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Washington Post:
New Trump pandemic adviser pushes controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy, worrying public health officials — One of President Trump's top medical advisers is urging the White House to embrace a controversial “herd immunity” strategy to combat the pandemic, which would entail allowing …
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump offered FBI director job to John Kelly, asked for loyalty — The day after President Trump fired FBI boss James Comey, the president phoned John Kelly, who was then secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, and offered him Comey's job, the New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump mulled “settling” with Mueller amid Russia investigation — One of the crazy nuggets in a deeply reported book by the N.Y. Times' Michael Schmidt — “Donald Trump v. the United States,” out tomorrow — is that President Trump mulled the idea of “settling” with special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Political Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Leaked McGahn memo reveals alarms about Kushner's top-secret security clearance — Trump ultimately intervened to ensure Kushner got his top-secret security clearance.
NBC News:
Poll: Third party voters from 2016 are backing Biden 2-to-1 — WASHINGTON — One of the major differences between 2016 and 2020 is that this year's presidential contest features a smaller third-party vote than four years ago, and Gary Johnson/Jill Stein voters from 2016 are breaking more toward Joe Biden than they are Donald Trump.
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Slate, The Hill and The Moderate Voice
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Man under investigation in fatal shooting after pro-Trump rally allegedly took loaded gun to earlier Portland protest — A 48-year-old man who was accused of carrying a loaded gun at an earlier downtown Portland protest is under investigation in the fatal shooting Saturday night of a right-wing demonstrator after a pro-Trump rally.
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Andy Ngo / The Post Millennial:
‘I am 100% Antifa’: Alleged Portland shooter was previously arrested—and released—for bringing illegal loaded gun to a riot — The man being investigated by police in the fatal shooting of a Trump supporter in Portland identifies as Antifa and is an ardent Black Lives Matter supporter.
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
BLM ‘activists’ celebrated as Trump supporter was killed
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
I'm Still Reading Andrew Sullivan. But I Can't Defend Him. — He's one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades, but he's shadowed by a 1994 magazine cover story that claimed to show a link between race and I.Q. — PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — The only restaurant open late …
Jack Davis / The Western Journal:
CDC Now Says 94% of COVID Deaths Had an Underlying Condition — Share on Facebook(100k) Tweet P Share Email Print — A new report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in 94 percent of the cases of those who died from COVID-19, another disease was also at work on the victim.
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CNN:
Twitter removes QAnon supporter's false claim about coronavirus death statistics that Trump had retweeted — Optimism grows for emergency coronavirus vaccine use in 2020 — (CNN)Twitter on Sunday took down a tweet containing a false claim about coronavirus death statistics …
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Leo Shane III / Military Times:
As Trump's popularity slips in latest Military Times poll, more troops say they'll vote for Biden — The latest Military Times poll shows a continued decline in active-duty service members' views of President Donald Trump and a slight but significant preference for former Vice President Joe Biden …
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The Guardian, Political Wire, Washington Times, POLITICUSUSA and Bloomberg
Paige Austin / Los Angeles, CA Patch:
Shooting At Pro-Trump Rally Leads To Standoff On Ventura Blvd. — A Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Team has surrounded three suspects in a shooting at a pro-Trump caravan in Woodland Hills. … WOODLAND HILLS, CA — The Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Team has surrounded three suspects holed …
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NBC Los Angeles, Santa Maria Times, CANNONFIRE, Breitbart and Slate
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Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Why Kenosha Police Officers' Use Of Force On Jacob Blake Was Justified — Most people have no understanding of what constitutes ‘reasonable force’ for police. Yes, it sometimes includes shooting a man, in broad daylight, in the back seven times. — A week ago Sunday …
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
White House says Trump still planning to visit Kenosha after governor urges him to reconsider
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Swift Boat mastermind to launch massive super PAC to boost Trump — Senior Republicans are launching a massive new super PAC this week to bolster Donald Trump's reelection in the final stretch of the campaign — a move that comes as the president has been pummeled by Joe Biden on TV.
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The Daily Beast, Political Wire and Raw Story
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
In Trump, much of the world sees an act that's wearing thin — Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — Last week's Republican National Convention saw a blizzard of misinformation. President Trump's acceptance speech Thursday was itself “a tidal wave of tall tales …
Jane Calderwood / Portsmouth Herald:
OPINION/GUEST VIEW: I can no longer support Sen. Susan Collins — I was raised to believe I should cast my vote for the person with the best ideas, regardless of their party. My father took me down to Bangor City Hall when I turned 18 to get me registered to vote.
Joe Biden for President:
Statement by Vice President Joe Biden on the Deadly Violence in Portland — The deadly violence we saw overnight in Portland is unacceptable. Shooting in the streets of a great American city is unacceptable. I condemn this violence unequivocally. I condemn violence of every kind by any one, whether on the left or the right.
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Ben White / Politico:
Trump tries to dance around a devastating backdrop — In the nine weeks left in the 2020 campaign, President Donald Trump has an especially daunting task: Convince a skeptical American public that the coronavirus-ravaged U.S. economy is actually roaring back and will soon return to the status …
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CounterPunch
New York Times:
Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic. — Faced with plunging profits and a climate crisis that threatens fossil fuels, the industry is demanding a trade deal that weakens Kenya's rules on plastics and on imports of American trash. — Confronting a climate crisis …
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Wisconsin Man Who Says He Marched With Rittenhouse in Kenosha Was Immersed in White Supremacist Propaganda — Ryan Balch, a 31-year-old Wisconsin man who joined Kyle Rittenhouse and a contingent of militia conducting armed patrols in Kenosha, used his social media accounts to link to a Nazi propaganda video …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House Democrats' super PAC adds $11M in fall ad buys — House Majority PAC placed seven-figure buys in several offensive Midwest targets. — This undated photo provided by the Christy Smith For Congress campaign shows candidate Christy Smith. A swing House district north of Los Angeles …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Chaos President Has America in Chaos — Before he fancied himself the LAW & ORDER president, Donald Trump was the chaos candidate. The guy who didn't care about norms. The guy who was going to break a bunch of stuff on purpose and even more stuff on accident.
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Raw Story, CNN, NBC News and Washington Post
Martin Hutchinson / National Review:
The American Economy Is Already Too Far Left for Comfort — or Prosperity — Americans already are living in a socialist society. — It was inevitable that Karl Marx would become a Marxist — at least according to the precepts of that ideology. He was brought up in an environment …
Elizabeth Ralph / Politico:
What Happens If China Gets the Covid-19 Vaccine First — David Fidler has a nightmare scenario: In three months, China announces one of its Covid-19 vaccines has successfully completed Phase III trials. The World Health Organization is enthusiastic. Beijing doles out doses to countries …
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The National Interest and Jacobin
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Melania's ex-friend: Trump family tainted by ‘deceit, deception’ — “It was amateur hour then, and it's amateur hour now.” — A former adviser and close friend of first lady Melania Trump's is now blasting the entire Trump family as a callous clan tainted by “deceit” and “deception,” …
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Raw Story
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo is the worst secretary of state in history — As secretary of state, Mike Pompeo has presided over the collapse of negotiations with North Korea, the failure of a pressure campaign against Iran and an abortive attempt to oust Venezuela's authoritarian regime.
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