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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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Business Insider, NBC News, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart and Raw Story
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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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Politico, Breitbart, Vanity Fair and The Hill
Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Biden campaign slams Trump for ‘disgusting’ attempt to discredit Fauci — The Biden campaign says Trump is trying “pass the buck by blaming” Fauci. — Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign has issued a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration's efforts to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci …
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POLITICUSUSA and Breitbart
CBS News:
White House targets Fauci after his blunt warnings about coronavirus
White House targets Fauci after his blunt warnings about coronavirus
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Associated Press, Washington Post, The Week and Deadline
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The White House's maligning of Anthony Fauci, annotated
The White House's maligning of Anthony Fauci, annotated
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Axios, New York Post, Politico, The Guardian, NPR, Alternet.org and The Hill
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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The Hill, IJR, New York Post, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Alternet.org, Big League Politics, The Week and One America News Network
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
California rolls back reopening plans as new outbreaks force major reversal — OAKLAND — Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down indoor activities across California on Monday in the starkest sign yet that the nation's most populous state is scrambling to prevent months of progress against the coronavirus from evaporating.
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Alison Kosik / CNN:
Cooper Hefner, son of Playboy founder, announces campaign for California Senate — Cooper Hefner talks about growing up in the Playboy Mansion — (CNN)The son of the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is jumping into the political ring. — Cooper Hefner announced Monday that he's launching …
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The Daily Caller
Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
The Texas Rangers' team name must go — As the Washington football team finally gives up its racist slur of a name, there is one major sports team that has avoided the spotlight and resisted meaningful engagement with the violent and racist implications of its name.
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Redstate, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, ABC News, CBS Baltimore, Althouse and Twitchy
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New York Times:
Redskins to Drop Name, Yielding to Pressure From Sponsors and Activists — The N.F.L. team in Washington announced the move on Monday and will continue its search for a new name and logo. — The N.F.L. team in Washington announced Monday that it would drop its logo and “Redskins” …
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Washington Post, New Republic, Bloomberg and The Hill
Washington Post:
Redskins to retire team name Monday; new name to be revealed later
Redskins to retire team name Monday; new name to be revealed later
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ESPN, Sports Business Daily, Politico, Rolling Stone, The Week, IJR, Outside the Beltway, The Wrap and NPR, more at Mediagazer »
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Trump believes Native American community ‘would be very angry’ over Redskins name change, McEnany says
Trump believes Native American community ‘would be very angry’ over Redskins name change, McEnany says
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The Hill
New York Times:
Los Angeles and San Diego Schools to Go Online-Only in The Fall — California's two largest districts made the joint call amid a White House push to get children back into classrooms. — SACRAMENTO — California's two largest public school districts said Monday that instruction will be remote …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Judge seeks more details on Trump's clemency for Roger Stone — WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday demanded more information about President Donald Trump's decision to commute the prison sentence of longtime ally Roger Stone. — U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered …
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Axios, CNN and Talking Points Memo
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USA Today:
Judge in Roger Stone case wants more information about the scope of clemency
Judge in Roger Stone case wants more information about the scope of clemency
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Axios and The Daily Caller
Corey Brettschneider / The Atlantic:
The Traditional Interpretation of the Pardon Power Is Wrong
The Traditional Interpretation of the Pardon Power Is Wrong
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The Dispatch, The Bulwark and Just The News
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Ghislaine Maxwell tried to flee and had a phone wrapped in tin foil to avoid detection when the FBI raided her $1M New Hampshire hideaway — Ghislaine Maxwell refused to open the front door to the FBI and tried to flee to another room when they raided her $1million home, prosecutors claimed today
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New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: Republicans Say Florida Convention Is ‘a Risk You Have to Take’ — Jeff Sessions, the former attorney general, is making a last appeal to Alabama voters in an attempt to win back his old Senate seat. A new poll in Texas shows Joe Biden leading President Trump.
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Washington Post and Dallas Morning News
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Court refuses to order Houston to host Texas GOP gathering
Court refuses to order Houston to host Texas GOP gathering
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The Hill
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.
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The Hill and Outside the Beltway
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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Washington Post, The Week, The Hill, Politico, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Alternet.org, Axios, The Wrap and Eschaton
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Mary Trump scolds media for downplaying Donald's mental disorders — Thank you always for your support. Please considering subscribing to PRESS RUN for just $6 a month. — Ultimately, this newsletter is only possible because of the support of readers like you who are backing a new kind of independent journalism.
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Mediaite
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Associated Press:
US to reject nearly all Chinese claims in South China Sea — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the Trump administration is poised to escalate its actions against China by stepping squarely into one of the most sensitive regional issues dividing them and rejecting outright nearly …
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The Week and One America News Network
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Maya T. Prabhu / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Federal judge throws out Georgia's anti-abortion law — A federal judge on Monday struck down Georgia's anti-abortion law approved by the General Assembly last year, calling it unconstitutional. — District Judge Steve C. Jones wrote in his ruling that the law — which would have outlawed …
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Twitchy
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Warns That Biden Presidency Would Be Disaster (for Ratings) — Last month, when asked what new goals he would accomplish in a second term, President Trump rambled so incoherently his allies responded with public distress. The answer was so bad that his unofficial spokesperson Sean Hannity offered …
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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The Week, Raw Story and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Dr. John Gartner: “Donald Trump is the most successful bio-terrorist in human history” — Psychologist and former Johns Hopkins professor on Trump's pandemic conduct: “He is a first-degree mass murderer” — The June 6 edition of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel described Donald Trump as a …
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Raw Story
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Why Joe Biden Has His Eye on Karen Bass — The first time Representative Karen Bass heard Joe Biden talk about the car crash that killed his wife and infant daughter, she dropped into her chair, overwhelmed. — It was 2008, and Bass was watching the Democratic National Convention video introducing Biden …
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Washington Free Beacon
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Castro to challenge party elders for committee chair amid reckoning on foreign policy — Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas will announce this week that he will compete for the chairmanship of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to congressional aides familiar with his planning …
CNN:
Amid rising coronavirus cases, the Trump campaign struggles to get its rally machine going — Washington (CNN)With just four months until Election Day, the Trump campaign is struggling to deploy what was supposed to be a chief feature of the President's reelection effort — the signature Trump rally.
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Raw Story
Leah Simpson / Daily Mail:
Alaska Airlines flight makes an emergency landing in Seattle after passenger threatens to ‘kill everybody on this plane unless you accept Jesus was a black man’ — Video shows the man moving through the cabin of Flight 422 bound for Chicago O' Hare yelling that he is going to ‘kill everybody’ and to just ‘accept it’
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The Gateway Pundit
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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Vox, Gizmodo, The Daily Caller and New York Post