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8:15 AM ET, August 2, 2024

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The Hill:
Morning Report — Historic swap frees U.S. hostages from Russia  —  President Biden and Vice President Harris made their way late Thursday to the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews near Washington to welcome Americans who were wrongly imprisoned by Russia and freed as part of the largest prisoner swap negotiated since the Cold War.
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Freed Americans back in U.S. after historic prisoner swap with Russia
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Burgum says Russia agreed to prisoner swap because they think 'Trump's going to win'
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Vance: Prisoners coming home 'a testament to Trump's strength'
Wall Street Journal:
Putin Wanted His Hit Man Back. A Mother Wanted Her Journalist Son to Come Home.
Wall Street Journal:
WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free
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.
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Politico:
Kamala Harris' veepstakes races toward the finish line  —  The vetting team has met with several contenders as Harris prepares to pick a running mate in the next few days.  —  Kamala Harris is preparing for the final stage of selecting a running mate: face-to-face interviews.
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 …
Mary Ann Akers / The Daily Beast:
Women's Group to Harris: Dump Shapiro Over Sex Case Failings  —  VEEPSTAKES  —  Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro's involvement in a sexual harassment claim against a longtime aide may hit his VP chances.  —  Deputy Washington Bureau Chief  —  Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is the betting favorite …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Harris VP mystery: Signs point to Shapiro … While Harris could surprise everyone, she seems to be headed toward a pick that a wide variety of sources — Republicans and Democrats — think is both shrewd and straightforward.  — It's a combination of math and logic …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro cancels Hamptons trip, days before expected Harris VP reveal
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.
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 …
Beege Welborn / HotAir:
Trump Explodes Heads: Kamala Was Indian Before She Was Black
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.
Discussion: Alternet.org and Crooks and Liars
Washington Post:
$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt  —  Political appointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case.  —  This story is based partly on research that Davis and Leonnig conducted …
Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
What happened to JD Vance?  —  The 2014 version had a lot more to offer than the guy who now exemplifies the toxicity of Trumpism. … Americans have been waiting for decades, since the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, for a political leader who offered the promise of bringing …
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Harris Campaign Says It Raised $310 Million in July, More Than Double Trump's Haul  —  In the seven days after President Biden stepped down as the presumptive Democratic nominee, the Harris campaign raked in $200 million.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign survived a brutal few weeks …
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump campaign says it raised $138.7 million in July
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.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and DNyuz
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 …
Discussion: Fox News, The Hill and Mediaite
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Tangle and WBUR
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Former CIA chief: Prisoner swap a ‘remarkable display’ of ‘successful’ diplomacy by Biden administration  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Play Video  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 … Stream Type LIVE  —  Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE  —  Playback Rate  —  Chapters
 
 
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Tobias Burns / The Hill:
Senate GOP blocks bipartisan bill to expand child tax credit
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
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