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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 …
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.
Discussion: Mediaite, Page Six, Axios and The Week
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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Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
Video shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times as he enters a car
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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Donald J. Trump for President:
Trump Campaign Announces President Trump's 2nd Term Agenda: Fighting for You!
Bonchie / Redstate:
Joe Biden's Campaign Apologizes to Anti-Semite Linda Sarsour in Pathetic Reversal  —  Apologizing to anti-Semites for telling the truth about them is not a good look, but according to a new report, that's what the Biden campaign did Sunday evening.  —  The backstory is that Palestinian …
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Ali Harb in / Middle East Eye:
EXCLUSIVE: Biden aides apologise privately over attack on Linda Sarsour
Discussion: Breitbart
Donald J. Trump for President:   Joe Biden Fails His Own Test on Anti-Semitism
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 …
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: Forbes, Raw Story, Mother Jones and Townhall
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Justin Wise / The Hill:
USPS: House bill would hurt efforts to ‘improve service’
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
Ina Fried / Axios:
TikTok is expected to take the Trump administration to court over its plan to ban the app  —  TikTok is expected to sue the Trump administration Monday over its move to ban the app, in what's likely to be an explosive and closely watched court battle.  —  Why it matters: The Trump administration …
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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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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Democratic Edge in Party Affiliation Shrinks
Discussion: The Hill
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Trump faces pessimism as GOP convention opens  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is promising to outline an optimistic vision for America at this week's Republican convention.  But he'll be speaking to a public deeply pessimistic about the direction of the country …
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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 …
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.
Washington Post:
Prominent Russian opposition activist Navalny was poisoned, German doctors say  —  BERLIN — Alexei Navalny, the prominent Russian opposition figure and Kremlin critic, was poisoned, Berlin's Charité Hospital said in a statement Monday, citing clinical results confirmed by independent laboratories.
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Fla GOP including LG Nunez get spotlight at RNC — Hannity gave advice to Gaetz over Cohen tweet — Newspaper apologizes over coverage of ‘Ax Handle Saturday’ — A Florida Playbook change  —  Hello and welcome to Monday.  —  The daily rundown — Between Saturday and Sunday …
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?
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
 
 
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New York Times:
How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering
Anders Hagstrom / The Daily Caller:
Biden Again Quotes Chinese Dictator Chairman Mao In Campaign Appearance
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Gun Sellers Use New Tactic to Deal on Facebook Marketplace
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How a Ukrainian Oligarch's Companies Got Paycheck Protection Program Loans
Washington Post:
Mike Pence hopes four years of subservience to Trump will lift his political future
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United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
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
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
‘We are a swing tribe’: Lumbee wield political clout in North Carolina
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington's Fears About TikTok
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In Ohio, a Father and Stepdaughter Show the Political Shifts in the Trump Era
 

 
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