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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump's Halting Walk Down Ramp Raises New Health Questions  —  The president also appeared to have trouble raising a glass of water to his mouth during a speech at West Point a day before he turned 74, the oldest a president has been in his first term.  —  President Trump faced new questions …
Discussion: Associated Press
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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 …
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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Harry Enten / CNN:
State polls show clear shift toward Democrats since protests began  —  (CNN)The gold standard Iowa Poll released Saturday night showed Democratic Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield with major momentum.  —  Forty-six percent of likely voters would vote for Greenfield if the election …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump aides scrambling to hide his ‘dumpster fire’ poll numbers to keep him from ‘flying into a rage’: report  —  According to a report from the Daily Beast, aides to Donald Trump are doing their best to keep him in the dark about his terrible poll numbers prior to November's selection out of fear of his wrath.
Harry Enten / CNN:   History says Trump's low approval rating is unlikely to move
Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Theresa Greenfield leads Joni Ernst in tight race for U.S. Senate
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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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Kelsey Tamborrino / Politico:
Oklahoma senator explains change in date of Trump rally  —  Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford said the president did not initially see it as disrespectful to hold his planned comeback rally on Juneteenth, a date which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
Discussion: The Hill, TheGrio and The Daily Caller
Tulsa World:
Tulsa Health Department director ‘wishes’ Trump rally would be postponed as local COVID cases surge
Discussion: Axios and The Guardian
Jack Arnholz / ABC News:
Police should ban chokeholds: Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
Talk Business & Politics:
Poll: Independents dissatisfied with Trump, Cotton; Biden competitive in Arkansas  —  President Donald Trump and U.S. 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 …
Discussion: The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
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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Associated Press:
GOP congressman who officiated gay wedding loses primary
Discussion: The Hill
Amy Friedenberger / Richmond Times-Dispatch:   Challenger Bob Good ousts Rep. Denver Riggleman at 5th District GOP nominating convention
CNN:
Virginia congressman who officiated same-sex wedding loses GOP nomination in drive-thru convention
Discussion: Mother Jones
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.
Voice of America:
VOA Director's Statement on CDC's Media Interview Policy Excluding VOA Journalists  —  We were shocked to read the internal CDC documents instructing the agency's media relations office to refuse media requests from “anyone associated with Voice of America,” citing White House tweets accusing VOA of spreading Chinese propaganda.
CNN:
Scores arrested after far-right groups target anti-racism protests in London and Paris  —  (CNN)More than 100 people were arrested in London on Saturday after violence broke out as far-right groups targeted anti-racism Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations.
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Alexandra Phillips / Telegraph:   Make no mistake - BLM is a radical neo-Marxist political movement
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Ben Carson says shooting of Rayshard Brooks is “not clear-cut” like Floyd killing  —  Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said on “Fox News Sunday” that the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta was “not clear-cut” like the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis …
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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 …
Discussion: Vox
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
ABC News:
Trump avoids tough questions on race, as White House pushes alternate reality: ANALYSIS  —  The president declared it “a great day for equality.”  —  For months, President Donald Trump and his White House advisers have pushed an alternate reality as the novel coronavirus spread …
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 …
Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
Cuomo threatens Manhattan, Hamptons shutdown over lack of social distancing  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday threatened to shut down Manhattan and the Hamptons again if residents don't adhere to the state's social distancing rules.  —  “We're not going to go back to that dark place …
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Questions Raised About Second Black Man Found Hanging From Tree  —  Ten days before Robert Fuller was found dead, another black man was found in similar circumstances 50 miles away.  His family says they think suicide is a “comfortable excuse.”  —  As hundreds of protesters gathered in Palmdale …
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.
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.
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.
 
 
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
Joe Biden considering ex-cop as veep, angering BLM activists
Discussion: The Guardian
Christopher Magan / Twin Cities:
Early test results show few protesters caught COVID-19
Beth Baumann / Townhall:
Why Civil Rights Attorney Leo Terrell ‘Stopped Drinking the Democratic Kool-Aid’
Discussion: Redstate
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump loses 2 pivotal allies in his anti-kneeling crusade: NASCAR and the NFL
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Scant evidence of antifa shows how sweeping the protests for racial justice have become
 Earlier Items: 
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
NBC News:
Buffalo officials ask state to probe firing of Black officer who stopped white colleague's chokehold
Washington Post:
As big corporations say ‘black lives matter,’ their track records raise skepticism
Jeffrey Mervis / Science:
Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties
Axios:
James Clyburn: “Nobody is going to defund the police”
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
An American Spring of Reckoning
Haaretz:
Trump Boosts Georgia Candidate Who Peddles Antisemitic, QAnon Conspiracy Theories and Posed With a neo-Nazi
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