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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Week It Went South for Trump — He hasn't been equal to the crises. He never makes anything better. And everyone kind of knows. — Something shifted this month. Donald Trump's hold on history loosened, and may be breaking. In some new way his limitations are being seen and acknowledged …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden leads in Florida as Trump lags among seniors — Voters think Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is better suited to handle the issues of the day, expanding his lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Florida.
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Mediaite, One America News Network, The Hill, New York Post, TheBlaze and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Referendum — He still has no second term message beyond his own grievances. — By The Editorial Board — President Trump may soon need a new nickname for “Sleepy Joe” Biden. How does President-elect sound? On present trend that's exactly what Mr. Biden will be on Nov. 4 …
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Raw Story
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Texas tossup, Biden-Trump a one-point race
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court late on Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act, telling the court that “the entire ACA must fall.” The administration's argument comes as thousands of Americans …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare amid pandemic, recession
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Molly Nagle / ABC News:
'He's like a child': Biden slams Trump's handling of coronavirus pandemic amid ‘heartless crusade’ to end Obamacare
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The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
How Arizona ‘lost control of the epidemic’ — PHOENIX — A drive-up testing site equipped for several hundred people in West Phoenix was swarmed on Saturday by about 1,000 people, leaving some baking in their cars for hours. — A nearby testing station has already reached capacity for this weekend …
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New York Times:
Inside Barr's Effort to Undermine Prosecutors in N.Y. — The firing of the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan was foreshadowed by a disagreement over a case linked to President Trump. — Shortly after he became attorney general last year, William P. Barr set out to challenge …
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Politico, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Beast and Alternet.org
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate panel votes 21-1 to back Justice IG measure over Graham objections — The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday to expand the authority of the Justice Department inspector general over opposition from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and the Justice Department.
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One America News Network
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Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Trump's pick for Manhattan U.S. attorney refuses to say he would recuse from probes of president's associates
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Graham Rebuffed Over Widening Barr's Powers as GOP Senators Balk
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Raw Story
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Mary Trump once stood up to her uncle Donald. Now her book describes a ‘nightmare’ of family dysfunction. — Mary L. Trump was embroiled in a feud over her inheritance two decades ago when her uncle Donald Trump and his siblings punched back in classic style.
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Matt Howerton / WFAA-TV:
North Texas family shaken after 18 relatives test positive for COVID-19 following family gathering — Three are now hospitalized, including two elderly family members and one woman battling breast cancer. — CARROLLTON, Texas — As North Texas watches COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
It's time to rethink the presidential debates — Given how many ugly turns this presidential election year has already taken and how many more are surely yet to come, it is probably a fool's errand to go in search of silver linings in 2020. — But the realities of campaigning amid a pandemic …
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Althouse
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Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
Biden Has A Historically Large Lead Over Trump, But It Could Disappear
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Aaron Morrison / Associated Press:
Black Lives Matter network debunks Trump Twitter post — NEW YORK (AP) — The Black Lives Matter Global Network distanced itself Thursday from an unaffiliated activist whose comments sparked the ire of President Donald Trump, saying the activist was not speaking on behalf of the movement.
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Mihir Zaveri / New York Times:
‘Black Lives Matter’ Will Be Painted on Street Outside Trump Tower
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Politico:
Pelosi and McConnell eye Dunford to lead coronavirus oversight commission — Retired Gen. Joseph Dunford is the leading candidate for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to chair the five-member commission tasked with monitoring the Trump administration's economic rescue effort amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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NPR:
Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Attorney General William Barr — Steve Inskeep: Thank you again for taking the time. I'm appreciative to have this opportunity. — Attorney General William Barr: Thank you. — I want to note that in the last few days, there have been three acts …
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The Hill
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Alana Wise / NPR:
Attorney General Barr Says DOJ Acts Independent Of Trump's Interests
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POLITICUSUSA
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Michigan candidate's daughter urges people not to vote for him in viral tweet — The daughter of a candidate running for a seat in the Michigan state House has drawn viral attention online after taking to Twitter earlier this week to plead with voters not to elect her father to office.
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Brad Parscale, Other Trump Staff in Quasi-Quarantine After Tulsa COVID Cases — The move, a campaign spokesperson said, was being made out of an abundance of caution. — Donald Trump's reelection campaign manager, Brad Parscale, is one of a group of campaign staffers in quasi-quarantine …
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Washington Post:
Almost one-third of black Americans know someone who died of covid-19, survey shows — Nearly 1 in 3 black Americans know someone personally who has died of covid-19, far exceeding their white counterparts, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll that underscores the coronavirus pandemic's profoundly disparate impact.
Julianne Cuba / Streetsblog New York City:
Campaign To Remove NYPD From Traffic Enforcement Gains Steam — The campaign to remove the NYPD from traffic enforcement and return street oversight to the Department of Transportation gained momentum this week as an influential local panel voted to support the move.
CNN:
Nothing in America fits the GOP's ‘back to normal’ fantasy — Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and author of the forthcoming book “OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind,” and of “The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness.” Follow her on Twitter.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook faces trust crisis as ad boycott grows — What started out as a few whispers about advertisers pulling Facebook ads has turned into a growing boycott of the social network over its content moderation policies — a situation the company is now describing as a “trust deficit.”
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Brian Fung / CNN:
Verizon is pulling its advertising from Facebook
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Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Green Bay mayor warns Trump before visit that hospitality ‘has its limits’ — Joe Biden says he looks forward to ending President Trump's ‘senseless crusade against health coverage’ — The mayor of Green Bay, Wis., penned a letter to President Trump ahead of his visit to the battleground state …
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Associated Press
Washington Post:
White House intensifies effort to install Pentagon personnel seen as loyal to Trump — The White House is intensifying an effort to hire Pentagon personnel with an undisputed allegiance to President Trump at a moment when his relationship with Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper has become strained, current and former officials said.
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Politico
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Erika Edwards / NBC News:
CDC says COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 10 times higher than reported — The true number of Americans who've been infected with COVID-19 may top 20 million, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. — “Our best estimate right now is that for every case that's reported …
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Talking Points Memo, New York Post, Mediaite and The Week
Stuart Stevens / The Bulwark:
My Confederate Past — Everyone who grew up in Mississippi was steeped in the Confederacy. Even if they didn't realize it. — On Friday, the Mississippi legislature is scheduled to vote on changing the Mississippi state flag. As I write this, I have no idea what the outcome will be.
Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
U.S. Postpones Balkan Peace Summit, in Blow to Trump Foreign Policy — The White House had planned to host the presidents of Serbia and Kosovo on Saturday. Then Kosovo's leader was charged with war crimes. — BERLIN — An American-mediated initiative to stabilize the Balkans …
Sydney Morning Herald:
NSW MP's Sydney home raided as ASIO probes China links — Counter-espionage agency ASIO is conducting a sweeping investigation into allegations Chinese government agents have infiltrated the office of a NSW Labor politician to influence Australian politics.
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Bloomberg
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump says the coronavirus is ‘going away.’ His own task force disagrees. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump keeps spinning a tale about COVID-19 that is at odds with his own administration's disease experts and data compiled by his own coronavirus task force, which was obtained exclusively by NBC News.
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