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CNN:
CNN polls across six battlegrounds find Georgia and Pennsylvania are key toss-ups — The 2024 presidential campaign's home stretch kicks off with a mixed outlook across six key battlegrounds, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in each state. Vice President Kamala Harris holds …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans fret over Trump's freefall among women — 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 — Descriptions
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Lateshia Beachum / Washington Post:
Poll: Alsobrooks leads Hogan by five points in Maryland Senate race
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CNN:
Exclusive: Biden administration to accuse Russia of sustained effort to influence 2024 election — The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms …
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US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere — For Immediate Release — Influence Operation Relied on Influencers, AI-Generated Content, Paid Social Media Advertisements …
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
US seizes Russian websites used in bid to influence 2024 election — 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 — Descriptions
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
If Republicans Want to Win, They Need Trump to Lose — Big — To dominate the country once more, Republicans need to hasten the move to a post-Trump party. — Accepting his party's nomination in 1984, Democrat Walter Mondale vowed to cut the deficit with a memorable line about the tough medicine either …
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Charles R. Davis / Salon:
Some “high-level” Republicans secretly hope Harris beats Trump, but they won't do anything to help — Some in the GOP are pining for the post-Trump era, Politico reported, but they still won't lift a finger — For a few hours after January 6, it seemed like the Republican Party might finally be ready to quit Donald J. Trump.
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Watchdog seeks Cannon removal from Trump documents case — Video Player is loading. — Play Video — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 … Stream Type LIVE — Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE — Playback Rate — Chapters — Chapters — Descriptions — descriptions off, selected
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Meghan McCain says she won't support Harris or Trump
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The Hill:
Trump ties himself in knots on abortion
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Silver Bulletin:
Silver Bulletin 2024 presidential election forecast — All the numbers for Trump vs. Harris. — ∙ Paid … Let's cut to the chase: So, who's gonna win the election? — Well, honestly, we don't know — but we can give you our best probabilistic guess.
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New York Post:
Barron Trump arrives at NYU for first day at college — Former President Donald Trump's youngest child, Barron Trump, was spotted arriving at New York University Wednesday to kick off his first day of college life. — The towering 18-year-old was flanked by Secret Service agents …
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Rob Crilly / Daily Mail:
Barron Trump will attend NYU's Stern School of Business, Donald reveals
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ProPublica:
Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much” — In a call with donors, First Liberty Institute's Kelly Shackelford read the supportive email he said came from Thomas. The leader of the religious-rights group also labeled Justice Elena Kagan …
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CNN:
At least 4 killed, approximately 30 injured in school shooting, sources say — At least four people are believed to have been killed and approximately 30 more injured in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, according to law enforcement sources in the state.
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Wall Street Journal:
Kamala Harris to Pare Back Biden's Capital-Gains Tax Proposal — Advisers believe a more-modest increase would balance taxing wealthy households and encouraging investment — WASHINGTON—Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is planning to propose a less drastic increase …
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Manhattan DA: ‘No basis’ to delay Trump's sentencing over rejected bid to move courts — Manhattan prosecutors in a new letter said “there is no basis” to delay former President Trump's upcoming criminal sentencing over his effort to move the case to federal court, now that a judge has swiftly rejected the gambit.
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Maya Marchel Hoff / USA Today:
The saga of Trump's hush money case isn't over yet: Sentencing date nears
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Why thousands of Florida students are not being taught sex ed — In May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed Florida House Bill 1069, a law that requires sex education classes in the state to conform to right-wing ideology. Specifically, the law requires all sex education classes …
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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Josh Marshall on how the “liberal media” works against Dems — “Republicans in the national political conversation have trained the press to think, ‘We play hard. We break the rules sometimes.’” — ∙ Paid … How is it possible that the elite press, comprised largely …
Eric Berger / The Guardian:
‘A ton of Covid out there’: US summer wave not taken seriously enough - experts — Epidemiologists push newly approved booster vaccines as current virus strain threatens at-risk groups — Infectious disease experts say many people are not taking the latest Covid-19 wave in the US seriously enough …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump appears to have misled Gold Star families on troop deaths in Afghanistan — Trump frequently suggests, as he did in a TikTok filmed at Arlington Cemetery, that an 18-month period without hostile-fire deaths took place entirely in his presidency.
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Parker Molloy / New Republic:
How the Media Sanitizes Trump's Insanity — Four years ago, in an article for Media Matters for America, I warned that journalists were sanitizing Donald Trump's incoherent ramblings to make them more palatable for the average voter. The general practice went like this …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The ugly truth we're missing on Trump, Arlington — There's an old saying: Never take any time off in 2024. OK, I just made that up, but no sooner did I decide to skip a few column slots to recover from the joy, or whatever, of Chicago's Democratic National Convention, than all heck broke loose.
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Alice Herman / The Guardian:
Christian group recruits ‘Trojan horse’ election skeptics as US poll workers — Lion of Judah enrolls poll workers in Trump-aligned swing state tour, which experts say could be ‘hazard to democracy’ — A Christian political operative has teamed up with charismatic preachers …
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New Republic and Alternet.org
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Biden's Asylum Restrictions Were Meant to Be Temporary. Now That Could Change. — The changes under consideration would build on the executive order that President Biden issued in June, which blocked a vast majority of asylum claims at the southern border.
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Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Trump admits he lost 2020 election ‘by a whisker’ during Lex Fridman podcast — Trump repeats false claims about voter fraud as he concedes 2020 loss in podcast interview — Support truly — independent journalism — Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.
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