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11:20 AM ET, September 7, 2023

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CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden faces negative job ratings and concerns about his age as he gears up for 2024  —  President Joe Biden faces continued headwinds from broadly negative job ratings overall, widespread concerns about his age and decreased confidence among Democratic-aligned voters, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Poll: A majority of Americans believe Joe Biden, as VP, was involved with son's business dealings  —  Most Americans say they think President Joe Biden was involved in his son's business dealings with Ukraine and China while he served as vice president under Barack Obama, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Best Anti-Trump Argument Can't Be Used  —  GOP primary voters don't want to hear it.  —  Donald Trump is winning the Republican nomination race in a walk, and it's been quite the pleasant stroll.  —  That's because his opponents can't make the most compelling argument against Trump …
Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story, USA Today and HuffPost
Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Biden faces continued low approval ratings, concerns about age, poll finds  —  Sixty-seven percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning surveyed voters said the party should nominate someone other than Biden.  —  President Joe Biden is facing continued low approval — including from his own party …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
John Eastman declines to elaborate on Trump world discussions about Grassley presiding on Jan. 6  —  He asserted attorney-client privilege when asked to discuss evidence that Trump's allies considered the Iowa senator playing a role to keep Trump in power.  —  John Eastman, testifying …
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Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: ‘How am I in this war?’:  New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma  —  Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack …
CNN:
Michigan fake elector described planning with Trump campaign attorneys: ‘Mike Pence and Congress [to] make that decision’  —  One of the fake electors put forward by Republicans in Michigan said in December 2020 that the plan to use a slate of fake electors to help Donald Trump win …
Discussion: Raw Story
Clint Watts / Microsoft On the Issues:
China, North Korea pursue new targets while honing cyber capabilities  —  Clint Watts - General Manager, Digital Threat Analysis Center  —  In the past year, China has honed a new capability to automatically generate images it can use for influence operations meant to mimic U.S. voters across …
Discussion: The Messenger and CNN
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Reuters:
China suspected of using AI on social media to sway US voters, Microsoft says  —  Microsoft researchers said on Thursday they found what they believe is a network of fake, Chinese-controlled social media accounts seeking to influence U.S. voters by using artificial intelligence.
Popular Information:
Pennsylvania school district requires social studies classes to incorporate right-wing propaganda  —  Last Monday, the Pennridge School Board, located outside of Philadelphia, imposed a new social studies curriculum that will require teachers to incorporate lessons from the 1776 Curriculum …
Gary Fields / Associated Press:
13 Presidential Libraries Issue Rare Joint Warning About U.S. Democracy  —  Their statement stopped short of slamming individuals as it called for a recommitment to the country's bedrock principles.  —  LOADING  —  Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted …
New York Times:
Abortions Rose in Most States This Year, New Data Shows  —  Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of the year compared with 2020, an analysis of new estimates shows, as states with more permissive abortion laws absorbed patients traveling …
The Messenger:
Republicans Narrow in on Bribery Charge for Biden Impeachment Probe (Exclusive)  —  ‘There was money flowing to the son of the vice president turned president,’ Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, tells The Messenger on why he wants to impeach Biden  —  A Facebook icon representing an external link …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Marc Caputo / The Messenger:
Trump Plans $1M ‘Family Style’ Mar-a-Lago Dinner to Raise Money for His Co-Defendants (Exclusive)  —  The exact date of the candlelight event is still being ironed out, but Trump's sons will attend  —  A Facebook icon representing an external link to share the article on Facebook …
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Inside Nancy Pelosi's Fight For San Francisco  —  At 83, the former House speaker just might buck another trend — the one suggesting octogenarian lawmakers should hang up their spiked heels.  —  Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi's decision whether to seek reelection in 2024 will be influenced …
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Politico:
Pentagon goes on the attack amid Tuberville blockade
Jim Garamone / U.S. Department of Defense:
Senate Confirmation Still in Limbo for 301 Military Leaders
Nick Penzenstadler / USA Today:
Behind the scenes: See how private ammo sales from US are fueling the war in Ukraine  —  The bullets came in plywood crates.  —  Any given box was about the size of a small microwave oven.  The printed label stuck to each one demonstrated a militaristic brevity.
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Democrats Consider the Unthinkable: Missing Mitch McConnell  —  Mitch McConnell has bedeviled Democrats for decades.  Now, with his future in doubt, the Senate GOP Leader isn't looking like the worst-case scenario for his counterparts. … For decades, Democrats have hated, cursed …
Duane Patterson / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Responds To Former President Trump  —  Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joined me this morning:  —  Audio:  —  09-07hhs-christie  —  Transcript:  —  HH: Former President Trump yesterday talking about my next guest, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Discussion: Insider, The Messenger and CNBC
ABC News:
Harris launching college tour to try to mobilize young voters in battleground states  —  The vice president is the face for the administration's work on abortion, more.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris will soon be hitting the road for a monthlong college tour, traveling to more than a dozen campuses across eight states.
Heather Hunter / Washington Examiner:
Cancer among adults under 50 surged by 79%: Study  —  A study found that cancer cases in adults under 50 years old have risen sharply.  —  The study was published by BMJ Oncology and analyzed data between 1990 to 2019, finding an increase of 79% in cancer among people under 50 years old in just three decades.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Willis seeks to shield jurors in Trump trial  —  Move comes after online harassment of grand jurors who indicted former president  —  X  —  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked the judge in the Donald Trump racketeering trial to shield the identities of prospective jurors …
CBS News:
Newly obtained George Santos “vulnerability report” spotted red flags long before embattled Rep. was elected  —  When an outside firm hired by then-congressional hopeful George Santos in 2021 delivered a secret internal report detailing aspects of the candidate's checkered background, several of his aides found it too much to stomach.
 
 
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Reuters:
UK PM Sunak faces new vote to fill seat after lawmaker accused of groping resigns
Discussion: Metro.co.uk and Bloomberg.com
The Hill:
Prosecutors will seek Hunter Biden indictment by end of September
Associated Press:
Texas AG Ken Paxton's Affair Explains Illegal Acts, Former Aide Testifies
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
As Abortion Laws Drive Obstetricians From Red States, Maternity Care Suffers
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
‘A riot is the language of the unheard’
Discussion: Power Line and RedState
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Judge Orders Texas to Move Barrier From Middle of the Rio Grande
Military Times:
QAnon-embraced film pulled from screening on-base at SOUTHCOM
Associated Press:
Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure
Brad Raffensperger / Wall Street Journal:
I Can't Keep Trump Off the Ballot
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Florida Expected to Approve Classical Exam as a Competitor to the SAT
Discussion: The Messenger
 

 
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Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Drake launches legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly using bots, payola, and more to inflate Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, a track attacking Drake

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBC's new deal with Macy's to keep the Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC and Peacock has an average annual fee of $60M+, up from ~$20M in the current deal

 
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