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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 …
Washington Examiner:
Trump's slanderous attack on Joe Scarborough is incompatible with leadership — Nearly two decades ago, when Joe Scarborough was a conservative Republican member of Congress from Florida, his office suffered a tragedy. One of his staff, a 28-year-old woman, named Lori Klausutis …
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A Presidential Smear — Trump imitates the Steele dossier in attacks on Joe Scarborough. — By The Editorial Board — Donald Trump sometimes traffics in conspiracy theories—recall his innuendo in 2016 about Ted Cruz's father and the JFK assassination—but his latest accusation …
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New York Times:
‘Ugly Even for Him’: Trump's Media Allies Recoil at His Smear of MSNBC Host — The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and Washington Examiner chastised the president for his unfounded attacks on Joe Scarborough. — Even President Trump's most stalwart media defenders have recoiled …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Smearing Joe Scarborough Because Republicans Reward His Bullying — The United States is in the midst of its worst economic catastrophe in 90 years, and its deepest public-health crisis in more than 100, and the president is laser-focused on the co-host of a morning cable-news talk …
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Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Christian Cooper, That Central Park Incident and His Feelings About Her Fate — 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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Christina Maxouris / CNN:
Christian Cooper is asking people to stop making death threats against the woman who called the cops on him
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Daniel Lewis / New York Times:
Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 — He worked hard to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency. But his confrontational approach could sometimes overshadow his achievements. — Larry Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous …
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Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden — Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Dustin Moskovitz, and Laurene Powell Jobs, Silicon Valley's new power set, are instrumental to fulfilling Democrats' four-year-long quest to oust Donald Trump. Getty Images
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The Guardian:
Revealed: conservative group fighting to restrict voting tied to powerful dark money network — Honest Elections Project, part of network that pushed supreme court pick Brett Kavanaugh, is now focusing on voting restrictions — A powerful new conservative organization fighting to restrict voting …
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Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
“Close them down”: Trump threatens action against social media platforms — President Trump threatened to shut down or regulate social media platforms due to anti-conservative bias in a pair of Wednesday tweets — the day after Twitter's first fact-check against the president's claims on its platform.
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Marty Johnson / The Hill:
Trump threatens social media outlets with regulation, closure after fact check added to tweet
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Twitter exec in charge of effort to fact-check Trump has history of anti-Trump posts, called McConnell a ‘bag of farts’
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Jessica Donati / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Officially Declares That Hong Kong Is No Longer Autonomous — ‘It is now clear that China is modeling Hong Kong after itself,’ said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — WASHINGTON—The State Department has officially determined that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China …
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New York Times:
There Are 3 Things We Have to Do to Get People Wearing Masks
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Pompeo tells Congress Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China
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Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:
The unluckiest generation in U.S. history — Millennials have faced the worst economic odds, and many will never recover — After accounting for the present crisis, the average millennial has experienced slower economic growth since entering the workforce than any other generation in U.S. history.
New York Post:
New book claims Bill Clinton had an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell — Bill Clinton had an affair with British-born socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of helping recruit underage victims for notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to a blockbuster new book.
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Jessica Garate / KRQE-TV:
Did the governor break her own rules? — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) -Did Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham play by her own rules during the public health order? KRQE News 13 has learned in April, when she ordered non-essential businesses to shut down and lectured all New Mexicans to stay home …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Administration Preps New Weapons Sale To Saudi Arabia — Congress has rejected weapons sales to the Saudis. The now-fired State Department inspector general was looking into them. Team Trump is going for a sequel anyway. — When State Department inspector general Steve Linick was abruptly fired …
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Raw Story, New York Times, Politico and Discourse.net
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Rod Rosenstein slated to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee — Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has been scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 3 as part of the Republican-led inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation, the panel announced Wednesday.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rosenstein to testify as part of Graham's Russia investigation probe
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
CNBC Segment Explodes as Andrew Ross Sorkin Accuses Joe Kernen of Being in the Tank for Trump During Crisis: ‘100,000 PEOPLE DIED!’ — A CNBC debate over the stock market completely exploded early Wednesday, with two Squawk Box hosts throwing down in a vicious debate which saw one accusing …
Nancy Cook / Politico:
‘Why are you not burying him?’: Trump allies fret over rising Biden threat — Some of President Donald Trump's political allies and donors are starting to get antsy. — With only five months until the November general election, several Trump advisers, campaign veterans and prominent Republicans …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
“The Partisanship Comes Through Very Slyly”: Bret Baier Has Some Skeptics — The anchor, key to Fox News' claims to impartiality, has friendly ties with Trump's team, although he appears to use those relationships primarily to lobby for newsmaker interviews.
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
Twitter's Trump ‘Fact Check’ Does Not Disclose Company Partnered with Groups Pushing Mail-In Ballots — Twitter for the first time put a fact-check label on tweets from President Trump, using the controversial tactic on messages in which the president complained there is “no way” that …
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Bobby Schilling / The Daily Caller:
Twitter's Fact-Check Of Trump On Mail-In Voting Reveals A Deeper Issue
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Marina Koren / The Atlantic:
American Spaceflight Is Now in Elon Musk's Hands — The most important NASA mission in decades is about to lift off on a billionaire's private rocket. — In the winter of 2010, the private aerospace company SpaceX was set to launch a capsule as a demonstration for NASA, hoping to prove that it could …
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FREOPP.org:
Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities Account for 43% of COVID-19 Deaths — A startling statistic has profound implications for the way we've managed the coronavirus pandemic. — Based on a new analysis of state-by-state COVID-19 fatality reports, it is clear that the most underappreciated aspect …
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Frank Pallotta / CNN:
Disney World sets reopening date — New York (CNN Business)Disney World will reopen its gates, ending a multi-month closure of the park that left the Walt Disney Company reeling. — The Disney theme park, which employs some 70,000 people, plans to begin a phased reopening on July 11 …
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Marco Rubio zeroes in on Russia — not Obama — Donald Trump's allies on Capitol Hill are pushing aggressive new investigations targeting the president's political opponents. Marco Rubio isn't joining the fray. — As Rubio assumes the acting chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee …
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Conservative Activists Lose Lawsuit That Accused Twitter, Google and Facebook of Censorship — A federal court dismissed activist Laura Loomer's lawsuit against several tech platforms on Wednesday. The complaint alleged a far-flung conspiracy to censor conservative speech.
Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:
One America News was desperate for Trump's approval. Here's how it got it. — One America News Network is having a moment. In April the small, right-wing national cable network made headlines when Chanel Rion, its White House correspondent, was banned from the briefing room …
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump administration to end Iran deal waivers in a blow to Obama-era pact — The Trump administration is ending sanctions waivers that allow Russian, Chinese and European companies to do work at sensitive Iranian nuclear sites, following an internal battle between Iran hawks and a more aggressive group …
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Big Jim / ProPublica:
The Billionaire Governor Who's Been Sued Dozens of Times for Millions in Unpaid Bills — Gov. Jim Justice is West Virginia's richest man. Over the last three decades, lawsuits over unpaid bills have cost his constellation of companies more than $128 million in judgments and settlements.
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