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Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
Mike Pompeo recommended Trump firing of State Department inspector general, White House says — President Trump fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick Friday night, notifying Congress of the decision in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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NBC News and The Gateway Pundit
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New York Times:
Trump Ousted State Dept. Watchdog at Pompeo's Urging; Democrats Open Inquiry — The lawmakers said Steve Linick, the State Department's inspector general, had opened an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's conduct. — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged President Trump …
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Axios, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart and The Hill
Washington Post:
Trump ramps up retaliatory purge with firing of State Department inspector general
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Vanity Fair
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Watchdog's dismissal puts Pompeo on the hot seat
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Raw Story, Mother Jones, Redstate and Washington Post
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr. Smears Biden With Baseless Instagram Post — Signaling the increasingly dark tactics of the Trump campaign, the president's oldest son falsely accused Mr. Biden of preying on children. — WASHINGTON — President Trump's eldest son on Saturday posted a social media message …
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Eric Trump predicts COVID-19 is a conspiracy against his dad that will ‘magically’ disappear in November — President Donald Trump's son Eric suggested that coronavirus lockdowns were a conspiracy to keep his father from holding 2020 campaign rallies during a Saturday appearance on Fox News with Jeanine Pirro.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
I'll Take Biden's Confusion Over Trump's Corruption — Let's not repeat the false equivalence of 2016. — Please tell me why I should care whether Joe Biden is declining mentally when Donald Trump bottomed out morally long ago. — I'm serious. I'd rather drink milk past its expiration date than arsenic.
New York Times:
Obama Says U.S. Lacks Leadership on Virus in Commencement Speeches — The virus has “torn back the curtain on the idea that the folks in charge know what they're doing,” the former president said. “A lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge.” — Without the springtime rituals …
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Althouse, The Moderate Voice, Townhall, The Wrap, Blue Virginia and Mother Jones
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ITV:
Harry Dunn's mother urges UK to stand up to ‘bully’ US as diplomatic tensions flare — The mother of Northamptonshire teenager Harry Dunn has urged the UK to stand up to the “bully” US government as diplomatic tensions reportedly flared up between the two countries.
Politico:
How chatter and conservative anger upended a White House staffing search — In early May, White House aides had seemingly settled on Derek Lyons as President Donald Trump's next top domestic policy adviser. They told reporters as much. — A week later, though, Brooke Rollins got the job …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Mike Baker / New York Times:
Feds Suspect Vast Fraud Network Is Targeting U.S. Unemployment Systems — Investigators see evidence of a sophisticated international attack they said could siphon hundreds of millions of dollars that were intended for the unemployed. — SEATTLE — A group of international fraudsters appears …
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New York Post and The Hill, more at Techmeme »
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Pompeo tells Salena Zito the world must ‘impose costs on China’ for coronavirus — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Washington Examiner that the world is going to have to “impose costs on China” for the coronavirus, and he said he has already presented a range of options to President Trump …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Secretary Pompeo: President Trump ‘Committed’ to Holding Chinese Communist Party …
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New York Post
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Democratic governors hit with flurry of legal challenges to coronavirus lockdowns — The raging public debate over statewide coronavirus lockdowns is running in parallel to a series of legal battles in state capitals — and the lockdown skeptics got a big boost this week.
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Detroit Free Press
jsonline:
No masks. No gloves. No problem. As coronavirus cases soar, carefree day-trippers from Illinois pour in — On the first weekend without any statewide stay-at-home orders, Wisconsin was open for business, and at least along the southern border, people from Illinois poured in.
CNN:
Tensions rise between the White House and CDC as Birx critiques virus tracking — Washington (CNN)As the coronavirus pandemic stretches past its ninth week, tensions are rising between the White House and the nation's leading public health agency. In interviews with CNN …
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Townhall
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A series exploring the political dynamics surrounding the coronavirus crisis. — “A fundamental role of government is the safety and security of its people,” said Janet Napolitano, the former secretary of homeland security. “To me that means you have to maintain a certain base level so that …
The Daily Beast:
Billionaire MAGA Fan Peter Thiel Has Had It With Trump's COVID-19 Response — More than a dozen sources in Trump's orbit said they could not say whether the Silicon Valley luminary was going to play any meaningful role in the re-elect, like he did in 2016. — During the last presidential campaign …
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Raw Story
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Andrew Cuomo's atrocious response to the coronavirus pandemic — In panning President Trump's response to the Wuhan coronavirus, Democrats and the mainstream media stress the fact that the U.S. has reported many more deaths from the virus than any other country (in absolute numbers, not per capita).
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Talking Points Memo
Mike Barnes / Hollywood Reporter:
Fred Willard, Master of Comic Cluelessness, Dies at 86 — The actor was great at improvisation and brilliantly amusing on ‘Fernwood 2 Night,’ ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ and in Christopher Guest mockumentaries. — Fred Willard, the clever comic actor who played clueless characters to perfection …
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Rolling Stone, NPR, /Film, Deadline, FOX31 Denver and Breitbart
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
'I Can't Turn My Brain Off': PTSD and Burnout Threaten Medical Workers — Before Covid-19, health care workers were already vulnerable to depression and suicide. Mental health experts now fear even more will be prone to trauma-related disorders. — The coronavirus patient, a 75-year-old man, was dying.
Elizabeth Warren / The Atlantic:
My Brother's Death Didn't Have to Happen — Senator Elizabeth Warren's oldest brother, Donald Reed Herring, died of COVID-19 in late April, and I heard that she sometimes mentioned this in conversations about policy, though she was reluctant to talk about it publicly.
Discussion:
Axios
Ben Simon / Agence France-Presse:
Israel set to swear in Netanyahu-Gantz unity government — Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel was poised to swear in a unity government Sunday after three elections, more than 500 days of limbo and a delay on the home stretch, as the country hopes to end the longest political crisis in its history.
Violet Ikonomova / Deadline Detroit:
Downtown Detroit Realtor Charged With Threatening To Kill Whitmer, Nessel — A downtown Detroit real estate agent is facing a terrorism charge after authorities say he made credible death threats against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel.
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Corey Williams / Associated Press:
Man charged in death threats to Michigan governor, AG
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