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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Dems privately worry how Walz will fare against Vance in VP debate
Washington Post:
N.C. presidential race close as Helene recovery begins, Post poll finds  —  Republican Mark Robinson trails by a wide margin in the race for governor following allegations of lewd and racist comments.  —  North Carolina voters are closely divided in the choice between Donald Trump …
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Casey up 4 points over McCormick in Senate reelection bid: Survey
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
Stein leads Robinson by double digits in NC governor race
Associated Press:
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages  —  Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks.
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Reuters:
US East Coast dockworkers strike, halting half the nation's ocean shipping
Washington Post:
Jimmy Carter turns 100, and his hometown is ringing in the milestone  —  He is the first American president to reach the century mark.  Locals are excited to celebrate the man they know as “Mr. Jimmy.”  —  PLAINS, Ga. — Signs that read “Happy 100th Birthday Mr. President!” dot lawns.
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Associated Press:
Jimmy Carter and hometown of Plains celebrate the 39th president's 100th birthday
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Video Out of North Carolina After Hurricane Helene Is Tough Viewing  —  Meanwhile, eighty-two Republicans voted to shut down the government as a catastrophic storm prepared to devastate a quarter of the country.  —  The video evidence from western North Carolina looks like something Matthew Brady would have sent back from Antietam.
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Reuters:
Rescuers scour N Carolina mountains for survivors cut off by Hurricane Helene
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Is Pushing Donald Trump to Man Up and Debate Kamala Harris Again  —  ROUND TWO?  —  Trump's former adviser said she tried to juice Trump's ego by telling him he's like Major League Baseball standout Shohei Ohtani.  —  Kellyanne Conway, the former adviser to former president Donald Trump …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Kellyanne Conway: Trump didn't say ‘totally no’ to another debate
Discussion: New Republic
Dan Rather / Steady:
Facts Need To Be Checked
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Taylor Lorenz Exits Washington Post to Launch ‘User Mag’ on Substack (Exclusive)  —  Lorenz, who is leaving the newspaper to launch the publication, says that it will “cover technology from the user side,” in contrast to traditional coverage of social media.
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Paypal Opted You Into Sharing Data Without Your Knowledge  —  Here's how to opt out of sharing data for “Personalized shopping.”  —  PayPal quietly opted users into sharing data with third parties for “personalized shopping experiences,” according to multiple complaints on social media and 404 Media's own tests.
Associated Press:
Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene  —  Donald Trump repeatedly spread falsehoods Monday about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster as he toured hard-hit areas in south Georgia.
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Brad Dress / The Hill:
Iran preparing missile attack on Israel, White House says
Victor Fiorillo / Philadelphia Magazine:
Philly-Area Republican Couple Threatened After Filming Kamala Harris Ad  —  The normally idyllic lives of these Main Line farmers changed after MSNBC spotlighted the commercial.  —  Pennsylvania farmers Bob Lange and wife Kristina Chadwick Lange are lifelong Republicans.
Discussion: SAVVY MAINLINE and Raw Story
Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
Why the “vetting” of JD Vance was a spectacular failure  —  🚨 This special, five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.  🚨  —  🚀 Subscribe to Public Notice 🚀
Phoebe Quinton / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Thousands of people purged from Georgia's voter rolls reregistered after Kamala Harris' rally in Atlanta  —  More than 40,000 people have filled out paperwork to vote on Election Day in November  —  Stanlecia Johnson, 48, registered to vote when she turned 18 years old …
Discussion: Raw Story
Popular Information:
Hundreds of citizens wrongly stripped of voting rights in botched effort to legitimize Trump's conspiracy theory  —  One of the central narratives that former President Donald Trump and his allies are pushing is that Democrats are planning to steal the election by using undocumented immigrants to pad their vote totals.
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Nevada Republicans Freak Out Over ‘Deplorable’ Statue of a Giant, Naked Trump  —  ‘PORNOGRAPHIC’  —  A 43-foot effigy of an entirely nude Donald Trump that mysteriously appeared outside Las Vegas over the weekend has been condemned by Nevada Republicans, who slammed the “deplorable” sculpture as “pornographic.”
John McCormack / The Dispatch:
What Happened to Tucker Carlson?  —  The strange journey of a pundit, Trump whisperer, and potential 2028 presidential candidate.  —  (Illustration by Aaron Sandford/Photos via Getty Images)  —  When 9/11 truthers confronted Tucker Carlson on the campaign trail ahead of the 2012 Iowa caucuses …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
5 possible October surprises that could roil the Trump-Harris race  —  The 2024 presidential race has seen enough shocking events transpire in a few short months to fill an entire calendar year, but that doesn't mean there won't be a much-talked about October surprise looming in the final weeks of the campaign.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Tory Leadership Contest Opens Up After Gaffes by Front-Runners
Discussion: Politico, The Guardian and The Dispatch
Phil Gramm / Wall Street Journal:
Jimmy Carter, Champion of Deregulation
Amy Goodman / Truthout:
Media Fails to Link Hurricane Helene to Fossil-Fueled Climate Change
Discussion: USA Today
US Department of Justice:
Russian National Indicted for Series of Ransomware Attacks
NBC News:
Jon Tester and Tim Sheehy debate in Montana with the Senate on the line
New York Times:
Why Isn't Harris Clobbering Trump? These 15 Swing State Voters Can Tell You.
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Say Goodbye to Truth as We Know It If Trump and Vance Win
 Earlier Items: 
Governor of California:
California bans legacy and donor preferences in admissions at private, nonprofit universities
New York Times:
Pennsylvania Republicans Lag Democrats in Early Mail Ballot Requests
Discussion: Fox News and NBC News
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
JD Vance Says His “Mamaw” Had Eight Miscarriages. His Policies Deny Women Like Her Lifesaving Care.
Alana Goodman / freebeacon.com:
Tim Walz Said He Was in Hong Kong During the Tiananmen Square Massacre. He Was Home in Nebraska.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Harris launches multimillion-dollar TV ad blitz hitting Trump's ‘concepts of a plan’ for health care
Haley Byrd Wilt / NOTUS:
A Year of Fury and Feuding: GOP Lawmakers Are Still Reeling From McCarthy's Removal
Discussion: Raw Story and The Dispatch