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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Wednesday, September 2, 2020

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Below are some of the top political news stories of the day:

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AP Analysis: Trump’s 2020 mantra channels Nixon, Wallace
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US debt will overtake GDP next year for the first time since 1946, CBO says
After Trump's law and order visit, Biden to travel to Kenosha for community meeting
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Where are the rioters coming from? Data shows mix of locals and out-of-staters converging on cities
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'People Around The President Are Trying To Stop Him,' 'Times' Journalist Says
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Biden calls for charges for violent citizens and police
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Rubio says Senate Intel will get election briefings despite Ratcliffe order
'Get off Twitter': Biden berates Trump over coronavirus, school reopenings
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Former DHS Official: Trump Pouring 'Fuel On The Fire' Of Domestic Extremism
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Biden says schools would be open if Trump and his administration had "done their jobs"
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Biden extends lead over Trump to double digits in post-convention poll
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Fox, C-SPAN, NBC moderators for upcoming Trump-Biden debates
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Chris Wallace leads the way on debates
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Trump ignores lessons of pandemic failures as election looms
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Biden pins school reopening chaos on Trump as FEMA denies assistance
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Second Trump appointee out at FDA amid credibility concerns
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State Department announces restrictions on Chinese diplomats in US
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Gene Hackman and his wife test negative for carbon monoxide after found dead

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Authorities are searching for answers into the death of actor Gene Hackman, 95, who along with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, were mysteriously found dead in Santa Fe.
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Trump, Zelenskyy meeting shocks Europe, delights Russia: Analysis

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Photos: Trump, Vance have tense blow up with Zelenskyy in Oval Office

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The world saw tensions rise in real time as President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance shouted at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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How to watch, stream Trump's address to the joint session of Congress

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President Donald Trump is set to address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday -- his first speech to Congress of his second term.
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RFK Jr. rolls back transparency policy on Medicaid and NIH changes

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended a longstanding transparency rule on Friday, supercharging his authority to change policies in areas ranging from Medicaid to the National Institutes of Health without advance notice to the public.

Dubbed the "Richardson Waiver" after the former health secretary who issued the rule in 1971, the policy Kennedy repealed had required regulations related to property, loans, grants, benefits or contracts to go through the federal "rulemaking" process.

The law governing rulemaking usually...
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VP Vance shares special message to ailing Pope Francis amid breathing crisis

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Vice President JD Vance shared that although he was "surprised" by Pope Francis’ criticism on the Trump administration’s immigration policy, he believes the pontiff is "fundamentally a person who cares about the flock of Christians."

While speaking at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Vance – a convert to Catholicism – said that although he disagrees with Francis and some Catholic bishops on certain stances, he and his children pray for the pope daily.

Francis, 88, is currently suffering from pneumonia and an...
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GOP lawmakers demand info on Biden-era spending used to declare student-athletes as employees

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FIRST ON FOX: Republicans are demanding records showing the extent to which the Biden administration used taxpayer money to defend its position that student-athletes are employees of the universities for which they play.

Representatives Tim Walberg, R-Mich., and Rick Allen, R-Ga., made the request in a letter to Marvin Kaplan, the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) newly appointed chairman, and acting General Counsel William Cowen. They demanded a full accounting of the expenditures incurred during the Biden administration's years-long case...
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'Utter disaster': Lindsey Graham calls for Zelenskyy resignation after White House throwdown

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Friday called for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to resign after a disastrous Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, after which the president asked him to leave.

"He either needs to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with, or he needs to change," Graham, a longtime advocate for Ukraine and foreign policy hawk, told reporters at the White House.

The South Carolina Republican called the Friday meeting a "complete utter disaster."

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Where Zelenskyy is headed following tense White House exchange with Trump, Vance

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Ukraine President Vlodomyr Zelenskyy departed the White House ahead of schedule on Friday, following a heated exchange with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance that culminated in the U.S. leader showing Zelenskyy the door.

Zelenskyy was seen hopping into his SUV outside the White House on Friday afternoon after he got into a heated exchange with the president and vice president in a meeting that was intended to bring Ukraine closer to ending a yearslong war with Russia.

The Ukraine president traveled to the U.S. on Friday to meet...
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Epstein files debacle spurs new interest in contents of promised RFK, MLK assassination files

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The planned release of the MLK and RFK assassination files has garnered renewed interest amid fallout from the widely panned release of Epstein files by the Department of Justice on Thursday evening.

In accordance with President Donald Trump's executive order in January to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the attorney general were expected to release their proposed plan for the...
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What it was like in the room during Oval Office shouting match

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BBC reporters witnessed the extraordinary exchange between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky firsthand.
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Minister questions why Tate brothers were allowed to leave Romania

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DR Congo conflict: 500 mpox patients flee clinics after rebel looting

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What they said: Trump, Zelenskyy and Vance's heated argument in the Oval Office

  • News source: Adriana Gomez Licon | The Associated Press
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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Friday berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the war in Ukraine, accusing him of not showing gratitude after he challenged Vance on the question of diplomacy with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

The argument in the Oval Office was broadcast globally. It led to the rest of Zelenskyy's White House visit being canceled and called into question how much the U.S. will still support Ukraine in its defense against Russia's 2022 invasion.

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Zelenskyy meets with bipartisan group of senators before tense White House exchange

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A group of bipartisan senators met with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday ahead of the tense exchange between the Ukrainian leader, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
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