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New York Times:
White House Is Not Contact Tracing ‘Super-Spreader’ Rose Garden Event  —  Since President Trump's Covid diagnosis, numerous associates have tested positive, but the White House has not aggressively investigated the outbreak.  —  Despite almost daily disclosures of new coronavirus infections …
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Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
The People Trump Came Home To  —  On any given morning, the White House is a blur of activity.  A chef may be whipping up breakfast for the first couple in the second-floor kitchen.  A valet might be shining the president's shoes, while the head butler lingers in the West Sitting Hall, awaiting any urgent presidential requests.
New York Times:
White House Is Not Contact Tracing ‘Super-Spreader’ Rose Garden Event
Discussion: Slate
New York Times:
White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines  —  The F.D.A. proposed stricter guidelines for emergency approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but the White House chief of staff objected to provisions that would push approval past Election Day.  —  WASHINGTON — Top White House officials …
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Axios:
West Wing melts down as aides point fingers at Mark Meadows
Politico:
Plexiglass to separate Harris and Pence at VP debate  —  Pence's campaign opposed the move.  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates has approved plans for plexiglass to be used in Wednesday's vice presidential debate amid mounting concerns about coronavirus transmission, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
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CBS News:
Live updates: Trump is back at the White House after being discharged from Walter Reed
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says he will be discharged from Walter Reed, return to White House Monday evening
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Biden Holds Steady Lead Over Trump in Arizona, Latest Poll Finds  —  The Democratic nominee leads 49 percent to 41 percent in Arizona, a state that hasn't voted for a Democrat for president since 1996.  In the Senate race, Mark Kelly, a Democrat, leads the incumbent, Martha McSally.
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Politico:
Republicans gripped by dread as multiple crises swirl  —  On Sunday evening, Sen. Lindsey Graham, like many Republicans in Washington, was simultaneously monitoring three political crises, all of which were made worse by the spread of coronavirus infections through the upper echelons of the Republican Party.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The murky legal concept that could swing the election
Discussion: Reuters and Washington Post
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Fittingly, Supreme Court term starts with test of political affiliations for judges
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
The ‘Fuck Your Feelings’ Crowd Wants a Pity Party for Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
U.S. Department of Justice:
John McAfee Indicted for Tax Evasion  —  Allegedly Hid Cryptocurrency, a Yacht, Real Estate and Other Properties in Nominee Names to Evade Taxes  —  An indictment was unsealed today charging John David McAfee with tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns, announced Principal …
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Justice News:
United States Attorney John F. Bash Announces Resignation  —  SAN ANTONIO, Tex. - U.S. Attorney John F. Bash announced today that he will resign from the Department of Justice on Friday, October 9, 2020, at 11:59pm.  U.S. Attorney Bash issued the following statement:
Discussion: Law & Crime
Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Cal Cunningham backs out of town hall as new cheating allegation surfaces  —  Cal Cunningham and Thom Tillis are in a tight state Senate race  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 5  —  All eyes are on North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham after he reportedly pulled …
Discussion: National File and Townhall
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Public Policy Polling:
North Carolina Senate Race Unaffected By Recent Developments  —  PPP's new North Carolina poll finds Cal Cunningham leading Thom Tillis 48-42.  That represents a slight improvement for Cunningham from PPP's last public poll of the race in late July when Cunningham's advantage was 48-44.
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Trump administration revokes the visa of a Ukrainian political fixer tied to Giuliani  —  The State Department last month revoked the visa of a Ukrainian political fixer who aided President Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in his gambit last year to dig up information from Ukraine …
Discussion: Raw Story
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Don Jr. Thinks Trump Is Acting Crazy”: The President's COVID Joyride Has the Family Divided  —  The president's recklessness at Walter Reed has Don Jr. pushing for an intervention, but Ivanka and Jared “keep telling Trump how great he's doing,” a source says.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump may be prematurely declaring victory over the coronavirus. Again.
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
Trump's Campaign Saw an Opportunity.  He Undermined It.  —  The health crisis was a chance for a political reset, some advisers believed, to show a new, more empathetic stance toward the coronavirus.  But the candidate did not stick to the narrative.  —  On Friday, even as President …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, IJR and 77 WABC Radio
Benjamin Wermund / Houston Chronicle:
Sen. John Cornyn says Trump ‘let his guard down’ on COVID  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Monday that President Donald Trump “let his guard down” on the coronavirus and that his rhetoric has created “confusion” as the country has struggled to get the pandemic under control.
Wall Street Journal:
IRS Investigating NRA's Wayne LaPierre for Possible Tax Fraud  —  New York attorney general previously sued gun-rights organization over alleged expense abuses  —  The Internal Revenue Service is investigating longtime National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre for possible criminal tax fraud related …
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Trump's touting of ‘racehorse theory’ tied to eugenics and Nazis alarms Jewish leaders  —  President Trump has alarmed Jewish leaders and others with remarks that appeared to endorse “racehorse theory” — the idea that selective breeding can improve a country's performance …
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Biden leading in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appeared to lead President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania less than a month before the Nov. 3 election, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls released on Monday.
CNN:
Most Americans say Trump acted irresponsibly and distrust White House on his health  —  (CNN)Two-thirds of Americans say President Donald Trump handled the risk of coronavirus infection to others around him irresponsibly, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS in the days following …
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Intel Sources: CIA Director Gina Haspel Banking On Trump Loss To Keep Russiagate Documents Hidden  —  Haspel is hoping Trump loses his re-election bid so she can run out the clock on Russiagate document declassifications, multiple intelligence community officials told The Federalist.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
GOP Elites Thought They Could Buy Their Way Out of a Pandemic  —  These people aren't stupid.  Not all of them, anyway.  The white men in dark jackets and well-coiffed ladies in prim dresses you've seen hugging in the White House Rose Garden — or hobnobbing maskless inside the Diplomatic Room …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg:
Exxon's Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents  —  Internal projections from one of world's largest oil producers show an increase in its enormous contribution to global warming  —  Exxon Mobil Corp. has been planning to increase annual carbon-dioxide emissions …
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
AUM:
AUM Poll: Tommy Tuberville leads Doug Jones by 12 points in closing weeks of Alabama Senate race  —  A newly released AUM Poll from Auburn University at Montgomery's Department of Political Science and Public Administration shows Republican U.S. Senate nominee Tommy Tuberville leading incumbent Democratic …
 
 
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Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Nearly One-Third of Covid Patients in Study Had Altered Mental State
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘GLOW’ Canceled By Netflix; Won't Proceed With Fourth & Final Season Due To COVID-19
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Beast
Emily Holden / The Guardian:
Leader of non-profit labeled ‘hate group’ attended White House Amy Coney Barrett event
Discussion: The 19th
Jim Henry / Tallahassee Democrat:
FSU legendary coach Bobby Bowden tests positive for COVID-19, watching out for symptoms
Discussion: Breitbart, Florida Politics and OutKick
Washington Post:
CDC says airborne transmission plays a role in coronavirus spread in a long-awaited update after a website error last month
 Earlier Items: 
Caitlin O'Kane / CBS News:
102-year-old woman who never missed a vote casts her mail-in ballot in full PPE
Brendan O'Neill / spiked:
And a plague shall cover the land of Trump
Discussion: New York Post
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Party-Switching CD02 Incumbent Trails
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Sen. Pat Toomey won't run for reelection or for Pennsylvania governor, sources say
David Brooks / The Atlantic:
America Is Having a Moral Convulsion
 

 
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Cablevision founder Charles Dolan, a cable TV industry pioneer who launched HBO and AMC Networks and whose family controls Madison Square Garden, dies at 98

CBS News:
Greg Gumbel, a CBS Sports anchor and commentator who covered the NFL and college basketball for more than 20 years, died at 78 of cancer

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Eight free-speech groups, including the EFF, and three members of Congress file briefs with SCOTUS in support of TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law
 
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