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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: With Clock Ticking Down, Trump Lashes Out — President Trump, down by double digits in national polls, is attacking his enemies and even his aides. His doctor said the president could return to public engagements tomorrow. Joe Biden heads to Nevada today.
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Timothy Annett / Bloomberg:
Fauci Calls White House Ceremony a ‘Super-Spreader Event’ — Trump, others tested positive for coronavirus after event — Many attendees had shunned masks, mingled closely indoors — Anthony Fauci, the U.S.'s top infectious-disease expert, said that a gathering in the White House Rose Garden …
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Fox News, IJR, National Review and New York Post
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Plans In-Person White House Event for Saturday — President Trump is planning to hold his first in-person event since being treated for coronavirus — WASHINGTON—President Trump is planning to hold his first in-person events since being treated for Covid-19, with a gathering …
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VICE, Breitbart, National Review, WHDH-TV, Twitchy, TheBlaze, New York Post and The Hill
ABC News:
Trump planning to host 1st in-person event since diagnosis at White House on Saturday: Sources — His doctor said the president can hold “public engagements” starting Saturday. — Trump calls virtual debate ‘waste of time’ — The latest on the next presidential debate …
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New York Times:
Trump's Struggles Ripple Across the Sun Belt, Endangering G.O.P. Stronghold — President Trump is fading nationally as he alienates women, seniors and suburbanites, polls show. But private G.O.P. surveys show he is in close races in solidly red states, too.
New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: The Northeast Held the Virus in Check. Now Cases Are Inching Up Again.
Covid-19 Live Updates: The Northeast Held the Virus in Check. Now Cases Are Inching Up Again.
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Washington Post, Iowa Starting Line and Daily Kos
CNN:
Commission cancels second debate between Trump and Biden
Commission cancels second debate between Trump and Biden
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DNyuz, The Guardian, New York Post, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Deseret News, TheBlaze and Reuters
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump launches his post-coronavirus recovery tour
Trump launches his post-coronavirus recovery tour
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CNN, Fox News, WSPA-TV, Patterico's Pontifications, The Hill, Axios, One America News Network and Just The News
Washington Post:
Trump will speak at a public event at the White House; it is not clear if he's still contagious with coronavirus
Trump will speak at a public event at the White House; it is not clear if he's still contagious with coronavirus
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Political Wire, Washington Times, Bangor Daily News, The Hill, One America News Network and ABC News
Washington Post:
Two students and a teacher at school attended by Barrett children test positive for coronavirus
Two students and a teacher at school attended by Barrett children test positive for coronavirus
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and The Hill
New York Times:
Second Debate Canceled as Biden Condemns Trump for ‘Reckless’ Conduct
Second Debate Canceled as Biden Condemns Trump for ‘Reckless’ Conduct
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Townhall, Variety, Political Wire, The Gateway Pundit and Axios
ABC News:
2nd presidential debate between Biden and Trump canceled
2nd presidential debate between Biden and Trump canceled
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump invites thousands to hear him speak from White House balcony on Saturday
Trump invites thousands to hear him speak from White House balcony on Saturday
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Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, NPR and Bloomberg
Sheila Kaplan / New York Times:
White House Blocked C.D.C. From Requiring Masks on Public Transportation — The order would have mandated that both passengers and employees wear face coverings on planes, trains, buses and subways and in airports, stations and depots. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drafted …
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else's. — Donald Trump was on the phone, and he was talking about dying. It was Saturday, October 3, and while his doctor had told the outside world …
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Politico:
Republicans are finally ready to diss Don — For Republicans, fearful of a possible electoral disaster just weeks away, it has become safe at last to diss Donald Trump — or at least to distance themselves from him in unmistakably purposeful ways. — A barrage of barbed comments …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
‘The president is likely toast’: Trump's woes raise GOP fears of a blue wave
‘The president is likely toast’: Trump's woes raise GOP fears of a blue wave
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Raw Story, CNN, Political Wire, Slate and National Review
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
US judge blocks Abbott order limiting ballot drop-off locations — A federal judge issued an order Friday night barring enforcement of Gov. Greg Abbott's Oct. 1 proclamation that limited counties to one mail-in ballot drop-off location. — U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Abbott's order placed …
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Political Wire and CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
South Carolina Debate Canceled After Lindsey Graham Refuses COVID Test — The debate cancelation announcement: … Advertisements — The only reason for the cancelation of the Senate debate is Lindsey Graham's refusal to be tested for the coronavirus. — Either Lindsey Graham knows …
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Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
SC Senate debate replaced by separate interviews after Harrison insists on COVID tests — COLUMBIA — Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison will no longer debate Friday night after Harrison declined to participate unless Graham took a coronavirus test in advance and Graham denied the request.
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Forbes and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Election Less Than a Month Away, Trump Leans on Barr and Pompeo for a Lift — The secretary of state said he would make Hillary Clinton's emails public, handing the president a weapon to attack his political foes as the attorney general resisted his overtures to prosecute them.
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New York Times:
TRUMP ENGINEERED A SUDDEN WINDFALL IN 2016 AS CAMPAIGN FUNDS DWINDLED — Tax records expose more than $21 million in highly unusual payments from the Las Vegas hotel Donald Trump owns with Phil Ruffin, routed through other Trump companies and paid out in cash. — Donald J. Trump needed money.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The 1619 Chronicles — Journalism does better when it writes the first rough draft of history, not the last word on it. — If there's one word admirers and critics alike can agree on when it comes to The New York Times's award-winning 1619 Project, it's ambition. Ambition to reframe America's conversation about race.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump personnel office weighs asking appointees to offer their resignations — The White House Presidential Personnel Office is considering asking nearly every political appointee in the Trump administration to write and tender provisional letters of resignation right before the election …
David Siders / Politico:
Nine coronavirus cases tied to Trump Minnesota rally — Nine people who have contracted the coronavirus reported attending a Donald Trump rally in Bemidji, Minn., last month, state health officials said Friday, including two who were hospitalized. — One of them remains in an intensive care unit.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Cyber Command has sought to disrupt the world's largest botnet, hoping to reduce its potential impact on the election — In recent weeks, the U.S. military has mounted an operation to temporarily disrupt what is described as the world's largest botnet — one used also to drop ransomware …
CBS News:
Longtime Republican strategists behind the Lincoln Project mounting rogue offensive against Donald Trump — Former operatives for John McCain and George W. Bush are calling on Americans to vote for a Democrat in the presidential election. Sunday, Lesley Stahl reports on the Lincoln Project …
Wall Street Journal:
Russia Probe Ordered by Barr Won't Release Findings Before Election — Attorney General William Barr informed top Republicans as administration releases more declassified documents — WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr has told top Republicans that the results of a wide-ranging inquiry …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Barr tells Republicans Durham report won't be ready by election
Scoop: Barr tells Republicans Durham report won't be ready by election
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
At Disney World, ‘Worst Fears’ About Virus Have Not Come True — Attendance has been low since the July reopening, but health officials and worker unions also say safety protocols have kept the coronavirus at bay. — In July, one infectious disease expert said Walt Disney World's reopening was a …
Jonathan Tilove / Austin American-Statesman:
Royce West won't vote for MJ Hegar, says 'she's had a problem all along with Black folks' — State Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, who finished a close second to MJ Hegar in the runoff for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in July, said Friday that he is not voting for Hegar in her bid to unseat Sen. John Cornyn.
Washington Post:
Hope Hicks returned to the White House to pull Trump across the finish line. Then coronavirus hit. — When she returned to the White House on March 9 after two years away and a lucrative stint in corporate PR, Hope Hicks was supposed to be a talisman to re-create the magic of President Trump's against-the-odds 2016 campaign.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's 11th Hour Campaign Gambit: Give Voters Cash — MORE MONEY, LESS PROBLEMS — The president ran successfully as a populist in 2016. But as he tries to recapture the formula, he's running into some hurdles—mainly, his record. — Hitting the closing stretch of the election …
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New York Times and FOX 11 Los Angeles
Evan Siegfried / NBC News:
Covid isn't why Trump is losing seniors' support. But it isn't helping him. … The current thinking is that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are faring so poorly with America's senior voters because of their response to Covid-19 — in particular, the president's severely inadequate actions …
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Las Vegas Review-Journal, Washington Post and Al Jazeera
Ben Popken / NBC News:
Regeneron board member and executive sell $1 million in stock after Trump touts treatment — A Regeneron executive and one of its directors sold $1 million worth of stocks two days after President Donald Trump announced he was taking their therapeutic, recent filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal.
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Rachel Sandler / Forbes:
60 Employees Leave Coinbase Over CEO's Pledge To Be Apolitical — More than 60 Coinbase employees have taken an exit package after CEO Brian Armstrong said in a controversial blog post last month that the company would not participate in social activism. — KEY FACTS
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Sixteen ‘Boogaloo’ Followers Have Been Busted in 7 Days — The takedown of the plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was just the tip of the iceberg. — A Madison Heights, Michigan, man killed by FBI agents during a still-murky standoff over a weapons warrant.
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Baltimore Sun, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Supreme Court chief justice banished Judge Brad Schimel from his own courtroom after he refused to wear mask — Shortly after Waukesha County courts opened to the public in late June, someone complained that Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel was not enforcing the mask mandate set …