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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.
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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.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Two Killed and One Injured on Third Night of Unrest in Kenosha, Wis.  —  The violence occurred early Wednesday during a confrontation between demonstrators and a group of men armed with guns as protests continued over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.  —  KENOSHA, Wis. …
Robert Chappell / Madison365:
Kenosha police opened fire less than 5 minutes after being called: scanner audio  —  Kenosha police scanner audio indicates that police opened fire on 29-year-old Jacob Blake less than five minutes after they were initially contacted.  —  In cell phone video shared widely on social media …
Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:
Protesters target D.C. diners, triggering backlash after heckling woman
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Suspect Charged With Murder After 2 Shot Dead At Kenosha Protest
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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CNN:
Republicans' fake feminism might have worked
Washington Post:
Focus on Trump's official White House actions as part of Republican convention programming raises Hatch Act concerns
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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 …
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:
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Meadows dismisses Hatch Act concerns at RNC: ‘Nobody outside of the Beltway really cares’  —  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday dismissed accusations that Trump administration officials violated federal law by speaking at 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 …
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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USA Today:   Trump's RNC naturalization ceremony at White House: Tasteless, hollow and probably illegal
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: ABC News, The Atlantic and Raw Story
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Harris will be Democrats' main counter to Trump on Thursday
Discussion: The Hill and OutKick
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: Raw Story
Washington Examiner:
Jerusalem — a fitting setting for Mike Pompeo's message  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech to the Republican National Convention that aired Tuesday night looking over the Old City of Jerusalem.  It was a fitting setting because it was the location of one of President Trump's boldest foreign policy moves.
Discussion: Fox News
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
A Dubious Pompeo Speech for an Empty Trump Foreign Policy
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
‘I Fear That We Are Witnessing the End of American Democracy’  —  The frank racism of the contemporary Republican agenda is on display at the R.N.C.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  The center-right political coalition …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
FiveThirtyEight:
Is The Electoral Map Changing?  —  We looked at how 16 battleground states have voted in the last five presidential elections to see how they might go in 2020  —  From one presidential election to the next, the battleground states that make — or break — the election remain largely the same.
Discussion: Raw Story
Robyn Patterson / DCCC:
DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos Adds Two Candidates to DCCC ‘Red To Blue’ Program, Expands Offensive Battlefield  —  Brings DCCC to 33 Red to Blue Candidates in a 51 district offensive battlefield  —  Today, DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos announced that the DCCC added two candidates to the highly competitive Red to Blue program.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Hill
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.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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E. Jean Carroll / The Atlantic:
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Whither Race-Neutrality in California?
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Pete Wells / New York Times:
Behind the Cancellation of James Beard Awards, Worries About Chefs' Behavior and No Black Winners
Noah Buhayar / Bloomberg:
Why a Historic Eviction Wave Is Bearing Down on U.S.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Eliza Davis / Change Research:
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Discussion: The Hill
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Lincoln Project co-founder predicts Trump will lose New Hampshire
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Hill
ProPublica:
Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able to Vote in November Because of the Pandemic
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
RNC Speaker Facing Federal Charges Of Insider Trading
Discussion: CNBC
Politico:
How Mike Pence slowed down the coronavirus response
Discussion: Raw Story
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Democracy without Integrity Is Impossible
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

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DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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