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Trump is planning to hold a mass rally for supporters in Bemidji, while Biden will tour a union training center and deliver a limited-capacity speech in Duluth. The rare occasion of having rival presidential candidates campaign in the same state—just 150 miles apart, on the same day—marks a stark reversal from four years ago, when Trump and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns largely ignored the “Land of 10,000 Lakes.” Both Biden and Trump’s campaigns are running ads in the state, highlighting it among their “battleground” lists and sending in key surrogates, in addition to Trump and Biden’s own multiple in-person or virtual appearances....

Trump also said during an interview broadcast Sunday that he and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell have set aside their differences over players kneeling during the national anthem. Trump relentlessly criticized the practice as being disrespectful to the American flag and he faulted Goodell for not doing enough to stop it. Players saw kneeling during the “Star-Spangled Banner” as a prime opportunity to heighten public awareness of how minorities are treated by the criminal justice system....

The ad, which was released by the America First Action super PAC, will air in three key swing states: Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. “America First Action, the largest outside group supporting President Donald J. Trump’s reelection, has committed another $10 million in independent expenditures from now through Election Day, bringing our total spend to $116 million since mid-April,” a press release from the PAC said. “The ads will focus on Joe Biden’s disastrous economic record, and why Americans can’t afford to give Biden another four years in office....

Millions of Americans have filed unemployment claims in recent weeks because of the pandemic’s impact on the economy. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is intended to help smaller firms keep their staff on the payroll. Forgiveness of a PPP loan is tied to the amount spent by the recipient on payroll costs over an eight-week period. The program, introduced under the CARES Act to combat the economic crisis, is worth $350 billion....

Trump’s job approval rating hit 47 percent in a Hill-HarrisX poll released Tuesday, his highest rating in the poll since June. The poll was conducted online among 2,832 registered voters from September 5 to 8. It has a margin of error of 1.84 percent. Republicans approved of Trump by an 81 percent majority, while 19 percent disapproved. Democrats had nearly opposite ratings, with 82 percent disapproving and 18 percent approving....

At an August 14 conference for Turning Point USA—a nonprofit dedicated to training young conservatives—Trump-backed Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake took the podium to give a special shoutout to former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “Love the guy, fantastic,” she said of DeSantis. “He is gutsy. The guy has bigger…wait, let me think about how I want to word this.” “That guy has a backbone made of steel,” she continued....

Trump continues to push baseless claims about the 2020 election, alleging that Democrats and President Joe Biden “rigged” votes despite a lack of substantiating evidence. In the Saturday statement, forwarded to Newsweek by Trump adviser Jason Miller, Trump took aim at polling ahead of the election that projected Biden winning by a larger margin of votes than he ultimately received. Trump also slammed Pence for a lack of “courage” to help overturn the election results and McConnell for being “weak and pathetic....

Over the past few months, Facebook advertisements for Trump’s 2020 campaign have feature the word “invasion” to describe the arrival of migrant families and children at the southern border of the U.S. with Mexico. But a campaign official told The New York Times on Tuesday that the reelection team has no plans to stop using the term, arguing that it was “accurate.” “At any given moment, there are 100,000 migrants making their way through Mexico to attempt to break our immigration laws,” said the president’s campaign communications director, Tim Murtaugh....

Three people familiar with the alleged face-saving threat say U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross forced the Birmingham office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agency to produce a rare unsigned statement disavowing their own employees’ position last week on whether or not Dorian would hit Alabama. The New York Times reported Monday afternoon that Ross called acting NOAA administrator Neil Jacobs and told him the agency’s political staff would be fired if the contradiction of Trump’s Alabama remarks was not fixed....

A few particularly odd ones involved him celebrating his recent speech to the CIA, and from those, we can painfully extract some relation to sports. That’s because President Trump called the reaction to this speech “the biggest standing ovation since Peyton Manning had won the Super Bowl, and they (Fox) said it was equal.” This brings to mind so many questions, not only, “Why is the president of the United States speaking like a third-grader who just got praised for a diorama?...

Holder, founder of London-based AJH Films, released Unprecedented on Sunday ahead of further scheduled hearings this week by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack against the U.S. Capitol. The British filmmaker was granted access to interview and film Trump, his children and other close associates of the then president at the conclusion of his term. The three-episode documentary can be streamed on Discovery+. In a Sunday interview with CBS News’ Face the Nation, Holder discussed his documentary and his personal assessment of Trump, his family members and their views regarding the violence of January 6....

Mulvaney, who was Trump’s acting chief of staff from January 2019 to March 2020, spoke to Newsmax about the recent FBI raid of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence. “I was surprised by some of the reporting on some of the comments by some of the president’s inner circle,” Mulvaney told the network’s National Report. “Yes, any president of the United States has broad authority to declassify documents,” Mulvaney said. “That being said, there’s a formal structure to doing that....

The northeastern Pennsylvania county of about 300,000 people was built on manufacturing. Its history is steeped in cement production and was home to Bethlehem Steel, one of the world’s largest steel manufacturers, until 2003. Hardly the biggest county in Pennsylvania, eyes are on Northampton for its bellwether status. It voted for the winning presidential candidate in nearly every election since 1932, including twice for President Barack Obama and once for Trump....

Appearing on C-SPAN Thursday morning, Gottlieb suggested taking an “Operation Warp Speed” approach to building up the supply of various COVID-19 treatments like antiviral pills and monoclonal antibodies. “We can be doing much more, in my view, to be scaling up particularly the manufacturing of those drugs,” Gottlieb said. Gottlieb led the FDA under former President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019. He left the administration before coronavirus hit the U....

Trump claimed without evidence that the United States frequently lost cases until he assumed the presidency in 2017, but that the country’s fortunes there had reversed due to his influence. His comments came while addressing reporters during the daily White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing Friday. “We have the World Trade Organization, and until I came along we were losing cases—so many cases—it was ridiculous, we were always losing these cases in almost every case,” Trump said....

Jason Miller, a spokesperson for the former president and principal at SHW Partners LLC, revealed the news during a Sunday interview with Fox News program Media Buzz hosted by Howard Kurtz. Trump was infamously banned from Twitter in the wake of the January 6 insurrection carried out against the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. He has also been censored by other top social media platforms, including Facebook and YouTube....

With Black Ops 2, Treyarch plans to bring some big changes to the Call of Duty franchise. We’ve already seen the game’s new near-future setting, but the studio is also making a few technical enhancements – specifically in the audio department. Speaking on an episode of Elite TV Roll Call, Treyarch’s Mark Lamia stated that the team is testing Black Ops 2 against different headset and home theater configurations. Careful work is being done to improve the audio all together, with weapons taking on different sounds depending on the environment....

Thompson sprained his right thumb in Tuesday’s game against the Orlando Magic and will not play in at least the next two games - on Wednesday at the Celtics and on Friday against the Atlanta Hawks, the team announced. The 26-year-old’s run of 447 consecutive games played is a franchise record and the longest active streak in the NBA, and his injury could hardly have come at a worse time for Cleveland....

Turner urged residents to take the storm seriously by being alert and preparing during a press briefing on Monday. He said the storm, which is expected to bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of the Gulf Coast, has “some unpredictability.” “It doesn’t have to be a hurricane,” Turner said. “These systems can intensify very, very quickly, and you can end up getting more rain than you anticipated.” Nicholas, the 14th named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, is expected to hit the center of the Texas coast Monday evening....

Post Wrestlemania 31, the legal team at WWE sent cease & desist letters to ProWrestlingTees.com regarding merchandise they sell on their website for the WWE Hall of Famer in his store. Following that, a number of items for Austin have been removed from the PWT website. Austin was queried on Twitter about his shirt being unavailable and he replied with the following: 0 votes