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2:55 PM ET, August 28, 2020

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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: 2 F.D.A. Public Relations Experts Are Fired After Plasma Fiasco  —  A coalition of local health departments called on the C.D.C. to change new recommendations that people without Covid-19 symptoms do not need to be tested.  —  RIGHT NOW Chancellor Angela Merkel …
Politico:
FDA ousts top spokesperson after 2 weeks  —  FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has ousted his top spokesperson after only two weeks on the job, following unhappiness with the agency's communications strategy.  The move sets up a potential fight with the White House, according to four individuals with knowledge of the decision.
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Rand Paul calls for FBI arrests, investigation into ‘mob’ he believes ‘would have killed us,’ if not for police  —  ‘It was horrific,’ the GOP senator tells ‘Fox & Friends’  —  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told “Fox & Friends” he believes he would have been killed if not for the police …
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after RNC  —  Sen. Rand Paul was confronted by protesters early Friday morning after leaving the Republican National Convention at the White House.  —  “Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
Trump Warns America: 'Biden's America' Will Look Like Trump's America
Discussion: New York Times
KARE-TV:
Biden planning campaign visits to Minnesota, Wisconsin and other battleground states  —  The Democratic presidential nominee will start doing in-person events after Labor Day.  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he's planning to hit the campaign trail - in person …
Discussion: New York Post and France 24
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German Lopez / Vox:
The absurdity of Trump's RNC speech, in one photo  —  Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post via Getty Images  —  Trump tried to make his Republican convention into a celebration.  America's current reality is much grimmer.  —  President Donald Trump's speech on Thursday …
Discussion: Political Wire
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is a Secessionist From the Top  —  The president proved once again that he regards himself as a wartime leader of Red America against Blue America.  —  Staff writer at The Atlantic  —  President Trump read a boring speech badly last night.  The long recitation was punctuated by odd comprehension errors.
Discussion: Raw Story
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ABC News:   Washington march updates: Thousands demonstrate in ‘Get Your Knee Off Our Necks’ protest
Ursula Perano / Axios:
NBA playoffs to resume after agreement on social justice initiatives
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
The Trap The Democrats Walked Right Into  —  If law and order are what this election is about, they will lose it. … It finally happened.  We have lethal battles in the streets between the two tribes of our polarized politics.  This week, a 17-year-old man, Kyle Rittenhouse …
Discussion: The Atlantic and GEN
George Packer / The Atlantic:
This Is How Biden Loses  —  Here is a prediction about the November election: If Donald Trump wins, in a trustworthy vote, what's happening this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be one reason.  Maybe the reason.  And yet Joe Biden has it in his power to spare the country a second Trump term.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Host Greg Gutfeld Pulls a 180 on Trump's ‘Very Fine People’ in Charlottesville, Now Calls It a ‘Hoax’  —  Gutfeld was one of the more forceful critics of Trump's equivocating on neo-Nazi marchers, but three years later he's all-in on defending the president.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Mary Trump says GOP convention ‘disturbing to watch,’ calls portrayal of president a sham  —  President Donald Trump's wife and children spoke on the first three nights of the Republican National Convention — and his niece showed up for the grand finale.  —  Mary Trump, who wrote …
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The Daily Beast:
Ivanka Is an Idiot but Unequivocally the Smartest Trump  —  In the last RNC episode of The New Abnormal, GOP operative Tim Miller makes a hilarious wager about Trump and his family and the trio rate the Trump kids.  —  Trump and everyone in his orbit tell lots of lies and questionable truths …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Malign Fantasy of Donald Trump's Convention  —  Using the White House as his prop, the President makes war on Joe Biden, and pretends the pandemic is all but defeated.  —  For four years, Donald Trump has been asking us to believe the unbelievable, to accept the unthinkable, to replace harsh realities with simple fantasies.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The perfectly logical case for Donald Trump  —  To make America great again, again, you must vote for Donald Trump!  —  If you think things are bad now under Donald Trump, vote for Donald Trump, who will fix things.  The chaos will continue unless you vote for Donald Trump …
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
House committee launches contempt proceedings against Pompeo  —  The House Foreign Affairs Committee announced Friday that it will launch contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his refusal to comply with a subpoena for records related to the State Department's involvement …
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Employees Slammed Zuckerberg Over Militia Groups And QAnon After Kenosha  —  Frustrated Facebook employees slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday during a companywide meeting, questioning his leadership and decision-making, following a week in which the platform promoted violent conspiracy theories …
mecknc.gov:
​Data for August 26  —  As of 5 p.m. on August 27, 2020 there were 24,952 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) with 290 deaths due to COVID-19 reported among Mecklenburg County residents.  —  Of note, approximately 792 COVID-19 tests were conducted among individuals attending …
Luis Martinez / ABC News:
US to reduce troop level in Iraq to 3,500 from 5,200  —  The Iraqi military's progress was cited as a reason for the drawdown.  —  The U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Iraq to 3,500 from about 5,200, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News.  —  The reduction in forces had been anticipated …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Ed Scarce / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Barron Trump Is Tall, Conservatives Freak Out When Liberals Point Out This Fact  —  Trump's 14-year-old son towered over Mike Pence last night.  That's NOT an “attack on a child.”  —  One would think that after what the Right spent years spewing about Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls …
Discussion: Althouse
democratandchronicle:
Andrew Cuomo raises campaign cash at Sands home on Canandaigua Lake  —  ALBANY - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo traveled Tuesday to Ontario County to raise campaign cash at a fundraiser hosted by the Sands family, the largest shareholder of beer-and-wine giant Constellation Brands.
Washington Post:
Company that owns President Trump's Vancouver hotel files for bankruptcy  —  The company that owns the Trump International Hotel in Vancouver, Canada, has filed for bankruptcy, according to Canadian records — raising questions about the future of one of President Trump's newest hotel, just three years after it opened.
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
MGM Resorts Lays off 18,000 Workers  —  Casino industry struggles to regain business after pandemic shutdowns  —  MGM Resorts International MGM 5.15% is laying off 18,000 furloughed workers in the U.S. as a global travel slowdown impedes the casino industry's recovery from the ongoing pandemic.
Discussion: CBS Boston
Maria Vasilyeva / Reuters:
Russia releases secret footage of 1961 ‘Tsar Bomba’ hydrogen blast  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has released previously classified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, caused when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomba almost 60 years ago.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNN:
Top Colorado RNC official spread conspiracy theories and made Islamophobic and sexist comments  —  (CNN)A recently installed Republican National Committee official for the state of Colorado has a history of spreading conspiracies and making sexist and Islamophobic comments.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Trump friend and donor Ronald Lauder goes quiet on the fundraising front in 2020  — Fundraisers and friends of the president's have yet to hear from billionaire Ronald Lauder on whether he plans to give larger contributions to Trump's re-election.
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's parade of desperate lies reveals one big and awful truth  —  When Donald Trump accepted the presidential nomination from the Republican Party in 2016, he declared to the nation: “I alone can fix it.”  —  Four years later, as he accepted the nomination for a second term on Thursday night …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Botches His Big Speech and No One Will Care  —  He didn't put much effort into addressing voters other than his most avid supporters.  —  Nomination speeches at normal conventions are easy.  Joe Biden even showed last week that nomination speeches given remotely during a pandemic aren't that hard.
Discussion: Washington Post and Spectator USA
Reuters:
Law Firm for Teenager Accused of Kenosha Killings Has Represented Trump Lawyer Giuliani  —  (Reuters) - The 17-year-old accused of killing two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has hired a law firm whose clients have included President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Trump adviser Carter Page.
 
 
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The GOP Tries to Make Its Case
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon poised to award Medal of Honor to Alwyn Cashe, who died after saving fellow soldiers in Iraq
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New York Times:
A Word Not Uttered by Republican Officials at the Convention: Obamacare
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Biden's Voters Appear Far More Likely To Vote By Mail Than Trump's. That Could Make For A Weird Election Night.
Discussion: YouGov
Dustin Gardiner / San Francisco Chronicle:
Nearly every California GOP state senator in quarantine after coronavirus exposure
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's “Republican” Endorser Runs A Chinese Communist Party-Staffed Consulting Firm
Discussion: Fox News
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Lateshia Beachum / Washington Post:
A Black, female veteran could topple the Republican incumbent in her red Florida district
Discussion: National Review and The Capitolist
Mike Barnicle / The Daily Beast:
A Sick President Scrambles to Spread His Contagion of Fear
TODAY.com:
Kamala Harris: Officer in Jacob Blake shooting should be charged
Discussion: Politico and Newsbusters