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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
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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
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New York Daily News, Washington Post, courthousenews.com, Daily Kos and Raw Story
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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Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Deadline, The Daily Caller, IJR and The Hill
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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, VICE, Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller, The Ringer, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Vanity Fair and Talking Points Memo
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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Raw Story, The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Florida Politics and The Daily Beast
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Somebody call 911; Joe Biden needs a body cast
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Washington Monthly and Michael Moore
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Biden says he'll participate in three debates with Trump
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Townhall and POLITICUSUSA
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
McEnany Says Trump Isn't ‘Angry’ About Rally Crowd, Steve Doocy Doesn't Buy it: The Trump I Know is ‘Furious’
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Washington Post
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Trump's Oklahoma debacle
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Axios, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, Washington Post, Raw Story, TheGrio, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, Vanity Fair, The US Sun, New York Times, Tulsa World and The Week
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 …
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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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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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
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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Townhall, Politico, The Hill, IJR and The Daily Beast
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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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Townhall, U.S. Department of Justice and The Daily Caller
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CNN:
Dept. of Justice looking into noose found in NASCAR star Bubba Wallace's garage stall
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NPR, WHDH-TV, The Daily Caller and Vanity Fair
Jenna Fryer / Associated Press:
FBI investigating noose left in NASCAR stall of Black driver
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ESPN, fox8.com, 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 Wrap, 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
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.
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
Washington Post:
Trump, citing pandemic, orders limits on foreign workers, extends immigration restrictions through December — President Trump issued an executive order Monday barring many categories of foreign workers and curbing immigration visas through the end of the year, moves the administration characterized …
TMZ.com:
TRUMP'S ARIZONA RALLY SITE CHURCH CLAIMS NEW TECH KILLS COVID ... Most of It, Anyway — The church where President Trump will host his latest rally since the pandemic has made some bold claims about its facility and coronavirus, and it sounds too good to be true. — KILLING GERMS
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Hamilton Nolan / In These Times:
AFL-CIO Leader Richard Trumka Defends Police Unions by Comparing Them to Employers — As the AFL-CIO struggles with a growing debate over its alignment with police unions, the disagreement inside of the labor coalition itself is becoming more pointed. At an internal meeting of the Executive Council …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A Schlapp in the face — Since the murder of George Floyd, Verizon has been an outspoken advocate of the Black Lives Matter movement. In dozens of tweets and statements, Verizon has said that, as a company, it is not enough to express support for racial justice.
Sam Jones / The Guardian:
Experts call for regulation after latest botched art restoration in Spain — Immaculate Conception painting by Murillo reportedly cleaned by furniture restorer — Conservation experts in Spain have called for a tightening of the laws covering restoration work after a copy of a famous painting …
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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