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Lawfare:
The Roger Stone Commutation Is Even More Corrupt Than It Seems — President Trump's commutation of the prison sentence of his long-time confidante Roger Stone is wholly unsurprising. Indeed, given Trump's repeated teasing of the matter over the life of the case against Stone …
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The White House, The Dispatch, Vanity Fair, The Week and Reason
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Washington Post:
Trump's commutation of Roger Stone's sentence is an unforgivable betrayal of his office — THERE ARE no doubt thousands of people in federal prison who deserved a presidential commutation more than Roger Stone. But after President Trump's intervention on Friday, Mr. Stone will serve none of his prison sentence.
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Slate, Common Dreams, The Guardian, IJR, Outside the Beltway, Bloomberg, The Hill, Reason, Mother Jones, Power Line, Balloon Juice, Axios and The Crime Report
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Stone Walks Free in One of the Greatest Scandals in American History — Roger Stone's best trick was always his upper-class-twit wardrobe. He seemed such a farcical character, such a Klaxon-alarm-from-a-mile-away goofball—who could take him seriously? — Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen: They had tradecraft.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Mediaite, The Root and BuzzFeed News
USA Today:
Resolve after appalling Roger Stone commutation: Don't let Donald Trump break us, America.
Lawfare:
Trump's Aberrant Pardons and Commutations
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Bloomberg, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway and New York Times
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Mitt Romney Slams Donald Trump's Commutation For Roger Stone: ‘Historic Corruption’
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Pelosi blasts Roger Stone commutation as ‘an act of staggering corruption’ as Trump defends move
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Axios, Twitchy and HillReporter.com
Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Commuting Stone's Sentence, Trump Goes Where Nixon Would Not
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Talking Points Memo, NBC News and Mother Jones
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Debunking 12 lies and falsehoods from the White House statement on Roger Stone's commutation
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Bloomberg, Althouse, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
Gerald Tracy / WOAI:
‘I thought this was a hoax’: Patient in their 30s dies after attending ‘COVID party’ — SAN ANTONIO, Texas (WOAI/KABB) - A patient in their 30s died from the coronavirus after attending what is known as a “COVID party,” according to health care officials. Chief Medical Officer …
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Fox News, Raw Story, Mediaite, HillReporter.com, The Sun and New York Post
Jeremy Kohler / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Portland Place couple who confronted protesters have a long history of not backing down — ST. LOUIS — When Black Lives Matter protesters marched up Kingshighway on June 28 and turned through an iron gate into the magnificent private street of Portland Place, they encountered a couple who have for years …
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Quiz Category
Christine Byers / KSDK-TV:
McCloskeys served with search warrant, police take rifle shown in viral pictures — Sources told 5 On Your Side police seized one of the weapons, the rifle, from the couple and they told police their attorney has the pistol seen in photos. — ST. LOUIS — 5 On Your Side …
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KMOV-TV, The Western Journal, The Daily Wire, Disrn, Twitchy, The Daily Caller, Power Line, The Hill, The Federalist, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, TheBlaze and New York Post
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Jonathan Karl / Washington Post:
It's the duty of the White House press secretary to hold briefings. But not like this. — Jonathan Karl, the author of “Front Row at the Trump Show,” covers the White House for ABC News and is president of the White House Correspondents' Association. — On the Monday following President …
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Mediaite
Sonny Soleil / WTF Florida?:
Commissioner who Voted Against Masks in Critical Condition with COVID-19 — St. Augustine (WTFF) - St. Johns County Commissioner Paul Waldron caught the coronavirus and went into septic shock after voting against a motion to mandate masks for county employees last week.
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WJXT-TV and Florida Politics
CNN:
Democrats, it's too soon to cheer Trump's defeat — Opinion by Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan — Arick Wierson, who writes frequently for CNN Opinion, is a six-time Emmy Award-winning television producer and a former senior media adviser to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Sputnik News and Instapundit
Associated Press:
Coronavirus deaths take a long-expected turn for the worse — NEW YORK (AP) — A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic. — The number of deaths per day from the virus had been falling for months …
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Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
'I Couldn't Do Anything': The Virus and an E.R. Doctor's Suicide — Dr. Lorna Breen was unflappable — until she faced a new enemy. — On an afternoon in early April, while New York City was in the throes of what would be the deadliest days of the coronavirus pandemic …
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
White House insiders are worried that ‘unhinged conspiracy theorists’ are being given more and more powerful roles at the Pentagon — 'It's like these individuals are living in a complete alternate reality,' one source told me, adding that the idea of such people still serving in government was ‘terrifying’
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Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Don Jr. plans convention-week Biden book — Donald Trump Jr., in quarantine since girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle tested positive for the coronavirus, says he's used the time to finish a book that he'll self-publish the week of the Republican convention, at the end of August.
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The Hill and The Intellectualist
Ben Brachfeld / BKLYNER:
Your Absentee Vote May Not Count — Thousands of absentee ballots in Brooklyn and across the city are likely to be invalidated by the city's Board of Elections, after many were not marked with a cancellation notice, or postmark, at post offices in the city.
New York Times:
'I Don't Want to Go Back': Many Teachers Are Fearful and Angry Over Pressure to Return — Teachers say crucial questions about how schools will stay clean, keep students physically distanced and prevent further spread of the virus have not been answered. — Many of the nation's 3.5 million …
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Just The News, Gizmodo, NPR, The Daily Caller and Deadline
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
NBC Contributor Reveals He Never Had Coronavirus After Network Documented His Recovery — An NBC medical expert who was brought on air nearly a dozen times to detail his struggle with COVID-19 never had the virus, he revealed this week. — After believing he had the coronavirus in spite …
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The Daily Caller, Townhall, Disrn, The Federalist, Breitbart, us20.forward-to-friend.com and The Gateway Pundit
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Republicans Who Want to Destroy Trump — Their party's a lost cause. America isn't. — Should you have any doubt about how passionately George Conway and the other Never Trumpers at the Lincoln Project want to defeat the president, check out their ads.
USA Today:
‘Republicans are really fed up’: GOP increasingly splits with Trump as his polls drag — WASHINGTON - Weeks before President Donald Trump accepts his party's nomination, cracks are deepening within the party as a host of GOP lawmakers distance themselves from the Republican standard bearer …
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Reopened schools in Europe and Asia have largely avoided coronavirus outbreaks. They have lessons for the U.S. — BRUSSELS — Many countries around the world are pushing ahead with plans for full-time, full-capacity, in-person classes, after having largely avoided coronavirus outbreaks linked …
WTTG-TV:
Army's ‘Captain America’ who served nearly 12 combat tours dies by suicide after moving to DC — Master Sgt. Andrew “Andy” Christian Marckesano — The enemy could never break him, but what this decorated Green Beret eventually found was that his enemy was within.
Nathan L. Gonzales / Roll Call:
Rating changes: Democratic control of Senate more likely because of Trump — Alaska, South Carolina seats in play; McSally an underdog — ANALYSIS — After Donald Trump's unexpected victory in 2016, there's a temptation to avoid making political projections. But one election result shouldn't cause us to ignore the data.
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The Guardian
Associated Press:
Mail carrier in West Virginia pleads guilty to attempted election fraud — ELKINS, W.Va. (AP) - A West Virginia postal carrier has pleaded guilty to altering mail-in requests for absentee voter ballots. — Thomas Cooper entered the plea Thursday in federal court in Elkins.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Georgia. Ohio. Texas. Democrats Tell Biden to Go Big (He's Being Cautious). — This election, some Democrats argue, offers the party the provocative possibility of a new path to the presidency, even as others warn against overconfidence. — WASHINGTON — With President Trump's poll numbers sliding …
Richard A. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Says He ‘Aced’ a Cognition Test. What Does That Tell Us? — If the president wants to impress us with his intellect, he should take the SAT. — President Trump said on Thursday that he “aced” a cognitive test administered at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Associated Press:
Biden forges brand of liberal populism to use against Trump — WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden stood in a Pennsylvania metal works shop, just miles from his boyhood home, and pledged to define his presidency by a sweeping economic agenda beyond anything Americans have seen since the Great Depression …
Ryan Faircloth / Star Tribune:
Feds deny Walz's request for aid to rebuild after riots — More than 1,500 buildings suffered damage in the unrest after George Floyd's death. — TEXT SIZE — The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz's request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged …
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