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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Former Pence aide says she will vote for Biden because of Trump's ‘flat-out disregard for human life’ during pandemic — President Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic showed a “flat-out disregard for human life” because his “main concern was the economy and his reelection,” …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“It Was All About the Election”: The Ex-White House Aide Olivia Troye on Trump's Narcissistic Mishandling of COVID-19 — The first staffer on the coronavirus task force to go public tells The New Yorker that America's pandemic response was “derailed by the person at the very top.”
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Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Former Pence aide who helped organize White House coronavirus response backs Biden
Former Pence aide who helped organize White House coronavirus response backs Biden
Dan Coats / New York Times:
The Election Needs Oversight
The Election Needs Oversight
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Washington Post:
A scrapped plan to ship masks to Americans. A standoff with Amazon amid pressure from Trump. New documents detail USPS's spring in crisis. — Nearly 10,000 pages of emails, memos and other private documents offer new details about the agency's struggles and the pro-Trump figures to whom it turned for advice
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Federal judge temporarily blocks USPS operational changes amid concerns about mail slowdowns, election — A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday granted a request from 14 states to temporarily block operational changes within the U.S. Postal Service that have been blamed for a slowdown …
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Gene Johnson / Associated Press:
US judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail
US judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists' Objections — A controversial guideline saying people without Covid-19 symptoms didn't need to get tested for the virus came from H.H.S. officials and skipped the C.D.C.'s scientific review process. — A heavily criticized recommendation …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is losing control of his own propaganda
Trump is losing control of his own propaganda
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Lucy Osborne / The Guardian:
Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris — Exclusive: Amy Dorris alleges Trump forced his tongue down her throat and groped her at 1997 US Open — A former model has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her at the US Open tennis tournament …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pennsylvania Supreme Court extends mail ballot deadlines for November election — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended the state's mail ballot deadlines on Thursday, a move that could allow tens of thousands of additional votes to be counted — and will likely draw criticism from Republicans …
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Politico:
DeVos' former top aide joins anti-Trump group — Josh Venable is lending his name as an adviser to the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform. — Former aides for President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are also part of the anti-Trump group.
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Juan Perez Jr. / Politico:
Trump blasts 1619 Project as DeVos praises alternative Black history curriculum
Trump blasts 1619 Project as DeVos praises alternative Black history curriculum
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
EXCLUSIVE: Education Department opens investigation into Princeton University after president deems racism ‘embedded’ in the school — The Department of Education has informed Princeton University that it is under investigation following the school president's declaration that racism was “embedded” in the institution.
Roque Planas / HuffPost:
911 Call From Intoxicated Jerry Falwell Jr.'s House Last Month Describes ‘A Lot Of Blood’ — Becki Falwell told the operator that her husband had cuts on his face from falling after he'd been drinking. — One week after Reuters published an explosive report on an alleged sexual …
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Justice News:
Lev Parnas And David Correia Charged With Conspiring To Defraud Investors In Their Fraud Insurance Company “Fraud Guarantee” — Defendants Also Charged with Additional Campaign Finance Crimes in the Superseding Indictment — Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District …
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CNN:
Acting Homeland Secretary Chad Wolf defies subpoena and skips House hearing — (CNN)Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf was a no-show Thursday morning at a House hearing on threats to the US homeland after a feud between the department and the committee over scheduling.
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
F.B.I. Director Warns of Russian Interference and White Supremacist Violence
F.B.I. Director Warns of Russian Interference and White Supremacist Violence
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Joseph Ax / Reuters:
Biden lambastes Trump over ‘close to criminal’ COVID-19 response — (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden attacked President Donald Trump for disregarding the risks of the coronavirus on Thursday, blaming him for thousands of unnecessary American deaths and vowing …
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Kate Sullivan / CNN:
CNN to host first drive-in town hall due to coronavirus pandemic
CNN to host first drive-in town hall due to coronavirus pandemic
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CBS News:
H.R. McMaster says Trump policy in Afghanistan partners with Taliban against Afghan government — “He, in effect, is partnering with the Taliban against, in many ways, the Afghan government,” McMaster said of the president's plan in Afghanistan. See the full interview with the former national security adviser, Sunday on 60 Minutes.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Cash-strapped Trump campaign awaits a bailout from big donors — Republican Party megadonors are racing to bail out President Donald Trump's cash-strapped reelection campaign, with a newly formed super PAC pouring a further$25 million into battleground states.
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Washington Post:
Barr's attack on his own prosecutors fed by frustration with both sides of political aisle, people who know him say — Attorney General William P. Barr's scalding criticism of some of his own Justice Department prosecutors grew in part from frustration with the accusation that he had improperly intervened …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Senate Democrats, Including Kamala Harris, Call For Investigation Into Durham Probe
Senate Democrats, Including Kamala Harris, Call For Investigation Into Durham Probe
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Robby Soave / Reason:
An Online Student Attended a Rooftop Party. He Was Reported to NYU and Suspended Indefinitely. — It was a gorgeous August weekend in New York City, and Andy—a college senior at New York University (NYU)—decided to attend a rooftop social gathering with his roommates.
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Associated Press:
Trump downplays legacy of slavery in appeal to white voters — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump intensified efforts to appeal to his core base of white voters on Thursday by downplaying the historical legacy of slavery in the United States and blasting efforts to address systemic racism as divisive.
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CNN:
Trump ally Lindsey Graham thinks the President should release tax returns — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has long resisted releasing his tax returns in a break with historic precedent, but even one of his closest allies in the Senate thinks he should.
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Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
“That's Their Problem”: How Jared Kushner Let the Markets Decide America's COVID-19 Fate — First-person accounts of a tense meeting at the White House in late March suggest that President Trump's son-in-law resisted taking federal action to alleviate shortages and help Democratic-led New York.
Snejana Farberov / Daily Mail:
Campaign staffer, 17, for Ilhan Omar's Republican congressional opponent is shot and killed in Minneapolis — Andre Conley, 17, was shot dead outside a Minneapolis convenience store on Monday afternoon; another person was seriously wounded — Police arrested a suspect wanted in connection …
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to Curb Internal Debate Over Sensitive Issues Amid Staff Discord — Mark Zuckerberg says employees shouldn't have to confront social issues in their day-to-day work unless they want to — Facebook Inc. is moving to curb internal debate around divisive political and social topics …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dems Ahead For Prez, Senate — Support for legalizing marijuana has the edge — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden leads Donald Trump among registered voters in Arizona, but the margin narrows under different turnout models. The Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll finds the Democrat …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
For Trump, It's Not the United States, It's Red and Blue States — A statement by the president this week was an insight into how he views the country as composed of parts that either are for him or against him. — WASHINGTON — President Trump argued this week that the death toll from the coronavirus was actually not so bad.
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Thomas Colt / Medium:
U.S. Generals are raising the alarm — Our military has leaned strongly Republican. By law, active military are constrained from political action. Most retired officers are highly politically aware but strive to be non-partisan, and are often not aligned with either party.
Newt Gingrich / The American Mind:
The Soros Cover-Up — Americans can't let Twitter noise overwhelm political reality. — I have been watching a truly curious phenomenon over the past few days. It seems there is suddenly a movement in media to silence anyone who speaks out against George Soros—and, specifically …
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Politico:
'Everyone's got leverage': Dreading a 50-50 Senate split — It's an outcome that practically no one wants, but it's starting to look like a real possibility: a 50-50 Senate. — An evenly split Senate would make life grueling for whoever is president next year.
Ryan Heath / Politico:
Trump won't go to New York for U.N. speech — The United Nations General Assembly typically draws world leaders and philanthropists from all around the globe, packing New York City with their entourages. At the 75th edition of the annual event, however, there won't be a single one.
Washington Post:
Trump's businesses charged Secret Service more than $1.1 million, including for rooms in club shuttered for pandemic — President Trump's luxury properties have charged the U.S. government more than $1.1 million in private transactions since Trump took office — including for room rentals at his Bedminster …
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KMPH-TV:
Auberry family says Harris and Newsom trespassed in damaged home for photo op — An Auberry family says California Governor Gavin Newsom and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris trespassed during their tour of Creek Fire damage. On Tuesday, Newsom and Harris arrived in Fresno County …
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Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Biden Volunteers Are Encountering a Shocking Number of Voters Pushing an Unhinged Smear — For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. — Since she retired last year, my mom has spent a good deal of her free …
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