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City & State reports: In her bid to unseat Pat Ryan from the 18th Congressional District, Republican Alison Esposito has touted her 25 years of experience in the New York City Police Department as proof she has what it takes to “restore law and order.” Twice in Esposito’s career, the city settled lawsuits and paid people who alleged that Esposito …

Salon reports: In a 2020 appearance on the Portal podcast — hosted by Eric Weinstein, the Managing Director of Peter Thiel’s Thiel Capital — the then-venture capitalist expressed his weird take on elderly women and how his mother-in-law has helped raise his son — he now has three children. “There’s sort of all the classic stuff that grandparents do to …

The Associated Press reports: An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion can refer to a fetus as an “unborn human being,” the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday. The Arizona Supreme Court sided with Republican lawmakers over proponents of the ballot measure on abortion rights. The pamphlet …

“The media are doing their damnedest just to help her steal this election. When I say steal the election, I don’t mean like she’s gonna change the votes, or that she’s gonna rig the ballot boxes or anything like that. But to steal the election means to completely obscure the record and positions of one of the candidates to completely …

“When he has what appear to be senior moments, I will call him out on it and he doesn’t like that, and I can’t say that I blame him, but that’s my job. “I will say that in that discussion with Elon, to me he seemed quite rambling. I mean it was like he rambles, he goes on too long …

The Arizona Republic reports: Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has endorsed not only Donald Trump — a guy who savaged him for certifying the state’s 2020 election — but Kari Lake. He’s endorsing Lake, who once called him a “doormat” to the Mexican drug cartels. “I will be voting for Republicans up & down the ballot in November — and …

Spectrum News reports: Former Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., says he plans to vote for former President Donald Trump this November, even though he voted to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial. Trump’s second impeachment trial, which was held in early 2021, ended up isolating Burr from a large part of the Republican Party. Despite Burr’s tense relationship with his …

“What Donald Trump needs to do is go out there and campaign every single day, telling the American people exactly what Kamala Harris has said. “We are 80-plus days out. We need him to win, but you’ve got to go out and do the work, and the one thing Republicans have to stop doing, quit whining about her. “We knew …

Reuters reports: General Motors has been sued by the state of Texas, which accused the automaker of installing technology on more than 14 million vehicles to collect data about drivers, which it then sold to insurers and other companies without drivers’ consent. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said GM’s data were used to compile “Driving Scores” assessing whether more than …

Florida Politics reports: A digital advertisement for U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack’s re-election campaign says “Gator nation” doesn’t need a chicken representing them. “Gator Nation is my home, and I will continue to work tirelessly for my constituents to protect and defend their freedoms,” Cammack said. “The radical Left’s on a warpath,” a narrator states, “and too many politicians in Washington …

CBS News reports: Republican Royce White has defeated Joe Fraser in the Minnesota primary election and will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar on the November ballot. White, a 33-year-old Minneapolis native who briefly played in the NBA, beat Fraser in what political experts saw as a struggle for the soul of the Minnesota Republican Party. Fraser, 50, was originally …

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde on Friday filed a defamation lawsuit against a political action committee aligned with Democrats and several media companies that operate television stations in Wisconsin. The lawsuit, filed in Brown County Circuit Court, cites an advertisement that says Hovde, who is CEO and chairman of the board for Sunwest Bank “rigged …

The Hill reports: UPSIDE Foods, a company that produces meat cultivated in a lab, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging Florida’s new ban on the production, distribution and sale of lab-grown meat. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, argues the ban unconstitutionally favors in-state businesses at the expense of out-of-state competitors because …

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 …