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Mike Allen / Axios:
Furious Democrats consider total war if McConnell jams through Supreme Court pick — Furious Democrats are considering total war — profound changes to two branches of government, and even adding stars to the flag — if Republicans jam through a Supreme Court nominee, then lose control of the Senate.
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Talking Points Memo, The Mahablog, TheBlaze, Townhall, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Mother Jones, Redstate and Politico
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Senate's Rural Skew Makes It Very Hard For Democrats To Win The Supreme Court — I don't have a particularly strong take on how the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will affect either the presidential election or the race for control of the U.S. Senate. And I'd encourage you to avoid putting …
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The Guardian, Reason, New Republic and HuffPost
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Pelosi won't rule out launching new impeachment inquiry to block Trump SCOTUS nominee — Pelosi does not rule out impeachment to block Trump nominee to Supreme Court. — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi paid tribute …
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Townhall, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, IJR and New York Post
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Majority of Americans, including many Republicans, say wait for election to replace Ginsburg - Reuters poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans, including many Republicans, want the winner of the November presidential election to name a successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court …
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Making the Case for Court Expansion — Adding Justices to the Supreme Court is a political battle we can win — Days before the tragic death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell went to the floor of the Senate to try to save his endangered Senate Majority.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Pelosi won't rule out new impeachment to delay SCOTUS vote if Biden wins
Pelosi won't rule out new impeachment to delay SCOTUS vote if Biden wins
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The Federalist, POLITICUSUSA, CNBC, Politico, ABC News, Newsbusters, Denver Post, The Daily Caller and Breitbart
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Ginsburg's death gives GOP an edge in 2020 legal fights
Ginsburg's death gives GOP an edge in 2020 legal fights
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Axios, POLITICUSUSA, Breitbart, The Hill, Reuters and One America News Network
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Pelosi won't rule out using impeachment as option to stop Trump Supreme Court pick
Pelosi won't rule out using impeachment as option to stop Trump Supreme Court pick
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IJR, Raw Story, Law & Crime, NIFLA.org and Twitchy
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Trump to His Female Supporters: I Hope Your Husbands OKed You Attending My Rallies
Trump to His Female Supporters: I Hope Your Husbands OKed You Attending My Rallies
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Reuters, Political Wire and The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
Live updates: Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she doesn't support filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat before the election
Live updates: Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she doesn't support filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat before the election
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Bangor Daily News, Political Wire, New York Times, Just The News and TalkLeft
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Justice Ginsburg is gone, but democracy must survive
Justice Ginsburg is gone, but democracy must survive
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New York Times, The Daily Caller and Reuters
Sen. Ted Cruz / Fox News:
After Ginsburg — 3 reasons why Senate must confirm her successor before Election Day
After Ginsburg — 3 reasons why Senate must confirm her successor before Election Day
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Twitchy, Wall Street Journal and Redstate
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans are showing us why they should lose their majority
Senate Republicans are showing us why they should lose their majority
William Saletan / Slate:
McConnell Is Inventing Excuses to Grab Ginsburg's Seat
McConnell Is Inventing Excuses to Grab Ginsburg's Seat
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Fox News, New York Times, Senator Rob Portman, The Daily Caller, Yahoo News, Politico, Talking Points Memo and TMZ.com
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Sen. Ted Cruz, contradicting 2016 remarks, cites possible contested presidential election in urgent push to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat
Sen. Ted Cruz, contradicting 2016 remarks, cites possible contested presidential election in urgent push to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat
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AFP, The Federalist, Politico, Fox News, Daily Kos and MyNorthwest.com
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Murkowski says she opposes voting on Ginsburg replacement before election
Murkowski says she opposes voting on Ginsburg replacement before election
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Bloomberg, Mother Jones, NBC News, New York Post, Forbes, IJR, The Week, The Hill and Vox
New York Times:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Live Updates: Amid Mourning, Political Fight Heats Up
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Live Updates: Amid Mourning, Political Fight Heats Up
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NBC News:
Secret documents show how North Korea launders money through U.S. banks — WASHINGTON — North Korea carried out an elaborate money laundering scheme for years using a string of shell companies and help from Chinese firms, moving money through prominent banks in New York, according to confidential bank documents reviewed by NBC News.
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Political Wire
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
Deadly Terror Networks And Drug Cartels Use Huge Banks To Finance Their Crimes. These Secret Documents Show How The Banks Profit. — A huge trove of secret government documents reveals for the first time how the giants of Western banking move trillions of dollars in suspicious transactions …
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ICIJ
Tom Warren / BuzzFeed News:
Documents Show Deutsche Bank's Top Executives Were Warned It Had A Dirty Money Problem. Then A $10 Billion Scandal Broke. — When the $10 billion mirror trading scandal was exposed, little emerged about who its victims were or how much Deutsche's executives knew. The FinCEN Files investigation shows how deep the rot went.
ICIJ:
Global banks defy U.S. crackdowns by serving oligarchs, criminals and terrorists — Secret U.S. government documents reveal that JPMorgan Chase, HSBC and other big banks have defied money laundering crackdowns by moving staggering sums of illicit cash for shadowy characters and criminal networks …
BuzzFeed News:
We Got Our Hands On Thousands Of Secret Documents. Let's Break Them Down. — Twenty-two thousand pages of never-before-released government documents. Hundreds of thousands of transactions. More than $2 trillion. A close accounting of BuzzFeed News' unprecedented trove. — Copy
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CBS News:
Florida race tightens and Trump has edge over Biden in Texas — Battleground Tracker poll — Joe Biden still has a small edge in Florida, but the contest has tightened since our last poll in July, from six points down to two now, amid an ebbing — if still sizable — concern about coronavirus …
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Politico, The Hill, Political Wire and Big League Politics
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Why it could be a Biden blowout in November — (CNN)Poll of the week: A new ABC News/Washington Post poll from Minnesota finds Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden with a 57% to 41% lead over President Donald Trump among likely voters. — Two other Minnesota polls released …
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Raw Story and No More Mister Nice Blog
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Why a Never Trumper Changed Her Mind — On Monday, Danielle Pletka, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, published an op-ed in the Washington Post titled “I never considered voting for Trump in 2016. I may be forced to vote for him this year.”
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Redfield & Wilton Strategies, Vanity Fair and CANNONFIRE
Mark Murray / NBC News:
After a tumultuous month of news, Biden maintains national lead over Trump — WASHINGTON — After a month of political conventions, fresh controversies, more protests and additional deaths from the coronavirus, the 2020 presidential race remains where's it's been for months …
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MyNorthwest.com, Forbes, The Hill and Political Wire
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Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Leads Trump by 8 Points in New Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll
Biden Leads Trump by 8 Points in New Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll
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Detroit Free Press
Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Trump Describes Journalist Hit By Rubber Bullet As ‘A Beautiful Sight’ — At a rally in Minnesota, President Trump described an MSNBC anchor hit by a rubber bullet while covering protests after the death of George Floyd in May as “a beautiful sight,” comments quickly condemned by journalists including CNN's Jake Tapper.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Trump mocks MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for getting shot with rubber bullet
Trump mocks MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for getting shot with rubber bullet
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The Hill
Phillip W. Magness / Quillette:
Down the 1619 Project's Memory Hole — The history of the American Revolution isn't the only thing the New York Times is revising through its 1619 Project. The “paper of record” has also taken to quietly altering the published text of the project itself after one of its claims came under intense criticism.
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Politico