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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 …
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.  —  In Wednesday's Washington Post, Nick Miroff and Matt Zapotosky dig into the Trump administration's highly controversial — and in some cases legally questionable — use of the Department …
USA Today:   Trump's Portland strategy: Look tough and beat Biden. But he's making cities less safe.
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:   DHS Chief Says His Federal Agents Are ‘Proactively’ Arresting People In Portland
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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.
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.
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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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump wishes Ghislaine Maxwell well — and the media barely reacts
Discussion: The Nation, New York Post, CNN and Fox News
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 and NPR
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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.
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
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
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.
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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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.
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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James Arkin / Politico:
Top GOP super PAC jumps into Kansas Senate primary after Democratic meddling  —  A super PAC aligned with top Republicans is launching a major new ad buy in Kansas, where the GOP is attempting to stop controversial candidate Kris Kobach from winning the nomination in a must-win Senate race for the party's endangered majority.
Discussion: The Hill
Ruth Simon / Wall Street Journal:
Small Businesses Brace for Prolonged Crisis, Short on Cash and Customers  —  Hopes for a quick economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic have been dashed, and companies are exhausting rescue funds.  Many are shutting down or slashing jobs again.  —  TEXT  —  46 RESPONSES
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 …
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.
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
Chaim Levinson / Haaretz:
Netanyahu Decides on November Election, Leveraging Political Chaos, Sources Say  —  Sources close to PM say he is convinced that ahead of the evidentiary stage of his corruption trial, a petition will be filed with the High Court to force him to declare he's unable to lead country and attend legal proceedings
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.
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.
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
Gina Harkins / Military.com:
SecDef Wants to Stop Federal Law Enforcement Agents Dressing Like US Troops  —  The American public should not be confused about the difference between uniformed military personnel and police officers.  —  That's the belief of Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who is concerned about personnel …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Very few Americans back full school reopening  —  BOSTON (AP) — Virtual instruction.  Mandated masks.  Physical distancing.  The start of school will look very different this year because of the coronavirus — and that's OK with the vast majority of Americans.
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 and electionlawblog.org
 
 
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Covid-19 Testing Is Broken and There's No Plan to Fix It
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Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins will run for U.S. Senate against Sen. Bill Cassidy
Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian:
Trump may not respect the election. We need a Democratic Senate more than ever
Discussion: Washington Post
Manu Raju / CNN:
Rand Paul on Liz Cheney: 'I don't think she's good for the country'
Ramona Shelburne / ESPN:
Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler: WNBA support for Black Lives Matter could make some fans ‘feel excluded’
Discussion: Breitbart and The Guardian
Financial Times:
UK abandons hope of US trade deal by end of year
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont:
Leahy Leads 47 Senators In Introducing The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
Discussion: Axios
Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
D.C. and Baltimore expand face mask requirements, while Baltimore also suspends indoor dining
Discussion: The Week and The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
U.S. Northeast, Pummeled in the Spring, Now Stands Out in Virus Control
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Migrant kids held in US hotels, then expelled
Discussion: Political Wire
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
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Elizabeth Warren's new role: Key Joe Biden policy adviser
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