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  View in browser   BY  GABRIEL GAVIN Presented by Visa Former President Donald Trump enters the stage at a Save America Rally in September. | Jeff Swensen/Getty Images ‘ART OF THE STEAL’  —   It was a rough day for Donald Trump.  New York Attorney General Letitia James filed suit today  against the former president, three of his adult children and his business empire, accusing them of large-scale fraudulent financial practices and seeking to bar them from real estate transactions for the next five years, write  Josh Gerstein ,  Erin Durkin  and  Kyle Cheney. The attorney general’s civil suit alleges more than a decade of deception, including billions of dollars in falsified net worth, as part of an effort by Trump to minimize his companies’ tax bills while winning favorable terms from banks and insurance companies. POLITICO has you covered with stories breaking down the 222-page filing and what it means for Trump: —  Read the ...

  Dear Friend, The article by Don Fitz  documents that, for the first time, life expectancy in Cuba exceeds that in the US by almost three years. It explores intertwined reasons behind this occurrence, including responses to Covid, health care systems, racism, poverty, misinformation campaigns, the embargo, international solidarity efforts, and resilience to climate change. If you think the contents of this newsletter are critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word. It's time for humanity to come together as one family! You can subscribe to our newsletter here http://www.countercurrents.org/news-letter/. In Solidarity Binu Mathew Editor Countercurrents.org Life Expectancy: The US and Cuba in the Time of Covid by Don Fitz https://countercurrents.org/2022/09/life-expectancy-the-us-and-cuba-in-the-time-of-covid/?swcfpc=1 The article documents that, for the first time, life expectancy ...

  View in browser   BY  MYAH WARD Presented by ELECTION NIGHT   — POLITICO’s got you covered on the last primary day of the season with live results pages for  New Hampshire  and  Rhode Island . (We won’t be watching Delaware, where only one statewide race — for auditor — is contested.) Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc greets supporters at a town hall event on Sept. 10, 2022 in Laconia, N.H. | Scott Eisen/Getty Images QUALITY CONTROL  — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell  made headlines last month  when he threw cold water on his party’s chances of flipping the Senate, citing “candidate quality” as an obstacle to winning back the majority. It’s become a midterm buzzword — a shorthand used by elected officials and political operatives alike when describing candidates who may be too flawed or too extreme to win. In other words, candidates with serious electability issues. At the moment, it’s perhaps the GOP’s most serious stumbl...