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9:45 AM ET, June 14, 2020

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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: The Hill and Raw Story
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
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Tulsa World:
Tulsa Health Department director ‘wishes’ Trump rally would be postponed as local COVID cases surge  —  Expressing concerns about COVID-19's increasing spread, the Tulsa City-County Health Department's director said he wishes the campaign rally for President Donald Trump at the BOK Center on June 20 would be pushed back to a later date.
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Associated Press:
Atlanta police chief resigns after fatal police shooting
Discussion: Axios and New York Times
Georgia Bureau of Investigation:
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Atlanta
TMZ.com:
Atlanta Police Fatally Shoot Black Man in the Back at Wendy's, New Video Released
Discussion: TheGrio
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 …
Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
Trump has trouble lifting glass of water and walking down stairs at West Point graduation  —  He's trembling again.  —  President Trump struggled to lift a glass of water Saturday during his speech to U.S. Military Academy graduates at West Point.  —  Trump started to lift the glass …
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: Trump greeted by silence after telling West Point cadets it's his birthday on Sunday
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
The White House:
Remarks by President Trump at the 2020 United States Military Academy at West Point Graduation Ceremony
Discussion: Informed Comment
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
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.
Washington Post:
Lafayette Square clash, still reverberating, becomes an iconic episode in Donald Trump's presidency  —  President Trump, besieged by a long season of crisis, wanted to create an iconic moment.  —  Less than one hour after federal authorities forcibly removed peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square …
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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.
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Fox Runs Monty Python Parody Post From Reddit as Example of ‘Infighting’ at CHAZ Protest Area in Seattle  —  On Friday night, Fox News put on screen an image of a Reddit post that played off a famous Monty Python bit, mistaking it for a genuine message of discontent from among those at the so-called “autonomous zone” in Seattle.
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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
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 …
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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
'To Say That She's An Abusive Figure Is An Understatement': At ABC News, Toxicity Thrives
Discussion: nabj.org and Deadline
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 …
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
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
A Reckoning at Condé Nast  —  “It's hard to be a person of color at this company,” a staff member said.  In response to an uprising, Anna Wintour and the chief executive, Roger Lynch, offered apologies.  —  This was supposed to be Condé Nast's year.
Allen Silkin / Gingrich 360:
The Biden-Schumer-Pelosi Machine: The First Year … Newt's Latest Podcasts:  —  Newt's World Episode 86: The War Against America - Part 1: The Radical Left  —  We are facing a crisis in America with enormous decisions facing all of us.  From the pandemic from China, to a government imposed shutdown …
Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
The real Ferguson Effect: Police accountability at last  —  The police missed their chance to police themselves.  The politicians missed their chance to police the police.  And for three weeks, the people have taken to the streets to hold the politicians and the police to the decades-overdue accounts …
 
 
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
It's Trump's Revolution
Michael Vasquez / Chronicle of Higher Education:
In Some States This Fall, Masks at Public Colleges Will Be ‘Encouraged’ but Not Required
New York Times:
Rage and Promises Followed Ferguson, but Little Changed
BBC:
Polish election: Andrzej Duda says LGBT ‘ideology’ worse than communism
Washington Post:
Spate of new research supports wearing masks to control coronavirus spread
Washington Post:
Ignited by public protests, American newsrooms are having their own racial reckoning
VVNG.com:
Sheriff's Department says foul play not suspected after Black man found hanging in tree near Victorville City Library
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
Hundreds pack St. Marks Place to drink, party despite coronavirus
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Retired NYPD spokesman says ‘we killed Eric Garner’ in emotional post
Discussion: Raw Story
Hotair:
Josh Hawley: I'll Offer An Amendment To Block Warren's Effort To Rename Bases Named After Confederate Soldiers
Melissa Chan / South China Morning Post:
In Brazil's Amazon, China is buyer, trader, lender and builder
The Guardian:
Dr Amy Acton resigns amid backlash against Ohio's lockdown after leading coronavirus fight
Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times:
The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a tidal wave of plastic waste
CNN:
These lifelong Republicans may vote for Biden come November
Discussion: HuffPost
Tampa Bay Times:
St. Pete bars the Galley, Park & Rec and the Avenue Eat + Drink close after employees test positive for COVID-19
 

 
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Richard Deitsch / New York Times:
Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

 
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