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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says he'll vote no on Florida abortion-rights measure — Video Player is loading. — Play Video — Rising Reacts: Kamala Harris' first interview on CNN — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 — Loaded: 0.00% — Stream Type LIVE — Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump in damage-control mode over abortion backlash from the right — The GOP nominee has landed in hot water on abortion agin after criticizing Florida's six-week ban and declining to take a stance on a state ballot measure. — WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump is in damage control …
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ABC News:
Trump adds new campaign pledge to get IVF paid for by government or covered by insurance
Trump adds new campaign pledge to get IVF paid for by government or covered by insurance
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Steve Contorno / CNN:
Trump's latest waffling on reproductive health shows he's still struggling to find an answer for what he created
Trump's latest waffling on reproductive health shows he's still struggling to find an answer for what he created
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Pushing Back on Trump's Latest Lies About IVF
Pushing Back on Trump's Latest Lies About IVF
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Michael Powell / The Atlantic:
Why Trump's Arlington Debacle Is So Serious — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. — The section of Arlington National Cemetery that Donald Trump visited on Monday is both the liveliest and the most achingly sad part of the grand military graveyard …
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Team Trump Makes Arlington Cemetery Fight Way Worse With Army Insult … Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita has decided to take the team on a death spiral against America's military, calling the office of the Army secretary a bunch of “hacks.” — “Reposting this hoping to trigger the hacks at @SecArmy …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
New details suggest Trump's Arlington controversy won't end soon
New details suggest Trump's Arlington controversy won't end soon
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Kevin Carroll / The Guardian:
The Trump campaign's conduct at Arlington is shocking but not surprising
The Trump campaign's conduct at Arlington is shocking but not surprising
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
August 29, 2024 — And now the U.S. Army has weighed in on the scandal surrounding Trump's visit …
August 29, 2024 — And now the U.S. Army has weighed in on the scandal surrounding Trump's visit …
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New York Times:
Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders — The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online. — Brazil blocked the social network X on Friday after its owner …
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Associated Press:
Brazilian judge suspends X platform after it refuses to name a legal representative — SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Cheney, on the Sidelines as Harris Courts Her Endorsement, Plans to Weigh In Soon — The former Wyoming congresswoman, the most prominent Republican critic of Donald J. Trump, did not speak at Democrats' convention, calculating that she could have more impact later in the race.
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Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
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Myra Adams / The Hill:
If Trump loses, expect a Republican civil war
Hugh Dougherty / The Daily Beast:
Miss Teen USA Runner-Up Shames JD Vance for Cruel Video Post — ANOTHER HAPPY VOTER — Vance used a 17-year-old video of a stumbling Caitlin Upton to jibe at Kamala Harris before her CNN interview. The video had led to years of mockery for Upton. — A one-time Miss Teen USA contestant mocked …
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David Moye / HuffPost:
JD Vance Won't Apologize To Miss Teen USA Contestant He Insulted To Mock Kamala Harris — The Ohio Senator used a 2007 video of Caitlin Upton struggling to answer a question to mock the vice president, not knowing Upton considered suicide after it first went viral. — LOADING
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
So long, and thanks for all the fish — Before we go any further, I should note that this is my last newsletter for CJR, as I am moving on from my job as the magazine's chief digital writer. (In case the headline doesn't make any sense, it comes from a Douglas Adams book …
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Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Elon Musk is out of control. Here is how to rein him in
US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Authorizes Updated Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine to Better Protect Against Currently Circulating Variants — For Immediate Release: — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for an updated version of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine …
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New York Times:
At 2 Elite Colleges, Shifts in Racial Enrollment After Affirmative Action Ban — Amherst College and Tufts University saw shifts in the racial makeup of students after a Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action. At other schools, the picture is murkier.
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Erica Orden / Politico:
Georgia election workers launch bid to seize Giuliani's assets as they try to collect $148 million defamation verdict — Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss want to seize real estate, cash and jewelry. — NEW YORK — The two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation verdict …
Gabe Kaminsky / Washington Examiner:
Tim Walz's political origin story does not add up — Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has long described the moment in 2004 that inspired him to run for public office. In Walz's telling, the “folksy” high school teacher and two of his students attended a campaign rally for President George W. Bush as an educational experience.
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David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk says voting by mail is ‘insane’ — but he has done it himself, records show — The tech billionaire voted by mail twice in California, years before he began attacking the option for others. — Elon Musk has attacked voting by mail as an “insane” idea that encourages election fraud …
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Mark Zuckerberg Will Never Win — The Meta CEO will never satisfy his critics. He keeps trying anyway. — Mark Zuckerberg seems to enjoy playing politics. The only problem is that he doesn't appear to be any good at it. — This week, the Meta CEO wrote a letter to Representative Jim Jordan …
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Michael Boyle / The Daily Beast:
Harris-Walz Interview Ratings Nearly Double Trump's Last Big CNN Sit-Down — HUGE — The CNN interview also outpaced the ratings for Donald Trump and JD Vance's first joint interview on Fox News. — The first joint interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz …
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Associated Press:
Police use Taser to subdue man who stormed media area of Trump rally in Pennsylvania — JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man at Donald Trump's rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, stormed into the press area as the former president spoke Friday but was surrounded by police and sheriff's deputies and was eventually subdued with a Taser.
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