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11:15 AM ET, August 24, 2020

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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.
Yashar's Newsletter:
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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.
Discussion: Mediaite, 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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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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Scott McKay / The American Spectator:
A Potential Landslide Agenda  —  An optimistic President Trump touting a positive platform.  —  🔊 Listen to this article  —  Sunday afternoon, the Trump campaign put out a press release containing bullet points of the second-term agenda he'll run on.
Donald J. Trump for President:
Trump Campaign Announces President Trump's 2nd Term Agenda: Fighting for You!
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump campaign launches massive digital ad buy for convention week
Discussion: The Hill and Associated Press
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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Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
Video shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times as he enters a car
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
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Bonchie / Redstate:   Joe Biden's Campaign Apologizes to Anti-Semite Linda Sarsour in Pathetic Reversal
Donald J. Trump for President:   Joe Biden Fails His Own Test on Anti-Semitism
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
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story, ABC News and CNN
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Sputnik News, UPI, Associated Press and WTOP
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.
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.
Anders Hagstrom / The Daily Caller:
Biden Again Quotes Chinese Dictator Chairman Mao In Campaign Appearance  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden quoted former Chinese dictator Mao Zedong for at least the second time in a campaign appearance Sunday.  —  The moment came in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts …
Discussion: Redstate, National Review and ABC News
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 …
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
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
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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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
Parmy Olson / Wall Street Journal:
Gun Sellers Use New Tactic to Deal on Facebook Marketplace
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
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Clinesmith's Guilty Plea: The Perfect Snapshot of Crossfire Hurricane Duplicity
Discussion: The Federalist
 Earlier Items: 
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Enough! Time to seriously loosen lockdown rules for restaurants and others
Michael Wines / New York Times:
As Census Count Resumes, Doubts About Accuracy Continue to Grow
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
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Ohio, a Father and Stepdaughter Show the Political Shifts in the Trump Era