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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Promises $5,000 Payment to US Adults if GOP Wins Midterms — President Donald Trump floated a dividend for American voters if his party wins the upcoming November midterm elections, promising a $5,000 payment to each US citizen adult if Republicans keep control of the House and Senate.
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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Trump's Convention Offers an Unusual Fund-Raising Opportunity for Republicans — Republicans are hoping to use the Dallas extravaganza as a fund-raising opportunity, with some local parties charging as much as $20,000 to be an “honorary delegate.” — President Trump's unusual midterm convention …
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Ashley Ahn / Politico:
Trump pledges a $5,000 ‘dividend’ to all US adults if the GOP wins the midterms — President Donald Trump has pledged to send $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms, a payout that would dwarf the amount distributed during the Covid pandemic and likely explode the deficit.
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Republicans gather in Dallas for two-day midterm convention billed as a ‘Trump-a-Palooza’
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox News is treating the GOP's midterm convention as a very special episode of Hannity
Fox News is treating the GOP's midterm convention as a very special episode of Hannity
Bloomberg:
Trump Headlines Texas Convention to Tap Donors, Rally Voters
Trump Headlines Texas Convention to Tap Donors, Rally Voters
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Washington Examiner, New York Times and The Gateway Pundit
Bloomberg:
Trump Rallies Dallas, Urging Big Midterm Turnout
Trump Rallies Dallas, Urging Big Midterm Turnout
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Bloomberg:
Trump's $5,000 Payout Promise Underscores GOP Midterm Peril
Trump's $5,000 Payout Promise Underscores GOP Midterm Peril
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Jenna Monnin / The Washington Sun:
Trump Says He'd ‘Consider’ Pardoning Michael Cohen
Trump Says He'd ‘Consider’ Pardoning Michael Cohen
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Torrie Herrington / The Washington Sun:
Sen. Tim Scott Says Democratic Senate Candidates ‘Hate’ American Culture
Sen. Tim Scott Says Democratic Senate Candidates ‘Hate’ American Culture
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New York Times, Washington Examiner, The Independent and NewsMax.com
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump's Midterm Convention May Struggle for Ratings Against the N.F.L. Kickoff
Trump's Midterm Convention May Struggle for Ratings Against the N.F.L. Kickoff
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Axios:
Exclusive: Fetterman to praise Trump in bombshell GOP convention video — DALLAS — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) is preparing to make a bombshell appearance Wednesday night at the GOP convention, in a video praising President Trump and Republican Sen. Dave McCormick for helping America's steel industry, Axios has learned.
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New York Times:
Fetterman Has a Surprise Cameo at Trump's Convention — Senator John Fetterman, who has become alienated from his own party, appeared in a short video filmed in front of a steel mill, saying he is “always going to reject the extremes in socialism.” — Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania …
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Igor Bobic / The Washington Sun:
Fetterman Says He Won't Leave His Party if Democrats Win the Senate
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RedState, Blaze Media and Fox News
Washington Post:
Supreme Court is asked to settle Missouri dispute causing electoral chaos — The appeal comes after conflicting rulings on whether the state can use a new congressional map that favors Republicans for November's midterm elections. — Summary — A group seeking to block Missouri from using …
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Jen Rice / Democracy Docket:
Missouri election chief asks federal judge to shield him from contempt charges after defying state supreme court
Missouri election chief asks federal judge to shield him from contempt charges after defying state supreme court
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Missouri court opens contempt probe into Republican official over redistricting fight
Missouri court opens contempt probe into Republican official over redistricting fight
Ben Johansen / Politico:
Trump administration proposes dramatic overhaul of 2030 census that changes who counts as living in America — The Trump administration proposed a sweeping overhaul of how people in America are counted in the 2030 census on Wednesday, including moving to exclude immigrants in the country illegally …
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Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Trump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting maps — The Trump administration is proposing major changes to how the U.S. government produces census results for the next national head count in 2030. — While the plan faces likely legal challenges …
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Federal Register, Talking Points Memo, New Republic, Newsweek, RedState and Roll Call
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump administration proposes changes to census that could exclude millions
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump's Census Overhaul Would Exclude Some Immigrants and Remove Questions on Race
Trump's Census Overhaul Would Exclude Some Immigrants and Remove Questions on Race
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Al Jazeera, The Washington Sun, Mercury News and The Guardian
New York Times:
Military Aide Accidentally Deploys Emergency Slide on New Air Force One — The mishap occurred while the Qatari-donated jet was parked on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. It delayed President Trump's departure to a Republican convention in Dallas. — A military aide accidentally deployed …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Qatari-gifted Air Force One deploys inflatable slide before departing for GOP convention in Texas — An emergency inflatable slide on the Qatari-gifted Air Force One was deployed at Joint Base Andrews before President Trump departed for the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term — The president still says he expects the war will end ‘immediately’ after midterm elections this fall — WASHINGTON—Top White House advisers have raised privately with President Trump the prospect …
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Scott Waldman / Politico:
Trump says Iran war will end ‘immediately’ after midterms — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Iran war will end and gas prices will plummet “immediately after” the midterm elections, the latest deadline slip in a war that has lasted months longer than the president initially promised.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump says oil and gas prices won't fall until ‘right after’ midterm election
Trump says oil and gas prices won't fall until ‘right after’ midterm election
Jenna Monnin / The Washington Sun:
The AP Will Keep Using ‘Lake Ontario’ Despite Trump's Renaming Effort — The Associated Press said it will not refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America” unless it's deemed “relevant,” despite President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the body of water.
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Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Associated Press will stick with Lake Ontario over Trump's renamed ‘Lake America’
Associated Press will stick with Lake Ontario over Trump's renamed ‘Lake America’
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Salt Lake Tribune:
Trump's DOJ is investigating Utah's election chief for refusing to hand over voter data, it says in letter — The Justice Department is investigating Utah's top election official for refusing to hand over the state's entire, unredacted voter database, it informed her in a letter dated Friday and obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune.
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Matt Peterson / CNBC:
Bessent's political turn in GOP speech tests his bond-market credibility … Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's push to calm the bond market is colliding with a more political role, as his planned Republican convention speech raises questions about the credibility he needs to manage U.S. debt markets.
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Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Jim Jordan says he will relinquish Judiciary gavel, pass on a return to Oversight — DALLAS — Rep. Jim Jordan said Wednesday he plans to end his eight-year run leading Republicans on two of the House's most prominent committees after this Congress, raising fresh questions about what comes next for the veteran Ohio lawmaker.
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Sophie Hurwitz / Mother Jones:
“We're the Outliers Here”: UK-Led Sanctions on Israeli Settlements Isolate the US — On September 8, the British government banned the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. — Eleven other nations—Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
60 Posts in 10 Hours: How Trump's Social Media Reflects His Version of Reality — With an assist from A.I., President Trump offers a window into how he wants to be seen — and, critics say, a barometer of his mental state. — Just before noon on a holiday weekend, while many Americans were at the beach …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
House GOP super PAC puts Democratic challengers in starring roles … The Congressional Leadership Fund — a super PAC affiliated with Johnson (R-La.) — is keeping the focus squarely on the Democrats running for Congress. — The two strategies aren't necessarily at odds.
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NewsMax.com and The Washington Sun
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump plans to send $500 Obamacare rebates before election — The Trump administration plans to send $500 rebate checks to as many as 1 million people who it says were overcharged for their coverage under Obamacare, Axios has learned. … - The payments also underscore a tenet …
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