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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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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 …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump melts down after Lincoln Project ad mocks his RNC TV ratings: ‘We have FAR more people!’ — President Donald Trump on Wednesday threw a tantrum about a new Lincoln Project ad that mocked him for scoring lower television ratings for the Republican National Convention than Democratic rival Joe Biden.
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POLITICUSUSA, The Moderate Voice and IJR
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden's lead in Pennsylvania shrinks to 4 points in new poll
Biden's lead in Pennsylvania shrinks to 4 points in new poll
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Washington Post, Associated Press, Breitbart and The Hill
WSB-TV:
President Trump sees bump in Georgia following conventions, more undecided, Channel 2 poll finds
President Trump sees bump in Georgia following conventions, more undecided, Channel 2 poll finds
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Hill
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Trump travels to politically key North Carolina to commemorate end of World War Two
Trump travels to politically key North Carolina to commemorate end of World War Two
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Associated Press and Washington Post
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, The Wrap, NBC4 Washington, Slate, Bloomberg, Talking Points Memo, The White House, The Hill, Raw Story, The American Independent, Daily Kos, Mediaite and Fortune
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: New Poll Shows Biden's Lead Over Trump Narrowing in Pennsylvania — In Massachusetts, Senator Ed Markey held off a challenge from Joseph P. Kennedy III. Joe Biden will give a speech today faulting President Trump over reopening schools.
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Townhall, ABC News, Redstate, Forbes, Slate, Washington Times and Real Clear Politics
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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The Daily Caller, Mediaite, The Hill, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and New York Post
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: Trump in Kenosha — Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter. — Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to receive the newsletter. — TRUMP IN KENOSHA. President Trump wasn't on the ground in Wisconsin for very long, but it was long enough to show …
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Washington Post, The White House and The Western Journal
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Grace Segers / CBS News:
Watch live: Biden gives remarks on how COVID-19 is affecting students and educators
Watch live: Biden gives remarks on how COVID-19 is affecting students and educators
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Redstate, Political Wire, Joe Biden for President, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, Washington Post and Mediaite
Axios:
Joe Biden to visit Kenosha on Thursday
Joe Biden to visit Kenosha on Thursday
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Politico, Bloomberg, Political Wire, The Daily Caller, Chicago Sun-Times, NBC Chicago, UPI, WCCO | CBS Minnesota, Breitbart, WISC-TV, The Nation and New York Post
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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Townhall, Oregonian, Breitbart, The Western Journal, The Post Millennial, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy and Washington Times
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Aimee Green / Oregonian:
Pro-Trump supporter who shot paintballs into downtown Portland crowd is sued for $250,000
Pro-Trump supporter who shot paintballs into downtown Portland crowd is sued for $250,000
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Raw Story
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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CNN, The Daily Beast, Good Morning America, Talking Points Memo, Axios, POLITICUSUSA, Vanity Fair, CNBC, The American Independent, ABC7, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Hill, Mediaite, Political Wire and Washington Post
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Presidential Race Tightens — Democrats lead in other state contests — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden holds a 4-point lead over Donald Trump among all registered voters in Pennsylvania according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll. Among likely voters, the race is a tight 1 to 3 points …
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Fox News, New York Post, NBC10 Philadelphia, CBS Pittsburgh, The Cain Gang and The Guardian
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. Clay Higgins Threatens To Shoot Armed Protesters: 'I'd Drop Any 10 Of You' — His social media post, which was removed by Facebook, had a photo of armed Black men. — Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) said he'd be more than willing to shoot any armed demonstrators in Louisiana …
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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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Associated Press, The Hill and Raw Story
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Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
Fauci predicts ‘safe and effective’ coronavirus vaccine by end of year … Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts that a coronavirus vaccine will be developed by the end of 2020. — “I believe that by the time we get to the end of this calendar year that we will feel comfortable that we do have a safe …
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Fox News, The Daily Caller and NBC10 Philadelphia
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
'That's certainly not my approach': Fauci rejects pursuing herd immunity
'That's certainly not my approach': Fauci rejects pursuing herd immunity
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Reuters
Commission on Presidential Debates:
Kristen Welker, Co-Anchor Weekend TODAY, White House Correspondent, NBC News — Thursday, October 22, Belmont University, Nashville, TN — Fahrenkopf, Ridings and Wollack said that, “We are grateful to these experienced journalists, who will help ensure that the general election presidential …
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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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New York Times, Redstate, Vanity Fair, Mercury News, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo, CNBC, The US Sun, The Guardian, The Hill, Political Wire, Axios and Raw Story
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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GovExec.com, Raw Story, Just The News and ProPublica
Washington Post:
First covid-19 death linked to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally reported in Minnesota — The case, involving a biker in his 60s, is one of at least 260 infections traced to the event last month where many declined to wear masks. — A Minnesota biker who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally …
Katie Way / VICE:
The Little Cards That Tell Police 'Let's Forget This Ever Happened' — Some cops give their friends and family union-issued “courtesy cards” to help get them out of minor infractions. The cards embody everything wrong with modern policing. — KW — Mike, a white man in his 50s …
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Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
Alexei Navalny poisoned with Novichok, says German government … The German government has said toxicological exams at Berlin's Charité hospital have yielded “unequivocal proof” that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.
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BuzzFeed News, The Drive, New York Post and ABC7
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden posts stunning monthly cash haul: $365 million — Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee reported raising a record $365 million in August, surprising even seasoned party fundraisers and putting to rest fears that President Trump would drown him in campaign spending.
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Axios, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Redstate, Associated Press, Reuters, The Hill, Political Wire, NPR, Mediaite, Florida Politics, IJR, Bloomberg, Daily Kos and Fortune
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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CNN:
Georgia likely removed nearly 200k from voter rolls wrongfully, report says — (CNN)The state of Georgia has likely removed nearly 200,000 Georgia citizens from the voter rolls for wrongfully concluding that those people had moved and not changed the address on their voter registration …
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Political Wire
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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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 …
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National Review, The Hill and Axios
Jimi Famurewa / British GQ:
John Boyega: 'I'm the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race' — During Britain's Black Lives Matter rallies in June, John Boyega wrote his name in the history of racial justice. And here, in his first interview since finishing Star Wars and that unguarded address …
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Vanity Fair, The Root, Breitbart, The Wrap, INSIDER, Mediaite, Deadline, Mashable, UPI and The Daily Beast
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
Emily Opilo / Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore postal facility sat on 68,000 pieces of election mail for 5 days ahead of primary, audit shows — An audit of U.S. Postal Service performance during this year's primary election season has found 68,000 pieces of political mail sat untouched at a Baltimore mail processing facility for five days ahead of the June 2 primary.
ProPublica:
Sent Home to Die — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — Sarah Johnson spent her entire life taking care of people — the six children she raised, mostly alone, and the hospital patients she served in her 25 years as a nurse.
New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Steroids Can Be Lifesaving for Sickest Patients, Studies Show — International clinical trials confirm the hope that the cheap, widely available drugs can help seriously ill patients survive. The World Health Organization is expected to release new guidelines encouraging their use.