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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:

Twitter labels Trump's tweets with a fact-check for the first time — The action comes after years of criticism that social media companies have allowed the president to push misinformation unchecked — Twitter on Tuesday slapped a fact-check label on President Trump's tweets for the first time …

Discussion: Townhall, Mother Jones, NBC News, Axios, Breitbart, Variety, New York Post, The Daily Caller, The Root, Raw Story, Twitchy, KDFX-TV, IJR, Mediaite, archive.fo and CNN, more at Mediagazer »

Kara Swisher / New York Times:

Twitter Must Cleanse the Trump Stain — The president is spreading a vile conspiracy theory on the platform. Maybe Twitter should finally hold him to its rules. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer. — “Please delete those tweets,” …

Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:

The Malignant Cruelty of Donald Trump — “I'm asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him—the memory of my dead wife—and perverted it for perceived political gain.” — There may be a more damning thing that's …

Discussion: New York Times, Patterico's Pontifications and Raw Story

National Review: Trump's Grotesque Tweets

Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Husband of deceased Scarborough staffer asks Twitter to delete baseless Trump claims

Discussion: Discourse Blog, Vox, Associated Press, Breitbart, Florida Politics, The Hill, New York Times, The Wrap, Washington Post, One America News Network, The Daily Caller and POLITICUSUSA, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:
Twitter Refutes Inaccuracies in Trump's Tweets for First Time

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Times and Breitbart

Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Twitter labels Trump tweets as ‘potentially misleading’ for the first time

Discussion: Donald J. Trump for President, BuzzFeed News and Talking Points Memo

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump has no decency. It's time for Twitter to show some.

Discussion: Vox, Jezebel, Daily Kos and The Daily Caller

Gregg Re / Fox News:
Twitter puts warning label on a Trump tweet for first time over mail-in ballots, but admits no rules broken

Discussion: Townhall, Raw Story and The Hill

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo News:
Twitter ‘deeply sorry’ about Trump tweets on death of Scarborough intern, but won't remove them

Discussion: National Review, Mediaite and Washington Post

Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:

Justice Department Closing Insider-Trading Investigations Into Three U.S. Senators — Probe into trading earlier this year by Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina continues — The Justice Department is closing investigations into three U.S. senators for stocks trades made shortly …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Associated Press, ABC News, Politico, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, Townhall, Breitbart, Roll Call, New York Post, The Daily Caller, CNBC, Raw Story, Law & Crime and IJR

Ursula Perano / Axios:
DOJ closes insider trading probes of 3 senators, but not Richard Burr

Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story

Timothy Bella / Washington Post:

‘I cannot breathe!’: FBI investigates death of a black man in Minneapolis after video shows police officer kneeling on his neck — In a video shared on social media early Tuesday, a Minneapolis police officer pins his knee against the neck of a black man who appears to be struggling to breathe on the ground.

Discussion: HuffPost, Minneapolis Police, CBS News, PBS NewsHour, NPR, The Guardian, VICE, Common Dreams, Law & Crime, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, The Root and New York Post

Christine Hauser / New York Times:

4 Minneapolis Officers Fired After Black Man Dies in Custody — A bystander's video in Minneapolis shows a police officer with his knee on a man's neck during an arrest. The man died a “short time” later, the police said. — Arrested man: [moaning] “What you trying to say?” Police officer: “Relax.”

Discussion: Twitchy

Libor Jany / Star Tribune:
FBI, BCA investigating in-custody death of man in south Minneapolis

Discussion: NBC News, KARE-TV, Redstate, Associated Press and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:

White Woman Is Fired After Calling Police on Black Man in Central Park — Video of the incident touched off intense discussions about the history of black people being falsely reported to the police. — The encounter appears to have begun as one of those banal and brusque dust-ups between two New Yorkers.

Discussion: NBC New York, KDFX-TV, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Guardian, Law & Crime, Mediaite and Jezebel

CNN:
White woman who called police on a black man bird-watching in Central Park has been fired

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Wealth Management, New York Post, Breitbart, TheBlaze, Los Angeles Times, Spectator USA, VICE, Raw Story, New York Times, The Daily Beast, CBS New York, Twitchy and Quiz Category

New York Times:

After Crowding at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri Officials Urge Quarantine — “It's irresponsible and dangerous to engage in such high risk behavior just to have some fun over the extended holiday weekend,” said the mayor of St. Louis. — After large crowds gathered at the Lake of the Ozarks …

Discussion: NBC News, Talking Points Memo, Jezebel, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and Conservative News Today

Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
‘An international example of bad judgment’: Local officials stunned by raucous Memorial Day festivities

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Hill, WebMD Health, ABC11, Fox News, The Daily Caller and New York Post

Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:

“This Is So Unfair to Me”: Trump Whines About His COVID-19 Victimhood as Campaign Flails — Raging at campaign manager Brad Parscale and Joe Scarborough, Trump attempts a campaign reset. But “Trump can't pivot to a different strategy,” says an adviser. Because he's the problem.

Discussion: New York Times, The Daily Caller and Raw Story

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Knows It Encourages Division. Top Executives Nixed Solutions. — The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users, then largely shelved the research — A Facebook Inc. FB 0.15% team had a blunt message for senior executives. The company's algorithms weren't bringing people together.

Discussion: Common Dreams, more at Techmeme »

Politico:

The general election scenario that Democrats are dreading — In early April, Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration and now a professor at Harvard, was speaking via Zoom to a large bipartisan group of top officials from both parties. The economy had just been shut down …

Discussion: Power Line, New York Post, Townhall, National Review, Fox News, Redstate, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, TheBlaze, Twitchy, Breitbart, The Week and Eschaton

CNN:

Pentagon deputy inspector general resigns, becomes latest watchdog to exit administration — Washington (CNN)Defense Department Principal Deputy Inspector General, Glenn Fine, submitted his resignation Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump effectively removed him as chairman …

Discussion: Raw Story, Axios, Talking Points Memo and UPI

CNN:

Trump's threat to pull GOP convention came as surprise to Republicans working on event — (CNN)Top Republicans had been working closely with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and other state Democratic officials as recently as Friday to plan the upcoming GOP national convention amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Discussion: Washington Post, Politico, ABC News, KDFX-TV, Talking Points Memo and TheBlaze

Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
States are trying to lure the Republican National Convention away from North Carolina

Discussion: Bloomberg, The Hill and CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

James Vincent / The Verge:

YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China's Communist Party — These Chinese language phrases are removed within seconds — YouTube is automatically deleting comments that contain certain Chinese-language phrases related to criticism of the country's ruling Communist Party (CCP).

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, National Review, Louder With Crowder, Mediaite, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Twitchy, WND, Bloomberg, Fox News, TheBlaze and NB Blog, more at Mediagazer »

Bryan Schott / utahpolicy.com:

Poll: Donald Trump leads Biden by just 3 points in Utah — The last time Utah voted for a Democrat for president was Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964. The Beehive State's 56-year streak of voting for Republicans for president may be in real danger according to a new poll.

Discussion: The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite and Patterico's Pontifications

Brian Mann / NPR:

Trump Team Killed Rule Designed To Protect Health Workers From Pandemic Like COVID-19 — When President Trump took office in 2017, his team stopped work on new federal regulations that would have forced the healthcare industry to prepare for an airborne infectious disease pandemic like COVID-19.

Axios:

House Republicans to sue Nancy Pelosi in effort to block proxy voting — House Republicans plan to file a lawsuit Tuesday against Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an effort to block the chamber's new proxy voting system amid the coronavirus pandemic, three congressional sources tell Axios.

Discussion: The Hill

Wall Street Journal:
House Republicans Move to Block Proxy Voting

Discussion: The Hill

Brooke Singman / Fox News:

Grenell declassifies slew of Russia probe files, as Ratcliffe takes helm as DNI — Sources say acting DNI director is declassifying four or five other batches of intel on Russia investigation — Richard Grenell has declassified a new batch of Russia probe documents on his way out as acting director …

Discussion: Associated Press, Redstate, Townhall, KDFX-TV, Conservative News Today and The Gateway Pundit

Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Here's The ‘Unclassified’ List Of Actions Ric Grenell Took As DNI To ‘Break’ The ‘Deep State’

Discussion: Politico

Kat Stafford / Associated Press:

Biden campaign names national voter protection director — DETROIT (AP) — Joe Biden has hired a national director for voter protection, a role his campaign says will focus broadly on voter rights, including the disenfranchisement of people of color amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Discussion: The Hill

Joe Heim / Washington Post:

America's response to coronavirus pandemic is ‘incomprehensibly incoherent,’ says historian who studied the 1918 flu — John M. Barry, 74, is a historian and author of several books, including “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History,” about the 1918 flu pandemic.

Discussion: Raw Story

detroitnews:

Purported Northern Michigan boat launch request fuels controversy for Whitmer — The owner of a Northern Michigan dock company says Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's husband wanted his boat placed in the water before the Memorial Day weekend as Whitmer urged residents not to rush to the region.

Discussion: Redstate, Tom Barrett, Fox News, Breitbart, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, IJR, Politico, The Daily Beast, The Daily Wire, New York Post, WND, The Federalist, Twitchy, The Hill and Disrn

Tim Burke / COURIER:

WATCH: 11 Local TV Stations Pushed the Same Amazon-Scripted Segment — The package was produced by Amazon spokesperson Todd Walker. — Amazon is taking proactive action ahead of Wednesday's annual shareholders meeting—at which investors plan on demanding the company address worker safety issues …

Discussion: The Verge, TVNewser, VICE, Mediaite and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »

Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:

Memorial Day 2020: Presidential race still leaning Biden — ANALYSIS — More than two months ago, even before COVID-19 became all-consuming in our lives, I wrote a column arguing that the presidential race had changed from a toss-up/tilting Democratic to leaning Democratic.

Olivia Beavers / The Hill:

Ex-Pompeo staffers asked to sign letter against ‘smear campaign’ — Former House staffers to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are being asked to sign a letter offering him support after a “smear campaign” that he and his wife asked staffers to carry out trivial tasks such as bringing him lunch or getting his dry cleaning.

Chris Isidore / CNN:

Hertz paid top executives $16 million in bonuses ahead of its bankruptcy filing — New York (CNN Business)Hertz paid out millions of dollars in bonuses to its executives just before its bankruptcy — and a month after it started laying off thousands of employees.

Ronald Brownstein / CNN:

Changing Southwest may bring Democrats a milestone win — (CNN)In a critical mark of the shifting political landscape, Democrats in November could secure a clean sweep of the Senate seats from the four key Southwestern states — a milestone the party hasn't reached in nearly 80 years.