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Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
How Many Americans Died Because of Donald Trump's Cruel Lies? — So he knew all along. Didn't want to create a panic? Is he kidding? Creating panics about things is all he does. — BEAST INSIDE — The president knew and didn't tell you. — During Nixon's impeachment the question …
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Politico and Washington Post
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Was ‘Ecstatic’ About Talking to Woodward—Until He Wasn't
Trump Was ‘Ecstatic’ About Talking to Woodward—Until He Wasn't
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Politico, The Wrap, CNN, Fox News, IJR, Twitchy, Raw Story, Mediaite, WHTM-TV, Mediaite, Washington Post, ABC7, TMI, The Hill, Jacobin, No More Mister Nice Blog, Vanity Fair, New York Post and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
Transcript: Kim Jong Un's letters to President Trump
Transcript: Kim Jong Un's letters to President Trump
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Washington Post and The National Interest
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Book: Kim Jong Un told Trump about killing his uncle
Book: Kim Jong Un told Trump about killing his uncle
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Raw Story, One America News Network, ABC News, New York Post, The Daily Caller and Fox News
John F. Harris / Politico:
Woodward Interviews Shallow Throat
Woodward Interviews Shallow Throat
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Redstate, Washington Post, Business Insider and Fox News
Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
In Bob Woodward's ‘Rage,’ a Reporter and a President From Different Universes
In Bob Woodward's ‘Rage,’ a Reporter and a President From Different Universes
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Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Associated Press, Politico, The Dispatch, Political Wire and Deadline
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Most voters don't see Trump and Biden as mentally fit to be president, new poll shows — A majority of voters in six swing states consider President Trump and Joe Biden mentally unfit to be president, according to a new CNBC/Change Research poll. — At the same time …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Russian state hackers suspected in targeting Biden campaign firm - sources — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) recently alerted one of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's main election campaign advisory firms that it had been targeted by suspected Russian …
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Fox News, VICE, Washington Times, Talking Points Memo, TheStreet and Defense One
Twitter:
Expanding our policies to further protect the civic conversation — The conversation happening on Twitter is never more important than during elections. Twitter is where people come to hear directly from elected officials and candidates for office, it's where they come to find breaking news …
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The Wrap
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Twitter expands rules against election-related misinformation, setting up showdown with Trump
Twitter expands rules against election-related misinformation, setting up showdown with Trump
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Bloomberg, Political Wire and CBS San Francisco, more at Techmeme »
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters:
Twitter expands misinformation rules ahead of U.S. election
Twitter expands misinformation rules ahead of U.S. election
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Wall Street Journal, Politico and NPR
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Post-Labor Day Sprint, Part Two: The Electoral College — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Joe Biden is better positioned to win the presidency than Donald Trump, but it would be foolish to rule out another Trump upset. — Trump's potential winning map would look a lot like 2016 …
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Washington Post, Political Wire, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times and Blue Virginia
Manu Raju / CNN:
How McConnell is maneuvering to keep the Senate in GOP hands — and navigating Trump — (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was on a mission. It was late February, and two vulnerable Republican senators facing voters this fall were pushing a bill that had generated opposition …
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Politico and Washington Post
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Voter Doubt of 2020 Outcome Possible — Trump statements about the military show little impact on the race — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden is seen as more respectful of American troops than Donald Trump, but recent news stories about this issue have not impacted the overall race for president.
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The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, Political Wire and The National Interest
Arizona Republic:
On Cameo, Joe Arpaio welcomed a furry convention to Arizona. Hours later, he learned what it was — It seems former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has found a new gig after another unsuccessful bid for public office. — Unsurprisingly, it's in front of the camera.
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Raw Story
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Russia-Linked Election Interference Actors — Washington - Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Russia-linked individuals for attempting to influence the U.S. electoral process. Russia uses a variety of proxies …
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BuzzFeed News, Axios, Washington Times, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice and Raw Story
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Bob Woodward and the Nihilism of “LOL Nothing Matters” Republicans — Real people are dying. Real people are hurting. And all of this matters. — It was getting late on a balmy Charleston January night and we were all a few beers deep. Earlier in the evening we had learned that Jon Huntsman …
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Raw Story
Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
South Carolina 3rd grade teacher, 28, dies from COVID-19 — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina third grade teacher who was last in her classroom less than two weeks ago has died from COVID-19, officials at the Richland 2 School District said Wednesday.
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The Hill
Politico:
$2,933 for 'Girl's Night': Medicaid chief's consulting expenses revealed — When Seema Verma, the Trump administration's top Medicaid official, went to a reporter's home in November 2018 for a “Girl's Night” thrown in her honor, taxpayers footed the bill to organize the event: $2,933.
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CNBC
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: Biden Campaign Hits Trump on Coronavirus Revelations — Joe Biden and his surrogates seized on the news that President Trump played down the virus, knowing it was deadly. A Monmouth poll showed Mr. Biden maintaining his lead over Mr. Trump nationally.
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Vox, Townhall, NBC News, Jacobin, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Mediaite, The Hill, Toledo Blade, MyNorthwest.com, Bangor Daily News and Louder With Crowder
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
A pandemic, a motel without power and a potentially terrifying glimpse of Orlando's future — KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Rose Jusino was waking up after working the graveyard shift at Taco Bell when a friend knocked on her door at the Star Motel. The electric company trucks were back.
Dena Bunis / Arizona:
AARP Poll: Biden, Trump Neck and Neck Among Arizona Voters — Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump are locked in a statistical dead heat among likely Arizona voters, a new AARP public opinion survey finds. The poll also shows that Democrat Mark Kelly has a slim lead …
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Georgia
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
'We're No. 28! And Dropping!' — A measure of social progress finds that the quality of life has dropped in America over the last decade, even as it has risen almost everywhere else. — To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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Mother Jones and Political Wire
Popular Information:
Large network of Facebook pages circulates voting misinformation from obscure right-wing website — Facebook has permitted a large network of Facebook pages and groups — with names like Trump's Deplorable Army, To The Death Media, and One Angry Conservative — to spread disinformation …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
This Republican Party Is Not Worth Saving — I was a Republican for most of my adult life. I came of political age in 1980, and although I grew up in a working-class Democratic stronghold in Massachusetts, I found a home in Ronald Reagan's GOP. Back then, the Republicans were a confident …
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Raw Story
Joseph Weber / Just The News:
Federal judge blocks Tennessee law that limits some mail-in balloting without ID — Tennessee is among many states in which the courts have become involved in mail-in balloting issues — A federal judge has blocked a Tennessee law that bars first-time voters from casting November mail …
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Jonathan Mattise / Associated Press:
Judge blocks Tennessee law that limits new voter mail voting
Judge blocks Tennessee law that limits new voter mail voting
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The Daily Caller, Raw Story and The Hill
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Seven reasons to vote every Republican out of office — There are no innocent Republicans running for reelection to the House or Senate. Their grievous misdeeds, whether of commission or omission, were intentional. Their desire to maintain their good standing in the Trumpified Republican Party …
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Townhall, NPR and National Review
Arizona Republic:
Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly apologizes for racist joke — Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly apologized on Thursday for an offensive comment he made two years ago while joking about the physiological changes his twin brother experienced after spending a year in space.
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
The Supreme Court Decides Who Is a Woman — 'That's The Whole Ad': Dem Rep. Max Rose Cuts Fifteen-Second Video Calling De Blasio ‘The Worst Mayor in the History of New York City’ — Senate Republicans Cast Doubt on COVID Relief Bill's Prospects, Prompting White House to Consider More Executive Orders
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Spectator USA
ABC News:
Trump ad touting ‘great American comeback’ features foreign stock footage — The campaign has used similar images in its ads before. — A new ad released by President Donald Trump's reelection campaign that looked to capitalize on the August jobs report to portray the country as being in the middle of a …
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Political Wire
Brian Flood / Fox News:
CNN's Jake Tapper urged Republican Sean Parnell not to run against Democrat Rep. Conor Lamb — ‘I was trying to talk you into running in a safer R district! Lol,’ Tapper wrote — EXCLUSIVE: CNN anchor Jake Tapper tried to convince Republican Sean Parnell not to run against incumbent Democrat …
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The Federalist, The Daily Caller, The Hill, The Post Millennial and Twitchy
logically.ai:
QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New Jersey — A Logically investigation identifies a key QAnon figure as New Jersey resident Jason Gelinas. The investigation ties QAnon properties to a company owned by Gelinas, an information technology specialist …
Jacob T. Levy / Niskanen Center:
Honoring The Dishonorable, Part 2: The Dishonorable Living — In my previous essay, I argued—with some help from Adam Smith's moral psychology—that political life typically includes an excessive eagerness to admire and celebrate the powerful, to overstate the moral merit of those who rule, and to understate their moral faults.
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
There's Still a Reason for Trump Rallies, for Trump at Least — On Tuesday night at Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, supporters of Donald Trump mounted plastic chairs and whipped out their phones. They'd waited for hours, and now Air Force One emerged in the sky …
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning — President Donald Trump has never hidden his ambivalence about testing for the coronavirus. In June, when he told an arena of supporters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that he had instructed “his people” to “'slow the testing down, please,'” …
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
CNN to host town hall with Joe Biden — (CNN)CNN will host a town hall with 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden next week, the network announced Thursday. — The town hall will take place on September 17 at 8 p.m. ET in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and will be moderated by CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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Political Wire
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘I want to be in the Trump party’: GOP rides voter registration surge in key state — PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump has trailed Joe Biden in virtually every poll in Pennsylvania this year. — But there's a more tangible piece of data in the state that tells a different story …
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Breitbart and israpundit.org