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6:20 PM ET, June 22, 2020

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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 …
Joyce White Vance / TIME:   Americans Need to Know the Truth About William Barr's Friday Night Massacre.  We Can't Afford to Wait
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'Trump's legal goon' Bill Barr needs to be impeached before he corrupts the election: ex-FBI agent
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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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Barring a landslide, what's probably not coming on Nov. 3?  A result in the race for the White House.  —  After voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada went to the polls this month, some races hung in the balance for days as election officials waded through thousands of absentee ballots.
Associated Press:
Trump Rails Against Mail Voting.  His Aides Have Embraced It  —  WASHINGTON — A half-dozen senior advisers to President Donald Trump have repeatedly voted by mail, according to election records obtained by The Associated Press, undercutting the president's argument that the practice will lead to widespread fraud this November.
Miles Parks / NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump Spreads Unfounded Claims About Voting By Mail
Discussion: New York Times, CNN and Washington Post
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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NBC New York:
US Army Soldier Allegedly Gave Classified Info to Satanic Neo-Nazi Group, Sources Say
Discussion: The US Sun and Law & Crime
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 …
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
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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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Somebody call 911; Joe Biden needs a body cast
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Biden says he'll participate in three debates with Trump
Discussion: Townhall and POLITICUSUSA
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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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
Ben Fox / Associated Press:
US moves to restrict Chinese media outlets as ‘propaganda’
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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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump opens door to another round of stimulus checks, direct deposits
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
White House fumbles its story on explaining testing ‘slow down’
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
McEnany's sloppy, misleading effort to defend Trump's indefensible use of ‘kung flu’  —  Perhaps running low on talking points, the White House press secretary recycled some from March  —  Like a chef in the third month of shutdown, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was forced on Monday to work with the ingredients she had.
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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’
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Proclamation Suspending Entry of Aliens Who Present a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market Following the Coronavirus Outbreak  —  The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has significantly disrupted Americans' livelihoods.  Since March 2020, United States businesses and their workers …
Discussion: Vox
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.
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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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 …
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Everybody Hates Bill Weeks into the George Floyd protests, Mayor de Blasio has alienated his constituents, the police, and even his own staff.  —  The protesters lined up, hundreds deep, hoping to rally on the steps of City Hall and raise a ruckus loud enough for the mayor to hear from his corner office.
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New York Magazine:   On The Cover: How Bill De Blasio Lost New York City
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:
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 …
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
 
 
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Jimmy Kimmel used ‘N-word’ in imitation Snoop song in 1996, impersonated comic George Wallace in 2013: audio
David Freed / The Atlantic:
The First U.S. General to Call Trump a Bigot
Hamilton Nolan / In These Times:
AFL-CIO Leader Richard Trumka Defends Police Unions by Comparing Them to Employers
TMZ.com:
TRUMP'S ARIZONA RALLY SITE CHURCH CLAIMS NEW TECH KILLS COVID ... Most of It, Anyway
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Amid threats and political pushback, public health officials are leaving their posts
Seth Cohen / Forbes:
Will Trump Dump Pence? After Her Tulsa Tryout, Elise Stefanik Could Be The President's Next VP
Discussion: Roll Call
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Top Pompeo aide will testify to House about ousted inspector general
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Associated Press:
Surging US virus cases raise fear that progress is slipping
Discussion: IJR
 Earlier Items: 
John Kruzel / The Hill:
All eyes on Roberts ahead of Supreme Court's abortion ruling
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Johnson and May ignored claims Russia had ‘likely hold’ over Trump, ex-spy alleges
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 …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sarah Sanders says John Bolton was “drunk on power”
 

 
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