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Jonathan Levinson / OPB:
Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets — UPDATE (5:14 p.m. PT) — In the early hours of July 15, after a night spent protesting at the Multnomah County Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, Mark Pettibone and his friend Conner O'Shea decided to head home.
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Department of Homeland Security:
Acting Secretary Wolf Condemns The Rampant Long-Lasting Violence In Portland
Acting Secretary Wolf Condemns The Rampant Long-Lasting Violence In Portland
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Piper McDaniel / Oregonian:
Federal officers respond to Portland protests with gas, munitions Thursday amid growing attention …
Federal officers respond to Portland protests with gas, munitions Thursday amid growing attention …
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Washington Post:
From dream job to nightmare … A few months after Emily Applegate started working for the Washington Redskins in 2014, she settled into a daily routine: She would meet a female co-worker in the bathroom during their lunch breaks, she said, to commiserate and cry about the frequent sexual harassment and verbal abuse they endured.
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CNN:
GOP to Trump: Change tune on mail-in voting or risk ugly November — (CNN)Republican officials throughout the country are reacting with growing alarm to President Donald Trump's attacks on mail-in ballots, saying his unsubstantiated claims of mass voting fraud are already corroding the views of GOP voters …
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Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Legendary Foreign Correspondent Chris Dickey Dies in Paris — ICON — Chris Dickey hopscotched across the globe to land stories—and mentored a generation of journalists in how to do the same. — The hardest thing about writing an obituary for Chris Dickey, the legendary foreign correspondent …
Washington Post:
Trump faces rising disapproval and widespread distrust on coronavirus, Post-ABC poll finds — Americans' views of President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic have deteriorated significantly as cases rise across the country and personal fears of becoming infected persist, a Washington Post-ABC News poll finds.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
64% distrust Trump on coronavirus pandemic; approval declines as cases grow: POLL — Six in 10 in a new ABC/Post poll disapprove of how he's handling COVID. — With COVID-19 cases soaring nationally, Americans by nearly a two to one margin distrust what President Donald Trump says about the pandemic …
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Media are just plain lying about Kayleigh McEnany ‘science’ quote — It has been said before, but it bears repeating: You are better off watching raw footage of the White House press briefings than trusting the word of journalists. — Put more simply, members of our vaunted Fourth Estate cannot …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's outrageous refusal to lead is making the pandemic worse
Trump's outrageous refusal to lead is making the pandemic worse
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany tries to clean up Trump's comment about police killing ‘more white people’
Kayleigh McEnany tries to clean up Trump's comment about police killing ‘more white people’
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detroitnews:
Amash not campaigning for re-election to his seat in Congress — When U.S. Rep. Justin Amash ended his exploratory bid for the presidency, Libertarian activists held out hope he would run for re-election to his seat in the U.S. House, where he is the first and only Libertarian to serve in Congress.
Liz Essley Whyte / Center for Public Integrity:
Exclusive: White House document shows 18 states in coronavirus “red zone” — Unpublicized recommendations say states should return to stringent control measures … A document prepared for the White House Coronavirus Task Force but not publicized suggests more than a dozen states should revert …
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Plain Dealer:
Operation Grant seeks to stop President Trump's re-election in Ohio: John Weaver and Bill Kristol — “We are now in the midst of trying times when every one must be for or against his country, and show his colors too, by his every act. Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have one sentiment now.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Losing, So When Are Republican Candidates Going to Abandon Him? — On Wednesday afternoon, the latest batch of polls in the Presidential campaign were released, and they showed an increasingly grim picture for Donald Trump. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey had Joe Biden up by eleven points.
Janelle Griffith / NBC News:
Chuck Woolery says ‘everyone is lying’ about coronavirus, then reveals son's COVID-19 diagnosis … Former game show host Chuck Woolery, who tweeted Sunday that “Everyone is lying” about COVID-19, including the media, Democrats and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Mary Trump's book breaks record with mammoth sales — New York (CNN)Mary Trump's tell-all book had sold a staggering 950,000 copies by the end of its first day on sale, publisher Simon & Schuster said Thursday. — That figure, which included pre-sales, as well as e-books and audiobooks …
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Christie D'Zurilla / Los Angeles Times:
Mary Trump's memoir sells 950,000 on first day, setting a record for publisher
Mary Trump's memoir sells 950,000 on first day, setting a record for publisher
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New York Times:
Inside the Planning for the Incredibly Shrinking Democratic Convention — An event that was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee may now involve just 300, with plans still far from settled a month before the convention. — When Democrats awarded their 2020 convention to Milwaukee …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Kemp's office seeks to block Atlanta mask mandate in court — Gov. Brian Kemp's administration went to court Thursday seeking to block Atlanta from enacting coronavirus restrictions and requiring residents to wear masks, setting up a legal showdown between the state and local governments …
Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed News:
Former Employees Say Ellen's “Be Kind” Talk Show Mantra Masks A Toxic Work Culture — Ellen DeGeneres has built her worldwide, multimillion-dollar brand on the motto “be kind,” with lavish giveaways and acts of charity. But behind the scenes, current and former employees on her leading daytime show …
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Washington Post:
Republicans fear campaign shake-up can't counteract Trump's self-sabotage — A sudden shake-up of President Trump's campaign was an attempt to refocus a reelection effort cratering under the weight of a deadly pandemic, a stalled economy and a national reckoning on racial injustice.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
USA Today: Navarro's anti-Fauci column didn't meet standards — NEW YORK (AP) — USA Today says that a column that the newspaper solicited and published from presidential trade adviser Peter Navarro criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci was misleading and did not meet fact-checking standards.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
USA Today, After Fracas, Says Op-Ed Attacking Fauci Fell Short of Standards
USA Today, After Fracas, Says Op-Ed Attacking Fauci Fell Short of Standards
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Wall Street Journal:
Democrats—and Some Republicans—See Signs of Political Realignment in the South — The DNC and the Biden campaign have identified North Carolina, Georgia and Texas as targets in the presidential race; ‘Bless their hearts,’ Trump campaign responds — WAKE FOREST, N.C. …
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News:
Back To School: Teachers Are Ready To Quit Rather Than Put Their Lives At Risk — This spring, a teacher in Dallas was invited to the high school graduation of the first class of students she had taught when she became a teacher a little over a decade ago — but the ceremony was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Los Angeles Times:
The true story of the heartthrob prince of Qatar and his time at USC — When a Qatari sheikh came to live in L.A., an entire economy sprouted to meet his wishes. “His highness doesn't like to hear no,” one associate told a professor. — 5 AM — Los Angeles has long enjoyed a reputation …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Do Progressives Have a Free Speech Problem? — The illiberal left is a lot less threatening than the right. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. — An acquaintance came to me a few weeks ago with the rough draft of a letter about free speech and asked me to sign.
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John Sexton / HotAir:
Joy Reid Loses In Court As 2nd Circuit Revives Libel Claim Against Her — Joy Reid recently got a promotion at MSNBC where she'll soon have a nightly show instead of the weekend show she has had for the past couple of years. It looks like it's going to be a rocky start to her new job.
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: New Cases in the U.S. Soar to More Than 74,000, Shattering the Record — Two-thirds of global cases have come from the U.S., Brazil, South Africa and India. The National Security Agency said a hacking group associated with Russian intelligence …
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
Donald Trump's Long, Losing War with the NFL — On May 25, a police officer in Minneapolis killed George Floyd by putting his knee on his neck. A week and a half later, a group of stars from the National Football League demanded that the highest officials of the nation's biggest, richest …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Harris Faulkner Gets a Bigger Spotlight at Fox News Channel … A viewer had slipped into her direct messages on Twitter with an unpleasant remark, and McCain, who says she is prone to react to such things, learned a different strategy from Faulkner, with whom she appeared regularly …
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
'I'm... At A Loss For Words': The Unraveling Narrative Behind The Atlantic's Defund-The-Police ‘Shooting’ Tale — A powerful story published by The Atlantic has a serious problem: proof it ever happened. — When social justice activist and lawyer Derecka Purnell was just 12 years old …
David Crary / Associated Press:
Record number of LGBTQ candidates running for office in US — NEW YORK (AP) — The number of openly LGBTQ elected officials in the United States has more than doubled in the past four years — and those ranks could soon grow, thanks to a record field of LGBTQ candidates this year …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Legal Adviser Appears on Kremlin-Backed TV — No Trump official had appeared on the network since 2016, in part because U.S. Intel determined it was a propaganda outlet. — A top Trump campaign adviser recently appeared on the Russian-government funded TV network RT …
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Raga Justin / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says “there is no shutdown coming” as coronavirus cases surge — Abbott said it will take weeks to see whether his recent mask order and decision to close bars are effective in slowing the virus' spread. — Copy link — As the number of new coronavirus cases …
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New York Times:
Mask Rules Expand Across U.S. as Clashes Over the Mandates Intensify — More retailers and states are instituting mask requirements, but tensions are mounting for people who see the rules as infringements. — As images of people wearing surgical masks flashed across the screen …
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