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Trump expected to sign executive order that could threaten punishment against Facebook, Google and Twitter over allegations of political bias — The president is expected to sign the order on Thursday. — President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order Thursday that could open …
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Breaking precedent, White House won't release formal economic projections this summer that would forecast extent of downturn — The president's aides will not publish updated economic forecasts, citing volatility in U.S. economy — White House officials have decided not to release updated …
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Yael Halon / Fox News:
Zuckerberg knocks Twitter for fact-checking Trump, says private companies shouldn't be ‘the arbiter of truth’ — Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter fact-checking Trump: Private companies shouldn't be the arbiter of truth — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called out Twitter for attaching …
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Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek:
Zuckerberg Says Twitter Is Wrong to Fact-Check Trump — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Twitter on Wednesday after the microblogging platform fact-checked a tweet of President Donald Trump's that claimed mail-in voting increases voter fraud. — Twitter tagged Trump's tweets …
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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
What Would Happen if Twitter Banned Trump?
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Joe Biden Humiliates Trump With Powerful Message As US Passes 100K Virus Deaths — As Trump is threatening Twitter, Joe Biden delivered a powerful and heartfelt message as the US passed 100,000 coronavirus deaths. — Biden said: … Video: … Biden's message revealed just how inadequate and humiliating Trump is as a president.
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Trump's Mental State Collapses Over Twitter Fact Check
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
For a numbers-obsessed Trump, there's one he has tried to ignore: 100,000 dead
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The Hill
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
Why does Trump get away with everything?
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
‘We Loved Each Other’: Fauci Recalls Larry Kramer, Friend and Nemesis — In public, the activist berated the infectious disease expert for federal inaction on AIDS. But their affection lasted decades and changed the course of the epidemic. — “How did I meet Larry?
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Business Insider:
The Trump campaign's new chief of staff was arrested on campaign finance charges in 2016 after cops busted her boyfriend for cocaine and found incriminating texts on his phone — Stephanie Alexander was named chief of staff of Donald Trump's re-election campaign on Tuesday.
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Famed Democratic pollster: Warren as VP would lead to Biden victory — Stan Greenberg, one of the Democratic Party's longtime leading pollsters, urged Hillary Clinton in 2016 to pick Elizabeth Warren as her vice president. He thinks Clinton would be president had she listened.
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
African-American activists escalating efforts to persuade Biden not to pick Klobuchar for VP
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Supreme Court: Lack of immunity to coronavirus alone isn't enough for mail-in ballot — Although the court sided with state Attorney General Ken Paxton's interpretation of what constitutes a disability, it indicated that it is up to voters to assess their health and determine if they meet …
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Barr asks US Attorney John Bash to review ‘unmasking’ before and after 2016 election, DOJ tells Fox News — Attorney General Bill Barr has asked U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas John Bash to review the practice of “unmasking” before and after the 2016 presidential election …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Barr appoints Texas prosecutor to review Obama officials' ‘unmasking’ requests — Attorney General William P. Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney in Texas to scrutinize Obama-era officials who sought to identify anonymized names in government documents that turned out to be people connected …
Matthew Rozsa / Salon:
Donald Trump just issued his most serious threat yet to free speech — Twitter is well within their right to call out Trump's fabrication. Does he misunderstand the First Amendment? — view in app — There is no freedom more important than the right to free speech.
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Avie Schneider / NPR:
Trump Threatens To Shut Down Social Media After Twitter Adds Warning To His Tweets
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Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Conservative Activists Lose Lawsuit That Accused Twitter, Google and Facebook of Censorship
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Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has voted by mail 11 times in 10 years — The Republican spokeswoman has said it shouldn't be available to everyone. — For a week, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has defended President Donald Trump's assault on vote-by-mail, insisting …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump could have voted in person in Florida this year but chose not to
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New York Times:
U.S. to Expel Chinese Graduate Students With Ties to China's Military Schools — The move is the latest in the Trump administration's efforts to impose limits on Chinese students. But many university officials say the government is paranoid, and that the United States will lose out.
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Slate:
The Right-Wing Legal Network Is Now Openly Pushing Conspiracy Theories — The right-wing legal network spawned by the Federalist Society has finally gone full Trumpian. It has morphed from a group of apparently principled conservatives debating high-minded theories of legal interpretation …
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Nick Swartsell / Dallas Morning News:
Longtime Texas congressman Sam Johnson, POW in Vietnam, dies at age 89 — Staunch conservative served 28 years in Congress and seven years in the Hanoi Hilton after being shot down. — WASHINGTON— Retired congressman Sam Johnson, a conservative stalwart whose service to country spanned seven years …
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The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think — On May 26th, crowds gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to protest the death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of the city's police department. Floyd was black. Many of the protesters were people of color.
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Christian Cooper on Amy Cooper's Fate and Central Park Birdwatching — Christian Cooper is already back birding at Central Park. “I'm not excusing the racism,” he said. “But I don't know if her life needed to be torn apart.” — His binoculars around his neck, Christian Cooper …
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Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times:
He was part of Amazon's coronavirus hiring spree. Two weeks later he was dead — When Harry Sentoso got called back to work at an Amazon delivery center in Irvine in late March, he was excited. — He had been working in Amazon warehouses on and off for two years, always hoping to get a full …
Kevin R. Brock / The Hill:
New FBI document confirms the Trump campaign was investigated without justification — Late last week the FBI document that started the Trump-Russia collusion fiasco was publicly released. It hasn't received a lot of attention but it should, because not too long from now this document likely …
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Biden says he'll pick running mate by Aug. 1 — Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic candidate for president, told supporters Wednesday night that his campaign has interviewed every candidate on his short list to be his running mate and hoped to name the woman by Aug. 1.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
“Everyone Is Shocked”: CBS News Hit Hard by Layoffs — “I'm really sorry,” network president Susan Zirinsky said Wednesday on an all-staff Zoom meeting about the cuts. “There is not a person who won't be missed.” — CBS News was hit hard by a round of corporate cost-cutting that saw …
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
China endorses Hong Kong security law, imperiling city's status as financial hub — Hong Kong's days as an international city with a high level of autonomy from mainland China now appear to be numbered, following a decision by China's rubber-stamp parliament to press ahead with a new national security law …
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