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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 …
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
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Facing unrest on American streets, Trump turns Homeland Security powers inward
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:   U.S. Homeland Security confirms three units sent paramilitary officers to Portland
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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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.
Marissa Lang / Washington Post:   ‘MomBloc’ and protest first-timers march into Portland streets, moved by the aggressive tactics of federal agents
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Bloomberg
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.
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.
Discussion: The Week, Contemptor and Raw Story
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.
Discussion: naked capitalism and Raw Story
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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
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.
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.
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 …
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: 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 …
Discussion: The Week, Breitbart and The Hill
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
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
U.S. Northeast, Pummeled in the Spring, Now Stands Out in Virus Control  —  In just over two months, the Northeast has gone from the country's worst coronavirus hot spot to its most controlled.  “It's acting like Europe,” one expert said.  —  BOSTON — Last week, as Dr. Emily Wroe left …
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: The Nation
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.”
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
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
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.
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 …
Discussion: Observer
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.
 
 
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USA Today:
Woman will lead Army Reserve for the first time in its history
Discussion: Task & Purpose and UPI
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
Joe Biden's disastrous plans for America's suburbs
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Facebook gets in a Twitter tangle
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Rudy Takala / Mediaite:
Ex-Google Engineer Says Glitch Blocking Websites Including Drudge, Breitbart Could Have Revealed a Mysterious List
Discussion: Power Line, New York Post and The Sun
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
‘We Saw This Problem Coming’ Lauren Underwood, the youngest Black woman to ever serve in Congress …
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
The Atlantic Finally Admits Its Police Abolition Piece Is Based On A False Narrative
Discussion: Townhall
 Earlier Items: 
Denise Chow / NBC News:
How Biden's climate plan makes clean energy by 2035 ‘very doable’
Discussion: New York Times
Max Cohen / Politico:
Bipartisan majority supports statewide mask mandates, poll finds
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump's Remedy for Low Poll Numbers: Reminding People Polls Can Be Wrong
James Arkin / Politico:
Cory Gardner: NRSC should pull anti-Hickenlooper ad in Colorado
Discussion: The Colorado Sun
Hayley Miller / HuffPost:
Susan Collins Is Desperate To Avoid Saying Whether She Backs Trump's Reelection
Discussion: The American Independent and CNN
Emily Yoffe / Persuasion:
A Taxonomy of Fear  —  There is a pattern in the way speech is silenced.
Valerie Insinna / Defense News:
It's official: US Air Force to buy Turkish F-35s
Discussion: Politico and UPI
 

 
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Anna Betts / The Guardian:
A judge orders an evidentiary hearing for next week to determine whether the Infowars auction was conducted fairly

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
 
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