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New York Times:
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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CNN:
FDA spokeswoman Emily Miller fired, sources say  —  (CNN)US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn has fired the agency's spokesperson Emily Miller one week after he announced her arrival at FDA, two sources confirmed to CNN.  —  She had only been on the job for a matter of days …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
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.
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.
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
21 states sue White House over rollback of bedrock environmental law  —  A coalition of 21 states sued the Trump administration Friday for rolling back what they say is a “rule that is, at its heart, the gutting” of America's bedrock environmental law.  —  The White House in July finalized …
Politico:   Trump aides interviewing replacement for embattled FTC chair
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
Trump Warns America: 'Biden's America' Will Look Like Trump's America
Discussion: New York Times
Reuters:
Trump willing to sign a $1.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill: Meadows
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German Lopez / Vox:
The absurdity of Trump's RNC speech, in one photo
Discussion: Political Wire
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is a Secessionist From the Top
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
President Trump's acceptance speech draws 21.6 million TV viewers, trailing the audience for Biden  —  The final night of the Republican convention, which featured President Trump's acceptance speech from the White House South Lawn, had an average audience of 21.6 million viewers Thursday …
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Roger Friedman / Showbiz411:   RNC Ratings for Night 4, on Broadcast Networks Remains Low with Just 5 Million Viewers
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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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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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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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.
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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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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Althouse
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
KING-TV:
Father of man killed inside Seattle's CHOP zone files $3 billion in claims against city, county, state  —  The claims allege the actions and inactions by the city, countyand state government are responsible for the death of his son, 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Instapundit
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Video shows activists in Kenosha arrested by officers who jumped out of unmarked vehicle  —  A Seattle-based nonprofit group that serves food to protesters said Thursday that several of its members were still in police custody in Kenosha, Wis., after law enforcement officers sprang …
New York Times:
A Word Not Uttered by Republican Officials at the Convention: Obamacare  —  A longtime refrain, promise and rallying cry is gone.  —  In 2012, right in the middle of his convention speech, Mitt Romney declared Obamacare repeal a crucial priority.  It was part of his five-part plan for a “better future.”
Hans Von Der Burchard / Politico:
Merkel laughs off suggestion that she was charmed by Trump  —  German chancellor said she's ready to work with the current US president if he is reelected  —  BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacted with a smile — and no comment — when a reporter asked if it was true that U.S. President Donald Trump had enchanted her.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Marty Johnson / The Hill:
Harris delivers virtual call to action to protesters at new march on Washington
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
The Police Are Pretty Sure They're Going to Get Away With It
Daniel Nichanian / The Appeal:
In Massachusetts, the Democratic Party Shifts Toward Supporting Voting Rights for All
democratandchronicle:
Andrew Cuomo raises campaign cash at Sands home on Canandaigua Lake
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Trump friend and donor Ronald Lauder goes quiet on the fundraising front in 2020
Discussion: Raw Story
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Google greenlights ads with ‘blatant disinformation’ about voting by mail
Reuters:
Law Firm for Teenager Accused of Kenosha Killings Has Represented Trump Lawyer Giuliani
 Earlier Items: 
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Biden's Voters Appear Far More Likely To Vote By Mail Than Trump's. That Could Make For A Weird Election Night.
Maria Vasilyeva / Reuters:
Russia releases secret footage of 1961 ‘Tsar Bomba’ hydrogen blast
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ghysling / SoundCloud:
SoundCloud  —  Yelling about adrenochrome, fighting pedovores and going into trances for our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lateshia Beachum / Washington Post:
A Black, female veteran could topple the Republican incumbent in her red Florida district
Discussion: National Review and The Capitolist
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
MGM Resorts Lays off 18,000 Workers
Discussion: CBS Boston
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Belarusian Officials Shut Down Internet With Technology Made by U.S. Firm
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Botches His Big Speech and No One Will Care
Discussion: New York Post, IJR and POLITICUSUSA
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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