The economy and the war in Iran emerged as dominant debate topics in critical races in Michigan, Kansas and Wisconsin.
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economy → emerge → Michigan
Data centers are popping up in rural America, but not all communities are on board.
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communities → pop → board
And Trump is using flattery to get Putin to the negotiating table.
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Trump → use → table
Candidates clash in debates in Michigan, Kansas and Wisconsin
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Candidates → clash → Michigan
Across the country, candidates in tight races met for their final debates of the season in a bid to secure voters’ support with less than two weeks until Election Day:
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candidates → meet → Day
Polls show a neck-and-neck contest to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters.
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Polls → show → Peters
This is Morning Rundown, a weekday newsletter to start your day.
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This → start → day
El-Sayed sought to tie Rogers to President Donald Trump at every turn while also painting his opponent as a corporate sellout.
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Sayed → seek → sellout
Rogers has tried to put distance between himself and Trump by calling for an end to the Iran war and for a halt to the trade war with Canada, both of which he initially said he supported.
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he → try → which
Rogers aimed to tie El-Sayed to Islamist fundamentalist groups, and questioned his trustworthiness.
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Rogers → aim → trustworthiness
El-Sayed has repeatedly denied any connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, saying questions about his ties “call into question my loyalty to the Constitution.”
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questions → deny → Constitution
He cast himself as a someone who would stand up to Trump if elected into Congress.
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who → cast → Congress
What else El-Sayed and Rogers said about the economy, AI and more.
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Sayed → say → economy
In Kansas, Republican Sen. Roger Marshall defended most of Trump’s agenda, including tariffs and a deal to lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports, while casting his Democratic competitor, Adam Hamilton, as a socialist.
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Marshall → defend → socialist
Hamilton, a megachurch pastor who has billed himself as an “independent-minded Democrat,” vowed to not support Sen Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for party leader if he is elected and slammed Marshall for supporting the war in Iran.
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he → bill → Iran
Hamilton would be the first Democratic senator from Kansas in nearly a century if he’s elected.
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he → elect → century
The debate between the candidates for Wisconsin governor — Republican Tom Tiffany and Democrat David Crowley — focused on economic issues.
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debate → focus → issues
Tiffany, a member of Congress representing a northern Wisconsin district, vowed to undo various tax increases and return surplus money to residents.
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Tiffany → represent → residents
Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, advocated for a “fair tax system” that would fund education, infrastructure and transportation.
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that → advocate → education
With Democratic Gov. Tony Evers retiring, the race between Tiffany and Crowley is the first open governor’s race since 2010.
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race → retire → 2010
- Find out how candidates are polling in competitive Senate races.
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candidates → find → races
See the state’s biggest contests and how Republicans and Democrats fared in past elections.
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Republicans → see → elections
More politics news:
- For subscribers: Phony leaflets and text messages impersonating a trans right group sent to households across Texas have ignited anger and confusion at the start of early voting in the state.
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leaflets → impersonate → state
The U.S. military has quietly scaled back its troop presence across the Middle East in response to ongoing threats from Iran and Houthi rebels.
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military → scale → Iran
- Rep. Ilhan Omar for the first time described the search of her Washington, D.C., home last week, saying federal agents’ arrival at 6 a.m. caught her and her family off guard.
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arrival → describe → guard
How Big Tech’s data center boom is fracturing rural America
Big tech is building big in rural America.
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tech → fracture → America
Widespread land availability, cheap electricity and abundant water has led AI giants — such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google — to erect data center infrastructure in those areas.
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availability → lead → areas
But local leaders’ ability to negotiate with developers is key to determine what communities can gain, or risk, from these new centers.
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communities → negotiate → centers
An NBC News analysis shows the number of rural data centers could triple if all the under-construction projects and a portion of the planned projects come online.
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projects → show → projects
Amazon is behind the largest share of anticipated new data centers, according to the analysis, which also shows that the estimated energy the new centers will consume will more than triple the current capacity.
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centers → anticipate → capacity
For more than a decade, people living on the northern tip of Morrow and Umatilla counties in Oregon, roughly 150 miles east of Portland, have co-existed with data centers.
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people → live → centers
Residents are split on whether the developments have affected their communities for the better — so much so that at Friday night football games, “you sit in the ‘yes’ data center section or you sit in the ‘no’ data center section,” a cattle rancher and former county commissioner said.
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rancher → split → section
Related coverage:
- Interactive map: 55 million Americans live within 5 miles of a data center.
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Americans → live → center
Find out how close you are.
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you → find → ?
Trump hopes to flatter Putin into negotiating on Ukraine
Trump’s recent overtures to Vladimir Putin have become more visible, an apparent effort that experts say is meant to entice the Russian president to the negotiating table to end the war in Ukraine.
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experts → hop → Ukraine
Even some in his administration are laying on the compliments.
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some → lay → compliments
Just yesterday, Trump’s lead negotiator, Steve Witkoff, called Putin “a humanitarian” for his release of American teacher Stephen Hubbard.
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negotiator → call → Hubbard
Some Republican lawmakers balked at the remark.
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lawmakers → balk → remark
At the same time, Trump has stepped up his criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — another tool to get Putin to strike a deal, said Robert O’Brien, a national security adviser in Trump’s first term.
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O’Brien → step → term
“There’d be no hope of getting Putin to engage in talks, with the U.S. as a mediator, if he viewed Trump as 100% aligned with Ukraine in this situation,” he said.
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he → get → situation
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