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USPS says Pennsylvania mail ballots may not be delivered on time, and state warns of ‘overwhelming’ risk to voters — The United States Postal Service warned Pennsylvania that mail ballots may not be delivered on time to be counted because the state's deadlines are too tight for its …
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The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election — Good thing nobody's predicting a huge surge in mail any time soon. — Aaron Gordon — The United States Postal Service is removing mail sorting machines from facilities around the country without …
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The Guardian, Law & Crime, Politico, Redstate, Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Outside the Beltway, The Verge, The Week, Twitchy, Washington Post and CNN
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren demands ‘corruption’ probe after report of Amazon options purchase by Postal Service chief Louis DeJoy — Sen. Elizabeth Warren demanded that the U.S. Postal Service's internal ethics watchdog investigate alleged “corruption by” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy …
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Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Associated Press
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Trump opposes election aid for states and Postal Service bailout, threatening Nov. 3 vote — President Trump on Thursday said he opposes both election aid for states and an emergency bailout for the U.S. Postal Service because he wants to restrict how many Americans can vote by mail …
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CNN, NBC News, No More Mister Nice Blog, Vanity Fair, Fox News and Mother Jones
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Trump blurts out his true motive on mail-in voting
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The Hill, Mother Jones, The Moderate Voice, POLITICUSUSA, IJR, Raw Story, Fortune, The Root, Daily Kos and The Week
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's attack on the Postal Service is now a national emergency
Trump's attack on the Postal Service is now a national emergency
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Vox, Slate and Raw Story
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump openly admits to sabotaging Post Office to boost his re-election chances
Trump openly admits to sabotaging Post Office to boost his re-election chances
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Reason
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Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility — , PROFESSOR OF LAW, CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY AND SENIOR FELLOW, CLAREMONT INSTITUTE — Editor's note: Some readers reacted strongly to this essay, seeing it as an attempt to ignite a racist conspiracy theory. That is entirely inaccurate, as this Note explains.
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Washington Post, The Dispatch, HuffPost, National Review, Talking Points Memo, BuzzFeed News, ImmigrationProf Blog, CNBC, Vox, VICE, The Gateway Pundit, The Atlantic, emptywheel, The Daily Caller, Law & Crime, Axios, Mediaite, Right Wing Watch, LGBTQ Nation, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Daily Kos, The Wrap, Raw Story, Slate and Associated Press
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Trump, Repeating a Baseless Theory, Suggests Kamala Harris Is Not Eligible to Serve — President Trump said he heard that Ms. Harris, the presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee born in California, was not eligible for the ticket, repeating a theory that is rampant among his followers.
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Washington Post, Newsweek and The Week
Newsweek:
Editor's Note: Eastman's Newsweek Column Has Nothing to Do With Racist Birtherism
Editor's Note: Eastman's Newsweek Column Has Nothing to Do With Racist Birtherism
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National Review, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Jill Filipovic / GEN:
The Great Gen X vs. Boomer Debate Comes for Kamala
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How Biden Chose Harris: A Search That Forged New Stars, Friends and Rivalries — Joe Biden winnowed a large list of candidates to four finalists before settling on Kamala Harris, in a process shaped by questions of loyalty. He is eyeing other contenders for top administration jobs.
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The Federalist, The Cain Gang, The Independent, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, CNN and The Atlantic
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The Media's Sudden Crush on Kamala Harris — As the lights at the Kamala Harris presidential campaign flickered and powered down last December, weeks before the voting started, the press corps delighted in cataloging her deficiencies as a candidate and a campaigner.
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New York Times, HuffPost, The Federalist, Redstate and The Hill
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris deploy the Charlottesville hoax to stir up racial pain and anger.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris deploy the Charlottesville hoax to stir up racial pain and anger.
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Power Line, Rev and Instapundit
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Woman Problem Just Got a Whole Lot Worse
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Kamala Harris receives strong marks as Joe Biden's VP: POLL
Kamala Harris receives strong marks as Joe Biden's VP: POLL
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Axios, Politico, Ipsos, NBC News, Breitbart, FiveThirtyEight, The Week and Washington Times
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Trump plans to deliver RNC speech on White House lawn — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday confirmed to the The Post he intends to give his Republican National Convention speech from the White House lawn, defying critics who said the location was inappropriate.
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Trump assails, misrepresents Biden on mask mandate in partisan White House briefing
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Reuters, Axios and The Moderate Voice
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GOP-backed House candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene: The Obama administration used MS-13 to assassinate Seth Rich — Greene's smear echoes a QAnon conspiracy theory post — Republican House candidate and right-wing commentator Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is a QAnon supporter and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist …
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QAnon candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who claimed that there's no evidence a plane crashed into the Pentagon
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Washington Post, Slate, The Hill, Raw Story, Mediaite, Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog and Fox News
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Think QAnon Is on the Fringe? So Was the Tea Party
Think QAnon Is on the Fringe? So Was the Tea Party
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National Review, CANNONFIRE, Raw Story, Axios and Washington Post
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Michael Cohen releases excerpt, cover from Trump tell-all book — President Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen on Thursday released the cover and a 3,700-word foreword from his upcoming tell-all book, “Disloyal.” — Why it matters: Cohen, who pleaded guilty to lying to Congress on Trump's behalf …
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New York Times, Raw Story, Reuters and Breitbart
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Michael Cohen book claims Trump colluded with Russia and will ‘never leave office peacefully’ — In an upcoming book, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former attorney, alleges that Trump worked with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. — Among many other accusations …
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Justice Department Finds Yale Illegally Discriminates Against Asians and Whites in Undergraduate Admissions in Violation of Federal Civil-Rights Laws — The Department of Justice today notified Yale University of its findings that Yale illegally discriminates against Asian American …
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Axios, Just The News, The Federalist, UPI, NBC News, New York Post and Law & Crime
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Feds accuse Yale of discriminating against some applicants
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Politico, The College Fix and The Hill
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Fox News Poll: Voters pick Biden, yet more think their neighbors back Trump — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is up 49-42 percent over President Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup, according to a national Fox News survey of registered voters. Nine percent are undecided or back a third-party candidate.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Big shift in asking government to ‘lend me a hand’ amid pandemic, unrest
Fox News Poll: Big shift in asking government to ‘lend me a hand’ amid pandemic, unrest
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Raw Story
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Trump Again Proves He Cares More for Israel Than Most American Jews — In time-honored mainstream media fashion, the Associated Press does its best to downplay President Trump's brokering a mutual recognition pact between Israel and the United Arab Emirates by calling it a “rare diplomatic win.”
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Power Line, Associated Press, The Floridian and The Week
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Trump's Peace Plan Rescues Benjamin Netanyahu. For Now.
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Reuters, Fox News, Jerusalem Post and The White House
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Biden praises Israel-UAE peace deal announced by Trump, credits Obama administration
Biden praises Israel-UAE peace deal announced by Trump, credits Obama administration
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Axios, Reuters, One America News Network, israpundit.org and The Daily Beast
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I Resigned from U.S. Government After My Own Leaders Began to Act Like the Autocrats I Analyzed — I recently resigned as a senior analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency after experiencing firsthand the actions of U.S. government leaders to suppress nonviolent dissent during the recent nationwide protests for racial justice.
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Besieged on all sides, Ron Johnson says his probe ‘would certainly’ help Trump win reelection — Sen. Ron Johnson this week said his probe of Obama-era intelligence agencies would help President Donald Trump win reelection, igniting fury from Democrats who say it was an explicit admission he's using …
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Mediaite, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
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Dodgers, LeBron James team up to make Dodger Stadium a polling site — Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James' voting-rights group has partnered with the Los Angeles Dodgers to make Dodger Stadium a polling place for the November general election, marking the first time a Major League Baseball team …
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Fox News
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Trump goes after FBI director Wray, whom he appointed, and issues warning to Barr — Trump lashes out at FBI director for stating facts — (CNN)President Donald Trump on Thursday again attacked his own FBI director, whom he appointed, and pushed Attorney General William Barr to pressure …
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Talking Points Memo and POLITICUSUSA
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Evan Perez / CNN:
US intel report on Russia could undercut Trump's hopes for Durham probe
US intel report on Russia could undercut Trump's hopes for Durham probe
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Talking Points Memo
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The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000 — Estimated deaths above normal, March 1 to July 25 — Note: Data is most likely an undercount for some states in recent weeks. — Nationwide, 200,000 more people have died than usual since March.
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Rolling Stone, The Week and Outside the Beltway
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Kansas City police arrest alleged killer of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, namesake of ‘Operation LeGend’ — President Trump and Attorney General Barr applauded the news Thursday. — The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department announced on Thursday the arrest of a suspect in the murder case …
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Trump says spike in crime, high taxes could help him win New York in 2020 election — President Trump said during an exclusive Oval Office interview on Thursday that his campaign is “putting New York in play” against Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
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POLITICUSUSA
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President Trump requests mail-in ballot for upcoming Florida primary, despite rhetoric — For the second time as a Palm Beach County voter, President Donald Trump has requested a vote-by-mail ballot ahead of Florida's primary election on Tuesday. — And the president who has just spent …
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The Hill