How Trump’s Convention Has Become a Crucial Play for the Suburbs

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The Harsh Reality Behind Trump’s Reality Show

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F.D.A. gives emergency approval to rapid test from Abbott Laboratories.

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Trump Takes Night Off From Anti-Immigrant Talk to Swear In U.S. Citizens

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The Trump campaign has gone dark on TV for the second time in a month.

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Three Charged With Leaking Movies as Part of Global Piracy Ring

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RNC speaker booted after sharing a blatantly anti-Semitic message hours before the event began

Republicans have frequently attacked Democrats in recent years for supposed cases anti-Semitism

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CDC: Maine overnight camps hosted over 1,000 kids and counselors, and only 3 contracted the coronavirus. Here is the safety plan they followed.

The camps employed a multilayered plan that included early identification and isolation, quarantining, cohorting, masking, and physical distancing.

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Their Sons Died in Accidents at Fort Hood. Now, They're Joining Forces to Call for Change

Parents of troops who died recently in military vehicle accidents are joining to call for changes to safety procedures.

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Vehicle collision with Russians injures 4 U.S. troops in eastern Syria

In the most violent skirmish in months between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria, a vehicle collision in the eastern part of the war-torn country left American troops with concussions, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.

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Joe Kennedy's once-promising Massachusetts Senate primary challenge might be a bust, polls show

Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) doesn't look like he'll be getting a promotion after all.When Kennedy announced his Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Ed Markey, there seemed to be a chance his more centrist bid might pan out, and he even got House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) endorsement. But more and more polls keep putting Markey back on top, including two released Wednesday just days before primary ballots are counted.Markey, a progressive and co-author of the Green New Deal, has the support of 52 percent of likely Massachusetts Democratic Primary voters, a poll from the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion shows. Just 40 percent said they'd vote for Kennedy, putting Markey safely over Kennedy even if the 6 percent of undecided voters in the poll went in the challenger's favor.Another poll released Wednesday from the progressive think tank Data for Progress meanwhile gives Markey an 8-point advantage over Kennedy. Markey gets 46 percent support to Kennedy's 38 among likely Democratic primary voters, though a large 16 percent said they remain undecided.Earlier, albeit limited, polls indicated Markey and Kennedy's race was close, and some even gave Kennedy a sizable lead. Massachusetts' Senate primary election is Sept. 1, and early voting is already open.UMass Lowell surveyed 800 likely Massachusetts Democratic primary voters online from Aug. 13-21, with a 4.1 percent margin of error. Data for Progress surveyed 732 likely Massachusetts Democratic primary voters between Aug. 24 and 25 using text-to-web and panel responses, with a 4 percent margin of error.More stories from theweek.com Trump's RNC role is a much bigger mistake than Republicans realize Trump calls for drug tests before presidential debates Karen Pence is the RNC's most fascinating person

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Trump news – live: President demands Biden takes drug test as NBA teams strike over Jacob Blake shooting

Donald Trump has demanded Joe Biden take a drug test before the presidential debates, as the president announced federal law enforcement and National Guard service members will be deployed to Wisconsin ahead of a fourth night of protests in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, who has been left paralysed after an officer shot him several times in the back.NBA and WNBA players are striking in protest on Wednesday, forcing the leagues to cancel games, as law enforcement in Wisconsin confirmed Rusten Sheskey as the officer who fired seven shots at Mr Blake following Sunday's shooting.

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'We appreciate you guys': Wisconsin police in armored vehicles thanked armed militia and gave them water bottles

"We got to save a couple, but we'll give you a couple," a voice from the law enforcement speaker said. "We appreciate you guys, we really do."

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Oxford coronavirus vaccine data could go to regulators this year

Trial data for the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca's possible coronavirus vaccine could be given to regulators this year but corners cannot be cut to speed up approval for emergency use, a scientist leading the trials said on Tuesday. The Oxford vaccine produced an immune response in its first human trials, underlining its position as one of the leading candidates in the race to combat a virus that has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and crippled the global economy. "It is just possible that if the cases accrue rapidly in the clinical trials, that we could have that data before regulators this year," Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, told BBC Radio of progress in larger, late-stage trials.

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Hurricane Laura ‘will cause unsurvivable storm surge’

Hurricane Laura, heading for Texas and Louisiana, is now a Category 4 storm, weather officials say.

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Cissie Graham Lynch attacks trans rights in RNC speech

Lynch, the granddaughter of late evangelical pastor Billy Graham, referred to transgender girls as "boys" in her Republican National Convention speech.

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Fact-checkers shake their heads at the RNC's 'parade of dishonesty,' 'fire hose of false or misleading' claims

"The first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention was a fire hose of false or misleading claims, mostly drawn from President Trump’s arsenal of falsehoods," The Washington Post fact-checker team reported Monday night, focusing on a modest 19 such claims. The Associated Press concentrated on Trump's "dizzying array of misleading claims about voting fraud and health care," both pre-existing conditions and the COVID-19 pandemic."At times," The New York Times reports, "the speakers and prerecorded videos appeared to be describing an alternate reality: one in which the nation was not nearing 180,000 deaths from the coronavirus; in which Mr. Trump had not consistently ignored serious warnings about the disease; in which the president had not spent much of his term appealing openly to xenophobia and racial animus; and in which someone other than Mr. Trump had presided over an economy that began crumbling in the spring."And the "parade of dishonesty" from the RNC speakers stood "in stark contrast with last week's Democratic convention," CNN's fact-check team wrote. "While CNN also watched and fact-checked the Democrats, those four nights combined didn't have the number of misleading and false claims made on the first night of the Republicans' convention." One member of the CNN team, Daniel Dale, tweeted that the RNC's first night has been "exponentially more dishonest than the entire four nights of the Democratic convention," and "it's important for objective journalists to note how wildly imbalanced the dishonesty is between the current parties."If you are interested in reading about or second-guessing the truth-squadding of the RNC's first night, read the fact-checks at The Washington Post, AP, CNN, and The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com Black Monday for the religious right Alaska attorney general resigns after sending inappropriate texts to state employee House Democrat launches investigation into Pompeo's RNC speech

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Hillary Clinton Urges Biden Not to Concede ‘Under Any Circumstances’ in November Election

After suffering a loss in the 2016 presidential election herself, Hillary Clinton is warning 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden not to concede “under any circumstances" in the upcoming election to avoid falling victim to Republican efforts to disrupt the vote count.In an interview with The Circus on Showtime, the former secretary of state accused Republicans of trying to "mess up" absentee balloting to gain “a narrow advantage in the electoral college.” She claimed that in Wisconsin's primary in April, Republicans “did everything they could to mess up voting.” “But because courts had ordered absentee ballots to be counted if they were postmarked on election day, Democrats actually won some important races there,” she said. While Republicans had pushed back against Democratic governor Tony Evers' proposal to mail almost every voter in the state an absentee ballot application, more than 80 percent of GOP members in the Wisconsin Legislature voted by mail in April. Wisconsin Senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald said in May that he opposed mailing people absentee ballot applications because the voter list had not been “cleaned up” to remove people who shouldn’t be on there, primarily because they moved.“Wisconsin has online registration, excuse-free absentee voting, early in-person voting, and Election Day registration, making it easier to vote in Wisconsin than most other states,” Fitzgerald, who ultimately voted absentee in April himself, said.> Hillary Clinton has some advice for Joe Biden: Don’t concede in a close race.> > The 2016 nominee sits down with @jmpalmieri and @sho_thecircus to urge Dems to pay close attention to GOP strategy. pic.twitter.com/REwfLf1QjS> > -- The Recount (@therecount) August 24, 2020While Democrats have been quick to push for mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic, many Republicans have warned that voting by mail can leave elections open to widespread fraud or can lead to ballots being sent to people who have died and to incorrect addresses. Republicans’ skepticism has led many Democrats to accuse the GOP of voter suppression.“We have to have our own teams of people to counter the force of intimidation that the Republicans and Trump are going to put outside polling places,” Clinton said, urging people to become poll workers in November. She later added, “Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out and eventually I do believe he will win if we don’t give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is.”Earlier in the interview, Clinton also bitterly acknowledged the importance of the electoral college saying, “You can win 3 million more votes and still, you know, not get elected because of the electoral college.”

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An RNC speaker said it would be 'smart' for the police to racially profile her biracial son because of 'statistics'

Johnson said it "doesn't actually make me angry" that a police officer "would be more careful around my brown son than my white son."

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Alaska attorney general resigns after sending flirtatious texts to junior staffer

Alaska attorney general Kevin Clarkson has resigned after he admitted to repeatedly sending inappropriate text messages to a junior state employee.Alaska governor Mike Dunleavy, who appointed Mr Clarkson to his role, told reporters that the 61-year-old attorney general had resigned in a statement on Tuesday.

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Disneyland 'ready' to reopen when California allows, parks chief says

Disney's theme parks chief said the company is ready to reopen Disneyland as soon as California officials establish health and safety guidelines.

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Only Native American on federal death row executed

Lezmond Mitchell's execution for his part in a 2001 double murder has renewed a debate over tribal sovereignty.

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Biden seemingly didn't get a convention polling bump — and his lead is sliding in some swing states

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden shouldn't get too comfortable. It's been a few days since the end of the Democratic National Convention, and as FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver notes, Biden hasn't seen a typical post-DNC bump in his polling numbers. And while he was once handily leading in several states Hillary Clinton surprisingly lost in 2016, those advantages are starting to slip as well.Clinton lost Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in 2016 — three states that were usually seen as reliably Democratic before that election. Even as of late August 2016, Clinton had a clear lead over Trump in those states: 9 points in Michigan, 9.2 in Pennsylvania, and 11.5 in Wisconsin. But while Biden still has leads in those states, just as he did a month ago, those advantages have narrowed to below Clinton's margins.> Swing state polls on August 25th:> > Pennsylvania > • 2016: Hillary +9.2 > • 2020: Biden +5.7> > Michigan > • 2016: Hillary +9.0 > • 2020: Biden +6.7> > Wisconsin > • 2016: Hillary +11.5 > • 2020: Biden +6.5 > > Florida > • 2016: Hillary +2.9 > • 2020: Biden +4.8> > https://t.co/oJFSBQcvK3 https://t.co/7DibWSRCSb> > — Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) August 25, 2020Nationally, Biden still has a wide 8.8 point lead over Trump, according to FiveThirtyEight's polling average — even higher than the 5.7-point lead Clinton had at this point in 2016. But as Clinton herself has recognized, national popular votes don't matter when the Electoral College gets in the way.More stories from theweek.com Trump's RNC role is a much bigger mistake than Republicans realize Trump calls for drug tests before presidential debates Karen Pence is the RNC's most fascinating person

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