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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.
Discussion: Washington Times
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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.
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 …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden's lead in Pennsylvania shrinks to 4 points in new poll
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Trump attacks take a toll on Black Lives Matter support
Discussion: Breitbart and Twitchy
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's underdog status remains intact after GOP convention, per polls
Discussion: NBC News and The Hill
Politico:   POLITICO Playbook: Brace for impact
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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Chandelis Duster / CNN:
ABC News: DHS withheld intelligence bulletin warning about Russian misinformation attack on Biden's mental health
Discussion: New York Post
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
DHS Blocked Intelligence Memo That Warned of Kremlin Plan to Attack Biden's Mental Health, Says Report
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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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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.
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Presidential Race Tightens  —  Democrats lead in other state contests  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden holds a 4-point lead over Donald Trump among all registered voters in Pennsylvania according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.  Among likely voters, the race is a tight 1 to 3 points …
Discussion: CBS Pittsburgh
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
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
‘So skeptical’: Sen. Joni Ernst echoes conspiracy theory questioning coronavirus death count  —  When a man in the crowd of her Iowa campaign stop told Sen. Joni Ernst (R) on Monday that he believed the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths had been overcounted, Ernst replied that she too was “so skeptical.”
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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 …
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler moving to avoid rioters targeting his home  —  The Democratic mayor of Portland, Ore. is moving from his $840,000 condo to avoid rioters who have repeatedly targeted the building, according to a report.  —  Ted Wheeler wrote to neighbors in his building to say it would be …
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Peter Canellos / Politico:
The Unlikely Kennedy Who Ended the Kennedy Dynasty  —  For most of the 60-year history of the Kennedy dynasty, it's been easier to imagine its last act as coming in a burst of triumph, a spasm of violence or a dream-shall-never-die promise of enduring hope.  On Tuesday, however …
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Ed Markey defeats Joe Kennedy in Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Just The News
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
Alexei Navalny poisoned with Novichok, says German government … The German government has said toxicological exams at Berlin's Charité hospital have yielded “unequivocal proof” that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.
Discussion: ABC7 and New York Post
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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The scandals surrounding Trump are beginning to overlap in strange ways
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge bars University of California from all use of SAT, ACT scores in admissions  —  The University of California, which has already stopped requiring applicants to take the SAT or ACT, must go further and prohibit campuses from allowing prospective students to submit their scores …
Discussion: Mercury News
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Mediaite
David Folkenflik / NPR:
At Voice of America, Trump Appointee Sought Political Influence Over Coverage  —  Toggle more options  —  At the Voice of America, staffers say the Trump appointee leading their parent agency is threatening to wash away legal protections intended to insulate their news reports from political meddling.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
For his next act, Pete Buttigieg is pivoting to podcasting  —  Pete Buttigieg has a podcast voice.  It's low, calm and reassuring — even if the trailer for his new podcast, which launches next Wednesday sounds a bit too much like a campaign stump speech to register immediately as an independent media product.
Discussion: The Hill
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Many GOP Voters Value America's Whiteness More Than Its Democracy  —  In Donald Trump's America, democracy dies in broad daylight.  —  Previous presidents have flouted the rule of law and sought to restrict access to the ballot, but none of Trump's modern predecessors have treated these endeavors like photo ops.
Discussion: Power Line, Washington Post and PNAS
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.
Discussion: KTLA
Gregory Meyer / Financial Times:
The US and climate: New York's bold green plans hit opposition  —  The state's ambitious goals to cut emissions are being slowed by a tortuous planning process  —  Jeanne and John Morelli have long grasped the benefits of renewable energy.  A geothermal heat pump warms their house in the woods.
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 …
Discussion: National Review, The Hill and Axios
Katie Way / VICE:
The Little Cards That Tell Police 'Let's Forget This Ever Happened'  —  Some cops give their friends and family union-issued “courtesy cards” to help get them out of minor infractions.  The cards embody everything wrong with modern policing.  —  KW  —  Mike, a white man in his 50s …
 
 
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Jazmin Goodwin / CNN:
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Tom Burgis / Financial Times:
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John Murawski / RealClearInvestigations:
The Deeply Pessimistic Intellectual Roots of Black Lives Matter, the ‘1619 Project’ and Much Else in Woke America
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
USA Today:
Kenosha visit reality: Trump is anything but a ‘law and order’ leader
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Jake Bittle / The Guardian:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Justice News:
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
For Biden to Win, Listen to Minneapolis
Discussion: Althouse, Spectator USA and Power Line
BuzzFeed News:
New FBI Documents Show What Witnesses In The Mueller Probe Told Federal Investigators About Trump And Russia
Discussion: Fox News
Mike Allen / Axios:
Pence: “I don't recall being told to be on standby” during Trump's Walter Reed visit