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Two P.R. Experts at F.D.A. Have Been Ousted After Blood Plasma Fiasco — The agency's chief spokeswoman, Emily Miller, was removed from her position just 11 days into the job. — Two senior public relations experts advising the Food and Drug Administration have been ousted from their positions …
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Covid-19 Live Updates: 2 F.D.A. Public Relations Experts Are Fired After Plasma Fiasco — A coalition of local health departments called on the C.D.C. to change new recommendations that people without Covid-19 symptoms do not need to be tested. — RIGHT NOW Chancellor Angela Merkel …
Politico:
FDA ousts top spokesperson after 2 weeks — FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has ousted his top spokesperson after only two weeks on the job, following unhappiness with the agency's communications strategy. The move sets up a potential fight with the White House, according to four individuals with knowledge of the decision.
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Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Rand Paul calls for FBI arrests, investigation into ‘mob’ he believes ‘would have killed us,’ if not for police — ‘It was horrific,’ the GOP senator tells ‘Fox & Friends’ — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told “Fox & Friends” he believes he would have been killed if not for the police …
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after RNC — Sen. Rand Paul was confronted by protesters early Friday morning after leaving the Republican National Convention at the White House. — “Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House.
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CBS News:
Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after Republican convention
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
Trump Warns America: 'Biden's America' Will Look Like Trump's America
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Robby Soave / Reason:
Protesters Tell Rand Paul, Who Wrote the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, To Say Breonna Taylor's Name
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KARE-TV:
Biden planning campaign visits to Minnesota, Wisconsin and other battleground states — The Democratic presidential nominee will start doing in-person events after Labor Day. — WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he's planning to hit the campaign trail - in person …
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German Lopez / Vox:
The absurdity of Trump's RNC speech, in one photo — Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post via Getty Images — Trump tried to make his Republican convention into a celebration. America's current reality is much grimmer. — President Donald Trump's speech on Thursday …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is a Secessionist From the Top — The president proved once again that he regards himself as a wartime leader of Red America against Blue America. — Staff writer at The Atlantic — President Trump read a boring speech badly last night. The long recitation was punctuated by odd comprehension errors.
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
A Carnival of Disinformation — Americans who tuned in to this week's Republican National Convention …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
3 winners and 4 losers from the final night of the Republican National Convention
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New York Times:
Live Updates: N.B.A. Playoffs to Resume After Jacob Blake Protest — The league and its players' union reached an agreement to restart the playoffs on Saturday after a work stoppage following the police shooting of Mr. Blake in Wisconsin. — RIGHT NOW The league and the players also announced …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
The Trap The Democrats Walked Right Into — If law and order are what this election is about, they will lose it. … It finally happened. We have lethal battles in the streets between the two tribes of our polarized politics. This week, a 17-year-old man, Kyle Rittenhouse …
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George Packer / The Atlantic:
This Is How Biden Loses — Here is a prediction about the November election: If Donald Trump wins, in a trustworthy vote, what's happening this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be one reason. Maybe the reason. And yet Joe Biden has it in his power to spare the country a second Trump term.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Host Greg Gutfeld Pulls a 180 on Trump's ‘Very Fine People’ in Charlottesville, Now Calls It a ‘Hoax’ — Gutfeld was one of the more forceful critics of Trump's equivocating on neo-Nazi marchers, but three years later he's all-in on defending the president.
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Secretly recorded audio of Trump's sister prompts new call for investigation into his admission to Penn — A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has renewed a request to investigate how President Trump was admitted to the school in 1966, citing what he called “new evidence” …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Mary Trump says GOP convention ‘disturbing to watch,’ calls portrayal of president a sham
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The Daily Beast:
Ivanka Is an Idiot but Unequivocally the Smartest Trump — In the last RNC episode of The New Abnormal, GOP operative Tim Miller makes a hilarious wager about Trump and his family and the trio rate the Trump kids. — Trump and everyone in his orbit tell lots of lies and questionable truths …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Malign Fantasy of Donald Trump's Convention — Using the White House as his prop, the President makes war on Joe Biden, and pretends the pandemic is all but defeated. — For four years, Donald Trump has been asking us to believe the unbelievable, to accept the unthinkable, to replace harsh realities with simple fantasies.
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The perfectly logical case for Donald Trump — To make America great again, again, you must vote for Donald Trump! — If you think things are bad now under Donald Trump, vote for Donald Trump, who will fix things. The chaos will continue unless you vote for Donald Trump …
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
House committee launches contempt proceedings against Pompeo — The House Foreign Affairs Committee announced Friday that it will launch contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his refusal to comply with a subpoena for records related to the State Department's involvement …
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Employees Are Outraged At Mark Zuckerberg's Explanations Of How It Handled The Kenosha Violence — Frustrated Facebook employees slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday during a companywide meeting, questioning his leadership and decision-making, following a week …
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mecknc.gov:
Data for August 26 — As of 5 p.m. on August 27, 2020 there were 24,952 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) with 290 deaths due to COVID-19 reported among Mecklenburg County residents. — Of note, approximately 792 COVID-19 tests were conducted among individuals attending …
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
US to reduce troop level in Iraq to 3,500 from 5,200 — The Iraqi military's progress was cited as a reason for the drawdown. — The U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Iraq to 3,500 from about 5,200, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News. — The reduction in forces had been anticipated …
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Ed Scarce / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Barron Trump Is Tall, Conservatives Freak Out When Liberals Point Out This Fact — Trump's 14-year-old son towered over Mike Pence last night. That's NOT an “attack on a child.” — One would think that after what the Right spent years spewing about Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls …
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democratandchronicle:
Andrew Cuomo raises campaign cash at Sands home on Canandaigua Lake — ALBANY - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo traveled Tuesday to Ontario County to raise campaign cash at a fundraiser hosted by the Sands family, the largest shareholder of beer-and-wine giant Constellation Brands.
Washington Post:
Company that owns President Trump's Vancouver hotel files for bankruptcy — The company that owns the Trump International Hotel in Vancouver, Canada, has filed for bankruptcy, according to Canadian records — raising questions about the future of one of President Trump's newest hotel, just three years after it opened.
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CNN:
Top Colorado RNC official spread conspiracy theories and made Islamophobic and sexist comments — (CNN)A recently installed Republican National Committee official for the state of Colorado has a history of spreading conspiracies and making sexist and Islamophobic comments.
Daniel Nichanian / The Appeal:
In Massachusetts, the Democratic Party Shifts Toward Supporting Voting Rights for All — Most members of the state's congressional delegation now say they support restoring voting rights for incarcerated people, a testament to organizing successes. Will Tuesday's primaries elect more proponents?
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Google greenlights ads with ‘blatant disinformation’ about voting by mail — Google has declined to remove ads from a shadowy group echoing President Trump's misleading claim that there is a meaningful difference between voting by mail and absentee voting. — Google took five days to reach …
Maria Vasilyeva / Reuters:
Russia releases secret footage of 1961 ‘Tsar Bomba’ hydrogen blast — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has released previously classified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, caused when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomba almost 60 years ago.
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Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
MGM Resorts Lays off 18,000 Workers — Casino industry struggles to regain business after pandemic shutdowns — MGM Resorts International MGM 5.15% is laying off 18,000 furloughed workers in the U.S. as a global travel slowdown impedes the casino industry's recovery from the ongoing pandemic.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's parade of desperate lies reveals one big and awful truth — When Donald Trump accepted the presidential nomination from the Republican Party in 2016, he declared to the nation: “I alone can fix it.” — Four years later, as he accepted the nomination for a second term on Thursday night …
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