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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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ESPN, Sports Business Daily, The Hill, Rolling Stone, Outside the Beltway, The Week, The Wrap, NPR and Just The News, more at Mediagazer »
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USA Today:
Washington NFL team to announce retirement of ‘Redskins’ nickname, reveal new name Monday
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: White House declares open season on Fauci
POLITICO Playbook: White House declares open season on Fauci
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New York Times, Political Wire, Wall Street Journal and The Week
Axios:
Washington Redskins will change team name
Washington Redskins will change team name
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The Hill, Indian Country Today and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Robert McCartney / Washington Post:
Corporate money, Black Lives Matter protests and elites' opinion drove Redskins name change
Corporate money, Black Lives Matter protests and elites' opinion drove Redskins name change
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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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Axios and The Daily Caller
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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
No hoax: Why the Russia investigation remains one of Trump's biggest scandals
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National Review, The Dispatch, New York Post and Political Wire
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Top Mueller lawyer to publish insider account of Trump-Russia investigation
Top Mueller lawyer to publish insider account of Trump-Russia investigation
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POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
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 and The Mahablog
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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 …
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 …
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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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Talking Points Memo, Alternet.org, The Week, Raw Story and The Hill
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Mark Meadows finds it's not so easy being chief
Mark Meadows finds it's not so easy being chief
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
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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Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
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
Trump's reelection operation hires 1,500 field staffers
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The Hill
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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D. Clay Ackerly / Vox:
My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes.
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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Raw Story
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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.
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.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
George Soros's Foundation Pours $220 Million Into Racial Equality Push — Mr. Soros's group will invest $150 million in grants for Black-led racial justice groups, and another $70 million toward local grants for criminal justice reform and civic engagement opportunities.
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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 …
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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Deadline
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 …
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 …