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10:05 AM ET, September 5, 2024

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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Liz Cheney, a Top G.O.P. Trump Critic, Says She Will Vote for Harris  —  The Wyoming Republican, once a member of House leadership, lost her post and then her seat after she voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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Katherine Doyle / NBC News:
Trump campaign threatens to fire staff who leak to the press  —  Trump's co-campaign managers, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, warned staff in an internal email this evening not to leak to reporters or risk losing their jobs.  —  In the email obtained by NBC News, LaCivita and Wiles write …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Will Steakin / ABC News:
ABC News releases rules for Sept. 10 debate between Harris and Trump  —  The debate will be held at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.  —  Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.  —  With less than a week until the Sept. 10 presidential debate between …
New York Times:
Harris or Trump? The Prophet of Presidential Elections Is Ready to Call the Race.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, USA Today and So What
CNN:
Liz Cheney says she is voting for Harris for president
NBC News:
Russian money was funneled to right-wing creators through a pro-Trump media outlet: prosecutors  —  The indictment on Wednesday of two RT employees includes allegations that the duo implemented a nearly $10 million plan to fund an unnamed Tennessee-based company as one of their “covert projects”
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NPR:
How Russian operatives covertly hired U.S. influencers to create viral videos  —  Federal officials have accused Russia of using unwitting right-wing American influencers in its quest to spread Kremlin propaganda ahead of the 2024 presidential election.  —  On Wednesday, the Justice Department charged …
US Department of Justice:
Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests
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Alexis Stevens / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia school shooting suspect previously investigated for threats, FBI says  —  A teenager accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Barrow County was previously investigated for threats about a shooting, the FBI Atlanta office said late Wednesday.
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Jeff Amy / Associated Press:
A 14-year-old student fatally shot 4 people in a rampage at a Georgia high school, officials say
NBC News:
Georgia high school shooting suspect was investigated in 2023 for online threats, authorities say
Discussion: The Daily Beast, NBC Bay Area and MSNBC
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
September 4, 2024  —  Long tonight, folks, but it's been quite a day.  And even still, I did not mention the day's horrific shooting at a Georgia school.  —  Today, Vice President Kamala Harris announced a series of proposals to help entrepreneurs create small businesses.
Discussion: American Prospect and Democrats
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John Keim / ESPN:
Commanders suspend VP for comments on players, Jones, Goodell  —  ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Commanders have suspended an employee who made comments about the team's players being anti-gay, accused Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of being racist and anti-gay and called NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a “$50 million puppet.”
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Isabel Baldwin / Daily Mail:
Commanders VP is SUSPENDED after branding his own team's black players ‘homophobic,’ calls NFL stars ‘dumb as hell’ and labels fans ‘alcoholics’ in damning video secretly recorded on a date
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Adopt Elon Musk's Proposal for Government Efficiency Commission  —  Former president also to reiterate calls for lower corporate tax rate and steep regulation cuts  —  NEW YORK—Donald Trump plans to outline a suite of economic proposals in a speech here Thursday …
Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
Trump's wealth shrinks by $4 billion as DJT shares hit a record low  —  Former President Donald Trump's personal stake in Trump Media & Technology Group topped more than $6 billion in March when its shares soared after making their public market debut.  Nearly six months later …
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Callum Jones / The Guardian:   Stock plunge wipes out Trump Media's extraordinary market gains
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
GOP sees worrying signs in North Carolina governor's race  —  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
A.G. Sulzberger / Washington Post:
How the quiet war against press freedom could come to America  —  Some foreign leaders have ruthlessly curtailed journalism.  U.S. politicians could draw from their playbook.  —  A.G. Sulzberger is the publisher of the New York Times.  —  After several years out of power …
Discussion: Mediaite and Althouse
Matthew Cantor / The Guardian:
The strangest insult in US politics: why do Republicans call it ‘the Democrat party’?  —  For almost a century, opponents have removed the ‘ic’ from ‘Democratic’.  Is it doing them any good?  —  The Democratic party?  Robert F Kennedy Jr's never heard of it.
Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
Record measles outbreak in Oregon blamed on vaccine exemptions  —  Vaccine exemptions at nearly 9% in the state, enabling sustained transmission.  —  With one of the highest vaccine exemption rates in the country, Oregon is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in decades.
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Finally: Top Journo Erupts at Media for Ignoring Trump's Mental State  —  For many months, media critics and liberal Democrats have insisted that Donald Trump's mental unfitness for the presidency is—or should be treated as—a big and important news story in and of itself.
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Elon Musk is absolutely not a ‘free speech absolutist’ … He's declared himself so committed to the unfettered, open exchange of ideas that he's said the only way X would let a government suppress speech on its platform is “at gunpoint.”  All of this explains why Musk recently allowed X …
Glenn Kirschner / MSNBC:
Trump's latest admission on Fox News is great news for Jack Smith  —  What the former president apparently doesn't realize is that every word out of his mouth is admissible in a criminal trial.  —  Just days after special counsel Jack Smith obtained a superseding indictment …
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Hunter Biden's federal tax trial to open Thursday with jury selection … - His legal woes had been a focal point of the 2024 presidential election prior to Biden's decision to withdraw. … - Federal prosecutors accused the president's son of failing to pay at least $1.4 million in federal taxes between 2016 through 2019.
Discussion: Associated Press
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The Real Reason Donald Trump Insults the U.S. Military
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Netanyahu derailed a potential Gaza hostage deal in July, Israeli newspaper reports
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump campaign says the former president believes ‘anyone convicted of a crime’ should be jailed
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

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