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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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Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
Defense secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and two other defendants — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases.
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 …
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 …
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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.
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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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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Harris campaign calls Trump ‘too scared’ to debate, says he ‘needs to man up’
Harris campaign calls Trump ‘too scared’ to debate, says he ‘needs to man up’
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Harris secures enough votes to be Democratic nominee for president
Harris secures enough votes to be Democratic nominee for president
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job growth totals 114,000 in July, much less than expected, as unemployment rate rises to 4.3% … WATCH NOW — Job growth in the U.S. slowed much more than expected during July and the unemployment rate ticked higher, fueling fears of a broader economic slowdown, the Labor Department reported Friday.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Harris blames Trump for latest dreadful jobs report nearly a full term after he left office
Harris blames Trump for latest dreadful jobs report nearly a full term after he left office
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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 …
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Politico:
Mussolini, Trump and What Assassination Attempts Really Do — A scholar of Mussolini and authoritarianism explains how failed attacks can be used to consolidate power. — On April 7, 1926, Fascist leader Benito Mussolini gave a speech to a conference of surgeons, and then began walking with his aides through the streets of Rome.
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 …
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 …
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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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Associated Press:
An assassin, a Putin foe's death, secret talks: How a sweeping US-Russia prisoner swap came together — Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted Russian prisoners freed as part of a swap with the United States as they arrived at a Moscow airport. It came after the U.S. and Russia earlier completed …
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Ivan Nechepurenko / New York Times:
Convicted Assassin Is a Russian Security Agent, Kremlin Acknowledges
Convicted Assassin Is a Russian Security Agent, Kremlin Acknowledges
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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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Trump's Jan. 6 case officially back in Judge Chutkan's hands after immunity ruling
Trump's Jan. 6 case officially back in Judge Chutkan's hands after immunity ruling
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CNN:
How Biden feels about some of Harris' top running mate candidates — President Joe Biden acknowledged to reporters Friday morning that he and Vice President Kamala Harris have spoken about her upcoming decision on a vice presidential running mate. — But he wouldn't say much else …
Robert McGreevy / The Daily Caller:
‘Firestorm’: Philly Mayor May Have Just Accidentally Leaked Kamala Harris' VP Pick — Philadelphia's Mayor Cherelle Parker may have just leaked Kamala Harris' Vice Presidential pick as Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro with a mistimed Friday tweet, according to Philly Mag's Ernest Owens.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Kamala Harris raised $310 million in July, dwarfing Trump haul for month … The presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that its political operation raised $310 million in July, dwarfing the tally raised for the Republican nominee Donald Trump in the same month.
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Harris campaign rakes in $310M in July, far outpacing Trump
Harris campaign rakes in $310M in July, far outpacing Trump
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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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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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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
Kamala Harris passes threshold needed to become Democratic presidential nominee in DNC roll call vote
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