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4:20 PM ET, July 19, 2020

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New York Times:
As Trump Ignores Virus Crisis, Republicans Start to Contradict Him  —  President Trump continues to press for a quick return to life as usual, but Republicans who fear a rampaging disease and angry voters are increasingly going their own way.  —  President Trump's failure to contain …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Fox News
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Pandemic surge damages Trump, boosting Biden's White House bid: POLL  —  Public preference for Biden in trust to handle the pandemic has soared.  —  Public preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in trust to handle the coronavirus pandemic has soared since March in the latest ABC News …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden holds lead over Trump as coronavirus concerns grip nation  —  Coronavirus infected the election.  —  The virus is the top issue to voters, over half of them disapprove of how President Trump's handling it, and they increasingly trust Joe Biden to do a better job on it.
Harry Enten / CNN:
New polls show Joe Biden is winning suburbanites by a historic margin  —  Polls show Trump trails Biden by double digits  —  (CNN)The new ABC News/Washington Post poll is the latest to show former Vice President Joe Biden on a roll.  —  He leads President Donald Trump 55% to 40% among registered voters.
Discussion: The Week and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Biden leads by double digits as coronavirus takes a toll on the president, Post-ABC poll finds
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Polls show Biden routing Trump. Here's how to read them.
Discussion: CNN and Axios
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Leans Into False Virus Claims in Combative Fox News Interview  —  The president grew agitated as he was fact-checked on polling, race relations and the coronavirus response by Chris Wallace of Fox News.  —  WASHINGTON — An agitated President Trump offered a string of combative …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Associated Press:
Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffs at polls showing him lagging behind Democrat Joe Biden.
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
Washington Post:
Coronavirus updates: Trump dismisses rising cases as deaths mount  —  With coronavirus cases rising across the country and the U.S. death toll topping 137,000, President Trump on Sunday dismissed concerns about the spike in infections, telling Fox News that “many of those cases shouldn't even be cases.”
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Trump says he's not offended by the Confederate flag  —  President Trump defended his opposition to removing Confederate symbols in an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” telling host Chris Wallace that the flag does not offend him and that for many people it “represents the South.”
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Some People ‘Have The Sniffles’: Trump Downplays The Coronavirus's Severity
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
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Eder Campuzano / Oregonian:
Feds, right-wing media paint Portland as ‘city under siege.’ A tour of town shows otherwise
Discussion: Politico
Associated Press:
Police call Portland protest a riot
Discussion: Fox News, The Hill and Raw Story
Kris Alexander / The Daily Beast:
I Was a Military COVID Planner.  Trust Me: Texas Is in Deep, Deep Trouble  —  Things are pretty bad right now in the Lone Star State.  But the real pain is likely to come during hurricane season, when as many as 19 named storms are projected to hit.  —  Like many of my fellow Texans …
New York Times:
Roger Stone Uses Racial Slur on Radio Show  —  Mr. Stone, while being questioned about the commutation of his sentence by President Trump, used a racial slur in referring to his interviewer, who is Black.  —  During a live radio show on Saturday, Roger Stone, the political operative …
Peter Dreier / American Prospect:
John Lewis: Good Trouble  —  The life of the civil rights icon, who died Friday from cancer, is a testament to perseverance.  —  John Lewis stands at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, 50 years after he was beaten there on Bloody Sunday in 1965.  —  In 1965, as chair …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ken Coleman / Michigan Advance:
Michigan leaders reflect on late civil rights legend John Lewis, who fought for voting rights until the end
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The family that owns The New York Times were slaveholders  —  It's far worse than I thought.  In addition to the many links between the family that owns The New York Times and the Civil War Confederacy, new evidence shows that members of the extended family were slaveholders.
Discussion: Twitchy
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Real White Fragility  —  Does the white upper class feel exhausted and oppressed by meritocracy?  —  In 2001, when I was still attending college, David Brooks wrote an essay for The Atlantic called “The Organization Kid,” in which he spent a lot of time with young Ivy Leaguers …
Discussion: Althouse and The College Fix
CNN:
What a Trump loss could look like  —  Polls show Trump trails Biden by double digits  —  Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst, is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and author of the book, “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party.”
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Companies Lose Hope for Quick Rebound From Covid-19  —  CEOs overhaul strategies and staffing in acknowledgment of coronavirus's permanent impact on demand; ‘We cannot defy gravity’  —  Big U.S. companies are deciding March and April moves won't cut it.
Ritchie Torres / Washington Post:
I'm Afro-Latino, but I can't join both the black and Hispanic caucuses in Congress.  That must change.  —  Ritchie Torres is the Democratic candidate for New York's 15th Congressional District.  —  Whenever I'm about to enter a new setting — like the New York City Council in 2014 or Congress in 2021 …
Fox News:
Transcript: ‘Fox News Sunday’ interview with President Trump  —  President Trump appeared on ‘Fox News Sunday’ with Chris Wallace on July 19, 2020  —  The following is a transcript of President Trump's July 19, 2020 interview with “Fox News Sunday.”  —  CHRIS WALLACE, FOX ANCHOR: And hello again from Fox News in Washington.
 
 
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Trump says he aced this cognitive test. Can you?
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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
‘No mask, no entry. Is that clear enough? That seems pretty clear, right?’
Christina Carrega / abc7NY:
Homeowner says she got racist letter for showing support for Black Lives Matter
Maria Carrasco / Politico:
Rep. Donna Shalala calls for Florida to shut down again
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Doing Schoolwork in the Parking Lot Is Not a Solution
Washington Post:
Trump demands payroll tax cut while GOP eyes benefit cuts for unemployed
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
'I'm scared'  —  Black people — many of them immigrants …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Rebecca Martinson / New York Times:
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David Rothkopf / Haaretz:
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Politico:
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Wall Street Journal:
As $600-a-Week Jobless Aid Nears End, Congress Faces a Quandary
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Apple removes RFE/RL's Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others

Reuters:
Prince Harry's lawsuit against News Group Newspapers moves towards trial; all but one other litigant in the roughly 40 lawsuits against NGN have settled

 
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