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Detroit Free Press:
Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder: I am a Republican vote for Biden — Forty-four years ago, I celebrated my 18th birthday at the 1976 Republican National Convention as part of Gerald Ford's national youth group. At that convention, I had the honor to watch two great leaders in action — Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
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Tim Reid / Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden garners more Republican endorsements, this time from ex-governors — (Reuters) - Nearly 100 Republican and independent leaders will endorse Democrat Joe Biden for president on Thursday, including one-time 2020 Republican presidential candidate Bill Weld and the former Republican governors …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Focus group: Wisconsin swing voters feel overlooked by Biden
Focus group: Wisconsin swing voters feel overlooked by Biden
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Vicky Prodeline / Polls:
Cooper Leads for Guv, Tight Senate Race, Prez in Play — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden and Donald Trump are separated by a negligible 2-point margin among all registered voters in North Carolina according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll, while the U.S. Senate race is even tighter.
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A Message from Karen Brinson Bell to NC Voters — Raleigh, N.C. - The following is a message to North Carolina voters from Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections: — It is illegal to vote twice in an election. N.C.G.S.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's awful advice on voting twice
Trump's awful advice on voting twice
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump encourages North Carolina residents to vote twice to test mail-in system
Trump encourages North Carolina residents to vote twice to test mail-in system
Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
Pentagon restarts projects defunded for Trump's wall, helping some GOP senators
Washington Post:
Trump tries to clarify suggestion that voters cast ballots twice, which if done intentionally is illegal
Trump tries to clarify suggestion that voters cast ballots twice, which if done intentionally is illegal
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Jessica A. Krug:
The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies — For the better part of my adult life, every move I've made, every relationship I've formed, has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies. — Not just any lies. — To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed …
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ABC News:
Ex-NRA insider speaks out: Gun owners should be ‘horrified’ by what I saw — In an exclusive interview, Joshua Powell breaks ranks with the NRA. — A former high-ranking official within the National Rifle Association is breaking ranks with the powerful gun lobby, publishing a book …
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New York Times:
In Act of Heresy, N.R.A.'s Former No. 2 Calls for Gun Control — A new book from a controversial former executive accuses the National Rifle Association of “appealing to the paranoia and darkest side of our members.” — The National Rifle Association's former second-in-command is breaking …
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Rosa Brooks / Washington Post:
What's the worst that could happen? … We wanted to know: What's the worst thing that could happen to our country during the presidential election? President Trump has broken countless norms and ignored countless laws during his time in office, and while my colleagues and I at the Transition …
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Facebook Moves to Limit Election Chaos in November — The social network said it would block new political ads in late October, among other measures, to reduce misinformation and interference. — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook on Thursday moved to clamp down on any confusion about the November election …
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Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Facebook bans new political ads in week before election
Facebook bans new political ads in week before election
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Mark Zuckerberg:
The US elections are just two months away, and with Covid-19 affecting communities across the country …
The US elections are just two months away, and with Covid-19 affecting communities across the country …
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The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Would Like to Momentarily Pause This Campaign to Tell You How Good His Brain Is — The president can't help trampling on his message, especially if his self-image is on the line. — Following a carefully manicured, four-day convention in which Donald Trump's chief lieutenants branded …
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Thought It Was Bad Before, America? Welcome to Trump's Real Hellscape. — Everything up until now has been the good times. These next two months are going to be like nothing we've ever seen. — BEAST INSIDE — What the fuck did we do to deserve this? Why is our so-called president so entirely batshit crazy?
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Michael Hill / Associated Press:
Video in Black man's suffocation shows cops put hood on him — A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes …
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New York Post:
Gov. Cuomo says: Trump ‘better have an army’ to protect him if he comes to NYC — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday all but threatened President Trump's safety if he returns to New York City in a rant responding to an exclusive story by The Post that Trump is looking to pull federal funds from “lawless” cities including New York.
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New York Times:
Trump Moves to Cut Federal Funding From Democratic Cities — The president directed officials to identify “anarchist jurisdictions” and move to withhold funds as he tries to build his campaign around the unrest that has accompanied racial justice protests. — President Trump …
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
McEnany plays footage of Pelosi in hair salon on loop, says speaker ‘ought to apologize’ to Americans — Salons in San Francisco had been closed since March and could only reopen for outdoor hairstyling services on Sept. 1. — White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany played footage …
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Democratic gaffes are gifts to Trump
Democratic gaffes are gifts to Trump
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Said It Removed A Militia Event Page Threatening Violence In Kenosha. It Didn't. — Sandra Fiehrer thought she was helping Facebook enforce its own rules when she reported “Armed Citizens to Protect our Lives and Property,” an event being organized on the social network for the evening of Aug. 25 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Kalina Oroschakoff / Politico:
EU should pull support for Nord Stream 2, says German leadership hopeful — Berlin is coming under growing pressure domestically to stop the Russian gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 after Germany announced that Kremlin opposition activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned by nerve agent Novichok.
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Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Trump silent as world leaders call for answers from Putin on Navalny poisoning
Trump silent as world leaders call for answers from Putin on Navalny poisoning
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Launches Probe Into Pension Payments to Firefighters Union Leaders — FBI and others issue subpoenas to International Association of Fire Fighters — WASHINGTON—Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation into pension distributions made to two top executives …
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New York Times:
Trump's Tactic: Sowing Distrust in Whatever Gets in His Way — From business competition in New York to President Barack Obama's birthplace to mail-in voting, President Trump's goal has been to undermine the opposition and leave people uncertain about what to believe.
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Alan Yuhas / New York Times:
One Man's Plea to His City Council: Rename Boneless Wings — “Nothing about boneless chicken wings actually comes from the wing of a chicken,” he told the Lincoln, Neb., council. “We've been living a lie for far too long.” — The City Council meeting on Monday in Lincoln, Neb. …
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Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
Active shooter drills are meant to prepare students. But research finds ‘severe’ side effects. — A few things go through Tim Tredwell's mind when he's in the middle of an active shooter drill, leading his physical education class into the locker room at John Winthrop Middle School in Deep River, Connecticut.
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. Pulls $62 Million in Funding From World Health Organization — Trump admin formalizes exit from health org it accuses of working for China — The Trump administration pulled $62 million in funding from the World Health Organization on Wednesday and is taking further steps to withdraw from the body …
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Zara Abrams / American Psychological Association:
APA calls for true systemic change in U.S. culture — The association is working to dismantle institutional racism over the long term, including within APA and psychology — Police brutality may be what sparked a wave of protests across the United States and beyond, but the “racism pandemic” …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
It's not just Trump. All Republicans must go. — The argument for keeping House and Senate Republicans rests on the premise they somehow lack the disqualifying characteristics (e.g., congenital lying, racism, constitutional illiteracy, conspiracy-mongering) that addle President Trump. Think again.
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Joan Walsh / The Nation:
A Lawless Attorney General Hits New Lows — In a CNN interview, William Barr showed total willingness to bend, break or deny the law on behalf of his boss. — It's tough to choose the worst thing Attorney General William Barr said in a shocking Wednesday interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
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Scott Horsley / NPR:
New Jobless Claims Drop Below 1 Million, But There's A Caveat — Another 881,000 people applied for state unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department says. That's 130,000 fewer than the previous week. But the report comes with an asterisk. — The department just changed …
Alec MacGillis / The Atlantic:
How to Stop a Police Pullback — This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and ProPublica. — Across the United States, cities are experiencing turbulence and a rise in gun violence following the protests against abusive policing sparked by the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Pennsylvania: Trump 46%, Biden 46% — President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden are running dead even in Pennsylvania. — The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone and online survey of Likely Voters in the Keystone State finds Trump and Biden with 46% support each.
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Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
A Freelance Writer Learns He Was Working for the Russians — A man who had written for a site that officials say was a front for a Russian group said his mysterious editor “had a different kind of agenda.” — Colin Munro Wood was not shocked when he learned that federal investigators believed …
Justice News:
New York Hedge Fund Founder Arrested And Charged With Fraud, Extortion, And Obstruction Of Justice In Connection With Neiman Marcus Bankruptcy — Daniel Kamensky Allegedly Extorted a Rival Bidder to Abandon a Higher Bid and Engaged in Obstruction of Justice by Asking the Rival Bidder to Cover Up the Crime
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Trump's Base Is Shrinking As Whites Without A College Degree Continue To Decline — President Trump's base has gotten smaller. — That's a key finding of an analysis of how the U.S. electorate has changed since 2016, based on census data analyzed by the Brookings Institution and NPR.
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