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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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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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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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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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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden implores key Republicans: ‘Follow your conscience’ on Ginsburg replacement — Joe Biden personally appealed to the handful of Republican senators who control the fate of Donald Trump's upcoming Supreme Court nominee and framed the firestorm over the vacancy as a referendum on Obamacare, union rights and Dreamers.
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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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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
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Biden to Senate GOP after RBG passing: “Please follow your conscience”
Biden to Senate GOP after RBG passing: “Please follow your conscience”
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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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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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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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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Justice Ginsburg is gone, but democracy must survive
Justice Ginsburg is gone, but democracy must survive
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Republicans are usually more fired up over SCOTUS. Now, polls say Democrats are.
Republicans are usually more fired up over SCOTUS. Now, polls say Democrats are.
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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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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Will the Election Turn on R.B.G.?
Will the Election Turn on R.B.G.?
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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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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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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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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 …
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
H.R. McMaster Tries to Wish Away His Old Boss Donald Trump — Don't look to the former national security adviser's new book for revelations about his time serving Trump. Look to it for its evasions—which explain that service to Trump so well. — BEAST INSIDE
Sheila Kaplan / New York Times:
In ‘Power Grab,’ Health Secretary Azar Asserts Authority Over F.D.A. — Experts said the memo would make it more difficult for the F.D.A. to issue new rules, but it's unclear how it would affect the vetting of coronavirus vaccines. — In a stunning declaration of authority, Alex M. Azar II …
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