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Live Updates: Eric Adams Is Indicted in New York — The indictment makes Mr. Adams the first sitting New York City mayor to face criminal charges. — Here's the latest on the mayor's indictment. — Mayor Eric L. Adams has been indicted on federal criminal charges …
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Simon J. Levien / New York Times:
Rep. Clay Higgins Posts, Then Deletes, Racist Comments About Haitians — False claims about migrants in Springfield, Ohio, who are legal residents, became a campaign issue after Donald J. Trump brought them up at the presidential debate this month. — Representative Clay Higgins …
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
GOP lawmaker deletes racist social media post after swift backlash — Rep. Clay Higgins deleted a social media post Wednesday with racist tropes about Haitians after swift backlash from his congressional colleagues, including a call to censure him on the House floor.
CNN:
GOP Rep. Clay Higgins deletes post calling Haitian migrants ‘thugs,’ telling them to get ‘their a** out of our country’ — House Democrats immediately tried to reprimand GOP Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana from the floor of the chamber on Wednesday over a since deleted social media post calling …
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
CBC calls for GOP lawmaker to be censured for post attacking Haitians as ‘thugs’
CBC calls for GOP lawmaker to be censured for post attacking Haitians as ‘thugs’
The Hill:
Trump makes last-minute push for alternative stopgap with voting provisions — Former President Trump is making a last-minute push for House Republicans to adopt a short-term government funding package that includes language pertaining to voting, multiple sources told The Hill.
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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Congress clears December spending patch, avoiding preelection shutdown
Congress clears December spending patch, avoiding preelection shutdown
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
House passes stopgap bill to avert government shutdown
House passes stopgap bill to avert government shutdown
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Kamala Harris: American Women Don't Need Trump's ‘Protection’ — NOT HAVING IT — “I don't think the women of America need him to say he's going to protect them. The women of America need him to trust them,” Harris said. — Vice President Kamala Harris rejected Donald Trump's recent assertion that …
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Liz Skalka / HuffPost:
Harris Calls Trump ‘One Of The Biggest Losers Ever On Manufacturing’ — Vice President Kamala Harris ripped Donald Trump on a key issue the former president ran on in 2016. — LOADING — Vice President Kamala Harris called Donald Trump a “loser” who failed to grow domestic manufacturing under …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Says Adams Should Resign ‘for the Good of the City’ — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the most prominent elected official to call for Mayor Eric Adams to no longer lead New York City. — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York on Wednesday …
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New York Times:
Eric Adams Is Indicted After Federal Corruption Investigation — The indictment makes Mr. Adams the first sitting mayor of New York City to be charged with a federal crime. — Eric L. Adams, a retired police captain who was elected as New York City's 110th mayor nearly three years ago …
Shereen Siewert / Wausau Pilot & Review:
Wausau mayor moves ballot box in controversial act — Wausau Mayor Doug Diny is facing scrutiny after video surveillance footage showed him carting the city's outdoor ballot drop box inside on Sunday while sporting a Department of Public Works jacket and hard hat.
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
A Wisconsin Mayor Took Issue With a Ballot Drop Box Decision, So He Took the Drop Box — Mayor Doug Diny of Wausau, Wis., said the City Council should have been consulted before the installation. The Wisconsin Supreme Court had said authority rested with the city clerk.
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New York Times:
Harris Casts Herself as a Pro-Business Pragmatist in a Broad Economic Pitch — Declaring “I am a capitalist” in a speech in Pittsburgh, Kamala Harris promised not to be “constrained by ideology” even as she said she would fiercely defend unions and the middle class.
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Yet Another Mark Robinson Eye-Popper — Donald Trump's legal troubles have been out of the news lately, but they may be coming back in a major way. Per CNN: … Remember back when it was going to be a tentpole of this race that Donald Trump is a felon? Hey, you never know. Happy Wednesday.
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Russell Payne / Salon:
“The evidence will be powerful”: Legal experts say Jack Smith about to drop a bomb in Trump case — Legal scholars expect a bitter fight over what evidence may be redacted from the public — Special counsel Jack Smith is expected to submit an “oversized” brief in former President Donald …
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TMZ.com:
Barack Obama's Secret Service Detail Penetrated, Armed Man Walks Up to SUV — BARACK OBAMA ARMED MAN STROLLS UP TO HIS SUV With Secret Service Nearby … 1:15 PM PT — A rep for Secret Service tells TMZ ... “The Secret Service cannot provide the details on our means and methods of protection …
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
Mark Robinson's Top Staff in the Lieutenant Governor's Office Plan to Resign — North Carolina's Republican nominee for governor has already lost most of his campaign staff after a news report linked him to disturbing comments on a porn site. — Senior staff members in the office …
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Erin Doherty / Axios:
Biden insists he would have beaten “loser” Trump … - Polling after Biden's shaky June debate performance — before he suspended his campaign — also showed that the majority of voters believed that the Democratic Party would perform better with a different candidate atop the ticket.
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Wendell Husebø / Breitbart:
Joe Biden Says He Delegated ‘Everything’ to Kamala Harris: ‘Foreign Policy to Domestic Policy’
Joe Biden Says He Delegated ‘Everything’ to Kamala Harris: ‘Foreign Policy to Domestic Policy’
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Ingrid Vasquez / People:
Donald Trump's Sexual Assault Accusers Tell Their Stories in Chilling New Ads (Exclusive) — Ads launching on Wednesday, Sept. 25, feature two of the presidential nominee's accusers, including former PEOPLE reporter Natasha Stoynoff — George Conway, the ex-husband of former Donald Trump …
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The Hill:
Trio of sex scandals create unwelcome September surprises for GOP — A trio of sex scandals are becoming September surprises for Republicans, creating unnecessary distractions as the party seeks to win control of the White House and Congress this fall. — It's unclear if any of the controversies …
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NBC News:
Secret Service agent placed on leave after ‘misconduct allegation’ with Harris staffer — Harris' office issued a statement saying it takes the “safety of staff seriously” and has “zero tolerance for sexual misconduct.” — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service recently notified Vice …
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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Alex Jones' Infowars Will Be Sold for Parts at Auction to Pay Sandy Hook Families — UNDER THE HAMMER — The sale is still only expected to raise a fraction of what he owes. — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars will be sold for parts to pay towards the more than $1 billion he owes …
ProPublica:
Neo-Nazi Telegram Users Panic Amid Crackdown and Arrest of Alleged Leaders of Online Extremist Group — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — This story is part of a collaboration between FRONTLINE …
The Verge:
Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks AR glasses will replace your phone — Meta's CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he's done with politics, and more. … We have a very special episode of Decoder today. It's become a tradition every fall to have Verge deputy editor …
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Passage of the Continuing Resolution — Tonight, bipartisan majorities in both chambers of Congress passed a continuing resolution to keep the government open through mid-December. I want to thank both houses of Congress—especially Senators Murray …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Hateful New Rants at Rally Are Harshly Debunked by Town Leader — They are taking from us. At bottom, that's a key message that Donald Trump and his partner in slime, J.D. Vance, are running on when they falsely attack immigrants for eating pets, spreading diseases …
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