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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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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.
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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 …
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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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘Of course not’: Fauci says he personally wouldn't attend Trump's Tulsa rally, citing coronavirus
‘Of course not’: Fauci says he personally wouldn't attend Trump's Tulsa rally, citing coronavirus
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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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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.
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.
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Michael Tesler / FiveThirtyEight:
Republicans And Democrats Agree On The Protests But Not Why People Are Protesting
Republicans And Democrats Agree On The Protests But Not Why People Are Protesting
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CNBC:
Texas coronavirus hospitalizations surge 11% in a single day — The number of people sickened with Covid-19 across Texas' hospitals hit a new high Wednesday, surging about 11% in a single day. — The total Wednesday marks the eighth new high in the state in less than two weeks.
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Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
Texas Governor Says ‘No Reason Today To Be Alarmed’ As Coronavirus Cases Set Record
Texas Governor Says ‘No Reason Today To Be Alarmed’ As Coronavirus Cases Set Record
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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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Theodore J. Boutrous Jr / Washington Post:
Why Trump's lawsuit against John Bolton will fail — Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. is a partner in the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and specializes in First Amendment law. — The Trump administration's lawsuit against John Bolton is a paper tiger, designed for a showy roar of outrage but with little prospect of any real bite.
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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 …
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Raw Story
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
Monday, June 15 Scoreboard: Tucker Carlson Had the Most-Watched Show in All of Prime-Time TV
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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
Florida, Arizona and Texas report record number of daily Covid-19 cases this week
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
EBay's Former PR Chief Is ‘Executive 2’ in Cyberstalking Indictment — Six employees allegedly cyberstalked newsletter proprietors — Former EBay CEO, ousted last year, is said to be ‘Executive 1’ — EBay Inc.'s former communications chief is “Executive 2” in a federal indictment …
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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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.
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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 …
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Axios
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 …
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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Twitter Tried To Ban Tom Cotton For Demanding Rule Of Law During Riots
Twitter Tried To Ban Tom Cotton For Demanding Rule Of Law During Riots
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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.
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 …
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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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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 …
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 …
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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.
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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
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 …
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.
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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.
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 …