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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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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.
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Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Concern rises for White House residence staffers as their workplace emerges as a virus hot spot
Concern rises for White House residence staffers as their workplace emerges as a virus hot spot
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ABC News:
White House aides anxious as coronavirus cases rise in Trump's orbit: Sources
White House aides anxious as coronavirus cases rise in Trump's orbit: Sources
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Axios:
West Wing melts down as aides point fingers at Mark Meadows
West Wing melts down as aides point fingers at Mark Meadows
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New York Times:
White House Is Not Contact Tracing ‘Super-Spreader’ Rose Garden Event
White House Is Not Contact Tracing ‘Super-Spreader’ Rose Garden Event
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Kayleigh McEnany tests positive for COVID-19
Kayleigh McEnany tests positive for COVID-19
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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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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
‘That should never have happened’: Inside Trump's Walter Reed parade
‘That should never have happened’: Inside Trump's Walter Reed parade
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Tim Stickings / Daily Mail:
Two Secret Service agents face 14 days of isolation after joining Trump on motorcade stunt: ‘Outrage’ in the agency despite White House claim that medics cleared the photo-op
Two Secret Service agents face 14 days of isolation after joining Trump on motorcade stunt: ‘Outrage’ in the agency despite White House claim that medics cleared the photo-op
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says he will be discharged from Walter Reed, return to White House Monday evening
Trump says he will be discharged from Walter Reed, return to White House Monday evening
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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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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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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 …
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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.
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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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Washington Post:
Republicans face major head winds in final stretch to maintain Senate majority
Republicans face major head winds in final stretch to maintain Senate majority
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Factors That McSally's Campaign Cited for Her 2018 Loss in Arizona Are Exacerbated This Year, Strategists Say
Factors That McSally's Campaign Cited for Her 2018 Loss in Arizona Are Exacerbated This Year, Strategists Say
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
U.S. Senate committee formally announces October 12 Supreme Court hearing
U.S. Senate committee formally announces October 12 Supreme Court hearing
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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 …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The murky legal concept that could swing the election — Amy Coney Barrett hasn't even arrived yet, but the Supreme Court might be days or even hours away from delivering its first big signal on how aggressive a role the court plans to play in setting the rules for next month's election.
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court allows South Carolina vote-by-mail restriction
U.S. Supreme Court allows South Carolina vote-by-mail restriction
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Richard L. Hasen / New York Magazine:
Trump's New Supreme Court Is Coming for the Next Dozen Elections
Trump's New Supreme Court Is Coming for the Next Dozen Elections
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Fittingly, Supreme Court term starts with test of political affiliations for judges
Fittingly, Supreme Court term starts with test of political affiliations for judges
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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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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …