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Washington Post:
Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media — GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, PA. — For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence …
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Moscow Has a Field Day With Trump's Fireworks at Mt. Russia-More — Kremlin-controlled media continue to flatter the American president they sometimes call their “agent.” But they know he's in trouble, and the Putin bromance is on ice just now. — Kremlin-controlled Russian state media set …
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The Hill and One America News Network
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CNN:
Russian democracy is a farce. Putin wants the same fate for America — Some Russian voters back a ploy by Putin to rule until 2036 — Garry Kasparov is the chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
Politico:
Donald Trump's shrinking electoral map — Donald Trump's campaign once spoke of expanding his electoral map into blue-leaning territory like Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and New Hampshire. — Now, winning at least a handful of those states has become a matter of survival.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump and Biden in close race in Georgia
Maeve Reston / CNN:
With inflammatory July 4 message, Trump distracts from the real threat to America — (CNN)As the nation marked a somber Fourth of July with many Americans confined to their homes amid an alarming rise in coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump used his stage on the White House's South Lawn Saturday …
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The Moderate Voice, Mother Jones, People.com, Politico, Just The News, NBC News and The Hill
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn won't confirm Trump's promises on vaccine timing
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn won't confirm Trump's promises on vaccine timing
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The Hill, IJR, One America News Network and New York Post
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
David Horowitz's Book Predicting a Trump Victory Was Not Well-Timed — In these dark times for the Trump reelection campaign, one prophet has emerged to give hope to the faithful. David Horowitz's latest book, Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win, has won cheerful acclaim.
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba Confirmed in Florida — WHAT'S NEXT? — Health officials in Florida have sounded the alarm over the discovery of a rare, brain-eating amoeba in the county that encompasses Tampa and several other cities. The Florida Department of Health announced the news Friday …
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Fox News, New York Post and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Catherine Lucey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Jumps on Preserving Monuments as Winning Campaign Issue — The president's aides see his defense of statues and monuments as a unifying issue beyond his political base — President Trump has seized on saving statues and preserving monuments to American history as a winning issue for his re-election …
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
239 Experts With 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne — The W.H.O. has resisted mounting evidence that viral particles floating indoors are infectious, some scientists say. The agency maintains the research is still inconclusive. — The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘Toe-tally-terry-tism’ speech — Perhaps President Trump's remarks at Mount Rushmore on Friday will become known as the super-spreader speech, where a few thousand people, nearly all unmasked, sat next to each other (on chairs actually tied together, which prevented social distancing) …
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American Greatness and NBC News
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
McGrath defeats Booker in Kentucky Senate Democratic primary, NBC News projects — Amy McGrath has won Kentucky's U.S. Senate Democratic primary, NBC News projects, edging out progressive Charles Booker in a tougher-than-expected race for the right to face Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November.
Caroline Graham / Daily Mail:
Nightmare in New York: How Covid-19, BLM protests and a liberal mayor are turning the city into a no-go zone as murders skyrocket, shops are looted and 500,000 middle-class residents flee — Two bullet-ridden bodies lay sprawled on bloodstained concrete steps.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Ghislaine Maxwell prepared to snitch on ‘big names’ to save herself — Many powerful people connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — including Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Leslie Wexner — could be “extremely worried right now” following Maxwell's arrest — because she wrongly believed they were protecting her.
Yascha Mounk / Persuasion:
The Purpose of Persuasion — To defend the values of a free society with courage and conviction, we need to build institutions of our own. — 1 hr — Friends, — I'm floored by the response of the past three days. — Once I hit send, this article will land in the inboxes of over 15,000 people.
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Protester dies after struck by speeding car at Black Lives Matter freeway demonstration in Seattle — One other demonstrator hit by the luxury vehicle was critically injured. — A young protester has died from injuries she suffered when a luxury car plowed into her and another woman during …
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Associated Press, The Hill and Boston Herald
Associated Press:
Trump Cabinet members look to reassure battleground voters — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tromped through a strawberry festival in central Florida, detailing the government's new trade pact. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about foreign policy at a roundtable in south Florida.
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Political Wire
Baltimore Sun:
Christopher Columbus statue near Little Italy brought down, tossed into Baltimore's Inner Harbor — A crowd of shouting protesters yanked down the Christopher Columbus statue near Little Italy, dragged it to the edge of Baltimore's Inner Harbor and rolled it with a splash into the water …
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The Daily Caller, Just The News, The Hill, NPR, Breitbart, Outside the Beltway, Slate, Fox News, Axios, The Gateway Pundit and WJLA-TV
Vince Bzdek / Gazette:
In the rush to do the right thing, journalism can't abandon its standards — The first time I got in a car to teach my son how to drive, he blew through three stop signs without blinking. — “Hey,” I said gently as we came to the fourth. “You notice those red octagons back there?”
ABC FOX Montana:
Congressman Greg Gianforte, Kristen Juras suspend public events after potential COVID-19 exposure — BOZEMAN- Congressman Greg Gianforte and Lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Kristen Juras are suspending public events a potential exposure to COVID-19. — On Tuesday, Gianforte's wife …
Washington Post:
In an era of racial unrest, Americans converging in D.C. to celebrate the Fourth of July question the meaning of freedom — More than two centuries after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Americans converged on the Mall on Saturday for the Fourth of July during a season of protests …
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Bloomberg and Outside the Beltway
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