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8:10 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
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.
Discussion: The Post Millennial and Redstate
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New York Times:
Portland Shooting Amplifies Tensions in Presidential Race
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Portland mayor responds to Trump: “Support us or stay the hell out of the way”
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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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.
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
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
GOP's Ron Johnson refuses to condemn Kenosha shooter in manic interview with CNN's Bash  —  In a highly contentious interview on CNN Sunday morning, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) repeatedly refused to condemn Kyle Rittenhouse, the Donald Trump fan accused of shooting and killing two Black Lives Matter protestors early this week.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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David Edwards / Raw Story:   DHS chief refuses to condemn violent Trump supporters under grilling by CBS host: ‘So you endorse this?’
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
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 …
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
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
White House says Trump still planning to visit Kenosha after governor urges him to reconsider  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is still planning to visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, this week after Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers wrote him a letter urging that he reconsider …
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers urges President Trump to reconsider Kenosha visit
Discussion: CNN
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.
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 …
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, Mediaite and Daily Kos
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Twitter flags GOP video after activist's computerized voice was manipulated
Discussion: The Hill, Mashable and The Verge
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.
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
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
New Yorkers Are Fleeing to the Suburbs: ‘The Demand Is Insane’  —  The pandemic is spurring home sales as prosperous city residents seek more space.  One listing had 97 showings and received 24 offers.  —  Over three days in late July, a three-bedroom house in East Orange, N.J. …
Discussion: New York Post
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Never Fully Examined Trump's Ties to Russia, Ex-Officials Say  —  The former deputy attorney general maneuvered to keep investigators from completing an inquiry into whether the president's personal and financial links to Russia posed a national security threat.
New York Times:
Big Oil Is in Trouble.  Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic.  —  Faced with plunging profits and a climate crisis that threatens fossil fuels, the industry is demanding a trade deal that weakens Kenya's rules on plastics and on imports of American trash.  —  Confronting a climate crisis …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Embraces Fringe Theories on Protests and the Coronavirus  —  In a Twitter barrage, the president advanced conspiracy theories claiming that protests are an organized coup and that the virus death toll is inflated.  He also reposted a call to imprison New York's governor.
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
 
 
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