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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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Daily Kos, Boston.com, New York Times, Fox News, The Guardian, The GroundTruth Project and Mediaite
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Khalida Volou / wusa9.com:
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” …
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 Raw Story
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
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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Axios, Reuters, Politico, WTOP and NBC Chicago
Rae Yost / KCLO-TV:
Rural South Dakotan shares concerns about potential delays, loss of postal service
Lisa Baertlein / Reuters:
Exclusive: UPS, FedEx warn they cannot carry ballots like U.S. Postal Service
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New York Post and The Hill
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Postal Service will stop removing mailboxes
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Talking Points Memo, Fox News, Mashable, DSCC, Boston.com, BuzzFeed News, Law & Crime, The Hill, Mediaite, USA Today, The Week and Washington Monthly
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
USPS's Louis DeJoy makes his mark as part of a motley GOP crew
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Daily Kos
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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The Indian Express and Slate
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Linda Chavez / The Bulwark:
Natural Born Citizens — Kamala Harris isn't the face of America's future but its present — and that terrifies the president's pseudo-intellectual backers. — Kamala Harris was born in California—which no one disputes is part of the United States of America (yet)—but a group of what passes …
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Townhall, Axios, Raw Story, Washington Post and Just The News
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Biden campaign unveils first ad featuring running mate Sen. Kamala Harris
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The Hill
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The White Supremacist “Scholars” Pushing the Kamala Harris Birther Lie
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Constitution Daily, The Atlantic and Reason
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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Mother Jones, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Zach Lowe / ESPN:
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, Balloon Juice, ProFootballTalk, The Verge and New York Post
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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Mediaite, The Hill, Raw Story and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
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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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
Rahm Emanuel / Wall Street Journal:
‘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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Axios
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
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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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.
Daniel Newhauser / Minnesota Reformer:
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
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
New CDC guidance says Covid-19 rates in children ‘steadily increasing’ — CDC warns US coronavirus death toll may reach 200K in weeks — (CNN)Health experts say children make up more than 7% of all coronavirus cases in the US — while comprising about 22% of the country's population …
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UPI, New York Post and The Hill
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
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
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 …
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow skips Durham probe's guilty plea — despite previous Russia obsession — The cable news star has seen her ratings drop since the conclusion of the Mueller investigation — despite millions of potential viewers largely confined to their homes
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
Neil Steinberg / Chicago Sun-Times:
Former Gov. James Thompson, a giant of Illinois politics, dead at 84 — Former Gov. James Thompson, shown here at a 2007 news conference, discussing a federal appeals court opinion that upheld Gov. George Ryan's racketeering and fraud conviction. Thompson died Friday at 84. AP file photo
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