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12:45 PM ET, July 9, 2020

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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court says Manhattan prosecutor may see Trump's financial records, denies Congress access for now  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Trump's assertion that he enjoys absolute immunity while in office, allowing a New York prosecutor to pursue a subpoena of the president's private and business financial records.
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Axios:
Supreme Court says Manhattan prosecutors can obtain Trump's financial records  —  President Trump's banks and accounting firms must turn over his financial records to Manhattan prosecutors, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.  —  Why it matters: The ruling is a stinging loss for Trump …
Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story and Mediaite
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rules Trump Cannot Block Release of Financial Records  —  Two rulings clear the way for prosecutors in New York to see President Trump's financial records, but the justices stopped Congress for now.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for prosecutors …
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court says Manhattan DA can get Trump's tax records, but rejects bid by House Democrats  — The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered split opinions in two cases over whether President Donald Trump can shield his tax records from investigators, handing a win to the Manhattan district attorney …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
SCOTUS rules against Trump on financial records subpoena in NY criminal investigation  —  The justices sent the New York case back to a lower court in the 7-2 decision.  —  In a history-making decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump cannot block a subpoena …
Discussion: Blue Virginia
New York Times:
Supreme Court Rules Nearly Half of Oklahoma Is Indian Reservation
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court rules Trump not immune from New York grand jury process
Discussion: Axios, Mediaite and Contemptor
Washington Post:
Supreme Court says much of eastern Oklahoma remains Indian land
Discussion: Associated Press
John McCormack / National Review:   Biden Says He Would Rescind Exemption for Little Sisters of the Poor
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Joy Reid Takes Nightly Anchor Slot at MSNBC  —  She becomes one of the few Black women to anchor a major American evening news program.  The move was made by new leadership at NBC News, which runs the liberal-leaning cable network.  —  Joy Reid, who rose to television fame as a sharp critic …
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:   Joy Reid named new MSNBC host for 7 p.m. hour
NBC Universal:   MSNBC NAMES JOY REID AS THE HOST OF “THE REIDOUT” - WEEKNIGHTS AT 7PM ET ON MSNBC
David Folkenflik / NPR:
U.S. Broadcasting Agency Will Not Extend Visas For Its Foreign Journalists  —  Dozens of foreign nationals working as journalists in the U.S. for Voice of America, the federal government's international broadcaster, will not have their visas extended once they expire, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.
Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
Rudy Giuliani Calls New York Police After Being Pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen  —  Just a few weeks after the ‘Who is America?’ star made a clandestine appearance at a far-right rally, he managed to trick Donald Trump's personal attorney into an interview.  —  Sacha Baron Cohen strikes again.
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Republicans look into holding their convention outdoors  —  The Republican convention in Jacksonville, Fla., next month could be moved to an outdoor stadium as cases of the novel coronavirus in the state increase, according to several officials with knowledge of the plans.
Discussion: The Guardian
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WJXT-TV:
Lawsuit argues GOP Convention will be a ‘nuisance injurious’ to welfare of Jacksonville
New York Times:
Where's Trump's Financial Disclosure?  The White House Blames the Pandemic  —  The annual report was due last week under federal ethics rules, but the White House says it needs more time.  The president was already given a 45-day extension.  —  President Trump's annual financial disclosure report …
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Maegan Vazquez / CNN:   Trump granted another 45-day extension to file annual financial disclosure
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Redfield clarifies CDC guidelines for school reopenings after coronavirus closings  —  Trump on Wednesday said he disagreed with the CDC's back-to-school guidance  —  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield clarified Thursday that the agency would not be revising …
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Naomi Thomas / CNN:
CDC director says agency won't revise school reopening guidelines despite WH push
Discussion: WHDH-TV, IJR and POLITICUSUSA
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Looks to Curb Covid-19 Economic Damage With ‘Buy American’ Plan  —  Presumptive Democratic nominee to propose in Pennsylvania speech limiting dependence on imports for critical medical supplies  —  WASHINGTON—Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected Thursday to outline a plan …
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Scott Detrow / NPR:   Democratic Task Forces Deliver Biden A Blueprint For A Progressive Presidency
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Biden proposes $700 billion-plus ‘Buy American’ campaign
Discussion: Axios
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's America Is Slipping Away  —  Donald Trump is running for the presidency of an America that no longer exists.  —  Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly reprised two of Richard Nixon's most memorable rallying cries, promising to deliver “law and order” for the “silent majority.”
Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
Health official: Trump rally ‘likely’ source of virus surge  —  FILE - In this March 17, 2020, file photo, Tulsa Health Department director Dr. Bruce Dart takes part in a news conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa that drew thousands of people in late June …
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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Chinese Entity and Officials Pursuant to Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act  —  Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned one Chinese government entity and four current or former government officials …
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump who?  Senate GOP candidates in tight races avoid any mention of the president in campaign ads.  —  In his most recent television ad, Colorado's Cory Gardner cheerfully touts an outdoor conservation bill he recently wrote.  Arizona's Martha McSally denounces “communist China” in her 30-second clips.
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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
This year's Senate races spell disaster for the Republican Party
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Margaret Wente / Quillette:
It Wasn't My Cancelation That Bothered Me.  It Was the Cowardice of Those Who Let It Happen  —  It doesn't take much to get cancelled these days.  Last month, my turn came around.  The experience was unpleasant, but also completely ludicrous.  And I learned a lot.  I learned how easily an institution will cave to a mob.
Marja Novak / Reuters:
U.S. first lady Melania Trump statue set on fire in Slovenia  —  ROZNO, Slovenia (Reuters) - A wooden sculpture of U.S. first lady Melania Trump was torched near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, on the night of July Fourth, as Americans celebrated U.S. Independence Day, said the artist who commissioned the sculpture.
William Wan / Washington Post:
America is running short on masks, gowns and gloves.  Again.  —  Health-care workers are scrambling for supplies and reusing equipment as the coronavirus pandemic surges  —  Health-care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are encountering shortages of masks, gowns …
Discussion: CBS Chicago and POLITICUSUSA
NBC New York:
Street in Front of Trump Tower Closes for Black Lives Matter Mural  —  Work on what President Trump called a “symbol of hate” was supposed to start last week before being postponed abruptly  —  New York City will start painting “Black Lives Matter” on Fifth Avenue directly in front …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
The humbling of the Anglo-American world  —  Abandonment of common sense during the pandemic has damaged the US and UK national brands  —  It takes effort to recapture how Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s hastened the demise of the Soviet Union.  Images of that triumphal moment are as fresh as yesterday.
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Mary Trump's Book Gives ‘Crazy Uncle’ a Whole New Meaning  —  FOUR MONTHS AND COUNTING...  With the president's niece, we meet a species we never thought we'd encounter on this Earth: a sane Trump with values and a conscience like the rest of us.  —  BEAST INSIDE
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It's Amazing  —  Why do American cities waste so much space on cars?  —  As coronavirus lockdowns crept across the globe this winter and spring, an unusual sound fell over the world's metropolises: the hush of streets that were suddenly, blessedly free of cars.
Heather Mac Donald / Wall Street Journal:
I Cited Their Study, So They Disavowed It  —  If scientists retract research that challenges reigning orthodoxies, politics will drive scholarship.  —  The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is a peer-reviewed journal that claims to publish “only the highest quality scientific research.”
Discussion: TheBlaze
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The Republican coronavirus meatgrinder  —  The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic continues to accelerate.  July 7 saw over 54,000 confirmed cases, a 72-percent increase over the previous two weeks.  Many hospital intensive care units are completely full in Texas, Florida, Arizona …
Discussion: Raw Story
John F. Harris / Politico:
A President Who Makes Us Puke—Just Like He Was Hired To Do  —  Probably you used to keep a bottle in your bathroom at home, or your parents did.  The stuff is called ipecac, and it is what physicians call an emetic.  —  The idea was that if someone swallowed something bad …
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
‘Defending a Free Society’ Requires Radically Changing This One  —  Americans live in a society that warehouses more than 2 million people in penitentiaries rife with state-ordered torture and unpunished sexual abuse; a society that lives off the “essential” labor of workers who have no right to vote …
MSN:
Ghislaine Maxwell Taps Broad Range of Legal Talent for Defense  —  (Bloomberg) — Ghislaine Maxwell tapped two former hard-hitting federal prosecutors and a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst-turned-lawyer to defend her against child sex-trafficking charges tied to her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein.
 
 
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Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News:
Another 1.3 million workers filed for unemployment insurance
Associated Press:
Missing Seoul mayor's body found after massive search
Discussion: The Week
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
OAN Host Embraced by Trump Collaborated With White Supremacists: Report
Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org:
Understanding the collapse of liberal Zionism
Discussion: New York Times
USA Today:
‘I would be very careful in the middle of the street’: Drivers have hit protesters 66 times since May 27
Discussion: The Hill
Stella Morabito / The Federalist:
Why Do So Many White Women Hate Themselves?
 Earlier Items: 
John Aguilar / Denver Post:
Denver suburb passes resolution shielding officers from key portion of Colorado's new police reform law
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Egypt tries to silence its critics in the United States by jailing their relatives
Angelo Codevilla / The American Mind:
Scamocracy in America  —  How a fraudulent ruling class plundered …
CNN:
Manhattan federal prosecutor ousted by Barr to testify before House panel
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump's culture wars worked in 2016. His aides worry the world has changed.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Post:
NYPD limits retirement applications amid 400 percent surge this week
Discussion: Townhall
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Probes Chinese Exile, Including Work With Former Trump Aide Steve Bannon
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Elaine Glusac / New York Times:
On Some Planes, Empty Rows While Passengers Crowd Together
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Major news outlets like Fox, MSNBC, and CBS are leveraging their reporters' personal TikTok accounts rather than the companies' own to reach younger audiences

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The Creative Rights in AI Coalition, representing nearly 40 UK creative groups, urges the UK government to protect copyright rules ahead of an AI consultation

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Virgin Music Group, which is owned by UMG, strikes a deal to acquire Downtown Music Group Holdings for $775M, with the deal expected to close in H2 2025

 
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