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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 …
Stephanie Lai / Bloomberg:
Trump Pushes Back on Debate With Harris, Saying He's Up in Polls  — Campaign has declined to commit to Sept. 10 ABC News debate  — 'I'm leading in the polls,' Trump says to explain his stance  —  Republican Donald Trump dismissed pressure to debate Vice President Kamala Harris …
Discussion: The Hill
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Martha McHardy / Newsweek:
Kamala Harris Now Leads Donald Trump in Seven National Polls  —  Kamala Harris is now leading her opponent Donald Trump in seven national polls.  —  The new polls show the presumptive Democratic nominee is leading the former president by between 1 and 4 points.  —  The vice president has the biggest lead in a
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Can Kamala Harris Rebuild the Democratic Coalition?  —  Early polling suggests she has made some progress since President Biden's exit.  —  With a little over three months until the presidential election, Kamala Harris inherited a Democratic coalition that was badly frayed.
Joe Edwards / Newsweek:
Republicans Want Someone Younger Than Donald Trump as President: New Poll
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and DNyuz
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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The Hill:
Morning Report — Historic swap frees U.S. hostages from Russia
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
A Triumphant Biden Welcomes 3 Freed Americans Home
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Vance: Prisoners coming home 'a testament to Trump's strength'
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Freed Americans back in U.S. after historic prisoner swap with Russia
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Trump pushes back: 'I'm a lot of things, but weird I'm not'  —  Former President Trump pushes back on Democratic attacks that he and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) are “weird” during a podcast interview Thursday.  —  “Nobody's ever called me weird,” Trump said on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.”
Discussion: Gizmodo
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
What does “weird” even mean?  Why the vagueness works — and why it's driving MAGA nuts  —  The “weird” discourse is turning MAGA-style doublespeak against itself — and it's totally working  —  Almost as soon as Democrats started circulating the word “weird” as a primary attack on Donald Trump …
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.
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Axios:
Scoop: Kamala Harris' brother-in-law emerges as key campaign adviser
Discussion: Reuters
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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators fear ugly campaign after ‘uncomfortable’ Trump outburst on race  —  Many Republican senators are feeling “uncomfortable” and “embarrassed” by former President Trump's suggestion that Vice President Kamala Harris isn't really Black and only “happened” to adopt that identity out of political convenience.
CNN:
Vance defends Trump over former president's false claims about Harris' racial identity
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Harris events: Not your father's campaign rallies (or Biden's)  —  If there was ever any indication of the head-snapping transition that Democrats have gone through, it was the one that occurred on Tuesday night in Atlanta when 10,000 people danced and cheered to Megan Thee Stallion before Harris took the stage for a campaign rally.
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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Harris Campaign Says It Raised $310 Million in July, More Than Double Trump's Haul
Tara Suter / The Hill:
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Axios:
Scoop: Trump stalled Black journalists interview over fact-checking … - “[Trump's team] said, 'Well, can you not fact check? … - At the time, President Trump blamed the delay on audio problems.  — Lemon told Axios, “There were audio problems, but they were resolved very quickly.”
Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
What happened to JD Vance?  —  This free edition of Public Notice is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.  —  🏔️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🏔️  —  Americans have been waiting for decades …
The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali:
Dear Media, You Are Allowed to Call Trump a Racist  —  Dear readers, I am not a doctor.  I'm just a simple writer.  I share this because I don't know if there are indeed “racist bones” in the human body.  I also don't know what's in “people's hearts.”  Thankfully, I'm married to a doctor who has assured me such a bone doesn't exist.
M. Gessen / New York Times:
How Aleksei Navalny's Death Restored Evan Gershkovich's Life  —  A few days ago, Russian political prisoners started vanishing from their prison colonies: Their lawyers would come to see them only to be told their clients were no longer there.  The disappearance of an inmate is often bad news …
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The Hill:
House Democrats home in on Tim Walz for Harris ticket
Discussion: IJR
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Joe Biden's gifts to America
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
US adds 114K jobs in July, jobless rate rises to 4.3 percent
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The Country's Most Diverse Democratic Bench Is On the Cusp of Its Moment
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emptywheel:
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Alec MacGillis / ProPublica:
The Man Behind Project 2025's Most Radical Plans
Discussion: Politico, Tangle and WBUR
Brian Klaas / The Garden of Forking Paths:
The MAGA Abuse of the English Language
 

 
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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