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1:25 PM ET, June 14, 2020

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Associated Press:
Trump rally called ‘dangerous move’ in age of coronavirus  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — After months away from the campaign trail, President Donald Trump plans to rally his supporters this coming Saturday for the first time since most of the country was shuttered by the coronavirus.
Discussion: NBC News and WGN-TV
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Tulsa World:   Tulsa Health Department director ‘wishes’ Trump rally would be postponed as local COVID cases surge
Kelsey Tamborrino / Politico:
Oklahoma senator explains change in date of Trump rally
Discussion: The Hill, TheGrio and The Daily Caller
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump tries to explain his slow and unsteady walk down a ramp at West Point  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump late Saturday tried to explain his slow and unsteady walk down a ramp at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which had generated concern and mockery on social media …
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
Trump has trouble lifting glass of water and walking down stairs at West Point graduation
Discussion: Mediaite
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Know His Polls Are Terrible—And Tell Him Otherwise  —  The re-election campaign is increasingly divided between the realist and the wishful thinkers.  —  This past week, Donald Trump's campaign did what one senior aide on the president's 2020 team described to The Daily Beast as the …
Discussion: Raw Story
Talk Business & Politics:
Poll: Independents dissatisfied with Trump, Cotton; Biden competitive in Arkansas  —  President Donald Trump and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are struggling with independent voters in Arkansas less than five months before Election Day.  —  A new survey from Talk Business & Politics-Hendrix College shows …
detroitnews:
Trump supporters burn Michigan absentee ballot applications  —  Walker, Mich. — People burned letters informing them that they can vote by absentee ballot in future elections during a protest near Grand Rapids.  —  The applications were burned Friday during an event called Operation Incinerator outside the DeltaPlex Arena in Walker.
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Ben Carson says shooting of Rayshard Brooks is “not clear-cut” like Floyd killing
Discussion: The Hill and WSB-TV
Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Theresa Greenfield leads Joni Ernst in tight race for U.S. Senate  —  Fresh off a four-way primary race that drew millions in outside spending, Democrat Theresa Greenfield leads Republican Sen. Joni Ernst by 3 percentage points in Iowa's hotly contested U.S. Senate race, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
New York Times:
Coronavirus Cases Spike Across Sun Belt as Economy Lurches into Motion  —  Arizona, Texas and Florida are reporting their highest case numbers yet.  As of Saturday, coronavirus cases were climbing in 22 states amid reopenings.  —  CHICAGO — The warning has echoed ominously for weeks from epidemiologists …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Rep. Denver Riggleman ousted in Virginia GOP convention  —  Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.), who became a target of conservatives after officiating a same-sex wedding last year, was ousted Saturday by GOP voters in a drive-thru district convention.  —  Convention-goers picked Bob Good …
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Amy Friedenberger / Richmond Times-Dispatch:   Challenger Bob Good ousts Rep. Denver Riggleman at 5th District GOP nominating convention
VVNG.com:
Sheriff's Department says foul play not suspected after Black man found hanging in tree near Victorville City Library  —  VICTORVILLE, Calif. (VVNG.com) — The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said foul play is not suspected in the death of a Black man who was found hanging in a tree in Victorville.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Questions Raised About Second Black Man Found Hanging From Tree
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Kevin Vaughan / KUSA-TV:
Roofing company workers forced onto ground, held at gunpoint by man who thought they were Antifa  —  Felony charges are possible in wake of the incident in a Loveland neighborhood.  A victim was a CSU football player.  —  LOVELAND, Colo. — A Loveland man faces felony charges …
Discussion: New York Post
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
It's Trump's Revolution  —  His supporters wanted a bulwark against liberalism.  But his failed presidency is pushing the country to the left.  —  In 1804, the Corsican upstart Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself as France's emperor.  His mother, born Letizia Ramolino, did not attend the coronation.
Haaretz:
Trump Boosts Georgia Candidate Who Peddles Antisemitic, QAnon Conspiracy Theories and Posed With a neo-Nazi  —  ‘A big winner,’ Trump said in a tweet Friday attached to a story on a pro-Trump website reporting on Marjorie Taylor Greene's primary result in Georgia's heavily Republican 14th District
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:
ABC News executive placed on administrative leave after reports surface of insensitive, racist statements  —  Barbara Fedida, a senior ABC News executive in charge of talent, is on administrative leave after a HuffPost report that detailed an alleged extensive history of making racist remarks …
NBC News:
Buffalo officials ask state to probe firing of Black officer who stopped white colleague's chokehold  —  The city council in Buffalo, New York, voted this week to call on State Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the 2008 firing of Black officer Cariol Horne, who stopped a white colleague …
Los Angeles Times:
Airline passengers brought COVID-19 into LAX in March — and no one warned the public  —  When American Airlines flight 341 to Los Angeles lifted off the tarmac at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on a cloudy Thursday in mid-March, much of the country was already on coronavirus lockdown.
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
WATCH NOW: Police vehicle strikes protesters in Richmond  —  1 of 33  —  A Richmond police SUV drove up on a curb, through a crowd, striking multiple people who were blocking the vehicle's path during a protest at the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue on Saturday night.
Zev Shalev / Narativ:
Merchant of Death  —  EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein was a key member of a global arms trading network that sold weapons of war to the world's most ruthless leaders.  —  Of the many terms used to describe Jeffrey Epstein's tradecraft, international arms dealer rarely comes up in association with the late Billionaire pedophile.
Alexandra Phillips / Telegraph:
Make no mistake - BLM is a radical neo-Marxist political movement  —  The rapid spread of protests across the West under the Black Lives Matter banner has left a political breathlessness from Baltimore to Berlin.  Those in positions of authority are scrambling to show they are addressing endemic racism …
Axios:
James Clyburn: “Nobody is going to defund the police”  —  House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) pushed back on the idea of defunding the police on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday, insisting that “police have a role to play” and that the system can be restructured and reimagined in order to respond to the current crisis.
Discussion: The Hill
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
An American Spring of Reckoning  —  In death, George Floyd's name has become a metaphor for the stacked inequities of the society that produced them.  —  Consider for a moment how the events of May 25th through June 9th—the days of democratic bedlam in the streets, bracketed by the death …
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Scant evidence of antifa shows how sweeping the protests for racial justice have become  —  In the two weeks that saw an uprising against racial injustice and police brutality spread from the streets of Minneapolis to cities across America, the specter of violent, left-wing militants invoked …
Jeffrey Mervis / Science:
Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties  —  Some 54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of an ongoing investigation by the National Institutes of Health into the failure of NIH grantees to disclose financial ties to foreign governments.
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump loses 2 pivotal allies in his anti-kneeling crusade: NASCAR and the NFL  —  Both are vowing to stand up for racial justice in a way that could challenge the president's relationship with each organization.  —  President Donald Trump has long had two cherished American institutions standing beside …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Racial Justice Groups Flooded With Millions in Donations in Wake of Floyd Death
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / New York Times:
The End of Black Politics
Spencer Neale / Washington Examiner:
‘Hold these offenders accountable’: ATF offers $10K reward for couple wanted in connection with St. Paul fires
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Sen. Tim Scott says a ‘path forward’ on police reform in Congress can be found
Discussion: The Hill
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Stacey Abrams blasts Trump administration over actions and rhetoric regarding minority communities
Discussion: Breitbart
Washington Post:
As big corporations say ‘black lives matter,’ their track records raise skepticism
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
‘Threw Him Under the Bus’: NY Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger Laments Bennet's Ouster
Patrick Sharkey / Washington Post:
Cops prevent violence. But they aren't the only ones who can do it.
Discussion: Unfogged
 Earlier Items: 
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 6-14-20: Dr. Ben Carson, Stacey Abrams, Sen. James Lankford
Discussion: Politico
Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
A Reckoning at Condé Nast  —  “It's hard to be a person …
BBC:
Polish election: Andrzej Duda says LGBT ‘ideology’ worse than communism
Allen Silkin / Gingrich 360:
The Biden-Schumer-Pelosi Machine: The First Year
Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Retired NYPD spokesman says ‘we killed Eric Garner’ in emotional post
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Lafayette Square clash, still reverberating, becomes an iconic episode in Donald Trump's presidency
 

 
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