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11:30 AM ET, September 9, 2020

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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Biden leads in six 2020 swing states as Trump sees no convention bounce, CNBC/Change Research poll finds  — Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in six key 2020 swing states, according to a new CNBC/Change Research poll.  — Biden's edge over Trump in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina …
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Poll: Biden leads by 9 in Pennsylvania  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by a 9-point margin among likely voters in Pennsylvania, a key swing state where Biden was born, according to a new NBC News/Marist poll.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Pro-Trump super PAC America First Action kicks off $22 million ad blitz in swing states
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Presidential Contest Tightens as Campaigns Move Into Eight-Week Home Stretch
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Intervenes to Help Trump in E. Jean Carroll Rape Lawsuit  —  Government lawyers made the unusual move of seeking to take over President Trump's defense in a defamation suit brought by Ms. Carroll, who has claimed Mr. Trump raped her in the 1990s.
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Dan Berman / CNN:
Justice Department wants to defend Trump in E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit
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Benjamin L. Ginsberg / Washington Post:
Republicans have insufficient evidence to call elections ‘rigged’ and ‘fraudulent’  —  Benjamin L. Ginsberg practiced election law for 38 years.  He co-chaired the bipartisan 2013 Presidential Commission on Election Administration.  —  Legions of Republican lawyers have searched in vain over four decades for fraudulent double voting.
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Ursula Perano / Axios:   GOP election lawyer: Republicans have “no proof of widespread fraud”
Jon Decker / Fox News:
Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian official, citing Israel-UAE peace deal  —  Nomination was submitted by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament  —  EXCLUSIVE: Just weeks after helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Norway's Top Anti-Immigration Crank Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Josh Rottenberg / Los Angeles Times:
New Oscars standards require best picture contenders must be inclusive to compete  —  And the Oscar goes to ... inclusion.  —  In the latest step in its ongoing effort to boost diversity both within its own ranks and across the film industry, on Tuesday the film academy announced …
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Oscars.org:
ACADEMY ESTABLISHES REPRESENTATION AND INCLUSION STANDARDS FOR OSCARS® ELIGIBILITY
STAT:
AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine study put on hold due to suspected adverse reaction in participant in the U.K.  —  A large, Phase 3 study testing a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford at dozens of sites across the U.S. has been put on hold due …
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NBC News:
Oxford vaccine trial on hold because of safety issue
Discussion: Fortune and Raw Story
Ben Sasse / Wall Street Journal:
Make the Senate Great Again  —  To restore the world's greatest deliberative body, we need to think big.  —  What would the Founding Fathers think of America if they came back to life?  Their eyes would surely bug out first at our technology and wealth.  But I suspect they'd also be stunned …
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
California's GOP Senate leader was under quarantine.  She spoke with no mask at a huge prayer event anyway.  —  In front of thousands of worshipers packed shoulder-to-shoulder outside the Capitol, California Senate Minority Leader Shannon Grove (R) grabbed the microphone on Sunday and promised …
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
Don Jr. Shrugs Off Rittenhouse's Alleged Murders, Argues That ‘We All Do Stupid Things At 17’  —  Donald Trump Jr., the son of President Donald Trump, likened 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse's alleged killing of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin to teenage antics on Tuesday.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Karen Robinson-Jacobs / Forbes:   Trump Jr. On Alleged Shooter Roaming Kenosha With Gun: ‘We All Do Stupid Things At 17’
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Patients may have seen ‘significant’ delays in medicine deliveries by USPS, Senate report finds  —  Several large pharmacies say delivery times have ticked up, leading to a flood of customer complaints and the added expense of replacing missing orders.  —  Patients who rely on the U.S. Postal Service …
Discussion: Axios and Forbes
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  Army ants will sometimes walk in circles until they die.  The workers navigate by smelling the pheromone trails …
Washington Post:
Coronavirus cases spike among school-age children in Florida, while state orders some counties to keep data hidden  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A month into the forced reopening of Florida's schools, dozens of classrooms — along with some entire schools — have been temporarily shuttered …
Discussion: NBC News
Arizona Republic:
Arizona Supreme Court denies West's bid to appear on ballot  —  The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Kanye West's bid to appear on the state's Nov. 3 ballot as an independent presidential candidate, just hours before eight of the state's 15 counties faced a deadline for printing ballots.
Discussion: The Hill
WRAL-TV:
Cancer survivor pleading for help with health insurance ‘angry and hurt’ over Tillis staffer's response  —  CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. — A three-time cancer survivor who reached out to U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis for help with her health insurance dilemma said that she got an insensitive response from a staffer instead.
Discussion: Mediaite
Joe Neel / NPR:
NPR Poll: Financial Pain From Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Much, Much Worse’ Than Expected  —  In America's four largest cities, at least half of people say they have experienced the loss of a job or a reduction in wages or work hours in their household since the start of the coronavirus outbreak.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Wall Street Journal:
A Trump Comeback?  —  Biden wants to make the campaign a referendum on Trump.  He's succeeding with Trump's help.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  With eight weeks before Election Day, the state of the 2020 campaign is clear: President Trump is trailing Joe Biden, who has succeeded so far …
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
A GOP county chair asked Trump to wear a mask to his rally.  Instead, Trump mocked pandemic restrictions.  —  Hours before President Trump arrived in Winston-Salem, N.C., for a campaign rally on Tuesday, the county's top Republican official issued a warning: The president better be wearing a mask.
Simon Rosenberg / GEN:
The Trump Campaign Is on an Electoral Crime Spree  —  Time to sound the alarm on all the president's cheating  —  Cash-strapped and facing lagging polling numbers, President Trump is cheating — knowingly breaking the norms, rules, and laws of our political system — to remain in power.
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
CNN airs photo of Biden and son with Washington Redskins logo removed from son's hat  —  The NFL team retired the polarizing name and logo in July
Discussion: Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
McKenna Dallmeyer / Campus Reform:
EXCLUSIVE: Texas A&M prof who called Trump ‘fat klansman’ disparages conservatives & Christians in class, multiple students say  — A professor previously covered by Campus Reform has made comments in class aimed at Republicans and certain religions.  — According to students who have taken …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
American Conservatism, b. 1955, d. 2020?  —  Is American conservatism as we've known it dead?  —  Is the Republican party salvageable?  Is it worth trying to save?  These questions have sparked an interesting discussion, one that raises important issues involving the relationship of principle …
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
No, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Didn't Spawn 250,000 Coronavirus Cases  —  Here's what we were told: An August motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, helped spread COVID-19 to more than a quarter-million Americans, making it the root of about 20 percent of all new coronavirus cases in the U.S. last month.
Jesse Wegman / New York Times:
The Electoral College Will Destroy America  —  And no, New York and California would not dominate a popular vote.  —  Mr. Wegman is a member of the editorial board.  —  Last week, Nate Silver, the polling analyst, tweeted a chart illustrating the chances that Joe Biden would become president if he wins the most votes in November.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Politico
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Attorney Hired To Probe VOA's Coverage Has Active Protective Order Against Him  —  The CEO appointed by President Trump to lead the federal agency that oversees the Voice of America and other U.S.-funded international broadcasters has made strict protocols for scrutinizing job candidates a hallmark of his brief tenure there.
Todd Starnes / Townhall:
Obama-era Pentagon Training Manual Attacks White Men  —  In 2013, I received a controversial 600-plus page manual used by the military to train its Equal Opportunity officers that teaches that “healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian” men hold an unfair advantage over other races …
Ken Haddad / WDIV-TV:
Poll: Peters, James in tight race for Michigan US Senate seat  —  Sen. Gary Peters holds slight lead over John James  —  Democratic Michigan U.S. Senator Gary Peters is in a tight race with Republican challenger John James, according to a new WDIV/Detroit News poll.
 
 
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Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Giancarlo Granda claims Falwell Jr. has been ‘relentlessly harassing’ him since sex scandal broke
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed News:
TMZ's Newsroom Is A Hotbed For Racism, Misogyny, And Verbal Abuse, Ex-Employees Say
Discussion: Mediaite
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court is already considering another threat to abortion rights
Discussion: Law & Crime
Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
Top Senate Democrat says good chance coronavirus aid bill will pass
Discussion: Breitbart
San Diego Union-Tribune:
50th District race is 'anyone's guess' as Issa, Campa-Najjar in statistical dead heat in new poll
Discussion: Breitbart
Jeff Sharlet / Vanity Fair:
“F—k Your Feelings”: In Trump's America, the Partisan Battle Flag Is the New Stars and Stripes
Discussion: Washington Post
Jason Garcia / Orlando Sentinel:
Secretive group pushing Florida constitutional amendment raised money linked to big businesses | Exclusive
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Serbia won't move embassy if Israel recognizes Kosovo
Discussion: Informed Comment
 Earlier Items: 
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
Black Lives Matter has terrorist and communist inspirations, but liberal media doesn't care
Discussion: Fox News
Bloomberg:
Deutsche Bank Hires Barr Friend to Up Its Game in Washington
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
Politico:
Trump's lost summer: Focused on Fox News, not on battleground states
Discussion: Raw Story
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump running out of time to turn around 2020 campaign
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Church Leader Who Blamed Coronavirus on Gay Marriage Contracts COVID-19
Ivan Pereira / ABC News:
Rochester police chief, entire command staff retire suddenly following protests over death of Daniel Prude
 

 
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New York Times:
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