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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 …
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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 …
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Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Slate, Off the Kuff, ABC13, Fox News, Bloomberg, Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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.
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Twitchy, The Daily Beast, The Hill and The Guardian
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.
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The Week and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Biden leads by double digits as coronavirus takes a toll on the president, Post-ABC poll finds
Biden leads by double digits as coronavirus takes a toll on the president, Post-ABC poll finds
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Leaders in states seeing ‘out of control’ coronavirus surges debate mask mandates, reopenings
Leaders in states seeing ‘out of control’ coronavirus surges debate mask mandates, reopenings
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The Hill, The Colorado Sun and The Week
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 …
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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.
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.”
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Yahoo News, New York Times, Sputnik News and Talking Points Memo
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.”
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Politico, The Hill, The Guardian, Breitbart and One America News Network
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Some People ‘Have The Sniffles’: Trump Downplays The Coronavirus's Severity
Some People ‘Have The Sniffles’: Trump Downplays The Coronavirus's Severity
Washington Post:
Oregon attorney general sues federal agencies for allegedly violating protesters' civil rights — PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon attorney general filed a lawsuit late Friday night alleging that the federal government had violated Oregonians' civil rights by seizing and detaining …
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The Hill, Daily Kos, Common Dreams, Reason and New York Times
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump's made-for-TV fascism in Portland won't get him re-elected. It may get someone killed
Trump's made-for-TV fascism in Portland won't get him re-elected. It may get someone killed
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NBC News, Al Jazeera and The Week
KOIN-TV:
Night 51: Riot declared at police union, tear gas used at Justice Center
Night 51: Riot declared at police union, tear gas used at Justice Center
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NBC News, Law & Crime, Axios, New York Post and The Guardian
Tyler O'Neil / pjmedia.com:
Antifa Rioters Break Into Portland Police Union and Set It on Fire as Mayor Hamstrings Federal Troops
Antifa Rioters Break Into Portland Police Union and Set It on Fire as Mayor Hamstrings Federal Troops
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Power Line, Portland Police, Redstate and The Sun
Eder Campuzano / Oregonian:
Feds, right-wing media paint Portland as ‘city under siege.’ A tour of town shows otherwise
Feds, right-wing media paint Portland as ‘city under siege.’ A tour of town shows otherwise
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Politico
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 …
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Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, Variety, The Root, The Hill, Mediaite, Althouse and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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ABC News:
To honor John Lewis' legacy, need to pass Voting Rights Act: Rep. Karen Bass
To honor John Lewis' legacy, need to pass Voting Rights Act: Rep. Karen Bass
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Washington Post, Axios, The Undefeated, Breitbart and The Hill
Ken Coleman / Michigan Advance:
Michigan leaders reflect on late civil rights legend John Lewis, who fought for voting rights until the end
Michigan leaders reflect on late civil rights legend John Lewis, who fought for voting rights until the end
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Vanity Fair and The Week
Joel Anderson / Slate:
Do Not Call John Lewis a “Hero” if You Stood in His Way
Do Not Call John Lewis a “Hero” if You Stood in His Way
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Washington Post, Mother Jones, Vox, The Atlantic and HISTORY
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.
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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 …
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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.”
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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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