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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.
Discussion: Washington Times and Daily Kos
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USA Today:
Exclusive: The conventions over, Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by a narrower 50%-43% in USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll  —  The political conventions over, Joe Biden now leads Donald Trump in the race for the White House by 50%-43%, the new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds.
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
No bounce in support for Trump as Americans see pandemic, not crime, as top issue: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's attempt to make civil unrest a central theme of his re-election campaign has yet to boost his political standing, as most Americans …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Brace for impact  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  GOOD MORNING, and happy Wednesday.  We should all begin to focus our attention on the end of this month and the fiscal stimulus/government funding mess that awaits Washington — because it is massive, can easily go off the rails and is very far from being figured out.
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:   Trump attacks take a toll on Black Lives Matter support
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 …
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.
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:   DHS Blocked Intelligence Memo That Warned of Kremlin Plan to Attack Biden's Mental Health, Says Report
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
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Canellos / Politico:
The Unlikely Kennedy Who Ended the Kennedy Dynasty  —  For most of the 60-year history of the Kennedy dynasty, it's been easier to imagine its last act as coming in a burst of triumph, a spasm of violence or a dream-shall-never-die promise of enduring hope.  On Tuesday, however …
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Ed Markey defeats Joe Kennedy in Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
Alex Rogers / CNN:
Sen. Ed Markey defeats a Kennedy in Massachusetts
Discussion: New York Times, Politico, NPR and Daily Kos
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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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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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 …
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump told Sarah Sanders to ‘take one for the team’ after Kim Jong-un wink  —  Donald Trump told Sarah Sanders she would have to “go to North Korea and take one for the team”, after Kim Jong-un winked at the then White House press secretary during a summit in Singapore in June 2018.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Tactics of fiery White House trade adviser draw new scrutiny as some of his pandemic moves unravel  —  Peter Navarro has faced an internal investigation into his treatment of colleagues, and now two of his coronavirus-related actions are under internal scrutiny.
Discussion: Just The News and Raw Story
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Many GOP Voters Value America's Whiteness More Than Its Democracy  —  In Donald Trump's America, democracy dies in broad daylight.  —  Previous presidents have flouted the rule of law and sought to restrict access to the ballot, but none of Trump's modern predecessors have treated these endeavors like photo ops.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Can anything change Americans' minds about Donald Trump?  —  President Trump disembarks from Air Force One as lightning splits the sky at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on August 28.  Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images  —  The eerie stability of Trump's approval rating, explained.
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 …
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
'I support Joe Biden's pro-science agenda': 81 Nobel laureates endorse Biden for president  —  Washington (CNN)Eighty-one Nobel Prize winners endorsed Joe Biden for president in an open letter on Wednesday, citing the former vice president's “willingness to listen to experts” and his …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Mediaite
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 …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Perceptions of White-Black Relations Sink to New Low  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' already tepid review of relations between White and Black Americans has soured since 2018 and is now the most negative of any year in Gallup's trend since 2001.  The majority of U.S. adults …
Discussion: Axios
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.
Discussion: KTLA
ProPublica:
New Engineering Report Finds Privately Built Border Wall Will Fail  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit …
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Hunter Biden Holds Stake in Chinese Company Sanctioned for Human-Rights Abuses  —  Joe Biden has promised to go after companies with ties to China's repression  —  Hunter Biden holds a stake in a Chinese surveillance company that is under U.S. sanctions for human-rights violations …
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 …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Political Wire
Justice News:
Nine Boston Police Officers Arrested for Overtime Fraud Scheme  —  BOSTON - Nine current and former Boston Police Officers were arrested today and charged in connection with committing over $200,000 in overtime fraud at the Boston Police Department's evidence warehouse.
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?”
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Joy Reid flips an old attack on its head and compares Islamic extremists to Trump supporters  —  For a minute there, MSNBC's Joy Reid sounded a lot like the time-traveling hackers who uploaded anti-Muslim remarks to her now-defunct blog.  —  The cable news host and conspiracy theory enthusiast remarked …
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.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
At Voice of America, Trump Appointee Sought Political Influence Over Coverage  —  Toggle more options  —  At the Voice of America, staffers say the Trump appointee leading their parent agency is threatening to wash away legal protections intended to insulate their news reports from political meddling.
Keaton Thomas / WBMA-TV:
Portland-area law enforcement declines to send officers, deputies to help with protests  —  PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Over the weekend, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said she would ask nearby counties to send officers and deputies to Portland to help with protests.  All three agencies have since declined …
Nathanael Blake / The Federalist:
President Trump's Stupid Tweets Are A Heck Of A Lot Better Than Joe Biden's Evil Policies  —  Trump kept his word on abortion, religious liberty, and the rule of law.  The radicals running the Democratic Party have shown they'll do anything for power.  —  I don't like President Trump.
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.
Tallahassee Democrat:
Gunfire in a Tallahassee parking lot leads to arrest of armed couple, complaints of racism  —  Charles McMillon Jr. was dropping off a U-Haul van with his young son and childhood friend Kendrick Clemons when out of nowhere bullets started flying.  —  They had just parked the van …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post
 
 
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Jake Bittle / The Guardian:
Exclusive: Trump's postal chief ousted brother to win control of family firm, court files allege
Discussion: Raw Story
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Frontier Airlines criticized after reportedly telling air marshal to remove flag face mask
New York Times:
C.D.C. Halts Evictions, Citing Covid-19 Risks
Discussion: Mother Jones
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
For Biden to Win, Listen to Minneapolis
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Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Biden can't blame Trump for the anarchy in Democrat-run cities
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Reelection Campaign Is Corrupting the Entire Federal Government
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Hannah Ray Lambert / KOIN-TV:
OSP troopers federally deputized amid renewed Portland protest response
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
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