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11:15 AM ET, September 26, 2024

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New York Times:
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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Axios:
Andrew Cuomo eyes NYC mayor job … The charges have not yet been revealed.  — While Adams is adamant he will not be stepping down, he is already facing a tough Democratic primary next year on top of mounting calls to resign.  — Cuomo's formal entrance into the fray would be a wildcard.
Discussion: HotAir, NBC News, AM New York and abc7NY
New York Times:
Eric Adams Live Updates: Adams Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud  —  Mayor Eric Adams, indicted in a lengthy corruption investigation, insisted he was innocent.  Prosecutors are expected to detail the charges on Thursday.  —  Here's the latest on the mayor's indictment.
New York Times:
Eric Adams Is Indicted After Federal Corruption Investigation
Politico:
Playbook: The race to replace McConnell heats up
New York Post:
Eric Adams becomes first sitting NYC mayor indicted in historic federal probe — claims feds persecuting him over migrant crisis
Associated Press:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted, sources say
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Undecided Voters Are Not Who You Think They Are  —  For the great majority of Americans who have firmly settled on Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, the idea that anyone could still be undecided in that choice is almost incomprehensible.  But the incredulity may be rooted in confusion about who most undecided voters really are.
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Michael Podhorzer / Weekend Reading:
Kamala Harris Will Win the Popular Vote  —  Here's how we know.  —  Absent an extraordinary upending event, Kamala Harris will win the national popular vote on November 5th.  I'm confident of that not because she is ahead in the polling averages, or because of a “forecast,” conventionally conceived.
Discussion: Fox News and UnHerd
emptywheel:
Reid Epstein's Economic Polling Anxiety  —  NYT's Reid Epstein, who fairly routinely says things that make it clear he misunderstands what he's watching, recently substantiated a whine that Kamala Harris doesn't do enough interviews by claiming that Trump faces challenging questions at those things he labels press conferences.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump seeks to bolster advantage among male voters
Discussion: Marist Poll and New York Post
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Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Trump May Have Just Handed Jack Smith a Massive Win  —  Did Donald Trump just make Jack Smith's job that much easier by admitting that he knows he lost the 2020 election?  —  During a speech Wednesday in Mint Hill, North Carolina, Trump appeared to give up the game when speaking about his performance four years ago.
Russell Payne / Salon:
“The evidence will be powerful”: Legal experts say Jack Smith about to drop a bomb in Trump case
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Pro-Harris sticky notes pop up in women's restrooms and gyms and on tampon boxes  —  Word about the grassroots campaign has spread on social media, primarily on Facebook, with women putting “Woman to woman” notes in places where other women will see them.  —  In the weeks before Election Day …
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Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:
'There's empirical evidence:' Harris shuts down interviewer who tries to defend Trump  —  Vice President Kamala Harris pushed back at her MSNBC interviewer Wednesday evening over a controversial claim about former President Donald Trump.  —  “The 11th Hour host” Stephanie Ruhle grilled Harris …
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Kamala Harris: American Women Don't Need Trump's ‘Protection’
Discussion: NBC News
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Vance keeps gaffing by actually detailing Trump's policies  —  “Concepts of a plan” is an easier sell than what they really want to do. … Donald Trump is a scam artist.  He promises voters everything and delivers almost nothing.  That's worked for him in the past, but Trump's current running mate …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Rudy Giuliani disbarred in D.C. over 2020 election scheme  —  Just when it seemed things couldn't get much worse for Rudy Giuliani, the former Republican mayor was officially disbarred in Washington, D.C.  —  Last summer, a Washington, D.C.-based bar discipline committee concluded …
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
Rudy Giuliani disbarred in DC over 2020 election subversion efforts
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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Simon J. Levien / New York Times:
Rep. Clay Higgins Posts, Then Deletes, Racist Comments About Haitians
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Trump lawyers to ask appeals court to toss $489 million civil fraud ruling  —  Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and his company will argue to an appeals panel Thursday that it should throw out a judge's February ruling that Trump must fork over hundreds of millions of dollars …
Discussion: Reuters
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Harris makes scandal-plagued Republican the star of her campaign to win North Carolina  —  There's an unlikely star in Kamala Harris ' push to win North Carolina: Mark Robinson.  The state's embattled Republican candidate for governor, Robinson is featured in conversations this week …
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Carter Sherman / The Guardian:
‘Be a man and vote for a woman’: Kamala Harris's unlikely edge in America's masculinity election  —  Republicans are making anxiety around masculinity a key voting issue - but the Democratic nominee is hoping to turn it to her advantage  —  A man in a baseball cap strides through a field of corn.
ProPublica:
Despite Persistent Warnings, Texas Rushed to Remove Millions From Medicaid.  That Move Cost Eligible Residents Care.  —  The decision to buck federal government guidelines was one of many that led to serious repercussions for Texas residents who rely on Medicaid.
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ProPublica:
Caught in Texas' Medicaid and Food Stamp Application Backlog? Know Someone Who Is? Help Us Report.
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
Matt Egan / CNN:
Trump's promises would spike inflation and wipe out jobs, study finds  —  Former President Donald Trump has promised to attack the United States affordability crisis by imposing immense tariffs, carrying out unprecedented deportations and even influencing interest rate decisions.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Robert Reich:
How Musk threatens America's national security, and what must be done  —  His incitement to assassinate America's commander-in-chief is only the most recent illustration  —  Shortly after the apparent second assassination attempt against Trump, Elon Musk responded in a now deleted post …
Discussion: The Guardian and PolitiFact
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Harris holds 8-point lead over Trump in Virginia: Poll  —  Vice President Harris holds a comfortable lead in the presidential race in Virginia, according to a new poll from Emerson College/The Hill/WAVY-TV 10/WVBT FOX43.  —  Fifty-two percent of likely Virginia voters said if the election …
Discussion: Emerson Polling and ComingSoon.net
 
 
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Dean Obeidallah / The Dean's Report:
Corporate media is back to “All Trump, All The Time” just like in 2016
Discussion: HuffPost and Washington Examiner
Reuters:
Lebanese prime minister believes ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah possible
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Meet Barbara Jones, the ex-judge now policing Trump's business moves
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Threats to Trump May Prompt Changes in Travel Plans and Event Types
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Huge ad spending pours into defining Harris in the ‘blue wall’ battlegrounds
Rhian Lubin / The Independent:
'I've got 25 grandkids': Mitt Romney fears Trump will target him and his family if re-elected
Discussion: HuffPost, Townhall and The Hill
The Hill:
Trio of sex scandals create unwelcome September surprises for GOP
Shereen Siewert / Wausau Pilot & Review:
Wausau mayor moves ballot box in controversial act
 

 
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

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Angrej Singh / Axios:
Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas
 
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