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Yuki Iwamura / News 5 Cleveland WEWS:
Haitian nonprofit in Springfield files criminal charges against Donald Trump, JD Vance  —  Affidavit uses state statute allowing private citizens to file charges  —  The leader of the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance filed charges against former president Donald Trump and his running mate …
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Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press:
Haitian group in Springfield, Ohio, files citizen criminal charges against Trump and Vance  —  The leader of a nonprofit representing the Haitian community of Springfield, Ohio, filed criminal charges Tuesday against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance …
Chandra Law Firm:
Criminal charges filed against Trump and Vance for Springfield, Ohio conduct; arrests sought  —  Under an Ohio statute that allows private citizens to file criminal charges, a Haitian organization filed criminal charges against and seeks the arrests of Donald Trump and JD Vance for disrupting public services …
Fox 8 Cleveland WJW:
Haitian group brings criminal charges against Trump, Vance for Springfield comments
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Don't scoff at the Hitler comparisons. Trump's rhetoric is that bad.
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
CNN:
Manchin won't endorse Harris over vow to gut filibuster to codify abortion rights: ‘Shame on her’  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' vow to gut the Senate's filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin.
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WPR:
Kamala Harris tells WPR she supports eliminating the filibuster to restore abortion rights
Drew Magary / SFGATE:
The New York Times is washed  —  SFGATE columnist Drew Magary is done with caring about the Times, and you should be, too  —  We're just over a month away from the presidential election and, if you ask the New York Times, the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Raw Story
The Guardian:
Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel  —  Revealed: former colleagues claim Kevin Roberts told them he killed a neighbor's pit bull around 2004  —  The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase …
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Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Teens Say Trump's Former Personal Aide and Project 2025 Higher-Up Made Them Uncomfortable in Chats  —  Two women tell WIRED that when they were 18-year-old college freshmen, John McEntee, a former Trump administration official and co-founder of a Peter Thiel-backed dating app …
Discussion: Raw Story
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's pitch to women is getting weirder and weirder  —  🚨 This special, five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.  🚨  —  🌀 Subscribe to Public Notice 🌀
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Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Democrats — and Nikki Haley — knock GOP Senate hopeful over suburban women comments
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump's Pitch to Women Is Creepy Abuser Logic
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign is still being hacked  —  Email communications from individuals associated with the Trump campaign have been hacked by malign actors within the last ten days, Popular Information has confirmed.  —  On September 18, I was sent a message from “Robert,” …
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Rachel Selzer / Democracy Docket:
Pennsylvania Appeals Court Affirms Washington County Must Notify Voters of Mail-in Ballot Errors and Allow for Provisional Voting  —  The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court affirmed a lower court's decision requiring Washington County to notify voters of errors on their mail-in ballots and afford …
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Judge Rules Jack Smith Can Submit 180 Pages Of Evidence Of Trump's Alleged 1/6 Crimes Before The Election  —  Judge Chutkan ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith can submit 180 pages of evidence of Trump's alleged 1/6 crimes to the court before the election.  —  Judge Chutkan wrote in her opinion and order:
NBC News:
Harris campaign office damaged by gunfire in Arizona  —  No one was present or injured at the office, a state Democratic Party spokesperson said.  Tempe, Arizona, police said they are investigating it as a property crime.  —  TEMPE, Arizona — Tempe, Arizona, police are investigating …
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Nebraska governor: No plans for special session on winner-take-all electoral system  —  Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) said Tuesday that he would not be calling a special session for lawmakers to consider changing the state's electoral system to winner-take-all after one key GOP lawmaker rejected a bid to flip his vote.
Brett Murphy / ProPublica:
Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded.  Antony Blinken Rejected Them.  —  Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development …
Discussion: Reuters, New Republic, CAIR and Mother Jones
Matt Egan / CNN:
Over 400 economists and ex-officials endorse Kamala Harris  —  New York CNN —  More than 400 economists and former high-ranking US policymakers are endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and her vision for the American economy, according to a document announcing the endorsement seen by CNN.
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Son of Ryan Routh, accused in Trump assassination attempt, arrested for child pornography  —  Oran Routh had “hundreds” of files of child pornography, prosecutors said.  —  The Department of Justice seal is seen during a news conference at the DOJ office in Washington, May 16, 2023.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Trump Campaign Wants Everyone Talking About Race  —  Earlier this month, the self-identified “white nationalist” Donald Trump adviser Laura Loomer said that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins, “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center.”
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Sam Elliott in pro-Harris ad: ‘Are we really going back down that same f‑‑‑ing broken road?’  —  Actor Sam Elliot, known for his deep and resonant voice, urged Americans to back Vice President Harris's presidential bid in an ad released Monday by The Lincoln Project.
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
Hundreds of Pregnant Women Prosecuted The Year After Roe v. Wade Fell  —  A new report finds at least 210 women faced pregnancy-related charges in the year after the Supreme Court ended the federal right to an abortion  —  AT LEAST 210 women faced criminal charges related to pregnancy …
Discussion: Scripps News
New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg's Political Evolution … It was only a little more than a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg had few qualms about airing his politics.  —  Earnest and optimistic — perhaps naïvely so — he rushed onto the national stage to discuss issues he cared about: immigration, social justice, inequality, democracy in action.
Enough Already:
WHITE NOISE  —  At a time when we've never needed good to prevail over evil more, I simply don't trust enough of my fellow white men in America to do the right thing in November.  —  As an expert spanning 64 years on this sore subject, I want to spend a few minutes kicking that — and us — around a bit today.
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
The Trump Posts You Probably Aren't Seeing  —  His Truth Social posts are even worse than you think.  —  Do you remember what it was like when Donald Trump couldn't stop tweeting?  When it felt like, no matter the time of day or what you were doing, his caps-lock emeses were going to find you, like a heat-seeking, plain-text missile?
Discussion: Raw Story and Fortune
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Tanked Casinos, Doesn't Get Tariffs — Voters Still Think He Is Better On The Economy  —  Trump's answer to most questions about the economy is to impose tariffs and drill for more oil, regardless of the topic at hand.  —  LOADING  —  WASHINGTON — If a year from now prices at Walmart …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump keeps talking about criminalizing dissent  —  Four times in recent weeks, the former president said it is or should be illegal to criticize judges, despite his long history of doing just that.  —  For someone who has so strongly objected in recent weeks to the idea that he's …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Late-Arriving 2024 Ballots Challenged by GOP at Appeals Court  — Panel hears arguments over Mississippi's mail ballot law  — Mail voting again a point of legal contention in 2024 contest  —  A federal appeals court on Tuesday weighed a Republican challenge to Mississippi counting mail ballots …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Iran brokering talks to send advanced Russian missiles to Yemen's Houthis, sources say  —  Iran has brokered ongoing secret talks between Russia and Yemen's Houthi rebels to transfer anti-ship missiles to the militant group, three Western and regional sources said …
Discussion: Atlantic Council and FDD
Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
FBI reports increase in anti-LGBTQ hate crimes  —  Hate crimes motivated by anti-LGBTQ animus rose again last year, according to FBI data published Monday, a troubling increase that gay and transgender rights advocates believe is linked to ramped-up rhetoric and legislation targeting the community.
 
 
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
In Pennsylvania tour, Trump hits all the right places and messages
Discussion: New York Post, TMZ.com and Breitbart
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Hezbollah asked Iran to attack Israel, Israeli and Western officials say
Lucinda Shen / Axios:
DOJ sues Visa for monopolizing debit card market
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Joe Biden is missing in action
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
US Supreme Court justices, other judges can stay at corporate-owned homes without disclosure
Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
Republicans think Kamala Harris can't be president because she hasn't had children
 Earlier Items: 
John T. Seward / NOTUS:
The Pentagon's Quiet Attempt to Keep Out of the Trump Arlington Cemetery Controversy
Peter Savodnik / The Free Press:
An ‘Innocent’ Man Is Scheduled to Die Today. Republicans Want to Save Him.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Kamala Harris Should Explain WHY She's The Underdog
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Trump Avoids ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson as GOP Cuts His Cash
 

 
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