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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Trump's ‘plane loaded with thugs’ rumor matches months-old conspiracy theory — The conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump pushed on Monday that a plane “almost completely loaded with thugs” was set to disrupt protests was almost identical to a rumor that went viral on Facebook three months ago.
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Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
The Essence of Late Stage Trumpism — “People that you've never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows. People that...” - Donald J. Trump, the actual president of the United States. — World War II began 80 years ago. The day was commemorated by W.H. Auden in a poem named, appropriately enough, “September 1, 1939”.
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs — It's the campaign's latest foray into online organizing — Starting today, September 1st, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will be able to deck out their island homes with official Joe Biden yard signs as part …
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Arizona Stands Out From a Mostly Static Presidential Race in Battleground States — State-level polling trends reveal little recent change in 2020 contest, but Biden now leads by 10 in Arizona — Amid unrest in Kenosha, Wis., Biden leads Trump by 9 points, 52% to 43%.
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Margaret Talev / Axios:
Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns Trump will appear to win big on election night — A top Democratic data and analytics firm told “Axios on HBO” it's highly likely that President Trump will appear to have won — potentially in a landslide — on election night, even if he ultimately loses when all the votes are counted.
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Larry Flynt / The Daily Beast:
My Final Farewell to the Falwells — The Hustler publisher, who won a landmark First Amendment legal battle against Jerry Falwell Sr., writes about Jerry Falwell Jr.'s fall from grace—and the Trump of it all. — When I heard that Jerry Falwell Jr. had resigned the presidency of Liberty University …
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Ruth Graham / New York Times:
Liberty Will Investigate University's Operations Under Jerry Falwell Jr.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Biden Expected to Surpass $300 Million Raised in August, Shattering Record — The fund-raising total would exceed previous monthly hauls and is more than double what the former vice president raised in July. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to report a record-breaking haul of donations for August …
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Alana Wise / NPR:
Trump Defends Kenosha Shooting Suspect — President Trump on Monday declined to condemn the actions of the suspected 17-year-old shooter of three protesters against police brutality in Kenosha, Wis., claiming, without evidence, that it appeared the gunman was acting in self defense.
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump Needs His Own Sister Souljah Moment — The president must condemn those responsible for violence and disavow those who act in his name. Easy, right? — I want to make a prediction about the election in November. — Here it is: If Joe Biden wins, it will be, in part …
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Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Trump campaign aide was paid $20,000 a month by Bannon nonprofit linked to alleged fraud — Trump campaign's shell game: No reported payments to campaign manager Bill Stepien or drama-prone aide Jason Miller — Senior Trump campaign official Jason Miller appears to have been paid about $20,000 …
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David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Trump has slipped among key groups that backed him in 2016 — President Trump's support has eroded among key groups of voters who backed him in 2016 — a major reason why he continues to trail former Vice President Joe Biden and a prime motivator for the president's reelection strategy …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
DHS Chief Tells Tucker the Feds Are ‘Working On’ Conspiracy Charges Against BLM Leaders — “Well, this is something that I have talked to [Attorney General William Barr] personally about,” Wolf said. “I know that they are working on it.” — For months now, Fox News host Tucker Carlson …
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New York Times:
As Guns Get Drawn at Protest Sites, Demonstrators Fear a Volatile New Phase — As right-wing groups increasingly move to confront unrest in cities, clashes are breaking out between demonstrators with starkly different views on how to keep cities safe. — PORTLAND, Ore. — For months …
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Administration Promise to Focus on Extremism Remains Unfulfilled
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Pence was on standby to ‘take over’ during Trump's unannounced Walter Reed visit, new book reports — Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence was put on standby to temporarily assume the powers of the presidency during President Donald Trump's unannounced visit to Walter Reed hospital in November 2019 …
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Journalist Quits Kenosha Paper in Protest of Its Jacob Blake Rally Coverage — Daniel Thompson, an editor at The Kenosha News, resigned over a headline that highlighted a speaker who made a threat during a peaceful protest. — A journalist resigned on Saturday from his job at The Kenosha News …
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New York Times:
It Has Come to This: Ignore the C.D.C. — The agency's new guidelines are wrong, so states have to step up on their own to suppress the coronavirus. — Harold Varmus is a former director of the National Institutes of Health. Rajiv Shah is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Trump urges keeping tax returns away from Manhattan's top prosecutor — NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged a federal appeals court on Monday not to let Manhattan's top prosecutor get eight years of his tax returns, saying the handover would cause him irreparable harm.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House mounts last-ditch bid for Trump's financial records
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Biden's GOP endorsements show the cracks in Trump's coalition — (CNN)Joe Biden is attracting more crossover endorsements from prominent members of the opposing party than any other presidential candidate from either side in decades. That doesn't guarantee the former vice president victory in November …
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Isaac Arnsdorf / ProPublica:
Now in Government Food Aid Boxes: A Letter From Donald Trump — Democrats say the letter violates the law against using government resources to campaign. It's just the latest example of President Trump using his office to boost his reelection hopes.
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
White House public tours to resume Sept. 12 with COVID rules
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Dave Levinthal / Business Insider:
Legal insiders brace for a world where Trump loses in November and the ex-president faces down a slew of reinvigorated court fights — More than a dozen legal experts and practitioners tell Insider that President Donald Trump's many legal fights are primed to cause him headaches should he lose the 2020 presidential election.
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Russian Journalists Find U.S. Voter Data on Hacker Site — Russian journalists have discovered data from Michigan voter data rolls-including the personal info of 7.6 million Michigan voters-on a Russian hackers' platform, Julia Ioffe reports. — It also includes voter info from other swing states …
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New York Times:
New York City Gambles Big on Reopening Schools: ‘We Are on a Tightrope’ — Four million masks, 80,000 containers of wipes, a million-plus students: How New York is seeking to become the lone big city to reopen its public schools. — Mayor Bill de Blasio walked briskly out the back door …
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon says China planning big increase in nuclear arsenal — WASHINGTON (AP) — China likely plans to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads in this decade, including those designed to be carried atop ballistic missiles that can reach the United States, the Pentagon said in a report released Tuesday.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Meadows sees progress on relief talks, but keeps hard line on Pelosi proposals — White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Tuesday touted “real progress” in talks with Democrats and Republicans on coronavirus relief legislation, but he continued to reject the broad proposal from Democratic leaders …
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David Siders / Politico:
An unlikely state tightens up — Minnesota, which once looked like a vanity project for Donald Trump, is suddenly emerging as a critical test of his effort to turn his campaign around. — Interviews with more than a dozen officials and strategists from both parties in recent days depict …
Wall Street Journal:
Biden, Trump Teams Plan for Mid-Crisis Transition — Aides to each candidate are quietly planning for a first Biden term or a second one for Trump. The coronavirus pandemic and shaky economy make the task trickier than usual. — WASHINGTON—The twin economic and public health crises facing …
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Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Most expect quick election results — One in three Americans thinks we'll know who won the presidential election on the night of Nov. 3, and six in 10 expect the winner to be announced within a couple of days, our new poll finds. — Why it matters: The gap between public expectations …
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Matthew Rozsa / Salon:
Why the “6%” meme stating COVID-19 deaths are exaggerated is wrong — The right seizes on a misread CDC statement as “proof” that coronavirus isn't that deadly — Conservative social media networks and right-wing personalities, including Fox Nation host Tammy Bruce, have seized …
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Mackenzie Mays / Politico:
California lawmaker brings newborn to Assembly floor after being denied proxy vote — SACRAMENTO — While remote voting was allowed in the California State Senate on Monday, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, who gave birth in late July, said Assembly leadership denied her request to vote by proxy despite Covid-19 concerns.
Danny Cevallos / NBC News:
Was Kyle Rittenhouse's possession of a gun protected by the Second Amendment? … One item really sticks out on the list of charges against Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old from Illinois arrested after two people were shot and killed during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
The Media Fails Its Biggest Trump 2020 Test — The national press corps' disastrous obsession with Hillary Clinton's email practices has drawn criticism in the years since the 2016 election, but it was an obvious failure of journalism in real time, too, reflecting professional habits in media …
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