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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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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 …
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 …
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Politico:
FDA ousts top spokesperson after 2 weeks
FDA ousts top spokesperson after 2 weeks
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NPR, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, The Week, Kaiser Health News and STAT
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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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 …
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Reuters:
Trump willing to sign a $1.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill: Meadows
Trump willing to sign a $1.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill: Meadows
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Politico, The Hill, Just The News and One America News Network
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
Trump's Republican National Convention Was a Spectacle Fit for a Would-Be King
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after RNC
Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after RNC
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
2 attendees, 2 RNC workers in Charlotte test positive for coronavirus, NC county says
2 attendees, 2 RNC workers in Charlotte test positive for coronavirus, NC county says
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ABC News, Associated Press, Politico, IJR and Bloomberg
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
Trump Warns America: 'Biden's America' Will Look Like Trump's America
jsonline:
Suburbs are vital, but Donald Trump needs another rural rout to win Wisconsin again — It was no fluke a farmer from Wisconsin was featured at the Republican National Convention. — Donald Trump won Wisconsin four years ago in small towns and rural counties.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds gripe about wall backer's rants against prosecution
Feds gripe about wall backer's rants against prosecution
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Reuters and One America News Network
Jill Serjeant / Reuters:
Some 21.6 million Americans watched Trump speech on last night of Republican convention: CNN
Some 21.6 million Americans watched Trump speech on last night of Republican convention: CNN
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Ed Scarce / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Barron Trump Is Tall, Conservatives Freak Out When Liberals Point Out This Fact
Barron Trump Is Tall, Conservatives Freak Out When Liberals Point Out This Fact
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Political Wire and Althouse
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Secretly recorded audio of Trump's sister prompts new call for investigation into his admission to Penn
Secretly recorded audio of Trump's sister prompts new call for investigation into his admission to Penn
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump pardons Alice Johnson after her RNC speech
Trump pardons Alice Johnson after her RNC speech
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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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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Biden hits Trump where it hurts: in the convention speech ratings — New York (CNN Business)President Trump's Thursday night convention speech making the case for his reelection was lower-rated than his challenger Joe Biden's speech one week ago, according to overnight Nielsen ratings.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Advisers: He Was ‘Triggered’ by Talk of White Supremacy — Two disaffected officials recount a president who simply didn't want to hear things he thought were bad for him. — Two former top Homeland Security officials in the Trump administration tell The Daily Beast …
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Political Wire and Raw Story
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“Melania Did. Not. Care”: In a Blistering New Book by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania Trump Sounds a Lot Like Her Husband — Wolkoff's book is remarkable both for its intimacy and for the sheer volume of receipts it contains. It's also the first real look at what's under Melania Trump's hood …
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Political Flare, POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
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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The Atlantic, Discourse Blog and Althouse
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Top general says no role for military in presidential vote — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, July 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)
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Talking Points Memo, Axios and Political Wire
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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NBPA:
JOINT NBA AND NBPA STATEMENT
JOINT NBA AND NBPA STATEMENT
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Kenosha Tells Us More About Where the Right Is Headed Than the R.N.C. Did
Kenosha Tells Us More About Where the Right Is Headed Than the R.N.C. Did
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Secret Service copes with coronavirus cases in aftermath of Trump appearances — When President Trump gave a speech to a group of sheriffs in Tampa late last month, his decision to travel forced a large contingent of Secret Service agents to head to a state that was then battling one of the worst coronavirus surges in the nation.
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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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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 …
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New York Post, The Daily Caller, The Post Millennial, TheBlaze and Redstate
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CNN:
Controversial organization led by Trump allies has tax-exempt status revoked by IRS — Trump ally uses controversial tactic to woo black voters — (CNN)A nonprofit organization started by two Trump administration allies that stirred up controversy earlier this year for holding cash giveaways …
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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Markian Hawryluk / Kaiser Health News:
Opposition to Obamacare Becomes Political Liability for GOP Incumbents — In the 2014 elections, Republicans rode a wave of anti-Affordable Care Act sentiment to pick up nine Senate seats, the largest gain for either party since 1980. Newly elected Republicans such as Cory Gardner in Colorado …
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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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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.
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Political Wire
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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Sputnik News and Raw Story
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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detroitnews:
Rep. Stevens: Biden would make Michigan's auto industry a priority, as he did before — When Vice President Mike Pence arrives in Michigan on Friday to tout the ingenuity and resilience of the Michigan economy, he has former Vice President Joe Biden to thank.
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.