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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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump to announce SCOTUS list as early as Wednesday — DRIVING THE DAY — HAPPY BEGINNING TO THE END of the summer 2020 — did it even happen at all? — and thanks to Blake Hounshell for taking the wheel for a few days. — NEW ... TWO WHITE HOUSE HAPPENINGS for your radar …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump faces surprising cash crunch
Trump faces surprising cash crunch
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CNN:
Trump launches unprecedented attack on military leadership he appointed — (CNN)President Donald Trump launched an unprecedented public attack against the leadership of the US military on Monday, accusing them of waging wars to boost the profits of defense manufacturing companies.
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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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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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Isaac Stone Fish / Washington Post:
Why Disney's new ‘Mulan’ is a scandal — The most devastating part of “Mulan,” Disney's much-anticipated live-action remake of the 1998 animated film, isn't the story. It's the credits. The film retells the ancient Chinese tale of Hua Mulan, a filial daughter who dresses as a man to join the army …
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
House Oversight Committee will investigate Louis DeJoy following claims he pressured employees to make campaign donations — House Democrats are launching an investigation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and called for his immediate suspension following accusations that he reimbursed former employees …
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Yael Halon / Fox News:
John Bolton denies claim Trump disparaged fallen American soldiers in France: ‘Simply false’ — ‘The main issue was whether or not weather conditions permitted the president to go’ — Former national security adviser John Bolton disputed the main thesis of The Atlantic's recent report alleging …
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New York Post
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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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
The Left Secretly Preps for MAGA Violence After Election Day — DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS — The progressive coalition Fight Back Table has been meeting to game out what happens if Joe Biden doesn't win by a landslide. It's not pretty. — Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups gathered …
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Matthew Doran / ABC:
Last two Australian correspondents pulled out of China after five-day diplomatic standoff over national security case — The ABC and the Australian Financial Review have rushed their correspondents out of China after police demanded interviews with both journalists, resulting in an extraordinary diplomatic standoff.
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Trump doubles down on crime message as polls suggest it's a risky gamble … WASHINGTON — The crime-heavy focus during the Republican National Convention appears to have fallen flat, a new wave of surveys has suggested — even as President Donald Trump appears increasingly reliant on the issue …
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Jacob Silverman / Slate:
A Russian Disinformation Operation Tried to Recruit Me — What's weird is that its output—written by real American journalists—hardly looks dangerous at all. — On Sept. 1, Larry Krakow, a butcher from Queens, was cutting meat at his job at a mom-and-pop shop on Long Island, when his phone started “dinging like crazy.”
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
COVID-19 vaccine latest flashpoint in White House campaign — WASHINGTON (AP) — The prospect of a vaccine to shield Americans from coronavirus infection emerged Monday as a point of contention in the White House race as President Donald Trump accused Democrats of “disparaging” …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says a Biden-Harris administration would ‘destroy’ country, economy
Trump says a Biden-Harris administration would ‘destroy’ country, economy
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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 …
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Sam Sutton / Politico:
How Covid-19 made New Jersey's Phil Murphy the most powerful governor in America — Murphy's grip on New Jersey's political scene has tightened to a point where it's almost all-consuming. — Gov. Phil Murphy's embrace of the spotlight, coupled with his unshaking control …
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.
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 …
Kanye West / TMZ.com:
President Trump Autographed Bible for Sale — Here's a shocker for 54 percent of the country ... President Trump opened a Bible (that's not the shocker), signed his name in it, and now the good book could now be worth nearly $40k. There it is. — Yes, as Trump would almost certainly put it …
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New York Times:
The Tax Cut for the Rich That Democrats Love — Why are party leaders fighting to get rid of one surprisingly progressive element of the 2017 tax bill? — Mr. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where Mr. Pulliam is a research analyst.
New York Times:
Pence and Harris Vie for Wisconsin as Trump Vents From the White House — The unofficial Labor Day kickoff to the fall campaign centered on Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, two pivotal states for both the president and Joseph R. Biden Jr. — LA CROSSE, Wis. — For a few hours …
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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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Sergei Kuznetsov / Politico:
Top Belarusian opposition figure disappears
Top Belarusian opposition figure disappears
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