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Washington Post:
NOAA leaders violated agency's scientific integrity policy, Hurricane Dorian ‘Sharpiegate’ investigation finds — NOAA does not intend to dole out punishments despite evidence of wrongdoing. — In a long-awaited report, an investigation conducted on behalf of the National Oceanic …
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New York Times and Raw Story
Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Donald Trump leads Joe Biden by 1 point in tight contest for president — Four years after Republican Donald Trump decisively won Iowa and the presidency, the state appears to be a toss-up as he seeks re-election this November, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.
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David Coletto / Abacus Data:
Biden ahead by 14 among registered voters; Trump approval below 40%
Biden ahead by 14 among registered voters; Trump approval below 40%
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POLITICUSUSA
Tulsa World:
Tulsa World editorial: This is the wrong time and Tulsa is the wrong place for the Trump rally — President Donald Trump is coming to town this week for a campaign rally. — It will be his first since such events were suspended earlier this year because of the COVID-19 shutdown.
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Monica Alba / NBC News:
Trump rally attendees will have fewer safety measures than high-dollar donors — WASHINGTON — Top Republicans donors at President Donald Trump's two recent fundraisers had to have tested negative for the coronavirus, fill out a wellness questionnaire and pass a temperature check to be near him …
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Associated Press, Fox News, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, IJR, Raw Story, The Hill and Redstate
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Trump campaign says all Tulsa rally attendants will be provided with masks
Trump campaign says all Tulsa rally attendants will be provided with masks
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Redstate, The Gateway Pundit and Gizmodo
ABC News:
Trump administration expected to attempt to block John Bolton's book: Sources — A lawsuit seeking an injunction could be filed as soon as today, sources say. — Just a week before the much-awaited book by President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton is set to go on sale …
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Politico, Associated Press, The American Independent, Deadline, Axios, Patterico's Pontifications, Mediaite, IJR, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Bloomberg, Raw Story and The Guardian
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump claims Bolton will have “very strong criminal problem” if he publishes book
Trump claims Bolton will have “very strong criminal problem” if he publishes book
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The Hill
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Top Voice of America officials resign after confirmation of Trump appointee
Top Voice of America officials resign after confirmation of Trump appointee
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Associated Press, The Hill and Deadline
Sarah Owermohle / Politico:
FDA ends emergency use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday withdrew emergency use authorizations for two coronavirus treatments that President Donald Trump promoted despite concerns about their safety and effectiveness.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Workers, Supreme Court Rules — The court said the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination, applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. — The Supreme Court ruled Monday …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court Just Tanked Trump's Anti-Trans Agenda
The Supreme Court Just Tanked Trump's Anti-Trans Agenda
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Media Matters for America, The Stranger and Mother Jones
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justices rule gay workers protected from job discrimination
Justices rule gay workers protected from job discrimination
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Washington Post, NBC News, The Daily Beast, Raw Story, Politico, United We Dream, Daily Kos, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Greg Evans / Deadline:
Jon Stewart Says His Biggest ‘Daily Show’ Regret Is Legacy Of “Evisceration Expectation” — Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart says he regrets his show's taking part in what he calls “the evisceration expectation” - inviting political opponents like Bill O'Reilly onto the show and giving in to the …
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David Marchese / New York Times:
Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In
Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In
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Axios, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, Breitbart, The Wrap and Rolling Stone
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
N.Y.P.D. Disbands Plainclothes Units Involved in Many Shootings — The commissioner is reassigning about 600 officers from anti-crime teams that targeted violent crime and illegal guns. — The New York police commissioner announced on Monday that he was disbanding the Police Department's anti-crime units …
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NBC New York:
NYPD Eliminating Plainclothes Anti-Crime Units in Move Toward More Community Policing
NYPD Eliminating Plainclothes Anti-Crime Units in Move Toward More Community Policing
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Townhall
Christopher Robbins / Gothamist:
De Blasio's Out Sick With Symptoms Associated With Coronavirus. Why Isn't He Getting Tested?
De Blasio's Out Sick With Symptoms Associated With Coronavirus. Why Isn't He Getting Tested?
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Summit News, Redstate, National Review, Spectator USA, Twitchy and Instapundit
David Siders / Politico:
'We're thinking landslide': Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection — By most conventional indicators, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming a one-term president. The economy is a wreck, the coronavirus persists, and his poll numbers have deteriorated.
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Power Line, Washington Post and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
U.S. National Pride Falls to Record Low — WASHINGTON, D.C. — American pride has continued its downward trajectory reaching the lowest point in the two decades of Gallup measurement. The new low comes at a time when the U.S. faces public health and economic crises brought …
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Washington Examiner, Big League Politics, The Federalist, Breitbart, The Hill, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA and Axios
BuzzFeed News:
“The Black Lives Matter Foundation” Raised Millions. It's Not Affiliated With The Black Lives Matter Movement. — Employees of Apple, Google, and Microsoft have raised millions of dollars for the Black Lives Matter Foundation thinking it's the international racial justice movement seeking to end police brutality.
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Snopes.com, Daily Kos, FiveThirtyEight and The Guardian
Greg B. Smith / THE CITY:
NYC COVID-19 Contact Tracers Not Asking About George Floyd Protest Participation, Despite Fears of New Virus Wave — Protesters laid down on Flatbush Avenue in honor of George Floyd, May 31, 2020. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY — Over the two last weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio and others …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Backs Eliot Engel, in Her First House Primary Endorsement of 2020 — Mr. Engel, a longtime New York representative, is trying to fend off a serious challenge from his left by Jamaal Bowman, who has been endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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The Hill
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CNN:
Voice of America top officials resign as Trump-appointed CEO takes over international network — New York (CNN Business)Two top officials at Voice of America resigned on Monday as an appointee of President Trump prepares to take control of the international network and other US federally-funded media operations.
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
In major victory for California, Supreme Court rejects Trump's challenge to state sanctuary law — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the Trump administration's challenge to a California “sanctuary” law, leaving intact rules that prohibit law enforcement officials from aiding federal agents …
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Los Angeles Magazine, Daily Kos and POLITICUSUSA
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court passes up challenges from gun groups on laws they say violate Second Amendment — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up new cases for next term that gun rights groups claimed denied Second Amendment rights. — The court did not accept a batch of nearly a dozen cases …
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NBC News, USA Today, Associated Press, LifeNews.com, Breitbart, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller and Vanity Fair
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John T Bennett Washington / The Independent:
Trump dismisses uptick in US coronavirus cases and suggests a ‘stop’ to testing — President: 'If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any' … Donald Trump is blaming an uptick in coronavirus cases and hospitalisations solely on an increase in testing rather than his push …
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POLITICUSUSA
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Touted the Economy's COVID Resilience While His Top Aide Dumped His Stocks — Former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney sold up to $550,000 in securities the same day that his boss declared that the “economy is doing fantastically.” — As the novel coronavirus began to tank the stock market …
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Raw Story
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
Has The American Left Lost Its Mind? … Matt Taibbi, a journalist whose writing I enjoy and whose recent book Hate Inc. is worth reading, has written a J'accuse essay arguing that “the American left has lost its mind.” As the editor of one of the top five or six magazines of the American Left—okay, maybe top 10?
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The Nation, Fox News and Gabe Schneider
Helaine Olen / Washington Post:
Trump has finally lost control of his narrative. Voters are ready to see him canceled. — When it comes to both business and politics, President Trump has repeatedly defied predictions of doom. He has survived multiple business bankruptcies, and he remains in the White House despite a haze of embarrassment and scandal.
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The Mahablog
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
New questions about Trump's ugly Bible stunt hint at some dark truths — White House image-makers often strive to create iconic moments for presidents, but sometimes history refuses to cooperate. George W. Bush's “Mission Accomplished” speech on an aircraft carrier, for instance …
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Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Tech Firms Are Spying on You. In a Pandemic, Governments Say That's OK. — Location-tracking companies were under fire from privacy advocates, but now officials are using them to monitor populations as the economy reopens — While an undergraduate at the University of Virginia …
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Arrested for Waving Rainbow Flag, a Gay Egyptian Takes Her Life — Charged with “inciting debauchery,” Sarah Hegazi was jailed and tortured. — CAIRO — When the openly gay frontman of a hugely popular Lebanese pop group strutted onto the stage of a Cairo summer festival in 2017 …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
The Fed says it is going to start buying individual corporate bonds — The Federal Reserve said Monday it will start buying individual corporate bonds. — Previously, the central bank had been buying only ETFs and had said that it would be buying individual issuance on the primary market.
John McCormack / National Review:
Alito Warns SCOTUS Decision Is a Threat to Religious Liberty — In response to Alito Dissents: This Isn't Textualism — More from Justice Alito's dissent: — Briefs filed by a wide range of religious groups—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—express deep concern that the position now adopted by the Court …
Lizzy Acker / Oregonian:
Protesters pull down Thomas Jefferson statue in front of Portland high school — Sunday night protesters tore down a statue of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States who also owned over 600 slaves during his lifetime, outside his namesake high school in Northeast Portland.
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