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7:50 AM ET, June 17, 2020

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The Daily Beast:
Trump Considers Suing His Niece Over Her Tell-All Book, Saying She Signed an NDA  —  The president has long favored using legal threats to stop people from writing bad books about him.  Going after his own family may be next.  —  This past Sunday, news broke that the president's niece …
Adele-Momoko Fraser / NBC News:
Google bans two websites from its ad platform over protest articles  —  Google has banned two far-right websites from its advertising platform after research revealed the tech giant was profiting from articles pushing unsubstantiated claims about the Black Lives Matter protests.
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The Daily Beast:
Fauci: No Need for a Second Lockdown for COVID-19  —  The infectious-diseases specialist doesn't think we'll have another New York City.  But he's nervous about re-openings and said he personally wouldn't go to Trump's rallies.  —  With top officials in the Trump White House declaring …
Discussion: Mediaite and Axios
Mike Pence / Wall Street Journal:
There Isn't a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’  —  With testing, treatments and vaccine trials ramping up, we are far better off than the media report.  —  In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the alarm bells over a “second wave” of coronavirus infections.  Such panic is overblown.
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Politico:
Mike Pence's abrupt Covid shift  —  VEEP IN THOUGHT — Since February there has been a rift inside the White House between the scientists and the politicians over how to contain the spread of coronavirus.  Anthony Fauci has been the consistent advocate of a forceful response and an opponent …
Discussion: The Hill, Pajiba and Raw Story
montgomeryadvertiser:
Montgomery City Council votes down mask ordinance, sends doctors out in disgust  —  Jackson Hospital pulmonologist William Saliski cleared his throat as he started describing the dire situation created by the coronavirus pandemic in Montgomery to its City Council before they voted on a mandatory mask ordinance.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Files Breach-of-Contract Suit Against Ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton  —  Suit claims Bolton will compromise national security by publishing book it says contains classified information  —  The U.S. on Tuesday filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against former national security …
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Washington Post:
Justice Department asks court to order Bolton to stop the release of his book
Los Angeles Times:
Suspect in killing of 2 Bay Area cops tied to right-wing Boogaloo group, prosecutors allege  —  An Air Force sergeant suspected of killing a Santa Cruz County sheriff's sergeant will be charged, along with a Millbrae man, in the fatal shooting of a federal security officer last month in downtown Oakland, federal officials said Tuesday.
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Tess Owen / VICE:   2 Men Linked to ‘Boogaloo’ Movement Were Just Charged in the Murder of a Federal Officer
NBC News:
Alleged ‘Boogaloo’ extremist charged in killing of federal officer during George Floyd protest
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New York Post
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Biden opens 13-point advantage as Trump popularity drops to seven-month low: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has opened up a 13-point lead over President Donald Trump - the widest margin this year - according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll …
Discussion: The Hill
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump has a point about the polls
Discussion: Mediaite, Slate and Breitbart
Mayor GT Bynum:
Earlier this year, Tulsans collectively undertook great sacrifice to “flatten the curve”.  We did this to slow the spread of COVID-19 and allow our local health care system the time it needed to become properly equipped for handling a longer term pandemic.  —  We acted early and we were successful.
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Washington Post:
Judge denies Oklahoma residents' bid to block Trump's rally because of coronavirus fears
Discussion: The Hill
CNN:
Buffalo protester Martin Gugino has a fractured skull and cannot walk  —  (CNN)Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old protester who was pushed by two Buffalo, New York, police officers earlier this month, has a fractured skull and is not able to walk, his lawyer said in a statement provided to CNN on Monday.
Discussion: The Intercept and Gothamist
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Arizona Republic:
‘I am taken aback’: Here's why Arizona's COVID-19 trajectory is concerning  —  From the perspective of Arizona emergency room physician Dr. Murtaza Akhter, the COVID-19 pandemic here could be even worse than the state's numbers are showing.  —  “I am taken aback.
Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou / Bloomberg:
Trump Campaign Asks Donors to Convention With $1 Million Package  — Top donors get broad access at Jacksonville convention  — Pence scheduled to headline reception before Tulsa rally  —  President Donald Trump's presidential campaign is enticing big-spending donors …
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Gabby Orr / Politico:   Trump turns to establishment players to offset his renegade instincts
Addy Baird / BuzzFeed News:
A Woman And 15 Of Her Friends Have The Coronavirus After One Night Out  —  They had been “doing everything the right way,” the woman told a local news outlet.  “And then the first night we go out, Murphy's Law, I guess.”  —  Copy … A Florida woman and 15 of her friends …
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Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department to Propose Limiting Internet Firms' Protections  —  The action follows President Trump's executive order seeking to weaken broad immunity enjoyed by Facebook, Twitter and other platforms  —  WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is set to propose a roll back of legal protections …
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
New ad by anti-Trump GOP group uses clip of president's slow walk at West Point  —  EXCLUSIVE: A Republican group that opposes President Trump's reelection is going up with a new ad that spotlights the president slowly walking down a ramp Saturday during his appearance at the U.S. Military Academy's commencement ceremony at West Point.
Tamar Lapin / New York Post:
Ex-Bumble Bee CEO gets 3 years for tuna price-fixing scheme  —  Now he'll be the one spending time in the can.  —  The former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods on Tuesday was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to fix the price of canned tuna.
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘We just need a win’: The left unites to take down Eliot Engel  —  Desperate for victory after watching the presidential nomination slip through their fingers, progressives have found a new cause to rally around.  —  Across the country, they're channeling their grief, volunteer muscle …
DW.COM:
Berlin authorities placed children with pedophiles for 30 years  —  The ‘Kentler Project’ in West Berlin routinely placed homeless children with pedophile men, assuming they'd make ideal foster parents.  A study has found the practice went on for decades.  —  Starting in the 1970s psychology …
James Stout / Popular Mechanics:
How to Topple a Statue Using Science  —  It hasn't been a great past few weeks for statues.  —  to  —  , people all over the world have been grappling with the  —  legacy of racism  —  by tossing their grappling hooks around the heads of  —  problematic monuments
Discussion: Twitchy and Althouse
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Lafayette Square could decide Trump's legacy — and election  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Charlottesville.  Helsinki.  The children in cages at the Mexican border.  —  And now Lafayette Square.  —  Only a few legacy-defining moments have clung to President Donald Trump, who often appears …
ABC News:
Facebook takes down Proud Boys, American Guard accounts connected to protests  —  The Proud Boys and American Guard are identified as hate groups by the SPLC.  —  Facebook executed a takedown Tuesday of social media accounts connected to two organizations the company considers to be hate groups …
Discussion: American Greatness
Media Matters for America:
Tucker Carlson assures his viewers they “are not crazy” for watching his show  —  Carlson: “Millions and millions of Americans agree with you.  You are not crazy.  Your views are not evil”
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Trump says Obama didn't reform policing.  But he did and then the president ditched it.  —  President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that his predecessor did not take action on reforming police in America — despite the fact that it was under Trump that several Obama-era reforms were scrapped.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Mom of Black teen killed by cop blasts Trump: 'I can't stand the lies!'  — The mother of an unarmed Black Pennsylvania teen who was fatally shot by a white police officer blasted President Donald Trump.  — Michelle Kenney, the mother of slain Antwon Rose II, called out Trump …
Discussion: TheBlaze
C. Ryan Barber / LAW.com:
DOJ's Jody Hunt, Head of Key Division Defending Trump in Court, to Step Down  —  “It has been the greatest honor and privilege of my professional career to have served together with you (and many before you) for more than two decades,” Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt wrote in a message to the Justice Department's civil division.
 
 
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Dismisses Criticism of Law Enforcement (Unless It's His)
Vijeta Uniyal / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
At Least 20 Indian Soldiers Killed in Border Clashes with China (Update)
Discussion: The Guardian, NBC News and Breitbart
Rebecca Hersher / NPR:
Scientists Warn Against Consumer Protection Nominee
Yancey Roy / Newsday:
Flanagan, NY Senate's top Republican, leaving early for Northwell
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney Mum on Splash Mountain Outcry
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon official who questioned Ukraine aid freeze resigns
Norman Oder / BKLYNER:
Brooklyn's Accidental New Town Square
Discussion: New York Times
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
McConnell ‘OK’ with removing Confederate names from bases
Discussion: Breitbart
Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed News:
A 17-Year-Old Who Organized A BLM Protest Had A Burning Cross Placed In His Yard, Cops Said
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
North Carolina Republican calls Black Lives Matter protesters ‘ignorant thugs’ …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
David Badash / Raw Story:
Franklin Graham fumes over SCOTUS ruling: My rights to fire LGBTQ people ‘are the freedoms our nation was founded on’
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Post
New York Times:
As Meat Plants Stayed Open to Feed Americans, Exports to China Surged