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Donald Trump’s campaign is expecting that Vice President Kamala Harris will get a “bump” coming out of the Democratic National Convention but generally does not see the week-long event changing the overall trajectory of the race. Trump's speech last month at the Republican National Convention lasted a record-setting 93 minutes. Kamala Harris during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, on Aug. 19, 2024. Kevin Dietsch / Getty ImagesTrump, however, watched much of the Democratic convention, according to the adviser, often taking to social media to regularly comment on convention events. “The convention was good for them, and to some degree we expected that,” said a Trump supporter familiar with the campaign’s thinking.

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Democrats Say the Joy Is Back. Kamala Harris’s campaign has been trying to get voters to feel the joy. “I would say it’s her energy; she’s a joyful, energetic person.”“It just feels really exciting to turn the corner,” she added. Not only did Democrats use more words indicating joy and hope about the election, they also used words indicating feelings of anxiety and apprehension. Still, more than 25 percent of Republicans in July used words like “scared” or “nervous” to describe their feelings about the election.

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☆ NFL Draft 2025 Big Board: Will Johnson, Abdul Carter lead Dane Brugler’s initial top 50
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-21 | by ( Dane Brugler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +46 min

Position CB CB/WR DT Edge LB OT QB RB S TE WR iOL Class Jr. R-Jr. R-So. Photo: Jonathan Bachman / Getty Images OT Jr. 11 Benjamin Morrison CB Notre Dame Height: 6-0 Weight: 186 Class: Jr. Photo: Tim Warner / Getty Images CB Sr. 42 Barrett Carter LB Clemson Height: 6-0 Weight: 234 Class: Sr. Photo: Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images WR Jr. 50 Drew Allar QB Penn State Height: 6-4 Weight: 230 Class: Jr. Photo: Joe Robbins / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images QB Jr.(Illustration: John Bradford / The Athletic; Photos of Carson Beck, Will Johnson and Travis Hunter: Rich von Biberstein / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images; Gregory Shamus, Ryan Kang / Getty Images)

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☆ How buyers and sellers are navigating real estate’s seismic shake-up
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-19 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Traditionally, home sellers in the US have been responsible for paying real estate commissions. The standard 5% or 6% commission was usually split between the seller’s broker and the buyer’s broker, referred to as cooperative compensation. After August 17, sellers and their agents are prohibited from advertising how much they would pay to a buyer’s agent in the MLS. Given the new rules, McMahan said she might reconsider her offer of a 3% buyers’ broker commission the next time she sells her home. These agreements are intended to inform buyers that they may be responsible for covering their Realtor’s commission payment themselves if a seller chooses not to offer it.

Persons: Dana McMahan, ” McMahan, “, McMahan, ”, —, David Ryder, Bill Colson, Colson, ” Colson Organizations: CNN, National Association of Realtors, Realtors, MLS, ”, NAR, Bloomberg, Getty, Maryland, Navy Locations: Louisville , Kentucky, Blue Ridge , Georgia, Maryland, Georgia

☆ After Democrats' long-held edge, Team Trump starts to close the battleground ad spending gap: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

After Democrats’ long-held edge, Team Trump starts to close the battleground ad spending gapBy Ben KamisarIf you live in a swing state and are already sick of seeing presidential campaign ads, buckle up. Over that same period of time, the Trump campaign spent less than $230,000. But over the last two weeks, a dramatic shift from the Trump campaign has helped close the gap. It has spent a total of $13 million in those key states, compared to $16.5 million from the Harris campaign. But we’ve written before about how Republicans have cut into the Democrats’ fundraising edge, and these ad spending numbers show the fruits of that effort.

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☆ Harris' campaign is transforming big crowds into volunteers on the ground in key swing states
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Yamiche Alcindor | Yamiche Alcindor Is An Nbc News Washington Correspondent. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

“We have this very organic, very real, very palpable energy from people that want to support the ticket,” said Dan Kanninen, the Harris campaign’s battleground states director. Last week in Nevada, 1,000 of the 5,010 volunteer sign-ups were for the next day to join a series of weekly events the campaign holds on Sundays, a campaign official said. The campaign official said the burst of sign-ups made Sunday the biggest day yet for the weekly series. Harris’ campaign sees the moment of enthusiasm as one to build on, not squander. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., a national co-chair of the Harris campaign, also said the campaign has always had a plan to keep fighting until Election Day.

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Trump’s allies are also publicly making their pitch for him to refocus his attention on the race. “You’ve always got to be assessing the state of the race, and I would like to see more offense from the Trump campaign. On a swing of battleground states last week, Harris and her new running mate were greeted by a groundswell of supporters at each stop. "This was a TRUMP idea — She has no ideas, she can only steal from me," Trump wrote on Truth Social. In an appearance on Real America’s Voice last week, Trump’s political director, James Blair, made the case that it is a state-by-state race.

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☆ Opinion | Nate Silver on How Kamala Harris Changed the Odds
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Ezra Klein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +81 min

You know, Hillary Clinton, who was, I think, kind of a terrible candidate, won the popular vote by two points. So I don’t think they gave her a very good hand to play. It doesn’t matter who you are, it matters that you’re right and you’re able to prove it or bet on it in some way. What wasn’t in the Harris model that should have been?” “Yeah, maybe you really can meme your way to victory. And there’s something in it that I don’t think she can explain how she does it, but it makes her a fascinating leader.

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☆ Progressive Coalition Shifts $25 Million Campaign to Back Kamala Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Amplify, a coalition of progressive groups, released its first digital ad supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s bid for the White House, part of a $25 million voter outreach campaign targeting Democrats and disaffected independents in battleground states. The ad reflects a unified message from the left that the organizations began testing in the 2022 midterms, and which they say helped blunt what had been expected to be a sweeping victory for Republicans. The members of the coalition said they plan to spend $1 million on the ad’s release. The theme has been widely used by Democrats since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade that year. Ms. Harris, who has long made discussion of abortion rights a major part of her stump speeches, has also fashioned the freedom theme into a core part of her campaign’s message.

Persons: Kamala Harris’s, Donald J, Trump, Biden, Roe, Wade, Harris Organizations: White, Republicans, Gutsy Media, Democratic, Freedoms, ” Locations: Arizona , Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina , Nevada , Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

☆ ‘Bad Monkey,’ Bad Deer, Bad Weather: The Fun of Filming in Florida
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Alex Moffat, an actor and comedian best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live,” rarely shouts at deer. But during a tense scene in the new crime comedy “Bad Monkey,” a Key deer, a member of an endangered species native to the Florida Keys, kept entering the frame. Not a lot of shows shoot in Florida — blame the lack of film infrastructure; blame the absence of tax breaks; blame the deer and the gnats and the 99 percent humidity. Even shows set in the state will typically shoot in North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana or, as in the case of Lawrence’s Florida-centric comedy “Cougar Town,” Los Angeles. He strongly preferred a Florida shoot, especially for the scenes set in the Keys.

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☆ Fact check: Trump made at least 20 false claims in his conversation with Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +34 min

Here is a fact check:CrimeTrump claimed, “Our crime rate’s going through the roof.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. Facts First: Trump did express uncertainty about the number, but his “like 60 million or something” claim is false. They take ‘em out, and they bring them to the United States.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is baseless. He said, “With Ukraine, so we’re in for $250 billion and they’re in for about $71 billion.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. But Trump’s claim that the US has committed or provided far more aid than Europe is not true regardless.

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☆ Opinion | Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In just a few months, Trump may join the exclusive club of two-time presidential losers. Of course, it is still too early to make any real prediction about November. But the sharp reversal in Trump’s electoral fortunes raises an obvious question worth thinking about now: If Trump loses, and perhaps especially if he loses badly, what comes next for the Republican Party? One of the defining attributes of his leadership of the Republican Party is the extent to which he has so thoroughly reshaped Republican identity while leading Republican politicians to a string of national election defeats. Following Trump’s surprise win in 2016, Republicans either lost or underperformed in 2018, 2020 and 2022.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Trump’s, George H.W, Bush, Doug Mastriano Organizations: Republican Party, Trump, Republican Locations: — Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Kari Lake, Arizona, Pennsylvania

☆ A US Navy carrier strike group equipped with F-35 stealth fighters is rushing to the Middle East along with a submarine packed with Tomahawk missiles
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe US is accelerating the deployment of a carrier strike group to the Middle East and sending a guided-missile submarine to the region, the Pentagon announced late on Sunday. Attached to the Lincoln, the lead ship of the US Navy's Carrier Strike Group 3, is a carrier air wing equipped with a squadron of fifth-generation F-35C stealth fighters. The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln maneuvers through a turn while underway in the US 5th Fleet area of responsibility. The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia returns to its homeport at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia. Both Iran and Hamas vowed revenge for the shocking killings, which sparked fears that any retaliation from Tehran and its proxies could send the Middle East spiraling into even more conflict.

Persons: —, Defense Lloyd Austin, Abraham Lincoln, Austin, Lincoln, Pat Ryder, Theodore Roosevelt Carrier, . Lee Apsley, Yoav Gallant, Ashley Berumen, Israel Organizations: Service, Pentagon, Sunday, Defense, Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, Business, Pentagon Press, US Navy's Carrier, Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike, Fleet, Navy, US, Command, Israeli, Naval Submarine Base, US Navy, Mass, Lincoln, Raptors Locations: Israel, Iran, Pacific, East, Lincoln, Gulf, Oman, Georgia, an Ohio, Austin, United States, Ohio, Bay , Georgia, Lebanon, Tehran

☆ I hiked a mountain in the Andes to celebrate my 40th birthday. The hallucinations and violent vomiting that followed had not been part of the plan.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Elizabeth Lavis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I got altitude psychosis a few hundred meters from high camp as I scaled the frigid face of Huayna Potosi, the ninth-highest mountain in the Bolivian Andes. The geodesic dome was surrounded by snow at Huayna Potosi High Camp. Elizabeth LavisThanks to my excellent guide, I made it to high camp and spent the night in an orange geodesic dome perched on Potosi's precarious eastern side. He rapidly identified the seriousness of the situation, carried my day pack the rest of the way, and helped me ascend slowly to high camp. While I was fairly fit and prepared to climb Huayna Potosi, I didn't consider the mental or extreme physical toll the mountain would take.

Persons: —, hallucinating, crampons skidding, Elizabeth Lavis, I've, it's Organizations: Service, Business, Bolivia's La, El, Huayna, Psychiatry Locations: Huayna Potosi, Bolivian, Caucasus, Potosi, Bolivia's, Bolivia's La Paz, El Alto, Lake Titicaca, Peru, Bolivia, Camp, Svaneti , Georgia

☆ Kamala Harris is going on the offensive on border security. It could keep Arizona blue and cut off Trump's path to victory.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewLast Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. AdvertisementTrump can't take Arizona for grantedBefore Biden won Arizona in 2020, it last voted for a Democratic presidential nominee in 1996. AdvertisementHowever, for Trump, a Harris win in Arizona would be a huge blow in his attempts to win a second term. Biden's 2020 victories in Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada — as well as his wins in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — effectively cut off Trump's path to victory that year. Should Harris neutralize the border security issue — a feat that seemed unimaginable when Biden was still the presumptive nominee — it'll give her a major opening to win Arizona.

Persons: —, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, It's, Donald Trump, Joe Biden's, Harris, Trump, it's, Greg Abbott —, Biden, scrambles, Biden's, Democrat Mark Kelly, Katie Hobbs, Donald Trump's, Mario Tama, — it'll Organizations: Service, Minnesota Gov, Democratic, State, Business, Trump, Arizona, Republican, Texas GOP Gov, Biden, Republicans, Central America, Democrat, White House, GOP, — Locations: Glendale , Arizona, Phoenix, Mexico, New York, Chicago, California, Central, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Arizona's, Arizona , Georgia, Michigan , Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

☆ ICE Training Barely Covers De-Escalation, Promotes Agents Use of Force
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Lila Hassan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

But the Llanez family never learned whether Gonzalez had followed ICE training protocols, because the way ICE agents are trained has been largely hidden from the public. For years, civil-rights groups have sought to obtain, with limited success, complete ICE training documents to understand how that training affects use of force by agents in the field. And they also appear to place an emphasis on teaching ICE agents how to justify the use of force. Among the most important lessons ICE agents receive is when and how to use deadly force. One of the questions asks which steps an officer must take before initiating deadly force; the answer is "None, deadly force can be initiated immediately."

Persons: Ronaldo Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Fernando Llanez, Llanez, Jorge Hernandez, weren't, Hernandez, Miguel Alvarez, Ivón Padilla, " Alvarez, FLETC, Gonzalez didn't, Alvarez, isn't, John Bostain, Jim Trainum, Phillip Causey, Gabino Ramos Hernandez, Ramos, Causey, we're, Timothy Cerniglia, Cerniglia, You'll, we'll, Trainum, Christian Rodriguez Organizations: Type Investigations, Immigration, Business, ICE, Court, Southern, Southern District of, Investigations, of Homeland Security, University of Illinois Chicago, Federal, Training Centers, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Law, Department of Justice, Citizens, DHS, Metropolitan Police Department, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation Locations: Chula Vista , California, Chula Vista, Southern District, Southern District of California, Charleston , South Carolina, Glynco, Georgia, Washington ,, Laurel , Mississippi, Southern District of Mississippi, Mississippi

☆ Travel news: Europe’s cleanest swimming spots
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get the latest news in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. CNN —In our roundup of travel stories this week: a life-changing DNA test, a Georgia-to-Mongolia road trip with unexpected challenges, plus a new report reveals Europe’s cleanest places to swim. For sea swimming, Croatia has the brine that’s most divine, followed by Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia. For inland waters, Bulgaria, Greece, Ireland and Romania are all tied in first place, with Austria and Finland not far behind.

Persons: John Portmann, van, it’s, Here’s, It’s, Canada’s, James Gillese, Ryan Titchener, Debby, ”, Little Richard, Otis Redding, There’s Organizations: CNN, European Environmental Agency, European Union, overlanding, CNN CNN Travel, Tourists Locations: Georgia, Mongolia, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Slovenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Ireland, Romania, Austria, Finland, Seine, Paris, Arizona, Russia, Australia, America, Lahaina, Maui’s, Canada’s Jasper, Coast, East Coast, Macon, Macon , Georgia

☆ I went viral for dancing at a Kamala Harris rally. It's given me a platform to inform people about issues I'm passionate about, like Social Security.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( John Towfighi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

And when I went viral, I said, "Okay, I need to do the most with this. There's something called survivor Social Security, and when you lose a parent, you're able to receive that benefit. Advertisement'We are stronger when we help each other'After I went viral, my congressman, Rep. Hank Johnson, came to my town. It's been great to talk about these issues and the work I've been doing for years and to have a larger platform. And that's when those social safety net programs, like Social Security, that neighborliness of our country, that joy, that communal care, comes in because we should help each other.

Persons: —, Parker, Atlanta —, Kendrick Lamar, Kamala Harris, Royce —, I've, John Lewis, Parker Short, Jon Ossoff, Jimmy Carter —, Trump, Sen, Hank Johnson, It's, she's, I'm Organizations: Service, Sanford School of Public, Duke University, Young Democrats, Democratic Party of Georgia, Young Democrats of America, Business, Civil Rights Movement, Social Security, University of Michigan's Ford School of Public, Medicaid, Medicare Locations: Georgia, Dunwoody , Georgia, Atlanta, America

☆ Trump's feud with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp risks blowing the key state
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Brian Kemp has shown Republicans how they win in the increasingly purple swing state. I just want them to do their job for Georgia," Trump said of the Kemps during an August 3rd rally in Atlanta. But Trump's renewed feud with Kemp illustrates how, at any moment, the former president can harm his own standing. Unlike Harris, Trump is relying far more on outside groups to push the type of canvassing and get the out efforts expected of a presidential campaign. On Friday, Kemp offered another olive branch while jokingly comparing Trump to Tropical Storm Debby, which slammed the state.

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☆ Iran steps up influence campaign aimed at US voters with fake news sites, Microsoft says
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Iranian operatives have ramped up their attempts to influence and monitor the US presidential election by creating fake news outlets targeting liberal and conservative voters and by trying to hack an unnamed presidential campaign, Microsoft said in research published late Thursday. Microsoft said it notified the campaign of the hacking attempt, but declined to say publicly which campaign it was. CNN has requested comment from the Trump campaign. The Iranian, Russian and Chinese governments routinely deny allegations of election influence operations. As president, Trump ordered the killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, and he withdrew from a multilateral deal aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program.

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☆ I lived in 2 big cities before moving back to my hometown. I can finally afford a home — and I got paid $5,000 to do it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The Move to Columbus program was sent to me by probably three family members and four friends. I was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia. Before I moved back, I lived in Nashville for seven years and spent two years in Tucker, Georgia, just outside of Atlanta. Bishop's home in Columbus, Georgia. AdvertisementA waterfront in Columbus, Georgia.

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☆ Warner Bros. Discovery stock falls as it writes down $9.1 billion, misses estimates
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-07 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Warner Bros. Here is how Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Discovery's balance sheet carries a significant amount of goodwill stemming from mergers and acquisitions, namely the combination of Warner Bros. and Discovery in 2022. Warner Bros.

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Harris expected to announce her VP pickBy the end of the day, the world will know who Kamala Harris’ 2024 running mate will be. This is Morning Rundown, a weekday newsletter to start your day. Simone Biles won the silver medal in the floor exercise, bringing her final Paris medal count to four: three golds and one silver. Google’s antitrust loss is a win for internet regulatorsIn a massive antitrust lawsuit ruling, a federal judge found that Google has an illegal monopoly on search engines and text advertisements. Despite some posts and influencers recommending close to 100 grams of protein per day, experts say the answer is far less.

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Chatham County employees dump a truck load of sand for residents to use in sandbag as they prepare for Hurricane Debby, in Savannah, Georgia on August 5. Stephen B. Morton/APHurricane survivors returning to damaged houses face a torrent of challenges – if they’re lucky enough to have a home at all. Residents should “return home only when local officials say it is safe to do so,” the Federal Emergency Management Agency says. Once you get there, “Walk carefully around the outside of your home to check for loose power lines, gas leaks, and structural damage,” the National Weather Service says. Read more about how to recover from a hurricane or tropical storm.

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☆ 27-year-old Olympic gold medalist and Harvard grad says her health-care job helped her prep for the Games
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

American sprinter Gabby Thomas won her first Olympic gold medal in the 2024 Paris Games women's 200-meter final on Tuesday — an accomplishment that she credits, in part, to her second job. The 27-year-old, who took home bronze and silver during her Olympic debut at the Tokyo games, balances her career as an Olympian with a job in health care. Thomas holds a bachelor's degree in neurobiology from Harvard University and a master's degree in public health from the University of Texas Health Science Center. In the months leading up to the Games, Thomas trained three to six hours a day, but at night, she worked at an Austin volunteer health-care clinic for people without insurance. "I think I'm just so grateful to get to do what I love," Thomas told Olympics.com.

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