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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 …
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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.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump's Derision of Haitians Goes Back Years — Former President Donald J. Trump's false comments about pet-eating Haitian immigrants are the latest in a pattern of attacks against people from the Caribbean nation. — Former President Donald J. Trump had been in office for less than six months …
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump says he will visit Springfield, Ohio, ‘in the next two weeks’ — The visit to the beleaguered Ohio city of Springfield would come as Trump has pushed baseless claims about Haitian migrants eating pets, which has been repeatedly debunked. — Former President Donald Trump said during …
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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
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Who Will Republicans in Springfield, Ohio Vote For?
Who Will Republicans in Springfield, Ohio Vote For?
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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
How the Trump Campaign Ran With Rumors About Pet-Eating Migrants—After Being Told They Weren't True
David Thompson / The Daily Beast:
GOP Mayor to Trump: Don't Come to Springfield After Your Dog-Eating Slurs
GOP Mayor to Trump: Don't Come to Springfield After Your Dog-Eating Slurs
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Ben T.N. Mause / NOTUS:
The Failure Was the Point: House Rejects Mike Johnson's Government Funding Gambit — “We're on the field, in the middle of the game, the quarterback is calling the play, we're gonna run the play,” Johnson said Wednesday, before the play failed. — Copy
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NBC News:
Lindsey Graham visits Nebraska on behalf of Trump campaign to push for electoral vote change — The South Carolina senator wants the governor to call a special session to put forward legislation that would make Nebraska a winner-take-all state in the Electoral College.
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
House GOP torpedoes Speaker Johnson's funding bill — A diverse group of House Republicans torpedoed Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) proposal to fund the government on Wednesday, dealing an embarrassing blow to the GOP leader and derailing his strategy to avoid a shutdown at the end of the month.
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Axios:
Scoop: Mike Johnson's secret Plan B … - 216 Republicans voted for the SAVE Act, requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, as a standalone bill in July. … - Five Democrats voted for SAVE in July. … - “I know this was the right thing to do and I think the American people …
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NBC News:
House Republicans reject their own funding bill with a shutdown around the corner
House Republicans reject their own funding bill with a shutdown around the corner
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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 …
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Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Teamsters will not endorse for president, a blow to Democrats
Teamsters will not endorse for president, a blow to Democrats
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Taylor Giorno / The Hill:
Teamsters union skips endorsement in presidential race for first time since 1996
Teamsters union skips endorsement in presidential race for first time since 1996
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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 …
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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.
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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency:
Joint ODNI, FBI, and CISA Statement — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the following statement:
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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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AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Fans at Vance Rally Boo Rate Cut That Will ‘Alleviate Inflation’ — BEARISH — The rally crowd was reacting to a reporter asking the Republican vice presidential nominee for his reaction to the Fed's half-point interest rate cut. — A crowd assembled to hear Republican vice …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Fed slashes interest rates by a half point, an aggressive start to its first easing campaign in four years
Fed slashes interest rates by a half point, an aggressive start to its first easing campaign in four years
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Go Big Or (Don't) Go Home: Fed Cuts Prime Rate By 50 Basis Points
Go Big Or (Don't) Go Home: Fed Cuts Prime Rate By 50 Basis Points
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Brad Dress / The Hill:
What to know: Hezbollah walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon 1 day after pager attack — Lebanon has been targeted twice in the past two days by exploding pagers and handheld radios in deadly attacks that have killed more than two dozen people and wounded thousands.
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Reuters:
Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah's Taiwan-made pagers, say sources
Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah's Taiwan-made pagers, say sources
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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 …
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Bethany McLean / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's financial failures are stunning. ‘Lucky Loser’ has the receipts. — Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner's book, which builds on their Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting, is much more than an excavation of the former president's tax returns. — If you tell someone who is not a fan …
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 …
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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 …
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Trump Brought Chaos to American Politics. Now It's Engulfing Him. … Three hours before a would-be assassin was spotted hiding in the bushes of his golf course in West Palm Beach, Donald Trump posted, in all caps, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” on Truth Social, his wildly unprofitable social network.
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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.
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