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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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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.
Tinsae Aregay / Torque News:
GEICO is Terminating Insurance Coverage of Tesla Cybertrucks, Says “This Type of Vehicle Doesn't Meet Our Underwriting Guidelines”  —  GEICO, the second-largest vehicle insurance underwriter in the US, has decided it will no longer cover Tesla Cybertrucks.  The company is terminating current …
Discussion: The Verge and Fortune
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Guardian
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
‘Call Her Daddy’ Faces Backlash Over ‘Propaganda’ Harris Interview  —  HOODIE'S NICE THOUGH!  —  Some fans of the hugely popular podcast are angry that the vice president did not address the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene.  —  Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcast …
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Megan Messerly / Politico:
Harris punches back at Huckabee Sanders: ‘This is not the 1950s anymore’
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Harris hits Trump on abortion record in “Call Her Daddy” interview
Deadline:
‘SmartLess’ Podcast Snags Tim Walz Interview
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: House Dems blitz dozens of Republicans over Project 2025
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: The Colorado Sun
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
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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 …
Discussion: USA Today, NBC News, Breitbart and Axios
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
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 …
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 —
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
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.
Hannah Yoest / The Bulwark:
Propaganda, AI Fakes, and MAGA's Totalitarian Kitsch  —  Why are so many top Republicans sharing fake images following Hurricane Helene?  —  1. Fake Art  —  A young child wearing a life preserver holds a puppy as rain streaks down her face and matts her hair.
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.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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 …
Discussion: Breitbart
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why asking about the 2020 election isn't a ‘gotcha’ question  —  The question is less about 2020 than about the willingness of Trump supporters to reject his efforts to subvert the 2024 results.  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is not interested in talking about the 2020 election.
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.
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Musk-founded PAC says it will give $47 for every swing-state voter referral who signs petition  —  The America PAC, founded by tech billionaire Elon Musk, is asking the public to sign a petition in favor of the First and Second Amendments and offering supporters $47 for each subsequent registered voter …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The elusive ‘policy-driven’ undecided voter  —  It's useful to the media to suggest that undecided voters are seeking out more information about Harris and Trump.  But, often, the reverse is true.  —  There is a canonical presentation of voters in a democracy.
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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Mary Ann Akers / The Daily Beast:
Trump Let Melania Watch Top-Secret Special Forces Operation
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Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian:
Donald Trump's Hitlerian logic is no mistake
The White House:
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Makiya Seminera / Associated Press:
Voters in North Carolina and Georgia have bigger problems than politics. Helene changed everything
New York Post:
FEMA abandons devastated NC town residents because they can't drive around ‘road closed’ sign: 'Nobody's been bringing in supplies except civilians'
Business Insider:
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says we should go all in on building AI data centers because ‘we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway’
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
GOP looks to avoid disaster in Nebraska Senate race
 

 
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Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
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