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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Biden's campaign says it raised $70 million during DNC watched live by 122 million people — Biden: ‘Light is more powerful than dark’ — (CNN)Joe Biden's campaign, the Democratic National Committee and their joint fundraising committees raised $70 million over the party's four-day convention this week …
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Democrats to stage week of counterprogramming to Republican convention
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Biden draws highest TV ratings of Democratic convention, but down from 2016
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Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
McCollister endorses Biden, invites other Nebraska Republicans to join
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The Daily Beast:
National Enquirer Chief David Pecker Out After AMI Merger — The tabloid king has been dethroned as the financially troubled American Media Inc. merges with a company that markets face masks and vitamin supplements. — American Media Inc.'s longtime chairman and chief executive David Pecker …
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The Moderate Voice
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
National Enquirer Chief David Pecker Loses Top Job in Company Merger — As the longtime media executive moves to an adviser role, American Media, the parent of The National Enquirer, has been renamed A360Media as part of a planned merger with a logistics company.
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Financial Times:
Alexei Navalny given all clear to be evacuated from Russia — Alexei Navalny is set to be airlifted to Germany for specialist medical treatment as Russia's most prominent critic of the Kremlin remains in a coma after a suspected poisoning. — The decision to allow for his evacuation …
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Kylie Atwood / CNN:
Trump remains largely silent on reported poisoning of Russian dissident as Europe, US lawmakers offer support
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Vladimir Kara-Murza / Washington Post:
The world must pay attention to the suspected poisoning of Alexei Navalny. My own case shows why.
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New York Times, Politico, Forbes and New Yorker
U.S. Department of Justice:
Former Army Special Forces Officer Charged in Russian Espionage Conspiracy — Former Green Beret Allegedly Conspired to Provide National Defense Information to Russian Intelligence — A Gainesville, Virginia, man was arrested today for conspiring with Russian intelligence operatives …
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Former Army Green Beret Charged in Russian Espionage Conspiracy
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Ex-Green Beret Charged With Spying for Russia in Elaborate Scheme
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Washington Post:
Ex-CIA director John Brennan questioned for 8 hours in U.S. Attorney John Durham's probe, a Brennan adviser says — Former CIA director John Brennan was interviewed for eight hours Friday by the federal prosecutor specially assigned by Attorney General William P. Barr to review …
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Politico, Washington Times and Twitchy
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
‘It was great’: In leaked audio, Trump hailed low Black turnout in 2016 — In a private meeting inside Trump Tower days before his inauguration, Donald Trump told a group of civil rights leaders something most Republicans wouldn't dare publicly acknowledge: lower turnout among Black voters did …
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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Trump says he ‘listens better to African Americans’ than Martin Luther King III
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John Verhovek / ABC News:
Biden to ABC's David Muir: ‘I would shut [country] down’ to prevent spread of COVID-19 if scientists recommended — Biden, Harris' first joint interview airs Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC — Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with ABC “World News Tonight” …
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Averi Harper / ABC News:
Biden to ABC's Robin Roberts: 'I don't want to defund' the police, but Trump does
Luke Barr / ABC News:
Trump says he wants police at polling sites. Experts say that's unlawful.
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The US Sun and Washington Post
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW Gets Hope Hicks' Financials — Late on Friday, CREW received Hope Hicks' financial disclosure forms filed when she reentered the Trump administration. The forms show that her time away from the White House was lucrative for the once and future senior Trump aide.
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Kanye West's Presidential Campaign Is Both Proceeding and Unraveling — The last 48 hours have presented a series of new challenges for Kanye West's haphazard campaign for president. — In a span of two days, West was booted from the ballot in five states: Illinois, Montana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
NBC News:
Trump files emergency motion to block release of his tax returns … President Donald Trump's battle with Manhattan prosecutors entered a new phase Friday as lawyers for the president filed an emergency motion with an appeals court to stop the release of his tax returns.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Judge denies Trump's bid for a stay of subpoena in Manhattan DA's tax records case
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CNN:
Kris Kobach claimed he spoke with ‘enthusiastic’ Trump three times about border wall project at center of fraud investigation — (CNN)Donald Trump ally Kris Kobach said in an interview last year that he had spoken with the President three times about the private border wall project …
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Bannon has been telling friends he and Trump occasionally speak, source says
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Rolling Stone, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Joe Biden, America's Un-Trump — For the Democratic nominee, the 2020 election has always been all about the President. — For Joe Biden, the 2020 election has always been about Donald Trump—his outrages and lies, his attacks on the very foundations of American democracy.
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Missing Piece in Biden's Convention Speech
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Biden just brutally exposed Trump's sociopathy — by telling simple emotional truths
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Redfield & Wilton Strategies:
Latest US Swing States Voting Intention (16-19 August) — Share our research: — The latest US swing states poll by Redfield & Wilton Strategies finds that Joe Biden is ahead of Donald Trump in five out of six swing states. Nonetheless, for the first time since we started polling …
NBC News:
QAnon looms behind nationwide rallies and viral #SavetheChildren hashtags — On the second Saturday of August, about 100 protestors gathered at the “Big Red Wagon,” a well-known attraction in downtown Spokane, Washington. Men, women and children marched through the streets chanting, “Save the children.”
Harmeet Kaur / CNN:
Covid-19 cases tied to the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota have reached across state lines — (CNN)Coronavirus cases linked to the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota last week have now reached across state lines to Nebraska, public health officials said.
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The Hill
Michael Casagrande / al.com:
New restrictions coming to Alabama campus, Greek houses amid ‘significant’ COVID increase — University of Alabama Fall 2020 First Day — Changes are coming to the University of Alabama COVID-19 plan three days into the new semester. — The school on Friday announced a moratorium …
David Ewing Duncan / Vanity Fair:
“It Looks Like They're Targeting Blue Urban Areas”: New Postal Service Plan Is Setting Off Election Alarms — An Oregon mail carrier believes a new initiative could potentially sidetrack mail-in ballots and disproportionately hurt Democrats. — As Postmaster General Louis DeJoy appears before Congress …
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Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
The postmaster general just robbed Democrats of their dumb Postal Service mystery
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Brayden Harrington says DNC appearance boosted his confidence, wants to help others who stutter — Brayden Harrington, the teen who shared his story on the final night of the Democratic National Convention about how Joe Biden helped him with his stutter, told NBC News Friday it has boosted …
Jacqueline Thomsen / LAW.com:
After Admitting to False Statements in Court, Trump DOJ Agrees to $200K Settlement With Arnold & Porter — Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge last month that officials made “inaccurate or misleading statements” in defending a ban on New Yorkers from certain DHS programs.
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Trump campaign fails to show evidence of vote-by-mail fraud, filing reveals — Donald Trump's campaign failed to produce any evidence of vote-by-mail fraud in Pennsylvania after a federal judge ordered it do so, according to a 524-page court filing obtained by the Guardian.
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Some VOA journalists forced to leave US soon as visas expire — WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen journalists with the U.S. government's premier international broadcaster may soon be forced to leave the United States as their visas expire with no action from the agency's new leadership.
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