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New York Times:
Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally — Bret Stephens: Please don't tell me you're going to ask how I'm going to vote. — Gail Collins: Well, Bret, why would you imagine such a thing? Just because I keep getting stopped by people on the street, demanding to know whether you're going to support Kamala Harris.
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CBS News:
“Election protection” activist says he plans to flag voters with “Hispanic-sounding” names as “suspicious” — In a video obtained by CBS News, the leader of an “election protection” activist group of 1,800 volunteers in North Carolina is seen instructing attendees at a virtual meeting to flag voters with …
Susan Page / USA Today:
Harris leads Trump 2-1 among the earliest voters, many driven by abortion access: new poll — Democrat Kamala Harris has a sweeping lead over Republican Donald Trump − among voters who have already cast their ballots, that is. — A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“I started to learn what patriarchy was”: How Donald Trump pushed Republican women out of the GOP — Former Republican women explain why they finally broke with Trump: “I was ashamed” — PHILADELPHIA — Melanie Barton-Gauss, a retired teacher from Florida, traveled to the City of Brotherly Love …
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Raw Story
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Republicans set stage for PA vote counting shenanigans — If you can't beat 'em, destroy the system. … 🍟 — There's no question that for the 2024 election, Pennsylvania is currently ground zero, so it's unsurprising that both campaigns are campaigning hard in the state.
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Cardinal News, Spotlight PA and Bloomberg
Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal:
The Rare Bipartisan Issue in This Year's Election: Recreational Weed
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls
Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls
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Raw Story
Natalie Allison / Politico:
They lost their homes and possessions. They're showing up to vote in NC.
They lost their homes and possessions. They're showing up to vote in NC.
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Associated Press
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
What Would the Trump Campaign Plans Mean for Social Security? — The Social Security trust funds will be insolvent by Fiscal Year (FY) 2034, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), at which point the law calls for a 23 percent cut in benefits.
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Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post:
Trump proposals could drain Social Security in 6 years, budget group says — The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget predicts many of Trump's policies could hasten the looming depletion of the Social Security Trust Fund. — A new report projects that the Social Security Trust Fund might run …
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
McDonald's Donald Trump Worked at Failed Last Health Inspection — briefly worked on Sunday failed its last health inspection, documents show. — and served takeout to people in the drive-thru lane in Feasterville-Trevose in Bucks County, a key swing voter area in battleground Pennsylvania.
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Piers Morgan / New York Post:
Trump's genius McDonald's stunt will fry Kamala at the ballot box
Trump's genius McDonald's stunt will fry Kamala at the ballot box
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Washington Post:
Trump serves McDonald's fries to supporters in stage-managed campaign stop
Trump serves McDonald's fries to supporters in stage-managed campaign stop
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Washington Post:
Viral attack on Walz features fake former student making false claim — Hawaii man who attended a school where Walz taught — but says they never met — was dismayed to see person in video using his name to make a false allegation against the vice presidential candidate — Using a stolen identity to attack Tim Walz
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Tom D'Angelo / Palm Beach Post:
Arnold Palmer's daughter on what he would think of Donald Trump today: 'I think he'd cringe' — Donald Trump's opening at his rally Saturday in Latrobe, Pa., birthplace of the late Arnold Palmer, was a boast about how close he was to the legendary golfer. — But that relationship …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Fear and loathing in Latrobe: Freedom, tyranny, and Arnold Palmer's private parts — LATROBE, Pa. — When fascism finally went mainstream in America, it came hawking a $60 made-in-China Bible and shadowed by a 50-foot American flag braced by construction cranes — and it opened with a story …
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Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Vance: Trump is ‘unfiltered’ — JD Vance said Donald Trump's recent warnings about the “enemy from within” is just part of Trump being an “unfiltered” candidate, when pressed on Fox News about why his comments were necessary. “Donald Trump is unfiltered. This is one of the reasons …
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Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
JD Vance Defends Trump's Alarming Remarks Yet Again: ‘He Speaks From The Heart’
JD Vance Defends Trump's Alarming Remarks Yet Again: ‘He Speaks From The Heart’
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Rolling Stone and Washington Examiner
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Biographers Call Out All The Signs Of His Possible Cognitive Decline
Donald Trump Biographers Call Out All The Signs Of His Possible Cognitive Decline
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Twitchy
Deidre McPhillips / CNN:
Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows — In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows.
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Los Angeles Times
Steven Shepard / Politico:
He Runs Fox News' Decision Desk. Here's How He Sees Election Night Coming. — In a new interview, Arnon Mishkin opens up about controversial election calls and makes some predictions for what's to come. — Arnon Mishkin poses for a photo at the Fox News headquarters on Oct. 16 in New York.
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Michael Kransz / MLive.com:
Gerald Ford's daughter endorses Kamala Harris for president — GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The daughter of Michigan's only president, Gerald R. Ford, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.The youngest child of the late Republican president, Susan Ford Bales, issued the endorsement Monday, Oct. 21 …
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Sarah Rainsford / BBC:
Moldova says ‘Yes’ to pro-EU constitutional changes by tiny margin — BBC Eastern Europe correspondent, Chisinau — People in Moldova have backed the Eastern European country's proposed changes to its constitution and commitment to joining the EU by the thinnest of margins in a referendum.
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Washington Post:
Harris and Trump locked in dead heat in seven-state poll, with some voters still deciding — Former president Donald Trump shows strength in Arizona while Vice President Kamala Harris runs strongest in Georgia, according to a Post-Schar School survey.
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USA Today:
Nebraska independent Dan Osborn could be poised to shake up U.S. Senate — Former union leader Dan Osborn's independent run for U.S. Senate in deeply Republican Nebraska has shown unexpected strength and if he pulls off an upset victory, it could make the Navy veteran a Washington wild card next year.
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The Hill, Semafor and Washington Examiner
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Faces Defamation Suit From Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ — Trump is sued over comments he made in presidential debate — Five teenagers wrongfully convicted in 1989 jogger rape case — Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit over comments he made during …
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Andrew Howard / Politico:
Mark Cuban wants Elon Musk and Kamala Harris to be friends — Billionaire Mark Cuban told CNBC on Monday that he offered to arrange a live X interview between Kamala Harris and fellow billionaire Elon Musk, but was told no by Harris' campaign. “Not Kamala specifically but her team …
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NBC News:
Israel strikes banks across Lebanon to hit Hezbollah's finances; IDF making life ‘impossible’ in northern Gaza, U.N. says — Secretary of State Antony Blinken was heading to the Middle East on Monday to push for a diplomatic solution to the intensifying regional conflict after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The thin veneer over Trump's fascistic rhetoric — The former president knows what he's not supposed to say, but he often can't help saying it anyway. — Former president Donald Trump participated in an interview that aired on Fox News on Sunday. If so inclined, as many Fox News viewers presumably …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump backs Congress returning from recess to pass hurricane relief — Former President Trump on Monday said he would be in favor of Congress returning early from recess to pass additional aid following Hurricane Helene. — “I would be in favor of it, yeah.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
TD Bank executives oversee $670 million drug money laundering scheme, avoid jail — On March 7, 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaking at the American Bar Association's 39th Annual White Collar Institute, gave an impassioned soliloquy on the importance of criminally prosecuting …