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Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
Kamala Harris makes the case in 60 Minutes interview for why she should be president — Kamala Harris has been a candidate for president for just two-and-a-half months and the post convention “honeymoon” is over. With the election just 29 days away, Harris and her running mate Minnesota …
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Harris undergoes a ‘60 Minutes’ grilling as Trump sits it out — Harris refused to say whether the Biden administration's early border policy was a mistake. Trump backed out of an interview with the program. — Vice President Kamala Harris for weeks was criticized for avoiding tough questions …
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
‘60 Minutes’ Brings the Receipts on Trump's Interview About-Face
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Harris reveals owning a Glock: ‘Of course’ I've fired it
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CNN:
‘That son of a bitch’: New Woodward book reveals candid behind-the-scenes conversations of Biden, Trump, Harris and Putin — Editor's Note: The story below contains explicit language — In his new book, legendary journalist Bob Woodward offers a remarkable look behind the scenes …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Woodward's “War” reveals new Biden backstory … Blinken made it clear that getting out was a decision only Biden could make — wanting the president to feel he was making it on his terms, rather than being forced. — Biden stayed in the race three more weeks, then bowed out as party support collapsed.
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says — “War,” by Bob Woodward, traces how Trump and Biden responded to international crisis and concludes that Trump is worse than Nixon, the president exiled by the Watergate scandal.
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New York Times:
Poll Finds Harris Rising as She Challenges Trump on Change — A national Times/Siena poll found Kamala Harris with a slim lead over Donald J. Trump. Voters were more likely to see her, not Mr. Trump, as a break from the status quo. — Voters are now more likely to credit Vice President Kamala Harris …
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
55/45 is a really close race — After a drought, we finally have enough interesting polling to do a Model Talk on where the race stands: perhaps we'll take another tour through the swing states, for instance. But we've been leaning heavily on the paywalled side lately …
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Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
FBI probe of Kavanaugh constrained by Trump White House, report finds — A Democratic senator's report finds new evidence of the White House controlling an FBI investigation into sexual assault claims against the Supreme Court nominee. — In September 2018, as allegations of sexual misconduct …
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Associated Press:
Hurricane Milton is a Category 5. Florida orders evacuations and scrambles to clear Helene's debris — Florida's storm-battered Gulf Coast raced against a Category 5 hurricane Monday as workers sprinted to pick up heaps of appliances and other street debris left over from Helene two weeks ago …
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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Harris and DeSantis fight over hurricane relief calls
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Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis is refusing to take Harris' call on Hurricane Helene
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
DeSantis ‘not aware’ of Harris calls after reports he dodged them
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ABC News:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis refused call from VP Kamala Harris about hurricane aid: Source
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Ron DeSantis' Administration Is Threatening to Prosecute the Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is threatening TV stations that air ads in support of an abortion rights ballot initiative with criminal penalties, including jail time.
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Megan Messerly / Politico:
Harris to propose new Medicare home care benefit for seniors — The vice president is expected to announce the proposal on “The View.” — Kamala Harris during a Tuesday appearance on “The View” is expected to announce a new policy aimed at helping families care for aging seniors.
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Will Propose Adding Home Care Benefit To Medicare
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
“The Apprentice”: the film Trump doesn't want you to see … - The scenes are based on Ivana Trump's divorce deposition in 1990, in which she detailed a 1989 assault. — She later walked back her claim that she was raped, and said instead that she “felt violated.” — Trump has denied the allegations.
Lauren Egan / Politico:
What Kamala Harris' ‘Call Her Daddy’ media strategy is really about — Hint: it's not about mainstream media's egos. — On Sunday, a 40-minute interview with Vice President Kamala Harris aired on a platform with an audience of 5 million engaged and loyal listeners. No, it wasn't “Meet the Press” or “Face the Nation.”
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Helen Lewis / The Atlantic:
What Going on Call Her Daddy Did for Kamala Harris
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emptywheel:
Disaster Disinformation Is This Year's John Podesta Emails — I've already focused on these three paragraphs, but want to return to them. They're from NYT's article anticipating how the apparently tied race will roll out in the next 30 (now 28) days.
Public Notice:
Trump's climate denial is appalling and getting worse — It's a perfect storm of ignorance and malevolence. … 🥂 — In the wake of Hurricane Helene, Trump's blatant lies about FEMA using emergency funds for migrants have gotten a lot of attention, and deservedly so …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Says He's Visited Gaza, but No Record of Such a Trip Exists — An aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, pointed to the former president's trip to Israel. But Gaza is not in Israel. — Donald J. Trump suggested in a radio interview on Monday that he had visited war-torn Gaza in the past …
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Biden administration requires removal of most lead-contaminated water pipes within 10 years — About a decade after the Flint water crisis, the Biden administration is requiring the removal of most of the nation's lead-contaminated water pipes within 10 years.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: White House loses trust in Israeli government as Middle East spirals … - The Biden administration isn't opposed to Israel responding to the Iranian attack last week but wants it to be measured, U.S. officials said. — “Our trust of the Israelis is very low right now and for a good reason,” one U.S. official said.
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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Disaster relief hurricane loan program precariously low on funds — Only $1.6 billion remains in a federal program to help small businesses impacted by hurricanes and natural disasters — enough funding for only a few more weeks without emergency intervention by Congress.
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Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
As Major Hurricane Approaches Florida, FEMA Faces Severe Staffing Shortage
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NOTUS:
North Carolina Adapts to a Post-Hurricane Election. Not Everyone Is On Board. — A local Republican leader in western North Carolina was resistant to changes to election rules. — Calen Razor and Anna Kramer — Copy — North Carolina's hurricane recovery is still in the works …
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