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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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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 …
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Kellyanne Conway leaving White House
Kellyanne Conway leaving White House
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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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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Jeff Flake, other former GOP Congress members endorse Biden ahead of RNC
Jeff Flake, other former GOP Congress members endorse Biden ahead of RNC
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Amy Davidson Sorkin / New Yorker:
Did the Democratic National Convention Go Too Smoothly?
Did the Democratic National Convention Go Too Smoothly?
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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.
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.
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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.
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WATCH NOW: State DOJ will probe officer-involved shooting; man in serious condition
WATCH NOW: State DOJ will probe officer-involved shooting; man in serious condition
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Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
Video shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times as he enters a car
Video shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times as he enters a car
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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.
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Politico:
The enduring mystery: What would Trump do in a second term? — As a reality TV star, Donald Trump seized the White House with an unusual slate of Republican pledges: take on China, tear up trade deals, restrict immigration. But as president, Trump has faced warnings from a long line …
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Trump Campaign Announces President Trump's 2nd Term Agenda: Fighting for You!
Trump Campaign Announces President Trump's 2nd Term Agenda: Fighting for You!
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Scott McKay / The American Spectator:
A Potential Landslide Agenda
A Potential Landslide Agenda
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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 …
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Justin Wise / The Hill:
USPS: House bill would hurt efforts to ‘improve service’
USPS: House bill would hurt efforts to ‘improve service’
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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 …
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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 …
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
The RNC disarray is a microcosm of everything Trump did wrong with the coronavirus — President Trump speaking in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, on August 20, 2020. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images — He had no plan. The result is chaos. — The day it's set to begin …
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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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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 …
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.
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.
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.”
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Emma Newburger / CNBC:
Trump administration grants emergency authorization for coronavirus plasma treatment — The FDA said it was granting the emergency authorization because it is reasonable to believe that convalescent plasma may be effective in treating Covid-19 patients. — The announcement came …
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Washington Post:
Mike Pence hopes four years of subservience to Trump will lift his political future — Like many who served in Congress alongside the late John Lewis, then-Rep. Mike Pence made a pilgrimage to Selma, Ala., in 2010 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.”
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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.
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 …
Just Security:
Manafort's Reward: Sen. Ron Johnson and the Ukraine Conspiracy Investigation: Part II — After three years of insisting that unvetted information should never form the basis for an investigation into an active presidential candidate, Republican members of the Senate would never attempt to do such a thing themselves, right?
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Sun-Sentinel:
Endorsement: Save our democracy. Vote for Joe Biden — A republic, Madam, if you can keep it — Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, 1787, when asked what the Constitutional Convention had proposed — The question that Franklin answered 233 years ago overshadows every other issue in the presidential election.
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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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