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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:
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NBC News:
Poll: Half of Gen Z voters support Harris, one-third back Trump — The NBC News Stay Tuned Gen Z Poll powered by SurveyMonkey shows Harris with a significant lead over Trump, but not quite the deficit Trump suffered in 2020. — Half of Gen Z voters say they'll vote for Vice President Kamala Harris …
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USA Today, Washington Times, The Hill, PennLive and Axios
Lateshia Beachum / Washington Post:
Poll: Alsobrooks leads Hogan by five points in Maryland Senate race
Poll: Alsobrooks leads Hogan by five points in Maryland Senate race
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Joe.My.God., Baltimore Sun, Maryland Matters and HuffPost
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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Politico:
Playbook: The Republicans secretly rooting for a Trump loss — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — DEVELOPING OVERNIGHT — “Ukraine foreign minister resigns amid war's biggest reshuffle,” by Reuters' Olena Harmash in Kyiv …
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The Daily Beast
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Harris to propose tenfold startup tax incentive increase she says will spur small business creation — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to propose on Wednesday a tenfold increase in federal tax incentives for small business startup expenses, from $5,000 to $50,000, hoping to help spur …
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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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.
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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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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The Guardian, New Republic, Forbes and Rolling Stone
The Hill:
Trump ties himself in knots on abortion — 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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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 …
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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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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Maya Marchel Hoff / USA Today:
The saga of Trump's hush money case isn't over yet: Sentencing date nears — Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump was hoping to delay his New York sentencing on 34 felony counts until after the Nov. 5 election, but a federal judge said Tuesday that he wouldn't block the case from moving forward.
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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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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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PennLive
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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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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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Meghan McCain says she won't support Harris or Trump — Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said she will not support Vice President Harris or former President Trump in November. — Her comment comes just hours after her brother, Jimmy McCain, threw his support behind Harris.
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Associated Press:
JD Vance's Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers — By his own account, Ohio Sen. JD Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn't find in his Yale education or career success. — It also amounted to a political conversion.
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Former Trump Aide Peter Navarro Implores MAGA Fans To Avoid Kamala Harris Mistake — The election-overthrow plotter used a soccer analogy to make his point. — LOADING — Peter Navarro, Donald Trump's former adviser who helped plot the attempted election overthrow in 2020, had a message for MAGA world.
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Joe.My.God., Raw Story and Mediaite
CNN:
US service member detained in Venezuela, officials say — A US service member has been detained in Venezuela, according to four US officials familiar with the matter. — The service member, a US Navy sailor, is a US citizen and was detained on August 30 in Caracas, according to the officials.
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Reuters:
Sweden's foreign minister says he will step down — Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom will step down next week, he wrote in a post on social media platform X on Wednesday. — “It is with a mixture of sadness and pride that I have today informed the prime minister that I will leave …
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Christopher Anstey / Fortune:
Goldman Sachs predicts stronger GDP and job growth if Democrats sweep White House and Congress … Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economists gamed out the potential economic implications of a Republican or Democratic victory in the November elections, cautioning that US GDP faces a hit in the case of a win for Donald Trump.
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Jeff Maurer / Slow Boring:
To fight wokeness, vote Harris — The left's worst ideas flourish under Trump … Subscribe to I Might Be Wrong — Trump wants the election to be about wokeness. He rails about wokeness constantly — it's in his speeches even more than Hannibal Lecter, feckless whinging about the Biden-Harris switch …