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8:40 PM ET, August 26, 2020

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BuzzFeed News:
The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January  —  The law-enforcement obsessed 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January.
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Facebook chose not to act on militia complaints before Kenosha shooting  —  Multiple users reported the account for inciting violence, but were told it did not violate platform policy  —  In the wake of an apparent double murder Tuesday night in Kenosha, Facebook has faced a wave of scrutiny …
Discussion: TechCrunch and Reuters
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Associated Press:
Kenosha police: 3 shot, 2 fatally, during Wisconsin protests
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Jacob Blake's devastated family displayed the full range of Black Americans' emotions
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and blogTO
Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:
Protesters target D.C. diners, triggering backlash after heckling woman
CNN:
CDC was pressured ‘from the top down’ to change coronavirus testing guidance, official says  —  (CNN)A sudden change in federal guidelines on coronavirus testing came this week as a result of pressure from the upper ranks of the Trump administration, a federal health official close to the process tells CNN.
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta / CNN:
Fauci says he was in surgery when task force discussed CDC testing guidelines  —  (CNN)White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was undergoing surgery and not part of the discussion during the August 20 task force meeting when updated US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines were discussed.
Discussion: Forbes, Raw Story, The Week, CNBC and Mediaite
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.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Reports: Trump Sabotaged Coronavirus Testing to Keep Numbers Low
Discussion: New York Times and MyNorthwest.com
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Fauci says he was having surgery when CDC testing changes were approved
Discussion: Politico
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Immigrants in Trump-Led Ceremony Didn't Know They Would Appear at RNC  —  Two women say they didn't mind being featured as they became citizens; critics accuse president of using them, politicizing government functions  —  Sudha Narayanan and Neimat Awadelseid looked forward to Tuesday …
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
Discussion: Redstate, Breitbart, Townhall and Power Line
USA Today:
Herschel Walker on supporting President Trump: ‘Losing friends has been a big cost’
Discussion: Breitbart and The Hill
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Don Jr. robocall urges supporters to vote by mail  —  Donald Trump Jr. is urging voters to cast absentee ballots in robocalls detected across the nation Wednesday — even as his father continues to rail against widespread mail-in voting.  —  The robocalls, which reference …
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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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Stephanie Winston Wolkoff / New York Magazine:
Melania Trump's Ex-BFF Tells (Almost) All An insider's account of falling out with the First Lady.  —  Excerpted from Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady, by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff  —  I'd heard Melania Trump speak before.  But I'd never heard her sound like this.
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
DOJ seeks data about COVID nursing home deaths from 4 states
Discussion: Fox News
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.”
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Border Officials Weighed Deploying Migrant ‘Heat Ray’ Ahead of Midterms  —  Even as the Republican convention tries to soften President Trump's image, he has made it clear that the extreme immigration policies of his first four years will be central to his re-election pitch.
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to reinstate abortion pill rule  —  The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a rule mandating that abortion-inducing drugs be taken in the presence of a doctor after a lower court lifted the requirement amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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 …
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 on Wednesday, according to a draft military statement and a person familiar with the matter.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway undermined the truth like no other Trump official.  And journalists enabled her.  —  Among the many appalling scenes in the many tell-all books written from an inside-the-Trump-administration perspective, one in particular spoke volumes about how Kellyanne Conway operates:
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 …
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Vindman twin accused top NSC officials of misconduct, claims retaliation  —  A former senior ethics official and lawyer on the National Security Council has filed a complaint with a Pentagon watchdog raising concerns that he was retaliated against for reporting that the national security adviser …
 
 
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Gwynne Hogan / Gothamist:
Three Murders On One Flatbush Street, But Neighbors Disagree On Whether More Police Will Help
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden's lack of a travel plan worries some Democrats
Discussion: Sean Hannity and The Root
Eric Russell / Press Herald:
Former Republican senator from Maine, Bill Cohen, endorses Biden
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Hotel Is RNC Annex, Abuzz With Republican Players
Lee DeVito / News & Views, Detroit Metro Times:
GOP Senate candidate John James touts the jobs his company created, but documents show it lost its tax exempt status after failing to create the jobs it promised
Emma Copley Eisenberg / Esquire:
Fact Checking Is the Core of Nonfiction Writing. Why Do So Many Publishers Refuse to Do It?
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The RNC Has Made a Compelling Case for America's Imminent Collapse
E. Jean Carroll / The Atlantic:
‘I Moved on Her Very Heavily’: Part 1
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
‘I Fear That We Are Witnessing the End of American Democracy’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
FiveThirtyEight:
Is The Electoral Map Changing?
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
RNC Speaker Facing Federal Charges Of Insider Trading
Discussion: CNBC and The American Independent
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump goes dark on TV as early voting looms
Discussion: Raw Story, ABC News and The Atlantic
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
They tried to get Trump to care about right-wing terrorism. He ignored them.
Discussion: Forbes and Raw Story
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis tells staff they'll be expected to work from the office five days a week, instead of three, by June 2, and by February 3 for managers

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches Share to TikTok, which lets users directly share music from Apple Music and Spotify in a post to their TikTok Feed or in DMs via TikTok Messages

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In an earnings call, David Zaslav says the Trump Administration may be more merger friendly, enabling a “real positive and accelerated impact on this industry”
 
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