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8:45 AM ET, September 6, 2020

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Erica Orden / CNN:
In tell-all book, Michael Cohen says Trump hired a ‘Faux-Bama’ during White House run  —  (CNN)Before Donald Trump ever sought the Oval Office, he was preoccupied by its occupant President Barack Obama, publicly questioning his birthplace and privately describing him as “a Manchurian candidate” …
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Washington Post:
In new book, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen describes alleged episodes of racism and says president likes how Putin runs Russia  —  President Trump's longtime lawyer and personal fixer, Michael Cohen, alleges in a new book that Trump made “overt and covert attempts to get Russia to interfere …
KEYE:
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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New York Times:
At Least 4 Boats Sink During ‘Trump Boat Parade’ in Texas, Officials Say  —  No injuries were immediately reported at the event, which was taking place on Lake Travis.  —  The authorities rescued numerous people from the waters of Lake Travis in Texas on Saturday after at least four boats sank …
Karen Ruiz / Daily Mail:
Multiple vessels sink during a Trump Boat Parade on Lake Travis in Texas and people are rescued from the water - as nationwide MAGA celebrations kick off for the Labor Day weekend  — Travis County Sheriff's Office said it's responding to ‘many boats in distress’ on Lake Travis, Texas
Discussion: Axios
KVUE-TV:
‘Many boats in distress,’ several have sunk during ‘Trump Boat Parade’ on Lake Travis, TSCO says  —  Reports of sinking boats on Lake Travis began coming in on the Citizen app at around 1:20 p.m. Saturday.  —  TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — The Travis County Sheriff's Office (TCSO) has responded to …
Discussion: New York Daily News
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
At Least 4 Boats Sink During Disastrous Trump Parade in Texas
Discussion: One America News Network and ABC7
Hojun Choi / Austin American-Statesman:
Hundreds rally but some boats are swamped in Lake Travis parade for Trump
Discussion: NBC News
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   Trump boat parade ends in disaster after multiple vessels sink in Texas lake
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Trump referred to Marines buried at cemetery in France in crude and derogatory terms, a former senior administration official says  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump referred to fallen US service members at the Aisne-Marne cemetery in crude and derogatory terms during a November 2018 trip to France …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Trump's bad marriage with the military has finally exploded  —  Reconciling Donald Trump's self-promoting “Art of the Deal” with the military's reserved code of loyalty and service was always a stretch.  In Trump's early months in the White House, though, the two cultures seemed to coexist without much damage.
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump prepares a new fall offensive: Branding Kamala Harris  —  Kamala Harris is about to get the Trump treatment.  —  President Donald Trump has long excelled at ridiculing opponents and fomenting rivalries among those around him — from contestants on “The Apprentice” to his top aides inside the White House.
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jsonline:   Kamala Harris to make Labor Day stop in Milwaukee, same day Mike Pence campaigns in La Crosse
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
Exclusive: Leaked meeting notes show Boris Johnson said Trump was ‘making American great again’  —  The Prime Minister is quoted telling the US ambassador in August 2017, when foreign secretary, that Mr Trump was doing ‘fantastic stuff’  —  Boris Johnson privately told US diplomats that Donald Trump was …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ann Colwell / CNN:
Anita Hill vows to vote for Joe Biden and work with him on gender issues  —  Anita Hill says she would work with Joe Biden  —  (CNN)Anita Hill never pictured herself voting for Joe Biden.  —  But given the political reality the nation is facing, she's not only going to vote for Biden …
Detroit Free Press:
Judge bans Detroit police from using batons, gas, chokeholds on protesters — for now  —  A federal judge late Friday temporarily banned Detroit police from using batons, shields, gas, rubber bullets, chokeholds or sound cannons against Black Lives Matter protesters .
Discussion: Fox News and Breitbart
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detroitnews:
Judge bans Detroit police from using tear gas, batons or rubber bullets against ‘peaceful protesters’
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Hill
Washington Post:
Trump fixates on the promise of a vaccine — real or not — as key to reelection bid  —  President Trump is so fixated on finding a vaccine for the novel coronavirus that in meetings about the U.S. pandemic response, little else captures his attention, according to administration officials.
Discussion: Fox News, The Hill, ABC News and Daily Kos
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Harris on vaccine: ‘I would not trust Donald Trump’
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Census Work Has Been Winding Down, But A Judge Says It Needs To Press On For Now  —  The Trump administration must, for now, stop winding down in-person counting efforts for the 2020 census, a federal judge in California ordered Saturday, while a legal fight over the shortened schedule for the national head count continues.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
New York Times:
In Final Stretch, Biden Defends Lead Against Trump's Onslaught  —  The president is attempting to overtake his Democratic challenger with a strategy of racial polarization in heavily white Midwestern states, even as Democrats make inroads in the Republican-leaning South and West.
Nicholas Grossman / Arc Digital:
Republicans vs. Imaginary Biden  —  Fighting a far left opponent despite not having one  —  In  —  2020, the Democrats are running against Donald Trump, focusing their collective ire on the incumbent president.  The Republicans, by contrast, are barely running against Joe Biden.
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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Alex Thompson / Politico:
Biden transition team shapes up with Obama-Biden alum hires
Discussion: Reuters and The Hill
Phillip Nieto / Mediaite:
Fox News' Jennifer Griffin Defends Reporting After Trump Calls For Her Firing: ‘My Sources Are Unimpeachable’  —  Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin defended her reporting confirming The Atlantic's story detailing how President Donald Trump disparaged veterans and war dead as “losers” and “suckers.”
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Riley Beggin / Vox:
Trump eliminates federal anti-racism training, calling it “a sickness”  —  A White House memo directing an end to the programs said the trainings are “anti-American propaganda” and must stop.  —  President Donald Trump directed federal agencies Friday to end diversity training programs …
Andrea Mitchell / NBC News:
North Korea may be prepping submarine-launched ballistic missile test, U.S. weapons experts warn  —  U.S. weapons experts say they believe North Korea may be preparing to test a new strategic weapon system that would vastly expand Kim Jong Un's arsenal and defy President Donald Trump's threshold requirements …
 
 
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Marshall Allen / ProPublica:
A Doctor Went to His Own Employer for a COVID-19 Antibody Test. It Cost $10,984.
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Peter Strzok would like to clear a few things up
Jean Guerrero / The Daily Beast:
Border Patrol Pulls Vid Reflecting How Stephen Miller Helped Make Homeland Security a Race War Propaganda Shop
Discussion: Daily Kos
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Court Approves Warrantless Surveillance Rules While Scolding F.B.I.
Discussion: Engadget
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
New York attorney general to organize grand jury on Daniel Prude death
Joe Kent / NBC News:
Trump came to Dover after my wife was killed fighting ISIS. He absolutely respects our service.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Cory Gardner and the Toxic Republican Party
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New York Times:
Parents Got More Time Off. Then the Backlash Started.
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The deafening, devastating sound of John Kelly's silence
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David Cay Johnston / DCReport.org:
The Ugly Numbers Are Finally In on the 2017 Trump Tax Rewrite
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP
 
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