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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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Washington Post:
Live updates: Violent clashes between police and public escalate — Clashes between police and the public intensified Monday night, as largely peaceful daytime protests descended into violence and chaos after dark, amid widespread curfews and National Guard deployments.
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 …
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The Hill, Mother Jones, DCist and Common Dreams
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 …
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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americamagazine.org, The Mahablog, Slate, Talking Points Memo, Common Dreams, Law & Crime, The Guardian and Daily Kos
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, Talking Points Memo, ABC News, The Hill, IJR, Vanity Fair and Breitbart
Politico:
Republicans chastise Trump for ousting protesters, church photo-op — Senate Republicans offered rare criticism of President Donald Trump on Tuesday after protesters outside the White House were cleared out with tear gas the day before so the president could pose for photos in front of a historic church.
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Axios
Quint Forgey / Politico:
‘Outraged’: Trump faces condemnation for clearing protesters, threatening military force — President Donald Trump faced withering criticism in the hours after spurring a violent incursion against apparently peaceful protesters for the purposes of staging a political photo opportunity …
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The Moderate Voice, ABC News, Washington Post, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
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.”
Washington Post:
‘I find it baffling and reprehensible’: Catholic Archbishop of Washington slams Trump's visit to John Paul II shrine
‘I find it baffling and reprehensible’: Catholic Archbishop of Washington slams Trump's visit to John Paul II shrine
Washington Post:
Barr personally ordered removal of protesters near White House, leading to use of force against largely peaceful crowd
Barr personally ordered removal of protesters near White House, leading to use of force against largely peaceful crowd
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Reverend at St. John's Church Says Clergy Was Tear Gassed to Clear Church For Trump's ‘Cheap Political Stunt’
Reverend at St. John's Church Says Clergy Was Tear Gassed to Clear Church For Trump's ‘Cheap Political Stunt’
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Gini Gerbasi, DCist, The American Independent and Damian J. Penny
U.S. Department of Justice:
Attorney General William P. Barr's Statement on Protests in Washington, D.C.
Attorney General William P. Barr's Statement on Protests in Washington, D.C.
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The Hill, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
Michael J. O'Loughlin / americamagazine.org:
Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory calls Trump's visit to John Paul II Shrine ‘reprehensible’
Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory calls Trump's visit to John Paul II Shrine ‘reprehensible’
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Washington Post, CBS Baltimore, KRON4, The New Civil Rights Movement and Patterico's Pontifications
Washington Post:
Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of a Trump photo op
Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of a Trump photo op
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ABC News, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, Associated Press, Mother Jones, CNN, Fox News, Vanity Fair, Breitbart, DCist, IJR, The American Spectator, The Root, The American Independent, Raw Story, Twitchy, 444 and Politico
John McCormack / National Review:
Sasse Slams Clearing of Protesters for Trump's Church Photo Opportunity
Sasse Slams Clearing of Protesters for Trump's Church Photo Opportunity
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Mother Jones and Mediaite
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
Politico:
North Carolina governor rejects GOP's demand for full-fledged convention — North Carolina's Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, on Tuesday rejected the GOP's plans for a full-fledged convention in Charlotte, telling Republican officials the only way the event would move forward is with proper health protocols in place.
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Associated Press, NPR and CBS17.com
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New York Times:
Zuckerberg Defends Hands-Off Approach to Trump's Posts — In a call with Facebook employees, who have protested the inaction on Mr. Trump's messages, Mr. Zuckerberg said his decision was “pretty thorough.” — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive …
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Axios, TheStreet, VICE, WLNS-TV, Protocol, PAPER, Wired and BuzzMachine, more at Techmeme »
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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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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
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
White supremacists pose as Antifa online, call for violence
White supremacists pose as Antifa online, call for violence
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Daily Kos, VICE, The American Independent, FactCheck.org and Washington Post
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, FOX5 Las Vegas and The Daily Wire
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ABC News:
George Floyd protest live updates: Officers shot in Vegas, St. Louis
George Floyd protest live updates: Officers shot in Vegas, St. Louis
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KTNV, Breitbart, The Hill and The Guardian
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Floyd Protests Are Backed by Most Americans as More Say Racism Isn't Taken Seriously Enough
Floyd Protests Are Backed by Most Americans as More Say Racism Isn't Taken Seriously Enough
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Mother Jones and Axios
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Medical Workers Fighting COVID Say Cops Are Attacking Them — “I don't know if it's because they noticed my hospital ID or if it's because they saw the blood, but they stopped, threw my phone at me, and I walked back to the hospital.” — Twenty minutes after leaving his job at a Brooklyn hospital …
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Texas Monthly and Denverite
Gothamist:
Live Protest Updates: Police Scanner Broadcasts Calls To Shoot And Run Over Protesters — Here's the latest: — Police Scanner Broadcasts Calls To Shoot And Run Over Protesters — 1:40 p.m. As tens of thousands of peaceful marchers flooded New York City streets Monday evening …
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Raw Story, New Republic and Vanity Fair
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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Fox News
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.
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 …
Daniel McCarthy / Spectator USA:
This riot is brought to you by Nike — In Chicago last weekend 82 people were shot, 22 of them fatally. Between May 2019 and late May 2020, homicide claimed the lives of over 300 black men in the city. That's not a police brutality problem, that's a problem of insufficient police power being deployed to stop violent criminals.
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TMZ.com, Conservative Review, Big League Politics and KTVZ-TV
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Crisis in the Liberal City — The George Floyd protests expose the fault lines in metropolitan America. — The polarization of American life, the withdrawal of liberal and conservative Americans from one another, has generated a poisonous distillation on both sides.
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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Washington Post, Raw Story, POLICE Magazine, Mother Jones and Politico