Top Items:
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
International Brotherhood …, Alternet.org, Fox News, The Hill, Fox Business, The Daily Beast, New York Times, Raw Story and Twitchy
Taylor Giorno / The Hill:
Teamsters union skips endorsement in presidential race for first time since 1996 — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters will not issue an endorsement in the presidential election for the first time since 1996, and for only the second time since 1960.
Discussion:
NPR, Washington Times, Louder With Crowder, Boston Herald, Twitchy, acecomments.mu.nu, Jacobin, Politico, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, USA Today and Breitbart
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 …
Discussion:
Vanity Fair, NPR, The Present Age, ABC News, Axios, New York Magazine, Alternet.org, Reason, HuffPost, Media Matters for America, The Dispatch, Lead Stories, New Republic, Rolling Stone, Washington Post, New York Times, The Daily Beast, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Daily Caller and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
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
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Who Will Republicans in Springfield, Ohio Vote For?
Who Will Republicans in Springfield, Ohio Vote For?
Discussion:
USA Today, The Daily Beast, Military.com, Alternet.org, Raw Story, HuffPost and New Republic
Doc Louallen / ABC News:
Ohio Haitian immigrants say they are afraid to leave home after recent backlash
Ohio Haitian immigrants say they are afraid to leave home after recent backlash
Discussion:
Washington Examiner and The Guardian
Alice Herman / The Guardian:
JD Vance defends pet-eating remarks: ‘The media has a responsibility to fact-check’
JD Vance defends pet-eating remarks: ‘The media has a responsibility to fact-check’
Discussion:
NC Newsline, RedState, Alternet.org, Washington Post and Mock Paper Scissors
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Swing State Poll 2024: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin: Harris Ahead In 2 Key Battleground States, 3rd State Up For Grabs, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; U.S. Senate Races: Democrats Have Leads In All 3 States — mail_outline — PENNSYLVANIA: Harris 51%, Trump 45%, Stein 1%, Oliver 1%
Discussion:
AARP, Politico, Fox News, New Jersey Online, WisPolitics, The Hill, Raw Story and Townhall
RELATED:
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
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Harris tops Trump by two points
Fox News Poll: Harris tops Trump by two points
Discussion:
angusreid.org, Forbes and The Hill
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll finds Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are locked in a tight race in Georgia
AJC poll finds Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are locked in a tight race in Georgia
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, New Jersey Online and Daily Kos
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Favorable Ratings of Harris, Trump Remain Under 50%
Favorable Ratings of Harris, Trump Remain Under 50%
Discussion:
RedState, Mediaite, HotAir, The Hill, Tusk, MinnPost, Daily Caller News Foundation and freebeacon.com
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Axios, Vox, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, HotAir, Fox News, NPR, BBC, acecomments.mu.nu, New York Post, Twitchy, Drop Site News, Human Rights Watch, The Times of Israel, New Yorker, CNN, Associated Press, Slate, Haaretz, Reuters, UPI, Digby's Hullabaloo, JNS.org, Forbes, Wired, Al Jazeera, Reason, The Atlantic, The War Zone, Defense One, The Intercept, Mercury News, WHDH-TV, Middle East Monitor, The Daily Beast, Deseret News, RedState, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Fortune
Brad Dress / The Hill:
What to know: Hezbollah walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon 1 day after pager attack
What to know: Hezbollah walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon 1 day after pager attack
Discussion:
New York Post, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and freebeacon.com
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 …
Discussion:
Reuters, Bloomberg, Politico, HotAir, The Gateway Pundit, NBC Bay Area, NJTODAY.NET, Fortune, Deseret News, RedState, Semafor and New York Times
RELATED:
Owen Klinsky / The Daily Caller:
Federal Reserve Delivers What Could Be A Huge Gift To Kamala Harris Just Before Election
Federal Reserve Delivers What Could Be A Huge Gift To Kamala Harris Just Before Election
Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
Powell downplays impact of rate cut on Trump-Harris presidential race
Powell downplays impact of rate cut on Trump-Harris presidential race
Discussion:
Bloomberg, The Hill, Forbes, Reuters, Raw Story, Associated Press, NPR, New York Times, Alternet.org, Drezner's World, acecomments.mu.nu and Scripps News
Rob Wile / NBC News:
Fed goes big with interest rate cut in a bid to head off an economic slowdown
Fed goes big with interest rate cut in a bid to head off an economic slowdown
Discussion:
Associated Press, Board of Governors …, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, Plain Dealer, CNBC, crypto.news, PBS NewsHour, The Atlantic, New York Post, The Hill, Fortune, News.Az, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, UPI, nationalinterest.org, CBS News, Politico, New York Times and abc7NY
Reaganbushmccainromney / Reagan, Bush …:
Over 100 Republican National Security Leaders Endorse Vice President Harris — Donald Trump cannot be trusted “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic . . . and bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
Discussion:
New Republic, The Hill, The Moderate Voice, PoliticusUSA and The Guardian
RELATED:
Peter Baker / New York Times:
111 Former G.O.P. Officials Back Harris, Calling Trump ‘Unfit to Serve’
111 Former G.O.P. Officials Back Harris, Calling Trump ‘Unfit to Serve’
Discussion:
Mother Jones, Fox News, Mediaite, Forbes, Deseret News, Alternet.org, Sun-Sentinel and New York Daily News
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Trump Tries to Close Off a Chief Line of Attack: That He's a Danger to Democracy
Trump Tries to Close Off a Chief Line of Attack: That He's a Danger to Democracy
Discussion:
Human Events, HotAir, The Guardian, Washington Examiner and Reason
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
111 Republican former officials endorse Harris, say Trump is ‘unfit to serve’
111 Republican former officials endorse Harris, say Trump is ‘unfit to serve’
Discussion:
freebeacon.com and NBC News
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 …
Discussion:
CNN, CBS News, The Hill, ABC News, Politico, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Metro.co.uk and Daily Caller News Foundation
RELATED:
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 …
Justin Glawe / The Guardian:
Network of Georgia election officials strategizing to undermine 2024 result — Emails reveal Georgia Election Integrity Coalition, a group of officials and election deniers, coordinating in swing state — The fight for democracy is supported by — Emails obtained by the Guardian reveal …
Discussion:
Raw Story, Alternet.org, New Republic and Esquire
Ece Yildirim / CNBC:
Trump Media stock closes at new postmerger low on eve of ‘lockup’ expiration … Shares of Trump Media closed Wednesday at a new post-merger low, on the eve of the expiration of “lockup” restrictions that have barred the Truth Social owners' insiders, like majority shareholder Donald Trump, from selling their stakes.
Discussion:
Forbes and Mock Paper Scissors
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
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The House GOP is a circus. The chaos has one source. — Republicans spent two years sabotaging the U.S. House. Another two years would be ruinous. — Adapted from “Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists and Dunces who Burned Down the House,” by Dana Milbank.
Discussion:
NOTUS, Axios, Raw Story, The Mahablog and New York Magazine
Brian Mann / NPR:
NPR Exclusive: U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives — For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S. — “This is exciting,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse …
Discussion:
Opioid Data Lab, Mother Jones and Washington Examiner