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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
A Polling Risk for Trump — His advantage may not be as stable as it looks. — The polls have shown Donald Trump with an edge for eight straight months, but there's a sign his advantage might not be quite as stable as it looks: His lead is built on gains among voters who aren't paying close attention …
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The Daily Caller, Hopium Chronicles, Talking Points Memo and Split Ticket
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Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
Robert De Niro Narrates an Anti-Trump Ad for Biden — The ad uses the actor's distinctive voice to try to remind voters of the chaos of Donald Trump's presidency and warn them about a second Trump term. — President Biden's campaign released a new ad on Friday narrated by the actor Robert De Niro …
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HuffPost, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Washington Times, Mediaite, WisPolitics, Deadline, Rolling Stone, WFLA-TV, Politico, Florida Politics and New York Post
Axios:
Scoop: Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman backs Trump … Schwarzman, a billionaire and lifelong moderate Republican, was one of Trump's most visible business supporters when he was in the White House. — But ahead of this year's GOP primaries, Schwarzman called for “a new generation of leaders.”
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Bloomberg, Forbes, Washington Post and Semafor
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Trump's fascist talk is what's ‘poisoning the blood of our country’
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Althouse
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Shaky Foundation of Trump's Lead: Disengaged Voters
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Emerson Polling, Forbes and Raw Story
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope?
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HotAir, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, The Liberal Patriot, Raw Story, The Bulwark and Mediaite
Rolling Stone:
Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever — The former president is convinced state prosecutors will target him again after a second term, and wants the GOP to solve that problem for him — Donald Trump likes to tell anyone who will listen …
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New Republic
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Trump isn't joking about serving 3 or more terms — He wouldn't leave power willingly the first time. He won't if he returns to power. … During Donald Trump's first term, Republicans dismissed well-founded concerns that he wouldn't leave office willingly as “silly.” And then January 6 happened.
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump's V.P. Pageant Has an Unexpectedly Strong Contender: Tom Cotton
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Salon, Forbes, New Republic, Vanity Fair and Mock Paper Scissors
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Even Donald Trump has trouble getting New York's attention — The former president came to the Bronx on Thursday night for an unusual campaign rally. The Bronx didn't take much notice. — NEW YORK — You could hear Donald Trump sporadically through the trees.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
What If Trump Is Right About America? — 1. Donny from the Bronx — One of the Trump campaign's beliefs about 2024 is that the the former president's criminal indictments will help him with black voters. The theory is, since Trump is an (alleged) criminal, many black people who are also criminals(?), will begin to support him.
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CBS News, Bald Faced Truth and New York Times
Reuters:
Exclusive: Putin wants Ukraine ceasefire on current frontlines — Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield lines, four Russian sources told Reuters, saying he is prepared to fight on if Kyiv and the West do not respond.
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New York Post, The Kyiv Independent, Forbes, The Gateway Pundit, Human Events, HotAir, The Sun and The Daily Beast
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Chantal Da Silva / NBC News:
Israel ordered to immediately halt Rafah offensive by top U.N. court — Israel is unlikely to comply with the order, which the International Court of Justice has no power to enforce, but the landmark ruling will pile pressure on the increasingly isolated U.S. ally.
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Axios, New York Times, Algemeiner.com, Al-Monitor, The Times of Israel, ScheerPost.com, Al Jazeera, The Moderate Voice, The Guardian, FDD, Jerusalem Post, Semafor, UPI, Daily Caller News Foundation, Bloomberg, Politico, USA Today, The Daily Beast, Geller Report, Common Dreams, The Mahablog, RedState and Forbes
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Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel:
IDF recovers bodies of three hostages from north Gaza, who were killed on October 7
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Washington Examiner, RedState, Forbes, Breitbart and israelhayom.com
Rachel Olding / The Daily Beast:
Republican Rep's Daughter and Son-in-Law Killed in Haiti Gang Attack — ‘MY HEART IS BROKEN’ — “I've never felt this kind of pain,” Ben Baker wrote on Facebook on Friday. — Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker said Friday that his “heart is broken in a thousand pieces” …
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Jailed Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Says He Doesn't Want a Pardon: ‘I Have No Regrets’ — From a federal prison, former aide plots new MAGA agenda — Peter Navarro, a former top White House adviser to Donald Trump, isn't interested in a pardon should “the boss” return to power.
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The National Pulse, Mediaite, Raw Story and Law & Crime
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
‘Sedition Panda’ convicted of assaulting officer on Jan. 6 after judge calls defense argument ‘absurd’ — Jesse James Rumson, dubbed “Sedition Panda” because of the costume head he wore on Jan. 6, will be sentenced in September. — WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 rioter dubbed “Sedition Panda” …
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Raw Story
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
At least 66 members of far-right group in rural Oregon standing for office — Revealed: anti-government People's Rights Network, founded by Ammon Bundy, appearing to follow ‘entryism’ strategy — At least 66 members of an anti-government group founded by far-right militia figure Ammon Bundy …
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Raw Story
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Just a scandal’: Jamie Raskin envisions radical overhaul of Supreme Court — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) called for a radical overhaul of the scandal-plagued U.S. Supreme Court. — The court has been rocked by ethics scandals - particularly those involving justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito …
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CNN and Mother Jones
NBC News:
Are Russia and North Korea planning an ‘October surprise’ that aids Trump? — U.S. officials are bracing for Pyongyang to take military actions close to the U.S. presidential election, possibly at the urging of Vladimir Putin. — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is increasingly concerned …
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israelhayom.com and New York Post
Rolling Stone:
Supreme Court Architect Flew Same ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag as Alito — The flag is tied to far-right Christian nationalists who wanted to overturn the 2020 election — and now with the nation's highest court … The flag's close association with both far-right Christian nationalists …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Media Matters Lays Off a Dozen Staffers Amid Elon Musk Lawsuit — ‘LEGAL ASSAULT’ — The liberal media watchdog let go of a number of veteran researchers and writers on Thursday as it faces a number of legal threats from Musk and Republicans. — Months after edgelord billionaire Elon Musk launched a …
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
The odds, the stakes and the scariest media news I saw all week — On the great divide in how Americans get their news and how it affects their political views — First off, thanks so much to quite a few new subscribers, who made it clear that they care — a lot — about how the news media is dealing with threats to democracy.
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