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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:
Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting — ‘This will slow mail processing,’ a union official wrote on one of the documents announcing the machine removals. — Aaron Gordon — The United States Postal Service proposed removing 20 percent of letter sorting machines …
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USA Today:
Trump is determined to rig this election, defraud voters and thwart the will of the people — We can no longer trust that our federal government will oversee fair elections this November. The repeated statements and actions of the president, his attorney general and leaders in the Republican Party …
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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CNN:
Postal Service removes some mail-sorting machines, sparking concerns ahead of election
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Jayati Ramakrishnan / Oregonian:
USPS removes mailboxes in Portland and Eugene, cites ‘declining mail volume’
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Postal Service Can Handle the Election—If It's Allowed To
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Black Like Kamala — Republican efforts to deny Senator Harris's identity as an African-American and turn her into a noncitizen are destined to fail. — It was probably inevitable that Kamala Harris becoming Joe Biden's running mate would result in controversy over her heritage.
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New York Times:
How Biden Chose Harris: A Search That Forged New Stars, Friends and Rivalries
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Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
CNN Reporter's ‘Analysis’ of Harris Is One Long Press Release
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Associated Press:
Trump gives credence to false, racist Harris conspiracy
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
What Harris Got from Biden During Her Job Interview
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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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Richard Grenell / The Hill:
Israel-UAE breakthrough proves Trump's critics wrong — again
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien On The Israel-United Arab Emirates Accord
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
Top DHS officials Wolf and Cuccinelli are not legally eligible to serve in their current roles, congressional watchdog agency finds — The appointments of the top two officials at the Department of Homeland Security violated federal law, the Government Accountability Office said on Friday.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
GAO finds Chad Wolf, Ken Cuccinelli are ineligible to serve in their top DHS roles — Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli were invalidly appointed to their positions and are ineligible to serve, a congressional watchdog determined Friday.
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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CNN:
Trump and first lady request mail-in ballots despite attacks
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge orders Trump campaign to produce evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
How QAnon rode the pandemic to new heights — and fueled the viral anti-mask phenomenon — In February, five months before she became known as “QAnon Karen,” there was no one more terrified of the coming pandemic than Melissa Rein Lively. — “I bought the N-95 masks. I bought the hazmat suit,” she said.
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Alex Thompson / Politico:
‘The President Was Not Encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden — Behind the friendship was a more complicated relationship, which now drives the former vice president to prove his partner wrong. — The way Joe Biden explained it on the campaign trail in Iowa …
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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
House GOP candidate known for QAnon support was ‘correspondent’ for conspiracy website — Before running for office, Republican congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote dozens of articles as a “correspondent” for a conspiracy news website, according to archived web pages uncovered by NBC News.
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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 …
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Biden Expands Lead; A Third Of Country Says It Won't Get Vaccinated — Toggle more options — Democrat Joe Biden's lead has expanded to double-digits against President Trump in the presidential election, an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. Biden now leads Trump 53% to 42%, up from an 8-point advantage at the end of June.
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Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
Discontent with McCarthy rises as GOP considers a possible post-Trump world — Discontent with Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is on the rise in the House, as Republicans increasingly fearful of a loss by President Trump on Election Day gear up for an intraparty war over the future of the GOP.
ABC News:
Trump brother hospitalized in New York: Sources — President expected to visit brother, Robert Trump, sources said. — Robert Trump, the younger brother of President Donald Trump, has been hospitalized in New York, sources told ABC News, a development confirmed by the White House.
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Nikita Telizhenko / Telegraph:
“People lay like a living carpet in pools of blood” — How detainees at protests are beaten in jails in Belarus. Scary Znak.com report — this material is a raw translation of the original text in Russian — Znak.com correspondent Nikita Telizhenko was detained on the evening of August 10 …
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Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Max Adds “Proper Social Context” Intro to ‘Blazing Saddles’ — The disclaimer is similar to the one the streamer added before ‘Gone With the Wind.’ — Blazing Saddles is currently streaming on HBO Max, along with a new introduction that automatically plays before the Mel Brooks classic begins.
Heather Long / Washington Post:
The recession is over for the rich, but the working class is far from recovered — The stock market and home values are back at record levels, while jobs remain scarce for those earning less than $20 an hour — U.S. stocks are hovering near a record high, a stunning comeback since March …
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The Week
Allister Heath / Telegraph:
Sweden's success shows the true cost of our arrogant, failed establishment — Shocking incompetence has unnecessarily wiped billions of pounds from the UK economy — So now we know: Sweden got it largely right, and the British establishment catastrophically wrong.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Common, Billie Eilish, John Legend among Dem convention musical acts — Democratic National Convention organizers announced Friday a list of musical acts expected to be featured at the party's four-night nominating event next week. — Among the artists slated to perform at the largely virtual convention …
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Reuters
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Barr Says Results of Probe Into Russia Investigation Could Come by Election — Attorney General William Barr says Justice Department will ‘use our prudent judgement’ in deciding when to release the findings — CHEYENNE, Wyo.—Attorney General William Barr said Thursday he could reveal …
Lois K. Solomon / Sun-Sentinel:
Principal who made Holocaust comments should not have been fired, judge rules — The former Boca Raton principal who generated a national uproar for his comments about the Holocaust should not have been fired, a judge ruled Thursday. — The Palm Beach County School District …
New York Times:
A Third of TikTok's U.S. Users May Be 14 or Under, Raising Safety Questions — Three current and former employees expressed concerns about the Chinese-owned app's safeguards for preteen children. — If Microsoft or another company buys TikTok before President Trump bans the Chinese-owned video app …
Paul Musgrave / Washington Post:
Busy work — Trump's secret political weapon: Wasting his opponents' time — On the night of Aug. 6, President Trump was flying from Cleveland to New Jersey when he suddenly issued executive orders that would ban the social media video app TikTok and WeChat, China's largest messaging platform …
Chicago Business:
Macy's exiting Water Tower Place? — An anchor of the Mag Mile mall since its inception, the retailer—unhappy with the police response to recent looting, according to a source close to the situation—now is looking to shrink or vacate its space there. — Buffeted by changing retail trends …
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