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Anna Merlan / Mother Jones:
Tenet Media Shutters After Being Accused of Taking $10 Million in Covert Kremlin Funding — Nothing to see here! — A contributor for Tenet Media announced on Twitter Thursday night that the company has abruptly shuttered, one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment …
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New York Times:
Judge Delays Trump's Sentencing Until Nov. 26, After Election Day — The decision by Justice Juan M. Merchan means voters will be left in the dark about whether the former president will face time behind bars. — The judge overseeing Donald J. Trump's criminal case in Manhattan postponed …
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NBC News:
Judge delays Trump sentencing in hush money case until November — The former president was scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 18. — A New York judge has delayed former President Donald Trump's sentencing on felony criminal charges until Nov. 26. — Judge Juan Merchan handed …
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
September State Polling: California, Florida, Ohio, Texas — Home Polls September State Polling: California, Florida, Ohio, Texas — New Emerson College Polling/The Hill statewide polls find Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris by ten in Ohio, 53% to 43%, five in Florida, 50% to 45% …
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Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
JD Vance: John McCain probably wouldn't back Harris because of border
JD Vance: John McCain probably wouldn't back Harris because of border
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
New poll shows Florida, Texas within margin of error in Harris-Trump race
New poll shows Florida, Texas within margin of error in Harris-Trump race
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's word salad answer on child care policy matters — Donald Trump and JD Vance were asked in separate events about child care policy. Vance's answer was ridiculous. Trump's was worse. — For many American families, the cost and availability of child care pose real challenges.
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Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
The Press Response to Trump's Word Salad Answer on Childcare is Peak Sanewashing — Earlier this week, I wrote an article for The New Republic (and expanded on it in a post here at TPA) about how the media “sanewashes” Trump. If you missed that, I recommend checking it out. — The New Republic
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Axios:
How Harris dodges scrutiny — Why did President Biden's top advisers routinely leak word they found her performance as vice president disappointing or episodically problematic? — How did her views change in five years, from liberal to centrist on health care, immigration and energy?
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Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will vote for Harris, his daughter says
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will vote for Harris, his daughter says
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Associated Press:
“This is not normal. … There are no broadcast television cameras inside the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue. But the real story of Jan. 6 is found in the mounds of evidence and testimony judges and juries have seen and heard behind the doors of the courthouse …
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Politico:
Trump's federal election prosecution isn't going to trial anytime soon. But it could still produce damaging revelations before Nov. 5.
Trump's federal election prosecution isn't going to trial anytime soon. But it could still produce damaging revelations before Nov. 5.
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Why Trump and Putin Now Need Each Other—Desperately
Why Trump and Putin Now Need Each Other—Desperately
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Holds Press Event Just To Attack Women Who've Accused Him Of Sexual Assault — The GOP presidential nominee weirdly claimed E. Jean Carroll loves “Law & Order” and copied one of the TV show's episodes to lie about him assaulting her. — LOADING — WASHINGTON — Former President …
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Megan Cassella / CNBC:
Eighty-eight corporate leaders endorse Harris in new letter, including CEOs of Yelp, Box — @IN/MEGAN-CASSELLA-BA02A160/ @MMCASSELLA — Eighty-eight corporate leaders signed a new letter Friday endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president. — Signers include former 21st …
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Conservatives are shocked — shocked! — that Tucker Carlson is soft on Nazis — On Monday, Tucker Carlson hosted an amateur historian named Darryl Cooper on his show to discuss the history of World War II. The result was an extended exercise in Nazi sympathizing with little pushback from Carlson …
Jasper Goodman / Politico:
‘A huge mistake’: Trump's crypto allies cringe over family's startup — The crypto venture is attracting what appear to be hacks and attempted scams ahead of its launch. — Donald Trump's sons want to turn their father's growing bromance with the cryptocurrency industry into the new family business.
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
The Electoral College bias has returned with a vengeance — Trump has gained in critical states since the DNC — but that may be reversion to the mean. — Silver Bulletin recently passed 200,000 total (paid + free) subscribers, way more than I ever expected.
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Donald Trump's incoherence makes the media's double standard hard to hide — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris curiously don't get the same coverage — It seems like only yesterday that the elite media were extremely concerned that President Joe Biden had mistakenly referred to the president of Egypt as the president of Mexico.
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Will Doran / WRAL-TV:
Start of mail-in voting delayed in NC, as RFK Jr.'s lawsuit leads to court-ordered pause — Kennedy lost in trial Thursday, but the North Carolina Court of Appeals wants time to consider his argument to have his name taken off the ballot. — Posted 2024-09-06T15:29:29+00:00 - Updated 2024-09-06T16:28:13+00:00
Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
The mainstream press is failing America - and people are understandably upset — The media is still pursuing the appearance of fairness by treating true and false, normal and outrageous, as equally valid — The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream US media …
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Harris hires rural vote director in bid to cut into Trump's battleground margins — Rural voters in just a handful of states could swing the outcome of the November elections. — Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing on a new campaign hire as part of her team's push to clinch must-win states …
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
U.S. labor market cools again in August, adding 142,000 jobs … - The report also shows notable revisions for months past: The economy added just 89,000 jobs in July—25,000 fewer than initially thought. — June's gains were revised down by 61,000 to 118,000.
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
World sees hottest summer recorded for second consecutive year — Summer temperatures broke records for the second consecutive year, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. — Newly released data found that 2023 experienced the hottest June and August on the books …
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Montana Senate Race Moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The Montana Senate race moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican. — We were very close to making this change in yesterday's more expansive Senate update, but we were waiting for some additional polling evidence to do it.
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Nick Schager / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Rapes and Pillages His Way Through the Scathing ‘The Apprentice’ — “The Apprentice” is the movie Donald Trump doesn't want you to see—and for good reason. A sneak preview at TIFF revealed a damning film about the making of a monster. — Donald Trump doesn't want Americans …
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Cook Political Report shifts 6 House races toward Dems, 2 toward GOP — The nonpartisan group Cook Political Report has shifted half a dozen House races toward Democrats and two toward Republicans, as Democrats see their fundraising advantage and enthusiasm rise after Vice President Harris …
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