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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
How an Elon Musk PAC is using voter data to help Trump beat Harris in 2024 election … If a voter in Michigan performs a search on Google, a somewhat shocking ad might pop up.  —  The ad shows a young man lying in bed late at night when someone else texts him, “Hey you need to vote,” …
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NBC News:
Election 2024 live updates: Harris team says it raised $310M in July, more than twice what Trump's team announced  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' team said it raised $200 million during the first week of her campaign. … Jobs report, stock declines put the economy back into the spotlight ahead of the election
Politico:
Playbook PM: Plouffe joins Harris campaign  —  MAJOR STAFFING NEWS FOR HARRIS — DAVID PLOUFFE is joining KAMALA HARRIS' campaign as a senior adviser, a person familiar with the move tells Ryan.  —  Plouffe was BARACK OBAMA's 2008 campaign manager and in 2012 served a similar role …
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:   Elon Musk's Insidious New Strategy to Help Trump Win
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 …
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.”
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Pritzker says Trump ‘bewildered’ by Harris, new Dem excitement  —  Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Thursday he believes former President Trump is “bewildered” by Vice President Harris and the excitement she has generated among Democrats.  —  “Kamala Harris is the perfect person at this moment …
Discussion: Althouse
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Stephanie Lai / Bloomberg:
Trump Pushes Back on Debate With Harris, Saying He's Up in Polls
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Racist Attack on Kamala Harris Was No Accident
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris officially secures Democratic nomination for president  —  Harris becomes the first woman of color on a major national ticket, with a chance to become the first woman president in American history.  —  Vice President Harris secured a majority of the pledged delegates …
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CBS News:
Kamala Harris passes threshold needed to become Democratic presidential nominee in DNC roll call vote
Robert B. Hubbell / Today's Edition Newsletter:   Joe Biden's gifts to America
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Simone Biles jabs Trump: ‘I love my Black job’  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Play Video  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00  —  Loaded: 0%  —  Stream Type LIVE  —  Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE  —  Playback Rate  —  Chapters  — Chapters  —  Descriptions
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Harris secures enough votes to be Democratic nominee for president  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Play Video  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 … Stream Type LIVE  —  Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE  —  Playback Rate  —  Chapters  — Chapters  —  Descriptions
Discussion: The Sun and RedState
Bloomberg:
How Biden Persuaded Scholz to Release a Top Kremlin Assassin  — Close relationship between German, US leaders was key to deal  — Biden cites German concessions, Scholz sees solidarity with US  —  The historic prisoner swap that brought about the release of US journalist Evan Gershkovich …
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Ivan Nechepurenko / New York Times:
Convicted Assassin Is a Russian Security Agent, Kremlin Acknowledges
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump isn't celebrating as Americans return home from Russia  —  Four U.S. residents wrongly imprisoned in Russia are now back on American soil.  No U.S. political figure, however, is celebrating less than Donald Trump.  —  As President Joe Biden's term enters its homestretch …
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Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
Biden says ‘not giving up’ on getting US teacher Fogel out of Russia
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Burgum says Russia agreed to prisoner swap because they think 'Trump's going to win'
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Angry New Attack on “Dumb” Kamala Gets Wrecked by Leaked Data  —  At a rally in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Donald Trump rolled out a new attack on Vice President Kamala Harris that showcased his well-known fondness for high-toned discourse: Her handling of immigration reveals her as not just weak, but also dumb.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and CBS News
Washington Post:
Harris hires Obama campaign veterans to join 2024 effort, replacing Biden loyalists  —  David Plouffe, Stephanie Cutter and Mitch Stewart are joining the effort.  —  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris hired a battery of new senior advisers to her campaign this week …
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 …
Discussion: New Republic and Politico
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Trump pushes back: 'I'm a lot of things, but weird I'm not'
Discussion: Gizmodo
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 …
Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider:
JD Vance says he was asked in front of his wife if he had ‘any secret family’ during vice presidential vetting  — Sen. JD Vance of Ohio recounted how intrusive his vice presidential vetting could be.  — Vance said a lawyer asked him if he had any “secret family.”
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Sam Stein / The Bulwark:
They Begged Dems for Money—Then Spent Lavishly on Hotels and Entertainment  —  ON NOVEMBER 13, 2023, the political action committee Democratic Victory emailed out a fundraising solicitation expressing concerns about its financial wellbeing.  —  “We're falling short of last week's goal by 18%,” the group's note read.
Washington Post:
Inspector general issues report on Secret Service's handling of Jan. 6 attack  —  The Department of Homeland Security's chief watchdog issued long-awaited findings on the Secret Service's handling of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.  —  The Department of Homeland Security's chief …
 
 
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Biden admin freezes controversial migrant flight program after fraud revelations
Jamie Dimon / Washington Post:
The next president must restore our faith in America
Discussion: The Hill
Yamiche Alcindor / NBC News:
Black Muslim group endorses Harris after its ‘uncommitted’ stance on Biden
Discussion: freebeacon.com
David Strom / HotAir:
Director Rowe Personally Crippled Trump's Secret Service Team
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Biden warns Netanyahu against escalation as risk of regional war grows
 Earlier Items: 
Global Affairs:
Republican Concerns over Immigration Hit All-Time High
Discussion: IJR and Washington Post
Tiffany Stanley / Associated Press:
After the end of Roe, a new beginning for maternity homes
CNN:
Harris campaign says it raised $310 million in July, doubling Trump's haul
The Hill:
House Democrats home in on Tim Walz for Harris ticket
Discussion: IJR
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Harris events: Not your father's campaign rallies (or Biden's)
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
US adds 114K jobs in July, jobless rate rises to 4.3 percent
Evan McMorris-Santoro / NOTUS:
The Country's Most Diverse Democratic Bench Is On the Cusp of Its Moment
 

 
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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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