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“Donald Trump on Saturday railed against fellow billionaire Mark Cuban, who has been vigorously campaigning for his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris,” CNBC reports. Said Trump, on Truth Social: “Mark Cuban is a Loser. Wouldn’t take his phone calls anymore while at the White House, and he went rogue. A weak and pathetic ‘bully,’ he’s got nothing going.

Washington Post: “Around $2 billion in cryptocurrency has been wagered on predicting the next president on Polymarket as of Friday. The New York-based company says it receives tens of millions of visits per month.”

New York Times: “The black shirt — which she wore under a gray blazer as she addressed several hundred campaign volunteers in a gym at Western International High School — bore the words ‘Detroit vs. Everybody.’l “The attire was a clear response to former President Donald Trump, who last week disparaged what is one of the nation’s largest majority-Black cities, portraying Detroit as a decaying harbinger of America’s future under Ms.

“Donald Trump on Friday tried to revise the history of the deadly attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, as new details in the federal prosecution against him were made public by the judge in the case,” the New York Times reports. “His attempt to recast the events of Jan.

“The popularity and prevalence of early voting has rendered Election Day an outdated concept — for much of the country, the 2024 race countdown would be better described as election month,” Axios reports. “Early voting in person or by mail has exploded over the past 24 years. According to the Center for Election Innovation and Research, in the year 2000, only 24 states offered citizens the ability to vote before Election Day.

The family of a Nicaraguan asylum-seeker who died from an undiagnosed blood clot is suing the operator of a privately run Aurora detention center that they say ignored his pleas for help following a pattern of preventable detainee deaths. Dorling Peralta Rivera, wife of Melvin Ariel Calero Mendoza, and their two children say Mendoza languished inside the Aurora Contract Detention Facility as he tried at least three times to get treated for severe pain in his right leg. On Oct.