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John Kruzel / The Hill:
GOP will ask Supreme Court to limit mail voting in Pennsylvania in first post-RBG test  —  Republicans plan to ask the Supreme Court to review a major Pennsylvania state court ruling that extended the due date for mail ballots in the key battleground state, teeing up the first test …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Romney backs vote on Supreme Court nominee, clearing way for Trump  —  Sen. Mitt Romney said Tuesday he would support a floor vote to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, essentially clinching consideration of President Donald Trump's nominee this year despite the impending election.
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Democrats have a better option than court packing  —  With the unfortunate death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Republicans are licking their chops at the prospect of a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the nation's highest legal body.  This would be an obvious violation of the …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Down With Judicial Supremacy!  —  The Supreme Court was never meant to be the only arbiter of the meaning of the Constitution.  —  Beyond the obvious — that liberals need some way to respond to President Trump as he moves to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg …
Discussion: Mother Jones, The Week and Reuters
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Why Biden is stiff-arming the left on court-packing and the filibuster
The Daily Beast:
Dems Balk at Using Their Biggest Weapon in SCOTUS Fight
Associated Press:
Trump asks Supreme Court for fast action in census case
Discussion: National Review
Matt Vespa / Townhall:
Shove It, Democrats. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Seat Is Ours...And There's Nothing You Can Do About It
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Commission on Presidential Debates:
Moderator Announces Topics for First Presidential Debate  —  The first presidential debate will be held on Tuesday, September 29 at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH.  The format for the first debate calls for six 15-minute time segments dedicated …
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Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Handmaid's Tale?  U.S. Supreme Court candidate's religious community under scrutiny  —  (Reuters) - Some have likened People of Praise, a self-described charismatic Christian community, to the totalitarian, male-dominated society of Margaret Atwood's novel “The Handmaid's Tale.”
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll: Race for president, Senate contests in Georgia ‘too close to call’  —  Pollster: ‘All three races are in play’  —  A new poll conducted for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows the presidential race in Georgia could not be closer, with President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden tied …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Biden campaign plans travel around competitive Senate races
Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Donald Trump and Joe Biden are locked in a dead heat six weeks to Election Day  —  It's a dead heat in Iowa as a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden locked in a tie just six weeks to Election Day.
Washington Post:
Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor  —  Shortly after Congress passed the Cares Act, the Pentagon began directing pandemic-related money to defense contractors  —  A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Mike Bloomberg raises $16 million to allow former felons to vote in Florida  —  Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his team have raised more than $16 million to pay the court fines and fees of nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic Florida voters with felony convictions …
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Bobby Burack / OutKick:
LeBron Actively Looking to Pay Convicted Felons' Fines to Vote in Election
Discussion: Fox News
World Socialist Web Site:
The New York Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones abandon key claims of the 1619 Project  —  The New York Times, without announcement or explanation, has abandoned the central claim of the 1619 Project: that 1619, the year the first slaves were brought to Colonial Virginia—and not 1776—was the “true founding” of the United States.
Discussion: Twitchy, The Federalist and Breitbart
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trump's ex-Russia adviser Fiona Hill: US increasingly seen as ‘object of pity’  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's former top Russia adviser said Tuesday that the United States is increasingly seen as “an object of pity” and its standing on the world stage is eroding.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Secret CIA assessment: Putin ‘probably directing’ influence operation to denigrate Biden  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top aides are “probably directing” a Russian foreign influence operation to interfere in the 2020 presidential election against former vice president Joe Biden …
Eline Schaart / Politico:
US ambassador under fire for hosting Dutch far-right bash  —  The U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands has been accused of interfering in national politics after hosting an event for the far-right Forum for Democracy party.  —  The event, held at the American Embassy in Wassenaar on September 10 …
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Adam Taylor / Washington Post:   Dutch lawmakers demand answers after U.S. ambassador holds party for right-wing populists at embassy
Leah Asmelash / CNN:
Colleges knew the risks but they reopened anyway.  Here's how they got it all wrong  —  (CNN)Going into the new school year, colleges and universities knew the risks.  —  After all, in March, most had pivoted to virtual learning — either temporarily or permanently — in hopes of curbing the spread of the virus.
Jill Ishkanian / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Defund the police’ activist Alyssa Milano calls 911 sparking massive police presence in her quiet California neighborhood claiming an armed an gunman was on her property - but it was really a teen shooting at squirrels with an air gun  — Actress Alyssa Milano called police …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The White House: Trump's always-coming-soon health-care plan is coming soon  —  But the issue is suddenly urgent  —  In two weeks, President Trump and his team would like to assure you, everything will fall into place.  The only problem is that this is a rolling prediction …
Discussion: The Hill and New York Times
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Jon Walker / American Prospect:
Pelosi Can Save Obamacare With a One-Line Amendment
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The Republican Party is an authoritarian outlier  —  (L-R) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), President Donald Trump, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).  Erin Schaff/Pool/Getty Images  —  Compared to center-right parties in developed democracies, the GOP is dangerously far from normal.
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Revealed: Bill Clinton's Intimate Secret Dinner With Ghislaine Maxwell  —  The former president invited Ghislaine Maxwell to a cozy dinner in L.A. in 2014, years after she had been accused by a victim of procuring girls for Epstein's sex ring.  —  After a star-studded gala in February 2014 …
Discussion: Mediaite
CNN:
Why we should listen to what Olivia Troye says about Donald Trump  —  Former Trump official says he witnessed Pence praise Olivia Troye  —  Miles Taylor served at the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump Administration from 2017 to 2019, including as DHS chief of staff to Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Mary Kekatos Senior / Daily Mail:
Halloween is canceled: CDC advises Americans to not go trick-or-treating or to costume parties but says staying home to carve pumpkins is safe in new coronavirus guidance  — The CDC has issued its first guidance for how to celebrate Halloween during the coronavirus pandemic
Mallory Hughes / CNN:
Black man's body found burning in a ditch in Iowa  —  (CNN)A Black man whose burning body was found in a ditch in rural Iowa has been identified as a local grandfather.  —  Just after 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 16, authorities received a report of a fire in a roadside ditch near Kellogg.
HuffPost:
2020 Could Be A Breakthrough Year For Black Senate Candidates  —  There have been 10 Black senators in all of U.S. history.  Six candidates are running to change that in the 2020 election.  —  There have been 1,307 people who have served in the U.S. Senate throughout its history.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The hidden reason Trump's ‘October surprise’ will likely fail  —  Any day now — perhaps as early as Tuesday — the number of U.S. deaths from the coronavirus will officially hit the staggering total of 200,000.  Yet at a rally on Monday night, President Trump said this about the virus: “It affects virtually nobody.”
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Debates Could Seal Biden's Fate  —  Last weekend, Philippe Reines walked over to Ron Klain's house in Washington, D.C., to hand off his Donald Trump outfit: the suit, the shoes with the lifts, the shirt, the long red tie, the cufflinks.  Just in case.  When the former Hillary Clinton aide stored …
Meg O'Connor / The Appeal:
How One Election Might Strike a Blow to Mass Incarceration in Arizona  —  In Maricopa County, years of harsh charging and sentencing policies have sent state incarceration rates soaring.  Now that legacy is in question in November's prosecutor election.  —  In April, as Arizona advocates warned …
 
 
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NCSBE:
State Board Updates Cure Process to Ensure More Lawful Votes Count
Discussion: Axios and Associated Press
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
When Joe Biden's in Town, but It's Hard to Tell
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed News:
We Aren't Nationally Mourning The 200,000 COVID-19 Victims Because If We Did It Would Be A Reckoning
Oliver Holmes / The Guardian:
Leaks show Chelsea owner Abramovich funded Israeli settler group
Breitbart:
DELETED: Big Tech's Efforts to Sway the Election Revealed
 Earlier Items: 
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Russian State Media Posts Deepfake Showing Trump as Putin's Stooge
Discussion: RT and Raw Story
Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
Africa has defied the covid-19 nightmare scenarios. We shouldn't be surprised.
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Doug McKelway retires from Fox News with an eyebrow-raising video: ‘I want to thank Roger Ailes’
Discussion: Mediaite
Holly Yan / CNN:
200,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the US. That's more than the US battle deaths from 5 wars combined
Discussion: Vox
Detroit Free Press:
In secret recording, trainer for Unlock Michigan advises on unlawful tactics
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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