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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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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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Spectator USA and One America News Network
Douglas Schoen / The Hill:
Why Joe Biden needs Kamala Harris
Why Joe Biden needs Kamala Harris
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New York Times, Politico, Axios, Washington Post, One America News Network, Fox News, Reuters, Fox News, Fox News and Breitbart, more at Mediagazer »
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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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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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.
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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Politico:
Ilhan Omar faces toughest Squad primary test — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez survived her primary. Rashida Tlaib did, too. Now it's Ilhan Omar's turn on Tuesday — and the Minnesota congresswoman faces the stiffest challenge of any member of the Squad. — Omar (D-Minn.), one of the group's …
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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.
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One America News Network
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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Associated Press, The Guardian, Mashable, Raw Story and The Week, more at Techmeme »
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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Washington Free Beacon and Axios
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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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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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Washington Post, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, NPR and Politico
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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Axios, Associated Press, Reuters and One America News Network
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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
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, Politico, Raw Story, FOX 5 San Diego, The Week, Washington Post, NBC Connecticut, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and CNBC
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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 …
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The Week
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
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
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
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
If these leaders define the future of the Republican Party, it doesn't deserve to have a future
If these leaders define the future of the Republican Party, it doesn't deserve to have a future
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Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Do we even need the Republican Party?
Do we even need the Republican Party?
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Townhall, Twitchy and New York Times
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 …
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 …
Laurenz Gehrke / Politico:
Belarusian opposition leader arrives in Lithuania in wake of contested election — Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya arrived in Lithuania overnight and “is safe,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said Tuesday. — “Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is safe.
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Axios, TASS and One America News Network
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Isabelle Khurshudyan / Washington Post:
Belarusan President Lukashenko wins sixth term in widely disputed election
Belarusan President Lukashenko wins sixth term in widely disputed election
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Vox, New Republic, The Guardian, EEAS and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
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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Reuters
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
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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Reuters:
Exclusive: Lebanon's leaders warned in July about explosives at port - documents — BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut's port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital …
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Madeline Charbonneau / The Daily Beast:
Trump Claims ‘1917’ Pandemic Ended World War II—Which Began in 1939 — MIXED UP — President Donald Trump suggested Monday evening that the “1917” influenza pandemic ended World War II, wrongly citing both the year that the pandemic occurred and the year that World War II ended.
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