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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 …
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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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Tina Sfondeles / Business Insider:
$750. Again. And again. The amount Trump twice paid in taxes will be Biden's magic number during the first presidential debate, insiders say … - Democratic insiders say $750 — the amount President Donald Trump paid in federal tax income for two years — will give Joe Biden an edge in Tuesday's presidential debate.
David Badash / Raw Story:
Forbes adds it up: Trump has $1.1 billion in debt — Forbes says President Donald Trump is a billionaire, but he has more than a billion dollars in debt. — The New York Times Sunday evening dropped a bombshell investigation into Trump's taxes, after having obtained twenty years of his returns.
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Forbes, The Hill and The Mahablog
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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CNN, Reuters, One America News Network, The Daily Beast, The Hill, The Guardian, CNBC, Newsbusters, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, The Nation and Talking Points Memo
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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CNN, Washington Post, Occupy Democrats, Townhall, Talking Points Memo and Reuters
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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Informed Comment, National File, POLITICUSUSA, Bloomberg and Vox
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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Gary Langer / ABC News:
In Pennsylvania, advantage Biden with a big boost from women: POLL — The result includes a more than 2-1 Biden lead in the Philadelphia suburbs. — What to expect from the first presidential debate — “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos joins us to discuss President Trump's Supreme …
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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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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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Washington Post:
Post-ABC poll: Biden leads Trump in battleground state of Pennsylvania — Biden runs strong in Philadelphia suburbs and is competitive in western Pennsylvania. Trump leads in central and northeastern parts of the state. — Former vice president Joe Biden leads President Trump …
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Sabato's Crystal Ball
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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Mediaite, Political Wire and Raw Story
Marc Levy / Associated Press:
Republicans ask U.S. Supreme Court to put hold on ruling extending Pennsylvania mail-ballot deadline — Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to put a hold on a ruling in the presidential battleground state that extends the deadline in November's election to receive and count mailed-in ballots.
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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How the ‘minority rule’ problem could get much worse
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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The American Independent, Washington Post, Politico and Law & Crime
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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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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American Greatness and The Gateway Pundit
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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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Redstate and Law & Crime
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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Brigid Bergin / Gothamist:
Brooklyn Voters Receive Absentee Ballot Envelopes With Wrong Voter Names And Addresses — The New York City Board of Elections has mailed out nearly half a million absentee ballots ahead of Election Day this November, as many New Yorkers are opting to vote by mail during the pandemic.
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge orders emergency paper backups of voter records in Georgia
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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Fox News and Associated Press
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
TESSA DUVALL , DARCY COSTELLO | Louisville Courier Journal
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Meet a Secret Trump Voter — 'Being a lesbian who's voting for Trump is like coming out of the closet again.' — Chris is a registered Democrat in her 50s who lives in Manhattan. She's well-educated, well-traveled and well-informed. She has voted for candidates of both parties …
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
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
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Cindy McCain joins board of Biden's presidential transition team — Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), has joined the advisory board of Democratic nominee Joe Biden's presidential transition team, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Dr. Fauci Calls Out ‘Outlandish’ Reporting on Fox News, Dr. Scott Atlas' ‘Outlier’ Views Over Misleading Pandemic Info — The head of the nation's infectious diseases institute, Dr. Anthony Fauci, directly called out both Fox News and Trump's newly-appointed Covid adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas …
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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
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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Axios
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.”
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
How ‘Save the Children’ Is Keeping QAnon Alive — Last year, QAnon was on the ropes. — The pro-Trump conspiracy theory had been left homeless by the disappearance of 8chan, the message board where “Q,” its pseudonymous central figure, posted cryptic clues about a cabal of child-eating Satanic pedophiles.
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