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7:51 PM ET, July 18, 2020

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New York Times:
Inside Trump's Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus  —  The roots of the nation's current inability to control the pandemic can be traced to mid-April, when the White House embraced overly rosy projections to proclaim victory and move on.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   DHS Under Boss: We're Taking This National
Washington Post:
Portland officials decry aggressive tactics of federal agents in their city
Discussion: Fox News and New York Post
Joe Biden:
Statement by Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis  —  We are made in the image of God, and then there is John Lewis.  —  How could someone in flesh and blood be so courageous, so full of hope and love in the face of so much hate, violence, and vengeance?
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
What happens to John Lewis' seat in Congress after his death  —  Facing a tight legal deadline, Georgia Democrats are seeking online applications to succeed the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.  —  The state party said Saturday that potential contenders must complete an application by Sunday evening …
Discussion: Raw Story
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Weighs In on the Death of John Lewis, One of His Most Vocal Critics  —  The president, who once described Mr. Lewis's district as “crime infested,” expressed his condolences on Twitter a day after the congressman's death.  —  WASHINGTON — The Republican governor of Georgia said that the country will …
Discussion: New York Post, NBC News and Raw Story
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
President Trump pays tribute to John Lewis, a ‘civil rights hero’  —  Lewis boycotted Trump's 2017 inauguration  —  After staying silent Saturday morning as other tributes came pouring in, President Trump tweeted condolences for the late Rep. John Lewis in the afternoon and called him a “civil rights hero.”
Barack Obama / Medium:
My Statement on the Passing of Rep. John Lewis  —  America is a constant work in progress.  What gives each new generation purpose is to take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further — to speak out for what's right, to challenge an unjust status quo, and to imagine a better world.
New York Times:
The Radical Resistance of John Lewis
Discussion: Washington Post and Rolling Stone
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
At the 1963 March on Washington, civil rights leaders asked John Lewis to tone his speech down
Discussion: Vox, Fox News, The Nation and Disrn
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
John Lewis Was an American Founder
Discussion: CNBC and NPR
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
John Lewis practiced what he preached. We are a better nation for it.
Discussion: The Guardian
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80
Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated:
I didn't understand John Lewis at first
Discussion: ABC News
Michele L. Norris / Washington Post:
A civil rights giant passes the baton
Discussion: Associated Press and KTLA
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
John Lewis' Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It's Under Attack.
Discussion: The Atlantic and The Guardian
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Administration Aims to Block New Funding for Testing and Tracing  —  The F.D.A. has issued emergency approval for pooled testing, a method that allows for much faster tracking of new infections.  A large South Korean study finds that older children spread the virus comparably to adults.
Discussion: UPI and Balloon Juice
The Texas Tribune:
With 4 in 5 Texans living in a “red zone,” coronavirus hot spots are moving targets  —  Early hot spots have been eclipsed by new regions in crisis.  Now that so much of Texas is battling major coronavirus outbreaks, some severely ill patients have to travel long distances to receive the care they need.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, 6abc and ABC13
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CNN:
85 infants under age 1 tested positive for coronavirus in one Texas county
Discussion: UPI and WHDH-TV
Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal:
Face Masks Really Do Matter.  The Scientific Evidence Is Growing.  —  New research suggests that face coverings help reduce the transmission of droplets, though some masks are more protective than others  —  Face masks are emerging as one of the most powerful weapons to fight the novel coronavirus …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and ABC News
Yelena Dzhanova / CNBC:
Fauci holds up New York as model for fighting coronavirus — ‘They did it correctly’  — National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci on Friday praised New York for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the state did it “correctly.”
Discussion: Twitchy
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PBS NewsHour:   How Fauci says the U.S. can get control of the pandemic
Des Moines Register:
Joni Ernst: If Trump has a Supreme Court nominee, Senate should hold hearings  —  U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Friday that the Senate should hold hearings on any Supreme Court nomination President Donald Trump might make this year, even if he loses November's election.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Iowa Starting Line
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Promotes Caricature of What Conservatives Want  —  A series of events during his White House tenure has made clear that Mr. Trump views the voters he calls “my people” through the lens of what he imagines they like.  —  Standing in the White House colonnade this week …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
From ‘Sleepy Joe’ to a destroyer of the ‘American way of life,’ Trump's attacks on Biden make a dystopian shift  —  President Trump has launched a slash-and-burn campaign against an exaggerated caricature of his Democratic opponent, casting former vice president Joe Biden as a destroyer …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Senate Democrat's great-great-grandfather allegedly sheltered John Wilkes Booth  —  Michigan Democratic Sen. Gary Peters has been promoting his racial sensitivity by hosting justice-reform panels and sponsoring a bill to raise awareness of African-American history.
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Trump may finally be facing the political consequences of his untrustworthiness  —  Concerns about President Trump's dishonesty began before he entered the White House, but the consequences of his not being trustworthy are now fully evident.  —  Trump surpassed 20,000 false or misleading claims …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and Breitbart
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The Trump campaign is the grift that keeps on grifting
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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Matt Bai / Washington Post:
Call it the cultural left. Do not call it liberal.
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
‘Superspreading’ events, triggered by people who may not even know they are infected, propel coronavirus pandemic
Discussion: The Dispatch
U.S. Department of Justice:
Two Alleged Criminals - A Hezbollah Associated Narco-Money Launderer and a Computer Hacker …
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
State Dept. declares Egypt's ex-prime minister immune from torture lawsuit by U.S. citizen …
Molly Jong-Fast / Vogue:
Mask Wars? New Yorkers Will Sit This One Out. We've Already Seen Enough Death.
Associated Press:
Trump talks less about virus, states look inward for answers
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
How Kanye West Is Trying to Get on the Ballot in South Carolina
Discussion: Press Association
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Firms With Troubled Pasts Got Millions of Dollars in PPP Small-Business Aid
Discussion: American Prospect and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trump's trouble in suburbs key to suddenly competitive Ohio
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Surging Democrats expand Senate targets to GOP states
Christo Grozev / bellingcat:
World's Most Wanted Man Jan Marsalek Located in Belarus; Data Points to Russian Intel Links
Faye Flam / New York Times:
Flossie Wong-Staal, Who Unlocked Mystery of H.I.V., Dies at 73
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump keeps fighting a Confederate flag battle many supporters have conceded
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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