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Associated Press:
Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene — Donald Trump repeatedly spread falsehoods Monday about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster as he toured hard-hit areas in south Georgia.
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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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NBC News:
Trump falsely says Georgia's governor was unable to talk to Biden about storm damage — Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said President Joe Biden offered any help the state needs. — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp hasn't been able to reach President Joe Biden …
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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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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Accuses Biden Of What He Himself Did: Withholding Aid To Storm Victims — The coup-attempting criminal former president also accused Biden and Harris of having “left Americans to drown” in the South. — LOADING — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, who as president withheld hurricane aid …
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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
Here's how Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Kemp praises Biden's Hurricane Helene response amid Trump criticism
Kemp praises Biden's Hurricane Helene response amid Trump criticism
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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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Rolling Stone:
Trump Says No One Could Have Predicted Hurricane at Peak of Hurricane Season
Trump Says No One Could Have Predicted Hurricane at Peak of Hurricane Season
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Hurricane Helene: Trump speaks in Georgia, bashes Harris for not traveling there
Hurricane Helene: Trump speaks in Georgia, bashes Harris for not traveling there
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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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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Libby Cathey / CBS News:
DNC trolls Trump, Vance with digital projections on NYC's Trump Tower ahead of debate — In a move intended to troll former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, ahead of the first and only vice presidential debate of 2024, the Democratic National Committee on Monday night …
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Trump Sure Sounds Like He's Expecting Vance to Lose Debate
Trump Sure Sounds Like He's Expecting Vance to Lose Debate
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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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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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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.
Popular Information:
Hundreds of citizens wrongly stripped of voting rights in botched effort to legitimize Trump's conspiracy theory — One of the central narratives that former President Donald Trump and his allies are pushing is that Democrats are planning to steal the election by using undocumented immigrants to pad their vote totals.
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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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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.
Politico:
Playbook: What Vance and Walz both want to do tonight — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — THE CARTER CENTURY — President JIMMY CARTER turns 100 today. He'll celebrate in his Plains, Georgia, home where he has spent the past 19 months in hospice care …
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Associated Press:
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages — Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks.
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NPR:
Israel launches a ‘limited’ ground offensive in southern Lebanon — TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military has launched what it called a “limited, localized” ground offensive in southern Lebanon against the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. — “These targets are located …
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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
Why the “vetting” of JD Vance was a spectacular failure — The Trump campaign focused on exactly the wrong things. … More evidence came to light last week confirming that the Trump campaign was blindsided by JD Vance's recent history of expressing misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic …
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Haley Byrd Wilt / NOTUS:
A Year of Fury and Feuding: GOP Lawmakers Are Still Reeling From McCarthy's Removal — “In the history of politics, it was the single stupidest thing I've ever seen,” New York Rep. Mike Lawler said. — Copy — On a normal day, the House of Representatives is chaotic, loud and full of members jockeying for power.
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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Chris Coons / Wall Street Journal:
Welcome Home, Hostages, and Pay Up — The IRS should stop targeting wrongfully detained Americans. — 'Last month, I was in solitary confinement in Siberia. Today, I'm here. I can't believe it! That's how Vladimir Kara-Murza began his remarks this month when he met with U.S. senators who fought for his release.
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
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
Joshua Davidovich / The Times of Israel:
UNRWA confirms Hamas leader in Lebanon was its employee — The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees confirms that Fateh Sherif, named by Hamas as its leader in Lebanon, was employed by UNRWA, but notes that he was being probed over his political activities.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Schumer dumping $1M in surprisingly competitive Maryland Senate race … - The Democratic PAC WinSenate has already spent some ad money on the race, but the new bookings for the first two weeks of October are a significant jump, according to AdImpact data. — “[I]f Hogan's Washington GOP friends …
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