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Washington Post:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to meet with Kamala Harris to discuss Cabinet job — Harris has rebuffed the offer of an endorsement, while Kennedy has also had conversations with Republican nominee Donald Trump about a role in his administration. — Independent presidential candidate Robert …
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Axios:
Campaign spending booms in race to define Harris … - Harris and Trump are rushing to lock in perceptions about her for a sliver of the electorate in the six or seven swing states likely to decide the winner on Nov. 5. — Through Thursday, the Harris and Trump campaigns and their supporting groups …
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Washington Examiner, Associated Press, Bloomberg and Deadline
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: New matchup, same result — Trump bests Harris by one point — Highest share of voters in over two years rate their personal finances positively — Join Fox News for access to this content — No matter how many major events intervene, and goodness knows there have been several …
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Breitbart, New York Post, Daily Caller News Foundation and City Journal
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump's “election integrity” plan tests his campaign … - Trump's “election integrity” team also has raised concerns among Democrats about potential voter intimidation at the polls. — If Trump loses on Nov. 5, the election teams would be his evidence collectors for what almost certainly …
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Raw Story
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Republicans Worry as Red State Polls Look ‘Worse Than They Should’ for Trump
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Where Harris has improved the most on Biden
Where Harris has improved the most on Biden
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New Republic, Axios and New Jersey Online
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Trump Gambles on Outside Groups to Finance Voter Outreach Efforts
Trump Gambles on Outside Groups to Finance Voter Outreach Efforts
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Raw Story
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Keeps Watching Clip of Himself Being Shot at: ‘May Legit Have PTSD’ — ‘OVER AND OVER AGAIN’ — Sources close to the ex-president's campaign have said he's particularly fixated on a single seven-second clip. — Those close to Donald Trump fear the former president “may have legit PTSD” …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Trump Allies Fear He's Sabotaging His Own Campaign — The former president can't get over feeling “cheated” by Joe Biden's exit from the race, says one source, while another speculates he might “have PTSD” following last month's assassination attempt. — In the hierarchy of Donald Trump's put-downs …
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
GOP Lawmakers Sound the Alarm That Trump Can't Help but Be Trump — “It's like the sixth or seventh season of a show that was once funny but now panders to his base,” one GOP congressman told NOTUS. — Copy — Never one to run the most focused or disciplined campaign …
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Washington Examiner, WKRN-TV and Cook Political Report
Matt Arco / New Jersey Online:
GOP pollster on Trump-Harris: 'I haven't seen anything like this'
GOP pollster on Trump-Harris: 'I haven't seen anything like this'
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The Hill, HuffPost, Raw Story and Alternet.org
Clare Olson / Heartland Signal:
JD Vance in 2020 agreed grandmothers raising children is ‘whole purpose of the postmenopausal female’ — While appearing on “The Portal” podcast in April 2020, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) agreed with host Eric Weinstein's claim that “postmenopausal females” exist just to help take care of children.
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
J.D. Vance's Weird Thoughts on Older Women Exposed in New Audio — J.D. Vance's views on gender and parenting have come back to haunt him, again. — In 2020, long before he entered politics, Vance appeared on a podcast where the host said that having grandmothers help raise children is …
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Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Boing Boing
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The case for Harris embracing nationwide free school meals — It's good policy and good politics. … Last weekend at a rally in Las Vegas, Kamala Harris announced one of her first explicit new policy positions: a plan to “eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.”
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Associated Press, NBC News and Nevada Current
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Eleanor Mueller / Politico:
Bipartisan push for family-friendly policies gains momentum
CBS News:
Gov. Tim Walz agrees to VP debate hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1 — Washington — Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1 in New York City. — Former President Donald Trump's campaign has not yet agreed to the date …
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
George Helmy will be new U.S. Senator from New Jersey — Gov. Phil Murphy intends to appoint George S. Helmy, his former chief of staff, to the United States Senate to replace Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed. — Murphy is expected to formally offer Helmy the post on Thursday …
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New York Post, New Jersey Online, Politico, The Daily Caller, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, Roll Call and Wall Street Journal
Financial Times:
Russians fleeing Ukraine's incursion say Putin has abandoned them — ‘Lies are causing civilians to die’, says resident of town captured by Kyiv's forces — On the day Ukrainian forces started rolling into Russia's Kursk region, a group of about 40 people, mostly women, filmed a video about what was happening in their town.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Why Facebook blocked Popular Information's reporting on Laura Loomer — Yesterday, Popular Information published a detailed report on the close relationship between former President Donald Trump and Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist who says America should be a “white Judeo-Christian ethnostate.”
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Media Matters for America
April Rubin / Axios:
Trump effort to push back oral arguments in case against Fani Willis denied … - Postponed oral arguments were requested by Trump's lawyer Steve Sadow to accommodate a pre-paid international trip with his wife to celebrate his 70th birthday and their 45th wedding anniversary, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
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Law & Crime and The Root
Sejal Govindarao / Associated Press:
Ruling: Fetus can be referred to as ‘unborn human being’ in Arizona abortion measure voter pamphlet — An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters, who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion, can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being …
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Jessica Boehm / Axios:
Arizona will call fetuses “unborn human beings” in abortion initiative description
Arizona will call fetuses “unborn human beings” in abortion initiative description
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Associated Press
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Prepare for Trump to be sentenced to prison on September 18 — The objective here is to enable VP Kamala Harris and the media-Democratic complex to label Trump ‘a convicted felon sentenced to prison’ as voting begins — To the surprise of no one, Judge Juan Merchan has yet again denied …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Walz's false claim that Vance never voted for any pro-worker bills — Walz relies on a dubious metric, which misses at least two pro-worker bills supported by Vance. … — Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, in a speech in Los Angeles to a conference of the American Federation of State …
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The Dworkin Report
Lisa Song / ProPublica:
When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means. — Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags …
Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC:
Disney+ terms prevent allergy death lawsuit, Disney says — Disney World is arguing a man cannot sue it over the death of his wife because of terms he signed up to in a free trial of Disney+. — Jeffrey Piccolo filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Disney after his wife died in 2023 …
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
Google says Iranian efforts to hack US presidential campaigns are ongoing and wide-ranging — Google said Wednesday that an alleged Iranian hacking operation aimed at US presidential campaigns is ongoing and more wide-ranging than previously known as the hackers continue to target …
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