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8:40 AM ET, August 21, 2020

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HuffPost:
Inside Steve Bannon's Alleged Scheme To Fleece Trump Voters Who Wanted A Border Wall  —  The president's family denies knowing anything about the scheme, but a HuffPost investigation reveals close ties.  —  Brian Kolfage had a problem.  It was late 2018, and the triple-amputee and Air Force veteran …
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
The “Narcissism and Ego” That Led to Steve Bannon's Arrest  —  On Thursday, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged Steve Bannon—a top strategist on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and one of his key White House advisers before being fired, in 2017—with fraud.
NBC News:
Who is Guo Wengui, the Chinese billionaire who owns the boat Steve Bannon was arrested on?
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Cain Gang
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump directed Homeland Security to give $400 million to firm tied to Bannon's We Build the Wall scheme: report
Discussion: HillReporter.com
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:   LOCK HIM UP: Anti-Neocon Grifter Steve Bannon Indicted for Wall Fraud
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans have a lot to live up to  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  EVEN IF YOU'RE A REPUBLICAN, you have to admit that the Democratic convention — which nominated JOE BIDEN on Thursday night — was a technical success.  The Dems programmed a four-night television show …
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New York Times:
Joe Biden Accepts Democratic Nomination: ‘I Will Draw on the Best of Us’  —  Mr. Biden urged Americans to have faith that they could “overcome this season of darkness,” and he pledged to bridge the country's divisions in ways President Trump had not.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. accepted …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “Biden goes to church so regularly that he doesn't even need tear gas”  —  Comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the emcee for Night 4 of the Democratic National Convention, concluded a segment on Joe Biden's faith by quipping: “Just remember, Joe Biden goes to church so regularly …
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:   DNC's audacity of hope was that America is really empathetic and good
Adm. Steve Abbot / Defending Democracy Together:
A STATEMENT BY FORMER REPUBLICAN NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIALS  —  We are former national security officials who served during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump, or as Republican Members of Congress.
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
‘I will be an ally of the light, not the darkness’: Biden frames election choice as light versus dark  —  Accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, a moment he has worked toward for decades, Joe Biden on Thursday condemned what he called the divisive path that President Donald Trump …
Washington Post:
‘Pure, unvarnished, courage’: A 13-year-old ‘regular kid’ with a stutter gave a must-watch Democratic convention speech  —  Twenty seconds into his speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Brayden Harrington started to stutter.  —  He knew he would — it was the reason …
Discussion: The Hill, The Week and The Guardian
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Trump slams Biden in his birthplace ahead of Democratic nomination speech
New York Times:
The Republican Embrace of QAnon Goes Far Beyond Trump  —  As the president all but endorses the internet-driven conspiracy theory, it is shifting from the fringes of the internet to become an offline political movement.  —  Late last month, as the Texas Republican Party was shifting into campaign mode …
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Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Texas QAnon Supporter Used Car to Attack Strangers She Believed Were ‘Pedophiles’
Discussion: Vox and The Daily Beast
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How to talk — and ask — about QAnon
Los Angeles Times:
‘Like Armageddon’: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks  —  Six weeks ago, U.S. Postal Service workers in the high desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., began to notice crates of mail sitting in the post office in the early morning that should have been shipped out for delivery the night before.
Discussion: Off the Kuff and Daily Kos
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Washington Post:
Postmaster general eyes aggressive changes at Postal Service after election
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Washington Post:   Trump's reelection effort has officially spent more than $1 billion, a record sum at this point in the campaign
Annie Karni / New York Times:   Republicans Gear Up to Renominate Trump
Robby Soave / Reason:
Tulsi Gabbard Says the DNC Didn't Even Ask Her To Speak  —  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) won two pledged delegates during the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries and stayed in the race longer than Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).
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James Comer / Fox News:
Why Dems' USPS controversy is a manufactured distraction  —  The USPS is in need of reform, but to paint its woes as something new is not factual  —  Democrats once again have fabricated a wildly irresponsible and baseless conspiracy theory.  Their latest scheme is that the United States Postal Service …
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Aaron Gordon / VICE:
USPS Warns Employees Not to Speak to Press
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Joe Biden Finally Got the Timing Right  —  More than three decades after his first presidential run, in the midst of a deadly pandemic and without his son Beau at his side, the former vice president has met his moment.  —  Joe Biden tells funny stories at funerals and sad ones at campaign stops.
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Hillary Clinton rips GOP senators: They seem like they've had a “lobotomy”  —  Hillary Clinton criticized her former Republican colleagues for their responses to the explosive findings in the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on 2016 Russian interference, accusing them of giving up …
Discussion: Breitbart
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Hard evidence at last that shreds Trump's lies about a Russia ‘hoax’
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell to give taped remarks as part of GOP convention  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will give taped remarks as part of the Republican National Convention next week, his campaign confirmed.  —  The announcement comes after his campaign initially indicated on Thursday …
Discussion: Fox News, USA Today and The Week
NBC News:
Trump cabinet officials voted in 2018 White House meeting to separate migrant children, say officials  —  WASHINGTON — In early May 2018, after weeks of phone calls and private meetings, 11 of the president's most senior advisers were called to the White House Situation Room where they were asked …
Michael McFaul / Washington Post:
A Russian dissident is fighting for his life.  Where is the U.S.?  —  Michael McFaul is director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Hoover fellow at Stanford University and a contributing columnist to The Post.  He is the author of “From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia.”
Discussion: Foreign Policy, NPR and Politico
 
 
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
California Rep. Katie Porter Says She'd Consider Joining The Biden Administration
Discussion: The Hill
Andy Newman / New York Times:
Are New Yorkers Wearing Masks? Here's What We Found in Each Borough
Kevin Jones / National Catholic Register Bloggers Feed:
Religious Sister Who Will Pray at DNC: Legal Abortion ‘Above My Pay Grade’
Discussion: National Review
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Keisha Lance Bottoms: “We must pass on the gift John Lewis sacrificed to give us”
Discussion: The Hill
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
California Gov. Newsom failed to take promised pay cut, newspaper finds
Discussion: Deadline
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
‘Ellen’ Show Ups Staff Perks, Spreads New Message in Return to Work: 'Don't Be Afraid' (EXCLUSIVE)
Discussion: Decider
 Earlier Items: 
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Trump blames California for wildfires, tells state ‘you gotta clean your floors’
Discussion: The Hill
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Disinformation campaign stokes fears about mail voting, using LeBron James image and boosted by Trump-aligned group
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Democrats question whether Trump is breaking the law with RNC speech
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
David Slotnick / Business Insider:
Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden was banned by Delta for refusing to wear a mask on a flight
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Looks like Trump just validated a key Stormy Daniels affair allegation — by complaining about sharks
Discussion: Raw Story
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy tests positive for coronavirus
Richard Salame / The Intercept:
Trump Comes Up Empty When Pressed for Evidence of Election Fraud in Court
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Times
 

 
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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs

Jon Phillips / PCWorld:
PCWorld executive editor Gordon Mah Ung, former Maximum PC editor-in-chief and renowned PC hardware journalist for 25+ years, died at 58 of pancreatic cancer

 
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