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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.
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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 …
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Political Wire, Breitbart, Raw Story and Politico
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.
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Fox News, Washington Post, New York Times, The Hill, The American Independent, Politico and Los Angeles Times
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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Associated Press, Talking Points Memo, Slate, Daily Kos, The Hill, The White House, Mediaite and Fortune
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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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Political Wire, CNBC, The US Sun, The Guardian, Axios, Raw Story and The Hill
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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Good Morning America, Political Wire, The Hill, Daily Kos, ABC7, Washington Post, Raw Story and Mediaite
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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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Talking Points Memo, The American Independent and Political Wire
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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.”
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Slate
Amie Rivers / Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier:
Ernst, in rural Waterloo, says Senate race will be expensive, close
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The Hill, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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
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The Hill, Politico, Washington Post, WBUR, Raw Story, Slate, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Bangor Daily News, The Daily Beast, The Intercept, BuzzFeed News, The Daily Free Press and ABC News
Eleanor Watson / CBS News:
Ed Markey beats Joe Kennedy III in hotly contested Massachusetts Senate primary
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The Boston Globe, Talking Points Memo and Fox News
Alex Rogers / CNN:
Sen. Ed Markey defeats a Kennedy in Massachusetts
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The Boston Globe, New York Times, Politico, Daily Kos and NPR
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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Politico, The Federalist, Washington Examiner, Independent Women's Forum, Louder With Crowder, New York Post, IJR, KTLA, The Moderate Voice, Just The News, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Power Line, The Hill, Twitchy, Forbes, The Western Journal, Mercury News, The US Sun, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, Redstate, The Post Millennial, National Review, Instapundit, Good Day Sacramento and TheBlaze
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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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Washington Post and PNAS
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Democrats Explain Their Voter Fraud Plans
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Vox, CNN, New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Breitbart and Instapundit
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.
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POLITICUSUSA, 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.
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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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The scandals surrounding Trump are beginning to overlap in strange ways
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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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The Post Millennial, Washington Times, Politico, CANNONFIRE, CNN, Raw Story, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, NBC New York, Denver Post and Political Wire
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Trump Says Some Really Strange Things. Republicans Say No Comment, Again.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Mediaite, Politico, POLITICUSUSA and New York Post
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 …
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Graphika, VICE, NBC News, About Facebook, courthousenews.com and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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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 …
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 …
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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.
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Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
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
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 …
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Oregonian, The Post Millennial, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times, Fox News and Power Line
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 …
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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