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From LeBron's trophies to Savannah's heartbeat necklace, the couple talked about the things that meant the most to them.

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Nick Sirianni was fined $250K for conduct toward officials, a source said, confirming an SI report that noted Mike Vrabel and Aaron Glenn were similarly fined.

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Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They're now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.

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City leaders say they will consider covering camera equipment until it is removed.

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An avid WWE fan, Tyrese Haliburton wore a denim and leather jacket similar to the one worn by Triple H when he returned from a torn quad.

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Meta could have raised about $700 billion in equity capital before Zuckerberg lost majority control, a filing shows. The new share class will raise money without diluting him—and allow him to foot a potential bill in California.

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The department has long deployed election monitors, but the Trump administration's unprecedented steps to try to wrestle control over elections have led to new concerns about DOJ monitoring this year.

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The pro-Israel lobbying group and influential political donor announced it would no longer endorse candidates or give directly to campaigns, instead mobilizing its members to give individually.

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Following Pittsburgh's 26-19 overtime victory, Jalon Daniels left with a keepsake from his idol, Aaron Rodgers.

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House Democrats' campaign arm is instructing allied super PACs to promote minor candidates in several key House races, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: This allows Democrats to steer outside groups toward siphoning votes from Republicans without violating laws against direct coordination.

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• An Axios review of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's "redboxes" — publicly available webpages laying out what PACs should say in ads and which voters to target — found references to minor candidates in five races.
• The DCCC included language on four of those pages promoting a third-party or independent candidate with language touting their conservative, pro-gun or anti-government bona fides.

"Registered Republicans under the age of 55 need to see ads," the redbox for Colorado's 5th District says, "showing that ... Christopher Mitchell, a libertarian, is the true conservative running for Congress."

• The page for Virginia's 2nd District says white, college-educated men should see that independent J. Matt Baker is "a staunch supporter of the 2nd amendment" who will "defend our constitution."
• In Virginia's 5th District, the DCCC wants the same group of voters to know that independent Cooke Harvey "will fight for Virginia's farmers against big government."
• Republican women in Nevada's 2nd District should be informed that American Independent Party candidate Lynn Chapman "has spent decades fighting for conservative values," the DCCC says.

Zoom in: In several cases, the redboxes urge super PACs to steer Democratic and left-leaning voters away from minor candidates who could siphon votes from the DCCC's recruit.

• The redbox for Alaska's at-large district — where Democrats are backing independent Bill Hill — says voters need to know Eric Hafner is a "fake Democrat" despite being listed on the ballot as one, noting he is an inmate in New York with no clear ties to Alaska.
• The page for Virginia's 2nd District urges PACs to ding the progressive credentials of another independent candidate, Geral D. "Bishop" Staten, a self-identified "Democrat Socialist."
• Black voters should hear that Staten "said that he would vote for Donald Trump in 2024 and said that President Obama is a quote 'puppet and a clown,'" the DCCC redbox says — though he has denied supporting Trump.

Between the lines: In the post-Citizens United era, redboxes have emerged as a way for campaigns to give messaging guidance to cash-rich outside groups that often have less localized knowledge of their turf.

• The practice is so named because the websites often put a red box around the instructions.
• The NRCC has its own publicly available redboxes, though it shies away from encouraging PACs to boost spoiler candidates.

The big picture: There have been several other isolated examples this year of both parties allegedly boosting spoiler candidates, including with redboxes.

• Democrats successfully sued last month to get a Green Party candidate who they alleged was a GOP plant booted off the ballot in Pennsylvania's 7th District.
• Republicans in Alaska tried and failed to do the same with unaffiliated candidate Dan J. Sullivan, who they allege is a spoiler for Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan in his race against Democrat Mary Peltola.
• It's even happened in party primaries: The campaign of Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) put language on its redbox promoting Republican Zachariah Wooden in the hopes of keeping progressive challenger Mai Vang out of the general election.

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Cornell Green, who never missed a game in 13 seasons while playing for the Cowboys from 1962-74, died at age 86.

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Stocks closed higher on Wednesday, with the Nasdaq Composite rising 1% as SpaceX and Tesla rallied.

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Josh Jacobs, in his first comments since his arrest in May following an incident with a woman at his home, said he is trying to move forward from the "mistake."

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He’s not Zucking around. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg held detailed negotiations with the tech giant’s board of directors about moving out of California if the state passes Prop. 40, a 5% wealth tax on billionaires — which could force him to liquidate huge chunks of stock, according to a new financial filing. The social media...

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Broncos OLB Jonathon Cooper, now off the exempt list following two arrests on domestic violence charges in June, said he holds himself accountable.

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The White House counsel's office warned Politico in a Monday letter that it had 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories about alleged staff drama, or it would suffer unspecified consequences.

• That deadline expires Thursday.

Why it matters: The White House demand threatens to escalate already tense relations with Politico specifically and, more generally, the press corps that covers President Trump in Washington.

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• Politico, CNN, and MS NOW are already banned from covering Trump in the Oval Office and on Air Force One because the president does not like their coverage.
• Trump blocked all three outlets from the White House grounds as well, but a judge on Oct. 13 restored their access.
• CNN threatened legal action Wednesday to regain access to Air Force One and the "pool" of television networks that accompany the president.

Zoom in: In his letter to Politico, White House Counsel Will Scharf singled out three stories concerning White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles despite "on-the-record refutations" or contrary evidence supplied by senior staff and even the president.

1) Oct. 15: In a story headlined "Trump's ice maiden is under fire," Politico Playbook reported that Trump was considering a replacement for Wiles. Trump called it "fake news."

2) Oct. 16: Politico Playbook wrote that the prior day's story had caused a "freakout" and that the president "blew up" over it. A White House spokesman called it "unbelievably stupid and false."

3) Oct. 16: In a story headlined "Susie Wiles helped set up Fox interview ahead of press secretary's exit," Politico insinuated the chief of staff set up Katie Zacharia to fail in a Sean Hannity interview on Fox the night before.

• The White House and Fox News denied the reporting. And White House officials provided text messages to Politico before publication showing Zacharia — not Wiles — set up the interview, which the New York Post reported the following day.
• "Politico has not corrected or retracted its false reporting. Instead, a Politico reporter confirmed that Politico declined to remove Ms. Wiles from the story because she was the 'hook' for the story — a legally fraught and alarming admission to say the least," Scharf wrote.

What they're saying: Scharf wrote that "freedom of the press is not a professional exemption from accountability. I therefore demand that Politico immediately correct or retract these publications, issue a prominent and public apology to the President of the United States and to Ms. Wiles, and remove the false reporting from your digital archives."

• Otherwise, he wrote, the White House would conduct an "immediate review of Politico's relationship with the White House, and, of course, consideration of all other appropriate and available legal remedies."
• A Politico spokesperson did not return a message seeking comment.
• White House officials fault the new management at Politico for pushing its reporters to engage in what Scharf called "gossip-peddling."
• The letter was addressed to global editor in chief Jonathan Greenberger.

Zoom out: Trump has had an ongoing love-hate relationship with the press. He is available to reporters for far more question-and-answer sessions than any recent president, but he's quick to anger and threaten press bans for coverage he doesn't like.

• Early in his second term, Trump banned the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One access after it balked at calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. A federal judge reinstated AP's access months later.
• The New York Times reported this week that Trump has mused about removing the press entirely from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and building a swimming pool there.

What's next: Scharf would not specify what consequences Politico faces, but a White House official said "all options are on the table" and described Trump's counsel as "uncharacteristically enraged."

• Trump is highly litigious with media organizations and, advisers say, his appetite for launching lawsuits hasn't diminished.
• Some advisers outside of the Trump White House noticed that administration officials may be telegraphing another avenue to attack Politico as a malign foreign influence because it's owned by a German company, Axel Springer.
• "Politico is a foreign-op designed to interfere in American politics and meddle in our elections with disinformation and misinformation," White House Communications Director Steven Cheung wrote on X Saturday.

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