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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Secret Service tells press to leave White House grounds in highly unusual move — (CNN)The US Secret Service on Monday evening told members of the White House press corps to immediately leave the White House grounds, a highly unusual decision that did not immediately come with an explanation.
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Washington Post:
D.C. police, protesters skirmish over removal of tents near White House — D.C. police and protesters engaged in a skirmish Monday afternoon as city officials attempted to clear out tents erected on a street near the White House as part of a protest after the killing of George Floyd.
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Watch Live: Protesters, police clash in Lafayette Square after trying to tear down Andrew Jackson statue — Police responded and quickly started clearing the crowd away from the statue using a bicycle barricade and deploying pepper spray. LIVE video in player below.
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Louis Casiano / Fox News:
DC protesters try tearing down Andrew Jackson statue at Lafayette Park, set up ‘BHAZ’ near White House
DC protesters try tearing down Andrew Jackson statue at Lafayette Park, set up ‘BHAZ’ near White House
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Protesters try to topple Andrew Jackson statue near White House
Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
St. John's Church Attacked — Again: ‘Black House Autonomous Zone’
St. John's Church Attacked — Again: ‘Black House Autonomous Zone’
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Brad Really S—t the Bed Saturday Night”: After Tulsa Catastrophe, Parscale—And Kushner—Is at the Top of Trump's Hit List — Trump is pondering putting Kushner antagonists atop the campaign—"We can't allow Jared's stupid disagreements to get in the way," he said—but the problem is likely at the top.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: House Judiciary prepares to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr — House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is preparing to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr for his testimony on July 2, a committee spokesperson confirmed to Axios. — Why it matters: The expected subpoena comes …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Key Democratic primaries for House in N.Y. and Senate in Kentucky — New York's coronavirus-delayed primary is Tuesday — and it has the potential to throw a wrench into the power structure in the Democratic-controlled House — while in Kentucky there's a Democratic battle for the right …
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Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Tuesday's Primaries to Test Progressive Democrats' Momentum
Tuesday's Primaries to Test Progressive Democrats' Momentum
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Washington Post:
Trump increasingly preoccupied with defending his physical and mental health — The early June meeting in the Cabinet Room was intended as a general update on President Trump's reelection campaign, but the president had other topics on his mind. — Trump had taken a cognitive screening test …
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Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Mike Pence and his wife Karen voted by mail in April from a mansion they haven't lived in for four years — Vice President Mike Pence and his wife mailed in their ballots for Indiana's June GOP primary, according to a copy of the state's voter files obtained by Insider.
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Two Trump campaign staffers who attended Tulsa rally test positive for coronavirus — Two members of a campaign advance team who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Oklahoma on Saturday have tested positive for the coronavirus, the campaign said Monday.
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Trump falsely accuses Obama of treason in latest unfounded attack on his predecessor — (CNN)President Donald Trump has falsely accused former President Barack Obama of committing treason in his latest unfounded accusation aimed at his predecessor. — Trump for months has publicly accused Obama …
Justice News:
U.S. Army Soldier Charged With Terrorism Offenses For Planning Deadly Ambush On Service Members In His Unit — U.S. Army Private Ethan Melzer Sent Sensitive U.S. Military Information to Members of a Neo-Nazi Group in an Attempt to Facilitate a “Mass Casualty” Attack on Melzer's Army Unit
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Politico:
Trump team weighs a CDC scrubbing to deflect mounting criticism — White House officials are putting a target on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, positioning the agency as a coronavirus scapegoat as cases surge in many states and the U.S. falls behind other nations that are taming the pandemic.
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Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
3 questions to watch for as Fauci, Redfield testify before House panel
3 questions to watch for as Fauci, Redfield testify before House panel
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Adela Suliman / NBC News:
Trump says China deal ‘intact’ hours after aide declares it ‘over’ — A trade deal worth $200 billion between China and the United States is “fully intact,” President Donald Trump said Monday night, just hours after his senior trade adviser rattled markets by saying the pact was “over.”
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Deadline:
Steve Bing Dies: Film Financier & Philanthropist Jumped From Century City Building, Authorities Say — Steve Bing, the film financier and philanthropist who backed hit movies from Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express and Beowulf to the Rolling Stones' Shine A Light concert movie, has died.
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Wesley Lowery / New York Times:
A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists — What's different, in this moment, is that the editors of our country's most esteemed outlets no longer hold a monopoly on publishing power. — It was a brief interaction, during the first weeks of my career.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bolton on a Trump second term: Be afraid — Inviting biological weapons attacks, withdrawing the U.S. from NATO and criminalizing political dissent: John Bolton tells Axios these are some of his fears about what could come to pass if President Trump is elected to a second term.
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Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Nearly all in US back criminal justice reform — WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans overwhelmingly want clear standards on when police officers may use force and consequences for officers who do so excessively, according to a new poll that finds nearly all Americans favor at least …
Sam Warner / NME:
Winona Ryder lost a movie role because a producer thought she looked “too Jewish” — The Stranger Things actress opens-up about experiencing anti-Semitism. — Winona Ryder has said she was once overlooked for a movie role because the producer said she looked “too Jewish”.
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Washington Post:
Activists halt street protests in South Carolina as some demonstrators become infected — South Carolina racial justice activists said they would postpone future demonstrations or move them online after at least 13 people who took part in previous protests tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Health Officials Had to Face a Pandemic. Then Came the Death Threats. — State and local health officials have found themselves at the center of regular news briefings amid the coronavirus outbreak, making them targets for harassment and threats. — Leaders of local and state health departments …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Authors quit JK Rowling agency over transgender rights — Writers had asked company ‘to reaffirm their commitment to transgender rights and equality’ — Four authors represented by JK Rowling's literary agency have resigned after accusing the company of declining to issue a public statement of support for transgender rights.
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Eric Umansky / ProPublica:
My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween. Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works. — ProPublica Deputy Managing Editor Eric Umansky's family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager. He tried to find out how it happened, and instead found all of the ways the NYPD is shielded from accountability.
Craig McCarthy / New York Post:
How conspiracy theories about the NYPD Shake Shack ‘poisoning’ blew up — The three cops at the center of the NYPD milkshake “poisoning” scandal never even got sick, and there wasn't the slightest whiff of criminality from the get-go — but that didn't stop gung-ho brass from rolling …
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Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Heads to Arizona, an Emerging Election Battleground — ‘They should be very concerned about Arizona,’ says a former Republican National Committee chairman, pointing to pandemic, economy and civil unrest — President Trump heads to Arizona as the once reliably conservative state …
CBS News:
Top Trump fundraiser sought to cash in on valuable 3M masks — In early April, as U.S. supplies of N95 surgical masks were dwindling, President Trump took aim at 3M, America's biggest mask maker. — Mr. Trump invoked the Defense Production Act, which authorized the head of FEMA to “acquire” any and all 3M N95s.
Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
The Second Great Depression — At least four major factors are terrifying economists and weighing on the recovery. — Staff writer at The Atlantic — The American economy is reopening. In Alabama, gyms are back in business. In Georgia, restaurants are seating customers again.