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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 …
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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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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
21 states sue White House over rollback of bedrock environmental law
21 states sue White House over rollback of bedrock environmental law
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
Trump's Republican National Convention Was a Spectacle Fit for a Would-Be King
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
As Trump appointees flout the Hatch Act, civil servants who get caught get punished
ABC News:
4 people test positive for COVID-19 at GOP convention in Charlotte
4 people test positive for COVID-19 at GOP convention in Charlotte
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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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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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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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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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Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Facebook banned violent militia groups. We still found plenty of them on its platform. — The company removed at least four of these groups and pages after Recode flagged them for posts about shooting BLM protestors. — Just last week, Facebook finally banned militia groups and pages that advocate for violence on its platform.
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
A Kenosha Militia Facebook Event Asking Attendees To Bring Weapons Was Reported 455 Times. Moderators Said It Didn't Violate Any Rules. — In a companywide meeting on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that a militia page advocating for followers to bring weapons to an upcoming protest in Kenosha …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Peter Coy / Bloomberg:
New Study Suggests Polls Are Missing Shy Trump Voters — A new online study finds that Republicans and independents are twice as likely as Democrats to say they would not give their true opinion in a telephone poll question about their preference for president in the 2020 election.
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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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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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Devan Cole / CNN:
Jacob Blake's father says his conversation with Biden and Harris was like ‘speaking to my uncle and one of my sisters’ — Washington (CNN)The father of Jacob Blake said Friday that his hour-long conversation earlier this week with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris …
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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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ABC News:
Former pool attendant details alleged relationship with Becki and Jerry Falwell Jr. — Giancarlo Granda claims he had a lengthy affair with Becki Falwell. — The war of words between a former pool attendant and Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki escalated on Friday morning as Giancarlo Granda claimed on …
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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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Natalie Escobar / NPR:
One Author's Argument ‘In Defense Of Looting’ — In the past months of demonstrations for Black lives, there has been a lot of hand-wringing about looting. Whether it was New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying that stealing purses and sneakers from high-end stores in Manhattan was “inexcusable …
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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Anthony G. Attrino / New Jersey Online:
N.J. teen who held Black Lives Matter protest gets hit with $2,500 bill for police overtime — When Emily Gil learned of the lack of affordable housing in Englewood Cliffs — and the fact she believes Black residents are priced out of her Bergen County hometown — she felt an urgent need to enact change.
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?
New York Times:
Rival Themes Emerge as Race Enters Final Weeks: Covid vs. Law and Order — The national political conventions over the last two weeks set the battle lines for the election's remaining weeks. Joe Biden is focusing on President Trump's virus management, while the president is hammering a law-and-order message.
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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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Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
DeVos: It's a ‘good thing’ that pandemic will force schools to make long-overdue changes — In a new push for school choice, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said on Friday that it's a “good thing” that the coronavirus pandemic will force the nation's schools to make changes that should have “happened many years ago.”
Elaine S. Povich / The Pew Charitable Trusts:
Fearing Delays and Chaos, Swing States Weigh Early Counting of Mail-In Ballots — The cumbersome and sometimes slow counting of an expected record number of mail-in ballots — especially in some crucial swing states — could delay results and open the door to challenges in this year's elections.
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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Ashe Schow / The Daily Wire:
Black Lives Matter Protesters Surround Congressman With Prosthetic Legs, Won't Accept It's Wrong To Kill Anybody — Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), who lost both his legs while serving in Afghanistan, was leaving the Republican National Convention Thursday night when a group of Black Lives Matter activists surrounded …
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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.
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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