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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.
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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.
CNN:
Atlanta officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks has been terminated — (CNN)The Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks has been terminated, Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos told CNN Saturday. A second officer involved has been placed on administrative duty, Campos said.
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Associated Press:
Atlanta police chief resigns after fatal police shooting
Atlanta police chief resigns after fatal police shooting
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Axios and New York Times
Vanessa McCray / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Atlanta police chief resigns
BREAKING: Atlanta police chief resigns
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Shaddi Abusaid / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Man shot, killed by Atlanta police in Wendy's drive-thru
Man shot, killed by Atlanta police in Wendy's drive-thru
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Georgia Bureau of Investigation:
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Atlanta
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Atlanta
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NBC News:
Atlanta police officer involved in fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks fired as protests grow
Atlanta police officer involved in fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks fired as protests grow
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Atlanta police chief resigns after law enforcement fatally shoots black man
Atlanta police chief resigns after law enforcement fatally shoots black man
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Axios, WAGA-TV, Power Line, The Hill and TheGrio
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.
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.
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 …
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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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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: Trump greeted by silence after telling West Point cadets it's his birthday on Sunday
WATCH: Trump greeted by silence after telling West Point cadets it's his birthday on Sunday
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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 — CAMPBELL COUNTY — Challenger Bob Good has ousted Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-5th in a rancorous drive-thru convention for the party's nomination. — Voting in the all-day convention at a church …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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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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.
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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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
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 …
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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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News publishes digitally altered and misleading images of Seattle demonstrations
Fox News publishes digitally altered and misleading images of Seattle demonstrations
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New York Times, Axios, Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »
Jack Arnholz / ABC News:
Police should ban chokeholds: Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. — Lankford appeared on “This Week” ahead of the GOP releasing a policing bill. — Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said on ABC's “This Week” that there should be a national ban on chokeholds, the restraint police used when George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis.
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