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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez accosted by GOP lawmaker over remarks: 'That kind of confrontation hasn't ever happened to me' — Tensions flared on Capitol Hill this week when a Republican lawmaker challenged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on issues of crime and policing in an unusual …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Occupation of American Cities Has Begun — Protesters are being snatched from the streets without warrants. Can we call it fascism yet? — The month after Donald Trump's inauguration, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the best-selling book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.”
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
America Gets an Interior Ministry — For decades, conservative activists and leaders have warned that “jackbooted thugs” from the federal government were going to come to take away Americans' civil rights with no due process and no recourse. Now they're here—but they're deployed …
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Border War in Portland — How can this be a job for Homeland Security? — Something dangerous is taking shape within the Department of Homeland Security. — We got our first glimpse of it last week in Oregon, when unidentified federal agents clad in camouflage and tactical gear descended …
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The Daily Beast:
Who Actually Wants Trump to Send in the Feds? Police Unions. — Protesters say local cops and the feds are clearly colluding on the spooky crackdown that began in Portland and could soon spread to Chicago and other cities. — PORTLAND—Leaders of cities like Portland and Chicago publicly …
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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson claimed the New York Times planned to expose his address. Then his fans doxed the reporter. — On Monday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson made a surprising accusation: the New York Times, he said, was trying to endanger him and his family by revealing where they live in an upcoming story.
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Justin Curto / Vulture:
Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity Accused of Sexual Misconduct in New Lawsuit
Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity Accused of Sexual Misconduct in New Lawsuit
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson Accuses New York Times of Trying to ‘Injure’ His Family
Tucker Carlson Accuses New York Times of Trying to ‘Injure’ His Family
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Laura A. Bischoff / dayton-daily-news:
BREAKING NEWS: FBI agents are at Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder's farm — Police activity is being reported at Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder's farm in Perry County and the U.S. Attorney's office said it is holding a 2:30 p.m. press conference today related to $60 million in bribes paid to a state official and associates.
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Cincinnati.com:
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested in $60 million bribery case — Federal officials arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four others on Tuesday morning in connection with a $60 million bribery case. — U.S. Attorney David DeVillers' office would not discuss details of the case …
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Sabrina Siddiqui / Wall Street Journal:
Majority of Voters Say U.S. Society Is Racist as Support Grows for Black Lives Matter — Perceptions that minorities face racial discrimination hit new highs, WSJ/NBC News poll finds — Voters in growing numbers believe that Black and Hispanic Americans are discriminated against …
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NBC News:
Trump's coronavirus briefings are back, but the trust isn't — WASHINGTON — On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump will resume those daily coronavirus press briefings he held in March and April. — The decision to fire up those briefings again comes after slipping poll numbers for the president …
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CNN:
No White House coronavirus task force members currently expected at Trump's briefing — (CNN)No White House coronavirus task force members are currently expected to join President Donald Trump at his Tuesday evening briefing on the administration's response to the virus …
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NBC News:
Suspect in federal judge's home ambush railed against her in misogynistic book — The man suspected of ambushing the family of the first Latina federal judge in New Jersey posted thousands of pages of writing to the internet in recent years decrying feminism and ranting against her …
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Joshua Benton / The Atlantic:
The New Jersey Shooting Suspect Left a Pro-Trump Paper Trail
The New Jersey Shooting Suspect Left a Pro-Trump Paper Trail
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Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen's book to allege Trump made racist comments about Obama and Nelson Mandela, lawsuit says — NEW YORK — The book manuscript being drafted by President Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen alleges that Trump has made racist comments about his predecessor Barack Obama …
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
ACLU sues Trump administration over Michael Cohen's imprisonment
ACLU sues Trump administration over Michael Cohen's imprisonment
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Washington Post:
Biden to unveil $775 billion plan for universal preschool, child care and elder care — Throughout most of his campaign, Joe Biden has sought to forward a singular idea: I care. — On Tuesday, he plans to extend that sentiment into a literal proposal — to provide hundreds of billions …
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Ghislaine Maxwell paid $25K to fake news purveyor Jacob Wohl to ‘smear Epstein victims and to get SDNY prosecutor Geoffrey Berman fired in attempt to stall sex trafficking investigation against her’ — Ghislaine Maxwell hired Jacob Wohl to smear alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein and her …
Washington Post:
Trump's reelection effort has spent more than $983 million, a record sum at this point in the campaign — The president maintains a cash lead over Joe Biden, who is gradually closing the money gap. — President Trump's campaign, the Republican Party and two affiliated committees have spent …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Joe Biden Is Courting Trump Defectors In the Least Effective Way Imaginable
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Netherlands admits to paying terrorists who killed 17-year-old Israeli — The killers of Rina Shnerb are members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terrorist group in the EU. — The Netherlands paid part of the salaries of two terrorists involved …
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Official Russia Report: U.K. ‘Actively Avoided’ Probing Kremlin's Role in Brexit Referendum — Britain's Intelligence and Security Committee “outraged” that the Conservative government failed to investigate the Kremlin's interference or protect the 2016 Brexit referendum.
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Joe Biden:
My Statement on Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections
My Statement on Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections
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David Catron / The American Spectator:
Will Teachers' Unions Reelect Trump? — The science says it's safe to reopen PK-12 yet the unions insist on holding the children hostage. — AFT President Randi Weingarten (YouTube screenshot) — During the next six weeks the nation's 51 million public school students …
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Florida's largest teachers union sues state over reopening schools
Florida's largest teachers union sues state over reopening schools
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National Review, Politico and The Week
Agnes Callard / New York Times:
Should We Cancel Aristotle? — He defended slavery and opposed the notion of human equality. But he is not our enemy. — Ms. Callard is a philosopher and professor. — The Greek philosopher Aristotle did not merely condone slavery, he defended it; he did not merely defend it, but defended it as beneficial to the slave.
Brian M. Rosenthal / New York Times:
This Hospital Cost $52 Million. It Treated 79 Virus Patients. — Red tape and turf battles marked the race to create temporary hospitals for the coronavirus onslaught in New York. — The Queens Hospital Center emergency department has a capacity of 60, but on its worst night of the coronavirus pandemic …
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
FBI knew ‘collusion’ was a nothing-burger, but kept fake scandal alive anyway — 'We have not seen evidence of any individuals affiliated with the Trump team in contact with [Russian intelligence officers]. How much wasted time on pointless investigations could have been prevented had Peter Strzok …
ProPublica:
At This Trump-Favored Charity, Financial Reporting Is Questionable and Insiders Are Cashing In — Charlie Kirk's nonprofit Turning Point USA has made misleading financial claims and gets its “independent” audits from its co-founder Bill Montgomery's former business associate.
Louise Perry / UnHerd:
Factcheck10:55 An untrue claim in the New Yorker speaks volumes — Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) — Reading the latest copy of the New Yorker magazine, published exactly a week ago, I came across this sentence in a piece by Jill Lepore:
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
‘Things could get very ugly’: Experts fear post-election crisis as Trump sets the stage to dispute the results in November — Washington (CNN)Voting experts and political strategists from across the political spectrum are increasingly alarmed about the potential for a disputed presidential election …
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Revolver:
Red Bull Just Purged High-Level Execs Who Pushed for ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ — Red Bull just reminded their ‘wokest’ employees who calls the shots in a total massacre of “social justice warrior” employees. — Not only were the top two North American executives fired …
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Elizabeth Warren / New York Times:
To Fight the Pandemic, Here's My Must-Do List — The Senate needs to act now. There is no time to waste. — Ms. Warren is a Democratic senator from Massachusetts. — Americans stayed at home and sacrificed for months to flatten the curve and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Christina Goldbaum / New York Times:
N.Y. Subway, Facing a $16 Billion Deficit, Plans for Deep Cuts — The transit agency will announce budget cuts on Wednesday. Officials are hoping federal assistance will help ease the crisis that the pandemic has created. — Facing one of the biggest financial crises in the history of the subway …
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Just Security:
Bill Barr's Playbook: His False Claims About Prior Military Force on U.S. Soil — The Insurrection Act, Operation Hawkeye and what really happened — Recent images of US forces deployed against civilians in Portland, Oregon raise questions about how unprecedented these actions …
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Sean Illing / Vox:
A definitive case against the Electoral College — Suzanne Gould demonstrates against President-elect Donald Trump outside the Colorado Capitol on the eve of the Electoral College vote in Denver, on December 18, 2016. Chris Schneider/AFP/Getty Images — Why the framers created …
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree — The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding on how the president might try to rule by decree. — Read more
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