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Mike McIntire / New York Times:
HOW REALITY-TV FAME HANDED TRUMP A $427 MILLION LIFELINE — Tax records show that “The Apprentice” rescued Donald J. Trump, bringing him new sources of cash and a myth that would propel him to the White House. — From the back seat of a stretch limousine heading to meet the first contestants …
Daniel Shaviro / Just Security:
Ten Quick Takeaways from the New York Times' Bombshell Article on Trump's Tax Returns — Sunday night's New York Times article on Donald Trump's taxes has a great deal of content that will take time (and additional supporting detail) to digest fully. What's more, this article is apparently …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump tax records show duplicity. That's devastating for his campaign.
Trump tax records show duplicity. That's devastating for his campaign.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
CNN Anchor Shuts Down Trump Spox for Attacking NYT Reporters on Tax Story
CNN Anchor Shuts Down Trump Spox for Attacking NYT Reporters on Tax Story
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Here's how much you had to make in 2017 to pay more income tax than Donald Trump
Here's how much you had to make in 2017 to pay more income tax than Donald Trump
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Trump's millions from Turkey and the Philippines are corrupt
Trump's millions from Turkey and the Philippines are corrupt
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
How Trump's taxes compare to those of other presidents
How Trump's taxes compare to those of other presidents
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Common Dreams, National File, The National Interest, Bloomberg, CNBC and Chicago Sun-Times
New York Times:
Behind the White House Effort to Pressure the C.D.C. on School Openings — Documents and interviews show how senior officials sought to play down the risks of sending children back to the classroom, alarming public health experts. — WASHINGTON — Top White House officials pressured …
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Political Wire and Raw Story
New York Times:
Supreme Court Vacancy Hasn't Boosted Trump in Pennsylvania, Poll Shows — President Trump had counted on his court nomination over the weekend to shift the election dynamic away from his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But it has not reset the race in the key battleground state.
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Marc Levy / Associated Press:
Republicans ask U.S. Supreme Court to put hold on ruling extending Pennsylvania mail-ballot deadline
Republicans ask U.S. Supreme Court to put hold on ruling extending Pennsylvania mail-ballot deadline
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Matthew Segal / The Appeal:
Yes, Pack The Court - Pack It With Public Interest Lawyers
Yes, Pack The Court - Pack It With Public Interest Lawyers
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Amy Coney Barrett: A Dream For The Right, Nightmare For The Left
Amy Coney Barrett: A Dream For The Right, Nightmare For The Left
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Pennsylvania GOP asks Supreme Court to halt mail-in ballot extension
Pennsylvania GOP asks Supreme Court to halt mail-in ballot extension
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Channel 4 News:
Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016 — Channel 4 News has exclusively obtained a vast cache of data used by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign on almost 200 million American voters. — It reveals that 3.5 million Black Americans …
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Mario Ariza / Sun-Sentinel:
Ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale was drunk and agitated in standoff, police say. Then his cop friend showed up. — FORT LAUDERDALE — Bradley Parscale, former campaign manager to president Donald Trump, was in the middle of an armed standoff with police at his Fort Lauderdale home …
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge orders emergency paper backups of voter records in Georgia — A federal judge on Monday required paper backups of voter registration and absentee voting information at every Georgia polling place, a safeguard to allow voters to continue casting ballots if computers fail on Election Day.
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Brigid Bergin / Gothamist:
Brooklyn Voters Receive Absentee Ballot Envelopes With Wrong Voter Names And Addresses
Brooklyn Voters Receive Absentee Ballot Envelopes With Wrong Voter Names And Addresses
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Judge orders Georgia to have paper backups of pollbooks on Election Day
Judge orders Georgia to have paper backups of pollbooks on Election Day
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Patrick Howley / National File:
Biden's Texas Political Director Accused of Illegal Ballot Harvesting At Texas Supreme Court — Major Scandal Has Implications for the Biden Campaign — The Joe Biden campaign's Texas Political Director has been formally accused of helping to run an illegal ballot harvesting operation …
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Emma Platoff / The Texas Tribune:
Houston Republicans sue to limit in-person and absentee voting options in Harris County — Conservative activist Steve Hotze and a number of Republican candidates and officials are asking the Texas Supreme Court to shorten the early voting period and limit drop-off locations for absentee ballots …
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Law & Crime
Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
Grand Jury Deliberations in Breonna Taylor Case Will Be Released — The Kentucky attorney general's office said it would release the recordings of the deliberations after a grand juror complained about how they were publicly represented. — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A juror in the Breonna Taylor case contends …
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Tessa Duvall / Courier-Journal:
TESSA DUVALL , DARCY COSTELLO | Louisville Courier Journal — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An unidentified grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case is asking the courts to release the grand jury transcript and records and for fellow jurors to be free to speak about the case, according to a new court filing.
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News Lobotomizes Its ‘Brain Room,’ Cuts Fact-Based Journalism — ‘NOT INTERESTED IN FACTS’ … Staffers said the recent layoffs gutting Fox News' fact-checking team were a victory for the network's right-wing opinion shows and further cemented its status as “state media.”
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Raw Story
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Coronavirus Deaths Pass One Million Worldwide — Over the past 10 months, the virus has taken more lives than H.I.V., malaria, influenza and cholera. And as it sows destruction in daily life around the globe, it is still growing quickly. — More than H.I.V. More than dysentery.
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Sky News Australia:
The ‘Trump Doctrine’ earns President third Nobel Peace Prize nomination — Eminent law professor David Flint is among four Australian law professors who are nominating US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize on the basis of the “Trump Doctrine”.
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Matthew Impelli / Newsweek:
Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Australian Law Professors for Doctrine Against Endless Wars
Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Australian Law Professors for Doctrine Against Endless Wars
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Townhall
Washington Post:
Joe Biden for president — In order to expel the worst president of modern times, many voters might be willing to vote for almost anybody. — Fortunately, to oust President Trump in 2020, voters do not have to lower their standards. The Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden …
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Christina Johnsen / Polls:
Voters Split on Filling SCOTUS Seat — Some bothered by Trump position on transfer of power; — Few expect first debate will change their minds — West Long Branch, NJ - There has been a slight narrowing in the presidential race in the latest national Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
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New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: Report on Trump's $750 Income Tax Payments Reverberates on Eve of Debate — Republicans mostly greeted revelations about Mr. Trump's tax avoidance with silence, but he will inevitably face questions about it when he debates Joe Biden. New polls showed Mr. Biden leading in Wisconsin and Michigan.
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Felipe De La Hoz / The Baffler:
Horror Stories — The sensationalist turn in liberal immigration discourse — IT'S BEEN TWO WEEKS since a whistleblower complaint involving the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC), an ICE detention facility in Georgia, was first reported in The Intercept.
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National Memo
Ryan Parry West / Daily Mail:
Former New Mexico Democratic Governor Bill Richardson is accused of raking in hundreds of thousands in bribes and kickbacks to fund debauched lifestyle including ‘sexual services and favors’ — Bill Richardson has been accused of running a scheme in which he raked in over $100k of dollars in bribes while in office
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OpsLens and The Gateway Pundit
Eric Lichtblau / TIME:
Exclusive: As States Prepared Mail-in Ballots, Postal Service Failed to Update at Least 1.8 Million Addresses — For three weeks in August, as election officials across the country were preparing to send out mail-in ballots to tens of millions of voters, the U.S. Postal Service stopped fully updating …
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Forbes and Law & Crime
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Trump sought deals with Moscow mayor — In a meandering press conference on Sunday, President Donald Trump repeatedly accused his Democratic opponent's son, Hunter Biden, of receiving millions of dollars from the wife of Moscow's late mayor Yury Luzhkov, asking why “nobody even has any question about it.”
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Dot:
This voter fraud insider touted by Trump runs a non-existent organization — Project Veritas, the right-wing undercover operation headed up by James O'Keefe, released a 16-minute long video Monday depicting alleged “ballot harvesting” in Minnesota. — The video put out by the huckster …
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USA Today:
Florida schools reopened en masse, but a surge in coronavirus didn't follow, a USA TODAY analysis finds … Many teachers and families feared a spike in COVID-19 cases when Florida made the controversial push to reopen schools in August with in-person instruction.
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