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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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Tracking the Suspect in the Fatal Kenosha Shootings — Footage appears to show a teenager shooting three people during protests in Wisconsin. We tracked his movements that night. — A teenager who walked among protesters in Kenosha, Wis., carrying a military-style semi-automatic rifle …


POLITICO Playbook: More than 100 Bush-McCain-Romney alums go for Biden — DRIVING THE DAY — IT'S THURSDAY, and President DONALD TRUMP will close the Republican convention this evening from the White House. And, as the GOP seeks to rally around TRUMP 68 DAYS before Election Day, here's what the world looks like:
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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 …
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Over 100 Ex-Staff Members for John McCain Endorse Joe Biden — The group endorsement of Mr. Biden is the latest effort from anti-Trump Republicans to lure conservatives and moderates away from the president, who often clashed with the former Arizona senator.
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How Chaos in Kenosha Is Already Swaying Some Voters in Wisconsin — As residents see fires and looting, some worry that local Democratic leaders are failing to keep control of the situation. — John Geraghty, a 41-year-old worker in a tractor factory, has barely paid attention to the presidential race or the conventions.
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'It's playing into Trump's hands': Dems fear swing-state damage from Kenosha unrest — Some Wisconsin Democrats worry that the images of violence and destruction will turn suburban voters against the party. — Burned-out trucks that were used to block traffic into the government complex are seen in downtown Kenosha.
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Alleged Kenosha Shooter Fervently Supported ‘Blue Lives,’ Joined ‘Local Militia’ — Despite wearing a full replica police uniform — complete with tie, bomber jacket and trooper hat — Kyle Rittenhouse looked a lot more like a Halloween trick-or-treater than an actual cop in the photo taken in 2017.


Bush, McCain and Romney presidential staffers unite behind effort to elect Joe Biden
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RNC Video Showing Rioters In “Biden's America” Is Actually Spain
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McCain Alums endorse Joe Biden for President
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An inescapable echo between Trump's campaign rhetoric and the deaths of protesters in Kenosha
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Power Up: Trump and GOP go all in on law-and-order message as Kenosha protests continue
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3 takeaways from the third night of the Republican National Convention — The Republican National Convention held its third of four prime-time sessions on Wednesday night, with Vice President Pence headlining and a younger generation of lesser-known Republicans featured on the undercard.
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Kellyanne Conway: Hurricane adds uncertainty to Trump speech
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Pence reinvents Trump's presidency on a disorienting night of crises
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Republicans Insist Only Trump Can Stop This Chaos. But He's in Charge Now.
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Trump's former spy chief: Being called a “nationalist” is not an insult
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‘Factcheckers’ Keep Lying about Biden's Abortion Position
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Pence addresses Kenosha in RNC speech: “The violence must stop”
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More than 1 million Americans file for unemployment, again — FILE - In this April 30 ,2020 file photo, a barber shop shows closed and hiring sign during the COVID-19 in Chicago. On Thursday, Aug. 27, just over 1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week …
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Another million applied for jobless benefits as coronavirus pandemic's economic toll rises
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Unemployment Claims Remain Historically High
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Turmoil consumes Chamber of Commerce as it backs Democrats — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is poised to endorse nearly two dozen freshmen House Democrats for reelection, triggering a revolt within the right-leaning organization and drawing fierce pushback from the group's powerful GOP donors.
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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 …
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Iowa counties can't set up drop box systems for absentee ballots, secretary of state says — The Iowa Secretary of State's Office says county auditors cannot set up drop boxes to accept absentee ballots this fall — something several auditors say they did during this year's primary election.


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.


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 …
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Trump's White House Convention May Be Coercing Staffers Into Violating The Hatch Act — While Trump is exempt from the law banning political activity by government workers in government facilities, hundreds of White House employees are not. — WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump's insistence …
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The Special Hypocrisy of Melania Trump's Speech at the Republican National Convention
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Trump says election workers, not USPS, could lead to 2020 miscount — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is shifting his focus from the U.S. Postal Service in his concerns about potential fraud in mail-in voting, claiming problems with mailed ballots lie with local elections officials who are “going to count them wrong.”
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“QAnon Is Batshit Crazy”: Lindsey Graham Talks TikTok, Online Conspiracies, and Why He's Sticking With Trump — The South Carolina senator, facing a tough reelection fight, recalls warning Trump not to shut down TikTok after getting calls from Hannity, Petraeus, and his niece …
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China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims — China rounded up so many Muslims in Xinjiang that there wasn't enough space to hold them. Then the government started building. — Copy … China has secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps …

TikTok Chief Executive Kevin Mayer Resigns — Less than four months after joining the video app, Mr. Mayer said he was leaving. TikTok has been under pressure from the Trump administration. — SAN FRANCISCO — Kevin Mayer, the chief executive of Chinese-owned video app TikTok …
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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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Fauci says he was in surgery when task force discussed CDC testing guidelines
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Donald Trump Presides Over GOP Remade in His Image — Four years after a race that revealed deep divisions among Republicans, this week's RNC shows a party united behind the president; 'party unity is defined by Trump's vision, message and style' — WASHINGTON—Four years …
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Don Jr. robocall urges supporters to vote by mail
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Wisconsin authorities say there was knife in Jacob Blake's vehicle — Blake admitted he had a knife in his possession, which was found in the driver's side floorboard, police say. — Jacob Blake, the man wounded by a police officer In Kenosha, Wis., on Sunday, had a knife in his car …
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