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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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
First look: New Trump ad doubles down on radical left frame for Biden
First look: New Trump ad doubles down on radical left frame for Biden
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Florida Politics and One America News Network
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Willie Brown to Kamala Harris: Don't join Biden's ticket
Willie Brown to Kamala Harris: Don't join Biden's ticket
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New York Times and Spectator USA
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Kamala Harris Did What She Had To — The racial-justice movement sparked by the murder …
Douglas Schoen / The Hill:
Why Joe Biden needs Kamala Harris
Why Joe Biden needs Kamala Harris
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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.
KING-TV:
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announces resignation — Best's resignation comes after the Seattle City Council voted to cut spending for the Seattle Police Department on Monday. — SEATTLE — Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best has announced that she will be resigning next month.
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National Review, Axios, Associated Press and Council Connection
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Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Seattle City Council approves cutting 100 police positions, 1 percent of budget — The Seattle City Council approved measures on Monday that would cut up to 100 police positions and 1 percent of the department's budget. — The proposal, which Black Lives Matter protesters backed and Mayor Jenny Durkan …
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Townhall, Reuters, Associated Press and One America News Network
Hanna Scott / MyNorthwest.com:
Seattle City Council approves historic cuts to police department budget
Seattle City Council approves historic cuts to police department budget
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Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Council Connection, Just The News and TheBlaze
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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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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Analysis: Trump has a go-to solution, and it's more Trump — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has a ready solution for almost any crisis: more Donald Trump. — In a template forged in his 2016 convention speech when he declared that “I alone can fix it,” the president …
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Secret Service escorts Trump from briefing room after shooting outside White House
Secret Service escorts Trump from briefing room after shooting outside White House
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump says G7 summit will be delayed until after the election
Trump says G7 summit will be delayed until after the election
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Rong-Gong Lin II / Los Angeles Times:
Swarm of Salton Sea earthquakes sparks worry about the San Andreas fault — A swarm of small earthquakes in California, close to the Mexican border, is being closely monitored as to whether it might raise the chance of a much larger event on the San Andreas fault.
Politico:
Trump: Executive order on pre-existing conditions is ‘a signal’ — President Donald Trump on Monday acknowledged a prospective executive order he's considering to make insurers cover pre-existing conditions amounted to political messaging — and that Obamacare already offered such protections.
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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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Employers Cast Wary Eye on Trump Payroll-Tax Deferral — Details from the IRS will shape employers' willingness to stop withholding Social Security taxes from paychecks — WASHINGTON—Employers considering President Trump's plan to allow deferred payment of payroll taxes face a series of costs, uncertainties and headaches.
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's inadvertent tax hike
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Squad member Omar in primary spotlight as 5 states hold contests Tuesday — Omar's top primary challenger has outraised the firebrand incumbent — But the race grabbing the most national attention is in Minnesota, where Rep. Ilhan Omar - known from coast to coast as one of the four members …
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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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Political Wire, Washington Post, Raw Story, FOX 5 San Diego, The Week, NBC Connecticut, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and CNBC
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Joe Biden:
My Statement on Elections in Belarus — Democracies are built on the simple concept that citizens have a right to elect their leaders and have a say in their country's future. After suffering systematic repression for the past 26 years under the authoritarian regime of President Alexander Lukashenka …
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Vox, Washington Free Beacon and Axios
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Michael R. Pompeo / United States Department of State:
Presidential Elections in Belarus
Presidential Elections in Belarus
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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 …
Gerard Baker / Wall Street Journal:
Untangling the Media Myths of Covid-19 — They're countless. States that reporters shamed have done the best, and the U.S. is average among its peers. — Has there been in recent history a more tendentious, hysterical, data-denying and frankly disreputable exercise in misdirection …
Associated Press:
New York's true nursing home death toll cloaked in secrecy — NEW YORK (AP) — Riverdale Nursing Home in the Bronx appears, on paper, to have escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with an official state count of just four deaths in its 146-bed facility.
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
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
An economic crisis in Kentucky has workers, businesses furious with McConnell — Joblessness is high, benefits are running out and local leaders say they need the kind of aid that the Senate's most powerful figure has yet to endorse — The parade of cars honked incessantly as they crawled past …
The Texas Tribune:
Coronavirus testing in Texas plummets as schools prepare to reopen — Texas' low number of tests and large percentage of positive results suggest inadequacies in the state's public health surveillance effort at a time when school reopenings are certain to increase viral spread, health experts said.
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Esther Wang / The Slot:
My Dark Journey Into the Soul of a Model Young Republican Candidate — Graphic: Graphic: Jezebel (Photos: Screenshot via Foxnews.com) — Madison Cawthorn is a handsome guy, if your tastes run towards toothy, muscled blondes. In interviews, the 25-year-old Republican practically gleams …
Amy Davidson Sorkin / New Yorker:
The Woeful Inadequacy of School-Reopening Plans — We wasted the summer, while President Trump sowed distrust and promoted heedlessness. What's left now is to see what can be salvaged. — School isn't due to start in New York City until after Labor Day, but in Georgia some districts began opening …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The pandemic has reshaped Election 2020 — and Trump's prospects for reelection — No election in history has played out against the backdrop of a pandemic, a major recession and a racial reckoning. Even more than ever, it is largely about the incumbent. — Election 2020 will long be remembered as The Pandemic Election.
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Courtenay Brown / Axios:
A quandary for state unemployment agencies — State agencies charged with paying unemployment benefits to jobless residents have their backs against the wall as they rush to parse President Trump's executive actions on coronavirus aid. — Why it matters: States are being asked to pitch …
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Bloomberg Law, Politico and One America News Network
Lisa Rab / Politico:
Is Lindsey Graham Actually in Trouble in South Carolina? — Michael Quattlebaum was just 10 years old when he attended a high-dollar Republican fundraising dinner in South Carolina's state Capitol. His father was active in his local chapter of the GOP and eager to pass on the tradition.
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Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Trump's now using reporters as campaign props — Walk away from “press conferences” … Subscribe to PRESS RUN — When assembled country club golfers started booing reporters and cheering references to “fake news” at Trump's Friday “press conference” held in Bedminster, N.J. …
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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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