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Tulsi Kamath / Click2Houston.com:
Houston fire and police respond to reports of documents being burned at Consulate General of China — HOUSTON - Houston police and fire officials responded to reports that documents were being burned in the courtyard of the Consulate General of China in Houston Tuesday night, according to the Houston Police Department.
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
China vows to retaliate after U.S. orders closure of its consulate in Houston — CHANGSHA, China — The United States has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston within 72 hours, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday after local news footage showed diplomatic staff burning documents …
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Houston Chronicle, The Hill and New York Post
Associated Press:
US orders China to close its consulate in Houston
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New York Times:
U.S. Orders China to Close Houston Consulate Over Espionage and Theft
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Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Orders China to Close Houston Consulate
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The Week
New York Times:
Trump's Request of an Ambassador: Get the British Open for Me — Woody Johnson, the N.F.L. owner, Trump donor and ambassador to Britain, was warned not to get involved in trying to move the tournament to a Trump resort in Scotland, but he raised the idea anyway — and he failed.
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NFL owner and Trump ambassador to UK sparks watchdog inquiry over allegations of racist and sexist remarks and push to promote Trump business — Washington (CNN)The billionaire NFL owner who serves as President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Kingdom was investigated …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's ugly law enforcement crackdown is even alienating Republicans — Under fire for dispatching federal law enforcement into cities in defiance of local leaders, in part to create TV imagery that sends an authoritarian thrill up President Trump's leg, top officials are offering several new defenses.
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New York Times:
As Trump Pushes Into Portland, His Campaign Ads Turn Darker
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Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Portland riots - it is Trump's constitutional duty to enforce federal law and he should
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Althouse
Tom Cleary / Heavy.com:
Portland Mom Says She Was Groped & Assaulted by Feds During Protest Arrest — Jennifer Kristiansen is a 37-year-old Portland mother and attorney who was arrested while protesting with the “Wall of Moms,” a group of women who have joined protests outside of the federal courthouse in the Oregon city.
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NBC News:
Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown — Twitter announced Tuesday that it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content, banning many of the conspiracy theory's followers because of problems with harassment and misinformation.
Mia Jankowicz / Business Insider:
A new Trump campaign ad depicting a police officer being attacked by protesters is actually a 2014 photo of pro-democracy protests in Ukraine — Foto: This image of protesters and police in Ukraine, from 2014, has been used by the Trump 2020 US election campaign.
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Politico:
Matt Gaetz appears to run afoul of House ethics rules — Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has privately engaged in several spending practices in his nearly four years in office that appear to be in conflict with the House's ethics rules, a POLITICO investigation has found.
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The Week, Contemptor and Raw Story
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
“Disturbing And Demoralizing”: DHS Employees Are Worried The Portland Protest Response Is Destroying Their Agency's Reputation — The Department of Homeland Security's response to anti-police brutality protests in Portland, Oregon, has disturbed and angered many employees …
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Washington Post
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. Homeland Security confirms three units sent paramilitary officers to Portland
Brian Bennett / TIME:
10 Questions for Customs and Border Protection Head Mark Morgan
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Louder With Crowder
CNN:
Three brothers are behind a series of viral videos trolling Trump — (CNN)A little known Democratic group called MeidasTouch posted a video on Twitter less than two weeks ago that began with Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump's longtime aide, lashing out at presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Biden campaign goes on offensive against Sen. Ron Johnson's Burisma probe — Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Tuesday launched a highly personal broadside at Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, for pushing forward …
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POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and CNN
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Americans tune in to ‘cancel culture’ — and don't like what they see — One of the few things that Barack Obama and Donald Trump agree on is cancel culture. — In the last year, as numerous public figures have become the targets of online campaigns by social media swarms …
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Vox, American Greatness, Louder With Crowder and Washington Post
Talmon Joseph Smith / New York Times:
If Congress Cuts Jobless Benefits, ‘It Would Be a Disaster’ — Six unemployed Americans on what losing $600 a week would mean to them. — When I called Mary Proffitt at her home in Lexington, Ky., last week, the 63-year-old lifelong Kentuckian picked up the phone and rap was blaring in the background.
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Jessica Huseman / ProPublica:
How Voter-Fraud Hysteria and Partisan Bickering Ate American Election Oversight — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — On March 20, state election administrators got on a conference call …
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Althouse
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Biden, leading Trump by eight points, also has a big advantage with undecided voters: Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 8 percentage points in support among registered voters, and the former vice president appears …
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
I Spoke to Anthony Fauci. He Says His Inbox Isn't Pretty. — An interview with the man who has an important message for you, if he can get it out. — Americans may have lost faith in their most cherished institutions — the presidency, Congress, the media, perhaps even democracy itself …
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Raw Story
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The breathtaking unconstitutionality of Trump's new census policy — President Donald Trump talks to reporters while hosting Republican congressional leaders and members of his cabinet in the Oval Office on July 20 in Washington, DC. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images — It's a direct attack on the 14th Amendment.
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The White House, Balkinization, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Guardian
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Elizabeth Warren's new role: Key Joe Biden policy adviser — WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden accused Elizabeth Warren last year of holding an “angry, unyielding viewpoint.” She embraced that label and slammed Biden as “naive” for thinking he could work with Republicans as president.
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
The states at the center of the 2020 voting crisis — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia are the battlefronts for voting rights advocates and election lawyers in a year one national expert says could make Bush v. Gore look like “a walk in the park.”
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Past D.C. Bar Association chiefs call for probe of William Barr — Four former presidents of the D.C. Bar Association have signed a letter calling on the group to investigate whether Attorney General William Barr has violated its rules. The District of Columbia Bar authorizes lawyers …
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Is the Left Angry at Republicans Working to Elect Joe Biden? — Conservatives are always looking for converts, the old saying goes, while liberals are always looking for heretics. This would explain why so many of each are so angry right now. Joe Biden's campaign has attracted …
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The Nation
Haris Alic / Breitbart:
Founder of Never-Trump Super PAC Arrested in $60M Bribery Scheme — The founder of a prominent political action committee opposing President Donald Trump's reelection was arrested on Tuesday in part of a public corruption probe. — Matthew Borges, a lobbyist and former chairman …
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William Cohan / ProPublica:
The Bizarre Fall of the CEO of Coach and Kate Spade's Parent Company — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — When I asked Jide Zeitlin late last year about a 10-year-old article accusing him of using …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Biden and Obama to talk Trump in new campaign video — Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama sat down in-person to discuss systemic racism, the coronavirus pandemic and President Trump's handling of those issues for a new campaign video that will be released Thursday.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump's Remedy for Low Poll Numbers: Reminding People Polls Can Be Wrong — And if surveys of likely voters don't look promising, turn to other measures. Like boat parades. — WASHINGTON — “I'm not losing,” President Trump insisted in an interview on Sunday with the Fox News anchor Chris Wallace …
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Associated Press:
Silent spread of virus keeps scientists grasping for clues — One of the great mysteries of the coronavirus is how quickly it rocketed around the world. — It first flared in central China and, within three months, was on every continent but Antarctica, shutting down daily life for millions.
Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
The November Election Is Going to Be a Mess — American voters face a nightmare in November. The recent stretch of primary elections has raised a slew of red flags of glitches, missteps, incompetence, and worse that could plague the national elections in November.
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Migrant kids held in US hotels, then expelled — HOUSTON (AP) — The Trump administration is detaining immigrant children as young as 1 in hotels, sometimes for weeks, before deporting them to their home countries under policies that have effectively shut down the nation's asylum system during …
Rudy Takala / Mediaite:
Ex-Google Engineer Says Glitch Blocking Websites Including Drudge, Breitbart Could Have Revealed a Mysterious List — A Tuesday incident in which certain websites briefly vanished from Google search results may have inadvertently exposed an internal list aimed at suppressing certain news outlets, a former engineer for the company said.
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