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8:55 PM ET, September 14, 2020

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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Trump Health Aide Falsely Alleges Conspiracies and Warns of Armed Revolt  —  Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary of health for public affairs, told a Facebook audience without evidence that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection, and he accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.”
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A Trump official's insane rant should reflect back on Trump himself  —  Everybody is talking about the insane rant that Michael Caputo, the senior communications official at the Department of Health and Human Services, delivered in a live video talk from his Facebook page on Sunday.
Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
‘Like an Experimental Concentration Camp’: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center  —  Several legal advocacy groups on Monday filed a whistleblower complaint on behalf of a nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center documenting …
The Daily Beast:
Jacob Wohl Staged Fake FBI Raid on Business Partner, Actor Hired for Production Says  —  A Virginia man who responded to a Craigslist ad seeking actors to play FBI agents quickly discovered he'd been roped into yet another Wohl/Burkman hoax  —  A supposed FBI raid of a home …
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
FBI raids home of conservative conspiracy theorist Jack Burkman  —  Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the home of lobbyist, conspiracy theorist and right-wing operative Jack Burkman early Monday morning.  —  Burkman confirmed the raid and said he was not arrested.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washingtonian
Arielle Zionts / Rapid City Journal:
DPS: Attorney General reported hitting a deer, but man's body discovered the next morning  —  South Dakota's attorney general reported hitting a deer Saturday night but actually hit and killed a man whose body wasn't discovered until the next morning, the Department of Public Safety said Monday morning.
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Argus Leader:
Family speaks out after man killed in crash involving Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg
Discussion: KCLO-TV, ABC News and The Root
Associated Press:
South Dakota Agency: AG Reported Hitting Deer, But Hit Man
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Argus Leader:
Documents: South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has history of speeding
Discussion: KCLO-TV and Breitbart
Marie Fazio / New York Times:
South Dakota Investigates Fatal Crash Involving Attorney General
Discussion: Task & Purpose and New York Post
Debra J. Saunders / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
In exclusive interview, Trump slams Sisolak, defends indoor rally  —  President Donald Trump is interviewed by the Las Vegas Review-Journal outside a campaign rally at Xtreme Manufacturing in Henderson, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020.  (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules Green Party presidential ticket is ineligible for state ballot  —  The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Green Party presidential ticket is ineligible to appear on the state ballot, a relief for state and local election officials who feared an addition …
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Wisconsin Supreme Court rules to keep Green Party off the ballot  —  MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court kept the Green Party's presidential ticket off the ballot Monday, disappointing party members but ensuring more than a million absentee ballots will be mailed by Thursday as required by state law.
Discussion: The Hill and New York Times
Danielle Pletka / Washington Post:
I never considered voting for Trump in 2016.  I may be forced to vote for him this year.  —  Danielle Pletka is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.  —  In 2016, I never considered voting for Donald Trump.  The Johnny-come-lately Republican and his nasty schoolyard jibes seemed …
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
235 former military leaders support Trump, warn ‘our historic way of life is at stake’
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Life on Venus?  Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds  —  The detection of a gas in the planet's atmosphere could turn scientists' gaze to a planet long overlooked in the search for extraterrestrial life.  —  High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life.
NBC News:
Justice Department internal watchdog is investigating Roger Stone's sentencing, say sources  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General has begun investigating the circumstances surrounding the sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone, a longtime friend …
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Biden leads Trump 67-30 among Jewish voters, survey finds  —  (JTA) — A survey of Jewish voters shows 67 percent plan to vote for Joe Biden in November and 30 percent plan to vote for Donald Trump.  —  The numbers in the survey released Monday by the Jewish Electorate Institute broke …
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BuzzFeed News:
“I Have Blood on My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation  —  Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections and political affairs around the world, according to an explosive memo sent …
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Alexander Vindman: Trump Is Putin's ‘Useful Idiot’  —  Shortly after midnight on June 17, 1972, an unusually attentive security guard named Frank Wills discovered an unlocked door in the garage of the Watergate office complex.  A piece of tape had been placed over the latch.
CNN:
‘Nothing more could have been done’: Trump's final phone call to Woodward  —  Washington (CNN)On August 14, the coronavirus pandemic was on fire in the US.  More than 168,000 Americans had died, with more than 1,300 deaths that day alone.  But when President Donald Trump called legendary …
New York Times:
Is the Mail Getting Slower?  We're Tracking It  —  In July and August, when a public outcry rose over late mail, there was indeed slower delivery from the United States Postal Service.  —  Since then, on-time delivery of the mail has improved slightly.  But for first-class mail …
Discussion: Blue Virginia
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Jeff Wise / New York Magazine:
The People v. Donald J. Trump The criminal case against him is already in the works — and it could go to trial sooner than you think.  —  The defendant looked uncomfortable as he stood to testify in the shabby courtroom.  Dressed in a dark suit and somber tie, he seemed aged, dimmed, his posture noticeably stooped.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Lock Him Up? For the Republic to survive Trump's presidency, he must be tried for his crimes. Even if that sparks a constitutional crisis of its own.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints, scientists say  —  Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers already contribute 5 percent of sea-level rise  —  Two Antarctic glaciers that have long kept scientists awake at night are breaking free from the restraints that have hemmed them in …
CNN:
Mismatched signatures prompt tossed absentee ballots and legal fights ahead of November election  —  (CNN)Remember hanging chads, Florida's 2000 election nightmare?  —  The 2020 equivalent could wind up being mismatched signatures.  —  With voting already underway in two states …
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:   Despite Trump Fearmongering, Republicans Push Absentee Voting In Mailers, Robocalls
Wall Street Journal:
Billionaire Steven Cohen Reaches Deal to Buy New York Mets  —  Agreement values the team at between $2.4 billion and $2.5 billion, a record for a North American professional sports franchise  —  Billionaire hedge-fund manager Steven A. Cohen has reached an agreement to purchase the New York Mets …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs to Be Deposed in Seth Rich Case  —  A new court filing says the Fox stars have agreed to answer questions on their role in spreading conspiracy theories about the murdered DNC staffer.  —  Fox News star Sean Hannity was once his network's most prominent booster …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Judge strikes down Pennsylvania virus policies  —  Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's pandemic restrictions that required people to stay at home, placed size limits on gatherings and ordered “non-life-sustaining” businesses to shut down are unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Politico:
Trump ad asks people to support the troops.  But it uses a picture of Russian jets  —  The Trump Make America Great Again Committee is run by both the Republican National Committee and the campaign.  —  An ad, made by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, featuring silhouettes …
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
L.A. deputies tackled and arrested a reporter.  Her videos contradict their claims about the incident.  —  As Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies tackled Josie Huang to the street on Saturday night, the reporter for NPR affiliate KPCC screamed repeatedly she was a journalist.
Micaiah Bilger / LifeNews.com:
President Donald Trump Expands Executive Order Defunding International Planned Parenthood  —  President Donald Trump took another step to defund the abortion industry Monday through a new proposed rule to expand the Mexico City Policy.  —  The pro-life policy has been in place during …
Associated Press:
Dismay as huge chunk of Greenland's ice cap breaks off  —  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An enormous chunk of Greenland's ice cap has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, a development that scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change.  —  The glacier section that broke off is 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles).
New York Times:
Navalny, Awake and Alert, Plans to Return to Russia, German Official Says  —  Mr. Navalny talked with a German prosecutor about being poisoned.  Word of his improvement came as France and Sweden confirmed that he had been sickened by Novichok, a Russian nerve agent.
Discussion: TASS and New York Post
 
 
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Elura Nanos / Law & Crime:
Devin Nunes Determined to Keep Filing Lawsuits That He Has No Hope of Winning
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
A bug in Joe Biden's campaign app gave anyone access to millions of voter files
Discussion: Raw Story and Engadget
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Netanyahu offsets historic UAE, Bahrain accords with Israel's return to COVID lockdown
Discussion: The Hill
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“If You Aren't Making News, You Aren't Governing”: Matt Gaetz on Media Mastery, Influence Peddling, and Dating in Trump's Swamp
Discussion: Political Wire
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
Bernie Sanders And Joe Biden: First Things First, Don't Say They're Friends
Discussion: New Republic and Common Dreams
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
If Trump loses, you can thank women
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court OKs Trump plan to end protected immigration status for 4 countries
 Earlier Items: 
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, of Arlington, hospitalized due to complications from cancer treatment
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Perdue attempts a softer approach to defeat Ossoff in Georgia Senate race
Discussion: Political Wire
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Biden campaign adds more staff in Texas
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Breitbart and The Hill
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Former Trump economic adviser: 'I honestly haven't made up my mind' on 2020 vote
Discussion: CNBC and Raw Story
Ezra Klein / Vox:
There are no good choices  —  Land of the free, home of the failed.  Gary Hershorn/Corbis via Getty Images
Discussion: Twitchy