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10:40 AM ET, September 5, 2024

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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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Brittney Melton / NPR:
Details on Georgia school shooting suspect.  And, Russian media hired U.S. influencers  —  Good morning.  You're reading the Up First newsletter.  Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day.  —  Today's top stories
Discussion: The Cyber Express and IJR
Alexis Stevens / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia school shooting suspect previously investigated for threats, FBI says
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
Jeff Amy / Associated Press:
A 14-year-old student fatally shot 4 people in a rampage at a Georgia high school, officials say
New York Times:
Harris or Trump?  The Prophet of Presidential Elections Is Ready to Call the Race.  —  Featuring Allan Lichtman  —  Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are scheduled to debate on Sept. 10, but the 2024 presidential election is already in the bag — at least according to Allan Lichtman …
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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.
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
‘You Have No Choice’: Trump Tells Pennsylvanians They Have To Vote for Him, 'Even if You Don't Like Me'  —  Former President Donald Trump told Pennsylvanians they have “no choice” but to vote for him on Wednesday during a Fox News town hall in Harrisburg.  —  After Fox News host Sean Hannity played …
CNN:
Liz Cheney says she is voting for Harris for president
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
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.  Like President Joe Biden …
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CNN:
Harris breaks with Biden on capital gains tax, proposing a smaller increase  —  Vice President Kamala Harris proposed increasing the long-term capital gains tax rate to 28% for wealthy Americans during an economic speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday, breaking with the policy laid …
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
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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.
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:
JD Vance personifies the joylessness of MAGA  —  🚨 This special, five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent coverage.  🚨  —  📊 Subscribe to Public Notice 📊
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 …
Jared Gans / The Hill:
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Steve Karnowski / Associated Press:
That photo of people wearing 'Nebraska Walz's for Trump' shirts?  They're distant cousins  —  A sister of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz says she doesn't recognize the people wearing “Nebraska Walz's for Trump” T-shirts in a photo that is making the rounds on social media.
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.
 
 
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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
‘A Big Ripoff’: White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Blasts Trump for Admitting He Lost the 2020 Election
Discussion: NBC News and Mediaite
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
The Real Reason Donald Trump Insults the U.S. Military
Discussion: Scripps News and Hollywood Life
Avi Abelow / Human Events:
Biden-Harris are complicit in the death of Hersh Goldberg-Polin
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Elon Musk is absolutely not a ‘free speech absolutist’
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Why Trump's spurious attacks on crime are working
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
Biden To Dish Out $7.3 Billion For Clean Rural Power
Glenn Kirschner / MSNBC:
Trump's latest admission on Fox News is great news for Jack Smith
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
CNN:
Netanyahu derailed a potential Gaza hostage deal in July, Israeli newspaper reports
Discussion: Washington Examiner