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Virus outbreak reshapes presidential race in Sun Belt — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll — The coronavirus outbreak is reshaping the presidential race in three key Sun Belt states. Joe Biden is now leading President Trump by six points in Florida, and the two are tied in Arizona …
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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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Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News:
Joe Biden builds lead over Donald Trump in reliably red Texas, as voters sour on handling of virus — Amid rollbacks of state's COVID-19 reopenings, Gov. Greg Abbott's luster also dims. In past 7 days, 82% of Texans wore a mask, a new DMN-UT-Tyler poll finds.
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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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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney World Opens Its Gates, With Virus Numbers Rising — Thousands of giddy visitors streamed into the Florida resort on Saturday, as Disney tried to prove it can safely operate at a highly dangerous time. — LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique, a Magic Kingdom hair salon …
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Tammy Duckworth bursts into VP contention — CHICAGO — Tammy Duckworth is no longer an afterthought in the Democratic veepstakes. — The Illinois senator and Purple Heart recipient has landed squarely in the conversation after a high-profile clash with Tucker Carlson last week and her advocacy …
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 …
Cassandra Fairbanks / The Gateway Pundit:
Young White Mother Killed By Black Lives Matter Mob for Allegedly Saying ‘All Lives Matter,’ National Media Fully Ignores — A 24-year-old mother was killed by a Black Lives Matter mob in Indianapolis last week, allegedly for saying “All Lives Matter.” — Unlike Charlottesville …
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Victoria Taft / pjmedia.com:
Portland Rioters Surround Car and Driver Shoots His Way Out
Portland Rioters Surround Car and Driver Shoots His Way Out
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USA Today:
Fact check: Trump campaign accused of T-shirt design with similarity to Nazi eagle — The claim: Trump campaign shirts feature imperial eagle, a Nazi symbol — President Donald Trump's campaign website recently unveiled a T-shirt that has come under fire because of design similarities between its logo and a Nazi symbol.
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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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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Rep. Adam Schiff blasts GOP for failing to stand up to Trump, not defending the ‘rule of law’ — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff appears on ABC's “This Week.” — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., blasted Republicans for failing to stand …
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Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Biden Camp Rips Into Trump After He Finally Wears Mask In Public: ‘He Wasted Four Months’ — The Biden campaign was quick to call out President Trump after he finally wore a mask publicly after months of refusing to do so on Saturday night. — During a visit to wounded service members …
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic
Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic
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Fred Barnes / Washington Examiner:
If Trump wants to win, he has to be more disciplined — President Trump is a gift that keeps on giving, but not always in a way that improves his prospects for winning a second term. On the contrary, he often insists on helping his political opponents and the press cling to the anti-Trump narrative they cherish.
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
They lost the Civil War and fled to Brazil. Their descendants refuse to take down the Confederate flag. — RIO DE JANEIRO — To Marina Lee Colbachini, it was a family tradition. Each spring, she would join the throngs who descended on a nondescript city in southern Brazil …
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Betsy DeVos: Schools that don't reopen shouldn't get federal funds — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told “Fox News Sunday” that public schools that don't reopen in the fall should not get federal funds, and that the money should be redirected to families who can use it to find another option for their children.
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Washington Post:
Coronavirus update: Florida shatters single-day infection record with 15,300 new cases — Florida on Sunday reported a record 15,300 new coronavirus cases, the most by any state in a single day since the pandemic reached the United States. — The staggering number was the result …
Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
Beginning to build a fairer city: Five steps for de Blasio or, more likely, the next mayor — New York City will be a very different place at the end of all this, whenever that turns out to be. — With a “plan” to reopen schools in September on staggered shifts, an unprecedented rift between …
Seth Klamann / Casper Star-Tribune:
As reopening plan that calls for face coverings, school board members express resistance — As part of its plan to reopen schools this fall, the Natrona County School District will require staff and students to wear masks when they're within 6 feet of each other.
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.”
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Spectrum News NY1:
Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte: 4 Percent of Mail-In Ballots Could be Thrown Out Because of Postmarking Issues — After more than two weeks since the New York Primary, the city Board of Elections on Wednesday finally began tallying absentee ballots. But the process does not come without controversy.
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 …
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 …