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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
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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Boston.com, The Guardian, Fox News, The GroundTruth Project, Mediaite and CNBC
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David Sirota / Too Much Information:
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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Gizmodo, BBC, Los Angeles Times and Slate
Rae Yost / KCLO-TV:
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.
Lisa Baertlein / Reuters:
Exclusive: UPS, FedEx warn they cannot carry ballots like U.S. Postal Service — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - United Parcel Service and FedEx on Friday shot down social media calls that they step in to deliver mail-in ballots from the U.S. Postal Service, which is warning states of potentially “significant” delays.
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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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wusa9.com, Fox News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News, Boston.com, The Hill, NBC News, Mediaite, The Week and USA Today
Los Angeles Times:
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 and Raw Story
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
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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Axios, Mediaite, The Hill, Deadline, Raw Story and Just The News, more at Mediagazer »
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The White Supremacist “Scholars” Pushing the Kamala Harris Birther Lie
The White Supremacist “Scholars” Pushing the Kamala Harris Birther Lie
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The Bulwark, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Constitution Daily and Reason
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
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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Big Think
New York Times:
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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Marc Caputo / Politico:
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
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
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
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Trump officials could face criminal charges for USPS sabotage — and the president may not be able to pardon them — Members of the Trump administration could face legal jeopardy over efforts to sabotage U.S. Postal Service operations to interfere with the 2020 presidential elections.
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Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
NJ Rep, Inspector General Investigate What the Hell Is Going On With USPS
NJ Rep, Inspector General Investigate What the Hell Is Going On With USPS
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Vox, The Guardian, Law & Crime, Washington Monthly, The Hill, CNN, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Iowans struggle to find help, strength after powerful storm devastates homes, farms — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — In the five days since a massive storm system laid waste to this city, Ethel Fontenette, 65, has been trying to make sure neighbors in her retirement community stay well fed.
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Robert A. George / New York Daily News:
Say it loud, assimilated and proud: Kamala, me and the Black immigrant American challenge — Thursday, President Trump got the brand back together, giving a shoutout to an online article questioning Kamala Harris' legitimacy to ever be president, pointing to an online article that wondered if Harris was a …
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Slate and The Indian Express
Wyatt DobrovichFago / FOX News Radio:
“The Damnedest Thing I've Ever Seen” Chris Wallace On Biden Campaign Not Putting Any Surrogates On Sunday Shows Before Convention — Chris Wallace - Host of Fox News Sunday & Author of “Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days that Changed the World ” …
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Townhall
Kyle Olson / Breitbart:
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 …
John O. McGinnis / City Journal:
On the Ground … When Authority Vanishes — Chicago's leaders have surrendered to vandals. — Politics and law — Public safety — The Social Order — Riding in trucks and U-Hauls, vandals came to downtown Chicago on Sunday. They jammed streets around the Magnificent Mile …
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Viking Pundit
Washington Post:
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.
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Latest Assault on the Law Comes From George W. Bush's Torture Lawyer — Trump will follow the John Yoo playbook in a second term: Doing whatever he wants, the law and Constitution be damned, and daring the courts or Congress to stop him. — BEAST INSIDE
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Campaign Makes Huge Digital Ad Buy During Democratic Convention — The Trump campaign is trying to make sure that Mr. Trump's message will be almost impossible to miss even during the Democrats' biggest week. — The Trump campaign is launching an aggressive four-day digital advertising campaign …
Harry Enten / CNN:
Large convention bounces are unlikely In 2020 — (CNN)The major party political conventions have historically been the turning point in many campaigns. In 1988, Democrat Michael Dukakis entered the conventions as the frontrunner, only to leave trailing Republican George H.W. Bush.
Chicago Sun-Times:
Former Gov. James Thompson, a giant of Illinois politics, dead at 84 — Early in his career Thompson helped put one Illinois governor in prison and toward his career's end he worked tirelessly and in vain trying to keep another out of jail. — Back when there was such a thing …
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Associated Press and NBC Chicago
Zachary Hansen / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Civil rights probe launched after Ga. trooper charged with murder, attorney says — The GBI has charged a Georgia State Patrol trooper with murder in a driver's death, and the victim's family attorney says a federal civil rights investigation has been launched.
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The Root and New York Post
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Two sites that amplify hoaxes given special treatment at Trump's briefings despite restrictions — The White House press corps just got a little more Trump-friendly, thanks to a bit of maneuvering by the White House itself. — Representatives of the Gateway Pundit and Epoch Times …
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The Intercept and The Gateway Pundit, more at Mediagazer »
Justice News:
Drug-Dealing, White Supremacist Stripper Sentenced for Obstruction of Justice — TEXARKANA, Texas - A 28-year-old Dallas, Texas, man has been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today. — On March 6, 2020 …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Newly renovated White House Rose Garden to be unveiled next week — (CNN)The newly renovated White House Rose Garden is scheduled to be unveiled on Thursday, just days before the Republican National Convention, a source with knowledge of the planning told CNN.
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The Daily Caller
Alex Thompson / Politico:
‘The President Was Not Encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden — The way Joe Biden explained it on the campaign trail in Iowa, he and his friend Barack Obama had long talked of Biden succeeding him in the White House, continuing the work of their administration.
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Townhall, Redstate, israpundit.org, New York Post, Fox News, Twitchy and The Daily Caller