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Millionaire businessman Eric Hovde handily won Wisconsin's GOP Senate primary Tuesday, officially setting up his bid to oust two-term Democrat Tammy Baldwin. Why it matters: It's one of at least nine competitive Senate seats Republicans aim to flip to take back the majority in November. The AP called the race...

Eric Hovde wins Wisconsin Senate GOP primary

Nebraska State

Minnesota State

Fox News

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pictured in booking photo taken shortly after 1995 DUI stop in Nebraska that landed him behind bars. He pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

Kamala Harris' running mate Tim Walz pictured in 1995 Nebraska mugshot after DUI arrest

Maryland State

A race for US Senate in deep-blue Maryland remains in a dead heat thanks to the persistence of a well-known Republican candidate, complicating the electoral map for Democrats this fall. Larry Hogan’s campaign for the state’s open Senate seat held by retiring Senator Ben Cardin is tied with his opponent,...

A neck-and-neck Senate race in Maryland is causing big problems for Democrats

CBS News

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, joined CBS News to talk about Kamala Harris' selection of the current Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate. "I know him, I've done a bunch of stuff with him over the years. I like him," Pawlenty said about Walz, "My only problem with him is policy views."

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Gov. Tim Walz being Kamala Harris' VP pick

Georgia State

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The Current GA

A state Supreme Court’s decision reversing a lower court’s ruling that a private contractor was exempt from the Georgia Open Records Act is being hailed as a win for open government.

State Supreme Court rules Open Records Act applies to private contractors working for governments

Ballotpedia News

In the 37 states that have held primaries so far this year, 136 state legislative incumbents—3.4% of all incumbents seeking re-election—have lost. That’s less than at this point in 2022, when 174, or 4.6%, of incumbents had lost in primaries. Four of the 136 defeated incumbents were legislative leaders: three Republican state senators and one Democratic House member. More on that below.

136 state legislative incumbents have been defeated in primaries this year – four of which were legislative leaders

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The Lens

This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

The Hollywood Reporter















	Less than 24 hours after CNN aired the first joint interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Bill Maher had some thoughts on the questions Dana Bash asked the duo.Musical Acts Who've Called Out 2024 Trump Campaign for Illegal Use of Their Songs




	The host kicked off the latest episode of Real Time by asked the audience if they watched the Thursday night sit-down interview with the Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, and Tim Walz, “her emotional support” vice president.




	“It was a little odd,” Maher quipped. “He was just sitting there for a very long time without saying anything. He was just...

Bill Maher Mocks CNN for Harris-Walz Interview: “They Wonder Why the Kids Get Their News From TikTok”

New York City, NY

AccuWeather’s meteorologists correctly predicted the biggest snowfall of the season for New York City and warned earlier and more accurately than anyone else. AccuWeather’s expert meteorologists correctly predicted the first major snowfall event of the season for New York City and warned earlier and more accurately than anyone else about snowfall in Pennsylvania.

AccuWeather warns of first major snowfall in New York City

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

A historic marker could be erected to honor the victims of the racist mass shooting at the Dollar General store in Jacksonville’s New Town neighborhood nearly a year ago. If approved by the Jacksonville City Council, a marker would be installed at Kings Road and Canal Street on Aug. 25, a day before the first anniversary of the shooting, when a white gunman took the lives of three Black people.

Memorial considered to honor Dollar General victims

US Vice-President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, sat for their first joint interview with CNN. Ms Harris defended her shifts on policy, President Joe Biden, and her time in the White House. She argued that the Biden administration was able to recover the economy after...

Watch key moments from Harris and Walz's first interview

The Independent

 Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been chosen to run alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, and while current polling shows that most Americans aren’t familiar with him past polling shows he is popular with voters.Unlike Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, Walz has decades of political experience, having first been elected to represent Minnesota’s 1st district in the House of Representatives in 2006 with 52 percent of the vote.Despite his experience, an ABC News and Ipsos survey from July found that out of 1,200 Americans, most did not know who Walz was.Tracking 18 years of...

What polling shows about Tim Walz approval from voters compared to JD Vance

The Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The wife of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde is taking center stage in her husband’s campaign in the days after he secured the party nomination, directly attacking Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in a television ad released Thursday about single mothers. The race between...

The wife of Republican Wisconsin US Senate candidate Hovde takes aim at female Democratic incumbent

Aurora, CO

David Heitz

In a moving show of support, the entire Aurora City Council present at Monday’s meeting stood when asked if they thought Kilyn Lewis, a Black man shot dead by police, should still be alive. Council member Alison Coombs was absent.

Aurora council rises from seats for man shot dead by police

The Hill

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who’s running for his state’s Senate seat, said Thursday that if elected he would not always go along with his party, comparing himself to ex-Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.). CNBC’s Becky Quick asked Hogan if he saw himself “playing that same sort of a role,…

Hogan says his job in Senate would be to push back against his party like Manchin, Sinema

When I heard that Vice President Harris had selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate, the first thought to hit me was that of revered baseball manager Casey Stengel: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”. That’s not to say Walz is...

Picking Tim Walz was Kamala Harris’s first campaign mistake

Los Angeles, CA

L.A. TACO

After Curtis Wallace was sentenced to 46-years-to-life in prison nearly two decades ago, for a shooting he has always maintained he did not commit, he made his family a promise: one day he would make it home in one piece.

‘I’m Innocent:’ He Was Stabbed In Prison After Nearly 20 Years, Will D.A. Gascón’s Policies Help Free Him Before It’s Too Late?

Business Insider

The GOP vice-presidential nominee plans to follow Harris and her running mate for three days and across four swing states beginning on Tuesday.

Why JD Vance's plan to follow Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on their swing-state tour is a big gamble

Tim Walz said he didn't have ambitions to become president, per Cedric Richmond. CNN reported that Josh Shapiro came across as overly ambitious.

Harris picked Walz partly because he said he had no presidential ambition, member of vetting panel says

NewsBreak

Murphy hasn’t ruled out gubernatorial endorsement, but says it’s not coming soon

Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday morning that he hasn’t ruled out making an endorsement in next year’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, but isn’t ready to do it...

Murphy hasn’t ruled out gubernatorial endorsement, but says it’s not coming soon

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