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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 …
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  —  Washington (CNN)White House counselor Kellyanne Conway announced Sunday evening she will leave her post at the end of the month while her husband, George Conway …
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.
Discussion: The Week and Axios
Tim 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.
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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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Jeff Flake, other former GOP Congress members endorse Biden ahead of RNC
Discussion: ABC News, Fox News and POLITICUSUSA
Amy Davidson Sorkin / New Yorker:
Did the Democratic National Convention Go Too Smoothly?
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Reuters
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Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
Video shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times as he enters a car
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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Politico:
The enduring mystery: What would Trump do in a second term?
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump campaign launches massive digital ad buy for convention week
Discussion: The Hill
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
The RNC disarray is a microcosm of everything Trump did wrong with the coronavirus
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
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 …
Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr. Is Ready.  But for What, Exactly?  —  Of all the president's children, he has the strongest connection to the politics, voters and online disinformation ecosystem that put his father in the White House.  What will he do with it?  —  To hear more audio stories from publishers …
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.
Peter Wehner / New York Times:
For Conservatives to Have Any Hope, Trump Has to Lose  —  After what we have seen during the president's first term, any true conservative should be appalled by the prospect of a second.  —  “You're a traitor to the cause.”  —  In one form or another, that's the charge most often …
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Yashar's Newsletter:
Scoop: Melania Trump's Comments About Trump Family Were Taped  —  I hope you'll subscribe to my newsletter by clicking the button above or the button at the end of this post.  Please follow me on Twitter and Instagram  —  If you want to post this edition on social media, use the button above.
Project On Government Oversight:
How a Ukrainian Oligarch's Companies Got Paycheck Protection Program Loans  —  Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov owns four coal mining operations sprinkled across Appalachia that received loans intended to help small businesses keep workers on payroll during the pandemic.
Molly Redden / HuffPost:
Trump's Handpicked Postal Service Chair Has A Long History Of Voter Suppression  —  Robert Duncan chaired the RNC during the party's unprecedented escalation of voter disenfranchisement efforts in swing states.  —  President Donald Trump's selection for a key Postal Service position …
Discussion: Mother Jones, Raw Story, Townhall and Vox
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Mark Meadows dodges questions about Trump's QAnon embrace: 'We don't even know what it is'  —  White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Sunday dodged questions about President Donald Trump's embrace of QAnon days after the president said followers of the conspiracy theory “love our country.”
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 …
Discussion: Breitbart
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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Michael Wines / New York Times:
As Census Count Resumes, Doubts About Accuracy Continue to Grow  — Wracked by the pandemic and politics and desperately short of time, the last stage of the population count is unfolding in historic doubt.  — Around 38 million households are still uncounted, and officials …
Andrea González-Ramírez / GEN:
Why a Third of Latinos Still Plan to Vote for Trump  —  Entrepreneurial and evangelical, Republican Latinos are a force to be reckoned with this November.  —  The political evolution of Mindy Garcia occurred very slowly, then all at once.  Growing up up a Democrat in California in the 1980s and 1990s …
OutKick:
Jemele Hill Says America Is Nazi Germany  —  Jemele Hill, ESPN's favorite Colin Kaepernick documentary producer, is at it again Tweeting this evening that America was nearly as bad as Nazi Germany.  Interestingly, this statement, that the United States was just as bad as Nazi Germany …
Washington Post:
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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump echoes Peter Navarro's “deep state” rhetoric about the FDA
 
 
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Scott McKay / The American Spectator:
A Potential Landslide Agenda
Discussion: Raw Story and Newsbusters
Riley Beggin / Vox:
College students are motivated to vote, but many don't trust US elections
Discussion: The Hill and Financial Times
Washington Post:
Mike Pence hopes four years of subservience to Trump will lift his political future
Discussion: Raw Story
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary:
Newly Declassified FBI Materials Demonstrate Clear Double Standard for Clinton, Trump Campaigns
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
California's high-stakes game of chicken with Uber and Lyft
Discussion: The Guardian and Cafe Hayek
Al Jazeera:
Exclusive: Cyprus sold passports to criminals and fugitives
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Clinesmith's Guilty Plea: The Perfect Snapshot of Crossfire Hurricane Duplicity
Discussion: The Federalist
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Enough! Time to seriously loosen lockdown rules for restaurants and others
 Earlier Items: 
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
‘We are a swing tribe’: Lumbee wield political clout in North Carolina
Discussion: Reuters
Washington Post:
Debt, eviction and hunger: Millions fall back into crisis as stimulus and safety nets vanish
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington's Fears About TikTok
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
QAnon giving America a scary look at what a ‘Biden resistance’ would look like in 2021
Discussion: WNEP-TV
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Trump Campaign Sr. Advisor Jason Miller facing criminal contempt of court charges
Discussion: Political Flare and Mediaite
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Ohio, a Father and Stepdaughter Show the Political Shifts in the Trump Era
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.
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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