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AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Trump: Nobody Could Have Predicted a Hurricane Would Hit Mid-Hurricane Season — OUT OF THE BLUE — The former president opined that nobody could have predicted Hurricane Helene making landfall “so late” in the hurricane season, which is set to last another two months.
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Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
Supplies arrive by plane and mule to North Carolina as Helene death toll tops 100 — Widespread devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene came into light Monday across the South, revealing a wasteland of splintered houses, crushed cargo containers and mud-covered highways in one of the worst storms in U.S. history.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Hurricane Helene: Trump speaks in Georgia, bashes Harris for not traveling there … Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump traveled to hurricane-blasted Georgia to deliver remarks and help hand out supplies, one day after he leveraged the devastating storm as a political attack against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Here's how Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
NBC News:
Trump falsely says Georgia's governor was unable to talk to Biden about storm damage
Trump falsely says Georgia's governor was unable to talk to Biden about storm damage
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CNN:
1 storm, more than 100 dead and a 500-mile path of destruction. Now comes the hard work of recovering from Helene
1 storm, more than 100 dead and a 500-mile path of destruction. Now comes the hard work of recovering from Helene
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The Hill:
Trump seeks to put Harris on back foot with Hurricane Helene response
Trump seeks to put Harris on back foot with Hurricane Helene response
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Accuses Biden Of What He Himself Did: Withholding Aid To Storm Victims
Trump Accuses Biden Of What He Himself Did: Withholding Aid To Storm Victims
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The Hill and American Greatness
Rebecca Downs / Townhall:
‘FAKE and STAGED’: Trump Responds to Kamala Harris' Bogus Post on Hurricane Helene
‘FAKE and STAGED’: Trump Responds to Kamala Harris' Bogus Post on Hurricane Helene
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Caroline Rose Giuliani / Vanity Fair:
Rudy Giuliani's Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don't Let Him Take Our Country Too — “Nothing I have experienced prepared me for the very public and relentless implosion of my father's life,” writes Caroline Giuliani, announcing her support for Kamala Harris.
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New York Times:
The Only Patriotic Choice for President — It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest.
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Rudy Giuliani's daughter says she's voting for Harris, ‘grieving the loss of my dad’ to Trump
Rudy Giuliani's daughter says she's voting for Harris, ‘grieving the loss of my dad’ to Trump
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Joe.My.God.
Dan Rather / Steady:
Facts Need To Be Checked — So what's going on with CBS News? — Dan Rather and Team Steady — With our democracy being tested in unimagined ways, we are just over a month away from one of the most important presidential elections in U.S. history. The only chance for voters …
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Maya Prabhu / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge again strikes down Georgia abortion law, allowing abortions to resume … About the Author — Maya T. Prabhu is a government reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Born in Queens, New York, and raised in northern Virginia, Maya attended Spelman College and then the University of Maryland for a master's degree.
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Benedict Smith / Telegraph:
Giant naked Trump effigy is ‘deplorable’, say Republicans — Sculpture of former US president has been erected near Las Vegas purely for ‘shock value’, say local politicians — Republicans have condemned as “deplorable” a 43-foot effigy of a naked Donald Trump that has been erected near Las Vegas.
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Stephanie Kaloi / The Wrap:
43-Foot-Tall Naked Trump Marionette Debuts in Las Vegas | Photos — The ‘Crooked and Obscene’ project — made of foam over rebar and weighing nearly 6,000 pounds — will be toured across the U.S. — Las Vegas is home to a lot that might raise a pair of eyebrows, but a new art installation …
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Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
The three phases of normalizing Trump's attack on Harris in Wisconsin — The use of neutral language. If you merely read about Donald Trump's deeply offensive rally this weekend in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, you probably thought it was about immigration. And about Trump up to his usual tricks of disparaging his rivals.
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Oops, They Did It Again: The Mainstream Media Buries Trump's Outrage
Oops, They Did It Again: The Mainstream Media Buries Trump's Outrage
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Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
Legacy Media Is Failing Us Hard
Legacy Media Is Failing Us Hard
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Beast
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
An Ohio Businessman Faces Death Threats for Praising His Haitian Workers — The lifelong Republican employs fewer Haitians than others in Springfield, but his life has been upended since Donald J. Trump spread falsehoods about immigrants in his hometown. — For Jamie McGregor …
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
‘Just Not Right’: A GOP Governor Confronts Trump's Lies
‘Just Not Right’: A GOP Governor Confronts Trump's Lies
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Courtney Cohn / Democracy Docket:
Democrats Sue Georgia Election Board Over Ballot Hand Counting Rule — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Georgia Democratic Party sued the State Election Board on Monday after three of its MAGA members approved a rule requiring poll workers to hand count all ballots, even after being tabulated by machines.
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Democrats Sue Over Georgia Requirement That Ballots Be Counted by Hand
Democrats Sue Over Georgia Requirement That Ballots Be Counted by Hand
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Blake Jones / Politico:
California bans legacy admissions at all colleges — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a prohibition on the practice. — SACRAMENTO, California — It will soon be illegal for public and private universities in California to consider an applicant's relationship to alumni or donors when deciding whether to admit them.
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Courtney Cohn / Democracy Docket:
Arkansas Judge Mandates Early Voting in Majority Black City — Early voting will be held at Seventh Street Church of Christ in West Memphis, Arkansas after a judge granted part of a request from two voters. The voters in the majority-Black city initially requested at least two early voting locations.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Polls show big increase in Republicans planning to vote for abortion rights — In some states, that GOP number could even approach a majority. — The politics of abortion rights have shifted massively toward Democrats since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi — A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, the government alleges.
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Memoir contradicts Republican Senate candidate's ‘below the poverty line’ tale — Montana's Tim Sheehy claims he and wife lived in poverty but own book reveals he had $400,000 to build company — At a recent campaign event in Whitehall, Montana, the Republican US Senate candidate Tim Sheehy told voters …
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
The Coming Trump Revenge Tour — Trump has campaigned on a wave of retaliatory criminal prosecutions. It's not the first time he's promised to lock up his rivals — but a second term would be different. — In the most volatile presidential campaign of the last 50 years …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Wants to Lock Up Kamala Harris Now
Trump Wants to Lock Up Kamala Harris Now
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Politico:
Haley's endorsement of Trump doesn't mean her supporters will follow her — She drew voters from the former president during the primary even after she dropped out. — Nikki Haley has made clear she's on Team Trump. Her supporters don't all feel the same.
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Los Angeles Times
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
No, A Former Republican Congressman Now Backing Harris Did Not Author Project 2025 — A right-wing conspiracy theory that the transition plan written by Trump alumni was actually a super secret sabotage effort has been disputed by those at the center of it. — LOADING
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Taking a Dark Turn — If you think that Donald Trump's speeches this campaign cycle are just more of the same, consider the analysis of the person who knows more about them than anyone else. — “They thought they'd be out there jumping up and down, ‘Make America great again,’” …
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Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone:
Trump Suggests Giving Cops ‘One Really Violent Day’ to Stop Crime
Trump Suggests Giving Cops ‘One Really Violent Day’ to Stop Crime
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Andre Byik / USA Today:
Video of Harris slurring words in Helene warning is edited | Fact check — The claim: Video shows Kamala Harris slurred words in Helene remarks — A Sept. 27 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows Vice President Kamala Harris delivering a warning about Hurricane Helene and speaking in an unusually slow manner.