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Obama raps Eminem lyrics at Detroit campaign rally

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Former president Barack Obama walked onstage Tuesday at a Detroit rally to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris. Although he’s been the featured speaker at tons of rallies as a candidate for U.S. Senate and the presidency, Obama told the audience that, following Michigan native Eminem made him feel a bit nervous.

Perhaps hardcore fans of the rapper knew what was coming.

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6:52 p.m. EDT

Biden on Trump: ‘We’ve got to lock him up — politically lock him up’

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CONCORD, N.H. — President Joe Biden used a new attack line against former president Donald Trump here Tuesday, telling Democrats, “We’ve got to lock him up,” before moderating to suggest figurative rather than literal incarceration.

“He said this five years ago, that he’d lock me up,” Biden said after listing several dangers posed by a potential second Trump presidency. “We’ve got to lock him up.”

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6:21 p.m. EDT

Georgia Supreme Court declines to reinstate Trump-allied board’s election rules

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The Georgia Supreme Court has declined to reinstate an array of rules approved this year by a pro-Trump majority of the state’s election board that a lower court judge had tossed last week after calling them unconstitutional and void. The decision all but ensures that the rules will not be in effect for the November vote.

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5:57 p.m. EDT

Trump attacks Harris with racist stereotype, eyes ‘extreme power’ as president

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DORAL, Fla. — Republican nominee Donald Trump used a racist stereotype to attack Vice President Kamala Harris and described his desire to exercise “extreme power” as president during an event Tuesday that was billed as a summit to highlight his support among Latinos.

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3:56 p.m. EDT

Democrats are trying to make Taylor Swift’s endorsement work for them

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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The pedestrian sky bridge seemed to shimmer as they crossed it: Swifties, from every Era, in bedazzled cowboy boots, sequined dresses and glittered cheeks. It was a kaleidoscopic blur of costumes encoded with meaning. Serpent earrings, “Junior Jewels” T-shirts, 13s on their hands — their significance known only to the sorority of Swift fans who turn lyrics into reams of self-referential lore.

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3:28 p.m. EDT

Analysis: Trump pushes to turn out the Christians he likes

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Before former president Donald Trump addressed the audience at a meeting of religious activists in North Carolina on Monday, his son offered some thoughts.

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2:55 p.m. EDT

Judge gives control of Giuliani assets to Georgia poll workers he defamed

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A federal judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to place numerous assets, including cash, jewelry and his New York apartment, into a receivership controlled by two former Georgia election workers as they seek to collect a $148 million defamation claim against the former lawyer for Donald Trump.

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2:36 p.m. EDT

Early-voting data shows Republican reversal appears to be paying off

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Americans are voting ahead of Election Day in historic numbers this year. That includes Republicans, who appear to be responding favorably to a new message from former president Donald Trump: It’s okay to vote early.

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1:25 p.m. EDT

Why are ABC viewers being shown a graphic antiabortion ad?

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Over the past weeks, ABC viewers across the country have been shown a graphic advertisement featuring images of aborted fetuses, as part of a campaign by antiabortion rights advocate and long-shot presidential candidate Randall Terry.

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12:42 p.m. EDT

Bernie Sanders to stream with Pokimane and Valkyrae in support of Harris

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Sen. Bernie Sanders will join the stump for Kamala Harris on Tuesday night with two popular Twitch and YouTube streamers, Pokimane and Valkyrae.

The appearance is another push, evident in both Republican and Democratic campaigns, to reach as many undecided younger voters as possible in the weeks before Election Day — in particular young men online.

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11:12 a.m. EDT

Analysis: The tipping-point election

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Both of the major-party presidential candidates describe the election two weeks from now as determinative for the future of the nation. Many or most of their supporters, it seems safe to say, concur with those assessments: that America is at a fork in the road, and voters will determine which route the nation takes.

That sense is heightened, no doubt, by the fact that polls show the election as almost inconceivably close.

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10:53 a.m. EDT

Misinformation is everywhere this election. Can you tell what’s real?

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As Election Day approaches, the best way for you to stop the spread of misinformation is to build the skills to spot it.

Artificial intelligence tools are making it cheaper and easier to create deepfake photos and videos. Social media platforms that prioritize sensational posts are making it harder to avoid false narratives and conspiracy theories online. And some tech companies and government agencies have pulled back from fact-checking and debunking falsehoods.

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10:12 a.m. EDT

Harris to hold rally in Texas on Friday focusing on abortion rights

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Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a rally Friday in Texas, a state she does not believe she will win but one where her campaign plans for her begin making a closing argument to voters centered on abortion rights.

Harris will travel to Texas, which her campaign calls “ground zero of the nation’s extreme abortion bans,” to warn Americans about the threat she believes former president Donald Trump poses to women and those who support women’s reproductive rights, officials said.

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10:00 a.m. EDT

Analysis: Trump’s ‘crazy,’ false ad claiming ‘massive layoffs’ among autoworkers

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A new ad has the same bombastic tone that former president Donald Trump uses in his campaign rallies and in interviews, portraying his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, as a job-killing liberal lunatic.

But like much of Trump’s rhetoric, the ad is false. Watching it, with its claims of “massive layoffs,” you would never know that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, American motor vehicle manufacturing employment hit a 34-year high in July.

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9:30 a.m. EDT

Analysis: Three key congressional races to watch on tech policy

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The upcoming elections are poised to have major ramifications for regulation of the tech industry, with control of Congress and the White House virtually a toss-up just two weeks out.

The outcome on Nov. 5 will determine which parties get the upper hand in shaping policy on issues such as artificial intelligence, data privacy and child online safety. But voters will also shape which individual voices are most prominent in upcoming legislative battles on Capitol Hill.

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9:14 a.m. EDT

Lawyer says DeSantis’s office pressured him to send abortion ad letters to TV stations

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Letters that threatened Florida TV stations with criminal penalties if they aired a political ad backing a referendum that would repeal the state’s six-week abortion ban came directly from Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office, according to the attorney who signed and sent them.

Attorney John Wilson said that he resigned as general counsel for the Florida Department of Health rather than “complying with the directives” of DeSantis’s executive staff to send more cease-and-desist letters to TV stations.

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7:48 a.m. EDT

Senate race in Maryland sees flood of TV ads in final stretch before election

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As the U.S. Senate race in Maryland enters its final stretch, the two main candidates are flooding voters with new ads aimed at heightening their appeal, with Democrat Angela Alsobrooks touting support from Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican Larry Hogan pointing to the bipartisan backing he has received.

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7:33 a.m. EDT

Trump puts noisy, crude campaign in spotlight, as Harris seeks to turn it against him

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Donald Trump went viral with a carefully staged photo op at McDonalds, an apparent meditation about a golfing legend’s genitalia and crass insults at a charity banquet.

He has dominated headlines after issuing dark threats, including deploying the military against the “enemy from within”; repeatedly declined to say he would accept the results of the election; and delivered long, roundabout speeches and an impromptu 39-minute dance session.

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7:15 a.m. EDT

Republicans lean into anti-transgender message in closing weeks

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Donald Trump and other GOP candidates are increasingly targeting transgender people in the election campaign’s closing days, invoking them as boogeymen at rallies and pouring millions into advertising tying Democrats to transgender rights.

At a recent Trump rally in Reno, Nevada, the Trump campaign played a video that included Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking transgender official in the Biden administration, wishing people a happy Pride Month. The crowd booed.

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6:30 a.m. EDT

Harris and Cheney visit swing states to declare Trump unfit for office

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MALVERN, Pa. — Vice President Kamala Harris joined forces with Republican former congresswoman Liz Cheney in three swing states Monday to denounce GOP nominee Donald Trump as unfit for office, part of an urgent 11th-hour effort by the Harris campaign to win over moderate Republicans and independent voters.

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