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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
JD Vance got a former professor to delete a blog post Vance wrote in 2012 attacking GOP over anti-immigrant rhetoric — A week after President Barack Obama won reelection in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, wrote a scathing rebuke of the Republican Party's stance on migrants …
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Overseas threats hit the Ohio city where Trump and Vance lied about Haitians eating pets — SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Ohio stationed state police at Springfield schools Tuesday in response to a rash of bomb threats — the vast majority that officials said came from overseas —
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Marcy Wheeler / New Republic:
J.D. Vance's Admission Shouldn't Shock You—They've Done This for Years — There was some surprise on Sunday when vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance argued that the “American media totally ignored” the plight of Springfield and Vance's own claims about immigration “until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes.”
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Emily Ngo / Politico:
Trump and Vance's pet-eating claims pose dilemma for endangered House Republicans
Trump and Vance's pet-eating claims pose dilemma for endangered House Republicans
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Laila Bassam / Reuters:
Dozens of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers exploded, sources and witnesses say — At least eight people were killed and 2,750 others including Hezbollah fighters, medics and Iran's envoy to Beirut were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon …
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Wall Street Journal:
Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon — Eight people were killed and 2,750 wounded, country's health minister says — BEIRUT—Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded at about the same time Tuesday afternoon in what appeared to be an unprecedented attack …
Associated Press:
Hezbollah hit by a wave of exploding pagers and blames Israel. At least 9 dead, thousands injured … Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people — including an 8-year-old girl …
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ProPublica:
Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon, the controversial jurist who tossed …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Judge Who Tossed Trump's Docs Case Repeatedly Violated Disclosure Rule: Report
Judge Who Tossed Trump's Docs Case Repeatedly Violated Disclosure Rule: Report
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Trump requests more time to reply to appeal of Florida case dismissal
Trump requests more time to reply to appeal of Florida case dismissal
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Politico:
Republicans block Democratic bill on IVF protections — As Trump pitches himself as a “leader on IVF,” GOP senators dismiss the legislation as a Democratic stunt. — Senate Republicans blocked passage on Tuesday of a Democratic bill that would federally protect access to in vitro fertilization …
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CNN:
Senate GOP blocks IVF bill again as Democrats spotlight issue ahead of elections
Senate GOP blocks IVF bill again as Democrats spotlight issue ahead of elections
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Axios:
Senate GOP abandons anti-Biden strategy after unexpected backfire
Senate GOP abandons anti-Biden strategy after unexpected backfire
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Republicans Again Block Bill Protecting Access To IVF
Republicans Again Block Bill Protecting Access To IVF
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Politico:
Harris refuses to veer off script in her second high-profile interview — Harris' appearance at the NABJ event follows Donald Trump's combative sit-down interview with the association. — PHILADELPHIA — Kamala Harris largely stuck to her script during an interview Tuesday with a panel …
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New York Times:
Secret Service Told Trump It Needs to Bolster Security if He Keeps Golfing — The agency's acting director, Ronald L. Rowe Jr., met with Donald J. Trump on Monday in the aftermath of the apparent assassination attempt on Sunday. — The acting director of the Secret Service told former …
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Anna J Kaiser / Bloomberg:
Palm Beach Asks for Help After Spending $93,000 a Day to Protect Trump
Palm Beach Asks for Help After Spending $93,000 a Day to Protect Trump
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Lemon on CNN says Trump should ‘stop threatening democracy’
Lemon on CNN says Trump should ‘stop threatening democracy’
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Harris soars to record 6-point lead over Trump in post-debate poll … - “A majority of likely voters — including 1 in 5 Republicans — believe Harris won the debate, and performance appears to be crystalizing her national lead over the former president,” said Eli Yokley, political analyst at Morning Consult, in an emailed statement.
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April Rubin / Axios:
Harris spoke with Trump to denounce political violence following assassination attempt
Harris spoke with Trump to denounce political violence following assassination attempt
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Mary Ann Akers / The Daily Beast:
Vance Blames Everyone But GOP for Political Violence
Vance Blames Everyone But GOP for Political Violence
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Elon Musk Shared Memes Made by FSB Propaganda Machine — EGG ON YOUR FACE — A journalistic investigation has revealed that the content was generated by a Russian propaganda machine set up to sow discord over the war in Ukraine. — DENIED — A Manhattan court rejected Maxwell's argument that she was protected from prosecution.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Judge rules Trump Media breached stock contract with early investor … Trump Media breached an agreement with one of the investors that helped the company go public, and must grant the investor a larger share of its stock, a judge ruled. — The order in Delaware Chancery Court on Monday came …
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Sen. John Kennedy To Arab American Witness: 'You Support Hamas, Don't You?' — “You should hide your head in a bag,” the Louisiana Republican sniped at Maya Berry of the Arab American Institute, after baselessly accusing her of backing terrorists. — LOADING
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Marin Scotten / Salon:
“Depressed, disgusted and horrified”: These lifelong Republicans say they're finally done with Trump — Former Republicans opposed to Donald Trump are working to give conservatives “permission” to vote for a Democrat — Robert Nix, a 62-year-old lawyer from Philadelphia, was a lifelong Republican before Donald Trump came to office.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Russian cyber operatives shift focus to Harris campaign, Microsoft says … - One claimed to show a group of alleged Harris supporters attacking an assumed Trump rally attendee. … - Both videos were spread through a website posing as a local San Francisco news outlet.
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Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
‘Flat Out Illegal’: MAGA Sheriff Is Keeping Note of Homes With Harris Yard Signs — DISTURBING — Bruce Zuchowski used the word “locust” to describe undocumented immigrants and said they should be sent to the homes of Kamala Harris supporters. — An Ohio sheriff has made a chilling …
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Robert McCoy / New Republic:
J.D. Vance Reveals How Trump Will Use Musk to Target Social Security — J.D. Vance's recent comments regarding Elon Musk's potential role in a second Trump administration are ringing alarm bells for some. — In the past few weeks, Trump has confirmed that he plans to create …
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Rick Wilson / Rick Wilson's Substack:
Refuse to Be Silenced — Trump's Strategy To Shut Down the 2024 Campaign — The emerging MAGA conflation that every criticism of Donald Trump is a call for his assassination is a logical, moral, and political fallacy of the most sublimely stupid nature, a false equivalence so profoundly wrong …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell: Government shutdown before election ‘politically beyond stupid’ — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is warning colleagues that it would be “politically beyond stupid” for Congress to stumble into a government shutdown a few weeks before Election Day, saying Republicans would “certainly” get the blame.
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Washington Post:
Court may decide if Arizonans with missing citizenship records can vote in state races — Arizona officials discovered they have no records showing if nearly 100,000 longtime residents provided proof of citizenship, which is required by law to vote in state and local races.
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
House passes bill to plug $3B VA budget shortfall — The House on Tuesday passed an emergency bill to address a roughly $3 billion budget shortfall facing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), as officials warn millions of veterans' benefits are at risk in the coming weeks.
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Roque Planas / HuffPost:
State Lawmakers Have A New Strategy For Gun Reform — A group of legislators sees local politics as the future of gun safety. — LOADING — A group of state legislators, local politicians and nonprofits on Tuesday launched a national coalition that hopes to circumvent the congressional stalemate …