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Haley Britzky / CNN:
US Army rebukes Trump campaign for incident at Arlington National Cemetery  —  The US Army issued a stark rebuke of former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign over the incident on Monday at Arlington National Cemetery, saying in a statement on Thursday that participants in the ceremony …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
For Trump, Arlington National Cemetery controversy goes from bad to worse  —  Republicans might've hoped Donald Trump's Arlington National Cemetery scandal would be a one-day story.  I have some bad news for them.  —  As the week got underway, Donald Trump probably thought going to Arlington National Cemetery would be a good idea.
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Army blasts Trump trip to Arlington cemetery for violating decorum  —  Army officials criticized former President Donald Trump's campaign staff for violating decorum rules at Arlington National Cemetery and abusing a cemetery worker earlier this week, but no further actions will be pursued …
Taiyler S. Mitchell / HuffPost:
JD Vance Won't Apologize For Telling Kamala Harris To ‘Go To Hell’  —  He claimed his callous comment was just “a colloquial phrase.”  —  LOADING  —  Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance isn't sorry he said Vice President Kamala Harris “can go to hell.”
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
X flags NPR story on Trump, Arlington as unsafe  —  The social platform X flagged a story from NPR that outlined the fallout of a reported clash between Trump campaign staffers and Arlington National Cemetery officials earlier this week as potentially “unsafe.”
NPR:
Fallout from Trump's Arlington National Cemetery visit continues after campaign video
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
24 hours of Trump: QAnon tributes, crude attacks and hawking pieces of his suit
Discussion: HuffPost
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
August 28, 2024  —  Former president Trump appears to have slid further since last night's news …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Maegan Vazquez / Washington Post:
Vance tells Harris to ‘go to hell’ for cemetery criticism she didn't give
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Harris explains in exclusive CNN interview why she's shifted her position on key issues since her first run for president  —  Note: The full interview will at 9 p.m. ET Thursday on CNN's “The First Interview: Harris & Walz, A CNN Exclusive”  —  Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday offered …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Harris' CNN interview is the latest highly anticipated twist in wild presidential race  —  Vice President Kamala Harris faces the next test in her presidential bid on Thursday with her first unscripted interview with a major media outlet since becoming the Democratic nominee.
David Moye / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Has Snappy Answer To CNN's Trump-Inspired Question  —  The vice president refused to play when Dana Bash asked her about the former president's accusation she had altered her racial identity.  —  LOADING  —  Kamala Harris may have sat down with CNN's Dana Bash …
Matt Margolis / PJ Media:
The Left Is Going to Freak Out Over Nate Silver's Latest Election Model  —  Did you hear that scream?  Liberals far and wide are no doubt freaking out right now because the election they thought they had in the bag after the Democratic Party crowned Kamala Harris as its nominee …
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Pennsylvania may be a problem for Harris  —  The Electoral College/popular vote gap is increasing in post-DNC data. … I'm going to keep this brief, both because I'm jetlagged in two different directions  —  1 and because the model is really hungry for post-DNC/post-RFK-dropout data …
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Harris Has Taken Narrow Lead Over Trump, WSJ Poll Finds
Discussion: New York Post
New York Post:
ABC News rejects Kamala Harris' last-minute bid to change Trump debate rules, will keep muted mics
NBC News:
Trump says he wants to make IVF treatments paid for by government or insurance companies if elected  —  In an interview with NBC News, the former president defended himself over abortion rights and said either the government or insurance companies will pay for IVF if he's elected.
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Kaitlyn Buss / The Detroit News:
Trump promises free IVF for all  —  Donald Trump says that under his administration, the government would pay for IVF treatments.  He is planning to make the announcement at a rally Thursday afternoon at a Michigan steel facility.  —  “We're going to be making a major statement today that IVF treatments …
Ian Ward / Politico:
‘It Is Not the Job of the Pro-Life Movement to Vote for President Trump.’  —  Trump once said he had “great admiration” for Lila Rose's work.  Now he's lost her support.  —  For years, the anti-abortion activist Lila Rose has pushed the GOP to curtail access to abortion.
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Musk ramps up attacks on Brazil's top judge as X faces possible suspension, Starlink finances frozen … Tesla, SpaceX and X Corp. leader Elon Musk ramped up his online attacks on Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes on Thursday, amid an intensifying political and legal battle between …
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
What really happened to JD Vance in Erie  —  ERIE, Pennsylvania — The chaser Wednesday in Sen. J.D. Vance's (R-OH) trip to this all-important county in the northwestern corner of Pennsylvania came when the Republican vice presidential nominee said Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris can …
Jennifer Ouellette / Ars Technica:
We can now watch Grace Hopper's famed 1982 lecture on YouTube  —  The lecture featured Hopper discussing future challenges of protecting information.  —  The late Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a gifted mathematician and undisputed pioneer in computer programming, honored posthumously in 2016 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
 
 
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