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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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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 …
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Trump attacks take a toll on Black Lives Matter support
Discussion: Breitbart and Twitchy
Politico:   POLITICO Playbook: Brace for impact
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 …
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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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
DHS Blocked Intelligence Memo That Warned of Kremlin Plan to Attack Biden's Mental Health, Says Report
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
‘So skeptical’: Sen. Joni Ernst echoes conspiracy theory questioning coronavirus death count  —  When a man in the crowd of her Iowa campaign stop told Sen. Joni Ernst (R) on Monday that he believed the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths had been overcounted, Ernst replied that she too was “so skeptical.”
Discussion: Slate
Amie Rivers / Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier:
Ernst, in rural Waterloo, says Senate race will be expensive, close
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
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
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.
Discussion: Washington Post and PNAS
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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.
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: Raw Story and Just The News
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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The scandals surrounding Trump are beginning to overlap in strange ways
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
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
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
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
For his next act, Pete Buttigieg is pivoting to podcasting  —  Pete Buttigieg has a podcast voice.  It's low, calm and reassuring — even if the trailer for his new podcast, which launches next Wednesday sounds a bit too much like a campaign stump speech to register immediately as an independent media product.
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.
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
Gregory Meyer / Financial Times:
The US and climate: New York's bold green plans hit opposition  —  The state's ambitious goals to cut emissions are being slowed by a tortuous planning process  —  Jeanne and John Morelli have long grasped the benefits of renewable energy.  A geothermal heat pump warms their house in the woods.
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler moving to avoid rioters targeting his home  —  The Democratic mayor of Portland, Ore. is moving from his $840,000 condo to avoid rioters who have repeatedly targeted the building, according to a report.  —  Ted Wheeler wrote to neighbors in his building to say it would be …
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 …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge bars University of California from all use of SAT, ACT scores in admissions  —  The University of California, which has already stopped requiring applicants to take the SAT or ACT, must go further and prohibit campuses from allowing prospective students to submit their scores …
Discussion: Mercury News
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: The Hill and Axios
John Stossel / Townhall:
A Better President  —  The media obsess about Trump/Biden, but another candidate will be on every state ballot: Libertarian Party nominee Jo Jorgensen.  —  Dr. Jorgensen, a psychology lecturer at Clemson University, is very different from Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Discussion: The Guardian
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.
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
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Saudi Arabia to allow all Israel-UAE flights to use its airspace  —  Saudi Arabia has agreed to allow all flights between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to pass through its airspace, following lobbying from the Trump administration.  —  The backstory: The UAE had made a formal request …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Breitbart
 
 
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Steve Bannon's effort to export his fiery popularism to Europe is failing
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
There Is No Defense of Looting  —  Last week, NPR's Code Switch published an interview …
Associated Press:
AP Analysis: Trump bets presidency on ‘law and order’ theme
Discussion: The Hill, Real Clear Politics and CNBC
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Broken Windows Presidency
Nathanael Blake / The Federalist:
President Trump's Stupid Tweets Are A Heck Of A Lot Better Than Joe Biden's Evil Policies
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
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Hunter Biden Holds Stake in Chinese Company Sanctioned for Human-Rights Abuses
Keaton Thomas / WBMA-TV:
Portland-area law enforcement declines to send officers, deputies to help with protests
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
For Biden to Win, Listen to Minneapolis
Discussion: Althouse, Spectator USA and Power Line
Steve Inskeep / NPR:
Former DHS Official: White House Failed To Take Far-Right Extremism Seriously
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Incitements to Violence Have Crossed an Alarming Threshold
BuzzFeed News:
New FBI Documents Show What Witnesses In The Mueller Probe Told Federal Investigators About Trump And Russia