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Multiple boats in distress, sinking at Trump Boat Parade on Lake Travis — Multiple 911 calls have been made regarding boats being in distress, some sinking at the ‘Trump Boat Parade’ scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Lake Travis, according to the Travis County Sheriff's Office.
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Law & Crime
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Trump boat parade ends in disaster after multiple vessels sink in Texas lake
Trump boat parade ends in disaster after multiple vessels sink in Texas lake
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The deafening, devastating sound of John Kelly's silence — The sound of John F. Kelly's silence is deafening. — For President Trump, it is devastating. — The former White House chief of staff has remained quiet in the face of Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg's report …
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FITSNews, Politico and New York Daily News
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Blake Hounshell / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Where's the Republican defense of Trump? — DRIVING THE DAY — AMID ALL THE FURIOUS responses to the Atlantic article alleging that President DONALD TRUMP had called American troops “suckers” and “losers,” one thing leaps out: You didn't see Republican members …
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Raw Story, Florida Politics and Deadline
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Biden transition team shapes up with Obama alum hires — A Biden administration-in-waiting is slowly taking shape. — On the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, the Biden transition team announced a long list of new hires, advisers and co-chairs to lead the effort to staff up a potential administration.
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Reuters
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Biden expands transition team, adding key campaign allies and top Obama-Biden policy hands — Biden fires back at Trump: My son wasn't a sucker — (CNN)Democratic nominee Joe Biden is expanding his transition team, adding a former presidential rival, vice presidential contenders …
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Redstate, ABC News, Mother Jones, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Raw Story, The Nation, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Unz Review, The Daily Caller, The Western Journal and Reuters
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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Mediaite, The Hill, TVNewser, Washington Post, The Wrap, Twitchy, Outside the Beltway, Raw Story, Deadline, Contemptor, EA WorldView and Donald J. Trump for President
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump Calls for Firing of Fox News Reporter Who Confirmed President Disparaged Veterans
Trump Calls for Firing of Fox News Reporter Who Confirmed President Disparaged Veterans
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The Hill, Breitbart, MSNBC and Washington Times
Donald Trump / The Guardian:
Trump calls for Fox News journalist to be fired for report on war dead scandal
Trump calls for Fox News journalist to be fired for report on war dead scandal
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Washington Post, Fox News and Axios
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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Cockburn / Spectator USA:
Sources: Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg weeps in his office ‘all the time’
Sources: Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg weeps in his office ‘all the time’
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Instapundit, Twitchy and The Gateway Pundit
Bloomberg:
Democrats Hold Secret Edge If Election Is Too Close to Call — Majority of top swing state election posts held by Democrats — Record mail-in voting expected despite Trump attacks — Twenty years ago, as Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush battled for weeks …
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Raw Story, The Guardian, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, New York Times and NBC News
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David Cay Johnston / DCReport.org:
The Ugly Numbers Are Finally In on the 2017 Trump Tax Rewrite — Radical Republicans Ramrodded that Law through Congress, and, You Guessed It, the Rich Made Out Like Bandits While the Rest of Us Got Bupkis — The first data showing how all Americans are faring under Donald Trump reveal …
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Raw Story
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
‘I will not take his word for it’: Kamala Harris says she would not trust Trump alone on a coronavirus vaccine — Harris says she won't trust Trump's word alone on a vaccine — Washington (CNN)Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris said that President Donald Trump's word alone …
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Politico, Bloomberg, Reuters, Al Jazeera, ABC News, The US Sun, The Guardian, The Hill and Mediaite
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
Osama bin Laden's niece says only Trump can prevent another 9/11 — Another 9/11-style attack may be just around the corner if Joe Biden is elected president, warns Noor bin Ladin, the niece of Sept. 11 terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. — “ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, POLITICUSUSA, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Sarah Sanders calls Trump admin colleague a ‘liberal, aggressive, foulmouthed Jew’ in memoir: report — On Saturday, Business Insider reported that former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders blasts one of her former colleagues as a “liberal, aggressive, foulmouthed Jew from New York City,” in her memoir.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
These maps show how 2020 could come down to 1 electoral vote — (CNN)Long election nights are what make junkies go wild and partisans go crazy. It's been 144 years since the Electoral College (how we decide our presidents) was last decided by a mere 1 electoral vote.
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Raw Story
Tori B. Powell / The Daily Beast:
Kyle Rittenhouse's Attorney Resigns From Legal Fundraiser After Dodgy Financial Past Revealed — ROLLING IN DEBT — John Pierce, the lead attorney for accused Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse, has resigned from the #FightBack Foundation, a day after The Daily Beast reported that some of the funds …
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The Daily Beast
ABC News:
Which states will have Kanye West on the ballot now that access deadlines have passed? — West will be on the ballot in at least 11 states. — It's becoming clearer which states Kanye West might have an impact on the 2020 election, though it remains unclear what difference his long shot campaign could make in the overall results.
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Washington Post, Deadline and The Wrap
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Cory Gardner and the Toxic Republican Party — This is what “Party Over Country” looks like. — 1. Cory Gardner — Very quickly: If you haven't, you should read Charlie's excellent piece on Trump and Jeffrey Goldberg's story in the Atlantic. — I don't have anything to add except …
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Raw Story
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump has repeatedly questioned why Americans who served in Vietnam went to war — Watch Trump's response when asked about John Kelly and bombshell story — (CNN)President Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned why Americans who served in Vietnam went to war, according to someone who has heard him make the remarks.
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Mediaite, Raw Story, Outside the Beltway and Mercury News
New York Times:
Parents Got More Time Off. Then the Backlash Started. — Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don't have children. — OAKLAND, Calif. — When the coronavirus closed schools and child care centers …
New York Post:
Black Lives Matter protesters riot in Manhattan, cause $100,000 damage: NYPD — Eight people were arrested Friday night when a group of 150 Black Lives Matter protesters smashed windows and graffitied the storefronts of Lower Manhattan chain stores and banks, police sources said.
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Redstate, Spectator USA and Associated Press
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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Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, FactCheck.org and The Daily Caller
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI pondered whether Trump was ‘a Manchurian candidate elected,’ former agent alleges in new book — Former FBI agent Peter Strzok alleges in a new book that investigators came to believe it was “conceivable, if unlikely” that Russia was secretly controlling President Trump after he took office …
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Axios, New York Times, Politico and The Daily Caller
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Ex-FBI agent: Attacks from Trump ‘outrageous’ and ‘cruel’
Ex-FBI agent: Attacks from Trump ‘outrageous’ and ‘cruel’
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Press Herald, Raw Story, NPR and Bloomberg
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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Political Wire, The Hill and Raw Story
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Five years after the migration crisis, Merkel, not Trump, seems vindicated — You're reading an excerpt from the Today's WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know sent to your inbox every weekday.