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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
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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
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 …
Washington Post:
How Trump, Mnuchin and DeJoy edged the Postal Service into a crisis — Soon after Louis DeJoy arrived at the U.S. Postal Service's L'Enfant Plaza headquarters in mid-June, Mark Dimondstein, the veteran leader of the agency's largest union, called to get on the new postmaster general's schedule.
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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Fox News, Washington Times, Colorado Newsline, WAVY-TV, The Hill, HillReporter.com, Fox Business, Blue Virginia, New York Post and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Congress Votes to Block U.S.P.S. Changes
Congress Votes to Block U.S.P.S. Changes
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The Hill, Al Jazeera, Political Wire, Gothamist, Wall Street Journal, NBC10 Philadelphia, RochesterFirst, NBC New York, IJR, Boston.com and Just The News
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
ABC News:
House passes $25B bill to block USPS changes ahead of election
House passes $25B bill to block USPS changes ahead of election
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The Daily Gazette, Reuters, The Hill, Washington Times, Fox News and NBC Chicago
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
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
In secretly recorded audio, President Trump's sister says he has ‘no principles’ and 'you can't trust him' — Maryanne Trump Barry was serving as a federal judge when she heard her brother, President Trump, suggest on Fox News, “maybe I'll have to put her at the border” amid a wave of refugees entering the United States.
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New York Times, Mediaite, Politico, Axios, The Hill, Political Wire, The US Sun, Raw Story and The Daily Beast
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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Mediaite, Fox News, Slate and HillReporter.com
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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 and Insights - Nielsen
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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 and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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Raw Story, The Guardian, Twitchy, The Post Millennial, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Axios and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »
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, Reason, The Yeshiva World and Public Pool
Politico:
Trump set to block controversial Alaska gold mine — The Trump administration is planning to block the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska early next week, six people familiar with the plans told POLITICO, marking a surprise reversal that could be the death knell for the massive copper and gold project.
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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.
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
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Portland police stand by as Proud Boys and far-right militias flash guns and brawl with antifa counterprotesters — PORTLAND, Ore. — On Saturday afternoon, a large crowd of more than 100 far-right activists, including Proud Boys and armed militia members, descended on Portland, Ore. …
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The US Sun, New York Times and 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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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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Associated Press, Talking Points Memo, New York Post, Rantt Media, The Hill, Politico, New York Times, The Guardian and Louder With Crowder
Benjamin Weinthal / Jerusalem Post:
Switzerland may ban terrorist organization Hezbollah — A full ban of Hezbollah's activities Switzerland would mean that the Lebanese organization's symbols would be banned and its bank accounts and assets seized and frozen within Swiss territory. — The central European country Switzerland …
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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and NBC News
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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
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.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
An Apprentice producer and a TV-obsessed president: Inside the GOP's convention scramble — President Donald Trump had just pulled the plug on plans for an in-person convention bash in Jacksonville, Florida when a handful of his top political aides met in a conference room in suburban Washington, sitting in front of a blank whiteboard.
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New York Times
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Judge orders Trump to pay legal fees to Stormy Daniels — A California court ordered President Trump to pay $44,100 to Stephanie Clifford, the adult-film actress known as Stormy Daniels, to cover her legal fees regarding her nondisclosure agreement. — The order from California Superior …
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Fox News, Sputnik News, HillReporter.com, The US Sun, The Gateway Pundit, JONATHAN TURLEY and UPI
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Evan Simko-Bednarski / CNN:
Court orders Donald Trump to pay legal fees in Stormy Daniels suit
Court orders Donald Trump to pay legal fees in Stormy Daniels suit
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Slate