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Trump to announce emergency authorization of convalescent plasma as covid-19 treatment — The FDA action will be highlighted at a news conference later Sunday afternoon. — On the eve of the Republican National Convention where President Trump hopes to revive his flagging political fortunes …
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FDA authorizes plasma treatment despite scientists' objections — TThe Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment, the agency and President Donald Trump announced Sunday — one day after Trump attacked the drug regulator for moving too slowly to back the treatment.
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Financial Times:
Trump considers fast-tracking UK Covid-19 vaccine before US election — FDA could use emergency authorisation rules despite fears over high-profile resignations due to safety concerns — The Trump administration is considering bypassing normal US regulatory standards to fast-track …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek — Welcome to Sneak Peek, our weekly look ahead from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, plus our best scoops. — Today's newsletter is 1,845 words, a 7-minute read. — 1 big thing: GOP convention is a Trumpian production — This week's Republican National Convention …
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Nicholas Florko / STAT:
FDA, under pressure from Trump, authorizes blood plasma as Covid-19 treatment
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Mark Meadows defends Trump's “deep state” attacks on FDA
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CBS News:
Republicans see U.S. as better off now than 4 years ago ahead of convention — Battleground Tracker poll — It was mostly Democrats who watched last week's convention, and they liked what they saw. Now, as the Republicans begin theirs, we find a Republican Party whose voters not only hold …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The Republican convention will be The Trump Show from start to finish — This week's Republican National Convention will be The Trump Show from start to finish, aiming for ratings-juicing stunts, attention-grabbing speeches from MAGA stars, and executive power as performance art, people familiar with the plans tell Axios.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump obliterates lines between governing and campaigning in service of his reelection — Trailing in the polls and struggling to find a message, President Trump is leveraging one of the most powerful assets he has left — his White House office — in service of his reelection bid …
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Washington Post:
Trump's family members, conservative allies dominate GOP convention lineup
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Tyler Clifford / CNBC:
‘This will be the year of the Biden Republican,’ Rahm Emanuel says
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Wall Street Journal
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Biden enjoys post-convention bump in favorability: POLL
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The Hill
David Bauder / Associated Press:
‘Hoax’ book reveals extent of internal unease at Fox — FILE - This combination of photo shows, from left, Tucker Carlson, host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Laura Ingraham, host of “The Ingraham Angle,” and Sean Hannity, host of “Hannity” on Fox News. Brian Stelter, who wrote “Hoax …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump is 'Fox's Frankenstein,' insiders told CNN's Brian Stelter — and here's the toll it's taken
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Twitter flags Trump tweet about mail drop boxes for violating election rules — Twitter flagged a tweet by President Trump on Sunday that claimed, without evidence, that mail drop boxes are a “voter security disaster” and are “not Covid sanitized.” — Driving the news: “We placed …
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Can Biden's Center Hold? — After a career built on incremental progress, Joe Biden is promising a Presidency of transformational change. The election will test whether his campaign can bring together a divided party and a beleaguered country. — “Welcome to my mom's house,” …
ABC News:
Police arrest 5 during RNC protests in Charlotte — Police have arrested five people in Charlotte, North Carolina, where protesters demonstrated against the Republican National Convention for a second night — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police have arrested five people in Charlotte, North Carolina …
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Sarah Mucha / CNN:
Biden's campaign to run ad seizing on Trump's Goodyear comments — President Trump urges boycott of tires he uses — (CNN)Joe Biden's presidential campaign is launching an ad Monday seizing on President Donald Trump's comments calling for a boycott of Goodyear tires that will play …
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected in the primaries. That could make the difference in battleground states this fall. — More than 540,000 mail ballots were rejected during primaries across 23 states this year — nearly a quarter in key battlegrounds for the fall …
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Acting Homeland Security chief says department does not have authority to send agents to polling locations — Acting DHS secretary on Trump's claim: That's not what we do — Washington (CNN)The Department of Homeland Security's acting secretary on Sunday cast doubt on the department's authority …
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Chad Wolf says DHS has no authority to send agents to polling stations
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Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Trump Campaign Sr. Advisor Jason Miller facing criminal contempt of court charges — The Trump campaign's senior advisor and top national spokesman is facing a hearing for a Florida judge to decide about the appointment of a special prosecutor to pursue criminal contempt of court charges.
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Mediaite
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
We're doing our best with Zoom. But we'll still need offices — and each other. — It's been more than five months since any of us who edit, produce or write for this Opinions section worked in the same room together. Hopefully you, dear reader, have noticed no ill effects.
The Tennessean:
Pastor Greg Locke's Mt. Juliet church vandalized ahead of Roger Stone appearance — A Mt. Juliet church that has polarizing political operative Roger Stone scheduled to speak next week was vandalized overnight Sunday, according to its pastor. — Spray paint that included vulgar comments …
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Billy Witz / New York Times:
Doctors Enter College Football's Politics, but Maybe Just for Show — Universities have had mixed messages, competing agendas and a lack of transparency as they consider whether to hold college football in the fall, with billions of dollars at stake. — As Justin Fields …
NBC News:
Full Mark Warner: Intelligence community should ‘lay out more of the facts’ on election interference — In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) talks to Chuck Todd about the Senate Intelligence Committee's final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Ohio, a Father and Stepdaughter Show the Political Shifts in the Trump Era — He's a union worker and former Democrat now solidly behind President Trump. She's a onetime Republican now worried about her sons growing up in the Trump era. Family get-togethers can be difficult.
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