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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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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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Chicago rocked by widespread looting caught on video after police-involved shooting — Hundreds of people were seen looting stores such as Nordstrom, Walgreens and Macy's — Videos circulating online show widespread looting and clashes with police across Chicago's Magnificent Mile shopping …
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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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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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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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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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Trump's Executive Orders
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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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Trump accuses Sasse of going ‘rogue’ after GOP senator slams his coronavirus orders — President Donald Trump on Monday accused Sen. Ben Sasse of being a “RINO” who had “gone rogue” by scolding the White House for a recent collection of executive actions meant to provide assistance to Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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White House announces spectrum auction in 2021 to fuel 5G growth
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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.
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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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Mnuchin is open to restarting virus relief talks: 'We're prepared to put more money on the table'
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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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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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‘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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California's public health director resigns amid questions about coronavirus test data — Gov. Gavin Newsom's director of the California Department of Public Health resigned on Sunday, an abrupt departure of a key advisor in the state's coronavirus battle just days after the discovery …
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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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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 …
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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?
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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.
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Trump says U.S. needs ‘more Jews that love Israel’ — President Trump told a group of Jewish supporters at a fundraiser Sunday that “we need more Jews in the U.S. that love Israel,” the Orthodox news outlet Belaaz reported. — The event was held at the Long Branch, N.J. home of the late Stanley Chera …
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It's possible that Trump actually isn't the hardest-working president in history — During an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday, White House trade adviser (and all-around informal spokesman) Peter Navarro was asked why President Trump spent the weekend in New Jersey instead of Washington …
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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 …
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Federal agency to reopen 53 Native American schools despite coronavirus fears … The Bureau of Indian Affairs, which oversees the Bureau of Indian Education, announced last week that it would reopen “brick and mortar schools” under its jurisdiction to the “maximum extent possible” on Sept. 16.
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Arizona Focus Group Sees Trump's Crime Attack On Biden As ‘Far From Reality’ — Audio will be available later today. — The ad is stark. — An elderly white woman is watching the news. An anchor reports that cities want to “defund” the police, as she hears a noise coming from elsewhere in the house.
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The ‘Blue Shift’ Will Decide the Election — As polling places closed on November 6, 2018, the expected “blue wave” looked more like a ripple. Not only had some of the highest-profile Democratic candidates lost, but the party's gains in the House and the Senate looked smaller than anticipated.
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Big Tech Makes Inroads With the Biden Campaign — While Joe Biden has criticized the largest tech companies, his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups. — WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been critical of Big Tech …
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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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