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USA Today:
Exclusive: The conventions over, Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by a narrower 50%-43% in USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll — The political conventions over, Joe Biden now leads Donald Trump in the race for the White House by 50%-43%, the new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds.
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Grinnell College:
Joe Biden Leads Donald Trump in Latest Grinnell College National Poll — If the election were held today, the newest edition of the Grinnell College National Poll shows Joe Biden winning the popular vote in his quest to become to be the 46th President of the United States.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Brace for impact — DRIVING THE DAY — GOOD MORNING, and happy Wednesday. We should all begin to focus our attention on the end of this month and the fiscal stimulus/government funding mess that awaits Washington — because it is massive, can easily go off the rails and is very far from being figured out.
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
No bounce in support for Trump as Americans see pandemic, not crime, as top issue: Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's attempt to make civil unrest a central theme of his re-election campaign has yet to boost his political standing, as most Americans …
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Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Melania Trump used private email accounts while in the White House, says former colleague and friend — Melania Trump regularly used a private Trump Organization email account, an email from a MelaniaTrump.com domain, iMessage and the encrypted messaging app, Signal, while in the White House …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Pelosi used shuttered San Francisco hair salon for blow-out, owner calls it ‘slap in the face’ — ‘We have been shut down for so long,’ owner says — EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out …
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KTVU-TV:
Nancy Pelosi confirms she got hair done indoors in San Francisco — The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to M — SAN FRANCISCO - A trip to a San Francisco salon has turned into a controversy for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi whose office tells KTVU …
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Ben Jordan / TMJ4:
Kenosha business owner declines President Trump photo-op, former owner replaces him — A Kenosha business owner is accusing President Donald Trump of using his destroyed store for political gain. — Tom Gram's century-old camera shop burned to the ground a week ago during the unrest in Uptown Kenosha.
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Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Ernst Suggests Iowa Doctors Falsifying COVID Cases For Money — Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported. As the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier wrote …
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Ed Markey defeats Joe Kennedy in Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary — Sen. Ed Markey won the Massachusetts Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday evening, fending off a bitter challenge from Rep. Joe Kennedy, AP reports. — Why it matters: The power of the Kennedy name …
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Eleanor Watson / CBS News:
Ed Markey beats Joe Kennedy III in hotly contested Massachusetts Senate primary
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Alex Rogers / CNN:
Sen. Ed Markey defeats a Kennedy in Massachusetts
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New York Times, Politico and Daily Kos
ABC News:
DHS withheld July intelligence bulletin calling out Russian attack on Biden's mental health — The Trump campaign has repeatedly engaged in a similar line of attack. — In early July the Department of Homeland Security withheld publication of an intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement agencies …
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Trump Says Some Really Strange Things. Republicans Say No Comment, Again. — “If the leader comments, I'll be sure to pass it along,” said a spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader. As of Tuesday afternoon, there was nothing to pass along.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Pence: “I don't recall being told to be on standby” during Trump's Walter Reed visit — Vice President Mike Pence said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday that he does not “recall” being told to be on standby to assume the powers of the presidency if President Trump was put under anesthesia during …
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Washington Post:
Justice Department zeroing in on longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy — Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy in connection with efforts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Political Wire
HuffPost:
Trump Stopped Going to Dover AFB To Receive Bodies After Getting Berated On First Visit — Vice President Pence attended “dignified transfer” ceremonies for two years by himself after the father of a slain SEAL “rattled” Trump In February 2017. — WASHINGTON ― In the world …
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
FBI investigates after alarmed pilot tells LAX tower: ‘We just passed a guy in a jet pack’ — The FBI has launched an investigation after an American Airlines pilot said he saw what appeared to be a man flying with a jet pack Sunday night near Los Angeles International Airport. — “Tower, American 1997.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Perceptions of White-Black Relations Sink to New Low — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' already tepid review of relations between White and Black Americans has soured since 2018 and is now the most negative of any year in Gallup's trend since 2001. The majority of U.S. adults …
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Axios
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Reelection Campaign Is Corrupting the Entire Federal Government — Last week, President Trump broke precedent, if not the law, by staging his convention at the White House. “The fact is, I am here,” he announced, gesturing at the White House behind him. “What is the name of that building?”
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
Russian agency created fake leftwing news outlet with fictional editors, Facebook says … The Russian agency that interfered in the 2016 US election created a fake leftwing news publication, staffed it with fake editors with AI-generated photos and hired real freelance reporters as part …
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Kate Sullivan / CNN:
'I support Joe Biden's pro-science agenda': 81 Nobel laureates endorse Biden for president — Washington (CNN)Eighty-one Nobel Prize winners endorsed Joe Biden for president in an open letter on Wednesday, citing the former vice president's “willingness to listen to experts” and his …
BuzzFeed News:
New FBI Documents Show What Witnesses In The Mueller Probe Told Federal Investigators About Trump And Russia — BuzzFeed News sued the government to get copies of the witness interview summaries that Robert Mueller kept from public view. Today, we are publishing the 10th installment of what the FBI interview summaries contain.
Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
FEMA Says It Will Stop Paying For Cloth Face Masks For Schools — The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it is changing the policy on the personal protective equipment that it will pay for. Federal officials announced the changes during a call on Tuesday with state and tribal emergency managers …
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Axios, The Hill and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Tactics of fiery White House trade adviser draw new scrutiny as some of his pandemic moves unravel — Peter Navarro has faced an internal investigation into his treatment of colleagues, and now two of his coronavirus-related actions are under internal scrutiny.
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Raw Story
Steve Inskeep / NPR:
Former DHS Official: White House Failed To Take Far-Right Extremism Seriously — Audio for this story is unavailable. — A former top Department of Homeland Security official who resigned in April says the Trump administration is creating the conditions for domestic extremism to flourish in the United States.
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Incitements to Violence Have Crossed an Alarming Threshold — In December, 2016, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two political scientists at Harvard, published an opinion piece in the Times that posed the question “Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?”
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump told Sarah Sanders to ‘take one for the team’ after Kim Jong-un wink — Donald Trump told Sarah Sanders she would have to “go to North Korea and take one for the team”, after Kim Jong-un winked at the then White House press secretary during a summit in Singapore in June 2018.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Can anything change Americans' minds about Donald Trump? — President Trump disembarks from Air Force One as lightning splits the sky at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on August 28. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images — The eerie stability of Trump's approval rating, explained.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Democrats Explain Their Voter Fraud Plans — I expect that President Trump will be re-elected in November. The Democrats apparently expect that as well. At least, the Democratic Party web site Axios does. Thus, Axios is warning the party's faithful that President Trump is likely to win-apparently-on November 3.
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Keaton Thomas / WBMA-TV:
Portland-area law enforcement declines to send officers, deputies to help with protests — PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Over the weekend, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said she would ask nearby counties to send officers and deputies to Portland to help with protests. All three agencies have since declined …
ProPublica:
New Engineering Report Finds Privately Built Border Wall Will Fail — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit …
Tallahassee Democrat:
Gunfire in a Tallahassee parking lot leads to arrest of armed couple, complaints of racism — Charles McMillon Jr. was dropping off a U-Haul van with his young son and childhood friend Kendrick Clemons when out of nowhere bullets started flying. — They had just parked the van …
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Raw Story and New York Post
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Russian trolls are back. Here's what you need to know — (CNN)People associated with the infamous St. Petersburg troll group that was part of Russia's attempt to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election are trying to target Americans again, Facebook announced Tuesday — citing a tip from the FBI.
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