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'I'm a black NAZI!': NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum — Editor's Note: The below story contains offensive language. — Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina …
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Mike DeWine / New York Times:
I'm the Governor of Ohio. I Don't Recognize the Springfield That Trump and Vance Describe. — I was born in Springfield, Ohio. My wife, Fran, and I have lived our entire lives less than 10 miles from this city. — When we were dating in high school, we would go there to see movies …
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How Dumb Do They Think You Are? — Mark Robinson is barely even trying to beat the allegations. He thinks his voters won't notice. — Ohio's Republican governor, Mike DeWine, comes to the defense of Springfield and its Haitian community in the New York Times today: … Happy Friday.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Why a scandal consuming a Trump protégé could harm the ex-president in North Carolina
Why a scandal consuming a Trump protégé could harm the ex-president in North Carolina
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Washington Post:
Trump says if he loses election, Jewish voters would have ‘a lot’ to do with it
Trump says if he loses election, Jewish voters would have ‘a lot’ to do with it
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
North Carolina GOP defends Robinson following explosive CNN report
North Carolina GOP defends Robinson following explosive CNN report
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Email address belonging to Mark Robinson found on Ashley Madison
Email address belonging to Mark Robinson found on Ashley Madison
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Democrats launch new ad push to tie Trump to Mark Robinson following reported porn website comments
Democrats launch new ad push to tie Trump to Mark Robinson following reported porn website comments
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Robinson comments leave North Carolina Republicans reeling
Robinson comments leave North Carolina Republicans reeling
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Sabato's Crystal Ball shifts North Carolina gubernatorial race toward Democrats amid Robinson controversy
Sabato's Crystal Ball shifts North Carolina gubernatorial race toward Democrats amid Robinson controversy
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
It's Not Just Haitians In Springfield. Mass Immigration Is Destroying The American Nation
It's Not Just Haitians In Springfield. Mass Immigration Is Destroying The American Nation
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Nuzzi's RFK Relationship — “Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,” the spokesperson said. … “Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine's editors that she had engaged …
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Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
New Court Filings Place Matt Gaetz at a Party at the Center of the Sex Trafficking Scandal — This is the first public filing that cites sworn testimony alleging that Gaetz attended one of the long-rumored parties with a teenage girl. — Copy — Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Was at Sex and Drugs Party With High School Junior: Court Docs — BOMBSHELL — Filings cite sworn statements from three witnesses. — Rep. Matt Gaetz was at a 2017 party with a 17-year-old girl at the heart of an alleged sex trafficking scandal, according to legal documents filed Thursday.
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Bruce Schreiner / Associated Press:
Kentucky sheriff charged in killing of judge at courthouse — A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder, police said. The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines …
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Mary Ziegler / Slate:
The Deaths of Two Mothers in Georgia Show Ending Roe Was Never About “Life” — This week, ProPublica released two studies tracing the deaths of two women to Georgia's six-week abortion ban—the first to be reported since the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Twenty-eight-year-old Amber Thurman took abortion pills …
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
With abortion in focus, Harris's event with Oprah prompts cheers and tears
With abortion in focus, Harris's event with Oprah prompts cheers and tears
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Irit Tratt / Washington Examiner:
Harris would fill her administration with anti-Israel radicals — Polling shows that Vice President Kamala Harris maintains a strong lead over former President Donald Trump among Jewish voters. The former president had something to say about that: “Any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat ... should have their head examined.”
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Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Trump says Jews would deserve much of the blame if he loses
Trump says Jews would deserve much of the blame if he loses
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Kelsey Walsh / ABC News:
Trump tells Jewish audience Israel will be ‘eradicated’ if he doesn't win
Trump tells Jewish audience Israel will be ‘eradicated’ if he doesn't win
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump Electoral-Vote Heist Underway in Nebraska — With the major-party presidential candidates in close battles in a sparse landscape of battleground states, every electoral vote matters. There are scenarios where either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins 269 or 270 electoral votes.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
How Republicans Could Block a Democratic Victory in Georgia
How Republicans Could Block a Democratic Victory in Georgia
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Evan Halper / Washington Post:
Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI — The owner of the shuttered Pennsylvania plant plans to bring it online by 2028, with the tech giant buying all the power it produces. — Pennsylvania's dormant Three Mile Island nuclear plant would be brought …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Mike Johnson bypassed a second time with rare maneuver … - In May, a discharge petition led by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) attained the necessary 218 signatures to force a House vote on legislation providing tax relief to victims of natural disasters. — The last time a discharge petition succeeded …
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Says Anyone Who Breaks Into Her House Is ‘Getting Shot’ — The Democratic presidential nominee said she can support both the Second Amendment and commonsense gun reform. — LOADING — Vice President Kamala Harris defended her gun ownership and said she would use a firearm …
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Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Former Longtime Teamsters President Blasts Successor For Not Backing Harris — Jim Hoffa accused the union's current president, Sean O'Brien, of “a failure of leadership,” saying he boosted Trump's campaign with a non-endorsement. — LOADING — Former longtime Teamsters President Jim Hoffa blasted …
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Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Local Teamsters unions in swing states rush to endorse Harris
Local Teamsters unions in swing states rush to endorse Harris
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Kelly Rissman / The Independent:
Which Mexico are you? New Mexico furious after Texas installs razor wire along its border — Texas' latest move is a ‘political stunt’ that will have 'will have no meaningful impact on our nation's broken immigration system,' New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Apocalypse delayed: Trump keeps promising a doom that never comes — Trump predicted that if Biden won, the economy would crash, crime would soar and Christmas would be canceled. None of that happened, but he's reusing those claims anyway. — If the election does not go his way …
New York Times:
Harris, With an Online Avalanche, Outspends Trump by Tens of Millions — The week of their debate, Kamala Harris outspent Donald Trump by 20 to 1 on Facebook and Instagram. It was just one sign of how uneven their online advertising battle has become. — Vice President Kamala Harris …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Jason Stanley on how authoritarians rewrite the past — “Authoritarian regimes must erase any history of social movements for democracy.” — ∙ Paid … “Fascist politics invokes a pure mythic past tragically destroyed,” Jason Stanley wrote at the very beginning of his 2018 book …
Brandi Buchman / HuffPost:
Trump Lawyers Cling To Supreme Court Immunity Ruling In Jan. 6 Case — They argued that Trump's alleged pressure campaign on Mike Pence would qualify as official conduct and is protected by “absolute” immunity. — LOADING — In a filing late Thursday night, lawyers …
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