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Pelosi, Schumer, Maloney, Peters Statement Calling on Postmaster General and Chairman of the Postal Service Board of Governors to Testify About Postal Service Sabotage — Washington, D.C. - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney …
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Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, Daily Kos, Axios, HillReporter.com, Twitchy and CNN
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House accelerates oversight of Postal Service as uproar grows, demanding top testify at ‘urgent’ hearing — The House Oversight Committee announced a hearing for Aug. 24, inviting Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Postal Service board of governors Chairman Robert M. Duncan
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New York Daily News, Vanity Fair, Mashable, Mediaite, The Guardian, Balloon Juice and Fox News
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State officials rush to shore up confidence in Nov. 3 election as voters express new fears about mail voting — President Trump's unprecedented attacks on the U.S. Postal Service amid widespread mail delays across the country are shaking voters' faith that their ballots will be counted …
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Talking Points Memo and New York Times
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Dear Colleague on House Returning to Save the Postal Service — The Postal Service is a pillar of our democracy, enshrined in the Constitution and essential for providing critical services: delivering prescriptions, Social Security checks, paychecks, tax returns and absentee ballots to millions of Americans …
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Trump's coup-by-mail is underway. America can't wait until November to fight back — First, they came for the mailboxes. — The once-fantastical notion of a political or military coup in the United States has long lingered in the American imagination. Older Boomers might remember …
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Scripting News
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Erie loses mail-sorting machines in USPS purge — Two of Erie's six delivery bar code sorters, which can sort 36,000 pieces of mail an hour, were unplugged in recent weeks. — The U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks unplugged two of its six delivery bar code sorters from its East 38th Street processing facility in Erie.
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Oversight Committee Calls Postmaster General to Testify at “Urgent” Hearing on Sweeping Operational and Organizational Changes
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Townhall, Reuters, New York Times, Gothamist, POLITICUSUSA, NBC New York, Sputnik News and Daily Kos
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Democrats set emergency hearing with top postal officials amid fear over delayed ballots
Democrats set emergency hearing with top postal officials amid fear over delayed ballots
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Just The News, Vanity Fair and The Hill
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The Most Tremendous Reelection Campaign in American History Ever Inside the chaotic, desperate, last-minute Trump 2020 reboot. — For the two and a half years that he was in charge, a Brad Parscale sighting was always news at Trump campaign headquarters in Rosslyn, Virginia.
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POLITICUSUSA, The Week and Daily Kos
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Biden Leads Trump, 50% to 41%, in Poll Ahead of Party Conventions — President struggles to reach job approval that would make re-election more likely, while opponent draws soft support that could present turnout challenges — President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden start …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
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Kamala Harris has a message for voters who aren't feeling her and Joe Biden — EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with theGrio, Sen. Harris explains why showing up to vote is a life or death matter in the age of COVID-19. — Loading the player... Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has a message …
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Biden remains ahead of Trump nationally on eve of conventions in NBC News/WSJ poll — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump continues to trail Democratic challenger Joe Biden nationally as more than 60 percent of voters say America's response to the coronavirus has been unsuccessful …
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The Hill, Breitbart, Axios and Washington Times
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54% approve of Harris selection, including 1 in 4 Republicans: POLL
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The Hill and New York Post
Allie Bice / Politico:
Sanders defends Harris as vice presidential pick
Sanders defends Harris as vice presidential pick
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NBC News, One America News Network, Reuters and The Hill
Jasmine Wright / CNN:
Harris responds to Trump's birther attacks: 'They're going to engage in lies'
Harris responds to Trump's birther attacks: 'They're going to engage in lies'
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Breitbart, TheGrio, The Hill and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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Trump eyes Putin meeting before November election, say four people familiar with discussions — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has told aides he'd like to hold an in-person meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the November election, according to four people familiar with the discussions.
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The US Sun, POLITICUSUSA, The Guardian, Bloomberg and Axios
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‘May rent. June rent. Late fees. Penalties.’ … There's no room for disbelief in my position. I've had other people tell me: “Really? They're evicting you during a pandemic? That's crazy.” I don't know. Maybe it is. I haven't had time to sit and feel sorry.
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Bill Barr Injures Back While Trying to Lift Mailbox Into Truck — WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Attorney General William Barr suffered what was described as a “severe back strain” while trying to lift a mailbox into a pickup truck on Saturday. — According to Barr, he tried to give the mailbox …
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'I'm leaving, you guys won': Moment furious Seattle cop tells activist he's quitting because of constant unrest caused by BLM protests - just days after city's Chief of Police resigned over huge budget cut — While the circumstances surrounding the video remain unclear, the officer …
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Raw Story
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Iran ‘Snapback’ Isn't Worth the Risk — It would weaken the Security Council veto, which serves U.S. interests at the U.N. — For the U.S., there is one point of high principle worth dying in a ditch for at the United Nations: Never impair the Security Council veto.
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Biden solidifies Democratic base support ahead of convention — Battleground Tracker poll — Helped by a party that seems unified behind him, Joe Biden leads in our current estimate of the Electoral College — the only count that will matter — as his nominating convention begins.
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The Week
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Biden heads into the conventions in a historically strong position
Biden heads into the conventions in a historically strong position
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Mediaite
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‘Hatemonger’ Tracks How Right-Wing Media Shaped Trump Policy Architect Stephen Miller — Toggle more options — Stephen Miller is the architect of Donald Trump's extreme policies on immigration. — And leaked emails have shown him pushing white-power ideology cloaked in pseudo-science.
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The U.S. is far behind other rich countries in coronavirus response — Over the past several weeks, the coronavirus has killed Americans at six times the average rate in other rich countries. And we're recording about eight times more infections. — Why it matters: The virus burned through …
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Trump's Policies Are a Boon to the Super Rich. So Where Are All the Seven-Figure Checks? — Only a small fraction of the president's top donors from 2016 have given as much to his re-election effort. — Timothy Mellon, reclusive heir to a Pittsburgh banking fortune …
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Raw Story
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‘Hidden’ Trump Voters Exist. But How Much Impact Will They Have? — Republicans insist that millions of Americans want to vote for Trump but won't admit it. Polling experts tell a different story. — MOORESVILLE, N.C. — It wasn't the most obvious spot for a flag that people usually buy to make a big statement.
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Suburban Housewives Take a Hard Pass on Trump's Cringeworthy Ploy — After Trump tweeted that “suburban housewives” would be voting for him, those same housewives mobilized against him the best way they knew how—on Facebook. — Earlier this week, President Donald Trump tweeted what many saw …
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Raw Story
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Facebook algorithm found to ‘actively promote’ Holocaust denial … Facebook's algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content according to an analysis that will increase pressure on the social media giant to remove antisemitic content relating to the Nazi genocide.
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New York Post
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Progressive Boston Doctor Seeks to Unseat “Do-Nothing Moderate Democrat” in Congress … With just over two weeks left until the Massachusetts Democratic primary, progressives across the country are focused on the high-profile primaries of Sen. Ed Markey, who is fending off a challenge from Rep. Joe Kennedy …