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MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump has never stopped propagating falsehoods that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. “The Democrat Party is guilty of the Worst Election Interference in American History,” Trump wrote Wednesday on social media after the judge overseeing his federal election interference case in Washington released a redacted filing from special counsel Jack Smith. Trump’s campaign did not provide a response to questions about his repeated use of the “election interference” label. It’s part of an extensive pattern of false election-rigging claims from Trump — beyond his well-documented lies about the 2020 election. He was among the 139 GOP House members who objected to the 2020 election certification.

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☆ Tonight's vice presidential debate matters a lot more this time around
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, what you need to know about tonight's vice presidential debate , and why it's worth paying attention to. The big storyUp for debateDrew Hallowell/Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Brandon Bell/Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BIOhio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. ET for an uncharacteristically important vice presidential debate , write Business Insider's Brent D. Griffiths and John L. Dorman. Thanks to a hot streak at Miu Miu, Prada has done what few luxury retailers have been able to do this year: grow. In short, it doesn't get trendier than Miu Miu — and trendy is good for business.

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The lines crossed in the Paul Pelosi attack: 49% blamed political rhetoric, 40% said it was an isolated incident by a disturbed person, and 2% said both were a factor. And a greater share of respondents than ever said rhetoric was a contributor to the latest attempt on Trump’s life. The previous time the NBC News poll asked this question, Republican respondents called the Paul Pelosi attack an isolated incident by a 64%-25% margin. Independents narrowly said rhetoric was an important contributor, 48%-41%, while Democrats blamed rhetoric 74%-17%. This month, Republicans overwhelmingly said rhetoric was an important contributor to the assassination attempt against Trump, while Democrats shaded more narrowly in the other direction.

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☆ Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Marshall Cohen | Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +26 min

“Our elections are bad, and a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they’re trying to get them to vote,” Trump said. “THE FBI CAUGHT IRAN SPYING ON MY CAMPAIGN, AND GIVING ALL OF THE INFORMATION TO THE KAMALA HARRIS CAMPAIGN. Despite Trump’s claims, there is no evidence the Iranian hackers provided the Harris campaign with “all of the information” they stole. False claim: Election officials use early voting to commit fraudTrump has encouraged his supporters this year to make use of early voting. False claim: Trump won Minnesota in 2020Trump declared in March and May that he won Minnesota in the 2020 election.

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☆ Trump repeats insults about Harris’ mental state as some GOP allies urge him to stick to issues
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Jack Forrest | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his personal insults about Vice President Kamala Harris’ mental state as some GOP allies urged him to stay on message and avoid such attacks after he made similar remarks at a rally the night before. I’m saying your party, your policies, are batsh*t crazy,” Graham added of Harris after attacking her record on the border. Larry Hogan, an outspoken Trump critic who has rejected the former president’s endorsement in his Senate race, pushed back on Trump’s attacks on Harris. Asked about Trump’s recent line of attack on Harris, Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign, told CNN in a statement that “Kamala Harris is wholly unfit to serve as president” and went on to attack her record on immigration. CNN has reached out to Harris’ campaign about Trump’s most recent comments.

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Harris is scheduled to make her first trip to the southern U.S. border in more than three years. “We do have a broken immigration system,” Harris said Wednesday in an interview with MSNBC. In discussing immigration, Harris has increasingly attacked Trump over his efforts to kill a bipartisan border funding deal this year. “She keeps talking about how she supposedly wants to fix the border,” Trump said Thursday at a news conference at Trump Tower. He’s skeptical of Harris’ tougher talk on immigration.

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☆ Trump set to meet Zelensky amid GOP tensions over Ukraine assistance
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet at Trump Tower on Friday morning, according to Trump, giving the Ukrainian leader the chance to make a personal pitch to a GOP presidential nominee openly skeptical of continued US security assistance for Ukraine against Russia. Still, it’s unclear whether Zelensky can say anything to convince Trump to change his position on the Russia-Ukraine war and US security assistance. Zelensky said this week that Trump doesn’t know how to end Russia’s war on Ukraine. But an in-person meeting while Zelensky, who was in town for the UN General Assembly, appeared unlikely earlier this week. “Those cities are gone, they’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelensky.

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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers averted a government shutdown 40 days before the election, but they’ll face another funding crunch right before the holidays and a new Congress and president take office. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., predicted that the two parties could come to a deal and avoid a shutdown in December. Congratulations, congressmen.”The full House has already passed five of the 12 appropriations bills for the new fiscal year. The Senate Appropriations Committee sent 11 out of 12 spending bills to the floor, where none of them have had votes. "What Leader Schumer should have done is brought the appropriations bills to the floor.

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☆ Zelenskyy's meeting with Harris and spat with Trump reveal a growing partisan divide on Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Seitz-Wald-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

Vice President Kamala Harris is meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a trip to the U.S., while former President Donald Trump isn’t, highlighting the growing partisan division over a key foreign policy issue. “The president of Ukraine is in our country, and he’s making little nasty aspersions toward your favorite president, me,” Trump said Wednesday in North Carolina. “Every time Zelenskyy comes to the United States, he walks away with $100 billion,” Trump said Tuesday in Georgia. “I want the war to stop,” Trump when he was pressed during his only debate with Harris. A senior Trump administration official echoed Trump to say the circumstances of any future settlement deal grow more fraught by the day.

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☆ Zelensky to make urgent in-person plea to Biden and Harris as Ukraine braces for possibility of a Trump presidency
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Kevin Liptak | Mj Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the White House on Thursday could be his final chance to convince a receptive American president of his country’s war aims. Even if Biden decides to allow the long-range fires, it’s unclear whether the change in policy would be announced publicly. The ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia is no exception, they say, insisting that Ukraine would continue to have the US’s unwavering support against Russian aggression under a Harris presidency. “Five days before Russia attacked Ukraine, I met with President Zelensky to warn him about Russia’s plan to invade. There is quiet recognition even inside the Biden administration that any reassurances Zelensky may receive from Biden and Harris this week on the US’s commitment to supporting Ukraine could all be for naught under a different American president.

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☆ Trump ally Matt Gaetz says House Ethics panel issued subpoena for him in sex, drug probe
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Matt Gaetz said Thursday that he has learned the House Ethics Committee will subpoena him as it investigates whether the Florida Republican engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor or illicit drug use. Gaetz, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, made the statement in an angry letter to the Ethics Committee that declared he will "no longer voluntarily participate" in the panel's probe. Gaetz said he understands that a subpoena has been "issued, but not served" — but did not say whether he would comply with the subpoena. An Ethics Committee spokesman declined to comment on the letter. Gaetz reportedly helped Trump prepare for his Sept. 10 presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee.

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Higgins' post amplified the debunked pet claim, which was followed by dozens of bomb threats in the city. "All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th," the post concluded. That would be the day Trump and Vance would be sworn into office if they win November's election. Higgins' fellow Republican congressman from Louisiana, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, said, "The tweet has been deleted already and removed, but I object to the motion." Horsford told reporters afterwards that he'd spoken to Higgins earlier and that the Louisiana congressman had told him he would not remove the post.

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Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno is facing a wave of criticism over his remarks about suburban women and abortion heading into the homestretch of the competitive race. Moreno said at a town hall in Warren County on Friday that many "suburban women" are "single-issue voters" when it comes to abortion. “You know, the left has a lot of single-issue voters,” Moreno said. “Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, ‘Listen, abortion is it. Ohio voters in November passed a ballot measure enshrining the right to abortion care in the state constitution.

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A school-privatization activist and frequent Fox News guest whose work has been praised by former President Donald Trump was placed on leave by his conservative nonprofit employer after reports that he had appeared in gay pornography videos surfaced. A person who resembles DeAngelis and performs under the name “Seth Rose” appears in at least three gay adult films on the pornography site GayHoopla dating to 2014. The existence of the videos was first reported last week by the blog Str8 Up Gay Porn, which shares gay porn and articles about sex. In more recent years, he has become a fierce advocate of “school choice,” which subsidizes private schools with public dollars. “It’s just so strange how the far left is so obsessed with inserting sexual topics into elementary schools,” DeAngelis said in the segment.

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“Those cities are gone, they’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelensky. The comments come at the same time as a rising furor on Capitol Hill over the Ukrainian president among Republicans. Republican leaders are so far declining to meet Zelensky while he is in Washington, DC, while Democrats are embracing the opportunity. A deal could have been made if we had a competent President,” Trump said. It’s just sloganeering.”Vance’s Republican colleagues in the Senate sent a clear message to the Ukrainian president when asked about the remark on Wednesday.

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☆ Biden administration backs House Republicans' three-month government funding bill
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The statement criticized congressional Republicans for not including additional funding for disaster relief, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Small Business Administration. The White House also warned that it would oppose any funding cuts to the Internal Revenue Service in final appropriations legislation. President Joe Biden and many congressional Democrats staunchly opposed plans to include the SAVE Act in the government funding bill. But it was Johnson's own caucus members who defeated his initial funding measure, when 14 House Republicans voted against it on Sept. 18. House Republican aides said Sunday that the funding proposal could reach the House floor for a vote as soon as Wednesday.

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☆ GOP congressman gave jobs to his lover and to his fiancée’s daughter, New York Times says
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —New York Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, one of the GOP’s most endangered House incumbents, reportedly gave both his lover and his fiancée’s daughter part-time jobs in his district office on Long Island, a potential violation of House ethics rules. D’Esposito is locked in a tight rematch with Democrat Laura Gillen, whom he defeated by fewer than 10,000 votes two years ago. D’Esposito maintained he will “absolutely” continue his race for reelection “and win.”Both his fiancée and lover, in brief conversations with the New York Times, confirmed the reporting. GOP Rep. Marc Molinaro said he has spoken to D’Esposito but declined to comment further. When CNN asked D’Esposito’s fellow Long Islander, GOP Rep. Nick LaLota, about the report, he said he was on the phone.

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☆ Israel issues rare warning to Lebanese civilians and Johnson's new strategy to avert a shutdown: Morning Rundown
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Elizabeth Both | Elizabeth Both Is An Associate Platforms Editor For Nbc News | Based In New York. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

House Speaker Mike Johnson makes a deal with Democrats in an attempt to avert a shutdown. Israel launches ‘’extensive’’ strikes across Lebanon. Johnson’s CR should sail through the House — with backing from a large number of Republicans and Democrats. Donald Trump said he doesn’t believe he would run for office again in four years if he loses the November election. Aziz Taher / ReutersThe Israeli military warned civilians in southern Lebanon to move away from Hezbollah positions this morning as it intensified attacks on its neighbor.

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☆ Republicans are defying Trump's demand to force a government shutdown before the election
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Yet Johnson, and any other Republican who votes for this bill, will be quietly defying Trump's wishes just weeks before the 2024 election. In essence, Trump asked Republicans to threaten a government shutdown over the provision. Yet when the continuing resolution with the SAVE Act came up for a vote last week, it failed, with 14 Republicans voting against it. Many Republicans simply don't want to have this fight right nowDespite Trump's push, Republicans on Capitol Hill understand that actually following his lead would be reckless. It's certainly possible that most Republicans will vote against Johnson's new government funding bill.

Persons: —, Mike Johnson, Donald Trump, Johnson, Trump's, Trump, Mitch McConnell, It's, isn't, Joe Biden's Organizations: Service, Business, Republican, Republicans, Capitol, Social, SAVE Locations: It's

☆ US government begins preparations for a partial shutdown with one week until deadline – despite agreement
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Betsy Klein | Tami Luhby | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

That standard guidance will be circulated Monday, seven days before a shutdown could occur. Should lawmakers fail to pass a funding bill, millions of federal workers and military personnel would be affected by a shutdown. Another 1.4 million federal employees may have to work without pay, though some of these positions are funded through resources other than annual appropriations, she said. All federal employees are guaranteed back pay, though contractors are not. Even the threat of a shutdown can disrupt the lives of federal employees, who could have to forgo their paychecks.

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☆ House Speaker Johnson axes Trump voting restrictions in new government funding bill
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R) (R-LA) departs a press conference with Republican leadership on Capitol Hill on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday announced a new temporary government funding proposal with key amendments from the original bill he put forward earlier this month, going against former President Donald Trump's wishes and making some concessions to Democrats. E.T., just over a month away from the November election when party control will be up for grabs in both the White House and Congress. "While this is not the solution any of us prefer, it is the most prudent path forward under the present circumstances," Johnson wrote in the letter. The new bill will likely get to the House floor by Wednesday, according to House Republican aides.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Donald Trump's, Johnson Organizations: Republican, Capitol, Sunday, SAVE, Trump, Congressional Republicans, White House, Secret Service Locations: Washington , DC

☆ How promises of a ‘post-Roe future’ have fallen short
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Few address child care, for infants or beyond. Since Dobbs, seven states have had ballot initiatives on the topic, with the abortion rights position winning in each state. In November, at least 10 more initiatives aimed at restoring or protecting abortion rights will be in front of voters across the country. But Brahm has also rallied an array of political, faith, academic, medical and advocacy leaders into a coalition called “Building a Post-Roe Future” that calls for more affordable health care and child care, expanded child tax credits, paid parental leave, flexible work hours and enforced pre-natal support. Though paid parental leave has been a big topic of discussion around the country, the only states to enact such measures since Dobbs are those where abortion rights are protected.

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☆ The US economy could get hit by a double whammy on September 30, if 2 major negotiations are not hammered out
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewSeptember 30 could be a consequential day for the US economy if two major negotiations don't get hammered out in time. Congress must pass a stopgap spending bill by the last day of this month to avoid a partial government shutdown. September 30 is also the deadline for the International Longshoremen's Association and several East Coast and Gulf Coast ports to strike a contract. A government shutdownThe rejection of Johnson's plan on Wednesday ratcheted up tensions in Congress as the September 30 deadline draws ever nearer. This would pause the strike while negotiations continued.

Persons: —, there's, Mike Johnson, Johnson, There's, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden, Taft, Hartley Organizations: Service, International Longshoremen's Association, Business, GOP, United States Maritime Alliance, Street, White House, Washington Post, Street Journal, Social Security, Medicare, Congressional, Office, International Longshoremen's, Retail Industry, Association Locations: East Coast, Gulf Coast, Maine, Texas, West Coast, RILA

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Battleground state election officials from both parties are pushing back against a falsehood that has proven pervasive ahead of the 2024 reaction: that noncitizens are voting in widespread numbers. The comments came as former President Donald Trump and his GOP allies have talked up efforts to crack down on noncitizens voting, which is already illegal. Maricopa County has sued seeking clarity on whether those voters can vote in state and local elections this fall. Republicans at the national and state level have fueled unfounded noncitizen voting claims in the run-up to this year's presidential election. Election officials said Thursday they were taking steps to debunk conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 election.

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☆ Schumer takes steps to prevent shutdown as Speaker Johnson’s next move unclear
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Clare Foran | Ted | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has called for Republicans to shut down the government if they can’t pass the voting measure known as the SAVE Act. Many Democrats are pushing for an extension into December that would not include the SAVE Act, which is viewed as a non-starter in the Senate. “House Republicans don’t seem to have any plan for actually keeping the government open, so the Senate will step in,” Schumer said in floor remarks. “Many Republican House members, as many of you have reported, are smart enough to know if there is a shutdown, it will be a Republican shutdown. There never is a shutdown — hardly ever is a shutdown,” said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois.

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