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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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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.
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.
Tamara Keith / NPR:
Democrats blast $5,000 payment promise ahead of Trump, Vance speeches in Dallas — 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 of the House and the Senate in November's midterms.
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Desperate Trump Offers Brazen Cash Bribe in Bonkers Speech
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump makes a familiar promise: $5,000 checks for everyone
Trump makes a familiar promise: $5,000 checks for everyone
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Bloomberg:
Thune Says ‘Good Question’ on Trump's $5,000 Payout to US Adults
Thune Says ‘Good Question’ on Trump's $5,000 Payout to US Adults
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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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New York Times:
‘Pretend That I Am Running’: 7 Takeaways From the G.O.P. Midterm Convention
‘Pretend That I Am Running’: 7 Takeaways From the G.O.P. Midterm Convention
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Politico:
Vance's Dallas dance
Vance's Dallas dance
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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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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Deeply Unpopular President's Midterm Pitch: 'I'm on the Ballot'
John Yoon / New York Times:
Trump Wants to Give Out $5,000 Checks. It Would Cost More Than $1 Trillion.
Trump Wants to Give Out $5,000 Checks. It Would Cost More Than $1 Trillion.
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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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Associated Press:
US Supreme Court again rejects push to use Trump-backed congressional map in Missouri … Sept 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed a $5,000 “Trump dividend” payment to U. adults if his Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the November 3 midterm elections.
Christopher Hippensteel / The Guardian:
Supreme court's decision seems to spell end for Republican-drawn congressional maps in Missouri - US politics live
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Supreme Court again blocks new Missouri congressional map favoring GOP
Supreme Court again blocks new Missouri congressional map favoring GOP
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The White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces the Working Families Obamacare Refunds — RETURNING BIDEN OVERCHARGES TO WORKING FAMILIES: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced that the federal government will return to the American people hundreds of millions in Obamacare overcharges …
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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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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” …
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Megan Brand / NBC News:
Jimmy Kimmel says show won't air James Talarico interview on TV, citing FCC threats
Jimmy Kimmel says show won't air James Talarico interview on TV, citing FCC threats
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Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg:
Talarico Calls on Paxton to Address Epstein Survivors' Demands — Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico appeared in Dallas Thursday with a group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors, accusing his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, of ignoring their push for greater transparency …
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Finya Swai / The Hill:
Talarico touts GOP support for Senate campaign
Talarico touts GOP support for Senate campaign
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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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Dustin Volz / New York Times:
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons — In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work. — Anthropic said it had disrupted several potential plots …
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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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Jordain Carney / Politico:
‘Waste of energy’: Senate Democrats are sitting out the John Fetterman pile-on … Sen. John Fetterman has faced a tide of public criticism from fellow Democrats as he stakes out lonely ground as a critic of the far-left wing of his party — and another wave rolled in Wednesday …
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Axios:
Exclusive: Fetterman to praise Trump in bombshell GOP convention video
Exclusive: Fetterman to praise Trump in bombshell GOP convention video
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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 …
Max Rego / The Hill:
Trump administration alleges UC Berkeley law school favors Black applicants — Officials from the Justice Department (DOJ) and Education Department alleged Wednesday that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law favors Black applicants over white and Asian applicants, in violation of federal law.
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.
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 …
NBC News:
CIA officer's arrest with 303 gold bars thrusts the Pentagon's No. 2 into an unwelcome spotlight — Steve Feinberg has been interviewed by the FBI, sources say, as part of the probe into David Rush. Feinberg hasn't been accused of wrongdoing, and the FBI said he isn't under investigation.
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
MAGA Influencer's Defense: Antifa Got Me High — When a pro-Trump streamer was caught on camera coercing and harassing a woman, he blamed a suspicious joint. — PRO-TRUMP INTERNET PERSONALITY Matt Tardio has made a career out of slamming the left. He was front and center last October …
Sanford Nowlin / San Antonio Current:
Gay hookup app Grindr experiences Dallas outages during Republicans' Trump-a-Palooza — Grindr, the LGBTQ+ hookup app, is experiencing outages in Dallas after an unprecedented mid-term Republican convention got underway there on Wednesday — and social media users are quick to speculate why.
Washington Post:
Katie Miller held large stake in Elon Musk's xAI as she slammed ChatGPT online — Conservative podcaster Miller, a former top aide to Musk, is the latest political influencer to comment on public issues without fully disclosing financial ties. — Summary
