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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Jennifer Griffin of Fox News Did Not Confirm ‘Most Salacious’ Part of Atlantic Story — Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported Friday that two anonymous former “senior” U.S. officials had confirmed “key parts” of the Atlantic's story about the president, but could not confirm “the most salacious” part.
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The Guardian, The Hill, Contemptor, EA WorldView, Raw Story and Twitchy
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Defenders: He Doesn't Hate the Troops, He Just ‘Sounds Like an Asshole’ — Yes, his allies admit, Trump routinely makes callous comments about U.S. military personnel. But it's because he hates the wars they're forced to fight, not the troops themselves.
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Journalism's New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean its Opposite … One of the most humiliating journalism debacles of the Trump era played out on December 8, 2017, first on CNN and then on MSNBC. The spectacle kicked off on that Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. when CNN …
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National Review
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Cockburn / Spectator USA:
Sources: Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg weeps in his office ‘all the time’ … This week, the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg dropped what could be his biggest piece since he won a major award for drawing bogus links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. The piece claims that during a 2018 visit …
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Instapundit, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Twitchy and New York Times
Washington Post:
White House directs federal agencies to cancel race-related training sessions it calls ‘un-American propaganda’ — Administration seeks list of contracts for those that refer to ‘white privilege,’ according to memo — President Trump is moving to revamp federal agencies' racial sensitivity trainings …
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Althouse, New York Times and The Hill
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CNN:
Ignoring warnings from election officials, Trump again suggests supporters should try to vote twice — Trump appears to encourage people to vote twice — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump suggested to his supporters on Friday night that if they vote by mail they should also attempt …
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Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, FactCheck.org and The Daily Caller
Jim Small / Arizona Mirror:
Trump campaign going dark in Arizona, cancels planned TV blitz — Donald Trump's re-election campaign is going off Arizona airwaves after the Labor Day holiday, and may not resume television advertising in the Grand Canyon State until early voting begins in early October.
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
Annie Karni / New York Times:
John Kelly, at Center of Report on Trump Disparaging U.S. Soldiers, Keeps Silent — The former chief of staff's public reticence has frustrated groups that are hoping that he will publicly endorse Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee. — WASHINGTON — John F. Kelly left …
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CNN, New York Daily News, Raw Story, Political Wire, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Outside the Beltway and Washington Times
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Captain ‘Sully’ Sullenberger Urges ‘Vote Him Out’ in Blistering Anti-Trump Tweetstorm: ‘President Has Repeatedly Shown Utter and Vulgar Contempt’ for Military — Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III unleashed a blistering tweetstorm on President Donald Trump on Friday night, condemning him …
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The Hill, IJR, Political Wire, Mercury News and Contemptor
Ryan Lucas / NPR:
Review Of Federal Charges In Portland Unrest Show Most Are Misdemeanors — In President Trump's telling of it, Portland, Ore., is a city under siege by violent radical leftists, and he's suggested that only the strong hand of federal law enforcement can save it.
CNN:
FDA rejects oleandrin, an unproven coronavirus therapeutic pushed by MyPillow CEO, as a dietary supplement ingredient — (CNN)The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a submission from Phoenix Biotechnology Inc. to market oleandrin as a dietary supplement ingredient, citing …
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Forbes and New York Post
Michael Anton / The American Mind:
The Coming Coup? — Democrats are laying the groundwork for revolution right in front of our eyes. — As if 2020 were not insane enough already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking about staging a coup. You might have missed it, what with the riots …
Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Vaccine Developers Prepare Joint Pledge on Safety, Standards — Industry rivals come together to reassure public that urgency to develop coronavirus vaccine won't compromise scientific, regulatory rigor — Several drug makers developing Covid-19 vaccines plan to issue a public pledge …
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Bloomberg, Issues & Insights, Balloon Juice and FactCheck.org
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
How Trump Draws on Campaign Funds to Pay Legal Bills — As he has done with other aspects of the presidency, Donald J. Trump has redefined the practice in ways that have unsettled even some Republicans. — WASHINGTON — President Trump was proudly litigious before his victory in 2016 and has remained so in the White House.
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The Hill
Ashley Collman / Business Insider:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders called one of her former White House colleagues a ‘liberal, aggressive, foulmouthed Jew from New York City’ — Foto: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, March 11, 2019.
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Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A new Trump ad features some oddly placed footage. Now its owner may sue. — A new ad launched by President Trump's campaign in Wisconsin offers viewers a split universe: The first half displays violence, looting, fires and imagery of Joe Biden shrouded in dark, sinister hues.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Two Self-Described “Boogaloo Bois” Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to Hamas — The Justice Department today announced a federal criminal complaint charging Michael Robert Solomon, 30, and Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 22, with conspiring and attempting to provide material support …
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CBS News, New York Times, The Daily Caller, New York Post, Fox News, The Daily Beast and KRON4
The Texas Tribune:
In Texas, Republicans fight voting by mail expansion while encouraging their voters to use it — What was once a lightly used and largely uncontroversial voting option in Texas, one even Republicans relied on, is now the crux of the latest fight over who gets to vote and, equally as crucial in a pandemic, who has access to safe voting.
Parker Yesko / APM Reports:
Charges against Curtis Flowers are dropped — The Mississippi man who was tried six times for the same crime and whose case was the subject of Season 2 of the APM Reports podcast In the Dark sees his two-decade saga come to an end. — At long last, Curtis Flowers is free.
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New York Times, Forbes, Washington Post, UPI and The Wrap
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Michael Cohen says Trump will ‘do anything’ to stay in office, even start a war — Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen said Friday he believes his former boss will “do anything and everything” to win re-election and “even go so far as to start a war” to remain in office.
Richard Grenell / The Hill:
Serbia-Kosovo agreement results from Trump's different brand of diplomacy — President Aleksandar Vučić of Serbia and Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti of Kosovo took an enormous step toward a long-term resolution of their historic conflict on Friday morning.
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Power Line, Fox News and National Review
CNN:
Fauci unsure what Trump means by saying the country is ‘rounding the corner on the virus’ — (CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that he's not sure what President Donald Trump meant when he said earlier that evening that the country is “rounding the corner” on the coronavirus pandemic.
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Political Wire and Institute for Health Metrics …
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat — White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security. — Two later draft versions of the same document — all of which were reviewed …
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Raw Story
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Ex-F.B.I. Agent in Russia Inquiry Says Trump Is a National Security Threat — Peter Strzok, who was fired for sending anti-Trump texts, played a central role in both the Hillary Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations. — WASHINGTON — A former senior F.B.I. agent at the center …
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Washington Post, Politico, Bloomberg, Talking Points Memo, NPR and Raw Story
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Congresswoman blocked from touring mail facility by Postal Service police — U.S. Postal Service police barred Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz from entering two mail sorting facilities in Florida in the early morning hours on Friday, threatening to escort her from the property if she didn't leave.
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Fox News, NBC 6 South Florida, MyNorthwest.com and Forbes
Washington Post:
NFL asked Snyder to ‘back off’ use of private investigators, lawyer says, as PI visits rattle ex-employees — While Washington Football Team owner Daniel Snyder pledged to “fully cooperate” with the probe into allegations of widespread sexual harassment at his organization …
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The Root
John Binder / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Nearly 700 U.S. Veterans Issue Open Letter in Support of Trump — Nearly 700 American veterans have issued an open letter affirming their support of President Trump against establishment media attacks weeks before the 2020 presidential election. — This week, The Atlantic …
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Washington Post
Nancy Rommelmann / Reason:
'You're Not Allowed To Film': The Fight To Control Who Reports From Portland — “YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO FILM!” is a cry you hear incessantly at protests in Portland, Oregon, always shouted at close range to your face by after-dark demonstrators. You can assert that, yes, you can film …
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KOIN-TV, Wall Street Journal and Breitbart
Nicole Ogrysko / Federal News Network:
Non-negotiable: all military members will be subject to Trump's payroll tax deferral — All active-duty military members as well as federal civilian employees will be subject to the president's upcoming payroll tax deferral, a senior administration official told Federal News Network Friday evening.
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran Caught Stockpiling Enriched Uranium Needed for Bomb — Nuclear watchdog: Tehran 3.5 months away from weapon — The United States has evidence that Iran is stockpiling enriched uranium, the key component in a nuclear weapon, in direct violation of international restrictions on Tehran's use of the fissile material.