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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 …
Jon Jankowski / WKMG:
260 workers test positive for COVID-19 at Orlando International Airport  —  2,993 people have died from COVID-19 in the state  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Ron DeSantis said 260 workers at the Orlando International Airport have tested positive for the coronavirus after nearly 500 employees were tested.
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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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.
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.”
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
How Exactly Do You Catch Covid-19?  There Is a Growing Consensus  —  Surface contamination and fleeting encounters are less of a worry than close-up, person-to-person interactions for extended periods  —  Six months into the coronavirus crisis, there's a growing consensus about a central question: How do people become infected?
Jeff Timmer / The Bulwark:
Michigan May be a Nightmare for the GOP  —  The state party's transformation didn't start with Trump.  But his weak polling could plunge MIGOP into wrack and ruin.  —  Simon & Garfunkel sang “Michigan seems like a dream to me now” as they went off to look for America.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michael Tesler / FiveThirtyEight:
Republicans And Democrats Agree On The Protests But Not Why People Are Protesting
Discussion: The Daily Beast and InsideSources
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Cassandra Fairbanks ​Claims Antifa Attacked Her​.  Police Reports and Neighbors Say Otherwise  —  Cassandra Fairbanks and her right-wing media colleagues solicited nearly $25,000 ​in a fundraiser ​benefiting​ Fairbanks after she claimed she was targeted …
HuffPost:
Inside The Dangerous Online Fever Swamps Of American Police  —  Cops have a far-right media ecosystem of their own, where they post racist memes, spread disinformation and call for violence against antifa.  —  Around the time news broke on Monday afternoon that the New York City Police Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
Arizona Republic:
ICU bed use, ER visits hit new highs for Arizona COVID-19 cases  —  Arizona's daily coronavirus numbers climbed again Monday, continuing more than two weeks of high numbers of reported cases, deaths and hospitalizations.  —  The state reported 1,014 new cases Monday.
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Madeline Holcombe / CNN:
Florida, Arizona and Texas report record number of daily Covid-19 cases this week
Discussion: IJR and KEYT-TV
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 …
Discussion: Redstate
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A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
Monday, June 15 Scoreboard: Tucker Carlson Had the Most-Watched Show in All of Prime-Time TV
Discussion: Redstate
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia elections chief launches plan to avoid repeated problems  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger introduced proposals Wednesday to avoid another election debacle, calling for more voting locations, technical support and poll worker training.
Politico:
House Republican leaders condemn GOP candidate who made racist videos  —  The House's highest-ranking Republicans are racing to distance themselves from a leading GOP congressional candidate in Georgia after POLITICO uncovered hours of Facebook videos in which she expresses racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views.
Shruti Advani / Financial Times:
The awkward lessons of my luxury lockdown in Kensington  —  Pandemic shows us we owe the most to the people who surround and support us  —  All of us have had to put up with restrictions “of a kind that we have never seen before in peace or war”, as UK prime minister Boris Johnson put it.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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 …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Solicitor General Noel Francisco Announces Departure from Department of Justice  —  Solicitor General of the United States Noel Francisco announces his departure from the Department of Justice, effective as of July 3, 2020.  —  “Solicitor General Noel Francisco has represented …
Discussion: Axios
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Robby Soave / Reason:
NBC Said Google Is Demonetizing The Federalist for Spreading Fake News, Google Says the NBC Report Is Fake News  —  On Tuesday, NBC claimed that Google had made the decision to demonetize The Federalist after NBC's own News Verification Unit presented the search engine with evidence …
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
People of color account for majority of coronavirus infections, new CDC study says  —  WASHINGTON — African-Americans and Latinos are vastly overrepresented when it comes to coronavirus infections, according to an analysis released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday morning.
Discussion: Fox News
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 …
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 …
New York Times:
How Black N.Y.P.D. Officers Really Feel About the Floyd Protesters  —  Most officers of color share the protesters' mission to defeat racism, but the unrest has reminded the officers that they are still often seen as the enemy.  —  Edwin Raymond, a black lieutenant in the Police Department …
The Guardian:
Revealed: officer who killed Rayshard Brooks accused of covering up 2015 shooting  —  The Atlanta police officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks was accused of covering up an earlier shooting he and other officers participated in, according to a judge who reviewed the case.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Parker Molloy / Media Matters for America:
The myth of an objective press benefits the powerful at the expense of the people  —  The loss of “objectivity” in journalism can be a rise in egalitarianism  —  On Sunday, Fox News' MediaBuzz opened with host Howard Kurtz warning of “a serious threat to journalism.”
The Nation:
7 Candidates You Should Know on New York and Kentucky's Primary Ballots  —  From Jamaal Bowman in New York to Nima Kulkarni in Kentucky, voters have a robust class of progressive candidates on their June 23 ballots.  —  Vital Democratic primaries, many of them with national consequences, will take place next Tuesday, June 23.
Discussion: KEYT-TV
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 …
Jeremy Helligar / New York Post:
Is it time for the Dixie Chicks to rethink their name?  — Country Group Lady Antebellum Drops ‘Antebellum’ From Name  — Memorial Day Weekend Livestreams: Joan Baez Joins Dylan Birthday Tribute, Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach, an Andre Harrell Salute  — Dixie Chicks Nix Imminent Album Release, Postpone ‘Gaslighter’ Indefinitely
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
U.S. Department of the Treasury  —  For small businesses seeking direct relief from COVID-19, CLICK HERE to learn more about Paycheck Protection Loans.  —  Treasury Sanctions Investors Supporting Assad Regime's Corrupt Reconstruction Efforts  —  Designations target individuals …
Christine Stapleton / Palm Beach Post:
Trump golf club asks Palm Beach County for rent relief  —  In a June 5 letter to the county, finance director of Trump International Golf Club cited the “significant impact” caused by county's order shutting parks and golf courses during the pandemic.  —  President Donald Trump's golf club …
 
 
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A White House official said John Bolton's book contained no classified info.  Then Trump loyalists intervened.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Townhall and Reason
Issues & Insights:
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Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
Showtime Sets Post-Election Date For James Comey-Donald Trump Clash Series 'The Comey Rule …
USA Today:
What JK Rowling should know about a transgender woman like me: Every day in public is risky
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Senate Republicans unveil their police reform bill
Discussion: The Hill
Eli Clifton / Responsible Statecraft:
Taiwan funding of think tanks: Omnipresent and rarely disclosed
Peter Zimonjic / CBC News:
Trudeau's long campaign to join UN Security Council winds down as ambassadors vote
 Earlier Items: 
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
The Cruise Industry Is Donald Trump Personified
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Conservatives Panic Over Fake Antifa Threat to Blow Up the Alamo
Tom Tradup / Townhall:
Chickens Fly the Coop at Voice of America
Kathleen Miller / Bloomberg:
GOP's Tom Cotton Says Twitter Threatened to Lock Account Over Tweet
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Civil Rights Groups Push for Facebook Ad Boycott
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Is Trump Trying to Spread Covid-19?
Harrison Grimwood / Tulsa World:
COVID-19: Spike in new cases continues Tuesday, as Oklahoma reports another new high
Discussion: NPR, Raw Story, Fox News and CNN