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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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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
How Dumb Do They Think You Are? — Ohio's Republican governor, Mike DeWine, comes to the defense of Springfield and its Haitian community in the New York Times today: … Happy Friday. — Uh, Gross —Andrew Egger — When the rumor mill started churning yesterday that some major …
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The Daily Beast, The Hill, Talking Points Memo and HotAir
New York Times:
Trump Ignores Mark Robinson Controversy, Hoping Gubernatorial Candidate Will Drop Out — CNN's article scrambled G.O.P. plans for winning North Carolina. People close to Donald Trump are holding out hope Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will decide to quit the governor's race.
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Springfield had more murders under Trump than under Biden-Harris
Fact check: Springfield had more murders under Trump than under Biden-Harris
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Wisconsin Watch, Raw Story, ABC News and Washington Post
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots — Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state. — ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board approved …
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CNN:
Georgia election board requires ballots be hand-counted despite warning from key GOP state officials — Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a controversial new rule Friday requiring counties to hand-count the number of ballots cast …
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Bloomberg, The Guardian, NBC News, CBS News, The Hill, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Alternet.org, Raw Story and USA Today
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
MAGA Republicans Pass New Election Rules in Georgia That Could Rig the State for Trump
MAGA Republicans Pass New Election Rules in Georgia That Could Rig the State for Trump
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump Electoral-Vote Heist Underway in Nebraska
Trump Electoral-Vote Heist Underway in Nebraska
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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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National Archives
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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New York Magazine, Slate, Washington Post, Washingtonian, Bangor Daily News, New York Times, Defector, Politico, Mediaite, Hollywood Life, CNN, The Daily Beast, NPR, The Guardian, The Hill, Gizmodo, Erick Erickson's Show Notes, Hartford Courant, ComingSoon.net, KNSD-TV, Washington Examiner, The Sun, Fox News, HuffPost, Variety, Deadline, 404 Media, New Jersey Online, Axios and The Hollywood Reporter, more at Mediagazer »
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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
‘I agonized over it’: Behind the scenes with the reporter who uncovered the RFK Jr./Olivia Nuzzi story — One of the country's most high-profile journalists says she had a “personal” relationship with RFK Jr. — Now Olivia Nuzzi is on leave from New York magazine, where she's written many buzzy political stories.
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Adweek, NewsNation, SheKnows, Hollywood Life, Alternet.org, TMZ.com, Althouse, Mediaite and Variety, more at Mediagazer »
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
Matt Gaetz Was at Sex and Drugs Party With High School Junior: Court Docs
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Alternet.org, Balloon Juice and Crooks and Liars
Alayna Treene / CNN:
Exclusive: Harris campaign launching new ad seeking to tie Trump to Mark Robinson — Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign on Friday launched a new television ad seeking to tie former President Donald Trump to North Carolina's Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson …
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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
New York Times:
Harris, With an Online Avalanche, Outspends Trump by Tens of Millions
Harris, With an Online Avalanche, Outspends Trump by Tens of Millions
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Business Insider
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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The Status Kuo, Washington Post, Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
The North Carolina “Black Nazi” Who Could Cost Trump the Presidency
The North Carolina “Black Nazi” Who Could Cost Trump the Presidency
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Washington Examiner, New York Times, The Guardian, The Forward, Alternet.org, The Daily Beast, USA Today, Associated Press, Bloomberg and NBC News
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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Bloomberg:
Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It's Tapping Site of US Nuclear Meltdown — Constellation to invest $1.6 billion to restart dormant reactor as data-center power demand surges. — The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will invest $1.6 billion to revive it …
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Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Trump says Jews would deserve much of the blame if he loses — In a speech Thursday billed as former President Donald Trump's answer to rising antisemitism, he said Jews would bear much of the responsibility if he loses the presidential election. — And in a second speech later in the evening …
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Politico:
House Republicans work to defuse Trump as they defy shutdown demands — GOP appropriators have been calling their presidential nominee, trying to convince him his calls to shut down the government over a voting bill are a bad idea. — House Republicans are typically hesitant to defy Donald Trump.
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Dawn Roberts / Des Moines Register:
I co-chaired Nikki Haley's Iowa campaign. I am endorsing Kamala Harris. — I heard Harris articulate that she has always brought groups of diverse individuals and opinions together to solve problems. That is a healthier and wiser way to lead. — I served as an Iowa state co-chair of the Nikki Haley for President campaign.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Trump Lie Machine Is Broken — It shouldn't have taken a year, let alone nine, for political elites to stop getting snookered by Donald Trump. — I say that as someone with very low expectations. Being an easy mark is part of the price of admission to the heights of American discourse.
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Josephine Rozzelle / CNBC:
Trump Media closes at a new 52-week low, as Dow finishes week at record high … Shares of Trump Media fell to a new 52-week low Friday, closing down 8% just one day after “lockup” restrictions expired, which had previously prevented its majority shareholder, former President Donald Trump …
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UPI and New York Times
Politico:
Playbook: Inside the mind of Harris' messaging maven — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — OVERNIGHT MILESTONE — The midnight deadline having passed, it's now officially too late to remove scandal-plagued Republican gubernatorial candidate …
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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
Burgess Everett / Semafor:
Republicans plan to push a potential Harris cabinet to the right — There's a real possibility that Kamala Harris wins the presidency and Democrats lose the Senate in November - in which case she'll almost surely run into trouble stocking a Cabinet and the courts.
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