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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway to leave the White House at the end of the month, citing the need to focus on her family — Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Trump and one of his longest-serving aides, is leaving the White House at the end of the month. — Conway, whose title is counselor …
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Kellyanne Conway announces she's leaving the White House and George Conway is stepping away from Lincoln Project
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Last-minute confusion: Many Republicans still in the dark about convention — The majority of Republican politicians and operatives will learn about the details of this week's convention in the same manner most Americans do — by watching it unfold on TV. — The lack of information …
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Timothy Alberta / Politico:
The Grand Old Meltdown — Earlier this month, while speaking via Zoom to a promising group of politically inclined high school students, I was met with an abrupt line of inquiry. “I'm sorry, but I still don't understand,” said one young man, his pitch a blend of curiosity and exasperation.
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CNN:
Why Trump can't have an ‘optimistic’ GOP convention — Stelter: We can expect a ‘grievance convention’ at RNC — David Axelrod, a senior CNN political commentator and host of “The Axe Files,” was senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The Republican convention will be The Trump Show from start to finish
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump campaign launches massive digital ad buy for convention week
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Republicans see U.S. as better off now than 4 years ago ahead of convention — Battleground Tracker poll
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Falwell says ‘Fatal Attraction’ threat led to depression — Jerry Falwell Jr., suspended as president of Virginia's Christian-focused Liberty University after a string of embarrassing acts, today said that he has suffered depression caused by a former family friend who had an affair …
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Revealed: Jared Kushner's Private Channel With Putin's Money Man — DIRECT LINE — More than a dozen Trump administration officials, current and former, described a clandestine relationship between Jared Kushner and the CEO of a Kremlin sovereign wealth fund.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right — Ms. Tufekci, a computer programmer who became a sociologist, sounded an early alarm on the need for protective masks. It wasn't the first time she was right about something big. — When the Centers for Disease Control …
Kenosha News:
WATCH NOW: State DOJ will probe officer-involved shooting; man in serious condition — A man was serious condition at a Milwaukee-area hospital after he was shot when officers were sent to the 2800 block of 40th Street late Sunday afternoon for what police called a domestic incident.
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Kenosha emergency curfew in place after police shoot man; video appears to show officer firing several shots into man's back — Kenosha police shot a man Sunday evening, setting off unrest in the city after a video appeared to show the officer firing several shots at close range into the man's back.
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
Video shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times as he enters a car
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Jerry Seinfeld / New York Times:
So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’ — Mr. Seinfeld is a comedian. — When I got my first apartment in Manhattan in the hot summer of 1976, there was no pooper-scooper law, and the streets were covered in dog crap. — I signed the rental agreement, walked outside, and my car had been towed.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump echoes Peter Navarro's “deep state” rhetoric about the FDA — Senior health officials in the Trump administration were taken aback last Monday when the president's trade adviser, Peter Navarro, accused them of being part of the “Deep State” during a meeting that was supposed …
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Trump to announce emergency authorization of convalescent plasma as covid-19 treatment
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Donald J. Trump for President:
Trump Campaign Announces President Trump's 2nd Term Agenda: Fighting for You! — Building on the incredible achievements of President Donald J. Trump's first term in office, the President's re-election campaign today released a set of core priorities for a second term under the banner of “Fighting for You!”
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Jeff Flake joins over two-dozen former GOP members of Congress to launch ‘Republicans for Biden’ — Announcement comes on the first day of the Republican National Convention — EXCLUSIVE: More than two-dozen former Republican members of Congress threw their support behind a “Republicans for Biden” …
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Arielle Mitropoulos / ABC News:
Biden to ABC's David Muir on raising taxes: ‘No new taxes’ for anyone making less than $400,000 — Everybody should pay “their fair share,” Biden said. — In the first joint interview with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris …
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Kamala Harris to ABC's Robin Roberts: Revisiting primary debate clash is a ‘distraction’
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
The Supporters Buoying Trump's Spirits: Boat Owners — Parades of seagoing Trump fans have been touted by the president and his campaign in the absence of his signature campaign rallies — Trish Willis hasn't returned to her nursing job in Atlanta since the outbreak of Covid-19, and still won't get on an airplane.
Ali Harb in / Middle East Eye:
EXCLUSIVE: Biden aides apologise privately over attack on Linda Sarsour — In a private call with community activists, a recording of which was obtained by MEE, Biden campaign officials said statements against Sarsour were an ‘egregious misstep’ — Top aides to presidential candidate Joe Biden …
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington's Fears About TikTok — Social-media tycoon emphasized threat from Chinese internet companies as he worked to fend off U.S. regulation of Facebook — When Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg delivered a speech about freedom of expression …
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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.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Clinesmith's Guilty Plea: The Perfect Snapshot of Crossfire Hurricane Duplicity — Carter Page was a CIA asset, not a Russian spy, and the FBI knew it early on but plowed ahead with its fantasy anyway. — Author's Note: This is the first of a three-part series.
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