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Associated Press:
100 Days: Trump faces headwinds as Election Day draws near — WASHINGTON (AP) — With the November election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction than at any previous point in Donald Trump's presidency, putting the incumbent in a perilous position …
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CNN:
CNN Polls: Biden leads in three key states Trump won in 2016 — (CNN)With 100 days remaining until Election Day, voters in three critical battleground states swing in former Vice President Joe Biden's way, according to new Arizona, Florida and Michigan CNN polls conducted by SSRS.
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Marist Poll, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, The Hill and Politico
CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker poll: Trump up one in Ohio as Biden leads Michigan — Some elections are just about “the economy,” but despite the downturn, 2020 is about much more; there's just too much else happening. And while there's no big edge for either President Trump …
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The Hill and The Guardian
Axios:
Nate Silver: “I do not buy that Trump's fate is sealed” — FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver said on ABC's “This Week” that while President Trump's reelection bid is “clearly in trouble” due to his dismal coronavirus approval ratings and polling in swing states, he does not believe the president's “fate is sealed.”
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump is behind in a state no Republican has won the presidency without in 96 years — (CNN)Poll of the week: A new CNN/SSRS poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads in the state of Florida by a 51% to 46% margin over President Donald Trump among registered voters.
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Financial Times
Marina Fang / HuffPost:
Acting Legend Olivia De Havilland Dies At 104 — The two-time Oscar winner and “Gone with the Wind” star was also a vocal opponent of unfair labor laws and sexism in Hollywood. — Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining stars of Hollywood's golden age and the oldest living Academy Award winner …
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New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast
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Keith Staskiewicz / EW.com:
‘Gone With the Wind’ star Olivia de Havilland dies at 104
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 7-26-20: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham — This is a rush transcript and may be updated. — A rush transcript of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” airing on Sunday, July 26, 2020 on ABC News is below.
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New York Post, Fox News, Politico, POLITICUSUSA and The Hill
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Washington Post:
Top White House officials say Congress might need to rush narrow relief bill to avoid unemployment aid lapse
Top White House officials say Congress might need to rush narrow relief bill to avoid unemployment aid lapse
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UPI
Frank E. Lockwood / Arkansas Online:
Bill by Sen. Tom Cotton targets curriculum on slavery — WASHINGTON — A New York Times-based school curriculum emphasizing American slavery instead of American independence has been targeted by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton. — The Little Rock Republican introduced legislation Thursday …
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Political Wire
Rachel Hutton / Star Tribune:
Couple flaunt swastika face masks at southwestern Minnesota Walmart — At the request of the Marshall, Minn., store, the two were told they'll face arrest if they return there. — TEXT SIZE — Just before noon Saturday, police officers in Marshall, Minn., were called to the town's Walmart …
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Mother Jones, Daily Kos, New York Post and Towleroad Gay News
Washington Post:
Coronavirus ravaged Florida, as Ron DeSantis sidelined scientists and followed Trump — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As Florida became a global epicenter of the coronavirus, Gov. Ron DeSantis held one meeting this month with his top public health official, Scott Rivkees, according to the governor's schedule.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Political Wire and Tampa Bay Times
Christina Ruffini / CBS News:
Controversial U.S. Ambassador to Iceland wants firearm, security for Reykjavik post — The U.S. Ambassador to Iceland wants to carry a gun. — Despite being assigned to one of the safest countries in the world, Jeffrey Ross Gunter has been “paranoid” about his security since coming to Reykjavik last year …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Eric Umansky / ProPublica:
We're Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades — ProPublica obtained these police records from New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board. NYPD unions are suing to halt the city from making the data public.
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New York Post
Jess Bidgood Globe / The Boston Globe:
A bipartisan group secretly gathered to game out a contested Trump-Biden election. It wasn't pretty — WASHINGTON — On the second Friday in June, a group of political operatives, former government and military officials, and academics quietly convened online for what became a disturbing exercise …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
Monte Poole / NBCSports.com:
Giants' Sam Coonrod had every right to stand, but his reason fell short — Sam Coonrod stepped into the sightlines of America on Thursday night, when he alone stood during an intended unified peaceful protest. A light followed him around Friday, and might stay with him for a while.
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The Daily Caller and Liberty Unyielding
John Harwood / CNN:
How the Republican Party opened itself up to the Trump takeover — (CNN)Washington in 2020 often beggars belief: an American President answering a deadly pandemic with ignorance, inflaming racial unrest with racism, stoking violent confrontations while his fearful party stands mute.
Michael Wilson / New York Times:
Empty Towers, No Power Lunches: Ghostly Midtown Is Omen for N.Y.C. — 7,500 workers are missing from a famous building. A food cart sells 10 hot dogs a day. The virus's effect on one block could be a vision of the city's future. — Editors and account managers at the Time & Life Building …
New York Times:
Fires and Pepper Spray in Seattle as Police Protests Widen Across U.S. — From Los Angeles to New York, protesters marched in a show of solidarity with demonstrations in Portland, Ore. In Seattle, they smashed windows and set fires. A shooting at a protest in Austin, Texas, left one man dead.
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Los Angeles Times, The Hill, Oregonian, Breitbart, Denver Post, CBS News, KMTV, The Daily Caller, UPI, Slate, KIRO, Axios, Althouse and Associated Press
CBS News:
Watch live: John Lewis crosses Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma a final time — Civil rights icon John Lewis' body is being carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday. It's the bridge that he crossed in the march to Montgomery on March 7, 1965, a day that would become known as “Bloody Sunday.”
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USA Today:
America's national greatness myths are shattering. Can they survive? Should they? — Live long enough and you can see the rise and fall of myths in real time. It does not take statues being pulled from their pedestals to reveal the fragility of the conjured history upon which so much of society depends.
Sheri Fink / New York Times:
How Coronavirus Ravaged One Houston Family — Coronavirus numbers have shot up across the country. A family in Texas, a virus hot spot, describes how the illness quickly spread among them and hospitalized both parents. — We're here at Houston Methodist Hospital.
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Why Democrats Don't Hold Trump Accountable — “Americans will get the kind of democracy that they want.” — When President Donald Trump recently commuted the prison sentence of Roger Stone, his longtime ally and now a convicted felon, reaction on Capitol Hill was swift.
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Wearing A Mask Is More Popular — And A Little Less Partisan — Than You Might Expect — According to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, reported levels of mask-wearing are on the rise across political lines. — An increasingly broad majority of Americans are wearing masks in public …
Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Russia's activists and independent journalists face new wave of crackdowns — MOSCOW — Pyotr Verzilov's eyes flew open early one Sunday morning at the sound of police battering down the door of his Moscow apartment. The publisher of the independent news site Mediazona said he was thrown …