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Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Supreme Court lets stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate Texas ban — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country's strictest abortion bans. Without detailing their reasoning …
New York Times:
Trump's Plans Could Increase U.S. Debt While Raising Costs for Most Americans — A new analysis estimates that the former president's proposals could grow deficits by as much as $15 trillion over a decade. — Former President Donald J. Trump's economic proposals could inflame …
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Wall Street Journal and Associated Press
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
The Fiscal Impact of the Harris and Trump Campaign Plans — The next President will face significant fiscal challenges upon taking office, including record debt levels, large structural deficits, surging interest payments, and the looming insolvency of critical trust fund programs.
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HuffPost, The Bulwark, The Daily Beast, NPR and Axios
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
Trump allies threaten Deloitte contracts after employee shares Vance chats — Republicans target $3 billion in federal contracts after a consultant discloses messages unconnected to his work. — Republicans backing Donald Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm …
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Raw Story and The Guardian
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Potential Trump loss threatens destruction of modern GOP — An identity crisis. A brutal power struggle. Years in the wilderness. — If Donald Trump is defeated in next month's election, the Republican Party will face a reckoning unprecedented in modern political history.
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Harris blasts Arkansas governor's comments about her lack of biological children
Harris blasts Arkansas governor's comments about her lack of biological children
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Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, ArkansasTimes, New York Post, Reuters, abc7NY and PoliticusUSA
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Porn Industry Jumps Into the Presidential Campaign, Targeting Project 2025 — In seven swing states, the industry's websites will feature ads decrying the conservative policy blueprint's proposed ban on pornography. — Just when you thought everyone had already jumped into the 2024 campaign, here come the porn stars.
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: House Dems blitz dozens of Republicans over Project 2025
Scoop: House Dems blitz dozens of Republicans over Project 2025
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Mock Paper Scissors
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Tina Peters is the symptom of a deeper rot — They're chaos agents who want to destroy systems, not improve them. … 🎈 — Tina Peters is going to the slammer. The former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, is the latest right-wing Trump supporter to suffer criminal consequences for acting on the Big Lie.
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The Colorado Sun
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
This year's Electoral College map may show another ‘blue shift.’ Here's why — The counting of ballots can take longer in some places than in others. — In presidential elections, that difference can cause a candidate's early advantage in a state to change as more localities report …
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Election Law Blog, Nebraska Examiner and USA Today
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump held a contest to join him on stage at his rally in Butler. Was it a scam? — In a series of fundraising appeals, Trump offered his supporters a chance to appear with him on stage during an October 5 rally when he returned to the site of his attempted assassination, Butler, Pennsylvania.
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Illegal crossings at U.S. southern border reach lowest point of Biden presidency — The number of migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally at the southern border reached the lowest point of President Biden's administration in September, three months into his crackdown on asylum claims …
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump's Wall Street Tower Appears To Be Underwater — At one of Trump's biggest buildings, profits are down, expenses are up and the mortgage is about to come due. It's all enough to push 40 Wall Street into the red. — One of Donald Trump's prized properties, the landmark building 40 Wall Street …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Putin's ‘Merchant of Death’ Is Back in the Arms Business. This Time Selling to the Houthis. — Russian gunrunner Viktor Bout was traded in 2022 for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner
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Breitbart, The Sun, Reason, BroBible, Daily Caller News Foundation, The Daily Beast, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, RedState, New York Times, Townhall, Al Jazeera and Reuters
ABC News:
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre promoted to senior adviser: Exclusive — : She will maintain her press duties through the end of the administration. — White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appears during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Rebuffs Pennsylvania GOP Voter Registration Appeal — The US Supreme Court turned away a challenge to President Joe Biden's three-year-old voter-registration initiative, steering clear of a fractious political fight in the run-up to the November election.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner and Associated Press
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Blue MAGA: How RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard Became Rockstars in Trump World — FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF RED HATS in the crowd to the title of the “Reclaim America Tour,” the Trump campaign stop on a recent rainy Saturday looked like a fairly standard Republican event.
Catherine Kim / Politico:
Kamala Harris Is Losing Support With This Key Demographic. It Could Cost Her Georgia. — Korean Americans' support for Democrats has faltered since 2020 though, in large part because of the economy. Most of Harris' campaign messaging, however, has been about Trump's racism. — DULUTH, Georgia —
MSNBC:
The lies were remarkable: Joe slams Trump for blaming Dems over assassination attempt — Former President Donald Trump set the stage for a bruising final month of the presidential campaign during a return visit to the Pennsylvania venue where a gunman attempted to assassinate him this summer.
Discussion:
HuffPost and New Republic
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
MAGA's Hurricane Helene Lies Are A Trial Run For The Election — The through-line is sowing chaos and hurting people for personal gain. — ∙ Paid — When Donald Trump started telling conspicuous lies about the federal response to Hurricane Helene, all of MAGA understood the assignment.
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New Jersey Online, Digby's Hullabaloo and Breitbart
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Anti-Israel Protester Self-Immolate Outside White House — With the arrival of the one year anniversary of the Hamas terror attacks on October 7, many people have been striving to find their own way to mark the somber event. Israel has struck back hard and to great effect …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Muslim faith leaders endorse Harris — The vice president is in need of allies in a community that remains frustrated with the administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war. — A group of imams endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in an open letter shared first with NBC News on Sunday …
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KNSD-TV, NBC Bay Area, Newsbusters, Reuters, Fox News and New York Times
New York Times:
The ‘Crypto Punks’ Behind Trump's Murky New Business Venture — The serial entrepreneurs behind Donald J. Trump's new cryptocurrency project have left a trail of lawsuits, unpaid debt and tax liens. — Chase Herro is an online salesman who proudly calls himself a “dirtbag of the internet,” able to sell anything to anyone.
Matthew Duss / New Republic:
Joe Biden Chose This Catastrophic Path Every Step of the Way — There's a 23-year-old quote from Benjamin Netanyahu in The New York Times that I've been thinking a lot about lately. Reached on the evening of September 11, 2001, the then-former prime minister was asked what the terrorist attacks …
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Los Angeles Times