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Zac Anderson / USA Today:
‘Disrespected sacred ground’: Harris slams Trump over Arlington National Cemetery incident  —  Vice President Kamala Harris weighed in Saturday on the altercation between GOP rival Donald Trump's staff and an official at Arlington National Cemetery, saying Trump “disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt.”
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Shruti Rajkumar / HuffPost:
Harris Says Trump ‘Disrespected Sacred Ground’ In Arlington Altercation  —  Trump campaign staffers reportedly took photos and recorded at Arlington National Cemetery, despite officials warning them not to.  —  LOADING  —  Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday condemned the altercation …
Daniel Hampton / Raw Story:
Top Oversight Committee Dem seeks ‘full account’ from Army secretary on Arlington incident  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, demanded Friday a “full account” of a reported incident between Donald Trump and his campaign …
David Smith / The Guardian:
Donald Trump at Moms for Liberty says Ivanka ‘hired millions of people’  —  Republican candidate tells conservative group his daughter should have been UN ambassador and the ‘most brilliant leaders’ come from Scotland like his mother  —  Donald Trump has claimed that when he was president …
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Cleanup on Aisle MAGA: Trump Bends to Conservative Abortion Critics  —  IN THE END, DONALD TRUMP, a master of evasion, could only obfuscate for so long.  —  After hemming, hawing, avoiding, and rambling, the ex-president finally admitted Friday night that he opposes his home state's abortion-rights ballot initiative.
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New York Times:
Trump Contorts Himself on Abortion in Search of Political Gain  —  The former president is willing to make as many rhetorical and policy shifts as he deems necessary to win in November, vexing some social conservatives.  —  At the age of 53, in a 1999 interview on NBC's “Meet the Press,” …
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
JD Vance's Combative Style Confounds Democrats but Pleases Trump  —  Over dozens of events and more than 70 interviews, Mr. Vance's performances as Donald Trump's attack dog have endeared him to his boss, even if America broadly is less enthusiastic.  —  Donald J. Trump knew that JD Vance could take a punch.
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Washington Post:
Loyalty to Trump helped Corey Lewandowski survive harassment scandal
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emptywheel:
Trump Wants to Hide His Attempt to Assassinate Mike Pence from Voters  —  In 2016, Donald Trump bragged, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?”  —  This election, Trump wants to hide from voters details of how he almost killed …
Vox:
California's governor has the chance to make AI history  —  Gavin Newsom could decide the future of AI safety.  But will he cave to billionaire pressure? … Advocates say it is a modest law setting “clear, predictable, common-sense safety standards” for artificial intelligence.
MSNBC:
Why Trump's new trading cards are a very bad bet  —  Nobody is going to care or remember these cards in November.  The time to sell is today.  —  Trading cards have had a healthy resurgence in the past five years.  Parents are collecting with their children, card shows are happening all over the country …
Abbie Cheeseman / Washington Post:
Trump speaks at Heritage-sponsored event after disavowing Project 2025  —  Trump spoke at the Moms for Liberty summit, an event hosted by the parental rights group that counts the Heritage Foundation among its key sponsors.  —  Former president Donald Trump headlined an event sponsored …
Sofia Ferreira Santos / BBC:
Musk's X banned in Brazil after disinformation row  —  X, formerly Twitter, has been banned in Brazil after failing to meet a deadline set by a Supreme Court judge to name a new legal representative in the country.  —  Alexandre de Moraes ordered the “immediate and complete suspension” …
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New York Times:
Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders
Wall Street Journal:
Why Pennsylvania and Georgia Are Must-Win States in November  —  Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are pouring time and money into a pair of battlegrounds that are crucial to their paths to victory.
Washington Post:
Mass polio vaccination to begin in Gaza after the deadly disease reemerges  —  Polio's reemergence poses a threat to the war-torn territory and adjacent regions.  A baby, Gaza's first polio case in 25 years, can no longer move his limbs.  —  The World Health Organization and its partners plan …
 
 
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