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New York Times:
Mnuchin Paved Way for Postal Service Shake-Up — At President Trump's behest, the Treasury Secretary sought out appointees who would restructure the United States Postal Service. — WASHINGTON — In early February, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin invited two Republican members …
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Daniel Cassady / Forbes:
Washington Postal Workers Defy USPS Orders And Reinstall Mail Sorting Machines — Postal workers in Washington State have reinstalled high-speed mail sorting machines—dismantled after controversial orders from the U.S. Postal Service— despite USPS orders not to put machines back in use. — KEY FACTS
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Rolling Stone and The Hill
House Committee on Oversight and Reform:
New Postal Service Documents Show Nationwide Delays Far Worse Than Postal Service Has Acknowledged — Internal “PMG Briefing” Shows Alarming Delays Across the Board— First-Class, Marketing, Periodicals, and Priority Mail — “After being confronted on Friday with first-hand reports …
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The Hill, Breitbart, The Guardian, Raw Story and Fox News
Washington Post:
House passes bill to boost U.S. Postal Service amid Trump attacks — The House voted Saturday on legislation to provide $25 billion to the U.S. Postal Service and explicitly prohibit any operational changes amid widespread Democratic fears that the Trump administration is trying …
Axios:
House passes bill to reverse U.S. Postal Service changes — The House voted 257-150 on Saturday to give the U.S. Postal Service $25 billion and reverse operational changes made during widespread mail delays. 26 Republicans supported the measure, but the bill is unlikely to move forward after a White House veto threat.
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NBC News, Fox News, New York Times, WAVY-TV, The Hill, Blue Virginia, HillReporter.com, New York Post, TheBlaze, Fox Business and The Daily Caller
Grace Panetta / Business Insider:
Postmaster general Louis DeJoy and several Republican senators broke with the president to say voting by mail is safe
Postmaster general Louis DeJoy and several Republican senators broke with the president to say voting by mail is safe
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NBC New York, Forbes and WINK NEWS
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column: DeJoy's appointment as postmaster general looks even more dishonest than you thought
Column: DeJoy's appointment as postmaster general looks even more dishonest than you thought
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Forbes and BillMoyers.com
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
William Barr told Murdoch to ‘muzzle’ Fox News Trump critic, new book says — The attorney general, William Barr, told Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Andrew Napolitano, a prominent Fox News personality who became a critic of Donald Trump, according to a new book about the rightwing TV network.
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Slate, HillReporter.com, Fox News and Mediaite
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Danika Fears / The Daily Beast:
AG Barr Asked Rupert Murdoch to ‘Muzzle’ Fox News' Judge Napolitano for Criticizing Trump: Book — ‘INCENSED’ — At Donald Trump's behest, Attorney General William Barr asked Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano after he began criticizing the president on air, according to a new book.
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The Guardian
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Biden Gets No Immediate Convention Bounce, but Still Leads Trump — Democratic nominee earns best favorability ratings yet in post-DNC poll — In a post-convention poll, former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 9 points among likely voters, compared with an 8-point margin earlier in the week.
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New York Times, Breitbart, The Week, Politico, Bloomberg, Insights - Nielsen and Just The News
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Young voters prefer Biden, but they may not vote — (CNN)There is good news for former Vice President Joe Biden when it comes to younger voters. He's no longer underperforming where Hillary Clinton ended up in the final 2016 polls. — The big question coming out of the Democratic National Convention …
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Mashable
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's distortion on Dems and the pledge
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's distortion on Dems and the pledge
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Guardian, Axios, Twitchy and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Michelle Obama won the Democratic convention
Michelle Obama won the Democratic convention
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Real Clear Politics
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
The party of Trump is already a convention of ghoulish clowns
The party of Trump is already a convention of ghoulish clowns
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Raw Story, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, TheBlaze, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Fox News, Public Pool, Reason, The Yeshiva World and Townhall
Seth Cohen / Forbes:
The Real Reason Alyssa Milano Attracts Such Fierce Animosity From The Right — If you spend time reading or listening to conservative media outlets these days, you would think that the United States faces a far greater threat than Covid-19, global warming, racial injustice, or economic inequality.
Evan Simko-Bednarski / CNN:
Court orders Donald Trump to pay legal fees in Stormy Daniels suit — (CNN)A California Superior Court judge has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $44,100 to Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, to reimburse her attorneys' fees in the legal battle surrounding her nondisclosure agreement.
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Judge orders Trump to pay legal fees to Stormy Daniels
Judge orders Trump to pay legal fees to Stormy Daniels
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Fox News, ABC News, Sputnik News, HillReporter.com, The US Sun, The Gateway Pundit, JONATHAN TURLEY and UPI
Pam Fessler / NPR:
More Than 550,000 Primary Absentee Ballots Rejected In 2020, Far Outpacing 2016 — Audio will be available later today. — An extraordinarily high number of ballots — more than 550,000 — have been rejected in this year's presidential primaries, according to a new analysis by NPR.
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NBC News
Washington Post:
Trump looks to Republican convention for campaign reboot — Republicans will open their national convention Monday with an urgent mission: To convince voters pessimistic about the state of a country battered by the novel coronavirus, economic recession and racial upheaval that President Trump deserves four more years at the helm.
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Talking Points Memo, New York Post, The Hill, Rantt Media, New York Times, The Guardian and Associated Press
Joe Mario Pedersen / Orlando Sentinel:
Once in a lifetime: two hurricanes, same time, same place — As if the 2020 hurricane season needed another reason to be remembered, meteorologists are now predicting two hurricanes may hit near the same location at about the same time. — The phenomenon is one that has never been recorded before …
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Twitchy
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Tennessee governor signs bill increasing punishments for certain protests — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) quietly signed a bill into law ramping up punishments for certain kinds of protests, including losing the right to vote. — The GOP-controlled state General Assembly passed the measure …
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump is leading Republicans to an unwanted record in the popular vote — (CNN)American elections tend to swing on a pendulum. No one party usually holds power for too long. Since 1952, for example, only once has a party won the presidency three elections in a row.
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Raw Story
Kirk Nielsen / Washington Post:
I mailed my ballot in on time. Florida tossed it. 2020 will be much worse. — Long before the pandemic and the pandemonium at the Postal Service, Florida had a ballot delivery crisis — one bad enough to raise suspicions about the integrity of a close election.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
A Glimmer of Hope for Trump? How Bush Mounted a Comeback in 1988 — For Biden, a cautionary tale. For Trump, a search for his own Willie Horton. — George H.W. Bush was in trouble. It was July 1988 and Michael Dukakis, the Democratic candidate for president, was on a roll after his party's convention in New York.
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The Week
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
How the NXIVM Sex Cult Defended Trump from Media Attacks — STRANGE BEDFELLOWS — Keith Raniere's women-branding sex cult had a media arm called The Knife, which published hundreds of articles and appeared on “Fox & Friends” defending Trump against “media bias.”
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Lafayette police fire 11 rounds, kill Black man after tasing him in disturbance call — A Black Lafayette man, shot Friday night by police in a flurry of 11 gunshots while surrounded by a half dozen officers, died later in an incident some community leaders argue should not have ended in the fatal shooting.
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The Daily Beast and The Hill
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Spruced-up White House Rose Garden set for first lady speech — WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Rose Garden has been spruced up in time for its moment in the campaign spotlight. — First lady Melania Trump will deliver her Republican National Convention speech Tuesday night from the garden …
KASW-TV:
McSally asks supporters to ‘fast a meal’ so they can donate to her campaign — In an audio clip, Sen. Martha McSally asked supporters to “fast a meal” so they can donate to her campaign but her people said it was just a joke.
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HillReporter.com, Raw Story and DSCC
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