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Postal Service warns 46 states their voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots — Anticipating an avalanche of absentee ballots, the U.S. Postal Service recently sent detailed letters to 46 states and D.C. warning that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail …
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Exclusive: Postal service inspector general reviewing DeJoy's policy changes and potential ethics conflicts — Collins pushes Trump on USPS money and mail-in ballots — Washington (CNN)The internal watchdog at the United States Postal Service is reviewing controversial policy changes …
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Breitbart, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Law & Crime, IJR, ABC News and Mashable

Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting — ‘This will slow mail processing,’ a union official wrote on one of the documents announcing the machine removals. — Aaron Gordon — The United States Postal Service proposed removing 20 percent of letter sorting machines …
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The Mahablog, Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, The Week, The Moderate Voice, IJR, Daily Kos, Defense One and CNN

USPS removes mail collection boxes and reduces post office hours as critics accuse Trump administration of voter suppression — (CNN)The United States Postal Service has started reducing post office operating hours across several states and removing their iconic blue letter collection boxes …

Trump's assault on the U.S. Postal Service gives Democrats a new campaign message
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Political Wire, The Hill, Real Clear Politics and Los Angeles Times
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Obama: Trump trying to ‘actively kneecap’ Postal Service to affect 2020 election
Obama: Trump trying to ‘actively kneecap’ Postal Service to affect 2020 election
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Americans Must Defend the Postal Service Like Our Democracy Depends on It
Americans Must Defend the Postal Service Like Our Democracy Depends on It
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Breitbart and The Guardian
Eugene Kiely / FactCheck.org:
Trump Proves Biden Right on USPS Funding, Mail-In Ballots
Trump Proves Biden Right on USPS Funding, Mail-In Ballots
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Washington Post and VICE
Pam Fessler / NPR:
New Postmaster Hasn't Yet Met Election Officials About Mail-In Ballot Concerns
New Postmaster Hasn't Yet Met Election Officials About Mail-In Ballot Concerns
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Mashable, The Hill, Fortune and Washington Post

House GOP candidate known for QAnon support was ‘correspondent’ for conspiracy website — Before running for office, Republican congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote dozens of articles as a “correspondent” for a conspiracy news website, according to archived web pages uncovered by NBC News.
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Why Trump's birtherism attack on Harris is killing the Republican Party
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Raw Story, The American Independent, Sputnik News and The Bulwark
Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
Discontent with McCarthy rises as GOP considers a possible post-Trump world
Discontent with McCarthy rises as GOP considers a possible post-Trump world
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Raw Story, Daily Kos, The American Independent, Reuters and electionlawblog.org
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Marjorie Greene, controversial Georgia Republican, says she's not a QAnon candidate
Marjorie Greene, controversial Georgia Republican, says she's not a QAnon candidate
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The Hill, The Dispatch and Right Wing Watch

NYC police union endorses Trump, who claims Biden would ‘gut every single police department in America’ — Trump used the endorsement speech to attack Biden, Harris, de Blasio and Warren — A New York City law enforcement union, the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) …
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‘Little brown girl’: Australian Biden-Harris cartoon sparks furore
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Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Sarah Palin: Media double standard for Kamala Harris proves 'if you're conservative, you'll get beat up'
Sarah Palin: Media double standard for Kamala Harris proves 'if you're conservative, you'll get beat up'
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Shefali Luthra / The 19th:
Kamala Harris applauds Biden's “audacity to choose a Black woman to be his running mate”
Kamala Harris applauds Biden's “audacity to choose a Black woman to be his running mate”
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Washington Post, The Hill and NBC News

Ex-F.B.I. Lawyer Expected to Plead Guilty in Review of Russia Inquiry — Prosecutors did not reveal any evidence of the kind of broad anti-Trump conspiracy among law enforcement officials that the president has long alleged. — WASHINGTON — A former F.B.I. lawyer intends to plead guilty …
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Dear White Vegans, Stop Appropriating Food — Veganism is going through its own racial reckoning that's a long time coming, considering white vegan influencers have appropriated traditional foods forever. — Anya Zoledziowski — When Afia Amoako became a vegan five years ago …

Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force — On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary …
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CNN, The Daily Caller and Axios

How Jennifer O'Malley Dillon transformed Joe Biden's campaign — When Jennifer O'Malley Dillon was brought in to take over the Joe Biden campaign operation five months ago, she barely knew a soul there — and that included the candidate himself. — If that wasn't a big enough adjustment …

A Black Marxist Scholar Wanted to Talk About Race. It Ignited a Fury. — The cancellation of a speech reflects an intense debate on the left: Is racism the primary problem in America today, or the outgrowth of a system that oppresses all poor people? — Adolph Reed is a son of the segregated South …
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Instapundit and Althouse

ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune …

Trump orders TikTok parent company to sell US assets within 90 days — President Trump on Friday issued an executive order calling on Chinese company ByteDance, which owns the popular video app TikTok, to divest from the social media platform's U.S. operations, citing national security.
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Top DHS officials Wolf and Cuccinelli are not legally eligible to serve in their current roles, congressional watchdog agency finds — The appointments of the top two officials at the Department of Homeland Security violated federal law, the Government Accountability Office said on Friday.
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House Committee …, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Blue Virginia, The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Coronavirus Live Updates: Firm Helping Run Federal Database Refuses Senators' Questions — People who recover from the virus have a three-month window of safety, C.D.C. guidance shows. As tax revenues plummet, states face an estimated $555 billion budget gap over the next two years.
Alex Thompson / Politico:
‘The President Was Not Encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden — Behind the friendship was a more complicated relationship, which now drives the former vice president to prove his partner wrong. — The way Joe Biden explained it on the campaign trail in Iowa …
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Fox News, Twitchy, The Hill and The Daily Caller

I grew up with anti-Semitism in the UAE. Peace with Israel is a dream come true. — Never in a million years did I believe there would be a deal in my lifetime where an Arab Gulf state would recognize the Jewish state. Watching the news this week of Israel and the United Arab Emirates …
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American Greatness
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Annelle Sheline / Politico:
Trump's Win Is a Loss for the Middle East
Trump's Win Is a Loss for the Middle East
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Power Line, The National and One America News Network

There's a Brutal Crackdown Underway in Belarus. It Should Be a Wake-up Call for America. — Americans like to think we believe in democracy and in challenging authoritarianism. But, based on what's happening here and in Eastern Europe, do we still care?
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The National Interest
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Michael McFaul / NBC News:
Trump, Pompeo and the West must unite behind Belarus' people — before it's too late
Trump, Pompeo and the West must unite behind Belarus' people — before it's too late
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Radio Free Europe/Radio … and New York Times

No Bathroom Relief in Sight for Thousands Living on the Streets — Jared Mitchell waited several minutes in line to use a bathroom in Penn Station only to be told he was not allowed inside. — Amtrak workers close the bathrooms — a lifeline for people like 24-year-old Mitchell who live on the streets …

Mitt Romney slams politicians attacking mail-in voting — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Sen. Mitt Romney said Friday that politicians attacking the vote by mail system are threatening global democracy but stopped short of criticizing President Donald Trump, who has been openly against an expected surge of mail-in ballots.

The Hill Publishes Campaign Ads Disguised as ‘Op-Eds’ — The Hill is known for its high-metabolism national political coverage, wonky Washington D.C. reporting, but also for a sprawling opinion section that often serves as a landing pad for campaign staffers passing off what are effectively ads as op-eds.

Drug-Dealing, White Supremacist Stripper Sentenced for Obstruction of Justice — TEXARKANA, Texas - A 28-year-old Dallas, Texas, man has been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today. — On March 6, 2020 …

HBO Max Adds “Proper Social Context” Intro to ‘Blazing Saddles’ — The disclaimer is similar to the one the streamer added before ‘Gone With the Wind.’ — Blazing Saddles is currently streaming on HBO Max, along with a new introduction that automatically plays before the Mel Brooks classic begins.

An inland hurricane tore through Iowa. You probably didn't hear about it. — On Monday, Iowa was leveled by what amounted to a level-two hurricane. But you wouldn't know that from reading, listening to or watching the news. — While the storm did garner some coverage, mostly via wire stories …

Workers Join Belarus Protests, as Leader's Base Turns Against Him — Demonstrators at a huge state-run factory in the capital gave an ultimatum: Unless a fair election is held, they will strike, in a new test of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko's rule. — MINSK, Belarus …
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Two sites that amplify hoaxes given special treatment at Trump's briefings despite restrictions — The White House press corps just got a little more Trump-friendly, thanks to a bit of maneuvering by the White House itself. — Representatives of the Gateway Pundit and Epoch Times …

American Passports Are Useless Now — Becoming a United States citizen was meaningful to me for a great number of reasons. German by birth, I had come to feel at home in America, and to love it. For all the deep injustices that shape this country, I remained convinced that the United States …
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Dozens of Montana USPS drop boxes removed — Several United States Postal Service collection boxes are set to be removed across Montana. Sen. Jon Tester sounded the alarm Thursday evening, sending a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, demanding answers about how many collection boxes …
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Talking Points Memo and Jon Tester