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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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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 …
Business Insider:
Ivanka Trump said her son built a Lego replica of the White House for her father. She told a similar story about herself 13 years ago. — Foto: REUTERS/Carlos Barria White House Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump introduces her father U.S. President Donald Trump to deliver his acceptance speech …
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Mike Barnicle / The Daily Beast:
A Sick President Scrambles to Spread His Contagion of Fear — It was easy to shut your eyes and see and hear Nixon tracking back and forth across the land in the fall of 1968, about how “the other” is coming for your way of life. — BEAST INSIDE — Before last night's neon obscenity …
Robby Soave / Reason:
Protesters Tell Rand Paul, Who Wrote the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, To Say Breonna Taylor's Name
Protesters Tell Rand Paul, Who Wrote the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, To Say Breonna Taylor's Name
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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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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 is ousting his top spokesperson after only two weeks on the job, in a move that follows unhappiness with the agency's communications strategy, according to an email he sent to senior leaders on Friday that was shared with POLITICO.
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STAT and Kaiser Health News
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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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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Political Wire
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
3 winners and 4 losers from the final night of the Republican National Convention
3 winners and 4 losers from the final night of the Republican National Convention
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Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Mary Trump says GOP convention ‘disturbing to watch,’ calls portrayal of president a sham
Mary Trump says GOP convention ‘disturbing to watch,’ calls portrayal of president a sham
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
A Carnival of Disinformation — Americans who tuned in to this week's Republican National Convention …
A Carnival of Disinformation — Americans who tuned in to this week's Republican National Convention …
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast and The Wrap
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
Trump Lit Up The Skies (And The Right) While The Streets Raged — And Remade Conventions Forever
Trump Lit Up The Skies (And The Right) While The Streets Raged — And Remade Conventions Forever
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Townhall, Alpha News and The Post Millennial
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.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What we learned over the last two weeks — DRIVING THE DAY — SIREN ... AP/TOKYO: “Japan's PM Shinzo Abe intends to resign for health reasons”: “Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, intends to leave office because of declining health, according to his political party.
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Brandon Ambrosino / Politico:
‘She was the aggressor’: Former Liberty student alleges sexual encounter with Becki Falwell
‘She was the aggressor’: Former Liberty student alleges sexual encounter with Becki Falwell
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Shinzo Abe, Japan's Longest-Serving Leader, to Resign Because of Illness
Shinzo Abe, Japan's Longest-Serving Leader, to Resign Because of Illness
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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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USA Today:
Donald Trump's big convention speech was filled with lies and gall: Mastio and Lawrence — David: I don't much like the Democrats or Joe Biden and I certainly don't like leftists, anarchists and cancel culture, so there was a lot in Trump's speech that I wanted to like.
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
In RNC 2020 speech, Trump was the one thing he usually isn't: Boring
In RNC 2020 speech, Trump was the one thing he usually isn't: Boring
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Cut Troop Presence in Iraq by About One-Third, Officials Say — President Trump is expected to tout the reduction to about 3,500 troops as progress toward winding down what he has described as endless wars — WASHINGTON—The Pentagon is cutting the U.S. force in Iraq to about 3,500 troops …
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Employees Slam Zuckerberg Over Militia Groups And QAnon After Kenosha — Frustrated Facebook employees slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday during a company-wide meeting, questioning his leadership and decision-making, following a week in which the platform promoted violent conspiracy theories …
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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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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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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Instead of Evolving as President, Trump Has Bent the Job to His Will — In a 40-minute phone call this week, Mr. Trump struggled to describe how he has changed in office. “I think I've just become more guarded than I was four years ago,” he said. — WASHINGTON — For a man on the edge of history …
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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.
Natalie Winters / The National Pulse:
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's “Republican” Endorser Runs A Chinese Communist Party-Staffed Consulting Firm — Cohen recently endorsed Biden, citing his belief that President Trump's actions were “the mark of a dictatorship” and “a tyrant.” — Today, The National Pulse can reveal that Cohen works closely …
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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.
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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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Botches His Big Speech and No One Will Care — He didn't put much effort into addressing voters other than his most avid supporters. — Nomination speeches at normal conventions are easy. Joe Biden even showed last week that nomination speeches given remotely during a pandemic aren't that hard.
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WRIC-TV, Washington Post and Spectator USA
TODAY.com:
Kamala Harris: Officer in Jacob Blake shooting should be charged — In her first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Kamala Harris talks to TODAY's Craig Melvin about the shooting of Jacob Blake, saying “I don't see how anybody could reason …
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Ghysling / SoundCloud:
SoundCloud — Yelling about adrenochrome, fighting pedovores and going into trances for our Lord Jesus Christ. We report from the ground in London, Los Angeles and Santee — where some of the hundreds of worldwide soft-QAnon “Save the Children” rallies were held.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’? — Right-wing influencers are dominating the political discussion on Facebook, raising questions about whether it will translate into electoral success in November. — Listen, liberals. If you don't think Donald Trump can get re-elected in November …
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
NBA playoffs to resume after agreement on social justice initiatives — The NBA and its players' union agreed on Friday to resume the league's playoffs on Saturday after players refused to take the floor for a number of games this week in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis.
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Robert Tracinski / The Bulwark:
Biden Needs a Sister Souljah Month — Democrats need to convince voters that they really are against riots. — I suggested a little while ago that Joe Biden needs a Sister Souljah moment, a reference to an incident in the 1992 presidential campaign when Bill Clinton criticized a race-baiting black rapper.
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Associated Press:
Judge voids 50,000 absentee ballot requests in Iowa county — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A judge ordered an Iowa county Thursday to invalidate 50,000 requests for absentee ballots, agreeing with President Donald Trump's campaign that its elections commissioner overstepped his authority by pre-filling them with voters' personal information.
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