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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ — When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn't fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn't drive him there.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
After wild week, Trump looks close to full derailment — Washington (CNN)There have been many weeks when the Trump train has looked like it's going to jump the tracks. But in the seven days since the Republican convention, the President has come perhaps as close as he ever has to a full derailment.
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James Laporta / Associated Press:
Report: Trump disparaged US war dead as ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’ — DELRAY BEACH, FLa. (AP) — A new report details multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who have been captured or killed, including referring to the American war dead …
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New York Times:
Trump Angrily Denies Report He Called Fallen Soldiers ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ — The report, in The Atlantic, could be problematic for the president because he is counting on strong support among the military for his re-election bid. — WASHINGTON — President Trump heatedly denied …
Washington Post:
Trump said U.S. soldiers injured and killed in war were ‘losers,’ magazine reports — President Trump called U.S. soldiers injured or killed in war “losers,” questioned the country's reverence for them and expressed confusion over why anyone would choose to serve, according to a new report …
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New York Times:
Suspect in Fatal Portland Shooting Is Reported Killed as Officers Move In — Michael Forest Reinoehl, an antifa supporter, died when law enforcement went to arrest him. He was being investigated in the fatal shooting of a member of the far-right group Patriot Prayer.
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Man Linked to Killing at a Portland Protest Says He Acted in Self-Defense — “I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color. But I wasn't going to do that.” — VN — Ever since a member of the right-wing “Patriot Prayer” group was shot and killed during …
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Associated Press:
AP source: Suspect in Portland death killed by investigators — LACEY, Wash. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Oregon, last week after a caravan of Donald Trump backers rode through downtown was killed Thursday as investigators moved in to arrest him …
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Michael Reinoehl, sought in fatal Portland shooting after Trump rally, killed by officers in Washington
Michael Reinoehl, sought in fatal Portland shooting after Trump rally, killed by officers in Washington
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Vincent Barone / New York Post:
Suspect in fatal Portland protest shooting killed by feds during arrest attempt
Suspect in fatal Portland protest shooting killed by feds during arrest attempt
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Ben Casselman / New York Times:
U.S. Added 1.4 Million Jobs in August: Live Updates — The latest economic and business news during the coronavirus pandemic. — Jobs remain far below pre-pandemic levels — Cumulative change in all jobs since August 2016 — RIGHT NOW People are coming back into the labor force as unemployment sinks.
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Sarah Chaney / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Unemployment Rate Fell to 8.4% in August as Hiring Continued
U.S. Unemployment Rate Fell to 8.4% in August as Hiring Continued
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Megan Cassella / Politico:
U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent in August
U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent in August
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Barr claims a man collected 1,700 ballots and filled them out as he pleased. Prosecutors say that's not what happened. — In his latest warning about the dangers of mass mail-in voting, Attorney General William P. Barr pointed to a case in Texas that he said highlighted the risk of fraud.
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USA Today:
The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason — Even for those of us who are all too wearily familiar with President Donald Trump's disdain for journalists, his administration's latest attack on the free press is a bit of a jaw-dropper.
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
With Two Months To Go, a Steady Presidential Race — These last two weeks provided Pres. Trump the best opportunity to change the trajectory of this race. His GOP convention offered a rosy (and inaccurate) portrayal of a president who effectively tackled the coronavirus pandemic.
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Trump's rhetoric on protests seen as detrimental by majority of Americans: POLL — Even Republicans are divided on his approach, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. — A significant majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump's rhetoric on the unrest in parts of the country …
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Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost:
Trump Campaign Running Photo Ads Edited To Make Joe Biden Appear Older — Yet again, Trump officials are using deceptively altered imagery to attack the former vice president. — President Donald Trump's campaign launched a series of Facebook ads on Thursday featuring a manipulated photo …
Maggie Miller / The Hill:
Russia ‘amplifying’ concerns around mail-in voting to undermine election: report — Russian media and other groups are intentionally “amplifying” concerns around mail-in voting in order to undermine the 2020 U.S. elections, a report compiled by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made public Thursday found.
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Tim Craig / Washington Post:
‘The United States is in crisis’: Report tracks thousands of summer protests, most nonviolent — About 93 percent of the racial-justice protests that swept the United States this summer remained peaceful and nondestructive, according to a report released Thursday, with the violence …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The 2020 Election, a Race in Which Everything Happens and Nothing Matters — If a pandemic that has killed nearly two hundred thousand Americans can't significantly hurt Trump's support, can anything? — Does anything matter anymore in American politics?
Politico:
Trump team plots how to bust Biden in the debates — During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump blew off his first round of debate prep. — He refused to do a mock debate with a fake lectern, didn't want any single person to play Hillary Clinton and wouldn't simulate …
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Jacques Billeaud / Associated Press:
Judge bars Kanye West from appearing on Arizona's ballot — A judge has barred Kanye West from appearing on the Nov. 3 ballot in Arizona, concluding that a voter who challenged his candidacy had shown he would probably prevail and had established the possibility of an irreparable harm if the rapper's name were to appear on the ballot.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden lags among Florida Hispanic voters — MIAMI — Joe Biden is underperforming among Florida Hispanic voters while Donald Trump has marginally increased his numbers from 2016, according to a new poll in the must-win battleground state for the president. — Biden leads Trump among Hispanics …
Issues & Insights:
Trump Was Right, The Woke Mob Is Coming For The Washington Monument — Remember a few years ago, when the left scoffed at President Donald Trump for suggesting that mobs tearing down Confederate statues wouldn't stop there? — “This week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down.
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Trump Went to Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, and Fred's Widow Is None Too Happy — “This man is pathologically ill. Mentally ill.” — The Trump campaign did not likely pick Latrobe, Pennsylvania, for Thursday night's rally because it is the hometown of Fred Rogers, beloved icon of children's television.
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Washington Post:
Senate GOP struggles to unify behind coronavirus relief bill amid dispute over DeVos education policy — Party leaders had hoped for consensus on new relief measure as government shutdown deadline looms — A fight over Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's plan to subsidize private school tuition …
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Associated Press:
North Carolina kicks off mail voting as requests spike — RALEIGH (AP) — Mail balloting in the presidential election is set to begin Friday as North Carolina starts sending out more than 600,000 ballots to voters — responding to a massive spike in requests that has played out across …
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Jorge Ramos / New York Times:
There Is No Route to the White House Without Latino Voters — Republicans and Democrats alike seem to rediscover us every four years, then forget about us. It is called the Christopher Columbus syndrome. — Mr. Ramos is a contributing opinion writer and an anchor for the Univision network.
Scott D. Pierce / Salt Lake Tribune:
Ann Romney will join Michelle Obama on TV to get out the vote — Ann Romney will team up with Michelle Obama on prime-time television to encourage people to vote this fall. — The former first lady and Romney — whose husband, Sen. Mitt Romney, lost the 2012 race to former President Barack Obama …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Biden must fix Obama's biggest foreign policy failure — If he wins, Joe Biden will inherit the responsibility for fixing a U.S. approach to Syria that has been an abject failure since the Obama administration. The Biden campaign is promising to increase U.S. engagement in Syria …