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11:15 PM ET, August 2, 2024

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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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Edith Olmsted / New Republic:   Elon Musk's Insidious New Strategy to Help Trump Win
Politico:
Playbook PM: Plouffe joins Harris campaign
Discussion: Breitbart
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Defense Secretary Revokes Plea Deal for Accused Sept. 11 Plotters  —  Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III assumed direct oversight of the case and effectively put the death penalty back on the table.  —  Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Friday relieved the overseer of the war court …
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NBC News:
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin withdraws plea deal for accused 9/11 terrorists  —  The defense secretary overrode the agreements for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi.  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin …
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Giuliani's bankruptcy formally dismissed, freeing Georgia election workers to seek $148M  —  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
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Simone Biles jabs Trump: ‘I love my Black job’
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Harris secures enough votes to be Democratic nominee for president
Discussion: RedState and The Japan Times
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Harris campaign rakes in $310M in July, far outpacing Trump  —  The Biden-turned-Harris operation ended the month with a $50 million cash advantage.  —  The Joe Biden-turned-Kamala Harris campaign raised $310 million in July — a monster sum of cash sparked by the vice president's entry into the presidential race.
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Robert McGreevy / The Daily Caller:
‘Firestorm’: Philly Mayor May Have Just Accidentally Leaked Kamala Harris' VP Pick
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Kamala Harris raised $310 million in July, dwarfing Trump haul for month
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Plouffe among corps of new advisers to Harris campaign  —  The Barack Obama veteran had been the subject of internal rumors for weeks.  —  Kamala Harris' presidential campaign is bringing on a new echelon of senior advisers, most prominently David Plouffe, the former top political adviser to Barack Obama.
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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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Pritzker says Trump ‘bewildered’ by Harris, new Dem excitement
Discussion: Althouse
CBS News:
Kamala Harris passes threshold needed to become Democratic presidential nominee in DNC roll call vote
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
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Yamiche Alcindor / NBC News:
Black Muslim group endorses Harris after its ‘uncommitted’ stance on Biden
Discussion: The Guardian and freebeacon.com
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 …
Brahm Resnik / KPNX:
Arizona AG Kris Mayes says defendant in ‘fake electors’ case has agreed to flip  —  Mayes says announcement coming next week, but wouldn't provide more information.  —  PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes plans to announce next week that one of the 18 defendants in her investigation …
Discussion: DNyuz, The Raw Story and Arizona Mirror
Politico:
Trump's stalled election-subversion prosecution revs back to life  —  Former president's opponents seek “mini-trial” to call attention to his role in Jan. 6 unrest  —  The stalled criminal case against Donald Trump for seeking to subvert the 2020 election is starting to move.
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Ivan Nechepurenko / New York Times:
Convicted Assassin Is a Russian Security Agent, Kremlin Acknowledges  —  Vadim Krasikov, who was returned to Russia in the big prisoner swap, received a hero's welcome from President Putin, along with others who were freed.  —  The convicted assassin who was the linchpin of the biggest prisoner swap …
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Associated Press:
An assassin, a Putin foe's death, secret talks: How a sweeping US-Russia prisoner swap came together
Kit Walsh / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Federal Appeals Court Rules That Fair Use May Be Narrowed to Serve Hollywood Profits  —  Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a ban on reading any copyrighted work that is encumbered by access restrictions.  It makes it illegal for you to read and understand the code …
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.”
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Netanyahu, Defiant, Appears to Have Gone Rogue, Risking a Regional War  —  Ignoring the efforts of President Biden and the condemnation of many allies, the Israeli prime minister is forcing the pace of the war and feeding the revolt of the far right.  —  As the Biden administration …
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Anna Orso / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Josh Shapiro once wrote that peace ‘will never come’ to the Middle East.  He says his views have changed over 30 years.  —  Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro wrote in his college newspaper in 1993 that peace “will never come” to the Middle East and expressed skepticism about the viability …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Harris blames Trump for latest dreadful jobs report nearly a full term after he left office  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is blaming former President Trump for the latest negative jobs report — nearly a full term after he left office.  —  “Donald Trump failed Americans as president …
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Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
US adds 114K jobs in July, jobless rate rises to 4.3 percent
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
North Carolina GOP candidate Mark Robinson, a harsh abortion critic, reveals his wife once had the procedure  —  The state's lieutenant governor, who is running for governor, made the revelation in a new TV ad with his wife.  —  The Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina …
 
 
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Group of senators introduces bill to end military draft
Discussion: Washington Examiner and UPI
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Sues TikTok and Parent Company ByteDance for Widespread Violations of Children's Privacy Laws
IBA:
Statement made by the International Boxing Association regarding Athletes Disqualifications in World Boxing Championships 2023
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Biden admin freezes controversial migrant flight program after fraud revelations
 Earlier Items: 
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
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Sam Stein / The Bulwark:
They Begged Dems for Money—Then Spent Lavishly on Hotels and Entertainment
The Hill:
House Democrats home in on Tim Walz for Harris ticket
Discussion: New Republic and IJR
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
What does “weird” even mean? Why the vagueness works — and why it's driving MAGA nuts
Discussion: New Republic
Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
What happened to JD Vance?
 

 
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU's General Court annuls a €1.49B antitrust fine imposed on Google in 2019 for abusing its dominance to prevent websites from using non-AdSense ad brokers

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: TelevisaUnivision weighs immediately replacing CEO Wade Davis and Daniel Alegre is under consideration to be new CEO; the board plans to meet this week

 
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