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8:35 AM ET, August 31, 2020

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Ben Smith / New York Times:
I'm Still Reading Andrew Sullivan.  But I Can't Defend Him.  —  He's one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades, but he's shadowed by a 1994 magazine cover story that claimed to show a link between race and I.Q.  —  PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — The only restaurant open late …
Paige Austin / Los Angeles, CA Patch:
Shooting At Pro-Trump Rally Leads To Standoff On Ventura Blvd.  —  A Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Team has surrounded three suspects in a shooting at a pro-Trump caravan in Woodland Hills. … WOODLAND HILLS, CA — The Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Team has surrounded three suspects holed …
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Los Angeles Times:
Confusion after LAPD responds to reports of gunfire at pro-Trump car caravan  —  A car caravan of President Trump supporters parading down Ventura Boulevard turned chaotic Sunday as Los Angeles police searched for three people who might have been involved in an incident connected to the event.
Maya Lau / Los Angeles Times:   Police PR machine under scrutiny for inaccurate reporting, alleged pro-cop bias
Jack Davis / The Western Journal:
CDC Now Says 94% of COVID Deaths Had an Underlying Condition  —  Share on Facebook(100k) Tweet P Share Email Print  —  A new report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in 94 percent of the cases of those who died from COVID-19, another disease was also at work on the victim.
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Man under investigation in fatal shooting after pro-Trump rally allegedly took loaded gun to earlier Portland protest  —  A 48-year-old man who was accused of carrying a loaded gun at an earlier downtown Portland protest is under investigation in the fatal shooting Saturday night of a right-wing demonstrator after a pro-Trump rally.
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Washington Post:
New Trump pandemic adviser pushes controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy, worrying public health officials  —  One of President Trump's top medical advisers is urging the White House to embrace a controversial “herd immunity” strategy to combat the pandemic, which would entail allowing …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump offered FBI director job to John Kelly, asked for loyalty  —  The day after President Trump fired FBI boss James Comey, the president phoned John Kelly, who was then secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, and offered him Comey's job, the New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and CANNONFIRE
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump mulled “settling” with Mueller amid Russia investigation
Discussion: Political Wire
Jane Calderwood / Portsmouth Herald:
OPINION/GUEST VIEW: I can no longer support Sen. Susan Collins  —  I was raised to believe I should cast my vote for the person with the best ideas, regardless of their party.  My father took me down to Bangor City Hall when I turned 18 to get me registered to vote.
jsonline:
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers urges President Trump to reconsider Kenosha visit  —  Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is urging President Donald Trump not to visit Kenosha this week.  —  In a Sunday letter to Trump, Evers wrote, “I write today to respectfully ask you to reconsider” plans to visit the Wisconsin city …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNN
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
White House says Trump still planning to visit Kenosha after governor urges him to reconsider
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Swift Boat mastermind to launch massive super PAC to boost Trump  —  Senior Republicans are launching a massive new super PAC this week to bolster Donald Trump's reelection in the final stretch of the campaign — a move that comes as the president has been pummeled by Joe Biden on TV.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
It's time to challenge the cockeyed reaction to violence  —  Donald Trump has incited racist fears since he came down the gold escalator in 2015 to announce his presidential campaign.  He had peaceful protesters gassed and deployed camouflaged troops to Portland, Ore., to grab protesters off the street without probable cause.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
GOP's Ron Johnson refuses to condemn Kenosha shooter in manic interview with CNN's Bash
Discussion: The Daily Beast
David Edwards / Raw Story:   DHS chief refuses to condemn violent Trump supporters under grilling by CBS host: ‘So you endorse this?’
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Leaked McGahn memo reveals alarms about Kushner's top-secret security clearance  —  Trump ultimately intervened to ensure Kushner got his top-secret security clearance.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
BLM ‘activists’ celebrated as Trump supporter was killed  —  It's spine-chilling to hear activists in Portland cheering about the coldblooded murder of a Trump supporter Saturday night.  —  “I am not sad that a f-king fascist died tonight,” a woman shouts into a megaphone at a BLM-Antifa gathering after a man was shot dead nearby.
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
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Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Portland mayor responds to Trump: “Support us or stay the hell out of the way”
Joe Biden for President:
Statement by Vice President Joe Biden on the Deadly Violence in Portland  —  The deadly violence we saw overnight in Portland is unacceptable.  Shooting in the streets of a great American city is unacceptable.  I condemn this violence unequivocally.  I condemn violence of every kind by any one, whether on the left or the right.
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Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Biden condemns violence on all sides after deadly Portland shooting
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Wisconsin Man Who Says He Marched With Rittenhouse in Kenosha Was Immersed in White Supremacist Propaganda  —  Ryan Balch, a 31-year-old Wisconsin man who joined Kyle Rittenhouse and a contingent of militia conducting armed patrols in Kenosha, used his social media accounts to link to a Nazi propaganda video …
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo is the worst secretary of state in history  —  As secretary of state, Mike Pompeo has presided over the collapse of negotiations with North Korea, the failure of a pressure campaign against Iran and an abortive attempt to oust Venezuela's authoritarian regime.
Ben White / Politico:
Trump tries to dance around a devastating backdrop  —  In the nine weeks left in the 2020 campaign, President Donald Trump has an especially daunting task: Convince a skeptical American public that the coronavirus-ravaged U.S. economy is actually roaring back and will soon return to the status …
Discussion: CounterPunch
Elizabeth Ralph / Politico:
A Nightmare Scenario: Here's What Happens If China Gets the Covid-19 Vaccine First  —  David Fidler has a nightmare scenario: In three months, China announces one of its Covid-19 vaccines has successfully completed Phase III trials.  The World Health Organization is enthusiastic.
Discussion: Jacobin
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Called Kimberly Guilfoyle After Her Roaring RNC Speech, Compared Her to Eva Perón  —  After Kimberly Guilfoyle's RNC speech became a target of memes and talk-show mockery, sources confirm President Trump called her and said, “That was fantastic...so amazing.”
Discussion: Raw Story
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Twitter slaps ‘manipulated media’ tag on video shared by Scalise that alters activist's question to Biden  —  Twitter on Sunday flagged a manipulated clip posted by House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) that alters a question from activist Ady Barkan to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Discussion: DCCC, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Leo Shane III / Military Times:
As Trump's popularity slips in latest Military Times poll, more troops say they'll vote for Biden
Discussion: Bloomberg
Umair Haque / Eudaimonia and Co:
We Don't Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.
New York Times:
U.S. Will Revive Global Virus-Hunting Effort Ended Last Year
David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
White Supremacists Are Invading American Cities To Incite a Civil War
Discussion: IJR
Chemi Shalev / Haaretz:
Donald Trump looks on after delivering his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on August 27, 2020. Credit: Brendan Smialowski / AFP
New York Times:
Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic.
 Earlier Items: 
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
New Yorkers Are Fleeing to the Suburbs: ‘The Demand Is Insane’
Discussion: New York Post
Sidney Leng / South China Morning Post:
China censors Thomas Piketty's book on inequality
Will Brown / Telegraph:
Investigation: African migrants ‘left to die’ in Saudi Arabia's hellish Covid detention centres
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Janelle Irwin Taylor / Florida Politics:
Poll: Charlie Crist begins General Election campaign vs. Anna Paulina Luna with16-point lead
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
How Angela Merkel's great migrant gamble paid off
Washington Post:
Inside Trump's pressure campaign on federal scientists over a covid-19 treatment
Discussion: Political Wire, Bloomberg and Raw Story
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Never Fully Examined Trump's Ties to Russia, Ex-Officials Say
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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