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Obama Issues Searing Attacks on Trump, Ramaswamy in Return to Campaign Trail

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By: Tim Balk · Emily Davies · John Yoon and Richard Fausset
The 44th president sharply criticized Mr. Trump, who hit back later in the day. Mr. Obama also assailed Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio.

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Former President Barack Obama sharply criticized President Trump on Saturday in Ohio.
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Alaska Election Gambit Shows Justice Dept. Has Bowed to Trump’s Demands

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By: Glenn Thrush · Katie Rogers and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
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.

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President Trump during a campaign rally in support of Senator Dan S. Sullivan in Wasilla, Alaska, this month. Mr. Trump urged the Justice Dept. to intervene in the Senate race.
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She Planned to Protest Trump. She Didn’t Plan on Getting Punched.

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By: Jessica Contrera
Blake Miley yelled “fascist” as President Trump spoke at a midterm campaign rally. The violence that followed “was not right,” she said.

© Nick Fancher for The New York Times

“I knew there was a really good possibility that this would happen,” Blake Miley said. “But I don’t blame myself. It is not right what they did to me.”
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Why Democrats Could Find It Hard to Win the Senate Despite Their Strong Polls

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By: Lisa Lerer
Democrats are increasingly optimistic about the midterms. But they are being outspent by Republicans. And they are trying to compete in states that favored President Trump by large margins.

© Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated Press

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How Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ruthless Ad in Ohio Divided Republicans

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By: Reid J. Epstein and Campbell Robertson
The fallout from Vivek Ramaswamy’s brutal spot targeting his Democratic rival in the Ohio governor’s race showed that even in the Trump era, a political attack can be seen as going too far.

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Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican, is facing a tight race for governor of Ohio against Amy Acton, a Democrat.
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What to Know About Alaska’s Senate Race

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By: Jess Bidgood
President Trump told the Justice Department to intervene in the race, where polling shows Republicans at risk of losing a seat.

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Dan Sullivan, the incumbent Republican senator in Alaska.
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Netanyahu Is Up for Re-election After Years of War. How Will Voters See Him?

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By: Isabel Kershner
The Oct. 7 attacks marred Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s image as Mr. Security. Ahead of elections, he’s trying to sell Israelis on the new, hawkish version of himself.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaking to supporters at a mall in Holon, Israel, this month.
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Iran in ‘Advanced Stages’ of Planning Attacks Against Americans, Officials Say

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By: Edward Wong · Jonathan Swan and Julian E. Barnes
The U.S. government has ordered diplomats and other federal employees to leave Saudi Arabia. It is also drawing down staff at other missions in the region.

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Security stationed outside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone in March.
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Justice Dept. Demands That California Counties Help Identify Noncitizen Voters

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By: Laurel Rosenhall and Shawn Hubler
Election officials across the state received letters from the agency saying if they fail to comply, they “risk significant federal scrutiny.”

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A ballot processing center in Industry, Calif., last year. California elections rely heavily on mail voting.
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Why Legal Experts See the Justice Dept.’s Alaska Election Challenge as Dubious

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By: Charlie Savage
No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.

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Senator Dan Sullivan with Mary Peltola, his Democratic challenger, during a debate in Kodiak, Alaska, last month.
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Trump Officials Seek Block on Alaska Senate Race Results if the Republican Dan Sullivan Loses

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By: Devlin Barrett and Kellen Browning
The department, in a highly unusual lawsuit, argued that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result.

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Senator Dan Sullivan, the Alaska Republican incumbent, at a rally this month. The ballot in the Senate race also features Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.
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‘I Have to Go In’: Kaylub Giamanco Describes Killing Gunman in Oregon School Shooting

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By: Michael Levenson
Kaylub Giamanco told Oregon Public Broadcasting that he happened to be driving by the Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend when he saw a gunman preparing to enter the school.

© Saskia Hatvany/Oregon Public Broadcasting, via Associated Press

“I have to go in. People are going to die,” Kaylub Giamanco told Oregon Public Broadcasting, recalling the moment he saw an armed figure outside an elementary school in Bend, Ore., on Oct. 15.
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Trump’s Attacks on Voting Raise Fears He Will Try to Challenge Midterm Results

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By: Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Election officials say they worry the administration could use its own unsubstantiated claims to contest the vote in November.

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President Trump, who has continued to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election, has been relentless in his efforts to sow doubts about the integrity of American voting.
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Here’s What Democrats Plan to Do With Their Power if They Win Back Congress

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By: Annie Karni
Democrats have campaigned on lowering living costs and holding the Trump administration accountable. This is a look at their to-do list if they win the majority.

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Should they win in November, top House Democrats are planning a shock-and-awe legislative sprint to demonstrate within hours of taking power that they are passing bills to deliver on their promises.
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What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed

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By: Ezra Klein · Annie Galvin and Jack McCordick
Sarah Longwell has conducted hundreds of focus groups with Trump voters, and many of them are feeling betrayed.

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