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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 …
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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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way  —  President Trump is still using your money to pay for his propaganda hype video commercials ahead of the midterms.  —  On Wednesday morning, another “Final Battle” commercial for the president aired on Fox & Friends …
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
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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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Military ordered to be ready for possible Iran strikes as Trump weighs timing
Discussion: CNBC
NBC News:
Trump says ‘we protect our cities’ after saying Iran could ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego  —  The president recast his earlier incendiary statements at a San Antonio rally meant to galvanize voters behind Texas Republicans ahead of the midterms. … After having faced fierce backlash …
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The Washington Sun:
Everything Is Bigger in Texas — Including the Number of Protests at Trump's Rally
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 York Post:
Mamdani booed, berated by anti-Israel protesters waving Hamas flags at NYC Oct. 7 memorial: ‘Shame on you’  —  Mayor Zohran Mamdani was berated and booed at an Oct. 7 candlelight vigil in Union Square on Wednesday night by anti-Israel protesters who believe he turned his back on Palestinian causes.
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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Jenny Lee / CNBC:
Trump set to talk to Russia's Putin ‘very soon’ about plague-related death in Siberia
Washington Post:
Trump says 'we don't think' Russian plague case is a bioweapon
Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Trump to Honor Elon Musk, Nvidia's Huang With Science Awards  —  President Donald Trump is set to award billionaire Elon Musk and other tech titans with medals celebrating science and technological innovation at a summit on Thursday, underscoring the close ties between his administration and Silicon Valley.
Discussion: Forbes
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Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Trump to award National Medal of Science to Elon Musk
Discussion: Fox News, IJR News and NewsMax.com
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.
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 …
Discussion: MeidasTouch
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Thomas Frank / Politico:   Trump approved Ohio disaster aid ahead of rally
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Kyle Brown / KSTP-TV:
FBI arrests man who allegedly planned to shoot up Mall of America in support of Islamic State group
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. …
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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Claire Carter / Washington Examiner:
Fetterman underwater with Pennsylvania voters despite GOP popularity: Poll
Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Hill
Gavin J. Quinton / The Washington Sun:
Election Deniers Have Trump's Ear on a Voting Machine Conspiracy  —  Election deniers peddling conspiracies about voting machines have gotten President Donald Trump's attention less than a month before the midterms.  —  Trump on Monday reportedly met with conspiracy theorist Tina Peters …
Katherine Eban / Rolling Stone:
CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study  —  “It's a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn't be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit  —  Two months after the Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Greg Ryan / Bloomberg:
Maine Senate Race Heats Up as Collins, Jackson Debate Trump, Abortion  —  Maine Senator Susan Collins sought to distance herself from President Donald Trump in her first debate with Democratic challenger Troy Jackson in a pivotal US Senate race.  —  After Trump indicated he may come to Maine for a rally …
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.
Gillian Brockell / American Prospect:
Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa  —  A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: WAGA-TV and The Washington Sun
Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Expect to Win the House.  Here's Their To-Do List  —  Hakeem Jeffries, possible next House speaker, says party will try to restore healthcare spending, push back against Trump on tariffs, Iran war  —  WASHINGTON—House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats would move swiftly …
Discussion: RedState
Rachel Roubein / Washington Post:
Trump administration paving way for temporary sale of some unapproved peptides  —  Food and Drug Administration scientists and some medical experts have raised concerns about increasing access to certain peptides.  —  SummaryLoading...  The Trump administration is crafting plans that would allow …
Discussion: Associated Press
Catherine Alaimo / ABC News:
Trump announces ‘historic’ enrollment of 70 million children into Trump Accounts  —  “They'll end up being quite rich by the time they're 18,” Trump said.  —  Children hold a banner as President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding personal investment accounts for children …
Kelby Vera / HuffPost:
Trump Pats Himself On The Back For Not Doing ‘Bad Things’ To Obama, Clinton, Biden  —  “I can do whatever I want if I want,” he said during an Oval Office event on Wednesday.  —  President Donald Trump said he easily could have targeted to his political rivals if he wanted to when asked …
Jennifer Calfas / Wall Street Journal:
Measles Outbreak in Pennsylvania Is Now the Biggest in U.S. in 35 Years  —  Cases in state surpass prior record as falling vaccination rates fuel the disease's rapid spread  —  An accelerating measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is now the country's biggest since 1991—as declining vaccination rates …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Don Lemon says there's '65, 70′ percent chance he runs for president  —  Former CNN anchor and media personality Don Lemon says he has considered running for president of the U.S. one day, and he put the chances of him doing so at greater than 50 percent.  —  “Look, I never say never.
 
 
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Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Want Colleagues to Promise They'll Accept Midterm Election Results
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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Jason Beeferman / Politico:
The top House sleeper races to watch, according to the pros
Discussion: Associated Press and NewsMax.com
Brett Meiselas / Meidas+:
Wednesday Update: Camp Mar-a-David
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone
Nathan Lee / ABC News:
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