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Trump raked in $300,000 for endorsing Bible, financial disclosure shows

Trump raked in $300,000 for endorsing Bible, financial disclosure shows

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump’s latest financial disclosure lists more than $100 million in liabilities stemming from three civil lawsuits he lost in New York that required him to obtain bonds to pay the judgments — but also profits from licensing fees at Trump-branded properties in Dubai and Oman, as well as income that he made from his post-presidential books, including a Trump-endorsed Bible. The former president also holds more than $1 million in cryptocurrency as he…

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Gaza rubble likely to conceal untold horrors to swell 40,000 death toll

Gaza rubble likely to conceal untold horrors to swell 40,000 death toll

The Guardian reports: Dalia Hawas was 24 years old when an Israeli airstrike flattened the apartment building where she lived in February, burying the young mother with her 10-month-old daughter, Mona. They are not listed among Gaza’s war dead, because their bodies were trapped too deep beneath the rubble for rescue teams to reach them. Ten months into Israel’s war on Gaza, the death toll has passed 40,000, according to health authorities there. Most of the dead are civilians and…

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B’Tselem’s executive director talks to Christiane Amanpour about abuse of Palestinian prisoners

B’Tselem’s executive director talks to Christiane Amanpour about abuse of Palestinian prisoners

"This is our conception of security: the way we keep us secure is to abuse, to kill." Investigations by CNN, the UN, and Israeli media exposed alleged abuse of Palestinians in Israeli detention centers, which the IDF and the prison service have denied. Now a new report from… pic.twitter.com/wP8JxNLfJ2 — Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) August 14, 2024

How Coca-Cola tried and failed to suppress a boycott over Gaza

How Coca-Cola tried and failed to suppress a boycott over Gaza

The Washington Post reports: When sales of Coca-Cola began to plummet in parts of the Middle East and Asia this summer in response to boycotts of corporations with alleged ties to Israel, the soda company’s franchise in Bangladesh rolled out an expensive advertising campaign featuring a television star known for his roles in South Asian soap operas and reality TV. The actor, Sharaf Ahmed Jibon, played a shopkeeper who assured customers that Coca-Cola was not an Israeli product and underscored…

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Hezbollah footage shows apparent underground rocket launch sites

Hezbollah footage shows apparent underground rocket launch sites

Reuters reports: The powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah published footage on Friday that appeared to show its fighters driving trucks with rocket launchers through a maze of tunnels to an apparent underground launch site. The footage, 4 minutes and 35 seconds long, is the latest in a series of videos by the group flaunting its purported military capabilities, as it trades fire with the Israeli military in parallel with the Gaza war. The newest video depicts fighters riding motorcycles,…

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Republicans worry as polls in solidly red states look ‘worse than they should’ for Trump

Republicans worry as polls in solidly red states look ‘worse than they should’ for Trump

Rolling Stone reports: This month, GOP operatives and others close to Donald Trump have grown increasingly nervous over trends they’ve seen in recent private polling data produced by different Republican organizations and conservative allies. It’s not just the swing-state polling or the national surveys that are causing distress lately. The anxiety-spiking numbers are coming out of Trump strongholds like Ohio and Florida, according to three GOP sources, including two people close to the former president, who have reviewed the private…

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Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term

Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term

CNN reports: Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting would help his think tank secure a substantial contribution. For nearly two hours, he talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump, his…

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Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025

Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025

The Guardian reports: A US foundation associated with the oil company Shell has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to religious right and conservative organizations, many of which deny that climate change is a crisis, tax records reveal. Fourteen of those groups are on the advisory board of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint proposing radical changes to the federal government, including severely limiting the Environment Protection Agency. Shell USA Company Foundation sent $544,010 between 2013 and 2022 to organizations that…

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Palestinian Reverend Munther Isaac to U.S. faith leaders: If you are silent, you approve of genocide

Palestinian Reverend Munther Isaac to U.S. faith leaders: If you are silent, you approve of genocide

  Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza, according to the official death toll, though the true casualty figure is likely far higher with thousands of the dead unaccounted for. Meanwhile, Israeli forces have raided towns and villages across the occupied West Bank, and settlers under military protection have repeatedly stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in recent days. This all comes as the State Department on Tuesday announced the approval of $20 billion in new arms…

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Biden ‘open’ to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine

Biden ‘open’ to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine

Politico reports: The Biden administration is “open” to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, a move that would give Kyiv’s F-16s greater combat punch as it seeks to gain further momentum in its fight against Russia. The White House’s willingness to give Ukraine the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile comes as Kyiv’s surprisingly successful ground assault deep inside Russia heads into its second week, embarrassing Vladimir Putin and forcing him to redirect troops from the battlefield in Ukraine. No final decision…

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Daniel Levy: U.S. is a member of ‘the axis of Zionist extremism’

Daniel Levy: U.S. is a member of ‘the axis of Zionist extremism’

  The United States, Qatar and Egypt are urging Israel and Hamas to hold a new round of negotiations to finalize a ceasefire deal in Gaza. However, Hamas is urging mediators to enforce the ceasefire terms proposed by President Biden in May that Hamas already agreed to and that Israel rejected. Daniel Levy, president of the U.S./Middle East Project and a former Israeli peace negotiator under Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, says U.S.-led efforts for a ceasefire are…

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How Ukraine caught Putin’s forces off guard in Kursk — and why

How Ukraine caught Putin’s forces off guard in Kursk — and why

Michael Weiss and James Rushton write: “Russia’s borders do not end anywhere” ran Vladimir Putin’s electoral slogan in January 2024, in seeming justification of a war of conquest in Ukraine meant to be over shortly after it began. But in a surprise turn two and a half years after the full-scale invasion, Ukraine decided to make good on Putin’s loose definition of sovereignty by invading the Kursk region in southern Russia on Aug. 6, in what has become the largest…

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Trump allies fear he’s sabotaging his own campaign

Trump allies fear he’s sabotaging his own campaign

Gabriel Sherman writes: In the hierarchy of Donald Trump’s put-downs, “choker” is one of the worst things he can label someone. Trump deploys the sports-world diss to paint his adversaries as weak-kneed losers who crack under pressure like a jittery golfer missing a two-foot putt. Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz––all chokers, according to Trump. So it’s ironic how the former president’s allies are describing the way he has blown his once commanding lead in the presidential race. “It’s…

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How Trump’s infatuation with a racist conspiracy theorist is impacting the campaign

How Trump’s infatuation with a racist conspiracy theorist is impacting the campaign

Judd Legum and Noel Sims write: Laura Loomer is a far-right internet personality and former Republican congressional candidate. She has said the United States should be a “white Judeo-Christian ethnostate,” called for the creation of a ride-sharing app like Uber that bans “Islamic immigrant driver[s],” collaborated with Alex Jones to suggest mass shootings were staged by the government, celebrated the deaths of 2,000 refugees in the Mediterranean, and claimed January 6 should be a national holiday to “celebrate the bravery of American patriots who protested…

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A Florida referendum is putting Trump in a bind on abortion

A Florida referendum is putting Trump in a bind on abortion

Politico reports: Donald Trump still doesn’t have an answer on how he’ll vote on an abortion measure in his home state. And it’s about to become a lot harder for him to avoid it. Four months ago, Trump announced he favored leaving the issue of abortion to the states. Now, state-level referendums on the lightning-rod issue are making ballots across the country — including, on Monday, in the battleground state of Arizona, and on Tuesday in Missouri. And in Florida,…

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Asheville NC forces Trump campaign to pay $82k upfront for small venue so the city doesn’t get stiffed

Asheville NC forces Trump campaign to pay $82k upfront for small venue so the city doesn’t get stiffed

Newsweek reports: Former President Donald Trump’s campaign was forced to pay more than $82,000 in advance for this week’s rally in Asheville, North Carolina. Trump is set to take the stage at Asheville’s Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on Wednesday after paying $82,247.60 to the city for a “last-minute” rally, according to Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR). The campaign, struggling to effectively blunt the momentum of Vice President Kamala Harris, reportedly first contacted the city about the rally on August 8. City…

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