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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 …
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.
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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 — 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
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after RNC
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
Trump Warns America: 'Biden's America' Will Look Like Trump's America
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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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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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Secretly recorded audio of Trump's sister prompts new call for investigation into his admission to Penn
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Jill Serjeant / Reuters:
Some 21.6 million Americans watched Trump speech on last night of Republican convention: CNN
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
2 attendees, 2 RNC workers in Charlotte test positive for coronavirus, NC county says
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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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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 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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Raw Story
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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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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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
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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.”
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Markian Hawryluk / Kaiser Health News:
Opposition to Obamacare Becomes Political Liability for GOP Incumbents
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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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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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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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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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Marty Johnson / The Hill:
Harris delivers virtual call to action to protesters at new march on Washington — Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) made a video appearance at Friday's civil rights event at the National Mall, delivering a call to action to demonstrators on the 57th anniversary …
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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.
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 …
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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Raw Story
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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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
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Sen. Thom Tillis says he “fell short” by not wearing mask at Trump's RNC speech — Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) in a statement Friday said he “fell short of [his] own standard,” by choosing not to wear a face mask at President Trump's Republican National Convention acceptance speech on Thursday night.
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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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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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