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8:05 AM ET, September 14, 2020

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Ben Smith / New York Times:
The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything.  Then Its Own Scandal Hit.  —  Internal documents show how a source ended up in jail — and the fallout in the newsroom.  —  Where were you when you first heard about the Snowden leak?  —  The huge breach of the National Security Agency's …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
‘Reckless and selfish’: Nevada Gov. Sisolak slams Trump for holding big indoor rally, violating state rules  —  WASHINGTON — Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak slammed President Donald Trump Sunday night for violating state rules by holding a 2020 campaign rally indoors with thousands of people.
Discussion: Political Wire and Slate
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CNN:
Trump holds first entirely indoor rally in nearly three months  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump spoke to thousands of supporters indoors on Sunday for the first time in nearly three months.  —  Trump attacked Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's voting record and mental acuity …
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
On Western swing, Trump aims to court pivotal Latino voters
Discussion: Bloomberg
James Downie / Washington Post:
The whiny core of Trumpism  —  Few Trump White House members have survived the administration's tumult as well as Peter Navarro.  The economics professor and failed California political candidate is officially the director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy; unofficially …
Discussion: CNN
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Top White House aide's interview goes haywire over Trump coronavirus remarks
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
LAist:
LAist Reporter Josie Huang Arrested While Covering Protest  —  Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies arrested KPCC/LAist Correspondent Josie Huang late Saturday while she was covering the ambush shooting of two deputies in Compton.  —  Even as she was being thrown to the ground, Huang …
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Los Angeles Times:
Two L.A. County sheriff's deputies expected to survive attack amid intense manhunt for shooter  —  Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies shot in what authorities described as an ambush attack are expected to survive amid an intense manhunt for the gunman captured on video firing inside …
Discussion: Washington Post, Breitbart, Slate and ABC7
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Goodbye, readers, and good luck — you'll need it  —  It's time to quit.  Since coming to Washington in 1969 as a young reporter, I have written, by my crude calculation, about 2 million words, most of them columns for The Post, Newsweek and the National Journal.
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
If Biden Wins, Democrats Must Lean In to Partisanship  —  The truth is that if you have power, being partisan is precisely how you get things done.  —  Biden and McConnell at Obama's 2016 State of the Union address  —  Joe Biden sometimes talks about the 2020 election like the end of a natural disaster …
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Politico:
Officials: Iran weighs plot to kill U.S. ambassador to South Africa  —  The Iranian government is weighing an assassination attempt against the American ambassador to South Africa, U.S. intelligence reports say, according to a U.S. government official familiar with the issue and another official who has seen the intelligence.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Fox News and New York Post
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New York Times:
Trump and Biden Joust in Florida, Looking for Votes in the Margins  —  Elections in Florida are won by running up margins in favorable terrain while losing more closely in hostile precincts.  Joseph Biden visits the state on Tuesday for the first time since claiming the nomination.
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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Donald Trump's conversations with Bob Woodward about coronavirus, Black Lives Matter and nuclear war  —  In taped conversations with a Washington Post journalist, President Trump said he wanted to downplay the severity of the coronavirus.  And the recordings reveal the President's view …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
'Biden didn't stop the black plague': GOP chair Ronna Romney humiliated trying to blame Biden for Trump's COVID failure  —  COVID-19 is so-named because it first surfaced on the planet in 2019.  It's something that Republicans seem to be struggling to understand.
Discussion: Twitchy
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
I'm numb to crazy stuff Trump says, but utterly terrified of crazy stuff Americans believe  —  I'm starting to think everything we know about Bob Woodward, arguably America's most famous living journalist, is wrong.  I mean, nothing will ever erase what the Washington Post-reporter-turned-author accomplished …
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Coronavirus cases are growing in 11 U.S. states as Fauci warns of ‘disturbing’ data  — Covid-19 cases were growing by 5% or more, based on a weekly average to smooth out daily reporting, in 11 states as of Sunday, according to a CNBC analysis of data collected by Johns Hopkins University, an increase from eight states on Friday.
Discussion: NBC Boston
Julia Terruso / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A Pennsylvania town once known as ‘communism on the prairie’ is all about Trump now  —  NORVELT, Pa. — Lois Weyandt was only 7 when her family moved to this government-built town in Southwestern Pennsylvania.  —  They had lost their home during the Great Depression, and Norvelt …
Grant Hermes / WDIV-TV:
Michigan Lt. Gov. on virus response: ‘Trump is a liar who has killed people’  —  Michigan officials condemn Trump's response to coronavirus pandemic, more  —  Michigan's Lieutenant Governor said that the U.S. President's response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic “has killed people” during a live virtual event on Saturday.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
New York Times:
In Visiting a Charred California, Trump Confronts a Scientific Reality He Denies  —  A president who has mocked climate change and pushed policies that accelerate it is set to be briefed on the scorched earth and ash-filled skies that experts say are the predictable result.
Discussion: Reuters
Politico:
‘This is f—ing crazy’: Florida Latinos swamped by wild conspiracy theories  —  A flood of disinformation and deceptive claims are damaging Joe Biden in the nation's biggest swing state.  —  Disinformation has been floating in from all directions for Spanish-speaking residents of South Florida.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Inside Joe's bubble: How Biden's campaign is trying to avoid the virus  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden's chartered airplanes and SUVs are meticulously sprayed with disinfectant and scrubbed.  The microphones, lecterns and folders he uses are wiped down in the moments before his arrival.
Discussion: New Republic
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Trump Says He Will ‘Negotiate’ Third Term Because He's ‘Entitled’ To It  —  President Trump said Saturday that he plans to “negotiate” to run again in 2024 if he wins reelection in November, his latest in a series of comments that have alarmed critics who say he has little regard for constitutional boundaries.
 
 
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Biden Creates Legal War Room, Preparing for a Big Fight Over Voting
Discussion: The Atlantic and The Guardian
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Our Government Is Broken. President Biden Must Fix That.
Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal:
Remote Schooling Out of Reach for Many Students in West Virginia Without Internet
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
G-20 leaders, don't forget the women's rights advocates rotting in Saudi prisons
Asma Khalid / NPR:
Republicans Are Knocking On Doors. Democrats Aren't. Biden's Campaign Says That's OK
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Pompeo bringing back ‘Madison Dinners’ mid-pandemic
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
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Axios:
NRA's political influence dwindling ahead of the election
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Brueggemann / IndieWire:
‘Tenet’ Earns $6.7 Million, Total Box Office Is Under $15 Million: Theaters Are in a World of Hurt
RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Tens Of Thousands March In Belarusian Capital, Defying Threats And Detentions
Washington Post:
How former Trump adviser Steve Bannon joined forces with a Chinese billionaire who has divided the president's allies
New York Times:
Wildfires Live Updates: ‘It Is Apocalyptic,’ Senator Says of Destruction
CNN:
Joe Biden: There's a smarter way to be tough on Iran
Discussion: Politico
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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