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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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Associated Press:
US orders China to close its consulate in Houston — BEIJING (AP) — The United States said Wednesday that it has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston “to protect American intellectual property” and the private information of Americans. — China strongly condemned the move …
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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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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 …
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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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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
'It's not good for our democracy': Calls grow for federal officers to shed military-style uniforms
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's Portland crackdown is controversial. The man spearheading it might be doing so illegally.
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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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.
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Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Twitter Removes Thousands Of QAnon Accounts, Promises Sweeping Ban On The Conspiracy
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer rips GOP over coronavirus divisions: ‘Disorganized, chaotic and unprepared’
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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 …
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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 …
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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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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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
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 …
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 …
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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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