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CNN:
Trump thanks ‘great people’ shown in Twitter video in which a man chants ‘white power’  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump on Sunday widely shared a video he said is from the Villages, a retirement community in Florida, in which a man driving a golf cart with Trump campaign posters is seen chanting “white power.”
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Removes Tweet With ‘White Power’ Reference  —  Republican Sen. Tim Scott had called the Twitter post ‘indefensible’ after the president shared it  —  President Trump removed a tweet Sunday in which he shared a video showing one of his supporters yelling “white power” at an opponent at a political rally in Florida.
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Video retweeted by Trump shows supporter yelling “white power”  —  President Trump tweeted, “Thank you to the great people of The Villages” on Sunday morning in response to a video of protesters verbally clashing with Trump supporters — including one man who yelled “white power” while passing in a golf cart.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump promotes video showing apparent supporter shouting ‘white power’  —  President Donald Trump promoted a video on Twitter Sunday morning showing a man in a golf cart with Trump campaign gear shouting “white power.”  —  The video, which Trump said was from the Florida retirement community known …
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump promotes video of a supporter saying ‘white power’  —  President Trump promoted a video Sunday that includes a Trump supporter saying “white power” while facing off with counterprotesters, calling his supporters at the Florida retirement community where the demonstration occurred “great people.”
New York Times:
Biden Criticizes Trump Over Intelligence on Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops  —  The White House denied that President Trump was briefed on the classified assessment, even though his staff has been discussing the matter since March.  —  WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr …
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Alistair Bunkall / Sky News:
Russia paid Taliban fighters to attack British troops in Afghanistan
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump pushes back on NY Times report on Russian Afghan attacks, says ‘nobody briefed’ him, Pence
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Axios
Rishika Dugyala / Politico:
Pelosi on Trump: ‘With him, all roads lead to Putin’
Discussion: NBC News, ABC News and Political Wire
Lisa Shumaker / Reuters:
Crowds pack Arizona river as U.S. posts record COVID cases for three days running  —  (Reuters) - Hot and sunny weather in Arizona led to crowds tubing on at least one river this weekend as that state and a dozen others face the worst surge in coronavirus cases since the pandemic started.
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Trump Had Four Years To Fill 93 US Attorney Spots.  Seven Are Women And Only Two Are Black.  —  WASHINGTON — When Audrey Strauss became the acting US attorney in Manhattan after the dramatic showdown between her boss Geoffrey Berman and Attorney General Bill Barr last weekend …
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New York Times:   How Michael Flynn's Defense Team Found Powerful Allies
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Think twice about why the media attacks William Barr
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Health secretary says “window is closing” to get coronavirus under control  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that the “window is closing” for the U.S. to take action and get the coronavirus under control, calling the current state of the outbreak a …
Discussion: The Hill
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.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
CBS News:
Record number of Americans say fight against coronavirus going badly — CBS News poll  —  As COVID-19 cases rise across the country, Americans offer some of their most dire views on the pandemic to date: record numbers say efforts against the outbreak are going badly (including new highs saying efforts …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Political Wire
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Trump is the only thing holding Democrats' uneasy coalition together  —  If elected, Biden will need to manage a party supported by socialists as well as suburbanites.  The backlash will be fierce if he's unable to steer a pragmatic path.  —  Here's the good news for Democrats …
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
Only two US states are reporting a decline in new coronavirus cases  —  (CNN)Only two US states are reporting a decline in new coronavirus cases compared to last week — Connecticut and Rhode Island.  —  A rise was reported in a staggering 36 states, including Florida …
Discussion: Q13 FOX News, Axios and WISC-TV
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Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Cases Pass 10 Million Globally
Discussion: Reuters and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
Masks Could Help Stop Coronavirus.  So Why Are They Still Controversial?  —  Confusing government advice at the start of the pandemic and cultural misgivings may have limited acceptance  —  As countries begin to reopen their economies, face masks, an essential tool for slowing the spread of coronavirus …
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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MSNBC:
Trump is losing says Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver  —  Donald Trump is ‘clearly losing’ according to Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver.  Joy Reid speaks to Weaver, one of the leaders of the PAC founded by Republicans with the goal of defeating Donald Trump.
Sarah Mucha / CNN:
Biden, Trump campaigns release staff diversity data  —  (CNN)Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Saturday reported diversity data for its staff for the first time, disclosing that more than one-third of the presumptive Democratic nominee's staff is comprised of people of color and is majority female.
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Wilson Center:
Statement from The Wilson Center  —  The Wilson Center was chartered by Congress in 1968 as the official memorial to President Wilson.  The namesake of our institution - while a visionary in international affairs - held racist views and implemented racist policies as President of Princeton University and as President of this country.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The data is in: Fox News may have kept millions from taking the coronavirus threat seriously  —  It's another one of those Trump Era realities best described as unsurprising but nevertheless shocking.  —  Three serious research efforts have put numerical weight — yes, data-driven evidence …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Cable News Networks to Team Up on Convention Coverage, Limiting Staff Exposure  —  CNN, MSNBC, Fox News in talks to coordinate pool coverage to reduce number of journalists in potentially infectious areas  —  Two years ago, CNN staffers descended on Charlotte, N.C., to start planning coverage …
Nolan Clay / Oklahoman.com:
Some OKC protesters charged with terrorism, rioting, assault  —  Protesters blamed for the violence that broke out in Oklahoma City the last weekend in May were charged Friday with terrorism, rioting and assault.  —  If convicted of the felony offenses, they could be sentenced to years in prison.
Discussion: Redstate and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Trump Faces Mounting Defections From a Once-Loyal Group: Older White Voters  —  No Democrat has won or broken even with voters over 65 in two decades.  But seniors' dismay about President Trump could change that.  —  Clifford Wagner, an 80-year-old Republican in Tucson, Ariz., never cared for President Trump.
USA Today:
Schiff: Bolton could have made a difference but he chose to make a profit with his book  —  Last week, we witnessed the reemergence of John Bolton, the president's former national security adviser, and the release of his book.  In it, Bolton describes his personal experiences with Trump …
Discussion: IJR
Molly Jong-Fast / Vogue:
New York Is Ending Its Lockdown.  I'm Not Sure I'm Ready to End Mine.  —  I've been in my New York City apartment since early March.  I had just gotten back from covering the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C., where one of the high-level participants tested positive …
 
 
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Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
1 Dead After Man Shoots Into Crowd at Breonna Taylor Protest
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Week
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Co-founder of Maryland group that protested for state to reopen tests positive for coronavirus
Discussion: New York Post
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Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times:
In ‘God, guns and Trump’ country, simmering doubts about the president
Andrew J. Campa / Los Angeles Times:
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