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Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, L.A. Times show what life under a dictator is really like — Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.
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Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’ — DIRTY DEAL — Robert Kagan tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trump's meeting with Blue Origin executives the day its founder Jeff Bezos killed his paper's Kamala Harris endorsement is proof of a backroom deal. — EXCLUSIVE
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Inside The Washington Post's Decision to Stop Presidential Endorsements — Post owner Jeff Bezos ended the decades-long practice, weeks after a discussion at a meeting in Miami. The move has drawn criticism in and outside the newsroom. — A tropical storm was heading toward Florida's Gulf Coast …
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Bezos faces criticism after executives met with Trump on day of Post's non-endorsement — Executives of Blue Origin briefly met with Trump within hours after paper spiked endorsement of Harris — The multi-billionaire owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, continued facing criticism throughout …
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Republican battleground-state legal blitz falters ahead of election — Donald Trump's Republican allies have suffered a string of courtroom setbacks in battleground U.S. presidential election states as Election Day draws closer, losses which could boost voter turnout and speed certification of the eventual winner.
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How US election deniers have eroded trust in elections everywhere — Having led election monitoring efforts abroad for 25 years, I can attest that elections can indeed be manipulated. When I lived in Cambodia, I worked on a voter registry audit to assess the quality of Cambodia's voter list ahead of the 2013 elections.


Trump-aligned group is already planning lawsuits over election results
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FACT FOCUS: Trump repeated election lies in his interview with Joe Rogan. Here are the facts
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Harris calls on the US ‘to turn the page on hatred and division’ as she crisscrosses Philadelphia — Kamala Harris told a Philadelphia church congregation that the United States is “determined to turn the page on hatred and division” as she began crisscrossing the Democratic stronghold Sunday.
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Kamala Harris says her first priority as president is to “stop this pain” resulting from abortion bans
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Harris keeps Biden at a distance in the final stretch
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Harris regains slight lead nationally yet Electoral College holds the cards: POLL — Harris has regained a slight lead with likely voters nationally, the poll finds. — Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at James R. Hallford Stadium, Oct. 24, 2024, in Clarkston, Ga.
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I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent” — Listen to a voiceover of this post, subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. — When a major legacy news publication does something controversial, I sometimes hear my name.


Will Rollins was written off in 2022. Now, he could help deliver a Democratic majority. — Democratic groups are pouring millions into his rematch against Republican Rep. Ken Calvert in the Palm Springs-area district. — PALM SPRINGS, California — The last time Will Rollins took …


Amid Talk of Fascism, Trump's Threats and Language Evoke a Grim Past … Former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Las Vegas on Thursday.Kenny Holston/The New York Times — When former President Donald J. Trump's longest serving chief of staff said the other day that his old boss …
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Nebraska is in the national spotlight. An obscure education fight could tilt the election results. — Voters will decide whether to scrap a state-funded program that provides scholarships for students to attend private schools. — A fight to overturn Nebraska's $10 million school voucher law …
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October 26, 2024 — Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”


CBS News Harris-Trump poll has closer look inside gender gap as Trump, Harris draw even — Amid an election-defining gender gap that is now tied for the largest this year, the already close presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has become closer still.
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‘Yes, I was in a cult’: J6 rioter backing Harris after admitting being ‘all in with MAGA’ — As part of interviews with three Donald Trump supporters who headed off to Washington, D.C. to attend the post-election “Stop the Steal” rally, one woman called it the biggest mistake of her life …
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Appeals court rejects Virginia's request to continue its late voter-purge program — On Sunday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit rejected Virginia's request to restart its late voter-purge program, with a three-judge panel unanimously concluding, “[Virginia] argue[s] …


More than 1,000 faith leaders endorse Harris as vice president leans on her faith to turn out Black voters — More than a thousand religious leaders endorsed Kamala Harris on Sunday, bolstering the Democratic presidential nominee's push to emphasize how faith is informing her campaign ahead of next week's election.
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To understand the U.S. economic success is to love Harris's plan — Kamala Harris's economic proposals would build on the remarkable U.S. comeback since the pandemic. — Despite the compulsion of Republican MAGA voices to run down the country's economic strength, the U.S. recovery …
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America Is Having a Panic Attack Over the Election — Voters see permanent damage to the country if their candidate loses; ‘There are not enough gummies I can take to soothe the angst!’ — CLARKSTON, Ga.—The sun was shining. Bruce Springsteen was strumming an acoustic guitar.
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