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5:05 PM ET, August 26, 2020

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Washington Post:
Two dead and one wounded in Kenosha shootings during Jacob Blake protests  —  KENOSHA, Wis. — Two people were killed and one was seriously wounded by gunfire late Tuesday at a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake Jr., Kenosha police said early Wednesday.
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse arrested for murder after cops let him flee out of state  —  An Illinois teenager has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a demonstrator in Kenosha, Wisconsin.  —  Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, of Antioch, was charged Wednesday …
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Suspect Charged With Murder After 2 Shot Dead At Kenosha Protest  —  Suspect Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was reportedly arrested in his hometown of Antioch, Illinois, 20 miles from Kenosha where the shootings occurred.  —  Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of three people ― …
jsonline:
2 shot dead and 1 injured in Kenosha during protests; police looking for man armed with a long gun  —  Kenosha Police said early Wednesday morning that two people had been shot and killed and a third injured during protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake; authorities were looking for a man armed with a long gun.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Arrest in Overnight Shooting During Unrest in Kenosha, Wis.  —  An Illinois resident was arrested in violence that occurred during a confrontation between demonstrators and a group of men armed with guns as protests continued over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:
Protesters target D.C. diners, triggering backlash after heckling woman  —  Lauren Victor refused to go along with raising her fist — although she supports the movement  —  A demonstration that began Monday evening in the District to protest the shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin wound …
Associated Press:
Kenosha police: 3 shot, 2 fatally, during Wisconsin protests
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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Top U.S. Officials Instructed the C.D.C. to Change Testing Guidelines  —  New York City's transit agency warned of major cuts to the subway without $12 billion in federal aid.  Kenya's president extended a nationwide nightly curfew for another 30 days.
Katherine J. Wu / New York Times:
C.D.C. Now Says People Without Covid-19 Symptoms Do Not Need Testing  —  The revision prompted confusion and alarm from experts, who called the move “potentially dangerous.”  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly modified its coronavirus testing guidelines this week …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   Reports: Trump Sabotaged Coronavirus Testing to Keep Numbers Low
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Coronavirus concerns fall and Trump approval ticks higher in swing states, CNBC/Change Research poll finds  — Serious concerns about the coronavirus fell in six 2020 swing states, while approval of President Donald Trump's handling of Covid-19 rose, according to a new CNBC/Change Research poll.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump pops to 52%: ‘Best job approval rating on record,’ up with blacks, even Democrats  —  Buoyed by blacks and independent voters, as well as urban dwellers shocked by the Black Lives Matter protest violence raging in some cities, President Trump's approval rating has hit a new high, according to a survey heavy with minority voters.
Discussion: Townhall, Power Line, Breitbart and Redstate
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Why the Fuck is the Secretary of State Talking, From Israel, at the Republican National Convention?  —  Violating norms, standards, ethical guidelines, rules, laws and common sense is nothing new for Pompeo, but his speech Tuesday night will break new ground.  —  BEAST INSIDE
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: ‘This is absolutely not how it works’
Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg and NPR
Fox News:
Pelosi, Schumer call GOP convention ‘sur-reality TV’ on coronavirus
Discussion: Reuters and FactCheck.org
Politico:
Intel officials contradict Trump on voting by mail  —  The intelligence community has seen no evidence that foreign powers intend to manipulate mail-in voting in the 2020 election, senior Trump administration officials said Wednesday, undercutting a claim by President Donald Trump that such fraud “will be the scandal of our times.”
Discussion: Reuters
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CNN:
US intelligence officials say there's no evidence to back up Trump's claims about threats to mail-in voting
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:
US officials: No signs of foreign targeting of mail-in vote
Discussion: Axios and NPR
Axios:
How Trump could pull off another upset  —  It feels like August of 2016 all over again.  Polls show Donald Trump losing big.  Pundits proclaim he can't win.  Reporters sneer at Trump voters on Twitter and cable.  —  Why it matters: There are several signs that should give the Trump-is-toast self-assured pause.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump goes dark on TV as early voting looms
Discussion: Raw Story, ABC News and The Atlantic
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump calls for drug tests before Biden debate  —  President Trump says he will call for drug tests for both former Vice President Joe Biden and himself before the first candidates' debate on Sept. 29.  In an Oval Office interview Wednesday, the president expressed suspicion at what he said was a sudden …
USA Today:
Trump's RNC naturalization ceremony at White House: Tasteless, hollow and probably illegal  —  I watched the Republican convention start to finish for two days.  I'm a former Republican and a Never Trumper, so I understand that none of it was meant to speak to me.
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Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
RNC Speaker Facing Federal Charges Of Insider Trading
Discussion: CNBC
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Trump Plays President in Prime Time
Discussion: Mediaite, Vox and National Review
U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Requesting Data From Governors of States that Issued COVID-19 Orders that May Have Resulted in Deaths of Elderly Nursing Home Residents  —  Data will help inform whether the Department of Justice will initiate investigations under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and CBS Philly
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
DOJ seeks data about COVID nursing home deaths from 4 states
Discussion: Fox News
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
After Three Years Attacking L.G.B.T.Q. Rights, Trump Suddenly Tries Outreach  —  L.G.B.T.Q. advocates say the president has tried to divide their coalition by targeting transgender people in policy rollbacks.  —  The month of June was filled with big moments for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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Washington Post:
Lewd cheerleader videos, sexist rules: Ex-employees decry Washington's NFL team workplace  —  In “Beauties on the Beach,” the official video chronicling the making of the Washington NFL team's 2008 cheerleader swimsuit calendar, the women frolic in the sand, rave about their custom bikinis …
Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld Has Been Suspended for Sexual Harassment  —  On Monday morning, members of the Yale Law School faculty received a terse message from their provost informing them that Professor Jed Rubenfeld “will leave his position as a member of the YLS faculty for a two-year period …
Politico:
U.S. service members injured in Syria after skirmish with Russian forces  —  U.S. service members were injured after an altercation with Russian forces in northeast Syria this week, according to a draft military statement and a person familiar with the matter.
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
They tried to get Trump to care about right-wing terrorism.  He ignored them.  —  Elizabeth Neumann spent March 13 and 14 of 2019 at a conference in the picturesque Spanish port city of Málaga.  The topic: terrorism.  Western leaders were deeply worried about the dangers foreign …
Discussion: Forbes and Raw Story
 
 
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