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Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Melania Trump used private email accounts while in the White House, says former colleague and friend — Melania Trump regularly used a private Trump Organization email account, an email from a MelaniaTrump.com domain, iMessage and the encrypted messaging app, Signal, while in the White House …
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Associated Press, The US Sun, The Guardian, Raw Story, The Hill and Axios
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Pelosi used shuttered San Francisco hair salon for blow-out, owner calls it ‘slap in the face’ — ‘We have been shut down for so long,’ owner says — EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out …
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KTVU-TV:
Nancy Pelosi confirms she got hair done indoors in San Francisco — The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to M — SAN FRANCISCO - A trip to a San Francisco salon has turned into a controversy for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi whose office tells KTVU …
Ben Jordan / TMJ4:
Kenosha business owner declines President Trump photo-op, former owner replaces him — A Kenosha business owner is accusing President Donald Trump of using his destroyed store for political gain. — Tom Gram's century-old camera shop burned to the ground a week ago during the unrest in Uptown Kenosha.
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Ed Markey defeats Joe Kennedy in Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary — Sen. Ed Markey won the Massachusetts Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday evening, fending off a bitter challenge from Rep. Joe Kennedy, AP reports. — Why it matters: The power of the Kennedy name …
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Raw Story, Bangor Daily News, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, The Intercept, BuzzFeed News, ABC News and The Daily Free Press
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Alex Rogers / CNN:
Sen. Ed Markey defeats a Kennedy in Massachusetts
Sen. Ed Markey defeats a Kennedy in Massachusetts
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New York Times and Politico
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Kennedy concedes to Markey in heated Massachusetts Senate Democratic primary
Kennedy concedes to Markey in heated Massachusetts Senate Democratic primary
Peter Canellos / Politico:
The Unlikely Kennedy Who Ended the Kennedy Dynasty
Eleanor Watson / CBS News:
Ed Markey beats Joe Kennedy III in hotly contested Massachusetts Senate primary
Ed Markey beats Joe Kennedy III in hotly contested Massachusetts Senate primary
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The Boston Globe
Mike Allen / Axios:
Pence: “I don't recall being told to be on standby” during Trump's Walter Reed visit — Vice President Mike Pence said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday that he does not “recall” being told to be on standby to assume the powers of the presidency if President Trump was put under anesthesia during …
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Politico, CANNONFIRE, CNN, Raw Story, The Hill, NBC New York, Talking Points Memo, Denver Post, POLITICUSUSA, Forbes and Political Wire
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Trump Says Some Really Strange Things. Republicans Say No Comment, Again. — “If the leader comments, I'll be sure to pass it along,” said a spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader. As of Tuesday afternoon, there was nothing to pass along.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Hill and Axios
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Ernst Suggests Iowa Doctors Falsifying COVID Cases For Money — Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported. As the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier wrote …
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Amie Rivers / Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier:
Ernst, in rural Waterloo, says Senate race will be expensive, close — WATERLOO — U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst praised farmers, said agriculture and veterans were her top issues and noted she expects she and her opponent will spend $100 million in total on a close election during a Monday evening stop in Black Hawk County.
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and CNBC
Washington Post:
Justice Department zeroing in on longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy — Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy in connection with efforts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Political Wire
ABC News:
DHS withheld July intelligence bulletin calling out Russian attack on Biden's mental health — The Trump campaign has repeatedly engaged in a similar line of attack. — In early July the Department of Homeland Security withheld publication of an intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement agencies …
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Mediaite, Raw Story and Washington Post
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
Russian agency created fake leftwing news outlet with fictional editors, Facebook says … The Russian agency that interfered in the 2016 US election created a fake leftwing news publication, staffed it with fake editors with AI-generated photos and hired real freelance reporters as part …
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Graphika, About Facebook, Fortune, Politico, courthousenews.com and TheStreet, more at Techmeme »
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Washington Post:
Facebook takes down Russian operation that recruited U.S. journalists, amid rising concerns about election misinformation
Facebook takes down Russian operation that recruited U.S. journalists, amid rising concerns about election misinformation
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Politico, Input, The Daily Caller, NPR, Mercury News, ABC News, New York Post and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Russians Again Targeting Americans With Disinformation, Facebook Says
Russians Again Targeting Americans With Disinformation, Facebook Says
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The American Spectator, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, UPI and The Daily Beast
HuffPost:
Trump Stopped Going to Dover AFB To Receive Bodies After Getting Berated On First Visit — Vice President Pence attended “dignified transfer” ceremonies for two years by himself after the father of a slain SEAL “rattled” Trump In February 2017. — WASHINGTON ― In the world …
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
FBI investigates after alarmed pilot tells LAX tower: ‘We just passed a guy in a jet pack’ — The FBI has launched an investigation after an American Airlines pilot said he saw what appeared to be a man flying with a jet pack Sunday night near Los Angeles International Airport. — “Tower, American 1997.
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KTLA
Grinnell College:
Joe Biden Leads Donald Trump in Latest Grinnell College National Poll — If the election were held today, the newest edition of the Grinnell College National Poll shows Joe Biden winning the popular vote in his quest to become to be the 46th President of the United States.
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The Federalist
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Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Trump attacks take a toll on Black Lives Matter support
Trump attacks take a toll on Black Lives Matter support
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Reuters and Associated Press
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Trump is trying to grab some of Biden's most valuable supporters. Here's why. — It's too soon to say whether last week's Republican convention made any dent in the polls. But it did make clear President Donald Trump's chief line of attack going forward: after months …
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Washington Post, The Hill, Big League Politics, Fox News, Breitbart, Washington Times and Just The News
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Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Trump Jr. bashes Dems over claim riots are president's fault: ‘Joe Biden voters are burning down their cities’
Trump Jr. bashes Dems over claim riots are president's fault: ‘Joe Biden voters are burning down their cities’
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Reuters
BuzzFeed News:
New FBI Documents Show What Witnesses In The Mueller Probe Told Federal Investigators About Trump And Russia — BuzzFeed News sued the government to get copies of the witness interview summaries that Robert Mueller kept from public view. Today, we are publishing the 10th installment of what the FBI interview summaries contain.
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Incitements to Violence Have Crossed an Alarming Threshold — In December, 2016, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two political scientists at Harvard, published an opinion piece in the Times that posed the question “Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?”
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Snopes.com, USA Today, HuffPost and New Republic
Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
Trump administration slams proposal to alter historical DC monuments, says mayor should be ‘ashamed’ — The DC committee called for making changes to some of the city's best-known tourist attractions
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Axios and Associated Press
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Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
FEMA Says It Will Stop Paying For Cloth Face Masks For Schools — The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it is changing the policy on the personal protective equipment that it will pay for. Federal officials announced the changes during a call on Tuesday with state and tribal emergency managers …
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The Hill, Axios and Political Wire
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
BREAKING: Carter Page's FISA Related ‘Woods File’ Docs Disappeared, Was It ‘Malice Or Incompetence’ — The original Woods file on former campaign advisor Carter Page went missing more than two years ago, and according to sources who spoke to SaraACarter.com, those documents had to be recreated …
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Fox News, U.S. Department of Justice, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, IJR, Politico and Axios
Hannah Ray Lambert / KOIN-TV:
OSP troopers federally deputized amid renewed Portland protest response — PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon State Police troopers responding to the ongoing protest-related unrest in Portland have been federally deputized, state police confirm. — State police tell KOIN 6 News they're working …
Washington Post:
U.S. says it won't join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine — The Trump administration said it will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine, in part because the World Health Organization is involved …
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Slate, Balloon Juice, WISC-TV, New York Times, Raw Story, Associated Press, Daily Kos, The Hill, New York Post, UPI and Political Wire
Dave Urbanski / TheBlaze:
Antifa ‘commander’ cried in ‘fetal position’ after being caught with flamethrower, smoke grenades on way to protest — Matthew Banta was previously arrested — and posted bond — after allegedly pointing loaded rifle at cop — A Wisconsin man was caught with a flamethrower, smoke grenades …
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Big League Politics, Redstate, WBAY-TV and Breitbart
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Democrats Take Aim At Susan Collins' Lobbyist Husband As Maine Race Heats Up — The senator backed policies that benefited her husband's consulting business. Republicans target Sara Gideon's husband in attack ads, too. — Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) pushed and voted for policies …
John Sipher / New York Times:
Trump Creates His Own ‘Deep State’ — The director of national intelligence is ending oral briefings with Congress — a significant step toward eroding oversight and expanding executive overreach. — Mr. Sipher, a former chief of station for the C.I.A., worked for more than 27 years in Russia and other parts of Europe and Asia.
Steve Inskeep / NPR:
Former DHS Official: White House Failed To Take Far-Right Extremism Seriously — Audio for this story is unavailable. — A former top Department of Homeland Security official who resigned in April says the Trump administration is creating the conditions for domestic extremism to flourish in the United States.
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Joe Rogan debuts on Spotify with his most controversial episodes missing — Joe Rogan made his debut on Spotify on Tuesday, but apparently not all of his podcast episodes made the cut. — Dozens of past episodes with controversial guests are notably absent from the new Joe Rogan Experience channel …
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Althouse, The Hill, Big League Politics, OutKick and The Post Millennial, more at Mediagazer »
FinCEN.gov:
Statement by FinCEN Regarding Unlawfully Disclosed Suspicious Activity Reports — The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is aware that various media outlets intend to publish a series of articles based on unlawfully disclosed Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) …