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8:35 AM ET, September 23, 2020

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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 …
Dion Rabouin / Axios:
Wall Street fears meltdown over election and Supreme Court
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
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
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 …
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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 …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
GOP-led committees release interim report on Hunter Biden, Burisma probe
Discussion: Townhall
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
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 …
Discussion: Washington Times
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
It's not just Roe v Wade.  Trump's Supreme Court pick could challenge Brown v Board of Education  —  Nearly 30 Trump nominees have refused to say the ruling in the landmark case — which overturned segregaton in schools — was the correct one  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death leaves …
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
Elena Schneider / Politico:
The RNC is wiring cash to Texas.  Is it a 2020 battleground?  —  The Republican National Committee cut million-dollar checks to six state parties in August as it prepared for the fall campaign.  But one payment stands out amid a torrent of money flowing to traditional battleground states: $1.3 million to once-brick red Texas.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jim Kolbe / Arizona Daily Star:
I'm a conservative and I'm voting for Joe Biden  —  The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer.  —  The original meaning of the term conservative, as articulated by Edmund Burke, was the desire to conserve aspects of tradition and social stability as society moves forward.
 
 
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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
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
Ryan P. Williams / The American Mind:
Dear Berggruen Institute: Renounce Death Threats Now
Discussion: The National Pulse
New York Times:
The Toll Since Coronavirus Struck: 250,000 More Deaths Than Normal
Discussion: Balloon Juice, CNBC and Vox
 Earlier Items: 
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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.
Commission on Presidential Debates:
Moderator Announces Topics for First Presidential Debate