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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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Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Townhall and Washington Post
New York Post:
The hidden risk in Donald Trump's tweets
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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Kyle Smith / National Review:
The Central Park Dog Case Is Covington 2.0  —  Once again, further evidence upended the narrative of a viral video — but not before someone's life and reputation were destroyed.  —  Funny thing about viral videos: They don't necessarily give the full and complete context for what happened, do they?
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 …
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
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 …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:   Is the MyPillow guy the future of the Republican Party, or is he just dreaming?
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
Why does Trump get away with everything?  —  In January 2016, Donald Trump said something unintentionally profound: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.”  We'll hopefully never find out whether Trump really could get away with murder.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
‘Why are you not burying him?’: Trump allies fret over rising Biden threat
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Instapundit
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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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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’
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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
Discussion: Iowa Starting Line
Marina Koren / The Atlantic:
American Spaceflight Is Now in Elon Musk's Hands  —  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, someday, deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
Discussion: Task & Purpose
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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.
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
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.
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.
Ken Stone / Times of San Diego:
Seattle Judge Throws Out COVID-19 ‘Hoax’ Suit Against Fox News  —  A nonprofit watchdog group in Washington state had “laudable” aims, a Seattle judge said Wednesday, but he threw out its lawsuit targeting Fox News.  —  “WASHLITE's professed goal in this lawsuit — to ensure …
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Jennifer Carroll Foy Jumps Into Virginia Governor's Race, Hoping To Make History  —  If elected, she would be the first female governor of Virginia, and the first Black female governor of any state.  —  Jennifer Carroll Foy is jumping into the 2021 gubernatorial race in Virginia …
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Tulsi Gabbard drops defamation suit against Hillary Clinton  —  Former Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard dropped her defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton Wednesday, citing the coronavirus pandemic and importance of defeating President Trump in November.
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 …
 
 
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James Poniewozik / New York Times:
Trump Said, ‘I Have the Best Words.’ Now They're Hers.
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Libby Cathey / ABC News:
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Zachary Brennan / Politico:
Fauci: Hydroxychloroquine not effective against coronavirus
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump administration to end Iran deal waivers in a blow to Obama-era pact
Discussion: National Review
Richard Haass / Washington Post:
Trump's foreign policy doctrine? The Withdrawal Doctrine.
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Big Jim / ProPublica:
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
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