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9:15 AM ET, August 24, 2020

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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway to leave the White House at the end of the month, citing the need to focus on her family  —  Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Trump and one of his longest-serving aides, is leaving the White House at the end of the month.  —  Conway, whose title is counselor …
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Kellyanne Conway announces she's leaving the White House and George Conway is stepping away from Lincoln Project
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Last-minute confusion: Many Republicans still in the dark about convention  —  The majority of Republican politicians and operatives will learn about the details of this week's convention in the same manner most Americans do — by watching it unfold on TV.  —  The lack of information …
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Timothy Alberta / Politico:
The Grand Old Meltdown  —  Earlier this month, while speaking via Zoom to a promising group of politically inclined high school students, I was met with an abrupt line of inquiry.  “I'm sorry, but I still don't understand,” said one young man, his pitch a blend of curiosity and exasperation.
CNN:
Why Trump can't have an ‘optimistic’ GOP convention  —  Stelter: We can expect a ‘grievance convention’ at RNC  —  David Axelrod, a senior CNN political commentator and host of “The Axe Files,” was senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns.
Amy Davidson Sorkin / New Yorker:   Did the Democratic National Convention Go Too Smoothly?
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump campaign launches massive digital ad buy for convention week
Discussion: Associated Press
CBS News:
Republicans see U.S. as better off now than 4 years ago ahead of convention — Battleground Tracker poll
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Falwell says ‘Fatal Attraction’ threat led to depression  —  Jerry Falwell Jr., suspended as president of Virginia's Christian-focused Liberty University after a string of embarrassing acts, today said that he has suffered depression caused by a former family friend who had an affair …
Discussion: New York Post, Raw Story and The Week
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Revealed: Jared Kushner's Private Channel With Putin's Money Man  —  DIRECT LINE  —  More than a dozen Trump administration officials, current and former, described a clandestine relationship between Jared Kushner and the CEO of a Kremlin sovereign wealth fund.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Ben Smith / New York Times:
How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right  —  Ms. Tufekci, a computer programmer who became a sociologist, sounded an early alarm on the need for protective masks.  It wasn't the first time she was right about something big.  —  When the Centers for Disease Control …
Kenosha News:
WATCH NOW: State DOJ will probe officer-involved shooting; man in serious condition  —  A man was serious condition at a Milwaukee-area hospital after he was shot when officers were sent to the 2800 block of 40th Street late Sunday afternoon for what police called a domestic incident.
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jsonline:
Kenosha emergency curfew in place after police shoot man; video appears to show officer firing several shots into man's back  —  Kenosha police shot a man Sunday evening, setting off unrest in the city after a video appeared to show the officer firing several shots at close range into the man's back.
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
Video shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times as he enters a car
Jerry Seinfeld / New York Times:
So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’  —  Mr. Seinfeld is a comedian.  —  When I got my first apartment in Manhattan in the hot summer of 1976, there was no pooper-scooper law, and the streets were covered in dog crap.  —  I signed the rental agreement, walked outside, and my car had been towed.
Discussion: The Week and Axios
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump echoes Peter Navarro's “deep state” rhetoric about the FDA  —  Senior health officials in the Trump administration were taken aback last Monday when the president's trade adviser, Peter Navarro, accused them of being part of the “Deep State” during a meeting that was supposed …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Washington Post:
Trump to announce emergency authorization of convalescent plasma as covid-19 treatment
Politico:
FDA authorizes plasma treatment despite scientists' objections
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek
Donald J. Trump for President:
Trump Campaign Announces President Trump's 2nd Term Agenda: Fighting for You!  —  Building on the incredible achievements of President Donald J. Trump's first term in office, the President's re-election campaign today released a set of core priorities for a second term under the banner of “Fighting for You!”
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Politico:
The enduring mystery: What would Trump do in a second term?
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Politico
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Jeff Flake joins over two-dozen former GOP members of Congress to launch ‘Republicans for Biden’  —  Announcement comes on the first day of the Republican National Convention  —  EXCLUSIVE: More than two-dozen former Republican members of Congress threw their support behind a “Republicans for Biden” …
Arielle Mitropoulos / ABC News:
Biden to ABC's David Muir on raising taxes: ‘No new taxes’ for anyone making less than $400,000  —  Everybody should pay “their fair share,” Biden said.  —  In the first joint interview with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris …
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
The Supporters Buoying Trump's Spirits: Boat Owners  —  Parades of seagoing Trump fans have been touted by the president and his campaign in the absence of his signature campaign rallies  —  Trish Willis hasn't returned to her nursing job in Atlanta since the outbreak of Covid-19, and still won't get on an airplane.
Ali Harb in / Middle East Eye:
EXCLUSIVE: Biden aides apologise privately over attack on Linda Sarsour  —  In a private call with community activists, a recording of which was obtained by MEE, Biden campaign officials said statements against Sarsour were an ‘egregious misstep’  —  Top aides to presidential candidate Joe Biden …
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington's Fears About TikTok  —  Social-media tycoon emphasized threat from Chinese internet companies as he worked to fend off U.S. regulation of Facebook  —  When Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg delivered a speech about freedom of expression …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Ohio, a Father and Stepdaughter Show the Political Shifts in the Trump Era  —  He's a union worker and former Democrat now solidly behind President Trump.  She's a onetime Republican now worried about her sons growing up in the Trump era.  Family get-togethers can be difficult.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Clinesmith's Guilty Plea: The Perfect Snapshot of Crossfire Hurricane Duplicity  —  Carter Page was a CIA asset, not a Russian spy, and the FBI knew it early on but plowed ahead with its fantasy anyway.  —  Author's Note: This is the first of a three-part series.
Discussion: The Federalist
 
 
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Al Jazeera:
Exclusive: Cyprus sold passports to criminals and fugitives
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Enough! Time to seriously loosen lockdown rules for restaurants and others
Michael Wines / New York Times:
As Census Count Resumes, Doubts About Accuracy Continue to Grow
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
‘We are a swing tribe’: Lumbee wield political clout in North Carolina
Discussion: Reuters
Washington Post:
Debt, eviction and hunger: Millions fall back into crisis as stimulus and safety nets vanish
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Access Denied: Trying to report from a covid convention and angry protests
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
QAnon giving America a scary look at what a ‘Biden resistance’ would look like in 2021
Discussion: WNEP-TV
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
We're doing our best with Zoom. But we'll still need offices — and each other.
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Trump Campaign Sr. Advisor Jason Miller facing criminal contempt of court charges
Discussion: Political Flare and Mediaite
The Tennessean:
Pastor Greg Locke's Mt. Juliet church vandalized ahead of Roger Stone appearance
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected in the primaries. That could make the difference in battleground states this fall.
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback

Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill

Scott Nover / Fast Company:
AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram

 
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