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Wall Street Journal:
‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account — Text messages with a MAGA ally show her seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials ahead of her confirmation as ambassador to Greece — Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing …
Morgan Fischer / Phoenix New Times:
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs — Embarrassed, she initially didn't want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff's Office's investigation is ongoing. — Add New Times — as a preferred source on Google — It was just after 2 a.m …
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ABC News, MS NOW, The Washington Sun, TMZ.com, Washington Examiner, New Republic, Mediaite, The Independent, The Guardian and The Daily Caller
The Atlantic:
Trump Is Considering a Plan to Strike Iran Before the Midterms — Pentagon planners are weighing options though no final decision has been made. — After months of on-again, off-again fighting, the United States hasn't struck Iran in several weeks. The stretch of relative tranquility …
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NBC News, Rolling Stone and Mediaite
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Axios:
Exclusive: Paxton privately blames woes on Iran war, gas prices — Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton privately lamented the impact of the Iran war and gas prices on his campaign in a meeting last month, telling a group of donors and lobbyists, “I don't make the decisions,” according to audio obtained by Axios.
Ali Swenson / Associated Press:
DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law — The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday sued President Donald Trump's administration for recent television advertisements that promoted his political message while costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
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NBC News:
DNC sues administration over taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads — Trump announced this week that he and his PAC, MAGA Inc., would pay for the ads moving forward following bipartisan criticism. … The DNC cited a measure Trump signed into law this year that says funds appropriated by Congress can't be used …
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The Guardian, Newsweek, Politico, Truthout, Associated Press, MS NOW, Straight Arrow and New York Times
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Americans don't want taxpayer dollars funding campaign ads: poll
Americans don't want taxpayer dollars funding campaign ads: poll
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MS NOW, Political Wire, Newsweek, Daily Mail, ABC7 and Reuters
Reuters:
WHO seeks details from Russia on media reports of a second lab worker with pneumonia — Russia's health regulator said on Wednesday there were no risks of an epidemic breaking out in Siberia after a plague institute worker there died, as the World Health Organization pressed Moscow for more information about her cause of death.
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Reuters, Axios, Breitbart, The Daily Wire, One America News Network, Associated Press, Townhall, Straight Arrow, KTVZ-TV, New Republic, Fox News, The Hill, The Atlantic, NewsMax.com and RTÉ
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Claudia Chiappa / Politico:
WHO seeks clarity on second pneumonia case in Russia amid plague fears
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New York Times, The Hill, NewsMax.com, ABC7, Reuters, Forbes, KOB 4, Associated Press, MS NOW, Legal Insurrection, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, The Washington Sun, The Independent, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Wire, Washington Post, NPR, STAT, UnHerd, RTÉ, CNN, Daily Mail, ABC News and NewsNation
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
Trump set to talk to Russia's Putin ‘very soon’ about plague-related death in Siberia
Trump set to talk to Russia's Putin ‘very soon’ about plague-related death in Siberia
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CBS News, Forbes, The Independent, Straight Arrow, Washington Examiner, Fox News, The Japan Times, IJR News, RTÉ, NewsMax.com, New York Post, Associated Press, Reuters, Mediaite, Bloomberg, Daily Mail, Semafor, Axios and NBC News
New York Magazine:
Mamdani Couldn't Resist Attacking Israel in October 7 Statement — Mayor Zohran Mamdani's strained relationship with New York's Jewish Establishment is not likely to improve after Wednesday morning. — On the third anniversary of Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack on Israel …
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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Spirals Into Fury as GOP Pollsters Deliver Bad News — The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 7 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. — Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
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Newsweek, LGBTQ Nation, Washington Blade, Talking Points Memo, HuffPost, Associated Press and New York Post
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Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Florida poll: Republicans lead in the races for governor and Senate
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Politico, The Hill, NewsMax.com, Newsweek and Scripps News
Al Weaver / The Washington Sun:
Republicans Are Moving Big Money to Red States and Abandoning North Carolina
Republicans Are Moving Big Money to Red States and Abandoning North Carolina
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Politico and Crooked Media
Christian K. Caruzo / Breitbart:
Transgender Washington State Resident Arrested for Alleged Involvement in Canada Mass School Shooting — U.S. authorities on Tuesday arrested a man in Washington State accused of allegedly providing assistance to the teenage perpetrator of the February mass school shooting in Canada.
Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Trump to award National Medal of Science to Elon Musk — President Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives Thursday, a White House official confirmed to The Hill's broadcast partner, NewsNation. — Musk, the head of SpaceX and Tesla …
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Fox News, IJR News and NewsMax.com
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Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Trump to Honor Elon Musk, Nvidia's Huang With Science Awards
Trump to Honor Elon Musk, Nvidia's Huang With Science Awards
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Forbes
Gabriela Aoun Angueira / Associated Press:
Disaster relief funding is creeping into Trump's midterm rhetoric. Critics say it has no place there — President Donald Trump has turned emergency relief into a campaign talking point in the final sprint to the midterm elections, approving disaster declarations in consequential states …
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MeidasTouch
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Thomas Frank / Politico:
Trump approved Ohio disaster aid ahead of rally
Suha Kidwai / The Independent:
Naked statue of Trump named ‘Orange Plague’ unveiled at European Parliament — The creator of the sculpture said it was a ‘satirical outcry’ against Trump's volatile climate and foreign policies — Become an Independent member to bookmark this article — Want to bookmark your favourite articles …
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Telegraph, New Republic and Mediaite
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Oscar Holland / CNN:
‘King of Injustice’: Golden naked Trump statue installed at European Parliament
‘King of Injustice’: Golden naked Trump statue installed at European Parliament
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twitchy.com, HuffPost, Daily Kos and Washington Examiner
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Kennedy Plans Federal Vaccine Injury Initiative, Drawing Wary Eye From Experts — Vaccine safety experts say more research into the side effects would be welcome yet question whether the health secretary's effort will be grounded in science. — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …
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Wall Street Journal and The Hill
Nathan Lee / ABC News:
Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election — The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers. — President Donald Trump and his sons Eric Trump, back left, and Donald Trump Jr., back, second right, and granddaughter Chole Trump …
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Truthout, Mediaite and The Daily Wire
Quinnipiac University Poll:
PA Governor's Race: Shapiro 59%, Garrity 34%, Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Poll Finds; Voters Favor Dems To Win Control Of U.S. House By 15 Points — mail_outline — In the final weeks of Pennsylvania's gubernatorial race, 59 percent of likely voters support incumbent Governor Josh Shapiro …
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City & State Pennsylvania and The Hill
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Claire Carter / Washington Examiner:
Fetterman underwater with Pennsylvania voters despite GOP popularity: Poll
Fetterman underwater with Pennsylvania voters despite GOP popularity: Poll
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NewsMax.com
Kyle Brown / KSTP-TV:
FBI arrests man who allegedly planned to shoot up Mall of America in support of Islamic State group — Federal authorities have arrested a man accused of plotting a terrorist attack at Mall of America and pledging his allegiance to the Islamic State group. — According to an affidavit unsealed …
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CNN, CBS News, Reuters, ABC7, HotAir, Breitbart, Ace of Spades HQ, twitchy.com, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The Post Millennial, Straight Arrow, The Gateway Pundit, One America News Network, Legal Insurrection, Fox News, RedState, Washington Examiner, The Hill, IJR News, Israpundit and Daily Mail
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Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Who Is Ken Paxton Turning to for Help in the Texas Senate Race? — Trump is in Texas tonight to stump for the Senate candidate. — It's never great when the two people most crucial to your political survival struggle to simply say nice things about you. — It's worse when one of those people …
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New York Magazine, HotAir and Texas Monthly
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Daniella Cheslow / Politico:
Rubio warns Europe faces ‘inflection point’ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Europe to “wake up from its long slumber” in an address in Athens on Wednesday, leaning hard into the combative stance that President Donald Trump has taken with the continent.
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Caroline Westbrook / Metro.co.uk:
Woman ‘posed as substitute teacher to insult students because she hates kids’ — A woman who has been accused of posing as a substitute teacher and causing mayhem in a class full of students did so because she ‘hates kids’, according to authorities in Milwaukee.
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Mediaite
Fox News:
Millions saved by blocking dead people payouts as Trump Treasury drops hammer on federal fraud — The ‘Do Not Pay’ program screened more than 1.1 billion federal payments totaling roughly $3.7 trillion in FY2026 — FIRST ON FOX: The Treasury Department blocked $175 million in federal payments tied …
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Breitbart, NewsMax.com, American Greatness, U.S. Department …, The Daily Caller and RedState
Janine Liberty / MIT News:
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 — Over two decades at MIT, Hamilton forged new paths in computer science and engineering. Her groundbreaking work included leading the team that programmed the first computers that took humans to the moon.
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New York Times and KTVZ-TV, more at Techmeme »
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone — Fox News' role as a Republican propaganda machine is clear to anyone who has bothered to peruse its programming — President Donald Trump knows it, Fox co-founder Rupert Murdoch knows it, disgraced network co-founder Roger Ailes knew it …
Laura Esposito / The Daily Beast:
Trump Pick's Campaign Hit With Explosive Staff Revelations … Several people involved with Trump-endorsed Rep. Mike Collins' Senate campaign have ties to a group founded by a former Ku Klux Klan leader, the Daily Beast has learned. — At least two of Collins' campaign-appointed leaders …
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WAGA-TV and The Washington Sun
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf club into the new Camp David — The plan calls for the federal government to be granted part of the property, with the rest maintained as a private course. — SummaryLoading... Much of President Donald Trump's second term has focused on changes to the nation's capital.
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump threatens to ‘terminate’ top campaign advisers after revelation of work for pro-Russia Bosnia party — WASHINGTON — President Trump threatened Wednesday to “terminate” two key advisers after they were revealed to have raked in “hundreds of thousands of dollars each” …
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CNN, The Hill, The Guardian, Trump's Truth, Mediaite, Bloomberg, The Independent, Washington Examiner and NewsMax.com
New York Times:
From Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into Retreat — A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences. — To hear President Trump and his aides describe it, the rush to withdraw 12 B-1 bombers …
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CBS News, Bloomberg, Chatham House and NextDraft

