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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Dean Phillips hits Biden over handling of Hamas hostages: ‘Absurd, shocking and dismaying’ — Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) bashed President Biden Tuesday for the recently negotiated hostage deal between the militant group Hamas and Israel. — “No, because we have nine Americans held hostage right …
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Statement from President Joe Biden on the Hostage Release in Gaza
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The Times of Israel:
Cabinet okays deal for release of 50 Israeli hostages in exchange for 4-day Gaza truce
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Politico:
Biden admin officials see proof their strategy is working in hostage deal
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Ben Samuels / Reuters:
Israel-Hamas War Day 46 | Israeli Cabinet Okays Deal for Release of 50 Hostages Held by Hamas, Temporary Cease-fire
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Sheila Brummer / Iowa Public Radio:
Woodbury County supervisor's wife found guilty of 52 counts of voter fraud — Prosecutors say Kim Phuong Taylor wanted her husband to win elections in 2020 “by any means necessary.” — A jury spent about five hours deliberating before convicting Kim Phuong Taylor on 52 counts of voter fraud in federal court Tuesday in Sioux City.
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
GOP official's wife convicted in months-long 2020 voter-fraud scheme — As Tam and Thien Doan tried to file for absentee ballots in Iowa in 2020, they were surprised to find out that votes had already been cast in their names. The siblings, both Democrats, were even more astonished to learn …
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Have You Listened Lately to What Trump Is Saying? — He is becoming frighteningly clear about what he wants. — In 2019, Kennedy Ndahiro, the editor of the Rwandan daily newspaper The New Times, explained to readers of The Atlantic how years of cultivated had hatred led to death on a horrifying scale.
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Peter Stone / The Guardian:
‘Openly authoritarian campaign’: Trump's threats of revenge fuel alarm — Trump's talk of seeking to ‘weaponize’ the DoJ and ‘retribution’ for opponents poses a direct threat to the rule of law and democracy in the US should he win a second term, experts say
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Why Trump Represents a ‘Trifecta of Danger’ — Brian Klaas, a political scientist at University College London, captures the remarkable nature of the 2024 presidential election in an Oct. 1 essay, “The Case for Amplifying Trump's Insanity.” — Klaas argues that the presidential contest now pits
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Timothy Noah / New Republic:
The Red State Brain Drain Isn't Coming. It's Happening Right Now. — On Memorial Day weekend in 2022, Kate Arnold and her wife, Caroline Flint, flew from Oklahoma City to Cabo San Lucas for a little R&R. They had five kids, the youngest of them five-year-old twin girls, and demanding jobs as obstetrician-gynecologists.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
November 2023 National Poll: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden — A new Emerson College Polling national survey of registered voters finds former President Donald Trump with a four-point lead over President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, 47% to 43%, within the poll's margin of error.
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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Spyglass Says Melissa Barrera Was Fired From ‘Scream’ Due to Rhetoric That ‘Flagrantly Crosses the Line Into Hate Speech’ (EXCLUSIVE) … But now the production banner behind the hit horror franchise's revival is pushing back on a narrative that has quickly coalesced around the decision …
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Helen Holmes / The Daily Beast:
‘Scream VII’ Star Axed Over Pro-Palestine Posts
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Politico:
Nikki Haley is consolidating the ‘Never Trump’ vote — The former South Carolina governor is drawing support from Trump-skeptical donors and activists in early nominating states. — Two years after Nikki Haley vowed not to challenge Donald Trump for the presidential nomination …
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NBC News:
Ron DeSantis' team was going after Nikki Haley. They turned on each other instead.
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New York Times:
How Many Abortions Did the Post-Roe Bans Prevent? — The first estimate of births since Dobbs found that almost a quarter of women who would have gotten abortions carried their pregnancies to term. — The first data on births since Roe v. Wade was overturned shows how much abortion bans …
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Sara Nathan / Page Six:
Susan Sarandon dumped by Hollywood agency UTA over anti-Jewish rant — Oscar winner Susan Sarandon has been dropped by top Hollywood agency UTA after saying frightened Jews are “getting a taste of how it feels to be Muslim in America,” Page Six can reveal. — The 77-year-old actress …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP rallies around Musk after his self-inflicted antisemitism mess — Elon Musk's new lawsuit against Media Matters, which X Corp. filed late Monday, has been dismissed by legal experts as a frivolous effort to bully a prominent critic into silence. But some Republicans apparently …
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Maya Bodnick / Slow Boring:
Business leaders are ignoring Elon Musk's antisemitism
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
How one judge is slowing down one of Trump's biggest criminal cases — The May 2024 trial in Trump's classified documents case appears headed for a politically precarious postponement. — Judge Aileen Cannon seems to be in no hurry. — On paper, she has scheduled a trial to open next …
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Robert Katzberg / Slate:
The D.C. Circuit Court Revealed the Huge Flaw in Trump's Gag Order Claim
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Raw Story, New Republic, CBS News and NewsNation
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lee get Jan. 6 footage — but trying to blame the FBI could backfire — No surprise from a guy who took the lead defending Donald Trump's attempted coup, but the newly appointed Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., moved quickly to abuse his power …
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Record percentage says they or someone in household owns a gun: Survey — More than half of American voters, a record-high number, say they or someone in their household owns a gun, a new NBC News poll found. — According to the survey, which has polled voters since 1999 …
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Poll: Gun ownership reaches record high with American electorate
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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil — Washington warned India over concerns of government involvement in assassination conspiracy — US authorities thwarted a conspiracy to assassinate a Sikh separatist on American soil and issued a warning to India's government …
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Craig Simpson / Telegraph:
Roman emperor was trans, says museum — Elagabalus will be referred to as she after claims in classical texts that the emperor asked to be called ‘lady’ — A Roman emperor has been declared transgender by a UK museum, The Telegraph can reveal. — The North Hertfordshire Museum has said it will be …
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Luke Funk / The Messenger:
UK Museum Determines Roman Emperor Was Trans, Changes Pronouns to She/Her
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Abortion rights groups seek ballot measures in 9 more states in 2024 — Despite an unbroken winning streak since Roe v. Wade was overturned, some of the efforts to enshrine abortion rights in state constitutions face substantial challenges. — Seeking to extend their unbroken winning streak …
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