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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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New York Times:
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 …
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says — A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states — White supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region …
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Arizona Republic:
Weekly Gilbert pro-police rallies escalate to violence as attendees look for ‘antifa’
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Dan Mihalopoulos / NPR:
Kenosha Shooting Suspect Fervently Supported ‘Blue Lives,’ Joined Local Militia
Politico:
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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New York Times:
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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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump officials blame Dems for racial unrest
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Associated Press:
Pence aide: NBA protest over Kenosha are ‘absurd and silly’
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
'It's playing into Trump's hands': Dems fear swing-state damage from Kenosha unrest
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump set to skewer Biden in convention address — President Donald Trump will unload on Joe Biden in a blistering convention speech Thursday night, according to two people familiar with the address. — Trump is expected to go after the former vice president on everything from the economy to trade.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
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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Mark Salter / Washington Post:
Why dozens of John McCain aides, including me, are endorsing Joe Biden — Mark Salter served as a staff aide and speechwriter for Sen. John McCain. — This week, I joined more than 100 aides of the late Sen. John McCain, including former chiefs of staff, senior legislative and campaign workers …
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Pelosi says Biden shouldn't debate Trump: 'I wouldn't legitimize a conversation with him'
Politico:
Bush, McCain and Romney presidential staffers unite behind effort to elect Joe Biden
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
More than 100 former aides to John McCain endorse Biden for president
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Adam Forrest / The Independent:
Trump had public meltdown over missed phone call from Putin, former No 10 aide says — ‘If Putin wants a call with me you just put him through,’ US president yelled according to Theresa May's former chief of staff — Donald Trump exploded with anger at one of his most senior aides …
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Washington Post:
Room rentals, resort fees and furniture removal: How Trump's company charged the U.S. government more than $900,000 — The Secret Service had asked for a room close to the president. But Mar-a-Lago said it was too late. The room was booked. Would agents like a room across the street from the president, instead?
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Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News:
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 …
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Elie Mystal / The Nation:
We Need to Talk About the GOP's ‘Black Friends’ — The Republican National Convention has been all about using Black people to convince white people it's OK to vote for a bigot. — In between the lies and the fear mongering and the stories about having intimate conversations with Jesus …
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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 …
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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: C.D.C. Director Walks Back New Testing Guidelines After Outcry; Website Remains Unchanged — Dr. Robert R. Redfield now says that “testing may be considered” for anyone exposed to the coronavirus. But guidelines issued this week remain unchanged on the C.D.C. website.
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Reuters:
White House's Meadows to discuss COVID-19 aid with Pelosi on Thursday
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
A look at the legislative graveyard
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One America News Network and Fox News
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
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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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
6 Quick Takeaways From Third Night Of Republican National Convention
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
New Hot-Mic Video: What Trump Told His Lawyer When He Didn't Know a Camera Was Rolling — For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones' newsletters. — On December 10, 2015, Donald Trump took time off from campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
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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Raw Story
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“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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Marlene Lenthang / Daily Mail:
Wisconsin AG reveals police recovered a knife from the driver's side floor of Jacob Blake's car and says ONE cop shot him seven times as they responded to 911 call from Blake's girlfriend — Jacob Blake, the black man shot in the back seven times by Wisconsin police, had a knife in his posession …
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Alex Nitzberg / Just The News:
Wisconsin authorities say there was knife in Jacob Blake's vehicle
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Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Is Kenosha a Warning for the Biden Campaign? — Listening to swing state voters in Arizona and North Carolina. — On Wednesday night I remotely conducted two focus groups, one in North Carolina and one in Arizona. — The demographics of the groups were the same. Both consisted of 2016 Trump voters.
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Why This Pro-Life Conservative Is Voting for Biden — Since I announced publicly that I will be voting for Joe Biden in November, I've received a few communications from puzzled readers. “How can you, a supposedly pro-life woman, support someone who believes in killing babies?”
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BuzzFeed News, Raw Story and Spectator USA
Sarah Jones / The Cut:
The Progressive New Face of ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ Aaron Coleman committed revenge porn at age 12. Now he's 19, and wants a second chance. — Nineteen-year-old Aaron Coleman is a dishwasher and soon, possibly, a left-wing state legislator. He just won an underdog primary campaign in Kansas …
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The Daily Caller
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
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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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.
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
2 George W. Bush Cabinet secretaries endorse Biden — Former Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and former Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, who both served in the George W. Bush administration, endorsed Joe Biden on Thursday. — Why it matters: They join the more than 225 Bush …
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Political Wire and 43 Alumni for Biden
Des Moines Register:
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.
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