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7:30 AM ET, August 24, 2020

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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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Kellyanne Conway leaving White House
Washington Post:
Trump's family members, conservative allies dominate GOP convention lineup
Peter Baker / New York Times:
After Another Week of Setbacks, Trump Looks to Change the Story Line
Discussion: CBS News
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 …
Discussion: New York Post and The Week
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
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 …
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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FDA authorizes plasma treatment despite scientists' objections
Jonathan Swan / Axios:   Trump echoes Peter Navarro's “deep state” rhetoric about the FDA
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek
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.
Discussion: New York Post and Twitchy
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Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
Video shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times as he enters a car
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 …
Discussion: Forbes, Mediaite, The Hill and The Week
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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 …
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” …
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 …
Amy Davidson Sorkin / New Yorker:
Did the Democratic National Convention Go Too Smoothly?  —  An in-person event might have exposed conflicts in the Party, but it also might have offered a chance to address them.  —  Last week, when the Democratic National Convention, in its virtual state, nominated Joseph R. Biden …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The Republican convention will be The Trump Show from start to finish
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: Axios
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.
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
‘We are a swing tribe’: Lumbee wield political clout in North Carolina  —  As they push for tribal status, the Lumbee fight COVID-19 and voter apathy.  —  PEMBROKE, N.C. — As Republicans gather in Charlotte to formally nominate President Donald Trump for a second term …
Discussion: Reuters
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Sarah Mucha / CNN:   Biden's campaign to run ad seizing on Trump's Goodyear comments
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 …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
QAnon giving America a scary look at what a ‘Biden resistance’ would look like in 2021  —  It took up 30 seconds Saturday night on the nightly news in Scranton — footage of maybe 20-30 white women (the kind our president likes to call “Suburban Housewives") and their kids marching through …
Discussion: WNEP-TV
Michael Wines / New York Times:
As Census Count Resumes, Doubts About Accuracy Continue to Grow  —  Officials project optimism.  But a chorus of experts says the pandemic and politics could lead to a deeply flawed count.  —  WASHINGTON — With the 2020 census into its final stage, more than one in three people hired as census takers have quit or failed to show up.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump is 'Fox's Frankenstein,' insiders told CNN's Brian Stelter — and here's the toll it's taken  —  If anyone was born to write a juicy book about the democracy-threatening relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump, it had to be Brian Stelter.  —  After all, at not quite 35 …
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David Enrich / New York Times:   The Incestuous Relationship Between Donald Trump and Fox News
 
 
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USA Today:
The threat to Postal Service is a threat to US values. Harmful changes must be reversed: Ex-official
Washington Post:
Debt, eviction and hunger: Millions fall back into crisis as stimulus and safety nets vanish
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Access Denied: Trying to report from a covid convention and angry protests
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
In Portland, a Prosecutor Must Decide: Which Protesters Should Go to Jail?
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
We're doing our best with Zoom. But we'll still need offices — and each other.
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Trump Campaign Sr. Advisor Jason Miller facing criminal contempt of court charges
Discussion: Political Flare and Mediaite
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Ohio, a Father and Stepdaughter Show the Political Shifts in the Trump Era
The Tennessean:
Pastor Greg Locke's Mt. Juliet church vandalized ahead of Roger Stone appearance
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Billions in Hospital Virus Aid Rested on Compliance With Private Vendor
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.
NBC News:
Full Mark Warner: Intelligence community should ‘lay out more of the facts’ on election interference
 

 
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