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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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Salon and Washington Post
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Trump blurts out his true motive on mail-in voting — Back in March, President Trump seemed to blurt out the real reason he opposes expanded voting by mail in the 2020 election. Referring to provisions in the Democrats' coronavirus stimulus bill to vastly increase funding for voting by mail …
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The Moderate Voice, The Hill, Mother Jones and POLITICUSUSA
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Financial disclosures reveal postmaster general's business entanglements and likely conflicts of interest, experts say
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Raw Story and The Dispatch
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Trump says he's blocking Postal Service funding because Democrats want to expand mail-in voting during pandemic
Trump says he's blocking Postal Service funding because Democrats want to expand mail-in voting during pandemic
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Mother Jones and Vanity Fair
Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Trump vows to block stimulus funding for mail-in voting and USPS
Trump vows to block stimulus funding for mail-in voting and USPS
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Fox News, The Week, Rolling Stone and Breitbart
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
'That's not our game': Kudlow says White House won't accept ‘voting rights’ provisions in virus aid bill
'That's not our game': Kudlow says White House won't accept ‘voting rights’ provisions in virus aid bill
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NPR and Political Wire
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Trump Says He Wants to Withhold Funds From Post Office So Democrats 'Can't Have Universal Mail-In Voting'
Trump Says He Wants to Withhold Funds From Post Office So Democrats 'Can't Have Universal Mail-In Voting'
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Raw Story, Reason and Law & Crime
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Postal Service could halt special treatment of ballots, congressional Democrats warn
Postal Service could halt special treatment of ballots, congressional Democrats warn
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Slate, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA, Axios and HuffPost
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Postal service changes pose threat to voting, says former USPS deputy
Postal service changes pose threat to voting, says former USPS deputy
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Raw Story
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WATCH: New Trump ad hammers Biden/Harris over Joe's endless array of racial gaffes — Expect to see a lot of this as we head into the meat of election season. — Joe Biden's history with race is a minefield. It's been fodder for both Republicans and Democrats for years.
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The Wrap, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Mashable, Mediaite, Twitchy and The Slot
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Donald Trump's Woman Problem Just Got a Whole Lot Worse — Biden's pick of Kamala Harris was expected. What happened next, however, was not. And it spells trouble for the incumbent. — BEAST INSIDE — No one was shocked by Joe Biden's pick of California Senator Kamala Harris.
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Political Wire and Axios
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The Epic Blandness of the Joe Biden Campaign — Back in early 2019, a group of about 15 campaign journalists took part in an informal survey of who they expected to be the Democratic presidential nominee. — These reporters and editors, I happen to know, are all smart and well-connected.
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Washington Monthly, The Hill, Reuters, CNN, Fox News, Breitbart, New York Times and The Daily Beast
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
‘Antifa’ website cited in conservative media attack on Biden is linked to — wait for it — Russia
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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Politico, Ipsos, Breitbart, FiveThirtyEight, The Week and Washington Times
Talia Kaplan / Fox News:
Former Obama finance adviser: We haven't heard how Biden would have handled COVID differently
Former Obama finance adviser: We haven't heard how Biden would have handled COVID differently
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Politico
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Why the Biden-Harris and Trump-Pence race is ‘tightening’
Why the Biden-Harris and Trump-Pence race is ‘tightening’
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Breitbart
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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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Editor's Note: Eastman's Newsweek Column Has Nothing to Do With Racist Birtherism — Some of our readers have reacted strongly to the op-ed we published by Dr. John Eastman, assuming it to be an attempt to ignite a racist conspiracy theory around Kamala Harris' candidacy.
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Mediaite
Amanda Seitz / Associated Press:
Kamala Harris is eligible to serve as president
Jill Filipovic / GEN:
The Great Gen X vs. Boomer Debate Comes for Kamala
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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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Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal, Israel to suspend annexation — The peace deal was the product of lengthy discussions between Israel, the UAE and the United States that accelerated recently, White House officials said. — Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached a historic peace deal …
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Vox, Foreign Policy, Breitbart, American Herald, IJR, The Indian Express and Just The 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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POLITICUSUSA
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump lays down gauntlet for Barr on Durham probe: Either ‘greatest attorney general’ or ‘average guy’
Trump lays down gauntlet for Barr on Durham probe: Either ‘greatest attorney general’ or ‘average guy’
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Political Wire
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As a grim fall approaches, Trump team feels increasingly confident — A pandemic summer marked by testing delays, supply shortages and continued spread of the coronavirus has set the stage for a disheartening start to the fall across much of the U.S., with the shuttering of schools …
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NBC News, The National Interest, The Week and Raw Story
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A Deadly Coronavirus Was Inevitable. Why Was No One Ready? — Scientists warned of a pandemic for decades, yet when Covid-19 arrived, the world had few resources and little understanding — Hunkered around conference tables at the World Health Organization's Geneva headquarters …
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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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COVID's true toll in Texas is higher than reported, data shows — Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, the state's death toll from all causes has soared by thousands above historical averages — a sobering spike that experts say reveals the true toll of the disease.
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U.S. Supreme Court allows easing of Rhode Island voting restrictions — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday left in place a lower-court ruling that relaxes voting restrictions in Rhode Island during the coronavirus pandemic. — The justices rejected an emergency request …
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Washington Post, Associated Press, Axios and The Hill
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Pandemic has driven Americans to depression and drinking, CDC says — WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic has led to a marked deterioration in Americans' mental health, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study made public on Thursday.
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Designation of the Confucius Institute U.S. Center as a Foreign Mission of the PRC — The Trump Administration has made it a priority to seek fair and reciprocal treatment from the People's Republic of China. For more than four decades, Beijing has enjoyed free and open access to U.S. society …
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National Review, The Daily Caller and Bloomberg