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NBC News:
Trump, Qanon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times — Started almost two decades ago with a stated mission to “provide information to Chinese communities to help immigrants assimilate into American society,” The Epoch Times now wields …
Rajesh Kumar Singh / Reuters:
U.S. Steel plans to lay off hundreds of workers in Michigan — CHICAGO (Reuters) - United States Steel Corp (X.N) will temporarily lay off hundreds of workers at its Great Lakes facility in Michigan in coming weeks, according to a filing the steelmaker made with the State of Michigan.
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Crain's Detroit Business and Shareblue Media
CNN:
CNN Poll: Joe Biden regains double-digit lead over 2020 Democratic field — WASHINGTON (CNN)Joe Biden has expanded his edge over the Democratic field in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with 29% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters saying they back the former vice president.
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Bloomberg, The Week, IJR, Mediaite, twitchy.com, Fox News and Wall Street Journal
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Zogby Analytics / 24/7 Wall St.:
Trump in Dead Heats With Biden and Sanders, Half of Voters “Silently” Support Trump — 24/7 Wall St.-Zogby Analytics Presidential Poll — Since our last poll, released May 14th, Trump has improved his position against Democratic frontrunners Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
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RedState and Summit News
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
White House officials eyeing payroll tax cut in effort to reverse weakening economy — Several senior White House officials have begun discussing whether to push for a temporary payroll tax cut as a way to arrest an economic slowdown, three people familiar with the discussions said …
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CNN, The Week, PJ Media Home, Breitbart, POLITICUSUSA, The Mahablog, New York Post, РБК, Mother Jones and Rolling Stone
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Arizona poll shows Kelly overtaking McSally — Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) trails her Democratic opponent for the first time, according to a new survey, as President Trump's approval rating falls in the key swing state. — Retired astronaut Mark Kelly leads McSally …
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Political Wire
Anthony Scaramucci / Washington Post:
I was wrong about Trump. Here's why. — The negatives of Trump's demagoguery now clearly outweigh the positives of his leadership. — By Anthony Scaramucci- — The Post's View
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Washington Times, CNBC and CNN
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Ghislaine Maxwell STAGED In-N-Out photo in Los Angeles with her close friend and attorney, using confidante's dog Dexter in the snapshot — The first picture of Ghislaine Maxwell in more than three years was staged by her close friend and attorney, Leah Saffian, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively
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CANNONFIRE, The Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
Washington Post:
Trump again appears to back away from gun background checks — President Trump appears to be backing away from potential support for gun background check legislation, according to White House aides, congressional leaders and gun advocates, dimming prospects that Washington will approve significant …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Week
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Trump's shaky policy legacy — A great deal of President Trump's policy record — on issues like health care, energy and even immigration — would need a second term to fully take root, and could be easily reversed if he doesn't get one. — Why it matters: Trump is doing a lot …
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New York Times:
Trump's Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules Shows Signs of Disarray
Trump's Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules Shows Signs of Disarray
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Raw Story
Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
President Trump decision to end DACA was lawful, Justice Department says
President Trump decision to end DACA was lawful, Justice Department says
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New York Times
Joe Biden / YouTube:
Bones … We all know in our bones that this election is different. The stakes are higher. The threat is more serious. We have to beat Donald Trump. — That's the message we lay out in our first TV ad hitting the airwaves today.
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NBC News, Fox News, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Washington Times, Political Wire and Mediaite
Politico:
Paul Ryan moving his family to Washington from Wisconsin — The former speaker is renting a home in the Maryland suburbs. He is not planning to sell his Janesville residence. — Paul Ryan is moving his family to the city he was always giddy to leave. — The former speaker of the House …
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Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
People who worked with Scaramucci confirm Trump claim he ‘abused staff’ — President Trump's allegation that Anthony Scaramucci “abused staff” was met with agreement from many who worked under or near the financier during his 11 days as White House communications director.
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Washington Post, Mediaite, USA Today and Washington Press
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Trump is melting down. Again. — Uh-oh. President Trump is in such a state of panic about his dimming reelection prospects that he's getting his lies mixed up and occasionally blurting out the truth. — “It's tough for Apple to pay tariffs if it's competing with a very good company …
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Breitbart, CNN, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Washington Times, Hullabaloo and Roll Call
Dana Schwartz / The Cut:
I Think About This a Lot: The Time Robert Pattinson Blatantly Lied on the Today Show — I Think About This a Lot is a series dedicated to private memes: images, videos, and other random trivia we are doomed to play forever on loop in our minds. — In 2011, Robert Pattinson starred …
Just Security:
Expert Summaries of Mueller Report: A Collection — Table of Contents — Ryan Goodman, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Just Security — Volume I — 2. Legal Standards and Evidentiary Considerations — 3. Russian “Active Measures” Social Media Campaign and Criminal Charges against 13 Russian Nationals and 3 Russian Entities
Kris Cheng / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP:
China detains staff member from UK's consulate in Hong Kong for over 10 days after business trip — A staff member from the British Consulate General in Hong Kong has been detained in mainland China for over 10 days after crossing the border for a business trip, according to his girlfriend.
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New York Times, New York Post, Fortune and The Sun
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Twitter:
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
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Politico:
EU rejects Boris Johnson's Brexit backstop plan — Boris Johnson's call to drop the Irish backstop from any Brexit deal was rejected by the EU, with Donald Tusk dismissing the idea and a European Commission task force describing a letter from the U.K. prime minister as “misleading” and “inaccurate.”
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Bloomberg, UPI and One America News Network
New York Times:
What Do Rally Playlists Say About the Candidates? — Mr. O'Rourke was a national political phenomenon last year when he ran against Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and narrowly lost. His political style is largely defined by his use of social media and his go-it-alone style.
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Political Wire
Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Rethinking Public Safety to Reduce Mass Incarceration and Strengthen Communities — The United States makes up 5% of the world's population, but nearly 20% of the world's prison population. We have the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with over 2 million people in prison and jail.
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CNN
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Don't Fall For Omar And Tlaib's Lies About Israel — Nearly everything Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib said in their two-woman production of ‘Israel is Evil’ on Monday was untrue. — Nearly everything Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib said in their two-woman production of …
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The Gateway Pundit, Informed Comment and Breitbart
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump fuels outsize expectations that Russia investigators will face prison time — To hear President Donald Trump and his allies tell it, the federal investigators who spent the past two years investigating the president are about to go down. — On Twitter, on conservative cable TV …
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
The political battle lines on guns are shifting — Why passing gun control legislation is so hard — (CNN)On the politics of gun control, Democrats are suddenly facing an arms race. — After downplaying the issue for most of the past two decades, Democrats in Congress …
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Vox, Raw Story and The Atlantic
Michael Smith / Courier-Journal:
No one votes to be despised. Democrats' message may swing my ballot to Trump — I am not a Trump supporter. But if the alternative to him in next year's election is open borders and the Green New Deal, I may become a Trump voter. It's a distinction without an electoral difference, but hear me out.
Li Zhou / Vox:
Elizabeth Warren confronts her handling of Native American ancestry claims — Sen. Elizabeth Warren answers questions at a Native American presidential forum on August 19, 2019, in Sioux City, Iowa. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images — “I am sorry for the harm I have caused” …
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Breitbart, Associated Press and ThinkProgress
New York Post:
Jeffrey Epstein signed will just two days before suicide — Jeffrey Epstein's will has been filed in the US Virgin Islands, and it shows that he signed it Aug. 8 — two days before he hanged himself in his Manhattan jail cell, according to court papers exclusively obtained by The Post on Monday.
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Kim Parker / Pew Research Center:
The Growing Partisan Divide in Views of Higher Education — Americans see value in higher education - whether they graduated from college or not. Most say a college degree is important, if not essential, in helping a young person succeed in the world, and college graduates themselves …
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Reason, The Daily Caller, Front Page Magazine and Mother Jones
Aaron Montes / El Paso Times:
El Paso mass shooter on suicide watch in jail, Sheriff's Office says — The man charged in the El Paso Walmart mass shooting is on suicide watch, authorities say. — Patrick Crusius, charged with killing 22 and injuring 25 on Aug. 3 was placed under close guard Monday on the recommendation …
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Talking Points Memo
Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic:
The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619 — Her name was Angela, one of the first known Africans in British North America. — His name was John, the first known antiblack racist in colonial America. — In 1619, this black woman and white man—what they embody—arrived months apart …
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The Root
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Liberal CNN Panelist Blows Up When Confronted Over Palestinian Terrorism — Beinart: 'Palestinians don't have to be saints' to deserve rights — Liberal writer Peter Beinart erupted at fellow CNN panelist Rich Lowry on Monday while attempting to excuse Palestinian violence toward Israelis …
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Fox News and Algemeiner.com
New York Times:
ISIS Is Regaining Strength in Iraq and Syria — WASHINGTON — Five months after American-backed forces ousted the Islamic State from its last shard of territory in Syria, the terrorist group is gathering new strength, conducting guerrilla attacks across Iraq and Syria, retooling …
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Just Security and The Week
Han Zhang / New Yorker:
The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News — On a Monday morning in February, members of the staff of College Daily, an online Chinese-language publication for Chinese students living in North America, gathered in their office, in Times Square, for an editorial meeting.