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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 …
Discussion: Washington Post, Slate and Breitbart
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:
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 …
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.
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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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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.
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Washington Post:   Senate GOP unveils policing reform bill that would discourage, but not ban, tactics such as chokeholds …
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: The Hill
Arizona Republic:   ‘I am taken aback’: Here's why Arizona's COVID-19 trajectory is concerning
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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Kathleen Miller / Bloomberg:
GOP's Tom Cotton Says Twitter Threatened to Lock Account Over Tweet  —  Republican Senator Tom Cotton said a “low-level” Twitter Inc. employee called his office several weeks ago and threatened to permanently lock his account unless he deleted a tweet that advocated using the military …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Tom Cotton / Fox News:
Twitter tried to censor me - and they lost
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.
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 …
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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
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 …
CNN:
GOP senator: Proposal to remove Confederate names from military bases ‘picks on South unfairly’  —  (CNN)A Senate amendment to remove the names of Confederate leaders on military property “picks on the South unfairly,” a GOP senator said Tuesday, the latest sign that President Donald Trump's opposition …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, IJR, Mediaite and Fox News
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
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.
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.
New York Times:
Trump Administration Sues to Try to Delay Publication of Bolton's Book  —  The request comes a week before the highly anticipated memoir was set to be published.  —  The Trump administration sued the former national security adviser John R. Bolton on Tuesday to try to delay publication …
Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos and CNN
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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.
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
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 …
Discussion: Associated Press
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?
Harrison Grimwood Tulsa / Tulsa World:
COVID-19: Spike in new cases continues Tuesday, as Oklahoma reports another new high … Tuesday marked the highest single-day total yet in new COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma.  —  That count came on the heels of successive days in which the deadly disease has far exceeded peaks in April …
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 …
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
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 …
Tom Tradup / Townhall:
Chickens Fly the Coop at Voice of America  —  The unintentionally hysterical Washington Post headline said it all: “Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House.”  Post media reporter Paul Farhi apparenty has a different view of “strife” than the generally accepted one found in Funk & Wagnalls.
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 …
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: The Hill, Twitchy and Althouse
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.
Discussion: Washington Post, Mediaite and Fox News
 
 
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Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
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