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Above the Fold

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• Trump orders review to defund New York City and other anarchist cities (New York Post)

• Rule of Law antagonist Andrew Cuomo says Trump had “better have an army” to protect him if he comes to NYC (New York Post)

• Nancy Pelosi’s hair stylist claims, through lawyer, that salon owner approved the Democrat’s visit (Fox News)

• Pelosi on her special rules: “The salon owes me an apology for setting me up” (Fox News)

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Government & Politics

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• Annual deficit to reach an astonishing $3.3 trillion, the CBO projects (The Hill)

• Record deficit complicates GOP path to coronavirus relief (The Hill)

• Apparently, supporting race riots pays: Democrats shatter fundraising record with $364.5 million in August (NPR)

• “Playing with fire”: AG Bill Barr says advocates of mass mail-in voting jeopardize public confidence in election (Washington Examiner)

• Facebook will ban new political ads in the week before election day (AP)

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Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

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• Wisconsin antifa “commander” with flamethrower burst into tears during arrest (Fox News)

• Bill Barr: Antifa members — "the ramrod for the violence" — are “flying around the country” instigating riots (Daily Mail)

• 1619 Project author: “It would be an honor” to call these the 1619 Riots (Hot Air)

• NFL announces social justice end zone messaging (Power Line)

• U.S. perceptions of white-black relations sink to new low (Gallup)

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Around the Nation

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• California legislature softens sex offender registry requirements for sodomy with minors (The Daily Caller)

• DC backs off talk of removing U.S. monuments (The Washington Times)

• “Simply nutty”: Interior secretary rebukes calls to rename and relocate DC monuments (Washington Examiner)

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National Security

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• FISA abuse “must never happen again”: Bill Barr and Christopher Wray announce surveillance reforms (Washington Examiner)

• China moving to double its nuclear warhead stockpile (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Celebrating 75th anniversary of V-J Day, Trump says America is “not ashamed” of its history (The Washington Times)

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The Latest on COVID-19

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• CDC asks states to prepare to distribute potential vaccine by November 1 (National Review)

• “This supply chain has never been tested”: Production bottlenecks threaten mass vaccine rollout (Washington Examiner)

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Business & Economy

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• Colleges and universities are opening long enough to cash student checks (Washington Examiner)

• “Entrepreneurship of necessity”: Business applications soar to highest level in 13 years (Washington Examiner)

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World

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• Germany says Putin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent (Daily Mail)

• Calls mount for Germany to rethink Nord Stream 2 pipeline after Navalny poisoning (Reuters)

• Saudi Arabia to allow all Israel-UAE flights to use its airspace (Axios)

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Closing Arguments

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• Policy: The deeply pessimistic intellectual roots of Black Lives Matter, the “1619 Project,” and much else in woke America (RealClearInvestigations)

• Policy: Separating myth from fact about the troubles of the Postal Service (American Enterprise Institute)

• Humor: Pelosi explains she was “just looking for the bar” while at the salon without a face mask (Genesius Times)

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