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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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Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
What happened the last times Trump pitched direct payments to Americans — The White House hasn't elaborated on how a newly proposed $5,000 “dividend” would work. — President Donald Trump recycled a familiar concept Wednesday in pledging to send Americans $5,000 if Republicans win the midterms.
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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.
Jeronimo Gonzalez / Semafor:
Trump pledges $5,000 voter payout if Republicans win the midterms — US President Donald Trump promised to give every American $5,000 if Republicans retain control of Congress in November's midterm elections, comments that critics said underscored his party's weakness ahead of the vote.
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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.
Bloomberg:
Thune Says ‘Good Question’ on Trump's $5,000 Payout to US Adults
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The Washington Sun:
Key Republicans Were Blindsided by Trump's Call for $5,000 Checks
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Desperate Trump Offers Brazen Cash Bribe in Bonkers Speech
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Tamara Keith / NPR:
Democrats blast $5,000 payment promise ahead of Trump, Vance speeches in Dallas
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Vance's Dallas dance
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New York Times:
‘Pretend That I Am Running’: 7 Takeaways From the G.O.P. Midterm Convention
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump makes a familiar promise: $5,000 checks for everyone
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Deeply Unpopular President's Midterm Pitch: 'I'm on the Ballot'
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.
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Kelsey Reichmann / Courthouse News Service:
Supreme Court nixes Missouri GOP-friendly maps for midterms
New York Times:
Supreme Court Again Blocks Republican-Backed Missouri Voting Map
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court just handed Republicans a surprisingly decisive midterm loss
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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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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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Jimmy Kimmel Moves Talarico Interview to YouTube Because of F.C.C. ‘Threat’
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Sydney Carruth / MS NOW:
Jimmy Kimmel provokes White House after pulling Talarico interview
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Megan Brand / NBC News:
Jimmy Kimmel says show won't air James Talarico interview on TV, citing FCC threats
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Sen. John Fetterman Fuels Democratic Anxiety Over Midterms — Pennsylvania lawmaker pledges to stick with his party after surprise GOP convention video — Sen. John Fetterman reassured Democrats that he wouldn't abandon them if they take back the majority in the fall elections …
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Vance calls on battleground state Republicans to ‘nationalize’ the midterms — The vice president made the remarks during a closed-door breakfast ahead of his speech Thursday at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas. — DALLAS — Vice President JD Vance urged Republicans …
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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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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Reuters:
NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot — Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving any fingerprints.
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Daniella Diaz / The Washington Sun:
Security Experts Say NATO Must Plan for a Future Without the United States
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Voters Favor Dems Over GOP By 11 Points For Control Of U.S. House, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Trump's Handling Of Canada Trade, Iran & Russia - Ukraine War All Below 30% — mail_outline — With the midterm elections less than two months away, voters give …
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 …
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.
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.
NPR:
Elon Musk brags about using “lasers from space” to elect Trump in 2024, texts show — Newly released text messages from Elon Musk show the billionaire bragging about using “lasers from space” to elect Donald Trump president in 2024. The question-raising remark comes as Musk spends millions on November's midterms.
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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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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.
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 …
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
The department created to stop another 9/11 may no longer be equipped for counterterrorism work — The Trump administration has fundamentally reshaped the Department of Homeland Security since taking office 19 months ago, so much so that the agency created to prevent the next 9/11 is doing little counterterrorism work.
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