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Washington Post:
Workers removed thousands of social distancing stickers before Trump's Tulsa rally, according to video and a person familiar with the set-up — In the hours before his rally in Tulsa, President Trump's campaign directed the removal of thousands of “Do Not Sit Here, Please!” …
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Dave Brooks / Billboard:
In Tulsa, Trump Campaign Subverted Social Distancing One Sticker at a Time — As BOK Center employees worked to mitigate risk of COVID-19 spread at the President's June 20 rally, his reelection staff set about removing safety warnings. — Hours before President Donald Trump took the stage …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
U.S. Department of Justice:
Four Men Charged in Federal Court for Attempting to Tear Down Statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square Amid Protests — WASHINGTON - Lee Michael Cantrell, 47, of Virginia; Connor Matthew Judd, 20, of Washington, D.C.; Ryan Lane, 37, of Maryland; and Graham Lloyd, 37, of Maine …
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump tweets “wanted” images as 4 charged over bid to topple Andrew Jackson statue — Four men have been charged with destruction of federal property for allegedly trying to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue outside the White House this week, the Department of Justice said in a statement on Saturday night.
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Associated Press, Politico, Mediaite, New York Post and JONATHAN TURLEY
Kayleigh Skinner / Mississippi Today:
‘Historic moment’: Lawmakers clear difficult hurdle to consider bill that would remove the Mississippi state flag — The House and Senate are expected to act quickly this weekend to remove the Mississippi state flag, the last in the nation containing the Confederate battle emblem, after clearing the procedural path on Saturday.
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Brittany Shammas / Washington Post:
Mississippi governor says he would sign bill to remove Confederate emblem from state flag
Mississippi governor says he would sign bill to remove Confederate emblem from state flag
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Tate Reeves, NPR, The Hill and Rolling Stone
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
‘The Flag is Coming Down’: Lawmakers Vote to Change Mississippi State Flag
‘The Flag is Coming Down’: Lawmakers Vote to Change Mississippi State Flag
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Mississippi Today and Axios
Sean Colarossi / POLITICUSUSA:
House Dem Calls Trump ‘Rotten To The Core’ For Doing Nothing As Russia Puts Bounty On US Troops — Donald Trump still hasn't responded to the explosive report that Russia has been paying to have American troops killed in Afghanistan, but Democrats are already expressing outrage.
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Lawmakers want answers from Trump Administration on reports Russia paid Taliban to attack US troops
Lawmakers want answers from Trump Administration on reports Russia paid Taliban to attack US troops
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The Hill, Raw Story and One America News Network
Jamie Doward / The Guardian:
Russia offered bounty to kill UK soldiers
Russia offered bounty to kill UK soldiers
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New York Times, ABC News and KFOR-TV
Princeton University News:
President Eisgruber's message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school and Wilson College — President Eisgruber's message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school and Wilson College — Board of Trustees concludes …
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Bryan Pietsch / New York Times:
Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson's Name From School
Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson's Name From School
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Peter Aitken / Fox News:
Princeton drops Woodrow Wilson's name from school due to ‘racist thinking’
Princeton drops Woodrow Wilson's name from school due to ‘racist thinking’
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Townhall
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump admits it: He's losing — Donald Trump knows he's losing. — The president has privately come to that grim realization in recent days, multiple people close to him told POLITICO, amid a mountain of bad polling and warnings from some of his staunchest allies that he's on course to be a one-term president.
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American Prospect, The Guardian and The Federalist
NBC News:
New U.S. coronavirus cases break record; Pence cancels campaign events in Arizona, Florida — The U.S. set a new grim record in the number of new coronavirus cases in a single day, with reports of nearly 46,000 on Friday. — The 45,942 single-day increase was driven by more than 8,000 …
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CBS News, The Texas Tribune and Fox News
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Evan Semones / Politico:
Pence postpones Florida, Arizona campaign events as coronavirus cases spike
Pence postpones Florida, Arizona campaign events as coronavirus cases spike
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The Hill
Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
Pence postpones Florida, Arizona campaign events amid increase in coronavirus cases there
Pence postpones Florida, Arizona campaign events amid increase in coronavirus cases there
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Associated Press and Townhall
New York Times:
After Asking Americans to Sacrifice in Shutdown, Leaders Failed to Control Virus — As Covid-19 cases surge, it is clear many governors underestimated the coronavirus and rushed to reopen before their states were ready. — WASHINGTON — More than four months into fighting the coronavirus …
Washington Post:
With Trump leading the way, America's coronavirus failures exposed by record surge in new infections — Six months after the novel coronavirus was first detected in the United States, a record surge in new cases is the clearest sign yet of the country's historic failure to control the virus …
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Mediaite
Meena Venkataramanan / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Republicans move forward with plans for an indoor convention in Houston, the state's biggest coronavirus hot spot — Gov. Greg Abbott is allowing limits on outdoor crowds — but not indoor gatherings. His party's convention — with an expected attendance of 6,000 — so far will not require attendees to wear face masks.
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The Moderate Voice
Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times:
In ‘God, guns and Trump’ country, simmering doubts about the president — In this dry stretch of northwestern Arizona, Trump campaign signs dot the desert landscape, and Trump flags fly from the backs of dusty pickup trucks. — Last fall, an event called “Trumpstock” …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Biden campaign is 35% people of color and 53% female, new diversity data shows — Thirty-five percent of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign operation are people of color and just over half are women, according to figures released Saturday under public prodding …
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Politico, BuzzFeed News, Associated Press and New York Post
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Sheena Jones / CNN:
Patrons are asked to self-quarantine after about 85 people who visited a Michigan bar get Covid-19 — (CNN)People who visited a bar in East Lansing, Michigan, are being asked to self-quarantine because roughly 85 people contracted Covid-19 after visiting the establishment this month, a health official says.
Andrew Court / Daily Mail:
High school student sparked a coronavirus cluster in New York after they travelled from Florida for a graduation ceremony, Governor Cuomo reveals — Student returned from Florida before attending ‘drive-in graduation’ in Westchester County last Saturday — The unidentified individual arrived …
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Trump fans are flocking to the social media app Parler — its CEO is begging liberals to join them — Parler's user base has grown to 1.5 million from 1 million in about a week, CEO John Matze said. — Republican politicians and conservative pundits have flocked to the app …
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Power Line, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Mediaite
Andrew J. Campa / Los Angeles Times:
Orange County Democrats condemn ‘racist’ comments by John Wayne, call for airport to drop his name — Orange County's Democratic Party is hoping sundown is on the horizon for the Duke. — This week, officials passed an emergency resolution condemning film legend John Wayne's …
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Fox News, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Big League Politics, The Wrap, The Hill and Variety
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Making men feel manly in masks is, unfortunately, a public-health challenge of our time — It's weird, the things that will break you sometimes. The world is a giant toilet right now, but you're still paddling as best you can, and then something random and minuscule causes you to throw …
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CNN, Just The News, The Daily Caller, Sputnik News and The Hill
Trevor Potter / Fox News:
Trump and Barr make baseless and harmful claims about mail-in ballot fraud — Trump has expressed nakedly partisan reasons for opposing absentee voting. — Attorney General William Barr has been busy following President Trump's lead in spreading unfounded theories about potential widespread fraud in absentee voting.
Devon Ivie / Vulture:
Community Episode Removed From Streaming Over Chang's Dungeons & Dragons Blackface — No, you don't have Changnesia: Community has become the latest sitcom to remove episodes from streaming services over blackface. Per Deadline, the season-two episode “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” …
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Deadline
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Trump Calls For Tougher Republican Response To ‘Political War’ — In an Oval Office interview with The Federalist's Ben Domenech, President Trump calls on Republicans to stand strong and unite against lawlessness. — In a wide-ranging interview in the Oval Office Friday …
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Bloomberg
USA Today:
When Black lives matter to Democrats, and when they don't — Do Black lives matter to Democrats? As Tim Alberta recently reported, a lot of Black voters think the answer is no. That may explain why the Democrats are blocking the GOP justice reform bill in the Senate: With Black voters already discouraged …
Washington Post:
Young people urged to take virus more seriously as pandemic worsens in U.S. — Health officials are imploring young people to wear masks and practice social distancing as coronavirus transmission among younger Americans continues to drive record outbreaks in several states.