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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution — James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump's Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump's performance as president.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
James Mattis condemns Trump as a threat to the Constitution — Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis condemned President Trump for making a “mockery of our Constitution” in a statement to The Atlantic on Wednesday, saying he was “appalled” at the president's response to mass protests in the wake of George Floyd's killing.
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Jim Mattis blasts Trump in message that defends protesters, says president ‘tries to divide us’ — Former defense secretary Jim Mattis excoriated President Trump on Wednesday, accusing the nation's chief executive of deliberately trying to divide Americans, taking exception to his threats …
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CNN:
Mattis tears into Trump: ‘We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership’
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Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
America's Generals Must Stand Up to Trump
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Tom Cotton / New York Times:
Send In the Troops — The nation must restore order. The military stands ready. — Mr. Cotton, a Republican, is a United States senator from Arkansas. — This week, rioters have plunged many American cities into anarchy, recalling the widespread violence of the 1960s.
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Active-duty troops deployed to DC region start to leave — WASHINGTON (AP) — Active-duty troops brought in to help if needed with the civil unrest in the nation's capitol are beginning to return to their home base, after two days of more peaceful demonstrations in Washington, D.C. …
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The Hill:
Un-identified military personnel extend perimeter around the White House
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Politico:
Republicans urge Trump to keep Esper
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James Stavridis / TIME:
I Spent My Career in the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Military Must Stand up for Its Soul in This Moment
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Candice Bernd / Truthout:
As Trump Threatens to Send Military Into Cities, Some GIs Refuse to Comply
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New York Times:
Trump Campaign Looks at Electoral Map and Doesn't Like What It Sees — As polls show President Trump significantly trailing his rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., his campaign is spending heavily in states, like Ohio, that it had hoped would not be competitive at all this year.
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
More Voters Trust Biden on Race Relations — Increase in views that outbreak is hurting Trump — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden currently holds an 11-point lead over Donald Trump in the presidential race as more voters say they trust the challenger to handle race relations in the country.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden ahead in Arizona, Kelly trouncing McSally in Senate race — Republicans are rightly concerned about Arizona. — A new Fox News Poll finds the state shading blue — especially in the race for the U.S. Senate, where Democrat Mark Kelly bests incumbent Republican …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Protesters' breach of temporary fences near White House complex prompted Secret Service to move Trump to secure bunker — President Trump was rushed to a secure bunker in the White House on Friday evening after a group of protesters hopped over temporary barricades set up near …
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
White House physician releases memo from Trump's latest physical — The White House physician released a memo on Wednesday summarizing data from President Trump's latest physical exam, conducted between November 2019 and April 2020 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the White House.
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
President Trump tried to register to vote in Florida using an out-of-state address — President Trump originally tried to register to vote in Florida while claiming his “legal residence” was in another part of the country — Washington, D.C. — according to Florida elections records.
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Stephen Montemayor / Star Tribune:
Attorney General Keith Ellison to elevate charges against officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck; also charging other 3 involved — Ellison took over case on Sunday. — TEXT SIZE — Attorney General Keith Ellison plans to elevate charges against the former Minneapolis police officer …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
All four living ex-presidents draw a sharp contrast with Trump on systemic racism — Four U.S. presidents spoke this week about systemic racism and injustice. They used their platforms to illuminate the humanity in all Americans and to decry the dehumanization of some.
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The Carter Center:
Statement from Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Jimmy Carter releases statement on George Floyd protests
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Associated Press:
Virginia governor to announce removal of Lee statue — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday for the removal of an iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond's prominent Monument Avenue, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Joint Terrorism Task Force Charges Three Men Who Allegedly Sought To Exploit Protests In Las Vegas And Incite Violence — LAS VEGAS, Nev. — U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI …
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Associated Press:
Police shove, make AP journalists stop covering protest — NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police officers surrounded, shoved and yelled expletives at two Associated Press journalists covering protests Tuesday in the latest aggression against members of the media during a week of unrest around the country.
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Washington Post:
Sen. Paul acknowledges holding up anti-lynching bill, says he fears it would be wrongly applied — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) acknowledged Wednesday that he is holding up a bill with broad bipartisan support that would make lynching a federal hate crime, saying he fears it could allow enhanced penalties …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Had Kushner Push the National Enquirer to Probe Scarborough Murder Conspiracy — OBSESSION — Trump is so hellbent on smearing the MSNBC host that he had Jared push the Enquirer to publish the lies, sources told The Daily Beast. Even the tabloid rag wouldn't sink that low.
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
People Say Pallets Of Bricks Are Showing Up Near Protests All Over The US. The Truth Is More Complicated. — A wave of social media posts and images have claimed that pallets of bricks have been appearing near the locations of protests in cities all over the United States.
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Patrick Skinner / Washington Post:
I'm a cop. I won't fight a ‘war’ on crime the way I fought the war on terror. — The failed strategy I participated in for years as a CIA officer is not how to police people I consider my neighbors. It's not how to police at all. — When I left the CIA, I no longer wanted to fight our “war on terror.”
The Guardian:
Governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company — Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies
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Lee Brown / New York Post:
Mexican senator accidentally goes topless on Zoom meeting — A Mexican lawmakers accidentally showed up topless in a government Zoom meeting — but later insisted she was “not ashamed” of having shown her body. — Senator Martha Lucía Mícher Camarena, 66 …
Washington Post:
Hydroxychloroquine, a drug promoted by Trump, failed to prevent healthy people from getting covid-19 in trial — The University of Minnesota enrolled health-care workers and others exposed to the disease in the first randomized prevention study of the drug — Hydroxychloroquine …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump lacks the consent of the governed — WASHINGTON — It is ironic that President Donald Trump used Lafayette Square as the staging ground to intimidate peacefully protesting citizens with a force of soldiers and federal agents. — After all, the Marquis de Lafayette was a young nobleman drawn …
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CNN:
Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests — (CNN)Benjamin Ryan Teeter was at his home in Hampstead, N.C., when the call to action came. It was an alert from the heart of the raging protests in Minneapolis, posted on an online forum by a fellow member of the Boogaloo movement …
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Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg:
Man Behind Sweden's Controversial Virus Strategy Admits Mistakes — Sweden's top epidemiologist has admitted his strategy to fight Covid-19 resulted in too many deaths, after persuading his country to avoid a strict lockdown. — “If we were to encounter the same illness with the same knowledge …
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Washington Post:
'This can't be happening': An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington — On Monday evening, over the course of 48 minutes, Donald Trump put on a show that may have changed America, yet again. It involved an overture to the nation, a physical attack on Americans and a Bible.
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Shant Shahrigian / New York Daily News:
De Blasio staffers demand ‘radical change from mayor’ in open letter: read full text — Two-hundred thirty-six current and former staffers for Mayor de Blasio signed an open letter calling on him to live up to the promises of reform that initially drew them to work for him. Read about the effort here.
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