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Robert S. Mueller III / Washington Post:
Robert Mueller: Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so — Robert S. Mueller III served as special counsel for the Justice Department from 2017 to 2019. — The work of the special counsel's office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself.
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Washington Post:
Trump confidant Roger Stone leaped over thousands of inmates seeking clemency — President Trump's commutation of Roger Stone's sentence — over the objections of some aides and without the involvement of his administration's pardon office — allowed an old friend to jump to the front …
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Raw Story, New York Times, New Republic, The Guardian, American Thinker, Just Security, Althouse and Mother Jones
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump's defiant help for Stone adds to tumult in Washington
Trump's defiant help for Stone adds to tumult in Washington
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Redstate
USA Today:
Resolve after appalling Roger Stone commutation: Don't let Donald Trump break us, America.
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
House Democrats promise investigations, legislation after Trump commutes Roger Stone
House Democrats promise investigations, legislation after Trump commutes Roger Stone
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israpundit.org, Redstate, Reuters, The American Spectator, NBC News and New York Post
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Pelosi blasts Roger Stone commutation as ‘an act of staggering corruption’ as Trump defends move
Pelosi blasts Roger Stone commutation as ‘an act of staggering corruption’ as Trump defends move
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Bloomberg, Townhall, The Guardian and Alternet.org
Washington Post:
The once-mocked ‘Never Trump’ movement becomes a sudden campaign force — The grainy first-person testimonial arrived at 2 a.m. in late June. A 40-year-old man with a thick southern accent — shirtless, the red ember of his cigarette glowing in the green twilight between drags — looked into his smartphone and began talking.
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Outside the Beltway, NBC News and Fox News
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Washington Post:
Trump's drop in polls has confident Democrats sensing ‘a tsunami coming’ in November — President Trump's management of this summer's crises has triggered what Democrats detect as a tectonic shift in the political landscape, with party leaders suddenly bullish about not only taking …
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Alternet.org
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Republicans Who Want to Destroy Trump
Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times:
Fox News condemns former Tucker Carlson writer for ‘horrific’ racist, sexist comments — Blake Neff, a writer for “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” has resigned from the top-rated Fox News show amid reports he posted racist, sexist and homophobic comments to an online forum under a pseudonym.
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
‘Horrendous’: Fox News Condemns Racist, Sexist Comments Made By Tucker Carlson's Top Writer in Internal Memo
‘Horrendous’: Fox News Condemns Racist, Sexist Comments Made By Tucker Carlson's Top Writer in Internal Memo
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Raw Story
Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
‘Blood on his hands’: In scathing obituary, woman blames governor for her father's covid-19 death — When her father died of covid-19 last month, Kristin Urquiza minced no words assigning blame. — Mark Urquiza, 65, should still be alive, his daughter wrote in a scathing obituary, published Wednesday in the Arizona Republic.
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials …
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Washington Post, MinnPost, Gizmodo, The Daily Caller, The Wrap, No More Mister Nice Blog, Chicago Sun-Times, Raw Story, NBC News and Axios
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Ella Torres / ABC News:
30-year-old dies after attending ‘COVID party’ thinking virus was a ‘hoax’ — The man told nurses, “I think I made a mistake.” — “I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it's not.” — Those were the final words of a 30-year-old patient who died at Methodist Hospital …
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Gerald Tracy / WOAI:
‘I thought this was a hoax’: Patient in their 30s dies after attending ‘COVID party’
‘I thought this was a hoax’: Patient in their 30s dies after attending ‘COVID party’
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Fox News, Raw Story, New York Post, HillReporter.com, Mediaite and The Sun
Glen Owen / Daily Mail:
Scientists from the Wuhan virus lab have ‘defected’ to the West, reveals senior Trump ally Steve Bannon - as FBI gathers evidence that coronavirus pandemic was caused by an accidental leak — Experts from the Chinese laboratory at the centre of global suspicion over the coronavirus pandemic …
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The Sun, The Gateway Pundit and New York Post
Washington Post:
Fauci is sidelined by the White House as he steps up blunt talk on pandemic — Trump hasn't talked to the scientist since early June, saying 'he's made a lot of mistakes.' — For months, Anthony S. Fauci has played a lead role in America's coronavirus pandemic, as a diminutive …
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The Daily Beast, IJR, ABC News, The Sun and The Hill
Detroit Free Press:
Mitch Albom: Anti-Semitic posts — and tepid reactions — should enrage us — These days, you can lose your job for a tweet. You can lose it for a retweet, or a spouse's tweet. If your message is considered racist or hateful, it can bring an onslaught of condemnation …
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
New York Times: Internal CDC documents warn full reopening of schools is ‘highest risk’ for coronavirus spread — (CNN)Internal documents from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that fully reopening K-12 schools and universities would be the “highest risk” …
Michael Hobbes / HuffPost:
Don't Fall For The ‘Cancel Culture’ Scam — Anecdotes are not data, free speech is not under attack — and elite journalists should find something else to write about. — On Monday, 153 prominent writers, academics and public figures signed their names to a statement entitled “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate.”
David Lynch / Washington Post:
After the fastest recession in U.S. history, the economic recovery may be fizzling — United Airlines announced plans to lay off more than one-third of its 95,000 workers. Brooks Brothers, which first opened for business in 1818, filed for bankruptcy. And Bed Bath and Beyond said it will close 200 stores.
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Raw Story
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Top Experts: DOJ's Bureau of Prison Blocking Michael Cohen Book about Trump Violates First Amendment — On Thursday morning, Michael Cohen, the president's former lawyer and fixer, was returned to prison. Many readers like myself may have passed over the headlines of this particular event thinking it was unsurprising.
Victoria Taft / pjmedia.com:
Portland Rioters Surround Car and Driver Shoots His Way Out — Every night for the past six weeks in Portland, Oregon, antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters, looters and vandals have turned what used to be a nice neighborhood in downtown into a war zone. Portlanders are sick of it.
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Power Line
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump isn't secretly winking at QAnon. He's retweeting its followers. — On July Fourth, before President Donald Trump spoke to the nation from the White House lawn, he spoke indirectly to another community on Twitter: QAnon. — That afternoon, he retweeted 14 tweets from accounts supporting …