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10:40 PM ET, August 29, 2020

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CNN:
Top intelligence office informs congressional committees it'll no longer brief on election security  —  (CNN)The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has informed the House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence that it'll no longer be briefing on election security issues, a senior administration official told CNN.
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U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio:   Rubio on Historic Challenges Facing Congressional Oversight of Intelligence Activities
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:   U.S. Intelligence Office to Stop Briefing Congress on Election Security
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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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Leonard Cohen Estate Considering Legal Action After RNC Plays “Halleujah”  —  The estate of late singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is angry that the Republican National Convention decided to use not one but two different covers of Hallelujah to close out the event.  And it is considering taking legal action.
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Variety
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump is the president of the loud minority, not silent majority
Discussion: Raw Story and Power Line
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
Discussion: YouGov
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
8 juicy details from the new Melania Trump tell-all book  —  First Lady Melania Trump's former senior adviser and close friend has written a tell-all book that describes the first lady as someone who can't be trusted and who often competed for influence in the White House with Ivanka Trump.
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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 …
Axios:
NYT: Biden to condemn violence and link “chaos” to Trump on visit
Harry Enten / CNN:
Why Democrats are worried about Kenosha
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 …
New York Times:
Compare Pages From an Uncensored Book on Investigating Terrorism  —  Under legal pressure, the C.I.A. has permitted the former F.B.I. agent Ali Soufan to republish his 2011 memoir about investigating members of Al Qaeda, “The Black Banners,” without redacted passages about his interrogation …
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New York Times:   C.I.A. Uncensors Memoir of F.B.I. Agent Who Protested Torture of Terrorists
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?
Rod Dreher:
Christian Dandy Throws A Punch  —  Well, this clip of a street scene in Washington DC, after Trump's speech, is making the social media rounds.  Warning: there's a guy rolling on his bike down the street, screaming “F-K YOU!  F-K TRUMP!”  So be warned about the sound:
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.
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.
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.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
‘That Same Feeling’: Painful Memories in Kenosha Come Rushing Back  —  The auto plant closed in 1988, turning the Wisconsin city upside down.  Now it's facing an even deeper existential crisis.  —  KENOSHA, Wis. — Anguished residents wondered if their city would ever recover.
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.”
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 …
Discussion: Townhall
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.
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
The Census Scales Back A Critical Step: Checking Its Own Work  —  With scores of people displaced because of the coronavirus pandemic and other disasters, the U.S. Census Bureau is facing an especially daunting challenge of meeting its once-a-decade goal of tallying every person living in the country …
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots  —  A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth.  And he knows this because he's been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.  —  Mail-in ballots have become the latest flashpoint in the 2020 elections.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:
Latest Chicago and Minneapolis riots broke out over police killings that never happened  —  How do you restore order when people start riots over injustices that never happened?  —  Tragically, as riots sparked by disinformation unfold in Minneapolis and Chicago, this is the question we now face as a country.
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
As wildfires rage, California needs more firefighters.  Why won't it let former inmates join the ranks?  —  In February, Jeffrey Choate, an inmate in the California prison system, wrote me a letter about finding peace and purpose at a prison fire camp in Fort Bragg.
 
 
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Trump's convention was repulsive and dishonest. I fear it was also effective.
Discussion: Reason
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Bets on Law-and-Order Message to Sway Swing Voters
Los Angeles Times:
Holocaust reparations, prescriptions and rent checks: USPS delays put Americans in jeopardy
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
‘They spied on my campaign’: How Trump transformed a conspiracy theory into a political rallying cry
Discussion: Associated Press and Al Jazeera
Jim Heintz / Associated Press:
Belarus cracks down on journalists, 2 AP staff deported
New York Times:
TikTok Deal Is Complicated by New Rules From China Over Tech Exports
Discussion: CNBC and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Kelly Wiley / WJXT-TV:
Florida Department of Health claims number of COVID-19 cases in schools is confidential
Gabriela Schulte / The Hill:
Poll: Trump approval rises among black, hispanic voters amid convention
 Earlier Items: 
Cynthia Fernandez / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Surge in mail-in ballots could delay election results, so Wolf wants to change the rules
Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Fanboys Gear Up to Smear Kamala Harris and Jill Biden
Discussion: Washington Post
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Army of Allies and TV Sycophants Is Crumbling
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
How the G.O.P. Stretched Hard to Defend Trump on Race and Gender
Discussion: RealClearPolitics and Yahoo News
Alan Butterfield / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Criminal complaint cops used to handcuff paralyzed Jacob Blake to his hospital bed for almost a week is revealed - showing he was accused of domestic abuse and felony sexual assault
Wall Street Journal:
New Covid-19 Layoffs Make Job Reductions Permanent
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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