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Fox News:
Trump camp seeks extra debate rule: Third party inspectors to look for electronic devices in candidates' ears — Biden campaign asking for two breaks during the 90 minute commercial free showdown — Top Trump campaign advisers preview first presidential debate
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden Releases Tax Returns Ahead of Debate With Trump — The Democratic nominee paid nearly $300,000 in federal taxes for 2019, drawing a tax-disclosure contrast with the president — Former Vice President Joe Biden released his 2019 tax returns on Tuesday, showing that he paid nearly $300,000 …
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Martyn McLaughlin / Scotsman:
Analysis: Question of how Donald Trump's Scottish resorts are financed even more urgent — The revelatory reporting by the New York Times into Donald Trump's taxes shines a light on an area of the US president's finances that has long been shrouded in mystery, and with mere weeks to go until …
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Mother Jones, The American Independent, Quartz, FiveThirtyEight and Vox
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The art of diversion — On Sunday, the New York Times obtained Trump's tax returns, which revealed that he paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. But wait, look over there! — Project Veritas, an organization run by right-wing polemicist James O'Keefe, claims it has …
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Washington Post, New York Post, Minnesota Reformer and National File
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump's adversarial relationship with presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace, explained
Trump's adversarial relationship with presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace, explained
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Raw Story, CBS News, Fox News, The Nation and The Mahablog
NBC News:
Trump, Biden first debate: Everything you need to know
Trump, Biden first debate: Everything you need to know
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Politico, Conservative News Today, New York Post, Newsbusters, Breitbart, Axios and The Hill
Fox News:
Biden releases 2019 tax returns before debate, calls for Trump to release his
Biden releases 2019 tax returns before debate, calls for Trump to release his
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National Review, The Hill, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and Daily Kos
CNN:
Biden and Trump prepare for a debate that could turn personal
Biden and Trump prepare for a debate that could turn personal
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Bangor Daily News and Vox
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Inside Joe Biden's whistle-stop tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania
Inside Joe Biden's whistle-stop tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania
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Townhall, Redstate, The Week, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters — One day in 2015, Donald Trump beckoned Michael Cohen, his longtime confidant and personal attorney, into his office. Trump was brandishing a printout of an article about an Atlanta-based megachurch pastor trying to raise $60 million from his flock to buy a private jet.
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Deseret News, Morning Shots, The Hill, Mediaite, The Week and Raw Story
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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Patricia Kelly Yeo / The Daily Beast:
Schumer Refuses to Meet With Amy Coney Barrett, Calls Process ‘Illegitimate’ — BARRETT, SPURNED — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he doesn't plan to meet with Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's Supreme Court nominee officially announced Saturday.
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Andrew Perez / The Daily Poster:
We Still Don't Know Who Is Paying For Trump's SCOTUS Seats
We Still Don't Know Who Is Paying For Trump's SCOTUS Seats
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
Barrett tied to faith group ex-members say subjugates women
Barrett tied to faith group ex-members say subjugates women
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Townhall, Raw Story and Bangor Daily News
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats want to avoid Kavanaugh 2.0
Senate Democrats want to avoid Kavanaugh 2.0
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Reuters, The American Independent, WTOP, Bangor Daily News and One America News Network
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Electoral College Rating Changes: Ohio and Iowa Move to Toss Up — In mid-June, we moved both Iowa and Ohio from Likely Republican to Lean Republican. At the time, we noted that while the polls were looking shaky for Pres. Trump, they were also catching him at what could be his lowest point of the cycle.
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Washington Post, The Hill and Vox
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's Pennsylvania problem — With the first general election presidential debate set for Tuesday night, state polls are coming thick and fast. And perhaps none of them speak to how much President Trump has his work cut out for him than Pennsylvania. — Two new polls released Monday …
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The Hill
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
In Pennsylvania, advantage Biden with a big boost from women: POLL
In Pennsylvania, advantage Biden with a big boost from women: POLL
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The Hill, CNN, Washington Post, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The Week and New York Times
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Trump — not Biden — is being underestimated going into the debate — In 2016, during one of her first prep sessions for the presidential debates with Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton listened to a litany of attacks from Philippe Reines, a longtime aide who was playing the role of Trump …
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The Moderate Voice, DCReport.org, America's Voice, Washington Post, Reuters and The Week
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Postal Service workers quietly resist DeJoy's changes with eye on election — Many USPS employees see recent cost-cutting changes that have slowed mail delivery as violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the law. — This summer, as controversial new procedures at the U.S. Postal Service snarled …
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Daily Kos
Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
They wanted disruption in 2016. Now they're Trump defectors — Shawna Jensen's moment of reckoning came in March, as she sat in her suburban Fort Worth, Texas, living room next to her fireplace. Her laptop was open to a Zoom happy hour with five girlfriends. She sucked in a breath, gripping her glass of red wine.
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Politico
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Barr's Justice Department serves up talking points for Trump — The prosecution of Michael Flynn. A Senate investigation into the provenance of the Steele Dossier. The nascent federal probe of discarded absentee ballots in Pennsylvania. — In recent days, the Justice Department …
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Associated Press and Raw Story
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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Reason, CNN, GovExec.com, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Mediaite, The Week, Political Wire and Raw Story
Jay Price / NPR:
A Military 1st: A Supercarrier Is Named After An African American Sailor — FROM NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO - WUNC — Military names can echo down through the ages, a fact underlined by the current fight in Washington, D.C., between President Trump and Congress, which has voted to strip …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The War on Driving to Come — Several Senate Dems Refuse to Meet with Barrett, Come Out against Confirmation — Autonomous vehicles are about to collide with the American way. — Editor's Note: The following piece first appeared in the December 18, 2017 issue of National Review.
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Instapundit
New York Times:
Trump Has Sold Off America's Credibility for His Personal Gain — From China to Ukraine, this president has acted at odds with American foreign policy. Imagine what he could do with four more years. — Lt. Col. Vindman served on the National Security Council.
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Washington Post and CNN
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Mueller pushes back on insider book faulting special counsel for not doing more to hold Trump accountable — Former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III pushed back Tuesday against a prosecutor in his office whose tell-all book alleges investigators should have done more to hold President Trump accountable …
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Wired
New York Times:
Immigrants Say They Were Pressured Into Unneeded Surgeries — Immigrants detained at an ICE-contracted center in Georgia said they had invasive gynecology procedures that they later learned might have been unnecessary. — Wendy Dowe was startled awake early one morning in January 2019 …
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
Ohio could be Biden's best shot at keeping Trump from contesting the 2020 election — Typically, presidential elections are fought and won in the so-called tipping-point states — places such as Wisconsin or Pennsylvania that statisticians — consider most likely to put one candidate …
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ABC News, Roll Call, Just Security and Wall Street Journal
Henry Fountain / New York Times:
Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work,’ Studies Suggest — A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable. — Scientists developing a compact version of a nuclear fusion reactor have shown …
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Shelby Talcott / The Daily Caller:
Police Used A Legally Dubious Tactic In Louisville, And I Found Myself Caught In The Middle Of It. Here's What Happened ... 11:02 pm. — Then I called my editor. 11:07 pm. No dice. Not sure what he would do anyhow. The police were closing in. — These were my last communications …
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
Media Gunning For Scott Atlas Because He Keeps Exposing Coronavirus Lies — ‘Everything he says is false,’ NBC News quoted CDC Director Robert Redfield as saying of Atlas. That's just not true, top epidemiologists told The Federalist. — Centers for Disease Control Director …
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Talking Points Memo, Power Line, The Gateway Pundit and IJR
Bonchie / Redstate:
Jill Biden Is the Candidate Now, and Everyone Knows It — Yesterday, Joe Biden once again called a “lid” before most people in the country clock in for work. That's become a pattern over the last month, with him taking off nearly half the days that a candidate would normally be campaigning their tail off.
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CANNONFIRE and Twitchy
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
‘To Represent All Mississippians’: Hyde-Smith Ad Uses Russian, Canadian Footage — Canadian, Russian, South African and Ukrainian models appear in U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith's first 2020 campaign ad for her Mississippi campaigns—but no Mississippians. Instead, the ad uses stock footage …
Ben Nadler / Associated Press:
Pair of endorsements adds more fuel to Georgia Senate race — A pair of new high-profile endorsements are adding fuel to an already contentious special election for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — ATLANTA — A pair …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Hill
William Voegeli / Claremont Review of Books:
The Weak Leading the Woke — What We Ask About When We Ask About Joe — How old is Joe Biden? — As this issue goes to press, 77. America's median age is 38, which means that more than half the country is less than half Biden's age. If inaugurated on January 20, 2021 …
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