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Press Enterprise:
Exclusive: Suspect in Coachella Valley Trump assassination attempt denies accusation, supports ex-president — Suspect a registered Republican from Las Vegas and member of a right-leaning anti-government group, sheriff says — A third assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump …
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Riverside County Sheriff, CA:
Weapons Violation Arrest — Reporting Supervisor: Sergeant Ben Medina — File # C242860022 — Details: — at 4:59 p.m., deputies assigned to former President Donald Trump's rally in the Coachella Valley contacted the driver of a black SUV at a checkpoint at the intersection of Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive.
New York Post:
Armed man arrested outside Trump's Coachella rally — and sheriff says it was possible third assassination attempt — Local cops arrested an armed man outside Donald Trump's Coachella Valley rally on Saturday, and the local sheriff said it may have been a third assassination attempt against the former president.
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Man arrested near Donald Trump's California rally with loaded guns, police say — The suspect, identified as Las Vegas resident Vem Miller was, apprehended by authorities about half-mile from entrance to Coachella rally — A man armed with guns and false press and VIP passes was apprehended …
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Daily Mail, Scripps News and NPR
Keely Bastow / Washington Examiner:
Man with illegal guns arrested outside Trump's Coachella rally venue
Man with illegal guns arrested outside Trump's Coachella rally venue
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Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Mediaite and The Independent
New York Times:
Harris Suggests Trump Is ‘Weak and Unstable’ in Pointed Challenge — Kamala Harris asked why Donald J. Trump had not released his medical records, appeared on “60 Minutes” or agreed to a second debate. — Vice President Kamala Harris challenged former President Donald J. Trump on Sunday …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
‘Dead heat’: Trump pulls even with Harris in NBC News poll
‘Dead heat’: Trump pulls even with Harris in NBC News poll
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The Guardian, Daily Mail, Business Insider, Boston Herald, IJR, The Hill, New York Post, Breitbart, Axios, ABC News, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, Forbes, National Review and Clayton Cramer
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump pledges raises and 10,000 more agents in border plan
Trump pledges raises and 10,000 more agents in border plan
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CNN, Washington Post, Fox News, Daily Mail, WSVN-TV, Breitbart, New York Post, Reuters, Washington Examiner and Washington Times
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
About those New York Times headlines — Twitter, which is what I prefer to call Elon Musk's disaster, is still interesting and useful at times, despite its decay. — And the other day, there was a dustup there over two New York Times headlines. One was about Kamala Harris, the other about Donald Trump.
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘Vile stuff’: NYT shamed by its own former public editor for whitewashing Trump racism — Former New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan this week shamed her one-time employer for its coverage of the 2024 presidential election. — Writing on her Substack page …
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Cheney doubts Johnson will carry out ‘constitutional obligations’ to certify election — Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in a Sunday interview that she doubts House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will carry out “his constitutional obligations” to certify the 2024 election.
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Cheney does “not have faith” Mike Johnson will certify election
Cheney does “not have faith” Mike Johnson will certify election
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NBC News, Vanity Fair, CBS News, Raw Story, The Moderate Voice and Mediaite
MauríCio Alencar / The Daily Beast:
Mike Johnson Insists Elderly Trump's Medical Records Are ‘Irrelevant’ to Voters
Mike Johnson Insists Elderly Trump's Medical Records Are ‘Irrelevant’ to Voters
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Newsbusters, The Independent, The Hill, Mediaite, NBC News and Bloomberg
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Liz Cheney issues dire warning about ‘fundamentally cruel’ Trump, agrees he's a ‘fascist’
Liz Cheney issues dire warning about ‘fundamentally cruel’ Trump, agrees he's a ‘fascist’
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Politico, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Wants the Military to Target Americans Who Oppose Him — The former president said he thinks U.S. troops should be deployed “if necessary” against “radical left lunatics” on election day — Donald Trump proposed deploying military forces against U.S. citizens who oppose him on election day.
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Harris' Camp Sounds the Alarm After Trump Says Military Should ‘Handle’ Democrats
Harris' Camp Sounds the Alarm After Trump Says Military Should ‘Handle’ Democrats
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Raw Story, Daily Mail, Letters from an American, The Hill, HuffPost and Breitbart
MauríCio Alencar / The Daily Beast:
Trump Leaves Door Open to National Abortion Ban
Trump Leaves Door Open to National Abortion Ban
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Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Trump tested the limits on using the military at home. If elected again, he plans to go further
Trump tested the limits on using the military at home. If elected again, he plans to go further
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Salon
Brianna Sacks / Washington Post:
Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia,’ email shows — Safety fears are growing as misinformation collides with a large-scale federal recovery effort. — LAKE LURE, N.C. — Federal emergency response personnel on Saturday had employees operating …
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Axios, WBTV-TV and National Zero
Wes Davis / The Verge:
X blocked hacked JD Vance dossier links after the Trump campaign flagged it … The Presidential campaign of Donald Trump asked X to stop links to a story containing VP nominee JD Vance's hacked dossier from circulating before X chose to block them, reports The New York Times.
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Ken Klippenstein and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
Press Breaks Record For Worst Week of Coverage Ever — 5 more corporate media fails — Welcome to our 10th edition of Corporate Media Fails. Having done this for nine weeks now, I thought the Press couldn't surprise me anymore. I was wrong. — After a long debate …
Zachary Folk / The Daily Beast:
Josh Hawley's Local Newspaper Declares Him the ‘Worst Sitting Senator’ — NO CONFIDENCE — The St. Louis Post-Dispatch objected to Hawley's actions leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. — A local newspaper in Missouri wrote a scathing rebuke of the state's Sen. Josh Hawley …
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U.S. Department of Defense:
Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder on the Deployment of a THAAD Battery to Israel — At the direction of the President, Secretary Austin authorized the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery and associated crew of U.S. military personnel …
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Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
US to deploy about 100 troops to operate advanced anti-missile system in Israel amid heightened tensions
US to deploy about 100 troops to operate advanced anti-missile system in Israel amid heightened tensions
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Times of Israel, The Hill, The Independent, Al Jazeera, UPI, RedState, Bloomberg, Fox News, Middle East Monitor, NPR and Washington Examiner
Brian Faler / Politico:
Trump disarmed a political landmine in refusing to release his tax returns — Despite the storm over the former president's refusal to disclose them in 2016 and 2020, the issue has gone quiet this year. — Former President Donald Trump was once harshly criticized for failing to release his tax returns …
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Project 2025 offers a chilling preview of Trump's autocratic plans for a second term — The plan would upend the rule of law, destabilize democracy, exacerbate climate change, increase poverty, jeopardize health care, increase inequality, weaken education, and benefit the very rich.
David McAfee / Raw Story:
Meghan McCain's threat to Dems backfires as her dad's biographer issues warning of his own — Meghan McCain recently threatened Democrats by saying she might release what her father, John McCain, really thought about Vice President Kamala Harris. But that threat backfired on Sunday.
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Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, BizPac Review, The Daily Beast and The Hill
David McAfee / Raw Story:
‘Absolute chaos’ as ‘MAGA faithful were stranded’ in desert after California event: report — Donald Trump left his own followers, including elderly supporters, stranded in the desert after a rally in Southern California, according to reports. — Trump spoke in Coachella on Saturday …