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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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Acting Secretary Wolf Condemns The Rampant Long-Lasting Violence In Portland — “The city of Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city. Each night, lawless anarchists destroy and desecrate property …
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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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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 …
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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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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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's campaign team tries to steady operation after messy shakeup
Trump's campaign team tries to steady operation after messy shakeup
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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.
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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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 …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
USA Today, After Fracas, Says Op-Ed Attacking Fauci Fell Short of Standards — An article by Peter Navarro, a top Trump aide, prompted disavowals from the White House and, now, a mea culpa from USA Today. — A scathing op-ed article by President Trump's top trade adviser that declared Dr. Anthony S. Fauci …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
USA Today: Navarro's anti-Fauci column didn't meet standards
USA Today: Navarro's anti-Fauci column didn't meet standards
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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 …
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.
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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Coronavirus cases shut down Florida's emergency operations center — The coronavirus thrashing Florida has penetrated the state's emergency operations center, a clearinghouse for disaster-related information and a command center of sorts for the pandemic response.
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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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Is the Anti-Racism Training Industry Just Peddling White Supremacy? — There's an old syllogism used to describe desperate politicians: (1) We must do something; (2) This is something; (3) We must do this. In the wake of mass national demonstrations that followed George Floyd's murder …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Biden cuts deep into Trump's 2020 cash advantage — Joe Biden has nearly closed the once-yawning cash gap between him and President Donald Trump, with big donors flooding his campaign and the Democratic National Committee with money in recent months. — Trump and the Republican National Committee …
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David Ian Klein / The Forward:
Southern Poverty Law Center adds Stephen Miller to its extremist list — The Southern Poverty Law Center, which documents hate across the United States, added a new entry to its list of extremists on Wednesday: White House senior advisor Stephen Miller. — The organization wrote in its entry …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court Just Stopped 1 Million Floridians From Voting in November — The Supreme Court all but guaranteed that nearly one million Floridians will be unable to vote in the 2020 election because of unpaid court debts in a shattering order handed down on Thursday.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
In the Same Towns, Private Schools Are Reopening While Public Schools Are Not — Private schools have always had more flexibility, and usually more money, but never has that disparity made a bigger difference than now. — In Honolulu, nearly all public schools are planning to allow students to return for just part of the week.
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