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Tamara Keith / NPR:
After Trump promised to pay $5,000 if Republicans win, here's what to expect Thursday — At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, President Trump made a stunning and implausible pledge: to send every American adult a $5,000 cash dividend. But only if his party maintains control …
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Floats $5,000 ‘Trump Dividend’ Checks if Republicans Win the Midterms — In his convention speech, the president floated a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” for every adult American if Republicans keep control of Congress. The idea, like many others, may not come to pass.
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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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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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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 …
Christopher Hippensteel / The Guardian:
Vance appears to walk back Trump's offer of $5,000 ‘dividend’ if Republicans win midterms - US politics live — Vice-president suggests payment would not go to all and would be paid for by tariff revenues despite supreme court rulings against much of Trump's program
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Desperate Trump Offers Brazen Cash Bribe in Bonkers Speech — FUNNY MONEY — The vice president insisted it was not a “controversial idea.” — President Donald Trump has offered a hefty cash bonus to all American adults in a desperate attempt to retain his grip on Congress in the midterm elections.
New York Times:
‘Pretend That I Am Running’: 7 Takeaways From the G.O.P. Midterm Convention — At a first-of-its-kind midterm convention, President Trump mostly offered retreads and self-congratulation. Then, he offered to pay Americans $5,000 apiece if Republicans kept power.
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Politico:
Vance's Dallas dance
Vance's Dallas dance
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CNBC:
Trump's $1 trillion-plus ‘dividend’ plan meets immediate bipartisan pushback
Trump's $1 trillion-plus ‘dividend’ plan meets immediate bipartisan pushback
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Trump's Promise of $5,000 Dividend Checks Follows Past Cash Pledges That Never Materialized
Trump's Promise of $5,000 Dividend Checks Follows Past Cash Pledges That Never Materialized
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Emily Hallas / Washington Examiner:
Vance strikes back at concern $5,000 Trump dividend will stoke debt: ‘Wealth will go back to the people’
Vance strikes back at concern $5,000 Trump dividend will stoke debt: ‘Wealth will go back to the people’
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Trump makes an extraordinary offer of $5,000 payments, and other takeaways from RNC convention's first night
Trump makes an extraordinary offer of $5,000 payments, and other takeaways from RNC convention's first night
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Calen Razor / Politico:
‘Trump dividend’ wins instant GOP critics
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Trump says the war in Iran will end after Election Day
Trump says the war in Iran will end after Election Day
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Ingrid Fuary-Wagner / Bloomberg:
Can Trump Really Pay Every Adult American a $5,000 ‘Dividend’?
Can Trump Really Pay Every Adult American a $5,000 ‘Dividend’?
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's $5,000 ‘Dividend’ Promise Is His Biggest Election Gambit Yet
Trump's $5,000 ‘Dividend’ Promise Is His Biggest Election Gambit Yet
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Elleiana Green / Politico:
Republican chief election officials say it is too late to implement Trump's mail ballot order — Republican chief election officials from seven states said that it's too late for President Donald Trump's mail-in ballot order to be implemented before the midterm election …
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Kelsey Reichmann / Courthouse News Service:
Supreme Court nixes Missouri GOP-friendly maps for midterms — WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court granted an emergency appeal from Missouri organizers on Thursday barring the use of Republican-friendly congressional maps in the November election. — Led by Richard von Glahn …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Appeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUS — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected ICE's effort to detain millions of people without bond, comparing it to the “historical stain” of Japanese internment during World War II. — “Mass detention …
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Radley Balko / New York Times:
Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. — Six weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act. The vote was 357-66 in the House, and 98-1 in the Senate. Sen. Russ Feingold (D., Wis.), the chamber's lone dissenter …
Ian Ward / Politico:
Charlie Kirk's Lieutenant Has Second Thoughts … Directly to Neff's left, toward the center of the V, sits “Charlie's chair,” the high-back green leather rolling chair favored by the show's namesake, the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Following Kirk's death one year ago during …
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James LaPorta / CBS News:
Multiple U.S. military aircraft damaged in Iranian strikes on military base in Jordan, sources say — Multiple American military aircraft were damaged in Iranian strikes overnight Tuesday into Wednesday local time on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, people with direct knowledge of the matter told CBS News.
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Akanksha Khushi / Reuters:
Multiple US military aircraft suffered damage in overnight strikes on Jordan air base, CBS says
Multiple US military aircraft suffered damage in overnight strikes on Jordan air base, CBS says
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Sam Goldfarb / Wall Street Journal:
Bond Selloff Extends, Putting 5% 10-Year Yield In Sight — Rising oil prices are putting further pressure on bonds, pushing the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note above 4.9% and within striking distance of the symbolically important 5% level. — Yields, which rise when bond prices fall …
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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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
D.O.J. Escalates Threats to States in Battle for Election Records
D.O.J. Escalates Threats to States in Battle for Election Records
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Trish Bendix / New York Times:
Jimmy Kimmel to Interview James Talarico ‘Under Unusual Circumstances’ — A conversation with the Democratic Senate hopeful from Texas will move off air because of what the late night host called F.C.C. “threats” against his show and network. … Jimmy Kimmel told Wednesday night's “Live” …
Daniella Diaz / The Washington Sun:
Security Experts Say NATO Must Plan for a Future Without the United States — BERLIN — Trump administration officials have made a flurry of visits to Moscow over the last month, with Europe on edge over a spate of hybrid attacks attributed to Russia. — But America's European allies aren't taking the visits as reassurance.
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Politico:
What Really Happened at the White House Lunch That Marc Andreessen Says Sent Him to Trump … Since the election of Donald Trump, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has told one podcast after another of a May 2024 lunch in the Biden White House where he claims we and our colleagues shared …
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 …
Mira Bhakta / The Hill:
Denver sues to block ICE officers from voting sites — The city of Denver filed a lawsuit Thursday to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from going to voting sites. — The lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Secretary Markwayne Mullin argues …
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Zack Colman / Politico:
How Georgia's GOP learned to love solar … President Donald Trump has called solar power “the scam of the century” in his effort to roll back the Biden climate agenda, and brought most of his party along with him — at least in Washington. — But here in Bartow County …


