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2:20 AM ET, September 21, 2020

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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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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Fight over Ginsburg succession poses stark question: Can majority rule survive in US?  —  (CNN)A Republican vote to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the next presidential inauguration could deepen the pressure on majority rule that is already threatening …
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Nearly 70% Of Americans Want Nothing To Do With Trump's Coronavirus Vaccine  —  69% of Americans in a new poll said that they had no confidence in Trump to confirm a safe coronavirus vaccine.  —  A new ABC News/Ipsos poll found: … The lack of trust and confidence in Trump translates …
Discussion: Slate, Raw Story and ABC News
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Senate's Rural Skew Makes It Very Hard For Democrats To Win The Supreme Court
Discussion: HuffPost
Mike Allen / Axios:
Furious Democrats consider total war if McConnell jams through Supreme Court pick
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Pelosi won't rule out new impeachment to delay SCOTUS vote if Biden wins
Washington Post:
Biden warns that a quick replacement of Ginsburg would “plunge us deeper into the abyss”
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden implores key Republicans: ‘Follow your conscience’ on Ginsburg replacement
Politico:
Florida Republicans: Nominating Lagoa could clinch state for Trump  —  MIAMI — Leading Florida Republican politicians are launching an all-out effort to convince President Donald Trump to nominate federal Judge Barbara Lagoa to the U.S. Supreme Court — a move they say would boost his reelection chances in the must-win swing state.
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Axios:
Inside Biden's Supreme Court strategy
Discussion: New York Times and Vanity Fair
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Making the Case for Court Expansion
Discussion: The Atlantic
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Who is Amy Coney Barrett, the judge at the top of Trump's list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
NBC News:
Secret documents show how North Korea launders money through U.S. banks  —  North Korea carried out an elaborate money laundering scheme for years using a string of shell companies and help from Chinese companies, moving money through prominent banks in New York, according to confidential bank documents reviewed by NBC News.
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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 …
BuzzFeed News:
We Got Our Hands On Thousands Of Secret Documents. Let's Break Them Down.
Associated Press:
AP sources: Woman accused of sending ricin letter arrested  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman suspected of sending an envelope containing the poison ricin, which was addressed to White House, has been arrested at New York-Canada border, three law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Discussion: Fox News, Breitbart, Axios and Law & Crime
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NBC News:
Suspect detained for allegedly sending ricin-tainted letter to White House
Discussion: New York Times and New York Post
Evan Perez / CNN:
Woman suspected of sending poisoned letter to Trump arrested
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Times
Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News:
Biden holds sizable lead over Trump among Latino voters in NBC/WSJ/Telemundo poll  —  Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump 62 percent to 26 percent among Latino registered voters nationally, but his lead trails Hillary Clinton's advantage with this voting bloc at this same stage in 2016 …
Discussion: The Hill
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Why it could be a Biden blowout in November
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Jeff Zucker Helped Create Donald Trump.  That Show May Be Ending.  —  The coziness between the TV executive and Mr. Trump is a Frankenstein story for the cable news era.  But then the monster got away.  —  In December 2015, after the demagoguery of Donald Trump's presidential campaign became clear …
In General / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
How Republican elites learned to stop worrying and love the Donald  —  I'm asking because he talked about liberating Michigan.  And then what he said about Kyle Rittenhouse.  —  Well, again, Donald Trump's reaction, for example, in the wake of Charlottesville was abhorrent.
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Why a Never Trumper Changed Her Mind
Redfield & Wilton Strategies:   Latest Georgia and Minnesota Voting Intention (12 - 17 September)
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Mike Espy Breaks Fundraising Record After Ginsburg's Death as Hyde-Smith Backs Trump  —  Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mike Espy raised more money on Saturday than any Mississippi candidate for federal office has raised in any one day in history, the campaign said.
Discussion: Mississippi Today
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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
H.R. McMaster on America's enemies and what he saw in the White House  —  The former national security adviser speaks with Scott Pelley about China, Russia, his decision to serve under President Trump and a host of other topics in a wide-ranging interview.  —  H.R. Mcmaster was an eyewitness …
Washington Post:
Amy Coney Barrett, potential Supreme Court nominee, wrote influential ruling on campus sexual assault  —  Amy Coney Barrett, a leading contender for the Supreme Court seat held by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, wrote an influential appellate decision last year that made it easier for students accused …
George Packer / The Atlantic:
The Inside Story of Why Mueller Failed  —  In a new book, Andrew Weissmann, one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's top deputies, lays out the limits and letdowns of the years-long Russia investigation.  —  ndrew Weissmann was one of Robert Mueller's top deputies in the special counsel's investigation …
New York Times:
'There's No There There': What the TikTok Deal Achieved  —  The agreement for the social media app falls short of President Trump's promises.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The saga of TikTok had everything: Ominous threats of surveillance.  A forced fire sale.  Threats of retaliation.
Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
Family, work and opera filled Ginsburg's final summer  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — She was seeing family.  She was exercising.  She was listening to opera.  She was doing the work of the court.  She even officiated at a wedding.  —  That's how Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent the weeks before her death Friday at 87.
 
 
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Louis Jacobson / @politifact:
Best practices for journalists covering the 2020 election: A report from the Poynter Institute
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Brian Hiatt / Rolling Stone:
How Bruce Springsteen confronted death, saw Clarence in his dreams, and knocked out a raw and rocking new album with the world's greatest bar band
Discussion: Breitbart
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump campaign goes all in on Pennsylvania
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Wait, What? Biden Just Said Something Absolutely Crazy About COVID Deaths
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Sheila Kaplan / New York Times:
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