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WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free — Release of 32-year-old American from Russia secured as part of largest East-West prisoner swap since Cold War — Russia freed wrongly convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since …
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Burgum says Russia agreed to prisoner swap because they think 'Trump's going to win' — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) said he thinks that Russia agreed to the prisoner swap announced Thursday because they think former President Trump is “going to win” the upcoming election.
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Read Vladimir Kara-Murza's Pulitzer Prize-winning commentary on Russia
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Politico:
‘That had to be bittersweet’ — how Biden managed a historic prisoner swap as his campaign was disintegrating
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Former CIA chief: Prisoner swap a ‘remarkable display’ of ‘successful’ diplomacy by Biden administration
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Vance: Prisoners coming home 'a testament to Trump's strength'
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Wall Street Journal:
Putin Wanted His Hit Man Back. A Mother Wanted Her Journalist Son to Come Home.
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Wall Street Journal:
A Letter From The Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief
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Bloomberg:
US Reporter to Be Freed by Russia in Major Prisoner Swap
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Washington Post:
Evan Gershkovich, others freed by Russia in landmark prisoner swap
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The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Securing the Release of Americans Detained in Russia
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CNN:
Vance defends Trump over former president's false claims about Harris' racial identity — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Thursday defended Donald Trump's false comments about Kamala Harris' racial identity, saying that it was “totally reasonable” for his ticket mate to describe …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Racist Attack on Kamala Harris Was No Accident — Is it, perhaps, a sign that the Vice-President's swift rise in the polls has him panicked? — Spoiler alert: he meant it. When Donald Trump claimed, on Wednesday afternoon, in a combative onstage interview at the National Association …
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump hits back at Dem attacks: 'They're the weird ones' — “Nobody's ever called me weird. I'm a lot of things, but weird I'm not,” Trump said. — After over a week of Vice President Kamala Harris and her surrogates calling Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance “weird,” the former president attempted to play an Uno reverse card.
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump campaign says it raised $138.7 million in July — Trump's war chest now sits at $327 million, according to the campaign. — Former President Donald Trump pulled in nearly $140 million in July, his campaign announced Thursday, a major haul coming off of the Republican National Convention and an assassination attempt.
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NBC News:
Harris campaign has met with 6 potential VP picks as the selection process nears its end — The top contenders include governors, a senator in a key battleground state and a member of President Joe Biden's Cabinet. — WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has met …
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Mary Ann Akers / The Daily Beast:
Women's Group to Harris: Dump Shapiro Over Sex Case Failings
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
JD Vance Is An Investor In A Far Right Video Platform Filled With Neo-Nazi Content — This is your TPM evening briefing. — Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has been making headlines for his “rocky rollout” since being named former President Donald Trump's running mate last month.
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Joe Edwards / Newsweek:
Republicans Want Someone Younger Than Donald Trump as President: New Poll — voters have said they would prefer a president who is younger than the 78-year-old former commander-in-chief. — In a YouGov poll conducted between July 25-29, 59 percent of — surveyed said they would prefer a president under the age of 75.
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
The presidential election is a toss-up — Kamala Harris is giving Democrats the race that Joe Biden couldn't. — I don't want to get in the habit of making a huge ruckus every time the election model passes a certain arbitrary probabilistic threshold. There are still a very long 96 days …
Beege Welborn / HotAir:
Trump Explodes Heads: Kamala Was Indian Before She Was Black — So former President Trump did what only he does best today and walked into the proverbial “lion's den” at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. It was by invitation - they also issued one to his opponent …
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Trump's Disastrous Interview Shows He's Afraid of Kamala Harris
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Freak Out Over Trump's New Race-Based Attack on Harris
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Rachel Looker / BBC:
‘Is she black or Indian?’: Trump questions Harris' racial identity
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Axios:
Scoop: Kamala Harris' brother-in-law emerges as key campaign adviser … - But some Democratic advisers in close contact with the campaign worry West's prominent role could re-create the same family dynamics that at times caused unnecessary drama in her 2020 campaign.
Politico:
Recount confirms Bob Good's loss after GOP rallies to oust one of their own — A recount on Thursday confirmed that state Sen. John McGuire beat Good in the June election by just a few hundred votes, according to The Associated Press. — Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), the chair …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump co-defendant Jeff Clark barred from practicing law after fake elector charges — The Washington D.C. Bar Association has suspended former acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark from practicing law for two years, Politico's Kyle Cheney reported Thursday.
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Former Trump DOJ official Jeff Clark spared from disbarment
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection:
CBP officers in Arizona seize more than half a ton of fentanyl in largest seizure in agency history — TUCSON, Ariz. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Port of Lukeville recently seized approximately 4 million blue fentanyl pills — weighing more than 1,000 pounds …
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Tobias Burns / The Hill:
Senate GOP blocks bipartisan bill to expand child tax credit — Senate Republicans blocked Wednesday a bipartisan bill that would boost a tax credit for parents as the GOP and Democrats feud over remarks from Republican vice president nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio).
Brian Klaas / The Garden of Forking Paths:
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Amber Ruch / KFVS-TV:
Gov. Beshear cancels planned stop in western Ky. — HICKMAN, Ky. (KFVS) - Governor Andy Beshear canceled a stop in western Kentucky planned for Friday, August 2, according to his office. — They say Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman will visit the Jackson Purchase Distillery instead.
Alec MacGillis / ProPublica:
The Man Behind Project 2025's Most Radical Plans — In January 2023, a group of about 15 people gathered for three days at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative Washington think tank a few blocks from the Capitol. Their aim was ambitious and farsighted: to start building …
New York Times:
How Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Was Killed in Iran … A photograph circulating on Telegram and among Iranian officials on Wednesday showed a damaged building in northern Tehran.Provided to The New York Times — Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday …
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