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8:20 AM ET, August 26, 2020

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Politico:
Trump shatters norms on second night of convention: Key moments  —  President Donald Trump staged a norm-busting show on the second night of the Republican National Convention, pardoning a convicted bank robber, hosting a naturalization ceremony, and providing a primetime platform to Americans …
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Washington Post:
Focus on Trump's official White House actions as part of Republican convention programming raises Hatch Act concerns  —  The decision by the Republican National Convention to feature President Trump conducting official business inside the White House underscores how he is leveraging the powers …
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Republicans revel in Trump's prime-time convention surprises  —  President Donald Trump trails former vice president Joe Biden in polls nationwide and in key battleground states.  The majority of Americans say they dislike the president and believe the country is on the wrong track.
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Melania Trump goes where other Republicans won't in convention address  —  Melania Trump pushed for racial unity during her keynote on the second night of the Republican National Convention, offering a far more conciliatory address than other speakers who used their lecterns to bombastically promote the president.
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.
Karol Markowicz / Spectator USA:
The most memorable RNC speakers are not the stars  —  Let's be real, the warm-up acts are never the draw.  For every Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees (true story) there's, well, every other opening act you've ever sat through to get to the main event.  —  But the Republican National Convention …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: ‘This is absolutely not how it works’  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  OK, SORRY ... WE KNOW the convention was Tuesday night, but this was too good to bury.  THE USPS is looking for a VP of government affairs and public policy.  It might be smart to poke around …
Discussion: Politico, NPR and Townhall
CNN:
Melania Trump Rose Garden speech attendees not all required to get coronavirus tests
Discussion: New York Times
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Registered Foreign Agent Pam Bondi Says Biden Is Corrupt
Discussion: Raw Story, Politico and NBC Connecticut
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
RNC Speaker Cancelled After Boosting QAnon Conspiracy Theory About Jewish Plot to Enslave the World  —  Mary Ann Mendoza, an “angel mom,” was set to speak on Tuesday night.  But then she took to Twitter to encourage followers to read a thread about the Rothschilds.
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Amanda Becker / The 19th:
On eve of suffrage centennial milestone, RNC to feature speaker supporting policies barring women from voting  —  Anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson has advocated for a head-of-household voting system that has historically barred women and people of color from casting ballots.
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fact check: Sen. Rand Paul on Trump's Iraq War opposition
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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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.
NBC News:
2 dead, 1 injured, in Wisconsin protests over shooting of Jacob Blake  —  Two people were killed and one was injured as shots rang out during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, just before midnight Tuesday, according to the city's police department, amid anger over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man.
Maya King / Politico:
Lindsey Graham questions why Jacob Blake 'didn't yield' in Wisconsin police shooting
Discussion: The Hill and Chicago Sun-Times
Skyler Swisher / Sun-Sentinel:
Congressman's old social media posts about sex with 15-year-old girls, rape surface in South Florida re-election fight  —  South Florida Congressman Brian Mast joked about rape and referenced sex with 15-year-old girls in old Facebook comments to a friend who is now his campaign manager.
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Pompeo stirs up outrage among some diplomats over speech to RNC  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make history Tuesday night when he addresses the Republican National Convention, a move that critics say violates a long-standing State Department policy that draws a line between diplomacy and politics.
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
A Dubious Pompeo Speech for an Empty Trump Foreign Policy
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Aaron Coleman's Ex-Girlfriend Says He Slapped and Choked Her in the Past Year … When Taylor Passow first met Aaron Coleman last November, she was impressed by his drive and his passion for a better world.  “I had never been with somebody who seemed so focused on a career, and how he wanted to change the country.
Robby Soave / Reason:
‘Silence Is Violence’: D.C. Black Lives Matter Protesters Adopt Strategy of Intimidating Random White People  —  Following yet another horrific and unjust police shooting of a black man—this time the victim is 29-year-old Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin—protesters have again taken to the streets.
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Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:
Protesters target D.C. diners, triggering backlash after heckling woman
Kyle Hopkins / ProPublica:
Alaska's Attorney General Resigns Hours After We Published “Uncomfortable” Texts He Sent to a Younger Colleague  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Alaska Attorney General Kevin …
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: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Jerry Falwell Jr. confirms he has resigned as head of Liberty University  —  Jerry Falwell Jr. on Tuesday confirmed his resignation as president of Liberty University, ending back-to-back Falwell leadership eras at an evangelical institution that is a major power center for conservative Christians and politicians.
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 …
Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's electoral vulnerabilities were visible in 2018, internal RNC report showed  —  President Trump's dimming reelection prospects were visible before the 2018 midterm elections, according to an internal Republican National Committee report seen by the Washington Examiner.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Fort Hood soldier likely found dead, attorney says, after disappearance, sexual assault claims  —  A soldier assigned to Fort Hood who was missing was likely found dead on Tuesday, his family's attorney said, adding to the toll of soldiers at the Texas installation who have vanished or died in recent months.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Epic Shamelessness of the Republican Convention  —  Norms are for chumps, not for Trumps.  —  Conventions lie.  Or at least they tell extravagant fibs.  That's how they transform their nominees from mere mortals to near messiahs.  That's how they whip up the faithful and woo the agnostics.
Discussion: NBC News, Washington Post, Raw Story and IJR
 
 
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Trump uses Republican convention to try to rewrite coronavirus history, casting himself as lifesaving hero
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Trump is hosting the Greatest Reality Show on Earth
Discussion: Power Line
Kamala D. Harris / Washington Post:
Voting is the best way to honor generations of women who paved the way for me
Discussion: Axios
William Wan / Washington Post:
Natalie Harp said Trump saved her life. Experts doubt that's true.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, IJR and Reason
Wall Street Journal:
In the Covid-19 Recession, Europe Props Up Jobs While the U.S. Props Up Workers
 Earlier Items: 
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
‘Obvious lie after obvious lie’: Biden campaign blasts RNC as ‘incoherent charade’
William Saletan / Slate:
The Republican Coronavirus Strategy: Lie About Everything
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Whip cracking, drinking and profanity-laced threats: Government office in charge of etiquette plagued by etiquette problems, watchdog finds
Discussion: Political Wire
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Trump Has Now Moved $2.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business
Discussion: Raw Story
James Dawson / NPR:
Unmasked Protesters Push Past Police Into Idaho Lawmakers' Session
The Daily Beast:
Trump Administration Insider: President Wanted to ‘Maim’ Migrants
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
 

 
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