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The New York Times reports: San Francisco’s long relationship with X is nearly over — and city officials are far from heartbroken. Elon Musk is shuttering his social media company’s headquarters. New headquarters will be set up in Texas. But city officials are not lamenting the exit. X bears little resemblance to the company that San Francisco wooed with a …

“We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise and national pride. We believe in Harris and Walz. Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family host most dear. It is …

PBS NewsHour reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hold a news briefing on Friday, a day after he withdrew from the ballot in Arizona, as Donald Trump is set to appear only a few miles away in the Phoenix area. Fueling speculation that Kennedy could drop his independent presidential bid and endorse the Republican nominee. Trump, campaigning Thursday in southern …

ABC News reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to drop out of the presidential race by the end of this week, sources familiar with the decision tell ABC News. Sources tell ABC News that Kennedy plans to endorse Donald Trump — but when asked directly by ABC News if he will be endorsing the former president, Kennedy said, “I …

“There’s two options that we’re looking at. One is staying in, forming that new party; but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Walz presidency because we draw votes from Trump. We draw, somehow, more votes from Trump. Or we walk away right now and join forces with Donald Trump; and we walk away from that and we …

Law & Crime reports: Pro-Donald Trump defamation attorney L. Lin Wood must pay three of his former law partners a combined $4.5 million after he was found liable for defaming them on social media, a jury on Friday determined. In March, a federal judge ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor on a motion for summary judgment — finding Wood liable but …

The Daily Beast reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told a right-wing news outlet Sunday that he planned to shave his signature mustache in order to go “incognito” at the Democratic National Convention this week. In footage shared by conservative media identity Ben Bergquam for Real America’s Voice, Lindell, who says he was traveling to Chicago on Sunday, agreed with Bergquam …

Reuters reports: Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, claims Moraes secretly threatened one of the company’s legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not comply with legal …

Mother Jones reports: Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign hosted an online panel Wednesday on the future of AI moderated, for some reason, by Ian Carroll, a self-styled journalist with a history of antisemitic statements. In the course of the conversation, Kennedy admitted that he “gets manipulated by AI all the time.” “Somebody will send me something and …

The New York Post reports: “Saturday Night Live” alum Victoria Jackson said that she has “months” to live after her cancer returned. On Wednesday, Aug. 14, Jackson, 65, posted an Instagram video to share the news. In the caption, she wrote, “Cancer Update: I have 34.8 months to live if I don’t get hit by a meteor, shot by a …

The New Republic reports: Elon Musk is pouring his heart and soul (and cold hard cash) into electing Donald Trump this November. New Federal Election Commission filings on Wednesday show that Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC has ramped up its operations, spending an initial $5.8 million. Musk initially seemed to promise a monthly donation of $45 million to the Super PAC, …

The Christian Science Monitor reports: In 2021, J.D. Vance gave a speech to a conservative think tank on “woke capital” – and accused Amazon of funding Black Lives Matter in order to burn down the competition. “Who benefits most when small businesses on Main Street are destroyed? Who wants to see their competitors unable to deliver goods and services to …

The Washington Post reports: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought a meeting last week with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to discuss the possibility of serving in her administration, perhaps as a Cabinet secretary, if he throws his support behind her campaign and she wins, according to Kennedy campaign officials. Harris and her advisers have not responded with an …

“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 …

The New York Post reports: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t a resident of New York and will not appear on the Empire State’s ballot, a lower court in Albany ruled late Monday. Justice Christina L. Ryba ordered Kennedy, 70, to not appear on New York’s presidential ballot, a move that will likely lead to efforts to remove …

The Sunday Mail reports: Humza Yousaf has issued a warning to tech billionaire Elon Musk after he called the ex-first minister a “super, super racist.” X owner Musk used his own social media site to brand the Glasgow-born politician a bigot for a speech Yousaf made in the Scottish Parliament about racial injustice and lack of diversity. The Tesla boss, …

“Guys, im just a dude in prison, but let me give you some advice. 1- give up the stolen election. It’s in the past. 2- stop with the name calling and rederick. It’s getting old. 3- you can win by just explaining how you will better peoples lives and stop the shit in the middle east and keep that monet …

The Hill reports: “Right now we have enough signatures to be on all 50 states, so… we’ve handed most of them in, some of the states are not yet certified, but we’re gonna be on the ballot in all 50 states, for sure,” Kennedy told Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto. According to a ballot access tracker from The Hill/Decision Desk …

The Texas Tribune reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent presidential candidate, will be on the Texas general election ballot this November. The Texas Secretary of State’s office announced Thursday afternoon that it had accepted Kennedy’s petition to appear on the state ballot with 122,513 valid signatures. The Texas election code required a petition to have at least 113,151 valid …

The Associated Press reports:  Days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted to taking a bear carcass from the side of the road and placing it in Central Park as a prank a decade ago, he said that has been picking up roadkill his “whole life” and once had a “freezer full of it” at home. The comment came as the …