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Hurricane Milton's aftermath in Florida is grim, with at least 10 dead and over 3.5 million homes without power. The storm caused widespread devastation with storm surges, tornadoes, and flooding, particularly in Sarasota and Fort Myers. Rescue efforts continue, and cleanup will be extensive.

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Major newspapers gave nearly four times more coverage to Clinton’s server than to Trump’s indictment. www.mediamatters.org...

Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server
Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server

In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment for alleged crimes related to the January 6 insurrection a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in 2016, according to a new Media Matters study. Media Matters reviewed print coverage in five newspapers — Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post — for stories mentioning Trump’s indictment in the week following U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s October 2 unsealing of special counsel Jack Smith’s latest filing, which reveals damning new evidence of the former president’s alleged crimes.  We found the papers ran 26 combined articles mentioning Trump’s indictment in the week after the unsealing of Smith’s filing. But those same papers published 100 combined articles — nearly 4 times as many — that mentioned Clinton’s server in the week after then-FBI Director James Comey’s notorious October 28, 2016, letter on new developments in that probe, as we documented in a 2016 study. The papers ran more than 6 times as many combined front-page stories that mentioned Clinton’s server (46) as they did front-page stories that mentioned Trump’s indictment (7) over those periods. Obsessive news media focus on Clinton’s server in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign helped Trump to victory, even as Comey ultimately reconfirmed that no charges were appropriate in the case. But eight years later, with one presidential candidate facing active prosecution for federal charges related to his attempt to subvert an election, outlets are making different choices.

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Media Matters' analysis has brought attention to a significant difference in media coverage between Donald Trump’s indictment for alleged crimes related to the January 6 insurrection and the coverage of Hillary Clinton’s email server in 2016.

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During the Arizona Senate debate, Kari Lake tried to dodge questions about her MAGA ties and election denialism by shifting the topic to water issues. Democrat Ruben Gallego pressed her on her claims about the 2022 gubernatorial election and abortion stance, highlighting her inconsistencies.

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Kanye West is facing a new lawsuit from a former staffer alleging erratic behavior and dangerous demands. The suit claims West had private investigators follow his wife, Bianca Censori, without her knowledge, and engaged in paranoia-driven actions fueled by nitrous oxide.

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Convicted felon Donald Trump insulted Detroit while speaking there, bizarrely comparing the city to underdeveloped regions of China and claiming the U.S. would become like Detroit if Kamala Harris wins. He also mused about exposing his "beautiful body" on a beach instead.

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