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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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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, The Week, Raw Story and New Republic
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, Florida Politics and The Daily Beast
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Trump's Oklahoma debacle
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Axios, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, The US Sun, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Washington Post, The Week and The Guardian
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
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Somebody call 911; Joe Biden needs a body cast
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Washington Monthly and Michael Moore
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
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Associated Press
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Trump declines to say he was joking about slowing down coronavirus testing
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
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
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
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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Washington Post, National Review, Breitbart, IJR, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, NBC News, Daily Kos, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams and Law & Crime
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
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 …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Kevin Hassett, senior Trump economic adviser, to leave White House — He had emerged as a leading voice on the economic impact of the coronavirus. It will be the second time he has left the Trump White House. — One of President Trump's most trusted economic advisers will leave …
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, Raw Story, The Hill and Fox News
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.
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.
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.
Seth Cohen / Forbes:
Will Trump Dump Pence? After Her Tulsa Tryout, Elise Stefanik Could Be The President's Next VP — President Trump's campaign event in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday evening, his first rally since the pandemic gripped the nation, incorporates all of the hallmarks of the typical Trump campaign event …
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Roll Call
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump Admin Shuts Down Radio Station Run by Chinese Propaganda Outlet — A radio station controlled by the Chinese Communist Party propaganda outlet Phoenix TV has been ordered by the Trump administration to cease its broadcasts within 48 hours. — The Federal Communications Commission ruled …
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