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New York Times:
Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says — The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment. — WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded …
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian Spy Unit Paid Taliban to Attack Americans, U.S. Intelligence Says — Bounties paid by GRU are disclosed as U.S. plans troops drawdown, Taliban peace plan — WASHINGTON—A Russian spy unit paid members of Afghanistan's Taliban movement to conduct lethal attacks on U.S. troops in that country …
Emily Larsen / Washington Examiner:
Republican nightmare: Trump vote-by-mail demonizing driving down GOP participation — President Trump's extreme opposition to mail-in ballots is more likely hurting him and down-ballot Republicans than it is helping him. — Mounting evidence in voter registration data, a survey …
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New York Times:
New Numbers Showing Coronavirus Spread Intrude on a White House in Denial — Both President Trump and Vice President Pence seem oblivious to the new chapter in the pandemic. — WASHINGTON — In the past week, President Trump hosted an indoor campaign rally for thousands of cheering …
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Mediaite and Alternet.org
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Turns Down Request to Allow All Texans to Vote by Mail
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't force Texas to allow absentee ballots for all voters
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. Supreme Court declines Texas Democrats' request to allow all Texans to vote by mail
Politico:
Coronavirus task force returns, but downplays new flareups as local ‘hot spots’
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Strike Down Affordable Care Act
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Washington Post:
Live updates: Florida reports nearly 9,000 new coronavirus cases; Texas reverses course to stave off surge — The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter …
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Noah Higgins-Dunn / CNBC:
Texas rolls back its reopening a day after pausing plans, as coronavirus cases rise
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas bars to close again and restaurants to reduce to 50% occupancy as coronavirus spreads
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Associated Press:
States retreat as confirmed virus cases hit all-time high
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David Lim / Politico:
Trump administration restores federal funding for Texas testing sites
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The Hill
Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times:
E.U. Plans to Bar Most U.S. Travelers When Bloc Reopens — Europe will allow outsiders to begin entering again on July 1, but the U.S. and Russia are now among the nations considered too risky because they have not controlled the coronavirus outbreak. — BRUSSELS — The European Union …
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Trump Disapproval Hits All-Time High And He Trails Biden By 8 — After weeks of protests against police brutality and racism, and amid a renewed spike in coronavirus cases, the number of voters disapproving of the job President Trump is doing is at an all-time high, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Referendum — He still has no second term message beyond his own grievances. — By The Editorial Board — President Trump may soon need a new nickname for “Sleepy Joe” Biden. How does President-elect sound? On present trend that's exactly what Mr. Biden will be on Nov. 4 …
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Trump Is in a Deep Hole. Can He Dig Himself Out Before November?
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Associated Press
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Unilever to Halt U.S. Ads on Facebook and Twitter for Rest of 2020 — The company cites hate speech and polarized politics as reasons for ad suspension — Consumer goods giant Unilever UL -.46% PLC said it will halt U.S. advertising on Facebook Inc. FB -6.95% and Twitter Inc. TWTR -6.98% …
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Washington Post:
Bowing to pressure, Facebook will start labeling violating posts from politicians. But critics say it's not enough.
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Politico, The Daily Caller and Mashable
Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Facebook to label all rule-breaking posts - even Trump's
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Mashable, Bloomberg and Liberty Unyielding
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Roger Stone ordered to report to prison July 14, as judge denies request for two-month delay — A federal judge has ordered Roger Stone to report to prison July 14, granting him a two-week delay because of the coronavirus pandemic, but not the two months that President Trump's confidant had requested with prosecutors' assent.
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Associated Press:
Democrats renew health care attacks on GOP as virus builds — WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are intensifying their attacks on President Donald Trump and his Republican allies over health care, hoping that an issue that helped lift the party during the 2018 midterms will prove even more resonant during a public health crisis.
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Haley Byrd / CNN:
House Democrats pass DC statehood bill Friday
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
House approves DC statehood bill, GOP calls move Dem ‘power grab’
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
What Ever Happened to Joy Reid's Alleged Hackers and That FBI Investigation? — Joy Reid, a weekend fixture of MSNBC, is expected to take over a top weekday hour at the network: 7 p.m., the hour vacated by Hardball host Chris Matthews, who retired amid controversy earlier this year.
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
MSNBC may soon reward homophobic conspiracy theorist with plum prime-time gig — MSNBC's Joy Reid is apparently in talks to take over the 7 p.m. weekday spot previously held by former anchor Chris Matthews, who resigned abruptly in March following allegations that he made inappropriate comments to a network guest.
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Mary Trump once stood up to her uncle Donald. Now her book describes a ‘nightmare’ of family dysfunction. — Mary L. Trump was embroiled in a feud over her inheritance two decades ago when her uncle Donald Trump and his siblings punched back in classic style.
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Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Why Do These Trump Campaign Ads Link to Brad Parscale's Facebook Page? — For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones' newsletters. — The Trump campaign is running Facebook ads from a page for campaign manager Brad Parscale …
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Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Tom Cotton's Argument Against DC Statehood Is the Same One Racists Have Always Used
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Appeals court rules funding for Trump border wall construction ‘unlawful’ — The Trump administration does not have the authority to use military funding to pay for construction of a border wall, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday. — In a 2-1 ruling, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's legal argument for throwing out all of the ACA is a nightmare for Senate Republicans — President Trump insists on the campaign trail that he wants to protect insurance coverage for people with preexisting conditions. His legal team just told the Supreme Court otherwise.
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Talking Points Memo, IJR, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Daily Kos
Politico:
FEC losing quorum again after Caroline Hunter resigns — The Federal Election Commission is losing its short-lived quorum after Caroline Hunter, a longtime Republican commissioner of the FEC and former chair of the agency, is resigning, according to a resignation letter obtained by POLITICO.
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Caroline Randall Williams / New York Times:
You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument — The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them? — Ms. Williams is a poet. — NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin.
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Politico:
Senate panel demands testimony from ex-Obama officials in revived Biden probe — A Senate committee is re-engaging former Obama administration officials as part of an investigation targeting Joe Biden's son, demanding transcribed interviews and documents for the Republican-led probe.
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Raw Story
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Barr forms task force to counter ‘anti-government extremists’ — Attorney General William P. Barr on Friday directed the formation of a task force that will be dedicated to countering “anti-government extremists,” escalating federal law enforcement's response to the violence …
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Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Working for Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy isn't always easy since it means working for Mark Zuckerberg — Inside the unrest at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. — At an emotional company town hall last week that blew past its hour-long time limit, one of Mark Zuckerberg's engineers asked him to quit as CEO of Facebook.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump Retreats to His Hannity Bunker — Beaten by the pandemic and down in the polls, a President and his propagandist create an alternate reality. — June began poorly for President Trump, and it's ending worse. Despite his optimistic pronouncements about the coronavirus …
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The DOJ Decided Not to Prosecute Trump. It's Hiding the Reason Why. — The Department of Justice has confirmed the existence of a memo laying out its rationale for not bringing charges against President Trump, but it refuses to make its reasoning public. In response to ongoing litigation involving …
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Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Florida governor under fire over claims state is ‘cooking the books’ on Covid-19 — Ron DeSantis angrily dismisses allegation from fired scientist that officials are massaging figures to hide true impact of coronavirus — Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis's faltering response …
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Bonnie Wertheim / New York Times:
Overlooked No More: Valerie Solanas, Radical Feminist Who Shot Andy Warhol — She made daring arguments in “SCUM Manifesto,” her case for a world without men. But her legacy as a writer and thinker was overshadowed by one violent act. … On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas walked into Andy Warhol's studio …
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