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New York Times:
Biden's V.P. Pick Is Said to Be Imminent — Joe Biden's advisers are planning an announcement for the middle of the week as his search concludes, people briefed on the selection process said. — WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has told allies that he has interviewed every finalist …
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Douglas Schoen / The Hill:
Why Joe Biden needs Kamala Harris — Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is set to announce his running mate this week. The reveal has been highly anticipated as Biden promised to select a woman as vice president if he won the nomination. Given the significant role …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Willie Brown to Kamala Harris: Don't join Biden's ticket — Willie Brown was instrumental in launching Kamala Harris' political career, so I guess he has standing to give her career advice. His advice is that Harris should say “no” to Joe Biden if he offers her a place on the Democratic ticket.
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Spectator USA and National Review
Kathleen Gray / New York Times:
Michigan Democrats Hesitate on Whitmer as V.P.: ‘Selfishly, We Need Her Here’
Michigan Democrats Hesitate on Whitmer as V.P.: ‘Selfishly, We Need Her Here’
Fox News:
Black male leaders warn Biden ‘will lose’ election if he doesn't name Black female running mate
Black male leaders warn Biden ‘will lose’ election if he doesn't name Black female running mate
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Washington Post, Politico and TheBlaze
Megan Henney / Fox News:
Susan Rice's financial ties to Keystone Pipeline worry some progressives ahead of Biden VP selection
Susan Rice's financial ties to Keystone Pipeline worry some progressives ahead of Biden VP selection
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The Hill and Washington Free Beacon
NBC News:
QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show — An internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to internal company documents reviewed by NBC News.
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jsonline:
Ron Johnson on stimulus negotiations: ‘I hope the talks remain broken down’ — MADISON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson would rather see no new coronavirus stimulus bill than one that includes new spending, the Oshkosh Republican said Friday. — Johnson said in a Friday interview with Breitbart News Tonight …
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Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
House will not hold votes until Sept. 14 unless stimulus deal is reached — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced Monday that the House will not hold any floor votes until Sept. 14, though members will remain on 24-hour notice to return to Washington in case a deal on coronavirus stimulus is reached.
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Breitbart, The Office of Majority … and Reuters
Washington Post:
New Trump chief of staff drew hard line during relief talks, challenging Democrats' approach
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Executive Orders
Trump's Executive Orders
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump's coronavirus actions ‘entirely within the executive capacity of the president’: White House
Trump's coronavirus actions ‘entirely within the executive capacity of the president’: White House
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Axios, The Hill, One America News Network, Reuters and Fox Business
Chicago Tribune:
Chicago police return fire as looters hit Mag Mile, smashing windows and confronting officers — Hundreds of people swept through the Magnificent Mile and other parts of downtown Chicago early Monday, smashing windows, looting stores, confronting police and at one point exchanging gunfire with officers, authorities said.
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Secret Service escorts Trump from briefing room after shooting outside White House — The president was interrupted mid-sentence when an agent whispered to him. — LIVE NOW — President Donald Trump was rushed out of the White House briefing room Monday evening and later said the Secret Service had shot someone nearby.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump accuses Sasse of going ‘rogue’ after GOP senator slams his coronavirus orders
Trump accuses Sasse of going ‘rogue’ after GOP senator slams his coronavirus orders
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
White House announces spectrum auction in 2021 to fuel 5G growth
White House announces spectrum auction in 2021 to fuel 5G growth
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Fox News, Politico, Axios and Associated Press
Detroit Free Press:
Sources: Big Ten cancels football season; no games for Michigan, Michigan State in 2020 — See you later, college football. — The Big Ten has voted to cancel the 2020 college football season in a historic move that stems from concerns related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic …
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New York Post, ProFootballTalk, Larry Brown Sports, WAVY-TV, The Daily Caller, OutKick, IJR and Sports Illustrated
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Institute of Politics and Public Service:
Battleground Poll — The August 2020 Battleground Poll gave strong evidence that three months out from the 2020 election, President Trump faces eroding support on the economy, and major challenges with Independent, suburban, and middle class voters. Americans trust Vice President Joe Biden …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Trump tries to set a tax trap for Biden
Trump tries to set a tax trap for Biden
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Raw Story, The Hill, Fox News and One America News Network
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump claims he would have not called for Obama to resign over 160,000 virus deaths — President Trump claimed at a press briefing Monday that he would not have called for President Obama to resign if 160,000 Americans had died on his watch, despite tweeting in 2014 that Obama should resign …
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Political Wire
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Winter is coming: Why America's window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing — The good news: The United States has a window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 before things get much, much worse. — The bad news: That window is rapidly closing. And the country seems unwilling or unable to seize the moment.
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Patterico's Pontifications, The Week and NPR
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
‘Their tactics are fascistic’: Barr slams Black Lives Matter, accuses the left of ‘tearing down the system’ — Nearly two weeks after Democrats grilled Attorney General William P. Barr over the Justice Department's crackdowns on racial justice protests, Barr on Sunday evening lashed …
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Vanity Fair and Townhall
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
A devastating indictment of the Republican Party from a GOP insider — President Trump holds a Bible while visiting St. John's Church across from the White House on June 1, 2020, after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Politico:
Newsom indicates California health officer's abrupt departure related to test data problem — SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom took responsibility Monday for California's coronavirus test data problems and hinted that the abrupt departure late Sunday of his state public health officer was related to the information blunder.
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John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
California's public health director resigns amid questions about coronavirus test data
California's public health director resigns amid questions about coronavirus test data
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National Review, The Hill, Just The News, The Wrap and UPI
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Could Temporarily Block Americans Who Might Be Infected From Returning to the U.S. — Nearly 100,000 children tested positive in the last two weeks of July, according to a new report. During a visit to Taiwan, the U.S. health secretary praised the island's response to the pandemic.
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Washington Post, CNBC, The Guardian, NBC Connecticut, The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Bill O'Reilly is on the verge of landing a new show on radio station owned by a Trump ally — Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is on the brink of landing his own radio show at a station owned by longtime Trump ally John Catsimatidis. — O'Reilly, according to his attorney Fred Newman …
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
GOP Aides: Trump Nom for German Ambassador ‘Dead on Arrival’ — The Trump administration's nominee to assume a critical ambassadorship in Germany is “dead on arrival,” according to three senior Republican congressional aides who pointed to Douglas Macgregor's insinuation that a cadre …
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
E.P.A. to Lift Obama-Era Controls on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas — The reversal is the latest move in the Trump administration's ongoing effort to weaken environmental rules, but it could be quickly undone after the November election. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration …
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The Week
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's inadvertent tax hike — President Trump's payroll tax deferral is supposed to reduce taxes and make employees cheaper to hire. It may do precisely the opposite, which Trump would know if he had real tax experts or economists advising him instead of just people who play them on TV.
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The Daily Beast
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Have Female Reporters Got Trump on the Run? — It starts with a reporter, usually a female reporter, asking President Donald Trump hard, tenacious questions at a news conference. Trump's jaw seizes up, rattled and dumbfounded by the questions that he can't or won't answer …
Bernard Goldberg:
Why I Want Biden to Lose More than I Want Trump to Win — As regular readers of my column know, I'm no fan of Donald Trump. And that's putting it mildly. — I don't like his chronic dishonesty. I don't like narcissism. I don't like his nastiness and his silly name-calling.
George Conway / Washington Post:
I (still) believe the president, and in the president — I believe the president Made America Great Again. I believe we need him reelected to Make America Great Again Again. — I believe Joe Biden is “Sleepy” and “weak.” I believe Biden could “hurt God” and the Bible.
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CNN
Jason Whitlock / OutKick:
Why is Gregg Popovich Lying About Michael Brown And Stirring Racial Animus? — Six years ago, I bought the Michael Brown “hands up, don't shoot” narrative. I bought the act of Twitter activist Shaun King, too. Through King, I donated $1,000 to support Michael Brown's mother …
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Twitchy
Eilish O'Sullivan / The Daily Dot:
Was this antifa recruitment site actually created by Ben Shapiro? — Shapiro was tied to the site through its source code. — An antifa recruitment website is raising eyebrows, not just for its overall sketchy nature, but because Ben Shapiro was tied to the site through its source code.
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Twitchy
Alex Abad-Santos / Vox:
Performative masculinity is making American men sick — American men are failing the pandemic. — Fellas, is it gay to not die of a virus that turns your lungs into soggy shells of their former selves, drowning you from the inside out? Is wearing a mask to avoid death part of the feminization of America?
House Foreign Affairs Committee:
Engel Statement on State Department's Pre-Spin of OIG Arms Sales Report — Washington—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement: — “I've learned that Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Clarke Cooper …
Will Lavin / NME:
Thousands gather at Smash Mouth concert despite coronavirus pandemic — Smash Mouth frontman Steve Harwell told the crowd: “We're all here together tonight! Fuck that COVID shit!” — Thousands of fans gathered in Sturgis, South Dakota at the weekend to watch Smash Mouth in concert despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.