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Rex Huppke / USA Today:
Has Harris finally broken Trump?  He's flailing, glitching and running scared.  —  Vice President Harris, what have you done to this already very unstable man?  The cheese has somehow slid farther off his cracker.  —  Folks, I think Vice President Kamala Harris has broken Donald Trump.
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CNN:
Google loses massive antitrust lawsuit over its search dominance  —  New York CNN —  Google has violated US antitrust law with its search business, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing the tech giant a staggering court defeat with the potential to reshape how millions of Americans …
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David McCabe / New York Times:
‘Google Is a Monopolist,’ Judge Rules in Landmark Antitrust Case  —  The ruling on Google's search dominance was the first antitrust decision of the modern internet era in a case against a technology giant.  —  Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Surprise Poll Reveals a Key Trump Weakness Against Kamala Harris  —  It's one of the biggest unknowns about Kamala Harris's presidential candidacy: Will she successfully reconstitute the Democratic coalition amid Donald Trump's surprising, persistent strength among nonwhite voters, particularly Latinos, and young people?
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John Kruzel / Reuters:
US Supreme Court declines to halt Trump's sentencing in hush money case  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the state of Missouri to halt Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing for his conviction in New York on felony charges involving hush money paid to a porn star and left …
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Justice Thomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says  —  Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow's lawyer after records showed undisclosed flights between Hawaii and New Zealand with the Supreme Court justice in 2010.
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Nandita Bose / Reuters:
Kamala Harris to announce vice president pick before battleground states tour
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want?  —  The third-party Presidential candidate has a troubled past, a shambolic campaign, and some surprisingly good poll numbers.  —  In December of 2021, the pollster Jeremy Zogby began designing a national survey to capture the radical changes …
Stan Choe / Associated Press:
Dow drops 1,000 points, and Japanese stocks suffer worst crash since 1987 as markets quake worldwide  —  Nearly everything on Wall Street is tumbling as fear of a slowing U.S. economy grows and sets off another sell-off for financial markets around the world.
Deborah Yetter / Kentucky Lantern:
Former KY Gov. Matt Bevin's adopted son reportedly removed from abusive facility in Jamaica  —  No one came for him after authorities removed eight boys from Atlantis Leadership Academy, reports Sunday Times of London  —  As Kentucky governor, Matt Bevin said his overriding goal was to reform …
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Madeleine Greenberg / Democracy Docket:
Nevada Court Rejects Trump Campaign's Attempt To Throw Out Some Mail-in Ballots  —  The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) have lost yet another attempt to weaken mail-in voting ahead of the November election.  This time, a state court judge has denied the campaign's request …
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Trump hikes Mar-a-Lago membership to $1m, raising concerns of selling access  —  Four new spots at his resort have opened at a 43% spike in a move seen as buying political influence  —  Donald Trump has set a million-dollar price tag for the ability to whisper in his ear should he win …
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Sarakshi Rai / The Hill:
UK knocks Musk for ‘civil war’ comment amid nationwide riots  —  The U.K.'s 10 Downing Street has hit back at Elon Musk's comments over violent unrest in Northern England and pushed back on his statement that “civil war is inevitable”.  —  Prime Minister Keir Starmer's spokesperson responded …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump keeps attacking their spouses.  Top GOPers keep supporting him anyway.  —  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is the latest to find a family member in Donald Trump's crosshairs.  —  Some of the ugliest moments in the 2016 Republican nominating contest came when Donald Trump attacked Sen. Ted Cruz's family.
Meridith McGraw / Vanity Fair:
The Woman Who Engineered Donald Trump's Rise From the Ashes of 2020  —  In an excerpt of Trump in Exile, Meridith McGraw reveals how the former president was overwhelmed by the dysfunction his election loss brought upon Mar-a-Lago—until Susie Wiles took the wheel of his comeback campaign.
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Usha Vance Defends Hubby J.D. Over His ‘Childless Cat Ladies’ Comment  —  WELL, ACTUALLY...  Trump's running mate was actually trying to make a “substantive” point, his wife said on “Fox & Friends.”  —  J.D. Vance's wife is pushing back against criticism her husband is facing for his …
 
 
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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violate antitrust law

Aditya Soni / Reuters:
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