls in Bavaria show voters spurning Merkel's allies, boosting parties on the left and right
The result of Sunday's vote is likely to reverberate loudly in Berlin, where it will be seen as yet another blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel's once-mighty fusion of her own Christian Democratic Union with its Bavarian sister.
 
Chinese ambassador: It's 'very confusing' trying to discern who has Trump's ear on trade policy
President Trump announced three weeks ago that he was levying a new round of tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, prompting China to respond by imposing tariffs on $60 billion of American imports.
 
A senator snatched a student's phone while he was being asked about Georgia voter registration uproar
Before the student could ask his question, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) snatched the phone out of his hands, as evidenced by a video, which continued to record even after Perdue had grabbed it.
 
 
Retropolis
SNL has skewered every president since Ford. All of them reacted the same way — until now.
Trump is the first president to attack his portrayal on Saturday Night Live instead of laugh along.
 
Mapping the roots, influences and origins of every head coach in the NFL
The web of coaching connections in the NFL is nearly endless. But through the branches, every coach can point to one head coach who's most responsible for helping him land one of the league's 32 coveted positions.
 
Self-described 'communists' tried to donate to a Democrat. They were actually GOP activists.
Rep. Tom O'Halleran's finance director drove over to the local Arizona Republican office to return the donation and confronted on camera the men who left it.
 
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