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4:35 PM ET, June 22, 2020

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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden campaign confirms he will attend three debates with Trump, criticizes the president for flipping on his debate stance  —  Joe Biden's campaign on Monday committed to three scheduled debates with President Trump in September and October and criticized the president for taking varied positions …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump aides debate future size and look of signature rallies after Tulsa debacle  —  Why Trump was upset before Tulsa rally started  —  (CNN)Swaths of empty blue seats and a vacant overflow venue in Oklahoma have led President Donald Trump's aides to begin debating what his signature campaign rallies …
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Trump rally gives Fox News largest Saturday night audience in its history  —  President Trump's rally on Saturday attracted a record-setting audience on TV despite the smaller-than-expected crowd in attendance at the Tulsa, Okla., event.  —  A whopping 7.7 million total viewers tuned …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Trump's Oklahoma debacle
New York Times:
The President's Shock at the Rows of Empty Seats in Tulsa
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Biden says he'll participate in three debates with Trump
Discussion: Townhall and POLITICUSUSA
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:   Lewandowski takes swipe at Trump campaign over Tulsa rally crowd size
Wall Street Journal:
Attorney General Barr, Berman at Odds Over Letter Criticizing New York City Mayor  —  Geoffrey Berman, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, refused to sign letter criticizing Mayor de Blasio for enforcing social-distancing rules to block religious gatherings but not protests
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Statement from Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband and U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider on New York City's Reopening Plans  —  Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Eric Dreiband and U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider for the Eastern District of Michigan, who are overseeing …
CNN:
Fiercely independent New York prosecutors won't be cowed by Barr and Trump  —  Opinion by Jennifer Rodgers and Elie Honig  —  Berman to CNN: I'm just here to do my job  —  Jennifer Rodgers is a former federal prosecutor, the former executive director of the Center for the Advancement …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'Trump's legal goon' Bill Barr needs to be impeached before he corrupts the election: ex-FBI agent
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 …
Discussion: TMZ.com, Gothamist, Mediaite and The Wrap
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
McEnany says Trump calling coronavirus “kung flu” is “linking it to its place of origin”  —  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at a press briefing Monday that President Trump's description of the coronavirus as “kung flu” at a rally Saturday was “linking it to its place of origin.”
Discussion: Politico, The Hill, IJR and The Daily Beast
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Trump to expand coronavirus-related immigration restrictions
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sarah Sanders says John Bolton was “drunk on power”
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Trump declines to say he was joking about slowing down coronavirus testing
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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Seth Cohen / Forbes:
Will Trump Dump Pence? After Her Tulsa Tryout, Elise Stefanik Could Be The President's Next VP
Discussion: Roll Call
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:   Are We Headed for a Voter-Suppression Catastrophe in November? …
Adam Entous / New Yorker:
What Fiona Hill Learned in the White House  —  The senior fellow at Brookings and expert on modern Russia had hoped to guide the U.S.-Russia relationship.  President Trump had other ideas.  —  The Brookings Institution is one of many think tanks in Washington, D.C., where scholars …
Discussion: The Week
The National Pulse:
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-CNN ‘Reporters’ Now Work for The Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Outfit: CGTN  —  China Global Television Network, a registered foreign agent in the U.S. and integral outlet in the Chinese state-owned media landscape, employs several former CNN correspondents and anchors.
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:   Trump Admin Shuts Down Radio Station Run by Chinese Propaganda Outlet
Kristen Holmes / CNN:
Trump delayed sanctions on Chinese officials involved in detention camps to avoid problems with trade deal
CNN:
Dept. of Justice looking into noose found in NASCAR star Bubba Wallace's garage stall  —  (CNN)Department of Justice investigators said Monday they are looking into the noose that was found in NASCAR star Bubba Wallace's garage stall.  —  “The U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of Alabama …
Discussion: NPR, WHDH-TV and Vanity Fair
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RI.gov:
Statement from Treasurer Magaziner about the State's Name  —  PROVIDENCE, RI —Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magazine today made the following announcement about his office's use of the state's name:  —  “Today, I am announcing that the Office of the General Treasurer will remove the words …
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
News Analysis: Joe Biden is no Hillary Clinton, and that's a problem for President Trump  —  Joe Biden is old.  He has a paper trail reaching back half a century.  He is, by his own admission, a “gaffe machine” who regularly trips over his own tongue.  —  He is not, however …
Carmel Dagan / Variety:
Joel Schumacher, Director of Batman Films and ‘Lost Boys,’ Dies at 80  —  Joel Schumacher, costume designer-turned-director of films including “St. Elmo's Fire,” “The Lost Boys” and “Falling Down,” as well as two “Batman” films, died in New York City on Monday morning after a year-long battle with cancer.
Discussion: The Week, The Hill and Rolling Stone
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
TikTok Teens Are Obsessed With Pizzagate  —  The Comet Ping Pong conspiracy theory has been widely discredited, but it lives on with Gen Z.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  NEWSLETTERS  —  Right Richter  —  See what's happening with the extreme right wing from the safety of your inbox.
Discussion: New York Times and Gothamist
New York Magazine:
On The Cover: How Bill De Blasio Lost New York City  —  Weeks into the George Floyd protests, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has alienated his constituents, the police, and even his own staff.  For New York's June 22-July 5, 2020 issue cover story, writer David Freedlander speaks …
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David Freedlander / New York Magazine:   Everybody Hates Bill Weeks into the George Floyd protests, Mayor de Blasio has alienated …
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
McEnany Says Trump Isn't ‘Angry’ About Rally Crowd, Steve Doocy Doesn't Buy it: The Trump I Know is ‘Furious’  —  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claims that President Donald Trump was not upset by the fact that his rally in Tulsa Saturday night drew just 6,200 people — less than one-third of the arena's capacity.
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:   Fox & Friends Host Questions Wisdom of Trump Rally: 'I Don't Know Who Thought It Was a Good Idea'
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Top Pompeo aide will testify to House about ousted inspector general  —  House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) announced on Monday that Brian Bulatao, a top State Department official and close confidante of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, will testify before the committee …
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Washington Post:
Amid threats and political pushback, public health officials are leaving their posts  —  For Lauri Jones, the trouble began in early May. The director of a small public health department in Washington State was working with a family under quarantine because of coronavirus exposure.
 
 
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Washington Post:
Trump, citing pandemic, orders limits on foreign workers, extends immigration restrictions through December
TMZ.com:
TRUMP'S ARIZONA RALLY SITE CHURCH CLAIMS NEW TECH KILLS COVID ... Most of It, Anyway
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Surging US virus cases raise fear that progress is slipping
Discussion: IJR
John Kruzel / The Hill:
All eyes on Roberts ahead of Supreme Court's abortion ruling
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
NBC New York:
US Army Soldier Allegedly Gave Classified Info to Satanic Neo-Nazi Group, Sources Say
Discussion: The US Sun and Law & Crime
Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Johnson and May ignored claims Russia had ‘likely hold’ over Trump, ex-spy alleges
The NM Political Report:
Election changes pass House after revote
Robert Klemko / Washington Post:
How Trump rallygoers explain Black Lives Matter protests to their children
Discussion: Townhall and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Who caused the violence at protests? It wasn't antifa.
Discussion: Althouse
Alicia A. Caldwell / Wall Street Journal:
As Coronavirus Cases Rise in Arizona, New Mask Rules Spark a Fight
Shilpa Jindia / The Guardian:
‘This is a war’: Republicans ramp up bid to control election maps for next decade
Scott Detrow / NPR:
Kamala Harris Is Seen As The Clear Front-Runner To Be Joe Biden's Running Mate
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A Schlapp in the face  —  Since the murder of George Floyd …
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Richard Deitsch / New York Times:
Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

 
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