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5:30 PM ET, August 29, 2020

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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Trump Pulls Closer to Biden After RNC  —  Post-convention poll shows Trump almost halved national deficit against the Democratic nominee  — Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Trump 50% to 44% among likely voters following the Republican National Convention vs. a lead of 52% to 42% before it began.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump is the president of the loud minority, not silent majority  —  (CNN)I've spent a lot of time talking about the importance of the 50% mark for former Vice President Joe Biden.  Biden, unlike Hillary Clinton four years ago, is consistently hitting and exceeding 50% in the polls …
Discussion: Power Line and Raw Story
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News-YouGov Poll: Biden's lead over Trump shrinks to 6 points after the RNC — his smallest margin in months  —  The presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has tightened after this week's Republican National Convention, according to a new Yahoo New-YouGov poll …
Discussion: YouGov
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Washington Post:
Biden to resume in-person campaigning as race with Trump kicks into gear  —  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will resume in-person campaigning across the country in coming days amid the still-raging coronavirus pandemic, an answer to allies imploring him to meet voters …
Discussion: New York Times, Daily Kos and Breitbart
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Why Democrats are worried about Kenosha
Yahoo News:
Trump resumes campaign rallies and utters the unthinkable: ‘If Biden wins...’
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
This is why Jacob Blake had a warrant out for his arrest  —  The cops involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake — which touched off a fresh wave of angry, anti-police sentiment across the country — were attempting to arrest him for violating a restraining order stemming from an alleged sexual assault, The Post has learned.
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New York Times:
C.I.A. Uncensors Memoir of F.B.I. Agent Who Protested Torture of Terrorists  —  Nine years after the C.I.A. blacked out parts of Ali Soufan's book, the agency has finally allowed a more complete version of his story to be published.  —  WASHINGTON — After a group of Qaeda suspects was captured …
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New York Times:   Compare Pages From an Uncensored Book on Investigating Terrorism
Michael Moore:
Sorry to have to provide the reality check again, but when CNN polled registered voters in August in just the swing states, Biden and Trump were in a virtual tie.  In Minnesota, it's 47-47.  In Michigan, where Biden had a big lead, Trump has closed the gap to 4 points.  Are you ready for a Trump victory?
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive.  Maybe It Shouldn't Be.  —  The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.  —  Some of the nation's leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing …
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
An American Disaster Foretold  —  Europeans look at “containment” as the means to deal with Trump.  —  PARIS — Henry Kissinger this month called François Delattre, the former French ambassador to the United States who is now the secretary general of the Foreign Ministry.
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The ponderous, low-energy guy is Trump  —  As President Trump droned through his 70-minute acceptance speech — while desecrating the White House as a television backdrop, which was probably illegal — the words that kept coming to mind were two he has applied with relish to his opponents: “low-energy” and “sleepy.”
Wall Street Journal:
New Covid-19 Layoffs Make Job Reductions Permanent  —  As companies brace for years of pandemic-related disruption, thousands of furloughed workers are told they won't be coming back  —  A new wave of layoffs is washing over the U.S. as several big companies reassess staffing plans and settle in for a long period of uncertainty.
Discussion: Political Wire
Oregonian:
Did you see photos of officers supposedly injured last weekend in NW cities?  The facts don't check out  —  The Associated Press checks out some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.  This one is bogus, even though it was shared widely on social media.
Halle Kiefer / Vulture:
Leonard Cohen's Estate Wants You to Know They ‘Specifically Declined’ the RNC's Use of ‘Hallelujah’  —  Leonard Cohen's famous ballad “Hallelujah” was everywhere this week, and while the late singer might not have minded its inclusion in the new trailer for the Snyder Cut of Justice League …
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:
Arkansas sheriff resigns over racist rant in leaked recording  —  An Arkansas sheriff resigned Friday after coming under fire over a leaked racist recording.  —  Sheriff Todd Wright of Arkansas County, about 85 miles southeast of Little Rock, resigned effective immediately on Friday during …
Gabriela Schulte / The Hill:
Poll: Trump approval rises among black, hispanic voters amid convention  —  President Trump's support among black voters rose 9 percentage points amid the Republican National Convention, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds.  —  Twenty-four percent of registered black voters in the Aug. 22-25 survey …
Discussion: Redstate and Breitbart
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 …
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Republicans make the courts a feature of their convention; Democrats do not, and liberals are worried
Discussion: Alpha News
Kelly Wiley / WJXT-TV:
Florida Department of Health claims number of COVID-19 cases in schools is confidential  —  Duval school district still pushing to publish COVID-19 data  —  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - After the first full week of classes in Duval County, school officials say they are still counting how many teachers …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Fact-checking Trump's lies is essential.  It's also increasingly fruitless.  —  Daniel Dale met President Trump's convention speech with a tirade of truth Thursday night — a tour de force of fact-checking that left CNN anchor Anderson Cooper looking slightly stunned.
Discussion: ArkansasTimes and Mashable
Associated Press:
Mitch McConnell's campaign hires Covington teen Nick Sandmann  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign has hired a Kentucky teenager known for his viral encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial last year.  —  Nick Sandmann landed a paid position …
Cynthia Fernandez / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Surge in mail-in ballots could delay election results, so Wolf wants to change the rules  —  Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLIVE/The Patriot-News, Triblive/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media.
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Army of Allies and TV Sycophants Is Crumbling  —  The president has always considered himself his best advocate.  Now, he's got to prove it.  —  When Republicans nominated Donald Trump for the presidency four years ago in Cleveland, they had a stable of regular on-camera personalities to back them up.
Discussion: Raw Story
Max Brantley / ArkansasTimes:
State Police traffic stop of Black law student draws complaint that opens door to review of police enforcement practices  —  A state trooper's stop of a Black motorist on Interstate 40 has led to a complaint to state officials and a related request for racial information about State Police enforcement practices.
Washington Post:
Amid fears that Trump might not leave office, two lawmakers press for Pentagon assurances on the election  —  In a sign of the growing concern that President Trump might not leave office voluntarily or might attempt to use the military to hold onto power, two moderate Democratic lawmakers posed …
Discussion: Fox News, Forbes and Task & Purpose
 
 
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Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:
Latest Chicago and Minneapolis riots broke out over police killings that never happened
Jim Heintz / Associated Press:
Belarus cracks down on journalists, 2 AP staff deported
Jezzamine Wolk / Campus Reform:
Minnesota college student pleads guity to offering support to terrorists
Discussion: Alpha News and New York Post
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
California Gave $35 Million ‘Voter Outreach’ Contract to ‘Team Biden’ Firm
New York Times:
TikTok Deal Is Complicated by New Rules From China Over Tech Exports
Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Fanboys Gear Up to Smear Kamala Harris and Jill Biden
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Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
After the RNC, I am confident Trump will triumph
Discussion: The Hill
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Arizona Republic:
ASU conservatives raising funds for Kenosha protest shooter Kyle Rittenhouse
Kelley L. Carter / The Undefeated:
Chadwick Boseman knew his voice had power and used it to challenge Hollywood
Mike Gonzalez / The Federalist:
After Decades Of Dividing America On Race, Left Insists The Right Is Really To Blame
Discussion: Instapundit
Caroline Kitchener / The Lily:
A police captain's widow used his story to back Trump at the GOP convention. His daughters say it was ‘despicable.’
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Evan Drellich / New York Times:
The MLB is planning national packages for streaming companies to bid on in 2028, when its national TV deals with ESPN, Fox, and Turner expire

 
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