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3:45 PM ET, September 4, 2024

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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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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
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Discussion: Axios, NPR and Raw Story
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:   Kinzinger: 'I'm not courageous ... I'm surrounded by cowards'
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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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
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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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Jack Birle / Washington Examiner:
Georgia police report ‘casualties’ and suspect in custody in school shooting  —  The Barrow County Sheriff's Office has said there are “casualties” and one suspect in custody following a school shooting at Apalachee High School outside of Atlanta, Georgia.  —  Police said in a statement Wednesday …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
Politico:
Playbook: The Republicans secretly rooting for a Trump loss
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Rob Crilly / Daily Mail:
Barron Trump will attend NYU's Stern School of Business, Donald reveals
Discussion: Axios, The Hill, Forbes and Business Insider
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: USA Today, Bloomberg, Twitchy, CBS News and Axios
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Harris to propose tenfold startup tax incentive increase she says will spur small business creation
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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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 …
Discussion: CBS News, Bridge Michigan and PennLive
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Alternet.org
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: New Republic and Alternet.org
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.
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
Kyle Stewart / NBC News:
Republican House panel subpoenas Gov. Walz in investigation of Minnesota nonprofit that ran a Covid aid scheme  —  The group Feeding Our Future faces federal criminal charges that it created fake children's names to seek reimbursements for meals that were never served.
 
 
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Pro-Trump group attacks Harris for murder that took place 14 years ago
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Nikki Haley joins PR firm Edelman
ICE:
ICE Houston removes Salvadoran fugitive wanted for aggravated femicide, aggravated homicide and gang membership
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Breitbart
David Strom / HotAir:
The Triumphant Return of Brian Stelter
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Biden's Asylum Restrictions Were Meant to Be Temporary. Now That Could Change.
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