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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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Slate, Mediaite, The Guardian, New York Post and Associated Press
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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 and Bloomberg
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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Evan Semones / Politico:
Pence postpones Florida, Arizona campaign events as coronavirus cases spike — Vice President Mike Pence has postponed campaign events in Florida and Arizona “out of an abundance of caution” as both states experience a spike in coronavirus cases, a Trump campaign spokesperson confirmed Saturday.
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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
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 …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Daily Caller
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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
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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Tate Reeves, The Hill and Rolling Stone
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Kayleigh Skinner / Mississippi Today:
‘Historic moment’: Lawmakers clear difficult hurdle to consider bill that would remove the Mississippi state flag
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
‘The Flag is Coming Down’: Lawmakers Vote to Change Mississippi State Flag
Geoff Pender / Mississippi Today:
House and Senate clear the path to remove Mississippi state flag
House and Senate clear the path to remove Mississippi state flag
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Axios
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
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.
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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Mediaite
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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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 …
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.
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
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 US Sun, Just The News, Sputnik News, The Daily Caller and IJR
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 …
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 …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida Democrats recoil at Karen Bass VP float — Florida Democrats are rising in opposition to the news Joe Biden is vetting a running mate who once lamented the death of “Comandante en jefe” Fidel Castro. — An early ally of Biden's presidential campaign, California Rep. Karen Bass' name surfaced …
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Townhall, New York Post, Fox News and The National Interest
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 …
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 …
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
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.
CBS News:
Federal officials allowed distribution of COVID-19 antibody tests after they knew many were flawed — Congress is investigating why the FDA didn't regulate the antibody tests flooding the market during the pandemic. 60 Minutes reports, Sunday. — Federal officials failed to immediately stop …
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Daily Kos
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.