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7:30 AM ET, October 2, 2020

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CNN:
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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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.
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.”
ABC News:
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 …
Associated Press:
Trump says he and first lady tested positive for coronavirus  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, a stunning announcement that plunges the country deeper into uncertainty just a month before the presidential election.
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
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.
New York Times:
Trump's Positive Coronavirus Test Upends Campaign in Final Stretch  —  With his health and the country's stability at risk, strategists and even senior aides to the president said he would face a harsh judgment from voters.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's announcement early Friday …
New York Times:
Trump's Secret Service Has Struggled With Outbreak at Training Center
Discussion: CNN, STAT and The Verge
Associated Press:
Timeline of Trump's activities in week coronavirus hit home
Discussion: The Atlantic
BuzzFeed News:
Donald Trump Has The Coronavirus
Discussion: New York Times
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The President Tests Positive for the Coronavirus, and a Nation Anticipates Chaos
Discussion: The Intercept
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.
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
Discussion: NPR and Vanity Fair
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Proud Boys Members Appear in Official Trump Campaign Video
Discussion: NBC News and HillReporter.com
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
Discussion: Washington Post and Forbes
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 …
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.
Washington Post:
As debate commission considers rule changes, Trump signals he'll reject them  —  President Trump and his top aides signaled Thursday that they would reject any changes to the presidential debate format, as members of the commission in charge of the matchups zeroed in on potential adjustments aimed …
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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 …
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.”
Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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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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.
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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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.
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 …
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Wisconsin Is Frazzled by Surging Virus Cases and Growing Campaign Frenzy  —  The state, up for grabs in the presidential election, has become a coronavirus hot spot.  “It's too late” to solve, one mayor says.  —  OSHKOSH, Wis. — Steve VanderLoop, 64, heard that several of his co-workers …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Trump sees approval rating increase, majority expect him to beat Biden: poll  —  The poll was conducted in the two weeks before the first presidential debate  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 1  —  A poll conducted in the lead-up to Tuesday's presidential debate showed Americans …
Discussion: NBC News, Gallup, New York Post and IJR
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Biden is still leading in the polls, and voters say he won his first debate against Trump
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.
Discussion: MSNBC, The Daily Caller and The Week
 
 
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Foster Klug / Associated Press:
Shock, sympathy, mockery: World reacts to Trump infection
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Charlie Cooper / Politico:
Boris Johnson to talk Brexit with von der Leyen as trade negotiations end
Keisha N. Blain / Washington Post:
Black women are leading the movement to end police violence
Discussion: CBS News
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump May ‘Denounce’ White Supremacists, But He Is Never Angry
Discussion: New York Times
Michael Lewis / Bloomberg:
Inside a California Covid Revolt
Aaron Davis / Washington Post:
How Trump amassed a red-state army in the nation's capital — and could do so again
Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
The most essential books of the Trump era are barely about Trump at all
Alayna Treene / Axios:
House passes revised $2.2 trillion stimulus bill
 Earlier Items: 
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Biden continually interrupts Ryan in a way I find incredibly annoying.”
Discussion: The Guardian and Refinery29
Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Barrett's participation in 2006 ad calling for overturn of Roe v. Wade was not included in Senate disclosures
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Biden breaks the $365 million fund-raising record that he set in August.
Discussion: Newsweek and Politico
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Doomsday has arrived for tens of thousands of workers
Discussion: New York Times and NBC News
Emily Green / VICE:
Border Patrol Snipers Were Authorized to Use Deadly Force at George Floyd's Burial
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Judge rules federal law enforcement commission violates law, orders work stopped as attorney general prepares to issue report
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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