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New York Times:
A Deal on Drug Prices Undone by White House Insistence on ‘Trump Cards’ — The White House and the pharmaceutical industry were nearing a major deal to lower drug prices. Then the administration demanded that $100 cash cards be sent to millions of seniors before the election — and the industry balked.
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Mother Jones
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Admits That Congressman Offered Pardon to Assange If He Covered Up Russia Links — Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher offered Assange the deal in 2017, a year after the emails that damaged Hillary Clinton had been published. — LONDON—Lawyers representing the United States …
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Raw Story, Associated Press and The Gateway Pundit
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Andrew MacAskill / Reuters:
Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for Democratic emails, lawyer says — LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump offered to pardon Julian Assange if the WikiLeaks founder provided the source for the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails …
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The Guardian, Patterico's Pontifications, Associated Press and Bloomberg
Noah Weiland / New York Times:
Emails Detail Effort to Silence C.D.C. and Question Its Science — Emails from a former top Trump health official and his science adviser show how the two refused to accept Centers for Disease Control and Prevention science and sought to silence the agency.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, The Hill and Gothamist
Gene Weingarten / Washington Post:
A neighbor asked for a tomato. This is where the story gets weird. — The following account is completely true, and, no, there is nothing funny about it. — I was on my laptop in the dining room of my rowhouse in downtown Washington, D.C., when someone rapped at the window.
New York Times:
Virus Pulls Down Trump, Poll Shows, and G.O.P. Senators Suffer With Him — A New York Times/Siena College survey showed Joe Biden leading President Trump by wide margins in Maine and Arizona, and effectively tied in North Carolina. Susan Collins trailed her Democratic rival in Maine's Senate race.
Associated Press:
Judge: Michigan must count absentee ballots that arrive late — A judge has cleared the way for more absentee ballots to be counted in Michigan — FBI director says there is little evidence for potential mass voter fraud — While he says there is little evidence for mail-in voter fraud …
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Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, detroitnews, POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Caller
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Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Only 22% of Americans think the 2020 presidential election will be ‘free and fair’ — Just 22 percent of Americans believe this year's presidential election will be “free and fair,” according to — a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a disturbing loss of confidence …
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Amina Dunn / Pew Research Center:
Few Trump or Biden supporters have close friends who back the opposing candidate
Few Trump or Biden supporters have close friends who back the opposing candidate
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CNN and Washington Post
Erin Coates / The Cain Gang:
Police Haul Man Out of Library for Not Wearing Mask During Meeting About Wearing Masks — A man was physically removed from a school board meeting in Mitchell, South Dakota, on Monday night because he refused to wear a protective face covering. — Reed Bender had attended meetings in the past …
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
An Idaho ‘no-masker’ pastor prayed against a mask mandate. He's now in intensive care for covid-19. — When coronavirus cases began increasing in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in late July, Pastor Paul Van Noy prayed with his congregation that the city council would not pass a mask mandate.
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Mediaite
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump: America's perfection shall not be questioned, except by me — Every successful presidential candidate promises the voters rewards both material and emotional. They say they'll improve our lives in tangible ways — better health care, higher wages — but they'll also make us feel how we want to feel …
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The White House, NPR, The Mahablog, Spectator USA and The Week
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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: After Criticism, C.D.C. Reverses Guidelines About Testing People Who Were Exposed — Israel becomes one of the few countries to impose a second nationwide lockdown. In the U.S., Joe Biden tries to focus the campaign on President Trump's virus performance.
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Politico, courthousenews.com, Florida Politics, Mediaite, The Week, Talking Points Memo and Slate
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Mike Stobbe / NBC New York:
CDC Reverses Guidelines on Testing Asymptomatic People for Coronavirus
CDC Reverses Guidelines on Testing Asymptomatic People for Coronavirus
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Vox, Axios, ABC News, WPRI-TV, Associated Press, Vanity Fair, The Verge, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, ABC7, Newsy and Reuters
Ken Klippenstein / The Nation:
White Supremacists Are a Threat to Elections, Says the DHS — While the Trump administration publicly downplays the rise of the far right, Homeland Security anticipates “physical threats” to the 2020 election. — Last week, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower told the press …
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Washington Post:
The Falwells, the pool attendant and the double life that brought them all down — For 2½ years, Giancarlo Granda had been telling his family about the generosity of his business partners. The wealthy couple from out of town had taken him under their wing, he said …
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HuffPost
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
‘Talk about losers’: The top moments from CNN's kid-gloves town hall with Biden — On Tuesday, voters got in Trump's face for the first time. On Thursday, they practically gave Biden a hero's welcome in Scranton, Pa. — Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks …
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Townhall, CNN, The Hill, Washington Post, Raw Story, ABC News, Quiz Category and Fox News
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Biden Aced the Town Hall. Why Didn't Trump?
Biden Aced the Town Hall. Why Didn't Trump?
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The American Independent, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Fox News and Conservative Review
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
The United States is backsliding into autocracy under Trump, scholars warn — The weakening of democratic values — a path that's difficult to reverse — has accelerated, according to hundreds of indicators assessed each year — Three years into the Trump administration …
indystar:
Satchuel Cole, leader in the fight for racial equality in Indianapolis, lied about own race — Satchuel Cole, a highly visible community leader advocating for racial and social justice in Indiana, has apologized for misleading people about Cole's own race, saying “I have taken up space as a Black person while knowing I am white.”
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Republican U.S. House campaign arm cancels $2 million in Houston-area advertising — The region is home to multiple competitive races, including Congressional District 7 where Republicans are seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher — WASHINGTON - The National Republican Congressional Committee …
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Political Wire
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
We Are All Algorithms Now — Is that what's really destroying the legitimacy of our democracy? — I've never felt this way about an election before. For my entire adult life, campaigns could be exhilarating, tedious, crowded with incident or laden with foreboding, but you always felt that …
Wilbur Ross / U.S. Department of Commerce:
Commerce Department Prohibits WeChat and TikTok Transactions to Protect the National Security of the United States — In response to President Trump's Executive Orders signed August 6, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) today announced prohibitions on transactions relating to mobile applications …
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Detroit Free Press:
Peters holds narrow lead over James in Michigan's US Senate race — U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., appears to be holding a slim 4-percentage-point lead over Republican businessman John James in his race for reelection, down from a 10-point margin he had two months ago, according to a new Free Press poll released Friday.
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Townhall
David Badash / Raw Story:
REVEALED: Trump to announce billions in aid to Puerto Rico in desperate attempt to win Florida — President Donald Trump on Friday will announce a multi-billion dollar federal aid package for Puerto Rico, with most of the funds to be used to rebuild the U.S. territory's power grid …
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BuzzFeed News, Mediaite, Bangor Daily News and The Week
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
A White House Aide Just Warned Us That Donald Trump Is a Sociopath — A procession of former Trump administration officials, speaking both on and off the record, have depicted the president as fundamentally unfit for office. Yesterday, the latest addition to their ranks …
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Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and GovExec.com
Kamala Harris / The Philadelphia Tribune:
National Black Voter Day: A call to ensure that Black voters are heard — Today, we celebrate our country's first-ever National Black Voter Day — an effort to make sure that Black voters make their voices heard at the polls this year. It reflects an undeniable truth …
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Kaleigh Rogers / FiveThirtyEight:
North Carolina Is Already Rejecting Black Voters' Mail-In Ballots More Often Than White Voters'
North Carolina Is Already Rejecting Black Voters' Mail-In Ballots More Often Than White Voters'
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The Daily Caller, Politico, Spectator USA, Raw Story and Twitchy
New York Times:
A Danish Children's TV Show Has This Message: ‘Normal Bodies Look Like This’ — The program aims to counter social media that bombards young people with images of perfect bodies. — COPENHAGEN — “OK, children, does anyone have a question?” the TV show's host, Jannik Schow, asked.
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Townhall, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Trump, Pence criticize U.S. Chamber CEO — President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence criticized the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce during a phone call Thursday, venting their frustrations over its recent endorsement of nearly two dozen vulnerable House Democratic freshmen, two sources familiar with the call tell Axios.
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National Review, Breitbart and The Hill
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
Rating Change: Republicans Sound Alarm, Riggleman's VA-05 Moves to Toss Up — Is it deja vu all over again? In 2008, Virginia's 5th District was the site of a gigantic upset when tireless 34-year-old Democrat Tom Perriello unseated GOP Rep. Virgil Goode by 727 votes.
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Blue Virginia
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: More migrant women say they didn't OK surgery — HOUSTON (AP) — Sitting across from her lawyer at an immigration detention center in rural Georgia, Mileidy Cardentey Fernandez unbuttoned her jail jumpsuit to show the scars on her abdomen. There were three small, circular marks.
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Rolling Stone, Forbes, Law & Crime, INDIVISIBLE VENTURA and Vox
NPR:
Poll: Biden Maintains Lead Over Trump With Likely Voters — Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead President Trump in the 2020 presidential election nationally by a substantial margin, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. — Biden leads Trump by 9 points, 52% to 43%, among likely voters, the survey finds.
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PBS NewsHour, ABC News, The American Independent, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
David Segal / New York Times:
Housekeepers Face a Disaster Generations in the Making — Ghosted by their employers, members of the profession are facing “a full-blown humanitarian crisis — a Depression-level situation.” — The scariest day of Maria Del Carmen's life started with a phone call that initially cheered her up.
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Book excerpt: An FBI sex crimes investigator helped trigger 2016's ‘October Surprise’ — This article is adapted from “October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election,” which will be published Sept. 22 by PublicAffairs. The book is a comprehensive …
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The Hill
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
No, a Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Didn't Partner With a Pro-Communist Chinese Group — On Thursday, an article from The Daily Signal, the blog of the conservative Heritage Foundation, claimed to show a damning link between an organization started by a Black Lives Matter co-founder …
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