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Trump to Send $90 Medicare Checks, Says Americans Can ‘Rest Assured’ $5,000 Will Follow After Midterms

With the midterm elections just weeks away, President Donald Trump announced on Friday that more than 20 million Medicare Part B beneficiaries will receive a one-time $90 payment this month. Trump, who declared on Truth Social that his administration would send out "checks," said the money will come from the $2 billion Medicare Improvement Fund and is…

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Common Dreams· Oct 3, 10:07 PMTrump to Send $90 Medicare Checks, Says Americans Can ‘Rest Assured’ $5,000 Will Follow After Midterms

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Police Blotter: GOP Senate candidate John Deaton’s law office vandalizedGOP U.S. Senate candidate John Deaton’s East Providence law office was vandalized Friday in what he describes as a “violent attack” motivated by Sen. Ed Markey's “toxic" and "dangerous” rhetoric.

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Democrats hit key threshold in Texas and Alaska in new pollDemocrats James Talarico in Texas and Mary Peltola in Alaska reached 50% or better in new polls, putting two GOP-held Senate seats in play a month before Election Day.

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Trump Rallies in Ohio to Boost Jon Husted in a Tight Senate Race Against Sherrod BrownWASHINGTON (AP) — After a few days campaigning in safe conservative territory, President Donald Trump on Saturday takes his midterm tour into Ohio, a battleground state that’s home to one of the top-tier Senate races this cycle.

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‘Insecure’ JD Vance targeted by MAGA senator as 2028 contenders trade blows: reportA simmering rivalry between two Republican heavyweights eyeing the White House spilled into public view this week, with one making it personal.Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called Vice President JD Vance "insecure" in a phone interview with Politico on Saturday, responding to Vance's claim days earlier that ...

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‘You’ve got a lot of power’Gov. Josh Shapiro kicked off a day of action for Democrats organized by Planned Parenthood's state political action committee at the Middletown Township Municipal Center in Bucks County on Saturday.

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Michigan Democrat Predicts Abdul El-Sayed Will Lose in November: ‘People of Detroit and Michigan Have More Common Sense Than That’ (VIDEO)Karen Whitsett is a Democrat State Representative in Michigan.

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Trump Urges Alaskans to Repeal Ranked-Choice Vote SystemAsking in a Truth Social post, How stupid are we to do this? and criticizing the state's four-way governor's race, President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Alaskans to repeal ranked-choice voting in November.

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Trump rallies New York crowd for Republican Bruce Blakeman's bid to replace Gov. Kathy HochulPresident Donald Trump rallied Syracuse supporters behind Bruce Blakeman's bid to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul, promising tax cuts and cheaper energy for New Y

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Trump voters turn on Republican governor they call ‘scarier than a communist’: NYTSome of President Donald Trump's most loyal supporters are turning on a powerful Republican governor, with one flipping a common Trump attack against him. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is bleeding support from MAGA voters furious over his school voucher crusade and his embrace of massive data centers, New York Times opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg reported…

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Federal judge: DOJ cannot request states' voter lists for eligibility databaseA federal judge struck down on Friday the Justice Department’s nationwide effort to collect voter registration records and identify suspected non-U.S. citizens, blocking the Trump administration from continuing the program even in states that voluntarily cooperated. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington ruled the department exceeded its…

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