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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.
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 …
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.”
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
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?
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 …
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: KEYT-TV
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.
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
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘We just need a win’: The left unites to take down Eliot Engel
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
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
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Senate Republicans unveil their police reform bill  —  Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and other Senate Republicans introduced Wednesday their police reform bill that encourages departments to ban chokeholds through the use of federal grants and requires officers to report uses of force and no-knock warrants.
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
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Washington Post:
Senate GOP unveils policing reform bill that would discourage, but not ban, tactics such as chokeholds …
Discussion: The Root
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
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.”
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.
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 …
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 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 …
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
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 …
 
 
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Kathleen Miller / Bloomberg:
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
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Harrison Grimwood Tulsa / Tulsa World:
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