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Attorney for accused Cornell fraternity member: "The 7 have been lumped together"CBS News
Request to halt Texas execution denied in wake of Pike's botched lethal injectionCBS News
Sen. Thom Tillis says Hegseth is "just out of his depth"CBS News
Trump heads to Texas as Republican midterms woes deepen – US politics liveThe Guardian US
Texas set to carry out first US execution since botched lethal injection of Christa PikeThe Guardian US
Vance appears to soften U.S. demands on Iranian nuclear enrichmentCBS News
Vance says Iran must reduce nuclear enrichment after originally demanding end to programCBS News
Rubio in Greece digs into past to tout Trump’s ‘America first’ approachThe Guardian US
Republicans realize the awful pitfalls of Trump administration’s new financial aid ruleMS NOW
Jim Bakker’s legacy of hucksterism lives on in Donald TrumpMS NOW
Christa Pike ‘angry, confused’ and unable to move arms after failed execution, lawyers sayThe Guardian US
Wednesday’s Mini-Report, 10.7.26MS NOW
How October 7 changed everythingVox
Christa Pike’s first words after surviving execution: ‘Where am I?’ attorney saysMS NOW
How the government argument for Trump’s media ban threatens the entire free pressMS NOW
ISIS-inspired mass shooting plot at Mall of America thwarted, FBI saysABC News
Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia governmentThe Guardian US
WATCH: Philly man crowned city's parallel parking champABC News
POLITICS & DEMOCRACY
Trump Admin Keeps Digging for Info About Trans Kids in Blue StatesTalking Points Memo
Trump Rages, Rages Against the Dying of the LightTalking Points Memo
Desperate GOP Scrambles to Defend Once-Solid Red SeatsTalking Points Memo
Trump Wants the Fed to Rescue Him Ahead of the Midterms. That’s Probably Not Going to Happen.Talking Points Memo
Tina Peters Has Trump’s Ear on the MidtermsTalking Points Memo
Now Trump is trying to make Camp Donald happenDaily Kos
Trump declares he ‘can do whatever I want’—and dozes offDaily Kos
Why are Trump’s ICE goons targeting a shopping mall staple?Daily Kos
How $50 blew up Kansas’ Senate raceDaily Kos
The naked truth: European leaders unveil humiliating Trump statueDaily Kos
Trump privately infuriated by staffers' plot to profit off White House jobs: reportRaw Story
Trump unravels over Texas Dem's 'tremendous act of disloyalty' ahead of midterm rallyRaw Story
Kimberly Guilfoyle begged Trump donor to quietly pay off her AMEX bill: reportRaw Story
Trump-backed candidate pulls ads off the air as polls show grim prospectsRaw Story
Trump Administration Gets More Pathetic By Blaming Barack Obama For Diesel PricesPoliticus USA
Trump Threatens To After Clinton, Obama, And Biden If He Is Impeached AgainPoliticus USA
The Darline Graham Train Wreck Worsens As Republicans May Lose South CarolinaPoliticus USA
Susan Collins Is In Big Trouble And She Just Had An Awful Senate DebatePoliticus USA
INVESTIGATION & ANALYSIS
Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.ProPublica
I’ve Covered Death Row Cases for Nearly a Decade. What Happened to Christa Pike Wasn’t an Anomaly.ProPublica
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration CrackdownProPublica
Our Reporter Spent 10 Weeks Gambling on DraftKings. Here Are 5 Things He Learned.ProPublica
How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 HoursProPublica
Feds Charged Activists Just Before Major Anti-ICE Protest in a Tiny Vermont TownThe Intercept
He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case.The Intercept
Antisemitism Law Helped Get a Professor Fired for Free Speech, Lawsuit SaysThe Intercept
The U.S. Military Struggles to Protect Its Bases Amid Failing Iran WarThe Intercept
The Key Witness Against Richard Glossip Just Returned to Court. It Didn’t Go Well.The Intercept
“The Single Most Toxic Issue in the Midterms”: How America Turned on Data Centers.Mother Jones
Martin Soto Went Out for Diapers. He Came Home Eight Months Later.Mother Jones
Trump Administration Plans to Have Its Own Lawyers Represent Migrant KidsMother Jones
Fear Kept Immigrants Away From Medicaid. Now Many Can’t Come Back.Mother Jones
Trump Says Voter Fraud is Rampant. The Evidence Says Otherwise.Mother Jones
This Is Not an AnniversaryThe Nation
Houthi Attacks on Saudi Arabian OilThe Nation
The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After Being Fired by DOGEThe Nation
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🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.”
— White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974
Don't forget that nearly all Republicans in Congress stood by and supported Trump's...
-Tax cuts for the rich
-Cuts to the social safety net
-Iran War
-ICE abductions & National Guard deployments
-Inflationary tariffs
-Blatant corruption
His unpopularity is theirs too — and the midterms are here.
The IDF came into my Twitter replies to try & boost their fake report accusing Palestinian journalists they murdered of being Hamas. But when Piers Morgan invited them to debate the so-called evidence with me, they didn't show up so... he empty-chaired them. And then I debunked their 'study':
In Wisconsin alone, there were 39 private schools where every student used tuition vouchers during the most recent school year.
Together, these schools educated 7,923 children and took in roughly $87 million from the voucher program.
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