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The Daily Beast:
Former Melania Trump Confidante to Release an ‘Explosive’ Tell-All Before the Election — Another blockbuster Trump book is set to hit shelves next month and contain “explosive” revelations about first lady Melania Trump. — Following months of legal drama, threats, and public controversy …
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Raw Story, CANNONFIRE and Political Wire
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: White House searches for intel leakers — DRIVING THE DAY — GOOD TUESDAY MORNING — a few interesting nuggets from the White House world: — SEARCHING FOR LEAKERS ... THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION has opened an internal investigation to try to uncover who leaked intelligence …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Root and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is Coming Out With Another Dishy Trump Tell-All
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is Coming Out With Another Dishy Trump Tell-All
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The Guardian
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Small Biz Rescue Bailed Out Kushner's Family, Obama's Aides and Other Political Elite — The PPP program was designed to help small businesses. And it has. But some of the most connected figures in politics also cashed in. — When the Trump administration began implementing …
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POLITICUSUSA, ProPublica, MeidasTouch, The Intellectualist and Politico
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Biden-founded law firm, as well as a company tied to Pelosi, received PPP funds, docs show
Biden-founded law firm, as well as a company tied to Pelosi, received PPP funds, docs show
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Outside the Beltway, Breitbart and The Western Journal
ICE:
SEVP modifies temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online courses during fall 2020 semester — WASHINGTON - The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) announced modifications Monday to temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online classes due to the pandemic for the fall 2020 semester.
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fas.harvard.edu:
Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year
Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year
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CNN, Princeton University News, National Review, The Boston Globe, Townhall, The Verge, UPROXX, New York Post, CNBC, Disrn, Breitbart, Harvard University Gazette, Mediaite, The Hill, Outkick, Gothamist and ProFootballTalk
Alison Durkee / Forbes:
ICE Says Foreign Students Can't Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite Pandemic
ICE Says Foreign Students Can't Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite Pandemic
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New York Times and Instapundit
WTXL-TV:
FL Education Commissioner requires all Florida school districts to reopen campuses in August — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran has issued an executive order requiring all of Florida's public K-12 schools to reopen in August.
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Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida Education Commissioner mandates all schools to reopen in August — Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an emergency order Monday, requiring all schools to open in the fall and laying out the requirements districts must meet to offer any sort of non-traditional remote instruction …
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The Hill, Raw Story and New York Post
Inez Feltscher Stepman / The American Mind:
What Will Become of Our Schools?
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Right-Wing Media Outlets Duped by a Middle East Propaganda Campaign — DOES NOT EXIST — Conservative sites like Newsmax and Washington Examiner have published Middle East hot takes from “experts” who are actually fake personas pushing propaganda. — If you want a hot take about the Middle East, Raphael Badani is your man.
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Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Florida teen dies after conspiracy theorist mom takes her to church ‘COVID party’ and tries to treat her with Trump-approved drug: report … Report typos and corrections to: [email protected].
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Florida COVID Victims and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
A high-risk Florida teen who died from covid-19 attended a huge church party, then was given hydroxychloroquine by her parents, report says — At just 17, Carsyn Leigh Davis had already experienced more challenges than most people face in their entire lives.
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Raw Story and New York Post
Chris Whipple / Washington Post:
Donald Trump, the unbriefable president — Chris Whipple is the author of the forthcoming book “The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future.” — In the wake of reports that Russia offered the Taliban cash bounties to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, the question arises …
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Trump's intel briefer breaks her silence
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Pompeo: Trump administration is “looking at” TikTok ban — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Monday that the Trump administration is “looking at” a ban on Chinese social media app TikTok. — Why it matters: Lawmakers have long expressed fears that the Chinese government …
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CNBC, One America News Network, The Wrap, The Verge and Breitbart, more at Techmeme »
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
What if Trump loses but insists he won? — On his present trajectory, President Trump is heading for a whopping defeat in November. The Economist says there's nearly a 99 percent chance that Joe Biden will win more popular votes and around a 90 percent chance that he will win more electoral college votes.
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Raw Story
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Jesse Wegman / New York Times:
Can We Please Pick the President by Popular Vote Now?
Can We Please Pick the President by Popular Vote Now?
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The Daily Signal, Politico and TheBlaze
CNN:
Everyday words and phrases that have racist connotations — (CNN)The words and phrases permeate nearly every aspect of our society. — “Master bedrooms” in our homes. “Blacklists” and “whitelists” in computing. The idiom “sold down the river” in our everyday speech.
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Breitbart, more at Mediagazer »
David Roth / New Yorker:
How “Starship Troopers” Aligns with Our Moment of American Defeat — It has become clear, in these last decades of decadence, decline, towering institutional violence, and rampant bad taste, that American life is stuck somewhere inside the Paul Verhoeven cinematic universe.
Adam Marcus / Retraction Watch:
Authors of study on race and police killings ask for its retraction, citing “continued misuse” in the media — The authors of a controversial paper on race and police shootings say they are retracting the article, which became a flashpoint in the debate over killings by police …
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson suggests Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs in Iraq, hates America — Before launching a broadside against Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Fox News host Tucker Carlson acknowledged that it's not easy to go after a Purple Heart recipient who lost both her legs while serving her country in Iraq.
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Talking Points Memo, Althouse, Mediaite and The Federalist
Washington Post:
Trump plumbed new depths of depravity this Fourth of July — IT SHOULD be no surprise that President Trump has chosen to center his reelection campaign on appeals to racism and the demonization of his opponents. After all, that is what he did from the opening of his 2016 run with his invocation …
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Washington Examiner, NPR, Vanity Fair, ABC News, Al Jazeera, TheBlaze, Mediaite, Bloomberg, The American Independent and New York Post
Jan Ransom / New York Times:
Amy Cooper Faces Charges After Calling Police on Black Bird Watcher — Ms. Cooper was captured on video calling the police after Christian Cooper asked her to keep her dog on a leash in Central Park. — A white woman who called the police and falsely accused a Black man of threatening …
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Manhattan District …, Patterico's Pontifications, Just The News, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, The Hill, ABC News, The Root and Axios
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Claims It ‘Mistakenly Eliminated’ Trump Out of Photo With Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — WHOOPSIE — Fox News on Monday morning apologized for cropping President Donald Trump out of a photograph of him posing with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell …
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Gizmodo, POLITICUSUSA and Vanity Fair, more at Mediagazer »
Politico:
Republicans in danger of losing huge portion of their women senators — Senate Republicans could lose nearly half of the women currently in their caucus come November after recently making painstaking gains — the latest potential blow to the party in the Trump era.
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Scripting News
New York Times:
Months Into Virus Crisis, U.S. Cities Still Lack Testing Capacity — With cases surging, some cities are seeing long testing lines and slow results. — Lines for coronavirus tests have stretched around city blocks and tests ran out altogether in at least one site on Monday …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Here are the governors who hurt so many, so needlessly — The Post reports: “Local officials in states with surging coronavirus cases issued dire warnings Sunday about the spread of infections, blaming outbreaks in their communities on early reopenings and saying the virus was rapidly outpacing containment efforts.”
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Twitchy, The Daily Caller and The Texas Tribune
E. Alex Jung / Vulture:
Michaela the Destroyer How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year. — Michaela Coel is not a Christian anymore, but the spirit has never left her. The Bible is the reason she started writing.
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The Stranger
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Listen to ‘The Daily’: Four New Insights About the Coronavirus — Hosted by Michael Barbaro, produced by by Alexandra Leigh Young and Austin Mitchell, and edited by Larissa Anderson — From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.” — Today: As infection rates break …
The Tennessean:
Charlie Daniels, ‘Devil Went Down to Georgia’ singer, famed fiddler and outspoken star, dies at 83 — Charlie Daniels, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame who sang “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” recorded with Bob Dylan and was a vocal supporter of U.S. veterans, died Monday morning after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke.
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TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Deseret News, Outside the Beltway and Deadline
Sara G. Miller / NBC News:
Fauci on a COVID-19 vaccine: ‘We will at least have an answer’ in the winter whether it works — The United States will know by the end of the year or the beginning of 2021 whether a coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious diseases doctor, said Monday.
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One America News Network
Meg Cunningham / ABC News:
Congressional races in New Jersey center around party loyalty, while progressive challengers look to oust moderate Democrats — A number of competitive primaries will wrap on Tuesday. — Yet another round of primaries are coming to a close Tuesday in New Jersey and Delaware …
Paul Karp / The Guardian:
TikTok may be ‘data collection service disguised as social media’, Liberal senator says — Jim Molan's warning to Australian users comes after Nationals MP said app ‘used and abused’ by China's Communist party — Popular video messaging app TikTok may be “a data collection service disguised …