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NBC News:
Embattled Rep. George Santos hit with additional charges, including identity theft  —  Prosecutors said Santos claimed he made non-existent loans to his campaign while making unauthorized charges on donors' credit cards.  —  Federal prosecutors hit Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y. …
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US Department of Justice:
Congressman George Santos Charged With Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, False Statements, Falsification of Records, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Credit Card Fraud  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York  —  Santos Allegedly Filed Fraudulent Fundraising Reports …
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Former OSU wrestlers say Jim Jordan betrayed them and shouldn't be House speaker  —  “Do you really want a guy in that job who chose not to stand up for his guys?” said one former wrestler who attended OSU when Jordan was assistant coach.  —  Four of the former Ohio State University wrestlers …
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Politico:
Playbook: What to watch in the speaker election  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NEW JMART — “Biden Won't Directly Address the Age Issue,” by Jonathan Martin: “His own supporters and lawmakers are all but pleading with [President JOE BIDEN] …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Crackpot fight!  Trump is worried about RFK Jr. running for president — and he should be scared  —  Trump depends on the crank vote that the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist could siphon off  —  He may not have bolts sticking out of his neck, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is morphing into the MAGA version of Frankenstein's monster.
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The Messenger:
The General Election Has Already Started — Just Ask Joe Biden and Donald Trump  —  Both campaigns have a had surgical focus on each other in recent weeks, more than a year out from November 2024 … Joe Biden and Donald Trump may be months away from officially being opponents.
NBC News:
Trump dips into internet conspiracy theories with his latest lines about Obama
Discussion: HotAir, The Hill and Political Wire
Nicholas Grossman / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Overrated Peace Plan Helped Enable the Horrors in Israel and Gaza  —  The Abraham Accords didn't bring “the dawn of a new Middle East,” they completely ignored the Palestinians and let the Netanyahu government do almost anything it wanted. … No American president caused Hamas …
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Associated Press:
Palestinians scramble for safety as Israel pounds sealed-off Gaza Strip to punish Hamas
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Charles Koch's audacious new $5 billion political scheme  —  Billionaire Charles Koch, who will turn 88 on November 1, is funneling his wealth into two secretive organizations that can continue his right-wing political advocacy for years.  Koch structured more than $5 billion in donations …
Discussion: Forbes
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Kari Lake announces run for Arizona Senate  —  Kari Lake announced her bid for Arizona Senate on Tuesday, entering the race for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's (I-Ariz.) seat as the heavy favorite for the GOP nomination.  —  Lake, a Trump ally who has denied her loss in last year's Arizona governor's race …
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Survey shows Lake leading Gallego, Sinema in Arizona Senate race
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
DNC sues North Carolina over Republican-backed election bill  —  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the North Carolina Democratic Party on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Election immediately after a pair of GOP-backed election laws went into effect …
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Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
North Carolina Republicans override governor's veto on key election law
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A tantalizing detail in a new Trump legal filing  —  The government signals it plans to prove Donald Trump's much-debated intent for taking and keeping classified documents  —  Donald Trump's many legal problems have led to a veritable fire hose of often-mundane, procedural court filings.
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Conservatives target Ohio to end their losing streak on abortion votes  —  Abortion opponents have lost every state referendum since Roe was overturned.  In Ohio, they're wooing students, Black communities and even abortion rights advocates to turn their fortunes around.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Anti-Israel Left Needs to Take a Hard Look at Itself  —  On Saturday morning in southern Israel, Hamas murdered hundreds of people at a music festival and kidnapped others at gunpoint to serve as human shields in Gaza.  On Sunday afternoon in Midtown Manhattan, a speaker at a rally …
Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
Judge gives Peter Navarro 24 hours to show proof of why he deserves new contempt trial  —  When former Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro asked a federal judge for a new trial, he claimed it was necessary because protesters holding signs such as, 'Bro, Should've Pled the 5th' and 'Peter …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bruce Hoffman / The Atlantic:
When Hamas Tells You Who They Are, Believe Them  —  A close read of Hamas's founding documents shows their genocidal intentions … — William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich  —  How many Israelis, or Jews, or anyone else for that matter, have read the 1988 Hamas Covenant …
Discussion: HotAir and Reason
Politico:
The Senate is a problem in the Israel crisis.  Democrats are fed up.  —  The war in the Middle East means top military and diplomatic posts must be filled now, senators say.  —  As war breaks out in the Middle East, key ambassadorships in the region and top military promotions are languishing in the Senate.
Discussion: MSNBC and Political Wire
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
Defiant Gabrielle Hanson refuses to denounce hate group as Franklin aldermen deliver stern rebuke  —  Alderman Beverly Burger: ‘Is it your mission to divide our city?  Because you are doing a bang-up job of it right now’  —  FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WTVF) — Members of the Franklin Board of Mayor …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Moms for Liberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back  —  Republicans hope to use education wars to turn purple suburbia red.  In one Pennsylvania district, that backfired  —  “Monster Liberty”: That's how the otherwise excellent closed-captioning service …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bari Weiss / The Free Press:
When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them  —  Look carefully at who is calling this bloodshed ‘liberation.’ And who is remaining silent.  —  Bring Back My Children: An Israeli Mother's Plea  —  ‘It Is Right to Rebel!  Israel, Go to Hell!’  —  After the worst massacre of Jews since …
Discussion: RedState
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Tuberville reports former CIA director Hayden to Capitol Police over tweet  —  Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Al.) reported the former CIA Director Michael Hayden to the Capitol Police on Tuesday over the former general's tweet suggesting the lawmaker should be removed from the human race.
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Republican effort to impeach Wis. Supreme Court justice loses steam  —  MADISON, Wis. — Republican lawmakers in this political battleground state appear to be easing off an effort to impeach a new liberal state Supreme Court justice who in her campaign promoted abortion rights and condemned gerrymandering.
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Kevin Phillips, 82, Dies; Political Analyst Predicted G.O.P. Resurgence  —  A conservative mastermind of the race-based “Southern strategy,” he later, as a writer, had second thoughts after assessing income inequality under three Republican presidents.  —  Kevin Phillips, a self-taught …
Melissa / Harvard University President:
War in the Middle East  —  A Statement from President Claudine Gay  —  As the events of recent days continue to reverberate, let there be no doubt that I condemn the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas.  Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one's individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Clarence Thomas Wants to Go After Freedom of the Press  —  Amid coverage of his relationships with high-profile conservatives, the Supreme Court justice wants to reconsider a landmark First Amendment cases … Justice Clarence Thomas has some thoughts.  —  The 1964 ruling established limits …
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Warner, Kaine urge DOJ to probe Gov. Youngkin's ‘purge’ of voter rolls
Discussion: Raw Story
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
A dissenting Fifth Circuit judge published a fake majority opinion in a death penalty case
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