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Tristan Snell / CNN:
Congress has already disqualified Trump from the ballot — Editor's Note: Tristan Snell is author of the new book “Taking Down Trump: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did it Successfully.” He is a lawyer and legal commentator who has appeared on MSNBC and CNN …
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Washington Post:
Live updates Supreme Court skeptical of challenge to Trump's eligibility — The Supreme Court on Thursday seemed prepared to keep Donald Trump on the Colorado ballot, expressing deep concerns about the ability of a single state to disqualify a candidate from seeking national office.
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John Nichols / The Nation:
The Only Way Trump Stays on the Ballot Is if the Supreme Court Rejects the Constitution — It's simple: Article 14, Section 3 bars Trump from the ballot. The question today is whether the justices will accept this reality. — Pocket — The US Supreme Court faces a simple question …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's ‘Knock on the Door’ — Confrontations over immigration and border security are moving to the center of the struggle between the two parties, both in Washington, D.C., and beyond. And yet the most explosive immigration clash of all may still lie ahead.
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of effort to remove Trump from a state ballot
Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of effort to remove Trump from a state ballot
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Why Republican Politicians Do Whatever Trump Says
Why Republican Politicians Do Whatever Trump Says
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NBC News:
Special counsel says there is evidence Biden ‘willfully retained and disclosed classified materials’ but will not be charged — The decision caps off a year-long saga and means Donald Trump remains the only president in history to face criminal charges. — WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Hur …
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden — The Special Counsel released today its findings about its look into my handling of classified documents. I was pleased to see they reached the conclusion I believed all along they would reach - that there would be no charges brought in this case and the matter is now closed.
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Associated Press:
Special counsel: Biden ‘willfully’ disclosed classified materials, but no criminal charges warranted — President Joe Biden “willfully” retained and disclosed highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Special Counsel Seeks No Criminal Charges in Biden's Classified Records Case — The inquiry found that the president had willfully retained material after finishing his term as vice president and had shared sensitive information with a ghostwriter. — The special counsel investigating President Biden …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Joe Biden is currently losing the election
Joe Biden is currently losing the election
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NBC News:
In his second mix-up this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders
In his second mix-up this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Foreign aid package finally breaks through Senate logjam — After a four-month detour for a border deal that died in three days, the Senate is moving forward on a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific. … The Pentagon is already out of funds for Ukraine …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
For House Republicans, failure is the only option
For House Republicans, failure is the only option
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Reese Gorman / The Daily Beast:
Mike Johnson Traded Senate Endorsement for Israel Vote—Then Went Back on His Word
Mike Johnson Traded Senate Endorsement for Israel Vote—Then Went Back on His Word
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Igor Derysh / Salon:
“Awful and unethical”: Legal experts say Judge Cannon could face removal for “disturbing” order — “Compromising national security is a bridge too far,” says longtime Harvard legal scholar Laurence Tribe — Legal experts sounded the alarm after the judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified …
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ABC News:
Authorities investigating online threats made to potential witness related to Trump classified docs case — The threats are cited in a court filing from the special prosecutor. — Former President Donald Trump arrives at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, on Oct. 2, 2023.
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Media Matters for America:
Fox News praises vigilante group for a takedown of migrant “shoplifter.” Law enforcement say the man was neither a shoplifter nor a recent migrant. — Update: Fox guest Curtis Sliwa told the AP that he had believed the man was a migrant because he was “speaking Spanish”
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Ryan Heath / Axios:
FCC outlaws AI voices in robocall fraud — The Federal Communications Commission has declared the use of AI-generated voices in scam robocalls illegal, with immediate effect. … - While using AI to perpetrate a scam or fraud was already illegal, now using AI to generate voices in such calls is itself illegal.
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Missouri senators vote against allowing abortions in rape, incest cases — Missouri senators voted Wednesday against amendments that would have allowed abortions in the cases of rape and incest in the state. — Missouri senators debated a bill that would make it illegal for public funds …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Powerful committee chair joins growing list of House GOP retirements — Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the chair of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, said Thursday she won't seek reelection in November. … - “I will not be running for re-election to the People's House.”
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Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Bounced cheques and Trump's ‘unpaid fees’: Rudy Giuliani lays bare his finances in bankruptcy hearing — Over three hours in the fifth-floor room of a court building, Donald Trump's one-time attorney reeled off a list of assets that revealed the strained state of his finances, from a Bronx storage unit to a $1m tax bill.
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Tucker Carlson's Fatal Attraction — The right-wing conspiracy monger shares Putin's worldview. — THE TITLE OF MY 2003 BOOK, Useful Idiots, was a reference to a perhaps apocryphal quote sometimes attributed to Lenin to the effect that gullible liberals in the West would prove useful idiots for the Soviet Union.
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers:
Statement from Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers — Washington, D.C. - Today, Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) released the following statement.
New Republic:
Shocker: Republicans Admit in Private That They Killed a Good Deal … In an extraordinary spectacle, virtually all Senate Republicans joined together Wednesday to block a bipartisan bill that would have given Republicans much of what they wanted on border security. Why? Because Donald Trump told them to.
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CNN:
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro ordered to report to prison — Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald Trump who was convicted of contempt of Congress, has been ordered to report to prison after a judge denied Navarro's effort to stay out of prison while he appeals the conviction.
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Francesca D'Annunzio / The Texas Observer:
Right-Wing Bloggers Busted During Militia Border Tour — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) recently arrested two right-wing bloggers riding in a caravan near Eagle Pass after finding what law enforcement described as a plastic bag containing a “white powdery substance,” marijuana …
Angela Dewan / CNN:
Scientists just set a nuclear fusion record in a step toward unleashing the limitless, clean energy source — Scientists and engineers near the English city of Oxford have set a nuclear fusion energy record, they announced Thursday, bringing the clean, futuristic power source another step closer to reality.
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Jacob Sullum / Reason:
Hawaii's Supreme Court Insists There Is No Individual Right to Arms — In the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court explicitly recognized that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to arms. It reaffirmed that conclusion two years later in McDonald v. Chicago …
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Associated Press:
CIA terminates whistleblower who prompted flood of sexual misconduct complaints — The CIA this week terminated a woman whose whistleblower account of being assaulted in a stairwell at the spy agency's headquarters prompted a flood of colleagues to come forward with their own complaints of sexual misconduct.
United States Department of State:
Reward Offers for Information to Bring Hive Ransomware Variant Co-Conspirators To Justice — Today, the Department of State is announcing a reward offer of up to $10,000,000 for information leading to the identification and/or location of any individual(s) who hold a key leadership position …
Katherine Itoh / NBC News:
Alabama station in disbelief after 200-foot radio tower stolen — WJLX radio station can no longer broadcast their AM programming since the incident. — A radio station in Alabama was forced to go silent after thieves stole their 200-foot radio tower and other equipment from a building.
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