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Trump’s ‘grab them’ comment was history. Now TikTok is showing it to young voters

Trump’s ‘grab them’ comment was history. Now TikTok is showing it to young voters

The Washington Post reports: It’s been eight years since leaked audio from a conversation between Donald Trump and TV host Billy Bush made waves for the former president’s descriptions of kissing and grabbing women without their consent. Now, young people are encountering the tape for the first time on TikTok, where users are sharing videos of their reactions and, in some cases, reaching large audiences. Many first-time voters were young teens in 2016 when The Washington Post first reported the…

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A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three visits to Texas emergency rooms

A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three visits to Texas emergency rooms

By Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana This story was originally published by ProPublica Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before….

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Exterminate, expel, resettle: Israel’s endgame in northern Gaza

Exterminate, expel, resettle: Israel’s endgame in northern Gaza

+972 Magazine reports: The “Generals’ Plan,” published in early September, has a very simple goal: to empty the northern Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population. The plan itself estimated that about 300,000 people were still living north of the Netzarim Corridor — the Israeli-occupied zone that bisects Gaza — although the UN put the number closer to 400,000. During the first phase of the plan, the Israeli army would inform all of those people that they have a week to evacuate to the south…

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‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh

‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh

Nesrine Malik writes: Wael al-Dahdouh was live on air when he realised something was wrong. It was 25 October 2023, about 5pm, and Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza was standing on the roof of the channel’s office building, speaking about the day’s airstrikes. “It’s going to be a bloody night,” said Dahdouh, his voice playing over live images of the skyline, as explosions flared on the horizon. Out of the corner of his eye, Dahdouh noticed his nephew Hamdan,…

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Researchers are trying to ‘inoculate’ people against misinformation

Researchers are trying to ‘inoculate’ people against misinformation

Science reports: As a young boy growing up in the Netherlands in the 1990s, Sander van der Linden learned that most of his mother’s relatives, who were Jewish, had been killed by the Nazis, in the grip of racist ideology. At school, he was confronted with antisemitic conspiracy theories still circulating in Europe. It all got him wondering about the power of propaganda and how people become convinced of falsehoods. Eventually, he would make studying those issues his career. As…

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MAGA men are terrified at the fact that women can still vote however they choose

MAGA men are terrified at the fact that women can still vote however they choose

The Daily Beast reports: Two of former president Donald Trump’s most prominent backers in the right wing influencer sphere fretted Wednesday after early voting numbers showed massive early turnout among women that could imperil their candidate’s path to victory. “Male turnout in Pennsylvania for Trump has been a disaster,” tweeted Mike Cernovich on Wednesday. “Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes PA and it’s over.” Male turnout in Pennsylvania for Trump has been a disaster. Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes…

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Musk asks voters to brace for economic ‘hardship,’ deep spending cuts in potential Trump Cabinet role

Musk asks voters to brace for economic ‘hardship,’ deep spending cuts in potential Trump Cabinet role

NBC News reports: In the home stretch of the 2024 election, voters who’ve been weighing both campaigns’ proposals to tackle living costs are now hearing a new pitch from the Republican side: accept some short-term economic pain to rein in government spending. That message has emerged from former President Donald Trump’s wealthiest backer, Elon Musk, who says that the GOP nominee’s plans to put the U.S. on firmer fiscal footing would likely entail “temporary hardship” for ordinary Americans. At a…

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Elon Musk could have U.S. citizenship revoked if he lied on immigration forms

Elon Musk could have U.S. citizenship revoked if he lied on immigration forms

Wired reports: Elon Musk could have his United States citizenship revoked and be exposed to criminal prosecution if he lied to the government as part of the immigration process, according to legal experts. Musk, who was born and raised in South Africa and later emigrated to Canada before eventually settling in the US and becoming a citizen, has spent more than $100 million to support Donald Trump and his nativist presidential campaign, and has personally demonized immigrants. A recent Bloomberg…

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The stock market’s surprising bet on who will win the presidency

The stock market’s surprising bet on who will win the presidency

Politico reports: Wall Street executives, political gamblers and cryptocurrency traders are piling up their bets that former President Donald Trump is returning to the White House. But the stock market may be telling a different story. U.S. stocks have been on a tear, with the bellwether S&P 500 index climbing more than 10 percent since August. While the stock market is not necessarily representative of the broader economy, the S&P 500’s performance in the run-up to Election Day has historically…

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Trump would be worse for Palestinians

Trump would be worse for Palestinians

Nicholas Kristof writes: If Donald Trump is elected president on Tuesday, one factor may be anger at Biden administration policies in the Middle East. Some Arab Americans, including those in swing states like Michigan, are enraged at President Biden’s support for Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Their taxes are paying for weapons that may be killing their relatives. A poll found Arab American support for Kamala Harris is 18 percentage points below support for Biden in 2020. Many young…

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Bill Clinton’s Gaza comments draw outrage on social media

Bill Clinton’s Gaza comments draw outrage on social media

Middle East Eye reports: Former US President Bill Clinton has sparked backlash online after saying the Palestinian group Hamas “forces” Israel to kill Palestinian civilians. Clinton addressed an audience in Michigan on Wednesday to rally support for Democratic Party candidate Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the 5 November US presidential elections, with a speech that discussed Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip. Michigan is a key battleground state where former President Donald Trump and Harris are neck and…

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Trump doubles down after Elon Musk’s shocking ‘tank the economy’ confession

Trump doubles down after Elon Musk’s shocking ‘tank the economy’ confession

The New Republic reports: Just hours after Elon Musk admitted Donald Trump’s policies will tank the entire economy, the former president confirmed his plans to let Musk be a part of the destruction, claiming that “nobody is going to feel it.” In an interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday night, Trump lauded Musk as a “very exceptional guy” and a “great cost-cutter” when asked about a potential role for the billionaire CEO in his Cabinet. But even more unbelievably, the…

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We led some of America’s largest companies. Here’s why we are voting for Harris, not Trump

We led some of America’s largest companies. Here’s why we are voting for Harris, not Trump

The following former CEOs — Doug Parker (American Airlines), Ken Frazier (Merck), Anne Mulcahy (Xerox), Ursula Burns (Xerox), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Jeff Bewkes (Time Warner), Bob Diamond (Barclays), Matt Levatich (Harley-Davidson), Tom Glocer (Thomson Reuters), Kay Koplovitz (USA Network), Robert Wolf (UBS Americas), Blake Irving (GO Daddy), Michael Lynton (Sony Pictures), Ken Chenault (American Express Co), Tony Coles (Onyx Pharmaceuticals and Yumanity Pharmaceuticals), Roger Altman (Evercore), Ellen Kullman (DuPont), John Pepper (Procter & Gamble), and Bill George (Medtronic) — write:…

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How America’s craven plutocrats busted the myth of the business hero

How America’s craven plutocrats busted the myth of the business hero

Ross Rosenfeld writes: Of the top 10 richest men in America, not one of them has publicly endorsed Kamala Harris or been willing to condemn Donald Trump. These supposed business heroes are mostly business cowards, the first to stoop to obey. Occasionally, we hear about the whispered condemnations that those in the billionaire class supposedly voice behind closed doors. Yet Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale professor who heads the Executive Leadership Institute, told Forbes, “They don’t antagonize Trump because … they…

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A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a ‘crime’ to intervene in her miscarriage

A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a ‘crime’ to intervene in her miscarriage

By Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana This story was originally published by ProPublica Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving her daughter would not survive this pregnancy. The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should…

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