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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 …
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Malachi Barrett / MLive.com:
Michigan pollster: Trump's Bible photo op caused immediate drop in support — President Donald Trump's support among Michigan voters took a sharp dive in polls taken immediately after protesters were forcefully removed so Trump could have his photo taken holding a Bible outside a historic church.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump has a point about the polls — As President Donald Trump tumbles in the polls and falls further behind Joe Biden, his campaign has returned to a familiar refrain: The polls are underestimating Trump's appeal again. — They have a point. — Pollsters aren't deliberately skewing …
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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 …
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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 …
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Ben Kesslen / NBC News:
Aunt Jemima brand to change name, remove image that Quaker says is ‘based on a racial stereotype’ — The Aunt Jemima brand of syrup and pancake mix will get a new name and image, Quaker Oats announced Wednesday, saying the company recognizes that “Aunt Jemima's origins are based on a racial stereotype.”
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Axios:
Scoop: Republican operatives launch pro-Biden super PAC — A group of prominent Republican operatives that includes former officials from the Trump and George W. Bush administrations are launching a super PAC to turn out GOP voters for Joe Biden in November, organizers tell Axios.
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
New ad by anti-Trump GOP group uses clip of president's slow walk at West Point
New ad by anti-Trump GOP group uses clip of president's slow walk at West Point
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
An officer was gunned down. The killer was a ‘Boogaloo Boy’ using nearby peaceful protests as cover, feds say. — As protests gripped Oakland on May 29, a white van pulled up outside a federal courthouse. A door slid open, and a man peppered the two security officers outside with bullets, killing one and injuring the other.
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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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David Harsanyi / National Review:
NBC News' Attempt to Demonetize The Federalist is Illiberal Insanity
NBC News' Attempt to Demonetize The Federalist is Illiberal Insanity
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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.
USA Today:
Mark Zuckerberg: Historic Facebook campaign will boost voter registration, turnout and voices — The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other. It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic — and before the killing of George Floyd and so many others forced us yet again …
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Now You Can Opt Out of Seeing Political Ads on Facebook
Now You Can Opt Out of Seeing Political Ads on Facebook
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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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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump scrambles to suppress inconvenient information with Bolton book and coronavirus
Trump scrambles to suppress inconvenient information with Bolton book and coronavirus
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Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
Texas Governor Says ‘No Reason Today To Be Alarmed’ As Coronavirus Cases Set Record — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday the state's highest-ever number of new COVID-19 cases: 2,622. — He also reported a second record high: 2,518 people hospitalized with the virus in Texas, up from 2,326 a day earlier.
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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.
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Grant Schulte / Associated Press:
Nebraska Democrats renounce their Senate pick over comments — OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Democratic Party called on its U.S. Senate nominee to drop out of the race Tuesday after he made sexually repugnant comments about a campaign staffer in a group text with her and other staffers.
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Josh Christenson / Washington Free Beacon:
Nebraska Dem Refuses to Bow Out of Senate Race Amid Sexual Harassment Scandal
Nebraska Dem Refuses to Bow Out of Senate Race Amid Sexual Harassment Scandal
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Associated Press:
Beijing's new outbreak raises fears for rest of the world — BEIJING (AP) — China raised its emergency warning to its second highest level and canceled more than 60% of the flights to Beijing on Wednesday amid a new coronavirus outbreak in the capital — a sharp pullback for the nation …
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Pelosi asks House committees to require masks, setting up clash with GOP holdouts — Masks have become the norm inside the House of Representatives, where some politicians now embrace the novel coronavirus precaution with colorful odes to their home districts.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Is Trump Trying to Spread Covid-19? — Does he start each day wondering what expert advice to ignore next? — When the full record of the coronavirus in America is written, historians may argue that President Trump's biggest mistake was not what he failed to do in early 2020 …
Wired:
Facebook Groups Are Destroying America — They're built for privacy and community—and that's just what makes them dangerous. — The Covid-19 “infodemic” has laid bare how vulnerable the United States is to disinformation. The country is less than five months away from the 2020 presidential election …
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump turns to establishment players to offset his renegade instincts — Nearly two years after boasting that his gut tells him “more sometimes than anybody else's brain,” President Donald Trump is ditching his go-it-alone approach — hoping the instincts and experiences of seasoned Republican players …
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Raw Story
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump Midwest challenges escalate as Iowa goes from sure-bet to swing state — Iowa is back on the map as a top-tier battleground, with President Trump moving to rebuff surging presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with early television advertising and campaign appearances by Vice President Mike Pence.
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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 …
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 …
Margaret Harding McGill / Axios:
Exclusive: Hawley unveils bill targeting Big Tech's shield — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Wednesday will introduce legislation that would give consumers grounds to sue companies like Facebook or Twitter over accusations of selective censorship of political speech.
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Civil Rights Groups Push for Facebook Ad Boycott — Anti-Defamation League, NAACP and others seek protest of what they say is company's failure to make its platform a less-hostile place — Several American civil-rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP …
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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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 …
Tom Cotton / Fox News:
Twitter tried to censor me - and they lost — A Jacobin mob of left-wing thought police has risen up across our country. No statue, no movie, no cartoon is immune. Nor any op-ed. The New York Times, after publishing my op-ed about the Insurrection Act, capitulated to a woke mob of its employees.
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Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
Pressure Builds on Trump Administration to Name PPP Borrowers — SBA faces demands from government auditors, media companies and Democratic and GOP lawmakers — WASHINGTON—Pressure is building on the Trump administration to disclose the names of borrowers that received loans through …
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.
Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Tucker Carlson Is Most-Watched Host In Cable News For Last Week — With an average total audience of four million viewers, Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson finished the week of June 8 through June 14 as the most-watched host in all of cable news, despite the decision by some advertisers …
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
Madeline Holcombe / CNN:
Florida, Arizona and Texas report record number of daily Covid-19 cases this week — 16 friends get virus after night out. Hear their warning. — (CNN)Loosening restrictions and increasing public gatherings may make it seem as though the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is over …
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Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Mississippi official: Black people ‘dependent’ since slavery — JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After rejecting a proposal to move a Confederate monument, a white elected official in Mississippi said this week that African Americans “became dependent” during slavery and as a result, have had a harder time …
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New York Times
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 …
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