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9:20 AM ET, September 3, 2020

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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden tops Trump among likely voters in key states  —  Democrat Joe Biden is ahead in three key states that President Donald Trump won in 2016, according to new Fox News statewide surveys of Arizona, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.  —  Support for reelecting Trump falls below his 2016 vote share in each state.
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump encourages North Carolina residents to vote twice to test mail-in system  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested that people in North Carolina should vote twice in the November election, once by mail and once in-person, escalating his attempts to cast confusion and doubt on the validity of the results.
New York Post:
Gov. Cuomo says: Trump ‘better have an army’ to protect him if he comes to NYC  —  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday all but threatened President Trump's safety if he returns to New York City in a rant responding to an exclusive story by The Post that Trump is looking to pull federal funds from “lawless” cities including New York.
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New York Times:
Trump Moves to Cut Federal Funding From Democratic Cities  —  The president directed officials to identify “anarchist jurisdictions” and move to withhold funds as he tries to build his campaign around the unrest that has accompanied racial justice protests.  —  President Trump …
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump orders review to defund NYC, other ‘anarchist’ cities  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is ordering the federal government to begin the process of defunding New York City and three other cities where officials allowed “lawless” protests and cut police budgets amid rising violent crime, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Detroit Free Press:
Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder: I am a Republican vote for Biden  —  Forty-four years ago, I celebrated my 18th birthday at the 1976 Republican National Convention as part of Gerald Ford's national youth group.  At that convention, I had the honor to watch two great leaders in action — Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
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Tim Reid / Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden garners more Republican endorsements, this time from ex-governors  —  (Reuters) - Nearly 100 Republican and independent leaders will endorse Democrat Joe Biden for president on Thursday, including one-time 2020 Republican presidential candidate Bill Weld and the former Republican governors …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Focus group: Wisconsin swing voters feel overlooked by Biden  —  OSHKOSH, Wis. — Some voters in Wisconsin say they feel Joe Biden cares less about them and their concerns than about the people protesting systemic racism.  —  Why it matters: As Trump leans into a law-and-order message to try …
David Eggert / Associated Press:   Ex-Michigan Gov. Snyder is latest Republican to back Biden
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Facebook Moves to Limit Election Chaos in November  —  The social network said it would block new political ads in late October, among other measures, to reduce misinformation and interference.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook on Thursday moved to clamp down on any confusion about the November election …
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook will block new political advertising the week before Election Day  —  The social network's move is in response to criticism that Facebook fuels misinformation  —  Facebook plans to block new advertising the week before the presidential election — the first time the company …
Discussion: Associated Press
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook will ban new political ads a week before Election Day  —  Facebook said Thursday that it will no longer accept new political ads for the week leading up to Election Day.  It will also label posts from candidates who claim victory prematurely and will direct users to the official results.
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to Limit Political Ads Week Before Election, Label Premature Calls
Discussion: Political Wire and KCLO-TV
Michael Hill / Associated Press:
Video in Black man's suffocation shows cops put hood on him  —  A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Speaker Pelosi calls salon visit a ‘set-up,’ refuses to apologize  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to apologize Wednesday for her controversial visit to a San Francisco hair salon, calling it “a set up” and suggesting that she had been tricked by the business owner.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Devin Nunes May Be Trump's ‘Person’ Who Witnessed the Antifa Plane ‘Firsthand’  —  The mega-loyalist Nunes was seemingly the first person in Trumpworld to publicly float the rumor of a plane full of geared-up antifa soldiers—days before the president spread it.
Discussion: Chicago Tribune and The Nation
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Covid-19 has killed more police officers this year than all other causes combined, data shows  —  By one estimate, coronavirus deaths among law enforcement are likely to surpass those of 9/11  —  In a speech this week in Pittsburgh, Joe Biden linked the Trump administration's mismanagement …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
Active shooter drills are meant to prepare students.  But research finds ‘severe’ side effects.  —  A few things go through Tim Tredwell's mind when he's in the middle of an active shooter drill, leading his physical education class into the locker room at John Winthrop Middle School in Deep River, Connecticut.
Eric Morath / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Unemployment Claims Fell in Latest Week  —  New measurement method could be a factor in weekly figures, along with slowly improving labor market  —  New applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, a possible sign of a slowly improving labor market and the impact of a new measurement method.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sanders Says Trump Joked About Her ‘Taking One for the Team’ With Kim Jong-un  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders writes in a new book that after Mr. Kim winked at her, President Trump joked that “you're going to North Korea,” “your husband and kids will miss you, but you'll be a hero to your country!”
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: A guide to 9 conspiracy theories Trump is currently pushing  —  Why Trump embracing QAnon is so dangerous  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has been a conspiracy theorist for years.  Perhaps never before, though, has he pushed so many conspiracy theories at one time.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump promised a 350-ship Navy.  China actually built it.  —  President Trump has been publicly promising to build a 350-ship U.S. Navy since his 2016 campaign and he's still campaigning on it.  He will end his first term failing to achieve that goal.  But according to the Pentagon, China did it — on Trump's watch.
Discussion: New York Post
Alec MacGillis / The Atlantic:
How to Stop a Police Pullback  —  This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and ProPublica.  —  Across the United States, cities are experiencing turbulence and a rise in gun violence following the protests against abusive policing sparked by the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Alison Durkee / Forbes:
IRS Chief Makes More Than $100,000 Per Year Off Trump Property, Documents Show  —  The commissioner of the IRS—who is responsible for releasing President Trump's tax returns to Congress—owns two rental properties at the Trump International Waikiki that he profits off of while in office …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden's lead persists post-conventions  —  After two political conventions unlike any the United States had seen before, Joe Biden maintains an advantage over Donald Trump in the race for the presidency, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.Among registered voters, 51% back Biden, 43% Trump.
Mark Schlinkmann / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis mayor temporarily relocates following protests at her home  —  ST. LOUIS — Mayor Lyda Krewson has temporarily relocated after a string of protests at her Central West End home.  —  The mayor on Wednesday confirmed that she and her husband, former television reporter Mike Owens …
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
'Can you imagine if we're waiting on Pennsylvania?':  State Dems scramble to avoid voting fiasco  —  PHILADELPHIA — With concerns about an Election Day debacle rising in this critical swing state, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf privately convened a group of Philadelphia Democrats recently …
Discussion: COURIER, Vox and Redstate
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump and Top Aides Ditch Masks After Saying Patriots Wear Them  — President didn't wear mask at convention or on recent travel  — New Trump adviser downplays masks despite widespread consensus  —  Donald Trump and his top aides are conducting near-daily public events without wearing masks …
Discussion: Political Wire
The Post Millennial:
Seattle man arrested by feds for threatening to blow up Portland police station espoused Antifa beliefs  —  A Seattle man who espoused support for Antifa causes has been arrested and federally charged for threatening to blow up a Portland police station with a bomb.
Michael J. Sandel / New York Times:
Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice  —  It's having a corrosive effect on American life — and hurting the Democratic Party.  —  Mr. Sandel is a political philosopher.  —  Joe Biden has a secret weapon in his bid for the presidency: He is the first Democratic nominee …
Dan McCrum / Financial Times:
Wirecard and me: Dan McCrum on exposing a criminal enterprise  —  Intimidation, surveillance and conspiracy theories: inside the FT's five-year investigation of a billion-dollar fraud  —  January 30 2019: it was mid-afternoon on a grey Wednesday in London when a dozen or so anonymous Twitter bots burst into life.
 
 
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James LaPorta / Associated Press:
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CNN:
House Oversight Committee subpoenas USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy
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Ady Barkan / Washington Post:
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Schumer rips ‘emaciated’ Republican coronavirus relief plan
Discussion: The Atlantic and Axios
Atul Gawande / New Yorker:
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Andrea Mitchell / MSNBC:
Fmr. DHS Secy: Most U.S. terror deaths have come from ‘extreme right wing groups’ in recent years
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Science:
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