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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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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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Bloomberg, Barron's Online, The Week and Kaiser Health News
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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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, Washington State and POLITICUSUSA
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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One America News Network
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
Trump Warns America: 'Biden's America' Will Look Like Trump's America
Trump Warns America: 'Biden's America' Will Look Like Trump's America
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New York Times
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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Fox News, The Unz Review and Sean Hannity
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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Roger Friedman / Showbiz411:
RNC Ratings for Night 4, on Broadcast Networks Remains Low with Just 5 Million Viewers
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Biden hits Trump where it hurts: in the convention speech ratings
Biden hits Trump where it hurts: in the convention speech ratings
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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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Althouse
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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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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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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New Republic, ABC News, jsonline and The Mahablog
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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Discourse Blog, The Atlantic and Twitchy
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
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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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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, YouGov and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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 Wire
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)
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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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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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.
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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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 …
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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Political Wire and Althouse
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 …
Washington Post:
Company that owns President Trump's Vancouver hotel files for bankruptcy — The company that owns the Trump International Hotel in Vancouver, Canada, has filed for bankruptcy, according to Canadian records — raising questions about the future of one of President Trump's newest hotel, just three years after it opened.
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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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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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KING-TV:
Father of man killed inside Seattle's CHOP zone files $3 billion in claims against city, county, state — The claims allege the actions and inactions by the city, countyand state government are responsible for the death of his son, 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson.
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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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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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TheBlaze, New York Post, The Daily Caller, The Post Millennial and Slate