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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
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Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Twitter ‘Deeply Sorry’ about Trump's Morning Joe Tweets, Plans Policy ‘Changes’
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo News:
Twitter ‘deeply sorry’ about Trump tweets on death of Scarborough intern, but won't remove them
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump has no decency. It's time for Twitter to show some.
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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 — 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.
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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
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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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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 …
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 …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Joe Biden wins AFL-CIO endorsement — The AFL-CIO, the country's largest coalition of labor unions, endorsed Joe Biden for president Tuesday, with the organization's top official vowing to wage an aggressive effort to help him defeat President Trump. — Union officials cemented their support …
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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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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.
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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The Hill
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.
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
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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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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Pence press secretary Katie Miller, who had coronavirus, says she's back at work after 3 negative tests — Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary, announced Tuesday that she is back at work after three negative coronavirus tests since she contracted the disease several weeks ago.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Mulvaney: 'We've overreacted a little bit' to coronavirus
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's war on reality just got a lot more dangerous — Coronavirus deaths in the United States are rapidly closing in on 100,000. The economic depression is stretching out ahead of us as far as the eye can see. Joe Biden is holding a steady lead in polls.
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USA Today:
As coronavirus deaths near 100,000, Trump makes America exceptional in all the wrong ways — When our son was very young, we used to tell him he had won at miniature golf because he had the highest score. I think of that whenever I hear President Donald Trump use phrases like “amazingly well” …
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Three words that will decide Trump's fate: ‘Made in America’
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