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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 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Florida Politics and The Daily Beast
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 …
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Redstate, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Ringer, Townhall, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and New Republic
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Trump's Oklahoma debacle
Inside Trump's Oklahoma debacle
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Axios, HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, The US Sun, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and No More Mister Nice Blog
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Biden says he'll participate in three debates with Trump
Biden says he'll participate in three debates with Trump
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Townhall and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
The President's Shock at the Rows of Empty Seats in Tulsa
The President's Shock at the Rows of Empty Seats in Tulsa
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The Bulwark, The Atlantic, CNN, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Fox News, Fortune, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Defense One, The Daily Beast and The Week
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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Talking Points Memo, New York Post, The Hill and Law & Crime
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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 …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Stanford Law School and New York Times
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
Three Plausible—And Troubling—Reasons Why Barr Tried to Force Berman Out
Three Plausible—And Troubling—Reasons Why Barr Tried to Force Berman Out
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New York Daily News, Washington Post, courthousenews.com, Daily Kos and Raw Story
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 …
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.”
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Politico, The Hill, IJR and The Daily Beast
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Trump to expand coronavirus-related immigration restrictions
Trump to expand coronavirus-related immigration restrictions
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Associated Press and One America News Network
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Trump declines to say he was joking about slowing down coronavirus testing
Trump declines to say he was joking about slowing down coronavirus testing
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
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
Will Trump Dump Pence? After Her Tulsa Tryout, Elise Stefanik Could Be The President's Next VP
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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 …
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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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Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Federal investigation launched after noose found in garage stall of Black NASCAR driver at Talladega Superspeedway — The noose was discovered in the stall of driver Bubba Wallace. — NASCAR has launched an investigation after a noose was found in the garage stall of a Black driver …
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U.S. Department of Justice and Townhall
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Jenna Fryer / Associated Press:
FBI investigating noose left in NASCAR stall of Black driver
FBI investigating noose left in NASCAR stall of Black driver
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ESPN, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and TheGrio
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 …
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.
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The Week, The Hill, The Ringer and Rolling Stone
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 …
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Fox News, Politico and Wall Street Journal
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.
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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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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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Washington Post
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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 …
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.