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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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: Two Former Trump Officials Join Chorus of Republicans Backing Biden
2020 Election Live Updates: Two Former Trump Officials Join Chorus of Republicans Backing Biden
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Real Clear Politics and Raw Story
CNN:
Barr attacks Justice Department staff, compares them to preschoolers — (CNN)Attorney General William Barr slammed the hundreds of Justice Department prosecutors working beneath him on Wednesday, equating them to preschoolers, in a defense of his own politically tuned decision making in the Trump administration.
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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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Just Security, NPR, New York Post, Daily Kos, Forbes, Newsy and Axios
Washington Post:
Barr accuses Justice Department of headhunting and meddling with politics
Barr accuses Justice Department of headhunting and meddling with politics
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Power Line, U.S. Department of Justice, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Althouse, Raw Story and Conservative Review
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Barr Blasts His Own Prosecutors: ‘All Power Is Vested In The Attorney General’
Barr Blasts His Own Prosecutors: ‘All Power Is Vested In The Attorney General’
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IJR, The American Independent, Raw Story and The Hill
New York Times:
This Is How Bad It's Gotten at the Justice Department
This Is How Bad It's Gotten at the Justice Department
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Raw Story, Washington Post, Mediaite and Law & Crime
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
New Survey Results From KFF/Cook Political Report Survey in AZ, Fl, and NC. AZ Moves to Lean Dem — There are two key geographic battlegrounds for the Electoral College this year. One is the Midwest that until 2016, had been reliably Democratic. The other is the fast-growing Sun Belt section …
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KFF, Axios, CNBC, Raw Story and Washington Post
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KFF:
Sun Belt Voices Project — A COLLABORATION BETWEEN KFF AND THE COOK POLITICAL REPORT — Key Findings — Most voters have made up their minds about how they will vote for president, with results suggesting very close elections in each of the three Sun Belt states included in this project.
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Fox News, Crooked Media, New Republic, The Hill and Responsible Statecraft
David Siders / Politico:
'It's a really weird dynamic': Breaking down Trump's reelection map
'It's a really weird dynamic': Breaking down Trump's reelection map
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Reuters, Washington Times, Raw Story, Blue Virginia and The Wrap
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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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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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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New York Times, CANNONFIRE, WCTX-TV, The American Spectator, TMI, Spectator USA and New York Post
Jon Favreau / Crooked Media:
PollerCoaster 2020: What's Happening With Marginal Voters
PollerCoaster 2020: What's Happening With Marginal Voters
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Change Research and The Message Box
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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Axios, Big League Politics, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, Political Wire and electionlawblog.org
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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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Axios, The Hill and Political Wire
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.
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National Review, Twitchy and Reason
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is losing control of his own propaganda — President Trump is sometimes said to possess an almost mystical level of control over the news cycle and the public narrative, an otherworldly dominance that is usually depicted with well-worn phrases like “Trump is flooding the media zone” …
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The Moderate Voice, Bloomberg, The Mahablog, The White House, MyNorthwest.com, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, CBS Philly, Daily Kos and Fox News
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Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
Trump's rebuke of CDC director sows confusion on vaccine timeline
Trump's rebuke of CDC director sows confusion on vaccine timeline
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Wray says Russia engaged in ‘very active efforts’ to interfere in election, damage Biden — FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday described “very active efforts” by Russia to interfere in the 2020 election, primarily by working to damage former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
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Reuters, NBC News, Axios, IJR, Political Wire and The American Independent
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Dan Coats / New York Times:
The Election Needs Oversight — Congress should establish a bipartisan commission to monitor voting and ensure that laws and regulations are followed. — Mr. Coats served as the director of national intelligence from 2017 to 2019. — We hear often that the November election is the most consequential in our lifetime.
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Washington Monthly, Vanity Fair, IJR, Raw Story and Axios
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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Fox News, The Hill, Raw Story and Political Wire
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Dems fear Wisconsin governor is becoming a liability for Biden — KENOSHA, Wis. — Tony Evers pulled off one of the Democratic Party's biggest feats of 2018: ousting liberal villain Scott Walker after earlier attempts to take out the Wisconsin governor fell short.
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National Review
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CNN:
GOP growing more indifferent with Trump controversies as election nears — Washington (CNN)Public health experts reacted with alarm after President Donald Trump held an indoor rally with thousands of maskless supporters at a packed arena in Nevada amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
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Washington Post, New Jersey Globe, Daily Kos and No More Mister Nice Blog
Nick Robins-Early / HuffPost:
16 Straight Hours Inside The Alternate Reality Of Pro-Trump TV Channel OAN — This is what it's like watching an entire day of Trump World's answer to state television. — The first thing I learn from One America News Network is that there is a new Rolling Stones flagship store opening …
Jesse Barron / New York Times:
What Happened Inside Ed Buck's Apartment? — Two men died of meth overdoses at the home of a West Hollywood political donor. Dark conspiracy theories abounded— but the truth is even darker. — To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Emma Epperly / Spokesman.com:
After balking at masks, pastor and church staff in North Idaho contract COVID-19 — A Coeur d'Alene pastor who opened his large church in early May for in-person services that allowed and even encouraged unmasked congregants to gather has been recovering from COVID-19 at the Kootenai Health intensive care unit.
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Raw Story and New York Post
Chabeli Carrazana / The 19th:
Women in President Donald Trump's White House earn 69 cents for every $1 paid to male staffers — The gender pay gap is wider than the national pay gap and wider than the gap in the Obama White House. — During the Republican National Convention, the high-ranking women in Donald Trump's White House tried …
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Political Wire
The Daily Beast:
How Trump Screwed His Own Campaign With One Executive Order — Joe Biden may be publicly responding to Democratic angst over law and order attacks. But, privately, his campaign is bludgeoning the president on Social Security. — Earlier this month, Joe Biden flew to Wisconsin to address …
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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Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Conservative Review, Twitchy and San Francisco Chronicle
Emma Nolan / Newsweek:
J.K. Rowling Book Burning Videos Are Spreading Like Wildfire Across TikTok — A new TikTok trend has emerged this week as former “Harry Potter” fans protest author J.K. Rowling's widely criticized views on trans people by burning copies of her books. — One video, posted by TikTok user @elmcdo shows …
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Townhall and Quiz Category
Dan Alexander / Vanity Fair:
“One of the Most Significant Potential Conflicts of Interest in American History”: How Everyone From Foreign Governments to Federal Contractors Is Quietly Lining Trump's Pockets — It sure seems like the Qatari government is using a dummy office to pay the president.
Dennis Ferrier / WZTV:
COVID-19 emails from Nashville mayor's office show disturbing revelation — The coronavirus cases on lower Broadway may have been so low that the mayor's office and the metro health department decided to keep it secret. Emails between the mayor's senior advisor and the health department reveal only a partial picture.
Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
DeVos praises Black history curriculum bucking 1619 Project — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is praising an alternative take on Black American history promoted by notable conservatives, while acknowledging that the federal government can't dictate school curriculum despite President Donald Trump's calls …
Washington Post:
Trump and his campaign try to allay concerns about trailing Biden in television ads — President Trump spent last weekend complaining privately about Joe Biden's dominance in television advertising, according to three people familiar with the comments, only to tweet upon his return to Washington …
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Politico, Raw Story, Wall Street Journal, American Greatness, Bloomberg, Washington Times and ABC News
Tim Alberta / Politico:
This Is What Trump's Suburbia Really Looks Like — Dear Washington, — I'll bet you're sick of hearing about the suburbs. And who could blame you? Flip on cable news, open the local paper, check the president's Twitter feed—there's no escaping the churn of commentary focused on a place …
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Mother Jones and Raw Story