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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.
Kelsey Tamborrino / Politico:
Oklahoma senator explains change in date of Trump rally
Oklahoma senator explains change in date of Trump rally
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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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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 …
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 …
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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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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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Ben Carson says shooting of Rayshard Brooks is “not clear-cut” like Floyd killing
Ben Carson says shooting of Rayshard Brooks is “not clear-cut” like Floyd killing
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
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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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Vanessa McCray / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Atlanta police chief resigns
BREAKING: Atlanta police chief resigns
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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.
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.
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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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 …
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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.
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
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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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 …
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Sen. Tim Scott says a ‘path forward’ on police reform in Congress can be found — WASHINGTON — Sen. Tim Scott, the South Carolina Republican leading his party's legislative charge to address police reform in the wake of nationwide protests over a string of killings of Black Americans by police …
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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 …