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The Akron Beacon-Journal reports: Akron-based FirstEnergy will pay $20 million and avoid criminal charges as part of an agreement with state prosecutors to resolve the company’s role in a statewide bribery scandal. As part of the agreement, FirstEnergy will cooperate with an Ohio Attorney General’s Office and Summit County Prosecutor’s Office investigation into a pay-to-play scandal. FirstEnergy previously admitted it …

The Associated Press reports: Indiana’s attorney general has dropped a lawsuit that accused the state’s largest hospital system of violating patient privacy laws when a doctor told a newspaper that a 10-year-old Ohio girl had traveled to Indiana for an abortion. The suit accused the hospital system of violating HIPAA, the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and a …

“I think it’s pretty obvious at this point, there are a lot of people out there and there’s a massive effort, of course, to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. These people are terrified. This is the deep state. This is the swamp in Washington, D.C.. “These are the people who are our adversaries in many cases, they …

“Janel Brandtjen is a Proven Fighter for Wisconsin! She has consistently defended Constitutional Freedoms, and fought for Free and Transparent Elections in Wisconsin. Janel has proven her integrity and dogged determination to keep Wisconsin FREE. “Wisconsin needs Leaders who will empower Constituents to Hold their Elected Officials Accountable. No one does that better than Janel Brandtjen. “WISCONSIN, GET OUT AND …

The Florida Alligator reports: In his 17-month stint as UF president, Ben Sasse more than tripled his office’s spending, directing millions in university funds into secretive consulting contracts and high-paying positions for his GOP allies. Sasse ballooned spending under the president’s office to $17.3 million in his first year in office — up from $5.6 million in former UF President …

Florida Politics reports: U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has long been a proponent for making it easier for people to have access to marijuana during a career that started out in the Florida Legislature and then on to Congress. Last year, Gaetz proposed to stop testing members of the military for cannabis use. But Gaetz says he will be voting against …

The Huffington Post reports: A group of hardline House Republican conservatives and libertarians named their price Monday for keeping the government open past Sept. 30: passage of a bill against illegal voting that most experts say isn’t needed. The government’s day-to-day operations — most federal agencies and the programs they provide, aside from Social Security and Medicare — are funded …

The New Republic reports: J.D. Vance evidently did some cross-dressing back in law school. On Sunday, a photo of the Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential nominee allegedly wearing a blonde wig and dressed as a woman was posted on X. When The Daily Beast reached out to Vance to see if the photo was real, the campaign did not …

The Guardian reports: Cleta Mitchell, a close Trump ally, has spent the last few years building up a network of activists focused on local boards of elections. And the Republican National Committee’s election litigation team is now being led by Christina Bobb, an election denier who is now facing criminal charges for her efforts to overturn the 2020 race. The …

The New York Post reports: Former President Barack Obama is secretly running Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, using his people to direct her bid, ex-Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy claimed Sunday. “If you’re watching the campaign now, some of Obama’s [key people such as] David Plouffe and others are now working on the campaign,” McCarthy said on 770 WABC’s “The Cats …

The Daily Beast reports: An image of JD Vance allegedly dressed as a woman and wearing a blonde wig was posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday. A spokesperson for the Republican vice presidential pick did not deny the photo’s authenticity when approached by the Daily Beast, and did not offer any further comment. The source who surfaced …

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger writes for Fox News: The attacks on Walz have proven to be not only false but also disgusting. I will debunk the attacks that have been floating around. But first, keep one thing in mind: Donald Trump not only didn’t serve in the military, but he actively avoided service by claiming he had “bone spurs”—a diagnosis …

Face The Nation has the transcript: MARGARET BRENNAN: President Trump said Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi were lovely individuals when he was speaking in Montana last night. You agree with that characterization? SEN. JD VANCE: I think that President Trump gets along with world leaders, and there’s nothing wrong with him complimenting them as people, if it makes him …

“Look, my attitude to these people attacking my wife is, she’s beautiful, she’s smart. What kind of man marries Usha? A very smart man and a very lucky man, importantly. “And my view is, look, if these guys want to attack me or attack my views, my policy views, my personality, come after me. “But don’t attack my wife. She’s …

Florida Politics reports: Rick Scott said Saturday that he “just read a book last year called JFK And The Unspeakable,” which posited that Kennedy was killed amid what author James W. Douglas calls “struggle with his national security state,” which apparently opened that historical question for him. “And if you read the book then the CIA killed John F. Kennedy. …

The Washington Post reports: As he campaigns in one of the nation’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, Montana Republican Tim Sheehy recounts how he started an aerial firefighting business in his barn and built it into a publicly traded company on the front lines of increasingly dangerous wildfires. “That’s a success story,” he said in a June television interview. Reports …

The Associated Press reports: Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is requesting a partially anonymous jury while federal prosecutors are pushing to admit as evidence some of his past campaign lies as the disgraced New York Republican’s September fraud trial nears. Santos’ lawyers argued in court filings that individual jurors’ identities should only be known by the judge, the two sides …

West Virginia Watch reports: In his first time publicly addressing the multiple issues raised against his family’s businesses in the last week, Gov. Jim Justice on Friday distanced himself from the family business empire and doubled down on claims that the challenges are the result of political attacks. In regards to a legal motion filed by the federal government this …

ABC News reports: Iowa can enforce a book ban this school year following a Friday ruling by a federal appeals court. The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district judge’s earlier decision that temporarily halted key parts of the law. The law, which the Republican-led Legislature and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds approved in 2023, also forbids teachers from …

Atlanta’s Fox affiliate reports: Georgia House Rep. Devan Seabaugh was taken into custody Thursday night, Georgia State Patrol said, by DUI Task Force troopers after he struck a cyclist in the bike lane on Memorial Drive in Atlanta. State Rep. Seabaugh, a Republican who represents parts of Cobb County, was taken to Atlanta City Jail and turned over to booking …