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Above the Fold

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• Trump makes a $500 billion economic appeal to black Americans while pledging to make Juneteenth a federal holiday (Business Insider)

• Video emerges of Joe Biden calling troops “stupid bastards” during 2016 speech (The Daily Wire)

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Supreme Court

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• Inside the White House’s plan to deploy “knife fighters” to defend Amy Coney Barrett (Fox News)

• Confirmation hearings to start October 12 (New York Post)

• There is simply no good reason to not immediately confirm Barrett (The Federalist)

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Witch-Hunt Misfire

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• New York Times’s 10,000-word Donald Trump tax “exposé” reveals no Russian links, no illegality, and admits the Left will be “unfulfilled” by the report (The National Pulse)

• Obama administration gave Trump a $73 million tax refund (National Review)

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Elsewhere in Politics

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• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doubles down, says Biden shouldn’t debate Trump tomorrow (The Daily Wire)

• Economist Casey Mulligan projects Biden tax plan would kill three million jobs (Washington Examiner)

• Delaware State University denies Biden was a student after he claimed he “got started” at the historically black college (Daily Mail)

• For Arizona’s Democrat Senate candidate Mark Kelly, attending a forum hosted by CCP was the beginning of lucrative relationship with China (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Senator Dianne Feinstein’s husband named in university admissions scandal (WCVB)

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Voter Fraud

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• Voter fraud in Representative Ilhan Omar’s district (National Review)

• Virginia counties see multiple absentee ballots sent to more than 1,000 voters (Fox News)

• As states prepared mail-in ballots, Postal Service failed to update at least 1.8 million addresses (Time)

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Around the Nation

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• Governor Ron DeSantis lifts statewide COVID restrictions in bid to completely open Florida economy (National Review)

• Woman who tried to drive her car into a group of Trump supporters charged with attempted murder (PJ Media)

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National Security

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• Court rules Congress can sue over Trump’s border wall funding switch, though construction can continue for now (The Washington Times)

• Duo allegedly planned terror attacks targeting Trump Tower, other sites (New York Post)

• Judge blocks Trump administration’s ban on new TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores (CNBC)

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Closing Arguments

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• Policy: Two steps Trump could take now to secure missile defense improvements (Hudson Institute)

• Policy: Foster care still needs time limits: Don’t use COVID-19 as an excuse to make needy children wait for resolution (City Journal)

• Humor: Amy Coney Barrett holds press conference in Handmaid’s Tale costume just to mess with leftists (The Babylon Bee)

• Related satire: Democrats charge Barrett with racism for only having two black children (Genesius Times)

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