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8:40 AM ET, September 23, 2020

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Wall Street Journal:
Republican Probe Finds Hunter Biden's Ukraine Work Raised Concerns With Obama Officials  —  Findings don't support accusation that Joe Biden sought to remove a prosecutor to protect a gas firm whose board Hunter Biden served on  —  WASHINGTON—Two Obama administration officials raised concerns …
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Washington Post:
GOP senators' report calls Hunter Biden's board position with Ukraine firm ‘problematic,’ but fails to show how it changed U.S. policy  —  A pair of Senate Republican committee chairmen released a report Wednesday arguing that Hunter Biden's board position with a Ukrainian energy company was …
Politico:
GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims  —  Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley's interim report largely relies on previously known information.  —  Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Sen. Ron Johnson.  Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
GOP-led committees release interim report on Hunter Biden, Burisma probe
Discussion: Townhall
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Cindy McCain Endorses Biden, Citing Trump's Disparagement of Troops  —  The widow of Senator John McCain praised Joe Biden's “character and integrity” and noted that both he and her family had children who had served in the military.  —  WASHINGTON — Cindy McCain, the widow of Senator John McCain …
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Washington Post:
Post-ABC polls: Trump and Biden in tight races in Florida, Arizona  —  Sunbelt battlegrounds could hold key to 2020 election outcome  —  President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are locked in close races in Florida and Arizona, according to a pair of Washington Post-ABC News polls …
Discussion: Politico and Florida Politics
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trust on the economy bolsters Trump in oh-so-close Florida and Arizona: POLL
Discussion: Washington Post and Bloomberg
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Handmaid's Tale?  U.S. Supreme Court candidate's religious community under scrutiny  —  (Reuters) - Some have likened People of Praise, a self-described charismatic Christian community, to the totalitarian, male-dominated society of Margaret Atwood's novel “The Handmaid's Tale.”
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Democrats weigh how to handle Trump's potential Supreme Court pick after past flap over Barrett's faith  —  Barrett in Indiana ahead of Trump announcement  —  (CNN)In a tense exchange between Amy Coney Barrett and Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2017, the California Democrat sharply questioned whether …
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:   It's not just Roe v Wade. Trump's Supreme Court pick could challenge Brown v Board of Education
Dion Rabouin / Axios:
Wall Street fears meltdown over election and Supreme Court  —  The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Trump's vow to name her replacement to the Supreme Court before November's election are amplifying Wall Street's worries about major volatility and market losses ahead of and even after the election.
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
GOP will ask Supreme Court to limit mail voting in Pennsylvania in first post-RBG test
Peter Baker / New York Times:
With Nothing Else Working, Trump Races to Make a New Supreme Court Justice the Issue
New York Times:
The Russian Trolls Have a Simpler Job Today.  Quote Trump.  —  As part of their attempt to interfere with the 2020 election, Russians are grabbing screenshots of President Trump's tweets, or quoting his own misleading statements, analysts and officials say.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
CIA clamps down on flow of Russia intelligence to White House  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel and President Donald Trump attend the swearing-in ceremony for Haspel as CIA director May 21, 2018, in Langley, Va. |  The CIA has made it harder for intelligence about Russia to reach …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
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Tyler Pager / Bloomberg:
Kamala Harris Downplays Debate Skills as Buttigieg Stands In for Pence  — Former prosecutor known for withering attacks on opponents  — Harris created viral moments in presidential primary debates  —  Kamala Harris's team is working to manage public expectations that her upcoming debate …
Discussion: PinkNews, Raw Story and The Hill
Detroit Free Press:
West Michigan man says yard signs were stolen.  So he put up Joe Biden freeway billboards.  —  After he said eight yard signs were stolen or vandalized, Marshall Stern had had enough.  —  Stern, a Democrat who lives in Newaygo County, a historically red area in west Michigan …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Meadows puts agencies on notice about staff shake-up  —  White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told administration officials Monday to expect senior aides to be replaced at many government agencies, according to an internal email obtained by Axios.  —  Behind the scenes …
Discussion: New York Post and ABC News
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump extends ban on racial discrimination training to federal contractors  —  President Trump on Tuesday extended his administration's ban on training involving race- and sex-based discrimination to include federal contractors, doubling down on an issue to appeal to his base, and white voters in particular.
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The White House:
Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
Discussion: Axios and New York Post
Alayna Treene / Axios:
House Democrats and Trump admin strike deal to avert government shutdown  —  The House on Tuesday passed legislation to fund the government through Dec. 11, by a vote of 359-57.  —  Why it matters: The bill will avert a government shutdown when funding expires in eight days.
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Susan Davis / NPR:
House Passes Short-Term Funding Bill To Keep Government Running
IC3.gov News:
Foreign Actors and Cybercriminals Likely to Spread Disinformation Regarding 2020 Election Results  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are issuing this announcement to raise awareness of the potential threat posed …
Discussion: Bloomberg, IJR and Mediaite
Barton Gellman / The Atlantic:
The Election That Could Break America … There is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and lawyers and political strategists, who find themselves in the uneasy position of intelligence analysts in the months before 9/11.  As November 3 approaches …
Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post:
US House passes forced labour bill that would bar Xinjiang imports  —  The legislation, which now goes to the Senate, would require any importer of Xinjiang-sourced products to prove they were not made using forced labour The bill, called the Uygur Forced Labour Prevention Act …
Wall Street Journal:
Reopening Colleges Likely Fueled Covid-19 Significantly, Study Finds  —  Research suggests in-person classes led to thousands of additional cases each day in the U.S.  —  Colleges and universities that reopened for face-to-face instruction might have caused tens of thousands of additional cases …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Jessica Taylor / The Cook Political Report:
Colorado Senate Moves From Toss Up to Lean Democrat  —  With a Supreme Court nominee now all but certain to be confirmed by the GOP-controlled Senate this year (either before or after the election), it looks like there will only be two defections from Republican ranks — Maine Sen. Susan Collins …
Alona Ferber / New Statesman:
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”  —  Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender.  Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance.
Discussion: PinkNews
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
Dutch lawmakers demand answers after U.S. ambassador holds party for right-wing populists at embassy  —  Dutch officials demanded answers from Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, on Tuesday in light of reports that the Trump appointee had held a private event …
Politico:
Trump-world clashes over Barrett vs. Lagoa  —  Donald Trump's looming Supreme Court decision is dividing the president's political orbit between the pragmatists and the purists.  —  One camp is dominated by the GOP operative class overseeing the party's electoral efforts, including the president's own campaign advisers and donors.
Politico:
Trump falls into the trap he set for Biden  —  The president spent months mocking Joe Biden's acumen, lowering expectations for the Democratic nominee in the first presidential debate.  As a result, some on Trump's team now worry about a loss next week.  —  President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Mediaite and Fox News
Laurence Jarvik / THE LATEST:
Scientific American's Scientifically Indefensible Biden Endorsement  —  An editorial that begins and ends with lies is, by definition, not credible and unworthy of a purportedly “scientific” journal ...  Breaking with 175 years of nonpartisan objectivity, German-owned Scientific American endorsed Joe Biden …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Andrew Dyer / San Diego Union-Tribune:
More voters picked Jacobs than Gómez in 53rd Congressional District, poll shows  —  But “undecideds” are 38 percent of the vote, a new 10 News/San Diego Union-Tribune poll finds  —  If “undecided” were a candidate, it would be tied for first place with Sara Jacobs …
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Demographic shifts since 2016 could be enough to defeat Trump.  But it's complicated. … Four years ago, President Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2.9 million votes and still won the White House thanks to a near-perfect geographic vote distribution that allowed him to capture big Electoral College prizes by razor-thin margins.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Oliver Carroll / The Independent:
Belarus: Lukashenko secretly inaugurates himself after disputed election  —  Belarus has been rocked by mass protests since the contested vote last month  —  Belarus's under-fire autocrat Alexander Lukashenko has secretly inaugurated himself as president in a ceremony at his palace in Minsk.
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
DHS awarded $6 million in contracts to firm where Acting Secretary Wolf's wife is executive … WASHINGTON — The consulting firm where the wife of acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf is an executive has been awarded more than $6 million in contracts from the Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
The Economist:
Estimated Senate seats  —  Our model is updated every day, blending the latest data on polls and fundraising with “fundamental” factors like incumbency and each state's partisan lean.  Below is a chart over time of our best estimate of the most likely number of Senate seats each party will win …
Discussion: The Dispatch
 
 
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
How news networks are preparing for the possibility of a delayed vote count
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
In apparent play for QAnon supporters, GOP attack ads claim Democrat lawmakers are defending ‘sex offenders’
The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Bail Fund Promoted By Kamala Harris Helped Free Serial Domestic Abusers
Discussion: Townhall
Jim Kolbe / Arizona Daily Star:
I'm a conservative and I'm voting for Joe Biden
Elena Schneider / Politico:
The RNC is wiring cash to Texas. Is it a 2020 battleground?
Discussion: Political Wire
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Mike Pompeo Hits Campaign Trail for Trump in Shift for Top Diplomat
Discussion: Political Wire
Seth Harp / The Intercept:
As Joe Rogan's Platform Grows, So Does the Media and Liberal Backlash. Why?
Discussion: Althouse
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Dear Berggruen Institute: Renounce Death Threats Now
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With Deutsche Bank's help, an oligarch's buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland
New York Times:
Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial.
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