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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 …
Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Orders China to Close Houston Consulate
Discussion: 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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CNN:
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 …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Cruz vs. Cotton clash on coronavirus deficits may preview 2024 contest for post-Trump GOP
Discussion: The Week, NBC News and Raw Story
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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   Trump's Portland crackdown is controversial. The man spearheading it might be doing so illegally.
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:   DHS Chief Says His Federal Agents Are ‘Proactively’ Arresting People In Portland
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.
Marissa Lang / Washington Post:
‘What choice do we have?’:  Portland's ‘Wall of Moms’ faces off with federal officers at tense protests  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — A thick wall of tear gas crept closer to the wall of moms in yellow shirts chanting, “Don't shoot your mother,” as they faced off with federal agents during another night of nonstop protests.
Discussion: The Nation
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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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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.
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/Getty Images  —  It's a direct attack on the 14th Amendment.
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 …
Discussion: dayton-daily-news
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Axios:
Senate GOP, White House consider side deal to extend unemployment benefits  —  Senate Republicans and negotiators from the Trump administration are considering a short-term extension of supplemental unemployment benefits, which are set to expire on July 31, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) confirmed to reporters Wednesday.
Discussion: The Hill, CNBC and The Daily Caller
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Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
D.C. and Baltimore expand face mask requirements, while Baltimore also suspends indoor dining  —  The District and Baltimore expanded mask requirements Wednesday in an attempt to stave off an increase in novel coronavirus cases across the region.  —  A forthcoming order from D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser …
Discussion: The Hill
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
De Blasio threatens to take Trump administration to court if federal officials come to New York City  —  De Blasio said he ‘will not allow this to happen’  —  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday threatened to take the Trump administration to court should they send federal officers …
Discussion: Politico
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New York Times:
Hearst Employees Say Magazine Boss Led Toxic Culture  —  At Cosmopolitan staff meetings, workers complain of discrimination and tokenism.  Former employees say Hearst Magazines president Troy Young made sexually offensive remarks.  —  For decades Hearst magazines have advised American women …
more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Discussion: The Hill, The Week and Breitbart
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 …
Discussion: electionlawblog.org and Althouse
Lisette Voytko / Forbes:
Here's Every Time Donald Trump And Ghislaine Maxwell Have Been Photographed Together  —  Topline: During a Tuesday coronavirus briefing, President Trump offered well-wishes to Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante who now faces multiple federal charges related to Epstein's alleged sex ring.
Discussion: Contemptor and Deadline
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.
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 …
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.
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Tucker's Got Real Scandals, So He Keeps Inventing Imaginary Enemies  —  The Fox News star went on vacation after his chief writer was exposed as a bigot, and returned just as he was accused of harassment.  So he doxxed a reporter to change the subject.  —  BEAST INSIDE
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.
Discussion: Breitbart
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Determined to Split the Country in Two  —  New offensives against major cities from President Donald Trump and GOP governors are pushing at the central geographic fault line between the Republican and Democratic coalitions.  —  On one front, Trump is taking his confrontational …
 
 
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Financial Times:
UK abandons hope of US trade deal by end of year
James Arkin / Politico:
Top GOP super PAC jumps into Kansas Senate primary after Democratic meddling
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont:
Leahy Leads 47 Senators In Introducing The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
Discussion: Axios
FiveThirtyEight:
Want A COVID-19 Test? It's Much Easier To Get In Wealthier, Whiter Neighborhoods
Discussion: ABC News and The Root
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
U.S. Northeast, Pummeled in the Spring, Now Stands Out in Virus Control
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
Joe Biden's disastrous plans for America's suburbs
 Earlier Items: 
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Past D.C. Bar Association chiefs call for probe of William Barr
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Rudy Takala / Mediaite:
Ex-Google Engineer Says Glitch Blocking Websites Including Drudge, Breitbart Could Have Revealed a Mysterious List
Discussion: New York Post, Power Line and The Sun
William Cohan / ProPublica:
The Bizarre Fall of the CEO of Coach and Kate Spade's Parent Company
Discussion: Observer
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
The states at the center of the 2020 voting crisis
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
“Disturbing And Demoralizing”: DHS Employees Are Worried The Portland Protest Response Is Destroying …
Discussion: Washington Post and Reuters
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
I Spoke to Anthony Fauci. He Says His Inbox Isn't Pretty.
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B
 
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