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Washington Post:
Redskins to retire team name Monday; new name to be revealed later — The Washington Redskins plan to announce Monday morning that they will change their team name, three people with knowledge of the situation confirmed Sunday night. The team is not expected to reveal a new name until a later date.
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USA Today:
Washington NFL team to announce retirement of ‘Redskins’ nickname, reveal new name Monday — Just less than two weeks after one of his most prominent corporate sponsors urged him to change the name of his football team, Washington owner Daniel Snyder plans to announce the retirement of the …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: White House declares open season on Fauci
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New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Political Wire, Wall Street Journal and The Week
Robert McCartney / Washington Post:
Corporate money, Black Lives Matter protests and elites' opinion drove Redskins name change
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Townhall, National Review, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Week
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Former Mueller prosecutor writing book on investigation — NEW YORK (AP) — A top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller has a book coming out this fall about the two-year investigation into the alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump.
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CNN:
New York should prosecute Roger Stone — Opinion by Gerald B. Lefcourt and Robert C. Gottlieb — Gerald B. Lefcourt is past president of the National Association of Criminal Lawyers, a founder of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, founder and past president of the New York Criminal Bar Association.
NBC News:
No hoax: Why the Russia investigation remains one of Trump's biggest scandals
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Top Mueller lawyer to publish insider account of Trump-Russia investigation
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's rage at Fauci just boomeranged back on him — President Trump was probably thrilled when he learned that aides sent reporters opposition-research-style bullet points about Anthony S. Fauci. After all, we're told, Trump is a “counter-puncher,” and Fauci has made him look bad …
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ABC News:
White House seeks to discredit Fauci in memo leaked to reporters — Administration sources say he's sometimes referred to as “Dr. Gloom and Doom.” — The White House has taken the unusual step of attacking a member of its coronavirus task force, by providing a document to several media outlets …
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The Hill, NBC News and The Mahablog
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The White House's maligning of Anthony Fauci, annotated
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The Hill, The Guardian and Alternet.org
New York Times:
Choke Point for U.S. Coronavirus Response: The Fax Machine — Before public health officials can manage the pandemic, they must deal with a broken data system that sends incomplete results in formats they can't easily use. — Public health officials in Houston are struggling to keep …
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Ian Sample / The Guardian:
Immunity to Covid-19 could be lost in months, UK study suggests — Exclusive: King's College London team found steep drops in patients' antibody levels three months after infection — People who have recovered from Covid-19 may lose their immunity to the disease within months …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows lays traps to find suspected leakers — President Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has told several White House staffers he's fed specific nuggets of information to suspected leakers to see if they pass them on to reporters — a trap that would confirm his suspicions.
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Mark Meadows finds it's not so easy being chief
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Alison Flood / The Guardian:
Donald Trump Jr's new anti-Biden book misplaces apostrophe in title — Liberal Privilege, which he is self-publishing in August, is subtitled 'Joe Biden and the Democrat's Defense of the Indefensible' — Donald Trump Jr appears to have forgotten one of the cardinal rules of the apostrophe …
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump's reelection operation hires 1,500 field staffers
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Mick Mulvaney / CNBC:
Op-ed: The next stimulus bill should focus on dealing with Covid-19 — If we are going to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars, let's do it to treat the cause of our economic illness, not just the symptoms, writes Mick Mulvaney. — By now everyone expects that Congress will pass another stimulus package.
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Chris McGreal / The Guardian:
'He's in trouble here': can Trump win this critical swing state again? — If he's to stay in power, Trump needs to repeat his victory in Wisconsin. But the landscape is very different now - and support is shrinking — Donald Trump claimed to have done so much for African Americans …
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Wall Street Journal:
Connecticut Bet Big on the Suburbs. That Might Finally Pay Off. — One of the nation's most troubled states hopes to capitalize on interest from New Yorkers looking to escape the city — WESTON, Conn.—It took a global pandemic and a severe economic downturn to do what once seemed impossible …
Pam Fessler / NPR:
Signed, Sealed, Undelivered: Thousands Of Mail-In Ballots Rejected For Tardiness — Toggle more options — Mail-in voting, which tens of millions of Americans are expected to use this November, is fraught with potential problems. Hundreds of thousands of ballots go uncounted each year …
Politico:
‘Adapt immediately or find a new job’: Senate GOP confronts fundraising emergency — Last month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee prepared a slideshow for Senate chiefs of staff full of bleak numbers about the party's failure to compete with Democrats on digital fundraising.
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Americans' Face Mask Usage Varies Greatly by Demographics — WASHINGTON, D.C. — It has been more than three months since the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reversed course and recommended that Americans wear face masks in public to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
Man accused of murdering 11-year-old at July 4 BBQ in DC was released under coronavirus jailbreak — The same flat-earth “science” being used as a pretext to criminalize Americans for not wearing masks has been used to release violent criminals. Now, another one of those released …
David Marchese / New York Times:
Oliver Stone thinks Hollywood has gone crazy. — Beginning in 1986 with the release of his films “Salvador” and “Platoon,” Oliver Stone kicked off a decade-long run of remarkable success. Many of the controversial and stylistically brash films that he made during this era were box-office hits …
Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘He Is and Always Will Be a Terrified Little Boy’ — Donald Trump is the damaged product of an absent mother and a sociopathic father. — That's in essence Mary Trump's assessment in her ultra-anticipated instant bestseller that's due out Tuesday—Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.
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Lawrence Wright / New Yorker:
How Pandemics Wreak Havoc—and Open Minds — The plague marked the end of the Middle Ages and the start of a great cultural renewal. Could the coronavirus, for all its destruction, offer a similar opportunity for radical change? — Great crises tend to bring profound social change …
NBC New York:
New York City Without Coronavirus Deaths Four Months After First Report — New York City health officials reported zero deaths related to the novel coronavirus four months after the state's first official death was recorded on March 11. — According to initial data reported by the NYC Department …
New York Post:
NYC sees 15 shootings in 15-hour span as gun violence surge continues — New York City's plague of gun crime continued this weekend — with 15 people shot in the same number of hours since midday Saturday, police sources told The Post. — The shootings — including a 21-year-old man left fighting …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Case for Reopening Schools — On the menu today: My reader who is the head of research for a top-ten hospital weighs in on how to get kids back into classrooms safely this fall, a blathering Biden comment I missed that could have gotten his Twitter account suspended …
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Louder With Crowder
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Court refuses to order Houston to host Texas GOP gathering — HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Monday upheld Houston's refusal to allow the state Republican convention to hold in-person events in the city due to the coronavirus pandemic. — The court dismissed an appeal …
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