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Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
An ugly case of ‘false balance’ in the New York Times — I once asked Jill Abramson, the former top editor of the New York Times, to name the best reporters she had ever encountered. — I recall she mentioned her friend and co-author Jane Mayer — definitely on my list, too — and a few others.
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Digby's Hullabaloo, OutsideTheBeltway and Althouse
Josef Federman / Associated Press:
Israel recovers the bodies of 6 hostages in Gaza, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin — Israel on Sunday said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages in Gaza, including a young Israeli-American man who became one of the most well-known captives held by Hamas as his parents met …
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The White House:
Statement from President Biden on Hersh Goldberg-Polin — Earlier today, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas. We have now confirmed that one of the hostages killed by these vicious Hamas terrorists was an American citizen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
The Times of Israel:
Bodies of 6 hostages, murdered by Hamas just days ago, found in Rafah - IDF
Bodies of 6 hostages, murdered by Hamas just days ago, found in Rafah - IDF
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Breitbart, HotAir, Bloomberg, JNS.org, Fox News, BBC, The Daily Caller, Jewish Insider, Townhall, Jerusalem Post, The Hill, Shore News Network, UPI, New York Times, Twitchy and Reuters
Washington Post:
Protests escalate in Israel after 6 hostages' bodies are recovered in Gaza
Protests escalate in Israel after 6 hostages' bodies are recovered in Gaza
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Washington Times, RedState, ABC News, Middle East Monitor, UPI, The Sun, Townhall, Reuters, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Times of Israel and New York Post
emptywheel:
There Are No Backsies on Dobbs — Since the day after the debate in June, I have conceived of the shift from a Joe Biden to a Kamala Harris campaign in three ways: The Vice President would more vigorously explain the wildly successful policies of the Biden-Harris Administration.
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Washington Post, New York Times and Washington Examiner
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Harris doesn't get convention bounce, but widens gap with women: POLL — Other key takeaways from ABC's poll include white men shifting to Trump. — Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage on Day 4 of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, Aug. 22, 2024.
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Washington Examiner, New York Post and PoliticusUSA
Hannah Schoenbaum / Associated Press:
Arlington cemetery controversy shines spotlight on Utah Gov. Spencer Cox's sudden embrace of Trump — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A few months ago, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was one of the few prominent Republicans consistently keeping his distance from Donald Trump, whose brash style seemed …
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Others Have Politicized Arlington, but Trump's Approach Has No Precedent — Donald J. Trump isn't the first candidate to run afoul of the ban on partisan activity in Arlington National Cemetery. But no one else has responded as hostilely as his campaign has.
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CNN, Politico, Alternet.org, USA Today and Raw Story
Anusha Mathur / Politico:
Trump's ‘Beautiful’ World — The former president boasts he has “the best words.” But his favorite by far? “Beautiful.” — “I know words. I have the best words,” Donald Trump told a South Carolina crowd as he campaigned for the Republican primary in December 2015.
Casey Michel / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Making New, Sketchy Foreign Business Deals — From Saudi Arabia to Serbia, despots are cozying up, likely in preparation for a second term. — When Donald Trump launched his first presidential campaign nearly a decade ago, there was a deluge of concerns about his foreign financial entanglements.
Donica Phifer / Axios:
Justice Jackson says people “are entitled to know” what gifts judges accept … - A Gallup poll from July showed that just 43% of Americans approve of how the Supreme Court is doing its job. — 66% of Republicans supported the court's work this previous term, 44% of Independents and 15% of Democrats said the same.
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Associated Press and CBS News
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's open to enforceable ethics code for Supreme Court
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's open to enforceable ethics code for Supreme Court
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NBC News and The Guardian
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Former Commerce secretary warns Trump against being too ‘strong’ in debating Harris — Video Player is loading. — Play Video — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 — Loaded: 0% — Stream Type LIVE — Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE — Playback Rate — Chapters — Chapters
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Joe.My.God.
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Most say Harris will accept election results, but Trump won't: Poll
Most say Harris will accept election results, but Trump won't: Poll
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Joe.My.God.
Peter Nicholas / NBC News:
Democrats grow concerned Republicans are planting seeds with legal suits to overturn a Trump defeat — The lawsuits that have been filed ahead of the election are varied, but Democrats say they're part of a concerted effort to sow distrust of the results. — WASHINGTON — Republicans …
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New York Post and Rolling Stone
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Harris's Team, With a Wink, Insists She's an Underdog — Her campaign's message that Democrats are losing, which she never voiced when President Biden was tanking the ticket, is an artful attempt to lower expectations. — Days before the debate that ended up cutting off President Biden's path …
CBS News:
Creating a memorial to the horrors of World War I — Washington, D.C., is home to numerous monuments, with a conspicuous omission: there has been no national memorial to the soldiers who'd fought and died in the First World War. After more than eight years of preparation …