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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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Raw Story and The Guardian
Tory Newmyer / Washington Post:
The Finance 202: The Fed has bracing news for anyone expecting a sharp economic rebound — The ongoing crisis brought on by the pandemic shutdowns has caused “steep” job losses, with activity “falling sharply” across the map, the central bank's latest survey of economic conditions on the ground finds.
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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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump continues to claim broad powers he doesn't have — WASHINGTON (AP) — Threatening to shut down Twitter for flagging false content. Claiming he can “override” governors who dare to keep churches closed to congregants. Asserting the “absolute authority” to force states to reopen, even when local leaders say it's too soon.
Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek:
Zuckerberg Says Twitter Is Wrong to Fact-Check Trump
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Reuters:
Trump executive order takes aim at social media firms: draft
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New York Times and Variety
Avie Schneider / NPR:
Trump Threatens To Shut Down Social Media After Twitter Adds Warning To His Tweets
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CNN:
Trump is set to announce an executive order against social media companies
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Matthew Rozsa / Salon:
Donald Trump just issued his most serious threat yet to free speech
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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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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump is courting a landslide defeat — US president's bungled coronavirus response has alienated crucial older voters — Donald Trump's 2016 victory caught most people by surprise, including him. The safest position since then has been to assume he will do it again.
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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.
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Trump's Mental State Collapses Over Twitter Fact Check
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Katia Dmitrieva / Bloomberg:
Americans on Unemployment Benefits Post First Drop of Pandemic — Continuing claims fell to 21.1 million in week ended May 16 — Initial jobless claims totaled 2.12 million last week — U.S. states' jobless rolls shrank for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic …
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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.
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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The real nightmare scenario for this fall's elections — When people raise fears about nightmare scenarios in this fall's elections, they're usually talking about something big and dramatic — President Trump trying to postpone or cancel the election; or Trump refusing to accept the election results in some way.
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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 …
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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 …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Get Republicans to Vote Against Trump? This Group Will Spend $10 Million to Try — A new organization, Republican Voters Against Trump, is testing the premise of whether there are really any persuadable voters left. — WASHINGTON — Four years ago, 50 of the country's …
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
George Floyd protest turns violent, deadly; Minneapolis mayor requests National Guard — “We can have peaceful demonstrations,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said. “But I also have to ensure the safety of everyone in the city.” — The mayor of Minneapolis has requested help …
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Tim Mak / NPR:
Pence Chief Of Staff Owns Stocks That Could Conflict With Coronavirus Response — Audio will be available later today. — Marc Short, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, owns between $506,043 and $1.64 million worth of individual stocks in companies doing work related …
Peter H. Schuck / New York Times:
Trump's ‘Horrifying Lies’ About Lori Klausutis May Cross a Legal Line — The president's innuendo about the death of a congressional staffer in 2001 could lead to a costly court judgment against him. — Mr. Schuck is an emeritus professor of law at Yale and Darling Foundation visiting professor …
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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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CNBC:
U.S. economy shrank at 5% annual rate in the first quarter — The U.S. economy shrank at an even faster pace than initially estimated in the first three months of this year with economists continuing to expect a far worse outcome in the current April-June quarter.
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 …
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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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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Tom Cotton, Fox News and The Daily Caller
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
You cannot keep from getting swept up in Trump's agenda without a firm grasp on your own — The 2020 campaign is here. Those who are covering it had better figure out what they are for, or they will end up as his enablers— as they were in 2016. — Not sure how long I'm going to be doing this.
Kavita Kumar / Star Tribune:
Minneapolis venture capitalist loses office lease after viral video accuses him of racial profiling — Subject of video said he believed some of the men were not tenants. — TEXT SIZE — A Minneapolis venture capitalist's office lease has been terminated after a video went viral showing …
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Bring Me The News, New York Post and The Hill
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 …
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