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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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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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Philip Lewis / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris' New Economic Agenda Reveals What She Would Do To Help Black Men — This is the vice president's latest attempt to engage a voting bloc that Donald Trump and his campaign have also attempted to court this election season. — LOADING — Vice President Kamala Harris …
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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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Washington Post:
Trump goes to war against real-time fact checks — The moves are the latest example of Trump's long-held resistance to being called to account for his falsehoods — Donald Trump and his campaign have waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking in recent months, pushing TV networks …
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Raw Story and National Zero
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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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 and Washington Examiner
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
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 …
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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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Reuters:
US to send anti-missile system and troops to Israel, Pentagon says — The United States said on Sunday it will send U.S. troops to Israel along with an advanced U.S. anti-missile system, in a highly unusual deployment meant to bolster the country's air defenses following missile attacks by Iran.
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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
Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder on the Deployment of a THAAD Battery to Israel
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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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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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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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Internal polling memo has warning signs for Senate Republicans — Some races are tightening but other key pickup opportunities are moving in the wrong direction, according to a new round of polling from the Senate Leadership Fund. — The top GOP super PAC charged with flipping the Senate …
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The Daily Beast and Raw Story
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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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
Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
Attacks on Gay Rights Push Russia's LGBTQ Community Into the Shadows — Vladimir Putin has weaponized antigay views to tighten his grip on power as he pursues his war in Ukraine — A decade ago, Russian publisher Leo Veles says, he could hang out in gay bars and clubs in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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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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 and The Gateway Pundit
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 …