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  18 hours ago

  'This can't be real': He left his daughter alone in a hot car for hours. She died.

  USA TODAY - Laurie Roberts

  Often, it's a mother running errands or a father who forgot to drop off a child at day care on his way to work. Rarely, but sometimes, it's a parent who just doesn't much care. "Babe our family. How could I do this. I killed our baby, this can't be real." So wrote the father who police say left his …

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  19 hours ago

  It's time. Biden should drop out so Democrats can run a historic two-woman ticket.

  USA TODAY - Chris Brennan

  It becomes clearer everyday that the president isn't the one to beat Donald Trump. Democrats need a change. No American political party ever needed a reset more than the Democrats right now. The drumbeat for President Joe Biden to step aside just keeps growing. The kind of quiet advice he has been …

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  1 day ago

  Will Biden step aside? Embattled president can save Democrats by dropping out soon.

  USA TODAY - Jeremy Mayer

  Democrats fear that Biden will not only lose to Republican nominee Donald Trump, but also drag down the party's hopes of keeping at least one chamber of Congress. The pressure from leaders in his own party on President Joe Biden to give up the Democratic nomination is mounting. They fear that Biden …

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  1 day ago

  Trump is gaining momentum exactly as Biden is losing his. Democrats have to rally. Soon.

  USA TODAY - Sara Pequeño

  I don't know if President Biden should drop out. I do know that Democrats need to decide soon and that this could be an opportunity to gain momentum against Trump. There has never been more pressure for President Joe Biden to step down than there is right now. Since his debate performance in June …

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  1 day ago

  Can Elon Musk buy Trump the White House? Americans are about to find out.

  USA TODAY - Marla Bautista

  The power of the uberwealthy to influence the democratic process seems to be growing in this year's increasingly intense and tense election cycle. Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, has said, according to a Wall Street Journal report, that he will donate about $45 million a month to a new …

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  1 day ago

  Nondisclosure agreements let bad behavior go unchecked. That's why Trump loves them.

  USA TODAY - Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky

  Voters should demand to know whether the politicians who ask for their support silence their own workers. Standing in the atrium at Trump Tower in New York City in the wake of his criminal conviction in late May, former President Donald Trump had this to say about gag orders, more politely known as …