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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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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 — University trustees concluded that Wilson's “racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college,” Princeton's president said on Saturday. — Princeton University will remove Woodrow Wilson's name …
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
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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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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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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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
Jamie Doward / The Guardian:
Russia offered bounty to kill UK soldiers — Moscow accused of trying to give money to the Taliban as part of its campaign to destabilise America and its allies — The Russian intelligence unit behind the attempted murder in Salisbury of the former double agent Sergei Skripal secretly offered …
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Raw Story, New York Post and The Mahablog
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CNN:
Trump administration finalizing plan to withdraw 4,000 troops from Afghanistan — Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is close to finalizing a decision to withdraw more than 4,000 troops from Afghanistan by the fall, according to two administration officials.
Brittany Shammas / Washington Post:
Mississippi governor says he would sign bill to remove Confederate emblem from state flag — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R), who has long insisted voters should decide whether to remove the Confederate emblem from the state's flag, said for the first time Saturday that he would sign a bill to change the banner if one is sent his way.
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CNN:
Measures to protect Trump from coronavirus scale up even as he seeks to move on — (CNN)President Donald Trump appears ready to move on from a still-raging coronavirus pandemic — skipping the first White House task force briefing in months and moving the event out of the White House itself.
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The Hill, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Raw Story
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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Politico:
The Lincoln Project is trolling Trump. But can it sway voters? — The moment President Donald Trump started tweeting at 12:46 a.m. about the “RINO Republicans” at the Lincoln Project who'd just run an ad attacking his response to the pandemic, Reed Galen knew his hunch was right …
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Harry Enten / CNN:
Candidates who recover from Trump-like deficits are rarely incumbents — (CNN)The polls are fairly unanimous: Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a significant advantage over President Donald Trump. On average, he's up by 10 points nationally and in the pivotal battleground state of Wisconsin.
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.
New York Times:
How the World Missed Covid-19's Silent Spread — Symptomless transmission makes the coronavirus far harder to fight. But health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and contradictory claims in the face of mounting evidence. — MUNICH — Dr. Camilla Rothe …
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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The Daily Caller, IJR, Just The News, Sputnik News and The Hill
Kim Barker / New York Times:
The Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Had Pledged to Fix the Police — Alex Kueng is one of four former officers accused of crimes in the killing of Mr. Floyd, which happened on his third shift. His decision to join the force had frayed friendships.
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Michele L. Norris / Washington Post:
George and Martha Washington enslaved 300 people. Let's start with their names. — Since this moment of reckoning has led to a prickly discussion about our Founding Fathers' slave-owning pasts, let us take a moment, starting with George Washington, to think about the people they enslaved.
Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot / The White House:
President Donald J. Trump's Letter to the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago — Dear Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot: — I write to you today to call your attention to and urge action on the devastating violence in Chicago. While I have been heartened to see crime reductions nationally …
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New York Times:
‘PizzaGate’ Conspiracy Theory Thrives Anew in the TikTok Era — The false theory targeting Democrats, now fueled by QAnon and teenagers on TikTok, is entangling new targets like Justin Bieber. — WASHINGTON — Four minutes into a video that was posted on Instagram last month …
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
Stop Firing the Innocent — As companies and organizations of all sorts have scrambled to institute a zero-tolerance policy on racism over the past few weeks, some of them have turned out to be more interested in signaling their good intentions than punishing actual culprits.
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 …
New York Times:
How Trump and the Black Lives Matter Movement Changed White Voters' Minds — A majority of American voters support demonstrations on police brutality, and many see the president as ill-equipped on racial justice. — A majority of American voters support the demonstrations against police brutality …
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 …
Associated Press:
Nurses, doctors feel strain as virus races through Arizona — PHOENIX (AP) — They saw the ominous photos: Crowded hospitals, exhausted nurses, bodies piling up in morgues. It was far away, in New York, northern Italy and other distant places. — Now, after three months of anxiously waiting …
Tom Lyden / FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Minneapolis Council members get private security after threats — MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The City of Minneapolis is spending $4,500 a day for private security for three council members who have received threats following the police killing of George Floyd, FOX 9 has learned.
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Evan Semones / Politico:
Grassley chides Trump, Fox News for answer on second term agenda — Sen. Chuck Grassley laid blame on Fox News — and President Donald Trump — on Saturday over failing to articulate what his administration's second term priorities would be during a recent interview with the news organization.