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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show Loses Disney & Other Advertisers Over George Floyd Killing & Black Lives Matter POV — Tucker Carlson may have one of the most watched shows on cable news, but the Fox News Channel host is losing advertisers - again. — Whereas in 2018, over 20 companies yanked …
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Know The Signs: How to tell if your grandparent has become an antifa agent — Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed.
ABC News:
As Trump struggles to respond to crises, internal polling instills fear in advisers: Sources — Some advisers say the president needs a course correction before November. — One week ago President Donald Trump met with advisers from his 2020 re-election campaign, who greeted him with bad news.
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Mediaite, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and Breitbart
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Senate Armed Services on collision course with Trump over Confederate names — The Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday voted to require the Pentagon to rename military bases and other assets named after Confederate generals, a move that puts the Republican-led panel on a collision course with the White House.
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New York Times, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Defense One, Fox News and Task & Purpose
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
LeBron James and Other Stars Form a Voting Rights Group — “This is the time for us to finally make a difference,” the N.B.A. superstar said of the new group, which will aim to protect African-Americans' voting rights. — WASHINGTON — The N.B.A. superstar LeBron James and a group …
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Bloomberg, New York Post, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Axios and Deadline
Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
'I can't breathe,' Oklahoma man tells police before dying. 'I don't care,' officer responds. — Newly released body camera footage from an arrest in Oklahoma City last year shows a suspect saying “I can't breathe” before he died at a hospital. — In the May 20, 2019 footage …
Laura A. Bischoff / daytondailynews:
Lawmaker asks if ‘colored population’ not washing their hands as well as others behind COVID rates — During a hearing on whether to declare racism a public health crisis, state Sen. Steve Huffman, R-Tipp City, asked if “the colored population” is hit harder by the coronavirus because perhaps …
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Washington Post, The Hill and Raw Story
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Christopher F. Rufo / City Journal:
Anarchy in Seattle … Anarchy in Seattle — Antifa-affiliated activists seize control of a city neighborhood and declare an “autonomous zone.” — The Social Order — Seattle's hard-Left secessionist movement has claimed its first territory: six blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
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Rod Dreher, New York Post, Just The News, Power Line, MyNorthwest.com, The American Spectator, The College Fix and Althouse
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Mike Baker / New York Times:
Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle's ‘Autonomous Zone’
Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle's ‘Autonomous Zone’
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The Hill, MyNorthwest.com, The Gateway Pundit and Contemptor
Mike Baker / New York Times:
‘Take Back Your City’ From Protesters, Trump Tells Seattle Mayor
‘Take Back Your City’ From Protesters, Trump Tells Seattle Mayor
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Talking Points Memo, Redstate and Gizmodo
Michael Wilson / New York Times:
Why Are So Many N.Y.P.D. Officers Refusing to Wear Masks at Protests? — Though the city is recording hundreds of new coronavirus cases each week and some officers have died, many are not heeding instructions to cover their faces. — Riot helmets, ballistic vests, shields, batons …
The Economist:
Estimated electoral college votes — Our model is updated every day and combines state and national polls with economic indicators to predict a range of outcomes. The midpoint is the estimate of the electoral-college vote for each party on election day. — Chance of winning each state
Associated Press:
Jefferson Davis statue torn down in Richmond, Virginia — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A statue of Jefferson Davis was torn down along Richmond, Virginia's famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday night by protesters. — The statue of the president of the Confederacy was toppled shortly before 11 p.m …
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Associated Press, Just The News and The Hill
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
HISTORY! Congress Poised to Get Its First QAnon Believer — Barring the unexpected, Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to be elected the next representative from Georgia's 14th district. And boy does she have some wild ideas. — A believer in a conspiracy theory the FBI classifies …
CNN:
Coronavirus deaths are expected to go down before a sharp rise in September, model shows — (CNN)The US surpassed 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases as experts predicted Thursday that tens of thousands more people will get infected and die in the months ahead.
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New York Post, KRON4 and The Daily Caller
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CNN:
Noel Francisco to step down as US solicitor general, sources say — (CNN)US Solicitor General Noel Francisco is expected to resign from his role as the government's top lawyer before the Supreme Court in the coming days, according to two sources familiar with the move.
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New York Times
Jesse Reed / MSN:
NASCAR truck racer Ray Ciccarelli says he's quitting after Confederate flag ban — On Wednesday, NASCAR made a huge announcement regarding the Confederate flag. Then, driver Ray Ciccarelli made an announcement of his own. — Ciccarelli is a 50-year-old racer.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘Live P.D.’ Canceled By A&E Amid Ongoing Protests Against Police Brutality — EXCLUSIVE: A&E has canceled its flagship series and one of the highest-rated shows on basic cable. A week after Live P.D. was pulled in the wake of George Floyd's death, the reality series' has been canceled.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
A&E Canceling ‘Live PD’ Following Ongoing Protests Against Police Brutality
A&E Canceling ‘Live PD’ Following Ongoing Protests Against Police Brutality
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USA Today, Austin American-Statesman, Fox News, Rolling Stone and The Daily Dot
Rich Lowry / Politico:
A Presidency Is a Terrible Thing to Waste — President Trump is in the midst of a polling swoon largely of his own making. — Gallup has his approval rating at 39 percent, and his rating in the RealClearPolitics average is down to 42 percent — It's true that events have taken a hand …
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Raw Story
Jeff Pegues / CBS News:
Man who claimed George Floyd and Derek Chauvin “bumped heads” changes story — Editor's Note: This story and headline have been updated to reflect a new account from David Pinney, who previously said he worked with George Floyd and Derek Chauvin. — A man who worked at the same club …
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Bring Me The News, CNN, The Root, TheGrio, Fox News, Disrn and Instapundit
Courier-Journal:
Louisville police release the Breonna Taylor incident report. It's virtually blank — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nearly three months after Louisville Metro Police officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her South End apartment, the department has released the incident report from that night.
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Daily Kos, The Hill and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
‘He has to get back to his life’: Trump looks past crises to resume his routine — The United States is embroiled in disputes and anger: divided over how to restart the economy, anxious over fresh coronavirus spikes, and raging over police brutality and racial injustice.
The Daily Beast:
Lara Logan, the Fox ‘Investigative Journalist’ Who Keeps Falling for Antifa Hoaxes — TRUST, DON'T VERIFY — Fox News has repeatedly used Logan to lend credibility to its “antifa” coverage, but she seems to have trouble distinguishing between hoaxes and credible information.
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
House impeachment managers: Trump is as lawless and corrupt as ever — Adam Schiff (Calif.), Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Val Demings (Fla.), Sylvia Garcia (Tex.) and Jason Crow (Colo.) were the Democratic House managers in the impeachment trial of President Trump.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
A retired judge's sharp rebuke of William Barr confirms the worst
A retired judge's sharp rebuke of William Barr confirms the worst
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Townhall and The Crime Report
New York Times:
Aggressive Tactics by National Guard, Ordered to Appease Trump, Wounded the Military, Too — The world responded the evangelical guard the eyes of the world were gone. The National Guard. The actions that occurred this past week, were absolutely used to work.
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Raw Story
Mark McKinnon / Vanity Fair:
Democrats' Blue-Texas Fever Dream May Finally Become a Reality — A veteran Lone Star strategist sees recent polling as a four-alarm fire for Team Trump—but Biden's campaign shouldn't get too cocky. — Political pigs are flying. The latest polling suggests the race for the presidency …
CNN:
Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign is demanding CNN retract and apologize for a recent poll that showed him well behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
courthousenews.com:
Journalist Blinded in One Eye During Protest Sues Minneapolis Police Chief — MINNEAPOLIS (CN) — A journalist who was left permanently blind in one eye after she was hit with a projectile during recent protests in Minneapolis claims in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that the city …
J.K. Rowling:
J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues — This isn't an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it's time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity. I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Will Return to Campaign Trail With Rally in Tulsa — The president is set to hold his first rally since the coronavirus shuttered most of the country, with polls showing Joe Biden establishing a significant national lead over his rival. — WASHINGTON — President Trump will return …
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The Dispatch, Associated Press, Mediaite and Al Jazeera
Slate:
Donald Trump's Increasingly Elaborate Bid to Create His Own America — On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump, whose unsurprising character defects still never fail to surprise, tweeted a Russian-sourced conspiracy theory claiming that the 75-year-old peace activist who remains hospitalized …
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Mediaite, Axios and POLITICUSUSA
Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg:
Patagonia CEO Steps Down, Search Begins For a Successor — Patagonia is searching for a new chief executive officer to lead the company as it emerges alongside the rest of retail from a lengthy shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. — CEO Rose Marcario is leaving Patagonia after six years on the job …