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President Donald Trump tweets he and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19 — Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest advisers, tests positive for coronavirus, president to quarantine
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Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest advisers, tests positive for coronavirus, president to quarantine — Hicks traveled with the president to and from Tuesday's first debate. — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump's closest advisers …
Washington Post:
Trump says he and first lady have tested positive for coronavirus — President Trump and his wife Melania have contracted the coronavirus, he announced early Friday, after months in which he has played down a pandemic that has killed more than 205,000 Americans and sickened millions more.
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William Mansell / ABC News:
President Trump, first lady test positive for COVID-19 — The news comes after an adviser, Hope Hicks, tested positive. — LIVE NOW — President Trump, first lady test positive for COVID-19: ABC News Live — Nightline — Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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New York Times:
Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus — The president's result came after he spent months playing down the severity of the outbreak that has killed more than 207,000 in the United States and hours after insisting that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”
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New York Times:
On Monday, Trump Updated the Nation on Virus Strategy. By Friday, He Tested Positive. — President Trump interacted with scores of staff members, donors and supporters this week. Early Friday morning, it was still unclear how many other aides who had come into close contact with him had tested positive.
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Associated Press:
Statement from Trump's doctor on president's virus diagnosis — WASHINGTON (AP) — Text of a statement from Sean Conley, physician to the president: — I release the following information with the permission of President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle's Departure from Fox — As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, he trails Joe Biden by thirty percentage points among female voters.
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WSB-TV:
Following rocky debate, Biden takes lead over Trump in latest exclusive Channel 2 poll — ATLANTA — We are seeing how the first presidential debate changed Georgia voters' opinions. — For the first time, former Vice President Joe Biden is leading our exclusive Channel 2 Action News/Landmark Communications poll.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Biden is still leading in the polls, and voters say he won his first debate against Trump
Biden is still leading in the polls, and voters say he won his first debate against Trump
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump pushes back on changes to upcoming presidential debates
Trump pushes back on changes to upcoming presidential debates
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Washington Post:
As debate commission considers rule changes, Trump signals he'll reject them
As debate commission considers rule changes, Trump signals he'll reject them
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Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Trump sees approval rating increase, majority expect him to beat Biden: poll
Trump sees approval rating increase, majority expect him to beat Biden: poll
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany's first post-debate briefing goes off the rails — For the second time in a week, the United States bore witness to an animated and interruption-filled political discussion. The first one was Tuesday's debate, but Thursday's White House briefing wasn't that different.
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Politico:
Trump blames low-income people, minorities for ‘ruining’ suburbia
Trump blames low-income people, minorities for ‘ruining’ suburbia
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Trump condemns ‘all White supremacists’ after refusing to do so at presidential debate
Trump condemns ‘all White supremacists’ after refusing to do so at presidential debate
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Jessica Chasmar / Washington Times:
Proud Boys, Black Lives Matter leaders hold joint conference: We ‘denounce White supremacy’
Proud Boys, Black Lives Matter leaders hold joint conference: We ‘denounce White supremacy’
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SOM - State of Michigan:
AG Nessel Files Felony Charges Against Jack Burkman, Jacob Wohl in Voter-Suppression Robocalls Investigation — LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed charges today against two political operatives for allegedly orchestrating a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote in the November general election.
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Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
Michigan AG charges two GOP operatives with multiple voter suppression felonies
Michigan AG charges two GOP operatives with multiple voter suppression felonies
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Conservative hoaxers face charges over false voter robocalls
Conservative hoaxers face charges over false voter robocalls
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Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Secretly recorded tapes show Melania Trump's frustration at criticism for family separation policy and her bashing of Christmas decorations — (CNN)First Lady Melania Trump was secretly recorded in the summer of 2018 expressing her frustration at being criticized for her husband's policy …
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Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told friends he was under federal investigation just days before meltdown … - Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told campaign staff and friends that he was under federal investigation, just days before police detained him, Trump advisers tell Insider.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Facing Grim Polls, Trump Leans Into Playing the Victim — Be it congressional Democrats, the news media, the standards enforcers at Twitter or, now, the debate commission, President Trump has repeatedly blamed others for problems and self-inflicted wounds. — On Thursday afternoon …
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Barrett's participation in 2006 ad calling for overturn of Roe v. Wade was not included in Senate disclosures — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, failed to disclose her participation in a 2006 newspaper ad calling for Roe v. Wade …
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USA Today:
1,600 former Justice Department lawyers accuse Barr of using DOJ to help Trump in election … WASHINGTON - Former Justice Department attorneys expressed concerns Thursday that Attorney General William Barr is using the power of the agency to help President Donald Trump win reelection …
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Bobby Burack / OutKick:
NBA Finals Ratings Sink to All-Time Lows — The NBA took another L Wednesday. This time, in the NBA Finals on ABC with the Lakers and LeBron James. — Only 7.41 million viewers watched the industry-hyped matchup. Per Sports Media Watch, this is the least-watched Finals opener since ... on record.
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Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
Obama touts LeBron's ‘More Than a Vote’ campaign as it surpasses 10,000 poll volunteers
Obama touts LeBron's ‘More Than a Vote’ campaign as it surpasses 10,000 poll volunteers
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Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Pete Wilson endorses Trump, says president has ‘very good judgment’ — OAKLAND — Former California Gov. Pete Wilson joined a list Thursday of prominent former Republican leaders who endorsed Donald Trump for reelection, arguing in an interview that the president has “brought a badly needed realism to American security policy.”
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Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
Abbott orders counties to close multiple ballot dropoff sites — Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order Thursday requiring counties to close multiple locations where voters can drop off completed mail-in ballots. — As an election security measure, counties will be limited to one dropoff site …
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Trump's plans for rally in western Wisconsin up in the air — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump appears to have canceled a planned appearance in western Wisconsin amid calls from the city's mayor and the state's governor, both Democrats, that he not hold a rally amid a surge in coronavirus cases.
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Wisconsin Is Frazzled by Surging Virus Cases and Growing Campaign Frenzy
Wisconsin Is Frazzled by Surging Virus Cases and Growing Campaign Frenzy
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David Wasserman / NBC News:
Trump is winning the voter registration battle against Biden in key states — In the last few weeks, Joe Biden has led President Donald Trump by a fairly consistent 8-point average in national polls and has maintained leads in more than enough battleground states to win the Electoral College …
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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
GOP challenger fundraising tops South Carolina's Cunningham — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham has outraised the freshman Democrat in the final fundraising quarter before their general election matchup, as both candidates ratchet up their rhetoric in the campaign's closing weeks.
Michael Lewis / Bloomberg:
Inside a California Covid Revolt — Residents of Shasta County have taken resistance to Covid-19 restrictions to another level: “full-on anarchy.” — Some people who are good in a crisis need a crisis to be good. They're better wired for hot zones than for ordinary life and so they do whatever …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
McMaster, Mostly Silent Until Now, Says Trump Is 'Aiding and Abetting Putin's Efforts' — “This sustained campaign of disruption, disinformation, and denial, is aided by any leader who doesn't acknowledge it,” President Trump's former national security adviser said.
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