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New York Times:
How Trump's Billion-Dollar Campaign Lost Its Cash Advantage — Five months ago, President Trump's re-election campaign had a huge financial edge over Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s. The Times conducted an extensive review of how the Trump team spent lavishly to show how that advantage evaporated.
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Zach Fuentes, Top Aide to John Kelly, Denies Atlantic Story About Trump — Former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Zach Fuentes denied to Breitbart News The Atlantic's account of President Donald Trump's comments about troops in Europe. — Fuentes unequivocally denied …
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump says Pentagon chiefs are accommodating weapons makers — President Donald Trump on Monday accused the United States' military leadership of being beholden to arms manufacturers, in an attack on his own administration only days after reports that he had mocked fallen soldiers.
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Washington Post, CNN and The Hill
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump says he's “taking the high road” by not meeting with Democrats — President Trump told reporters at a Labor Day briefing on Monday that he is “taking the high road” by not meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats to negotiate the next coronavirus stimulus package.
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James Shotter / Financial Times:
Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova disappears — Activist reportedly seized by masked men and bundled into a van in Minsk — Maria Kolesnikova, one of Belarus's main opposition leaders, vanished in Minsk on Monday morning, as the regime of autocratic leader Alexander Lukashenko battles …
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Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Belarus opposition leader seized on Minsk street, local media says
Belarus opposition leader seized on Minsk street, local media says
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Sergei Kuznetsov / Politico:
Top Belarusian opposition figure disappears
Top Belarusian opposition figure disappears
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The Daily Beast, The Baltic Course and Reuters
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Everyone Knows It's True — Donald Trump generates a lot of noise. He talks. He tweets. He is echoed and amplified by a vast claque, on TV and online, made up of Americans and foreigners, humans and bots. — Never has he shouted louder than in the days since my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg reported …
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Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Trump Emerges as Inspiration for Germany's Far Right — Among German conspiracy theorists, ultranationalists and neo-Nazis, the American president is surfacing as a rallying cry, or even as a potential “liberator.” — BERLIN — Just before hundreds of far-right activists recently tried …
David Siders / Politico:
Why Biden could still lose the suburbs to Trump — A raft of recent polls suggest Donald Trump's law-and-order rhetoric, amplified by the Republican National Convention and turmoil in Kenosha, Wis., is doing little to cut into Joe Biden's lead. — But in swing state suburbs …
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump likely can't win without veteran support
Trump likely can't win without veteran support
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump faces surprising cash crunch — Money concerns are very real for President Trump's campaign — an unusual predicament for a sitting president, and one that worries veteran Republican operatives, with Trump so far behind in swing states as the race climaxes.
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Real Clear Politics, CNBC and POLITICUSUSA
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
‘Unprecedented public attack’: Widespread shock as Trump blasts the Pentagon — from the White House — President Donald Trump accused the top brass of the Department of Defense of needlessly waging wars to boost the profits of defense contractors during a Labor Day press conference held at the White House.
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Tarpley Hitt / The Daily Beast:
Workers Reveal Disney Is Covering Up Its COVID Cases — LABOR DAY — Workers and their worried spouses reveal to The Daily Beast that Disney is not only underreporting its COVID cases but clearing COVID-positive employees to return to work. — In early July, the Walt Disney Company reopened parts …
Michael Hobbes / HuffPost:
No, The Government Did Not Break Up A Child Sex Trafficking Ring In Georgia — Simple headlines obscure the complex realities of abuse, sex work and the real threats to American children. — Human trafficking has been having an eventful summer. In July, internet sleuths accused online retailer Wayfair …
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Tal Schneider / Globes Online:
US Ambassador to rent Herzliya residence from Adelson — The US Embassy may have moved to Jerusalem and Sheldon Adelson is buying the Herzliya home for NIS 300 million but David Friedman will continue living there. — Last week “Globes” exclusively revealed that US billionaire Sheldon Adelson …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump said it was a lot easier to pay off Stormy Daniels than Melania: Michael Cohen — Additional excerpts from Michael Cohen's tell-all book are being leaked ahead of the release on Wednesday. One key excerpt from Cohen was when he had President Donald Trump sign hush-money checks …
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IJR and Wall Street Journal
Joshua Yaffa / New Yorker:
Is Russian Meddling as Dangerous as We Think? — The spectre of foreign manipulation looms over the coming election. But in focussing on the tactics of the aggressors we overlook our weaknesses as victims. — In the summer of 2017, Nina Jankowicz, a twenty-eight-year-old American …
Nikki Ramirez / Business Insider:
A racist conspiracy theory called the ‘great replacement’ has made its way from far-right media to the GOP — The “great replacement” is a conspiracy theory that states that people of color are trying to replace white populations. — The conspiracy has been popular on the far right for some time …
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
FBI agent who helped launch Russia investigation says Trump was ‘compromised’ — WASHINGTON — He was the FBI agent so central to the Trump-Russia investigation that he came up with the code name: Crossfire Hurricane, from the lyrics of a Rolling Stones song that happened to be in his head.
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CNN:
Fox undermines Fox — For years, Fox News has worked to undermine and discredit the work of other news organizations that have reported damning details about President Trump and his administration. But on Friday, something unusual happened: The network turned a skeptical eye toward reporting from its own correspondent.
Seren Morris / Newsweek:
Hobby Lobby Boycott Calls After ‘Vote Trump’ Display Spotted in Store — Hobby Lobby is facing fresh calls to boycott the arts and craft giant as a pro-Trump display was spotted at one of its stores. A photo of a display reading “USA vote Trump” in decorative letters was shared in a tweet that has now gone viral.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says a Biden-Harris administration would ‘destroy’ country, economy — The president, during a Labor Day press conference, slammed Kamala Harris as ‘the most liberal person in Congress’ — President Trump touted the United States' economic recovery in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday …
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Timothy Snyder / Washington Post:
Trump thinks he'll be better off as things get worse — Timothy Snyder is the Levin professor of history at Yale University and the author of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” His newest book, “Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary,” will be published on Sept. 8.
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David Schuman / WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
Trump Boat Parade On St. Croix River Causes Capsizing — MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A boat parade in support of President Donald Trump Saturday on the St. Croix River left more than one homeowner contending with property damage. — Keith Smith lives on the river in River Falls, Wisconsin.
Emma Colton / Washington Examiner:
San Francisco gym owners livid after discovering gyms in government buildings have been opened for months — Gyms within government buildings in San Francisco have been open for months, despite privately owned establishments being ordered to close due to the coronavirus.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Joe Biden and Richard Trumka: Put power back in workers' hands — Fifty-five years ago, in a speech to the convention of the Illinois AFL-CIO, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. laid out with characteristic moral clarity the essential role of unions in American life.
John Hinton / Winston-Salem Journal:
President Trump should wear a mask during his visit to Winston-Salem, county Republican says — President Donald Trump should wear a mask during his campaign stop Tuesday in Winston-Salem, says the Republican chairman of Forsyth's county commission. Trump will speak at 7 p.m. at Smith Reynolds Airport, the Trump campaign said.
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