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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,” …
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National Review:
Trump's Grotesque Tweets — No one goes to Donald Trump's Twitter feed to be edified, but Trump's series of tweets the last two weeks about MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has been grotesque even by his standards. — Trump didn't leave it at boasting about how he supposedly used Scarborough in 2016 …
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Husband of deceased Scarborough staffer asks Twitter to delete baseless Trump claims — The husband of Lori Klausutis, an aide to Joe Scarborough when he was member of Congress who died in 2001, asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to take down President Trump's tweets baselessly accusing the MSNBC host …
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo News:
Twitter ‘deeply sorry’ about Trump tweets on death of Scarborough intern, but won't remove them
Twitter ‘deeply sorry’ about Trump tweets on death of Scarborough intern, but won't remove them
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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.
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
'I Can't Breathe': Black Man Dies After Being Pinned by Police Officer — 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?”
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CNN:
A white woman has apologized after calling police on a black man and saying 'there's an African American man threatening my life' — (CNN)A white woman has apologized for calling police on a black man in Central Park on Monday, after the two argued about her unleashed dog.
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Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Woman Is Fired After Calling Police on Black Man in Central Park
Woman Is Fired After Calling Police on Black Man in Central Park
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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 …
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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 …
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Pentagon watchdog sidelined by Trump resigns
Pentagon watchdog sidelined by Trump resigns
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Pentagon watchdog resigns after being sidelined by Trump
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.
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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.
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David Crow / Financial Times:
Merck chief casts doubt on coronavirus vaccine timeframe — US drugs group's boss Ken Frazier calls 12 to 18-month targets ‘very aggressive’ as he announces biotech acquisition — Merck chief executive Ken Frazier has cast doubt on the 12 to 18-month timeframe to develop an effective coronavirus vaccine …
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Pence press secretary Katie Miller, who had coronavirus, says she's back at work after 3 negative tests
Pence press secretary Katie Miller, who had coronavirus, says she's back at work after 3 negative tests
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Mulvaney: 'We've overreacted a little bit' to coronavirus
Mulvaney: 'We've overreacted a little bit' to coronavirus
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USA Today:
Joe Biden questions my blackness one moment, defends racist 1994 crime bill the next — Much attention has been rightfully devoted to bigoted comments former Vice President Joe Biden made during his Friday interview with “The Breakfast Club” when he had the audacity to say “Well I tell you what …
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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.
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 …
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
‘An international example of bad judgment’: Local officials stunned by raucous Memorial Day festivities — A pandemic couldn't cancel America's most crowded parties this Memorial Day weekend, even as the novel coronavirus took at least 2,000 more American lives.
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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).
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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.
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Andrea González-Ramírez / GEN:
How 3 Vehement Bernie Backers Made Their Peace With Biden — The Biden-Sanders task forces could be their only opportunity to craft policy from the inside in the next four years — For Bernie Sanders' fiercest supporters, the end of his presidential bid last month did not mean the demise of …
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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Why Bernie Sanders is dead wrong about what Joe Biden should look for in a running mate
Column: Why Bernie Sanders is dead wrong about what Joe Biden should look for in a running mate
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Mother Jones
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.
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Raw Story
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.
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.