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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Tenants Say They Were Tricked Into Appearing in R.N.C. Video — “I am not a Trump supporter,” one of the tenants said, adding that she was furious that her interview with a government official was used for the convention. — It started with an unexpected call last week from Lynne Patton …
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 …
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Raw Story and 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 ousts top spokesperson after 2 weeks
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NPR, Barron's Online, Bloomberg, 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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Washington State, Washington Post, Reuters, POLITICUSUSA and One America News Network
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump pardons Alice Johnson after her RNC speech
Trump pardons Alice Johnson after her RNC speech
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Washington Post, Mercury News, Associated Press, Forbes, ABC News and The US Sun
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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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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Axios, Bloomberg, USA Today, Mediaite, POLITICUSUSA and Press Herald, more at Mediagazer »
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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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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Associated Press, The Hill, One America News Network, Breitbart and POLITICUSUSA
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump campaign rakes in $76 million during Republican National Convention
Trump campaign rakes in $76 million during Republican National Convention
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The Hill and Wall Street Journal
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
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
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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BuzzFeed News
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 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, Forbes, Political Wire and Sputnik News
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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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
White Vigilantes Have Always Had A Friend In Police
White Vigilantes Have Always Had A Friend In Police
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NPR, Financial Times, Discourse Blog and Twitchy
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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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
Reuters:
Trump willing to sign a $1.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill: Meadows — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is willing to sign a $1.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill, a top Trump aide said on Friday, marking a $300 billion increase from an initial $1 trillion offer from the White House and Senate Republicans.
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Politico, The Hill, Just The News and One America News Network
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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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Shams Charania / The Athletic:
Sources: LeBron James sought out Barack Obama for advice to players — LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — After walking out of Wednesday's players meeting in support of sitting out NBA's games, LeBron James led a small group of players who turned to perhaps America's biggest basketball fan for advice.
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Fox News, LeBron Wire and Twitchy
Bloomberg:
IRS Puts Burden on Companies That Use Trump's Payroll Tax Option — Companies unlikely to defer taxes they have to pay back — Taxes would be collected next year unless Congress acts — President Donald Trump's move to defer payroll taxes through year-end likely will face resistance …
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Wall Street Journal, Politico and GovExec.com
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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Raw Story
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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 …
Politico:
Mick Mulvaney's new side gig: A hedge fund betting on D.C. — Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's special envoy to Northern Ireland, has a new side gig: He's starting a hedge fund. — Mulvaney is launching the fund with the longtime investor Andrew Wessel. The angle?
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
Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
Merkel laughs off suggestion that she was charmed by Trump — 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. — Richard Grenell, the former U.S. director …
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New York Times, Political Wire, The American Independent and Washington Post
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.
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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds gripe about wall backer's rants against prosecution — Federal prosecutors are urging a recently indicted border-security advocate to clam up or face the possibility of a gag order limiting his ability to speak out publicly about the criminal case he is facing.
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Reuters and One America News Network
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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ABC News, No More Mister Nice Blog and Newsbusters