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Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:
Ahead of Trump Bible photo op, police forcibly expel priest from St. John's church near White House — U.S. — Judaism — Islam — Unaffiliated/Atheism — Hinduism — Buddhism — Sikhism — Alternative Faiths — Other Faiths — Cart — Apparel — Miscellaneous
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Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
Live updates: Mayor's office says federal officials floated idea of taking over D.C. police; protesters holed up in D.C. home emerge after curfew lifts — Federal law enforcement officers fired rubber bullets and chemicals at peaceful protesters outside the White House on Monday evening …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump goes full law-and-order — President Trump's final decision to speak in the Rose Garden last evening as protests raged outside the gate was made only hours before, reflecting chaos on both sides of the fence. — Why it matters: Trump's ultimate remarks fell where his instincts always were …
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church — “He did not pray,” said Mariann E. Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington. “He did not mention George Floyd, he did not mention the agony of people who have been subjected to this kind of horrific expression of racism and white supremacy for hundreds of years.”
Max Cohen / Politico:
Tim Scott: Lafayette Square should not have been cleared for Trump — Sen. Tim Scott said Tuesday that protesters in Lafayette Square should not have been cleared with tear gas and rubber bullets to accommodate President Donald Trump's visit to a historic church, a rebuke of the president by the only black Republican in the Senate.
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Washington Post, The Hill and ABC News
Washington Post:
Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of a Trump photo op — President Trump began mulling a visit to St. John's Episcopal Church on Monday morning, after spending the night devouring cable news coverage of protests across the country, including in front of the White House.
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The Hill, Mother Jones, ABC News, CNN, Vanity Fair, Breitbart, The American Spectator, IJR, The Root, DCist, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, The American Independent, Twitchy and 444
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Reverend at St. John's Church Says Clergy Was Tear Gassed to Clear Church For Trump's ‘Cheap Political Stunt’ — A reverend at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington D.C. Monday claimed that church clergy were tear gassed in order to clear the area for President Donald Trump's …
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Gini Gerbasi, WHYY, Damian J. Penny and IJR
Washington Post:
Biden, in speech to the nation, denounces President Trump's actions against protesters and vows to heal racial wounds
Biden, in speech to the nation, denounces President Trump's actions against protesters and vows to heal racial wounds
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The Hill and The Daily Beast
Quint Forgey / Politico:
‘Outraged’: Trump faces condemnation for clearing protesters, threatening military force
‘Outraged’: Trump faces condemnation for clearing protesters, threatening military force
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ABC News, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Washington can't fix this
POLITICO Playbook: Washington can't fix this
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New York Times and Associated Press
John McCormack / National Review:
Sasse Slams Clearing of Protesters for Trump's Church Photo Opportunity
Washington Post:
Before Trump vows to end ‘lawlessness,’ federal officers confront protesters outside White House
Before Trump vows to end ‘lawlessness,’ federal officers confront protesters outside White House
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Mother Jones, Task & Purpose, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Common Dreams, Gizmodo, FactCheck.org, Politico, Mediaite, Just The News, The Hill and TheStreet
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The most chilling aspect of Trump's Monday night crackdown on law-abiding protesters
The most chilling aspect of Trump's Monday night crackdown on law-abiding protesters
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
ABC News:
Biden addresses nationwide Floyd protests, condemns Trump church photo op in Philadelphia speech
Biden addresses nationwide Floyd protests, condemns Trump church photo op in Philadelphia speech
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Raw Story and The New Civil Rights Movement
Ursula Perano / Axios:
“Shaken”: St. John's rector caught up in tear gas deployment at church
“Shaken”: St. John's rector caught up in tear gas deployment at church
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Slate, The American Independent, Breitbart and Common Dreams
NBC News:
White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on twitter — A Twitter account claiming to belong to a national “antifa” organization and pushing violent rhetoric related to ongoing protests has been linked to the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, according to a Twitter spokesperson.
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Redstate, Fox News, Mother Jones and Althouse, more at Techmeme »
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
White supremacists pose as Antifa online, call for violence — New York (CNN Business)A Twitter account that tweeted a call to violence and claimed to be representing the position of “Antifa” was in fact created by a known white supremacist group, Twitter said Monday. The company removed the account.
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Daily Kos, VICE, The American Independent, FactCheck.org and Washington Post
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
RedState Duped By Fake Antifa Account Reportedly Run By White Nationalists
RedState Duped By Fake Antifa Account Reportedly Run By White Nationalists
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Politico
Anders Hagstrom / The Daily Caller:
At Least Five Police Officers Reportedly Shot, One On Life Support As Rioters And Law Enforcement Battle Across The Country — At least four police officers in St. Louis, Missouri, were shot and another was killed in Las Vegas on Monday night, according to multiple reports.
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CBS News, Raw Story and KLAS - 8 News Now
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CNN:
Pentagon officials express concern as Trump threatens to use military to ‘dominate’ protestors — Washington (CNN)Defense officials tell CNN there was deep and growing discomfort among some in the Pentagon even before President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is ready to deploy …
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fox8.com, KTVZ-TV, Task & Purpose, IJR, Reuters, Spectator USA, Variety and Big League Politics
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Kevin Baron / Defense One:
Trump Finally Gets the War He Wanted
Trump Finally Gets the War He Wanted
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New York Times and Raw Story
Yahoo News:
Australia probes US police assault on its journalists — Australia is investigating a US police attack on two Australian television journalists outside the White House, the foreign minister said Tuesday, expressing “strong concerns” about the assault caught live on camera.
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7NEWS.com.au, Daily Kos and Nieman Lab, more at Mediagazer »
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Fox News' Tucker Carlson goes after Trump and Kushner over protests
Fox News' Tucker Carlson goes after Trump and Kushner over protests
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UPI and Washington Post
Vicky Prodeline / Polls:
Protestors' Anger Justified Even If Actions May Not Be — Most say police more likely to use excessive force on black individuals — West Long Branch, NJ - Most Americans say the anger about black deaths at the hands of police officers that led to recent protests is fully justified …
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Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Decades-old Confederate statue removed from Alexandria intersection — The Confederate statue “Appomattox,” which depicts a southern-facing Civil War soldier and has stood in an Alexandria intersection for decades, was removed Tuesday morning, a month earlier than planned.
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Washingtonian and KTVZ-TV
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Carol Robinson / al.com:
Watch: Birmingham taking down Confederate monument
Watch: Birmingham taking down Confederate monument
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Washington Times
ProPublica:
This Treasury Official Is Running the Bailout. It's Been Great for His Family. — Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family's investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury's bailout actions.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Christians Who Loved Trump's Stunt — He wielded the Bible like a foreign object, awkwardly adjusting his grip as though trying to get comfortable. He examined its cover. He held it up over his right shoulder like a crossing guard presenting a stop sign. He did not open it.
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Slate, Law & Crime, Common Dreams, The Guardian and Daily Kos
Thomas Wright / The Atlantic:
We've Now Entered the Final Phase of the Trump Era — We are in the Götterdämmerung now, the final phase of the Trump era. We began with the axis of adults that imperfectly constrained him. We then entered the age of hubris and action during which he systematically rid himself …
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Politico, KTVZ-TV and LewRockwell
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Stop Playing with Fire — On the menu today: how the country is paying the price for a long line of leaders and aspiring leaders who saw public anger as a force they believed they could control and manipulate; why Donald Trump won't give a unifying speech and has no particular desire to do so …
New York Times:
Where the Virus Is Growing Most: Countries With ‘Illiberal Populist’ Leaders — Brazil, Russia, Britain and the U.S. have something in common. — The four large countries where coronavirus cases have recently been increasing fastest are Brazil, the United States, Russia and Britain.
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
The Flynn Calls: His Dismissal of Russian Interference and the Kremlin's Savvy — Newly declassified transcripts show the seeds of Russia's overtures to the Trump administration as both sides sought to downplay Moscow's election sabotage. — WASHINGTON — Russian spy services had just carried …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump Takes Us to the Brink — Will weaponized racism destroy America? — Last fall Bob Kroll, the head of the Minneapolis police union, appeared at a Trump rally, where he thanked the president for ending Barack Obama's “oppression of police” and letting cops “put the handcuffs on criminals instead of us.”
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