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Politico:
Pelosi weighs bringing House back early to address Postal Service crisis — Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leaders are considering cutting short the August recess and bringing the chamber back into session to deal with the unfolding crisis at the U.S. Postal Service, according to Democratic sources.
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New York Times:
Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms — President Trump's furious objection to mail-in balloting and a new Trump-allied postmaster general are raising fears about the election and the Postal Service. — DARBY, Pa. — Each day, when Nick Casselli, the president …
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Redstate
Axios:
Pelosi considers recalling House for Postal Service vote — Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders discussed the possibility of bringing the House back early to act on what they see as a crisis with the Postal Service, a House Democratic aide told Axios Saturday.
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NPR
Washington Post:
Tracing Trump's Postal Service obsession — from ‘loser’ to ‘scam’ to ‘rigged election’ — Soon after taking office in 2017, President Trump seized on the U.S. Postal Service as an emblem of the bloated bureaucracy. “A loser,” he repeatedly labeled one of America's most beloved public institutions …
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Vox
Khalida Volou / wusa9.com:
Protesters gather outside of USPS Postmaster General's home in DC amid voter suppression allegations
Protesters gather outside of USPS Postmaster General's home in DC amid voter suppression allegations
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Fox News, #ShutDownDC, New York Post, HillReporter.com, Breitbart, Mediaite, Sputnik News, Variety, Mashable, Axios and Slate
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Q&A: What's happening at the US Postal Service, and why?
Q&A: What's happening at the US Postal Service, and why?
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Reuters, One America News Network, The Hill, Axios, NBC News, Breitbart and NBC Chicago
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Robert S. Trump, the President's Younger Brother, Dies at 71 — A loyal spokesman for the family, he shunned the spotlight and had “zero sense of entitlement.” — Robert S. Trump, the younger brother of President Trump, died on Saturday night at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.
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CNN, Politico, Al Jazeera and Axios
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Jim Mustian / Associated Press:
Robert Trump, the president's younger brother, dead at 71 — President Donald Trump's younger brother, Robert Trump, has died after being hospitalized in New York — NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible …
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CBS Los Angeles and The Daily Beast
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Robert Trump, younger brother of President Trump who filed lawsuit against niece, dies at 71 — Robert Trump, the younger brother of President Trump, said in 2016 that he supported his sibling's candidacy “one thousand percent.” The brothers were photographed embracing on election night.
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ABC News, Sputnik News and New York Post
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Antifa Goes to Sturgis — Earlier today, a handful of Antifa goofs decided to take their anti-American shtick to the annual biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. If this sounds like a bad idea to you, you are right. — Actually, the bikers were commendably well-behaved.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
In Republican Alaska, GOP incumbents face strongest challenges in decades amid the coronavirus pandemic — Five months ago, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) appeared before more than 50 seniors in a town north of Anchorage and dismissed the surging coronavirus pandemic as “the beer virus” that was built mostly on “hysteria” by the media.
New York Times:
Shifting Dynamics of the Mideast Pushed Israel and U.A.E. Together — Prime Minister Netanyahu's quest to open relations with Arab countries without settling the Palestinian conflict long seemed quixotic. External events changed the equation. — JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin …
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Harry Enten / CNN:
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
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
How NYC championed broken windows policing and threw it away — In the event the goon squad trashing New York and other cities puts me under a hot light and demands I say nice things about their “movement,” I'm ready. I will thank them for proving the righteousness of the “broken windows” theory of policing.
Mia Cathell / The Post Millennial:
New DA in Portland admits he is ‘old buddies’ with an Antifa militant — Newly-elected District Attorney Mike Schmidt, who refuses to prosecute Portland rioters, admits he is “old buddies” with an Antifa militant campaigning to defund the police, abolish prisons, and demand reparations.
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:
Coronavirus spread in Georgia is ‘widespread and expanding,’ says report on leaked WH warning — A White House task force report warns that the coronavirus spread in Georgia is “widespread and expanding” and “strongly recommends” a statewide mask mandate, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which obtained the report.
Matthew Mauzy / Alert Carolina:
Alert Carolina Emergency Notification: Clusters of COVID-19 cases in Sigma Nu fraternity — Students, faculty and staff: — The University has identified a cluster of COVID-19 cases in Sigma Nu fraternity, located at 109 Fraternity Court, Chapel Hill. A “cluster” …
Ivan Krastev / Foreign Policy:
The Tragic Romance of the Middle-Aged Western Liberal — Anne Applebaum wants to understand rising illiberalism but is clinging to a Cold War moral framework that no longer applies. — Anne Applebaum opens her new book, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism …
SOM - State of Michigan:
Rejected absentee ballot numbers highlight need for legislative changes — Majority of rejections could be easily fixed with changes to law — The majority of disenfranchised voters in last week's statewide primary could easily have had their votes counted with small changes in law, preliminary data on rejected ballot numbers show.
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Kyle Olson / Breitbart:
Michigan Rejects 846 Mailed Ballots ‘Because the Voter Was Dead’
Michigan Rejects 846 Mailed Ballots ‘Because the Voter Was Dead’
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The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
'We're Clearly Not Doing Enough': Drop in Testing Hampers Coronavirus Response — For the first time during the pandemic, the United States saw a downward trend in the number of coronavirus tests conducted each day. — For months, public health experts and federal officials …
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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Wall Street Journal, STAT, Gothamist, Marginal REVOLUTION, The Verge, ProFootballTalk, New York Post and Balloon Juice