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Trump's attacks on the Postal Service deserve sustained, red-alert coverage from the media — Listen to President Trump long enough, and, despite his penchant for falsehood, you'll eventually hear some unvarnished truth. — That happened Thursday when he stated his intentions clearly in an interview with Fox Business Network.
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Daily Kos, Boston.com, Fox News, New York Times, The Guardian, The GroundTruth Project and Mediaite
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Rural South Dakotan shares concerns about potential delays, loss of postal service — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — When he buys a stamp he's establishing a contract with the U.S. Postal Service to deliver that letter or parcel on time and accurately, said Herreid resident Robert Thullner said.
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Q&A: What's happening at the US Postal Service, and why? — The U.S. Postal Service is warning states it cannot guarantee that all ballots cast by mail for the Nov. 3 election will arrive in time to be counted, even if ballots are mailed by state deadlines.
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Reuters, Axios, WTOP, Breitbart and NBC Chicago
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Trump's Postal Service Chairman Has Led Senate GOP's $100 Million Super PAC — Trump just installed a former RNC chair to lead the board that oversees USPS — now the agency faces allegations that it is being used to rig the 2020 election. — 4 hr — In the months before the 2020 election …
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Exclusive: UPS, FedEx warn they cannot carry ballots like U.S. Postal Service
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The Mahablog, CNN, New York Post and The Hill
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Postal Service will stop removing mailboxes
Postal Service will stop removing mailboxes
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NBC News, Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze, Fox News, Boston.com, BuzzFeed News, DSCC, Mashable, Law & Crime, Raw Story, Washington Monthly, Mediaite and The Week
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It Took Newsweek Three Days and a Staff Revolt to Apologize for Kamala Harris Birtherism Op-Ed — The apology nevertheless fell far short of staffers' demands that the magazine retract and remove the supposedly erudite exploration of 19th century Supreme Court rulings.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Root and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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Newsweek apologizes for Kamala Harris op-ed
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Townhall, Axios, The Gateway Pundit and Deadline
Linda Chavez / The Bulwark:
Natural Born Citizens
Natural Born Citizens
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Raw Story, Slate, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Just The News
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Protesters gather outside of USPS Postmaster General's home in DC amid voter suppression allegations — The activists with Shut Down DC staged an early morning “wake up call” outside the home of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. — WASHINGTON — A group of protesters staged a “noise demonstration” …
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Axios, #ShutDownDC, Breitbart, HillReporter.com, Mediaite, Sputnik News, New York Post, Slate, Variety, The Hill, Politico and Bloomberg
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Biden campaign unveils first ad featuring running mate Sen. Kamala Harris — The ad is also the campaign's first bilingual spot of the cycle. — Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign has rolled out its first ad featuring the presumptive Democratic nominee's newly named running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris.
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The Hill
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Say it loud, assimilated and proud: Kamala, me and the Black immigrant American challenge
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The Indian Express and Slate
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Saliva-based coronavirus test funded by NBA, NBPA gets emergency authorization from FDA — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization on Saturday allowing public use of a saliva-based test for the coronavirus developed at Yale University and funded by the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association.
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Gothamist, ProFootballTalk, New York Post, The Verge and Balloon Juice
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Senate committee sought investigation of Bannon, raised concerns about Trump family testimony — The Senate Intelligence Committee sent a bipartisan letter to the Justice Department asking federal prosecutors to investigate Steve Bannon, a former Trump confidante, for potentially lying …
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POLITICUSUSA, Mother Jones and Raw Story
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Trump the distracter brings his act to the DNC — In Delaware next week, Joe Biden will take the stage to accept the Democratic nomination for president — a moment of triumph more than 30 years after he first ran for president. — On the same day, President Donald Trump will take the stage …
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Reuters, Raw Story, Axios, Althouse and One America News Network
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QAnon Promotes Pedo-Ring Conspiracy Theories. Now They're Stealing Kids. — RAMPING UP THE CRAZY — The far-right fringe group infamous for promoting nutjob conspiracy theories about pedophile rings has moved on to criminally meddling in child custody cases. — Part One of Two Parts:
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A big sign Trump is a weak candidate — (CNN)It's often been said that President Donald Trump is “underperforming the fundamentals”. Some believe Trump's doing worse than the average Republican president would be doing in the polls under similar circumstances. It's difficult to prove that, however.
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Raw Story
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Michigan Rejects 846 Mailed Ballots ‘Because the Voter Was Dead’ — Michigan clerks rejected 10,694 mailed ballots during the August 4 primary. — Of those, 846 ballots were not accepted “because the voter was dead,” the Detroit News reported. — Further, 2,225 ballots were denied …
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The Gateway Pundit
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A Dictatorship in Belarus Is Shaken — It seems that those living under Aleksandr Lukashenko's rule won't abide him forever. — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.
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Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
‘We can only help ourselves’: women in Belarus take protests into their own hands
‘We can only help ourselves’: women in Belarus take protests into their own hands
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Washington Post and New York Times
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‘Biden Republicans,’ Don't Turn Back — ‘Reagan Democrats’ found a permanent home in the GOP after 1980. The tables may now turn at last. — President Trump is eager to frame this year's election as another 1968, when chaos sent voters fleeing to the candidate who promised law and order.
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Congressman spent tax dollars on vendor owned by a member of his staff — WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn likes to boast on mail he sends to his constituents that his postcards are, “Proudly printed in Minnesota!” — What the Minnesota Republican fails to mention, though …
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WCCO | CBS Minnesota and The Daily Caller
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Trump's Ex-Wife and a Kennedy Push Wild Bill Gates Coronavirus Conspiracy — GET A GRIP — The president's second wife, Marla Maples, and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are pushing a wacky conspiracy theory involving Bill Gates, chip implants, and a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Media Bias/Fact Check and Raw Story
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Harris ‘electrifies’ West Indian voters — and gives Biden a new edge in Florida — LAUDERHILL, Fla. — Almost as soon as Kamala Harris became the first woman of Jamaican-Indian descent to be nominated for vice president, a mock White House menu of oxtail and jerk chicken cropped …
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Raw Story
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A Florida school district wanted to wait to reopen school buildings. Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to cut its funding. — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Florida is making a high-stakes gamble on school openings, with superintendents pressured into decisions that some fear will result in outbreaks of covid-19.
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Kanye West Is Trying to Get on the Ballot in Two More Purple States — Kanye West's presidential campaign is moving to get on the ballot in two new purple states, Minnesota and Virginia, after filing Friday in Iowa. — The three states join Wisconsin, Ohio, and Colorado as competitive states …
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Iowa Starting Line and New York Post
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Israel-UAE deal achieves a Middle East rarity: It's win-win-win, Palestinians included — The United States, Israel and the United Arab Emirates pulled off the rarest of feats on Thursday: a diplomatic win-win-win in the Middle East. President Donald Trump announced a historic breakthrough …
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