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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
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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Washington Post:
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
Washington Post:
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
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
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
Matthew Rink / Erie Daily Times-Morning News:
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.
House Committee on Oversight and Reform:
Oversight Committee Calls Postmaster General to Testify at “Urgent” Hearing on Sweeping Operational and Organizational Changes — “Over the past several weeks, there have been startling new revelations about the scope and gravity of operational changes you are implementing at hundreds …
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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
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Just The News, Vanity Fair and The Hill
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
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
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
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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Natasha S. Alford / TheGrio:
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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Mark Murray / NBC News:
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
Gary Langer / ABC News:
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
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NBC News, The Hill, One America News Network and Reuters
Jasmine Wright / CNN:
Harris responds to Trump's birther attacks: 'They're going to engage in lies'
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NBC News:
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
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
‘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.
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
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 …
John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
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.
CBS News:
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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Harry Enten / CNN:
Biden heads into the conventions in a historically strong position
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro / NPR:
‘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.
Luke Kenton / Daily Mail:
'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
Mark Townsend / The Guardian:
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
Dave Lawler / Axios:
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 …
Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
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
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
‘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.
New York Times:
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
Rachel M. Cohen / The Intercept:
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 …
James Altucher:
NYC Is Dead Forever... Here's Why — I love NYC. When I first moved to NYC, it was a dream come true. Every corner was like a theater production happening right in front of me. So much personality, so many stories. — Every subculture I loved was in NYC. I could play chess all day and night.
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