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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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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.
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
How Trump's taxes compare to those of other presidents  —  Jimmy Carter voluntarily paid $6,000 in 1976 despite a zero tax bill, while other recent predecessors typically paid tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars  —  In 1977, President Jimmy Carter had a problem, according to presidential tax historian Joseph Thorndike.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump tax records show duplicity. That's devastating for his campaign.
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Trump's millions from Turkey and the Philippines are corrupt
Ryan Ellis / The Federalist:
New York Times' Trump Tax Return ‘Bombshell’ Is A Joke
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Taxes Show He's a National Security Threat
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Here's how much you had to make in 2017 to pay more income tax than Donald Trump
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Yes, Donald Trump Is Still A Billionaire. That Makes His $750 Tax Payment Even More Scandalous
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 …
Discussion: Denver Post
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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Matthew Segal / The Appeal:
Yes, Pack The Court - Pack It With Public Interest Lawyers
Discussion: The Sun and Washington Post
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
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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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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Global coronavirus death toll crosses 1 million  —  The global toll of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 crossed 1 million on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins.  —  By the numbers: More than half of those deaths have come in four countries: the U.S. (204,762), Brazil (141,741), India (95,542) and Mexico (76,430).
Discussion: NPR
Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:
Global Coronavirus Deaths Surpass One Million
Discussion: Politico
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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DW.COM:   US: Religious data platform ‘targets mentally ill, vulnerable people’
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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Emma Austin / Courier-Journal:
EMMA AUSTIN  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The sole Louisville police officer charged in connection …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Washington Post
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.
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
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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.”
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
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 …
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.”
Discussion: Raw Story
Vanessa Handy / Washington Square News:
We're Resigning from WSN.  Here's Why.  —  We, the undersigned WSN Fall 2020 Editorial Staff, have collectively decided to resign from Washington Square News, effective immediately.  This was extensively deliberated in collaboration with 43 staff editors, and it was not a decision we enjoyed making.
Monica Alba / NBC News:
Redfield voices alarm over influence of Trump's new coronavirus task force adviser  —  WASHINGTON — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force …
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Throw him out of MY building.’ Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski tells how the rivalry between him and John Kelly exploded when the White House chief of staff threw him against a wall outside the Oval Office in new book  — Corey Lewandowski and John Kelly nearly came …
Discussion: Amazon.com
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 …
Discussion: Forbes and Law & Crime
Sam Mintz / Politico:
Thousands of aviation layoffs loom amid a dysfunctional Congress  —  Tens of thousands of airline workers will lose their jobs in a matter of days if Congress is unable to break through its gridlock, even though a majority of lawmakers support heading off the looming layoffs for an industry that's been decimated by the coronavirus.
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.
Discussion: Associated Press
 
 
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
House Democrats unveil new $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief proposal
Discussion: Fox News
Nick Givas / Fox News:
Sen. Rick Scott introduces bill requiring mail-in ballots be counted within 24 hours of Election Day
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and OpsLens
Matthew Impelli / Newsweek:
Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Australian Law Professors for Doctrine Against Endless Wars
Discussion: Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
Felipe De La Hoz / The Baffler:
Horror Stories  —  The sensationalist turn in liberal immigration discourse
Discussion: National Memo
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
NYT editorial board presses for plan if Trump tweets he won election
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Subject of NYT ‘Caliphate’ podcast series charged with perpetrating a hoax
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Conservative group to argue that Media Matters should have been ineligible for PPP loan
Politico:
Trump administration orders assessment on bolstering nuclear warheads as talks with Russia stall
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
NBC News:
Voter interest surges after Ginsburg death and National Voter Registration Day, group says
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Richard C. Paddock / New York Times:
American Could Face Prison in Thailand After Posting Negative Reviews of a Resort
Discussion: Gizmodo and TMZ.com
USA Today:
Florida schools reopened en masse, but a surge in coronavirus didn't follow, a USA TODAY analysis finds
Discussion: TheBlaze
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Courts view GOP fraud claims skeptically as Democrats score key legal victories over mail voting
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Fox News and WTOP
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
If Race Comes Down to Omaha, Poll Shows Biden Has an Edge
Discussion: Fox News
USA Today:
Trump wants to run on his record. We hope he does. It's been a disaster for America.
 

 
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