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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
In Poll, Trump Falls Far Behind Biden in Six Key Battleground States — NYT UPSHOT/ — SIENA COLLEGE POLL — Joe Biden holds a strong lead among registered voters in six battleground states carried by Donald Trump in 2016. — 2016 Result NYT/Siena — Michigan — Trump — +11 Biden
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden leads in Florida as Trump lags among seniors — Voters think Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is better suited to handle the issues of the day, expanding his lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Florida.
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Mediaite, New York Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money and FiveThirtyEight
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Biden rips Trump's coronavirus response and Obamacare assault in fiery speech: ‘A new pre-existing condition’ — Joe Biden on Thursday will warn that President Donald Trump's attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act could have disastrous consequences on Americans who have had complications from the novel coronavirus.
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump says the coronavirus is ‘going away.’ His own task force disagrees. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump keeps spinning a tale about COVID-19 that is at odds with his own administration's disease experts and data compiled by his own coronavirus task force, which was obtained exclusively by NBC News.
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CNBC, Off the Kuff, The Big Picture and The Texas Tribune
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Texas tossup, Biden-Trump a one-point race
Fox News Poll: Texas tossup, Biden-Trump a one-point race
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
CNN:
Trump entrenched in failed strategy as virus surges and polling drops
Trump entrenched in failed strategy as virus surges and polling drops
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Washington Post, Mediaite and Fox News
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump and Biden in close race in Georgia
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is in deep trouble, new polls show. But he has one hidden advantage.
Trump is in deep trouble, new polls show. But he has one hidden advantage.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story, The Sun, The Hill, IJR and Political Wire
The Daily Beast:
Judge Tosses Trump Family Attempt to Block Mary Trump's Tell-All — A Queens County Surrogate Court Judge cited “several improprieties” in Robert Trump's attempt to block niece Mary's tell-all, slated to be published this fall. — A New York judge has tossed an application …
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Court in New York rejects effort to block book by President Trump's niece
Court in New York rejects effort to block book by President Trump's niece
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Political Wire and Sputnik News
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook faces trust crisis as ad boycott grows — What started out as a few whispers about advertisers pulling Facebook ads has turned into a growing boycott of the social network over its content moderation policies — a situation the company is now describing as a “trust deficit.”
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Megan Graham / CNBC:
Verizon is pulling advertising from Facebook and Instagram
Verizon is pulling advertising from Facebook and Instagram
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New York Times:
Inside Barr's Effort to Undermine Prosecutors in N.Y. — The firing of the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan was foreshadowed by a disagreement over a case linked to President Trump. — Shortly after he became attorney general last year, William P. Barr set out to challenge …
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Raw Story and Alternet.org
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Trump's pick for Manhattan U.S. attorney refuses to say he would recuse from probes of president's associates — President Trump's nominee to take over the Manhattan federal prosecutors office after the abrupt dismissal of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman refused on Thursday to say whether …
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Manhattan prosecutor pick ducks questions about Barr's job offer
Manhattan prosecutor pick ducks questions about Barr's job offer
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One America News Network
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Charged in Crypto-Currency Case, U.S. Says — Jack Abramoff, the onetime Washington insider who went to prison in a lobbying scandal, was charged with a criminal conspiracy related to crypto currency and lobbying disclosure, a U.S. prosecutor said.
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Graham Rebuffed Over Widening Barr's Powers as GOP Senators Balk — The Senate Judiciary Committee blocked an effort by Chairman Lindsey Graham to give the attorney general the power to veto investigations of Justice Department lawyers by the inspector general.
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Matt Howerton / WFAA-TV:
North Texas family shaken after 18 relatives test positive for COVID-19 following family gathering — Three are now hospitalized, including two elderly family members and one woman battling breast cancer. — CARROLLTON, Texas — As North Texas watches COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge …
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified the severity of the pandemic — The three studies paint a picture of a media ecosystem that entertains conspiracy theories and discourages audiences from taking steps to protect themselves and others
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Raw Story and Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
CDC says COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 10 times higher than reported — The true number of Americans who've been infected with COVID-19 may top 20 million, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. — “Our best estimate right now is that for every case that's reported …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, New York Post and The Week
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
It's time to rethink the presidential debates — Given how many ugly turns this presidential election year has already taken and how many more are surely yet to come, it is probably a fool's errand to go in search of silver linings in 2020. — But the realities of campaigning amid a pandemic …
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Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
Biden Has A Historically Large Lead Over Trump, But It Could Disappear
Biden Has A Historically Large Lead Over Trump, But It Could Disappear
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
A Devastating New Stage of the Pandemic — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — For the past few weeks in the United States, the awful logic of the coronavirus seemed to have lifted. Stores and restaurants reopened.
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Sun Belt Spikes Could Be a Disaster for Trump
The Sun Belt Spikes Could Be a Disaster for Trump
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Siena College Research … and NPR
Axios:
The coronavirus surge is real, and it's everywhere — The coronavirus pandemic is getting dramatically worse in almost every corner of the U.S. — The big picture: The U.S. today is getting closer to the worst-case scenario envisioned in the spring — a nationwide crisis …
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Media Matters for America, The Daily Caller and Alternet.org
New York Times:
How the Virus Won — Invisible outbreaks sprang up everywhere. The United States ignored the warning signs. We analyzed travel patterns, hidden infections and genetic data to show how the epidemic spun out of control. — Invisible outbreaks sprang up everywhere. The United States ignored the warning signs.
New York Times:
Defense Secretary Faces White House Pressure on Aides and a Military Promotion — Senior Defense Department personnel who are perceived as White House critics are resigning or facing reprisal. — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is facing a hemorrhage of talent as senior officials resign amid continued efforts …
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Political Wire
Associated Press:
US virus cases near an all-time high as governors backtrack — NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus crisis deepened in Arizona on Thursday, and the governor of Texas began to backtrack after making one of the most aggressive pushes in the nation to reopen, as the daily number of confirmed cases across …
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Axios, Washington Post, WGN-TV and The Daily Caller
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Jay Croft / CNN:
Texas governor halts reopening as coronavirus crisis grows; California's declares budget emergency
Texas governor halts reopening as coronavirus crisis grows; California's declares budget emergency
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The Guardian, WHDH-TV and ITV
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Moscow Held Back Dirt So It Could Slime President Hillary — “They fully expected Hillary Clinton to become president, and [the Russians] wanted to have bullets they could use during her presidential term,” John Brennan said. — BEAST INSIDE — After four years, 34 indictments …
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Twitchy
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
She Wanted to Be a Republican President. She's Voting for Biden. — Republicans who say Donald Trump should lose in November but insist they won't vote for Joe Biden aren't being honest, Carly Fiorina argues. — Fiorina was a Republican candidate for president just four years ago …
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ESPN:
NASCAR releases image of noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage, says concern was ‘real’ — NASCAR on Thursday completed its investigation into the garage pull rope formed as a noose that was found in Bubba Wallace's garage at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, with president Steve Phelps saying …
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The American Spectator and TheBlaze
Popular Information:
The dirty secret behind Ben Shapiro's extraordinary success on Facebook — Founder of The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images) — The success of The Daily Wire, the website run by right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro, on Facebook is mind-boggling.
Jordan Davidson / The Federalist:
In Racist Screed, NYT's 1619 Project Founder Calls ‘White Race’ ‘Barbaric Devils,’ ‘Bloodsuckers,’ Columbus ‘No Different Than Hitler’ — In an indication of what was to come, the founder of the New York Times' 1619 Project penned a lengthy racist screed attacking all white people in 1995.
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Erica Werner / Washington Post:
Treasury sent more than 1 million coronavirus stimulus payments to dead people, congressional watchdog finds — The checks sent to dead people as of April 30 totaled nearly $1.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Office — The federal government sent coronavirus stimulus payments …
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New York Times:
Poll Shows Trump Dragging Down G.O.P. Senate Candidates — Tomorrow: How voters see Mr. Biden's possible vice presidential choices.
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Alternet.org, Daily Kos and The Hill
Michael Praats / Port City Daily:
Fired Wilmington cop: “We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f— ni—. I can't wait. God, I can't wait. " [Free read] — Editor's note: This article contains extremely graphic and racist language, reader discretion is advised. — WILMINGTON — “We are just gonna …
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Michael Powell / New York Times:
Trump Overhaul of Campus Sex Assault Rules Wins Surprising Support — The new approach finds unlikely allies among some feminist scholars, who say colleges and universities were failing to sufficiently protect the rights of young men accused of sexual misconduct.
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Power Line
Washington Post:
'We're at record numbers' — The Trump administration has sought to downplay the rising numbers. Pence called concerns about another surge of infections “overblown,” the product of media “fearmongering.” Trump said testing for the virus is “overrated” and that the surge of confirmed cases only “makes us look bad.”
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Brad Parscale, Other Trump Staff, In Quasi-Quarantine After Tulsa COVID Cases — The move, a campaign spokesperson said, was being made out of an abundance of caution. — Donald Trump's reelection campaign manager, Brad Parscale, is one of a group of campaign staffers in quasi-quarantine …
David A. M. Peterson / Wiley Online Library:
Dear Reviewer 2: Go F' Yourself — Abstract — Objectives — The objective of this study was to empirically test the wide belief that Reviewer #2 is a uniquely poor reviewer. — Methods — The test involved analyzing the reviewer database from Political Behavior . There are two main tests.