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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
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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Aaron Gordon / VICE:
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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Law & Crime, Washington Post, The Guardian, Politico, Redstate, Wall Street Journal, Outside the Beltway, The Verge, The Nation, The Week, Twitchy and CNN
Washington Post:
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
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
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
Eli Stokols / Los Angeles Times:
Trump admits to blocking Postal Service funding to undercut voting by mail
Sara Atske / Pew Research Center:
Election 2020: Voters Are Highly Engaged, but Nearly Half Expect To Have Difficulties Voting
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's attack on the Postal Service is now a national emergency
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Vox and Raw Story
New York Times:
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 Cain Gang, The Federalist, CNN, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Independent and New Yorker
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
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
CNN:
Biden campaign says it has raised more than $34 million since Harris joined the ticket — Kamala Harris takes aim at Trump in first campaign speech — Washington (CNN)Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's campaign announced Thursday that it raised over $34 million since Sen. Kamala Harris joined the ticket.
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The Guardian, The Hill and ABC News
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
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
John C. Eastman / Newsweek:
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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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Encourages Racist Conspiracy Theory About Kamala Harris — 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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Newsweek, Washington Post, The Week and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
Trump gives credence to false, racist Harris conspiracy — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday gave credence to a false and racist conspiracy about Kamala Harris' eligibility to be president, fueling an online misinformation campaign that parallels the one he used to power his rise into politics.
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CNN, Axios, Breitbart, Washington Post and Raw Story
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
A Geopolitical Earthquake Just Hit the Mideast — The Israel-United Arab Emirates deal will be felt throughout the region. — For once, I am going to agree with President Trump in his use of his favorite adjective: “huge.” — The agreement brokered by the Trump administration …
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Mark Moore / New York Post:
Robert O'Brien says Trump should be ‘front-runner’ for Nobel Peace Prize
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Washington Free Beacon
Dominic Green / Spectator USA:
The UAE-Israel deal is a triumph of Trump's personal diplomacy
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Power Line, The Atlantic and middleeastmonitor.com
Reuters:
Israel, UAE to normalize relations in shift in Mideast politics; West Bank annexations on hold
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Redstate
Noga Tarnopolsky / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Peace Plan Rescues Benjamin Netanyahu. For Now.
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The White House, Reuters, Fox News and Jerusalem Post
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
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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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
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, The Hill, Raw Story, Slate, Mediaite, Politico and No More Mister Nice Blog
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Think QAnon Is on the Fringe? So Was the Tea Party
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National Review, CANNONFIRE, Raw Story, Axios and Washington Post
New York Post:
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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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump assails, misrepresents Biden on mask mandate in partisan White House briefing
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Reuters
USA Today:
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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
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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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
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
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Raw Story
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
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 …
U.S. Department of Justice:
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, Associated Press, Just The News, The College Fix, UPI, The Federalist, New York Post, Law & Crime and NBC News
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Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
Yale Discriminated by Race in Undergraduate Admissions, Justice Department Says
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National Review, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Intel Analyst Says He Resigned Because He Didn't Think Defense Secretary Would ‘Refuse Unlawful Orders’ from Trump — A former senior analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency wrote in Just Security on Thursday that he resigned from his post after witnessing firsthand the events that took place in Lafayette Square on June 1.
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
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
CNN:
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
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Talking Points Memo
New York Post:
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
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
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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