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10:35 PM ET, September 18, 2024

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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Real Reason Trump and Vance Are Spreading Lies About Haitians  —  Investing in Rust Belt communities would not fix what they see as the actual problem.  —  Six days into terrorizing the city of Springfield, Ohio, with baseless nonsense about Haitian immigrants kidnapping and eating people's pets …
Discussion: Axios, HuffPost, Mediaite, WKYC-TV and CNN
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Wall Street Journal:
How the Trump Campaign Ran With Rumors About Pet-Eating Migrants—After Being Told They Weren't True  —  Springfield, Ohio, city officials were contacted by Vance's team and said the claims were baseless.  It didn't matter and now the town is in chaos.  —  SPRINGFIELD, Ohio …
Matt Arco / New Jersey Online:
J.D. Vance offers ‘proof’ of pet-eating, but it's proven false with 1 phone call  —  Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance has dug in on his claim Haitians in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets, even as the state's GOP governor and other officials insist there is no evidence of such behavior.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump's Derision of Haitians Goes Back Years
Discussion: Houston Public Media
Doc Louallen / ABC News:
Ohio Haitian immigrants say they are afraid to leave home after recent backlash
Discussion: Washington Examiner
KC Cypress / International Brotherhood of Teamsters:
Teamsters: No Endorsement for U.S. President  —  International Union Cites Strong Political Divides, Few Commitments from Candidates  —  Press Contact: Kara Deniz Phone: (202) 497-6610 Email: kdeniz@teamster.org  —  (WASHINGTON) — The General Executive Board of the International Brotherhood …
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Alex Nieves / Politico:
West Coast Teamsters break with national chapter in endorsing Harris  —  The announcement came minutes after the national Teamsters declined to make a presidential endorsement.  —  West Coast Teamsters announced their endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday …
Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Teamsters will not endorse for president, a blow to Democrats  —  The union last failed to endorse a Democrat for president in 1996.  Several powerful regional factions have endorsed Kamala Harris on their own.  —  For the first time in nearly three decades, the International Brotherhood …
Politico:
Teamsters skip presidential endorsement amid apparently strong member support for Trump
Discussion: The Hill
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Teamsters to meet on Wednesday to consider potential US presidential endorsement
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Harris tops Trump by two points  —  The latest Fox News national survey finds 3-point shift since August  —  Vice President Kamala Harris edges former President Trump in a head-to-head matchup, as more voters see Harris as the candidate who will help the middle class …
Discussion: angusreid.org, Forbes and The Hill
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Shawn Tully / Fortune:
Could there be a Kamala Harris landslide in November?  The data scientist who correctly called the last election is betting yes … In late 2020 and early 2021, this reporter wrote several stories focusing on the election predictions advanced by Thomas Miller, a data scientist at Northwestern University.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Alternet.org
Reuters:
Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah's Taiwan-made pagers, say sources  —  A Taiwanese pager maker denied on Wednesday that it had produced devices that wounded thousands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon when they exploded, an audacious attack that raised the prospect of a full-scale war between …
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New York Times:
Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say  —  Small amounts of explosive were implanted in beepers that Hezbollah had ordered from a Taiwanese company, according to American and other officials briefed on the operation.  —  Israel carried out its operation …
NBC News:
Who made the exploding pagers? A messy global trail emerges behind deadly Lebanon blasts
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Fed slashes interest rates by a half point, an aggressive start to its first easing campaign in four years … WATCH NOW  —  WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday enacted its first interest rate cut since the early days of the Covid pandemic, slicing half a percentage point off benchmark rates …
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Rob Wile / NBC News:
Fed goes big with interest rate cut in a bid to head off an economic slowdown
New York Times:
Trump's Talk of Prosecution Rattles Election Officials  —  The former president has long claimed, despite evidence to the contrary, that elections are corrupt.  What if he carries through with threats to prosecute the officials who run them?  —  Donald J. Trump's escalating calls to investigate …
Discussion: Emerson Today and Raw Story
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NBC News:
House Republicans reject their own funding bill with a shutdown around the corner  —  A handful of Republicans voted to derail Speaker Johnson's plan linking funding to a Trump-backed voter ID bill.  The government will shut down on Oct. 1 unless Congress acts.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The House GOP is a circus. The chaos has one source.
Discussion: NOTUS, Raw Story, Axios and The Mahablog
Associated Press:
Iranian hackers tried but failed to interest Biden's campaign in stolen Trump info, FBI says  —  Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden's campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump's campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people connected to the Democratic president …
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Joseph MacKinnon / Blaze Media:
Nearly 3 in 10 Democrats polled say it ‘would be better if Trump had been killed’  —  A damning new poll revealed Wednesday that nearly one in three Democrats would have preferred to see Kamala Harris' political opponent gunned down in cold blood on Sunday.  —  Scott Rasmussen's RMG Research conducted …
Discussion: Twitchy and Fox News
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
This Is What a Losing Campaign Looks Like  —  How does Donald Trump's running mate have so much time on his hands?  —  A first draft of this story opened: “It's not every day that a candidate for vice president of the United States rage-tweets at you.”  —  Backspace, backspace, backspace.
Discussion: Raw Story
Sharon Lerner / ProPublica:
EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals.  A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.  —  More than three years ago, a small group of government scientists came forward with disturbing allegations.  —  During President Donald Trump's administration …
Discussion: The Hill and E&E News
Georgina Rannard / BBC:
Musk's satellites ‘blocking’ view of the universe  —  Radio waves from Elon Musk's growing network of satellites are blocking scientists' ability to peer into the universe, according to researchers in the Netherlands.  —  The new generation of Starlink satellites, which provide fast internet around …
Discussion: Semafor
 
 
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