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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
CNN's Chris Wallace Notes Kamala Harris Convention Clobbering Trump's RNC Ratings: ‘People Are Watching This Convention’ — CNN anchor Chris Wallace twisted the knife a little when he noted that former President Donald Trump's RNC ratings are getting eclipsed by Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Convention.
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Trumped in the Ratings — MSNBC is posting the strongest total viewership during the DNC. Conversely, Fox News has struggled. … After night one of the DNC bested night one of the RNC (an average of 20 million viewers to 18.1 million), night two saw the gap open up even wider.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Democrats: All Your Base Are Belong to Us
Democrats: All Your Base Are Belong to Us
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TMZ.com:
BEYONCÉ NOT AT DNC AFTER ALL — EXCLUSIVE — UPDATE — 9:30 PM PT — To quote the great Beyonce: We gotta lay our cards down, down, down ... we got this one wrong. — Beyoncé is in Chicago, and getting ready to pop out for Kamala Harris on the final night of the Democratic National Convention ... TMZ has learned.
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Ben Beaumont-Thomas / The Guardian:
Trump campaign deletes Freedom video after Beyoncé blocks use of song — Freedom, the central song in the Kamala Harris campaign, appeared in a Trump campaign video but was contested by singer's label and publisher — Beyoncé has blocked Donald Trump from using her song Freedom …
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Fox News, Sun-Sentinel, UPROXX, New York Times, USA Today, PoliticusUSA, ComingSoon.net, Daily Kos, Vibe and The Hollywood Reporter
Mesfin Fekadu / The Hollywood Reporter:
Rep: Beyoncé Is Not Performing at DNC; “Was Never Scheduled” to Attend (Exclusive)
Rep: Beyoncé Is Not Performing at DNC; “Was Never Scheduled” to Attend (Exclusive)
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USA Today:
Gus Walz broke the internet with his tearful love for his dad. Then the bullying began — Michael Collins Sam WoodwardUSA TODAY — CHICAGO - A tearful, unscripted moment between Tim Walz and his 17-year-old son, Gus, has unleased a flood of praise and admiration - but also prompted ugly online bullying.
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Melanie Mason / Politico:
Ann Coulter posted about Tim Walz's son. The backlash was swift. — The sight of Tim Walz's 17-year-old son, Gus, weeping with pride Wednesday night during his father's speech accepting the vice presidential nomination instantly became an iconic feel-good moment of the convention.
Associated Press:
Supreme Court rejects GOP push to block 41K Arizona voters, but partly OKs proof of citizenship law — A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Republican push that could have blocked more than 41,000 Arizona voters from casting ballots for president in the closely contested swing state …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court partly grants GOP request to enforce Arizona's proof-of-citizenship voting law
Supreme Court partly grants GOP request to enforce Arizona's proof-of-citizenship voting law
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Supreme Court partially reinstates Arizona voting law at RNC's request
Supreme Court partially reinstates Arizona voting law at RNC's request
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New Republic, New York Post and Twitchy
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Hosting Fundraiser For Domestic Terrorists Who Assaulted Cops On Jan. 6 — The “J6 Awards Gala” is to take place at the coup-attempting criminal former president's New Jersey country club next month. — LOADING — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is hosting a fundraiser …
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
RFK Jr. will probably drop out. Is that bearish for Harris? — Pun absolutely intended. — ∙ Paid — Greetings from charmingly overcast Seattle, Washington, where I'm here for a book event tonight. Given the timing and that I have family I rarely get to see all the way up here 1 …
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Noah Lanard / Mother Jones:
Here Is the Speech That the Uncommitted Movement Wants to Give at the DNC — Read what Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman hopes to tell Democrats. — Delegates with the Uncommitted movement at the Democratic National Convention have continued pushing this week for either a Palestinian American …
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US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Approves and Authorizes Updated mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines to Better Protect Against Currently Circulating Variants — For Immediate Release: — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved and granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines …
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Kamala Harris just revealed her formula for taking down Trump — Kamala Harris's Democratic convention speech served two purposes: She introduced herself to the American people, and she revealed the case she intends to prosecute against Donald Trump. — Harris picked familiar targets …
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Associated Press:
The Taliban publish vice laws that ban women's voices and bare faces in public — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women's voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue.
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The Hill, Human Events and RTÉ
Kassy Akiva / The Daily Wire:
WATCH: Vivek Ramaswamy Chased Out By Angry Mob At Anti-Israel Protest Outside DNC — Former Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy was chased out of an anti-Israel protest a few blocks away from the DNC after making a surprise appearance. — Ramaswamy was noticed by the crowd …
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New York Post, The Daily Caller and Washington Times
Andrew Demillo / Associated Press:
Arkansas Supreme Court upholds rejection of petitions to let voters decide on abortion access — The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the state's rejection of signed petitions for an abortion rights ballot initiative on Thursday, keeping the proposal from going before voters in November.
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Arkansas Supreme Court rejects bid to put abortion initiative on the ballot
Arkansas Supreme Court rejects bid to put abortion initiative on the ballot
Stephanie Moore / WYFF-TV:
Greenville County Schools will not host in-person book fairs this year: Here's why — GREENVILLE, S.C. — Greenville County Schools will not host in-person book fairs this school year. — (Video above: Morning headlines from WYFF News 4) — District Spokesman Tim Waller released the following statement about the pause:
Mitchell Koch / KASW-TV:
Southern Arizona authorities search for man connected to threats to kill Trump — COCHISE COUNTY, AZ (AZFamily) — Authorities are searching for a southern Arizona man connected to a threat to kill former President Donald Trump on the same day that Trump will be at the Arizona border.
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Most GOP-devastating statistic in Bill Clinton's DNC speech confirmed by fact checker — Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday used part of his speech at the Democratic National Convention to hit back at the notion that Republican presidents were better on the economy than Democratic presidents.
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Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Ex-Congressional candidate and FTX executive's romantic partner indicted on campaign finance charges — NEW YORK (AP) — A one-time Congressional candidate and domestic partner of a convicted FTX executive was arrested Thursday on campaign finance charges. — Michelle Bond, 45, of Potomac …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Kinzinger in DNC speech says GOP is “no longer conservative” — Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said during a speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday that the Republican Party is “no longer conservative” under former President Trump.
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NBC News:
Trump says he will make ‘provisions’ for mixed-status families but doesn't rule out separations with mass deportations — The former president also told NBC News that spending billions to execute mass deportations of undocumented immigrants is justified because allowing them to remain would cost more.
Tamara Keith / NPR:
Why Democratic women are wearing white at the DNC — The NPR Network will be reporting live from Chicago throughout the week bringing you the latest on the Democratic National Convention. — As delegates gather on the convention floor today in Chicago, there's a very clear fashion trend.
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Trump is launching a cryptocurrency platform, and we have no idea what it does … Trump's post included few other details, but he and his sons have suggested it will target unbanked and underserved communities. — “For too long, the average American has been squeezed by the big banks and financial elites,” the post reads.
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Dave Collins / Associated Press:
Convicted drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Trump charged with domestic violence — A New York man whose 10-year prison sentence for dealing thousands of kilograms of marijuana was commuted in early 2021 by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested on domestic violence charges on Long Island.
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New York Daily News and Raw Story