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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump cancels in-person Republican convention in Jacksonville, Florida — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he will no longer hold a large, in-person Republican convention in Jacksonville, Florida, because of the coronavirus but will hold virtual events and still give an acceptance speech.
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CNN:
Trump cancels Republican convention activities in Jacksonville
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The Hill, CNBC and Florida Politics
USA Today:
Trump cancels Jacksonville portion of Republican convention planned for August due to COVID
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The Daily Caller and Patterico's Pontifications
Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
Mayor of Portland, Oregon, tear gassed by federal agents — PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland, Oregon, was tear gassed by the U.S. government late Wednesday as he stood at a fence guarding a federal courthouse during another night of protest against the presence of federal agents sent …
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Oregonian, Portland Police, The Daily Caller, Reason and Axios
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Associated Press:
Watchdog to review conduct of federal agents in Portland, DC
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Reuters, The Hill and One America News Network
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Kimberly Guilfoyle under fire for Trump fundraising disarray — News that Kimberly Guilfoyle contracted the coronavirus had barely surfaced on July 3 before she hopped on a private flight from Mount Rushmore back to New York with her boyfriend, Donald Trump, Jr.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Maine journalists under siege after false accusations from Fox News's Tucker Carlson — Two freelance journalists in Maine have sustained abuse and threats after being named by Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday night as part of an effort by the New York Times to do “a story on the location of my family's house.”
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PRESS RUN, more at Mediagazer »
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The problem with Trump's strange denial in his new golf scandal … Some of Donald Trump's scandals are complex and take time to disentangle. The new British Open scandal is striking in its simplicity. — The New York Times reported this week that the president urged his ambassador …
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New York Times, The White House, Crooked Media, Politico and Raw Story
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump knows he's going to lose. He's already salting the earth behind him. — How can you tell President Trump thinks he's going to lose in November? Because he has already begun salting the earth behind him. — And his fellow Republicans are helping by sabotaging key institutions that the next …
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Stephen Miller's Grandmother Died of COVID-19. Her Son Blames the Trump Administration. — This month, Stephen Miller, the extremist anti-immigrant Trump adviser who has promoted white nationalist ideas, lost a relative to the coronavirus pandemic, and his uncle tells Mother Jones …
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Mediaite and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Washington Post:
White House, GOP kill payroll tax cut but flounder on broader coronavirus bill — Planned roll-out canceled in roller-coaster morning; White House floats piecemeal plan but Pelosi shoots it down — Senate Republicans killed President Trump's payroll tax cut proposal on Thursday but failed …
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CNBC, Florida Politics, Daily Kos, Mother Jones, The Mahablog, Common Dreams and Progress Pond
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Ocasio-Cortez, Dems assail men's abusive treatment of women
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The Hill, One America News Network and Axios
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Pelosi says $3T coronavirus legislation is ‘a gift’ to Trump
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Politico
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden tops Trump in battlegrounds Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania, according to Fox News statewide registered voter surveys.
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Poll shows Biden beating Trump by 13 points in Florida
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Fox News, Associated Press, Sun-Sentinel, Politico, Frontloading HQ and The Hill
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Michael Cohen will be released from prison to home confinement, judge rules — Avlon: You should be outraged at the muzzling of Cohen — New York (CNN)Michael Cohen will be released to home confinement, a judge ruled on Thursday, finding that the government acted in a retaliatory manner …
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Judge Orders Cohen Released, Citing ‘Retaliation’ Over Tell-All Book
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Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
Trump repeals fair housing rule, amplifying campaign appeals to racial bias — With President Trump facing sagging support in the suburbs, his administration on Thursday targeted an Obama-era affordable housing regulation, the latest in a series of appeals to white voters' fears of crime and declining property values.
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox News parts ways with a morning host who caused a Covid-19 scare — New York (CNN Business)Fox News has parted ways with a host who dismayed fellow staffers when she came to work while visibly sick in the early days of the coronavirus crisis. — Heather Childers, who had been an early morning host …
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Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Facebook ignored racial bias research, employees say — In mid-2019, researchers at Facebook began studying a new set of rules proposed for the automated system that Instagram uses to remove accounts for bullying and other infractions. — What they found was alarming.
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The Daily Caller and MIT Technology Review, more at Techmeme »
The Daily Beast:
‘Shaking in Their Boots’: Trump Wanted a Portland-Style Offensive in Chicago — “If it were up to him, we would return to the old days [of] eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth—or forget about proportionality altogether,” one former administration official says.
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Reuters
Joe Nocera / Bloomberg:
I Was Wrong About Florida's Response to Covid-19 — I gave Governor Ron DeSantis more credit than he deserved for the low death rate in his state. — A little after 11 a.m. each weekday, I receive an email alert from the Miami Herald. It contains the latest Covid-19 numbers for Florida.
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Balloon Juice and Raw Story
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Ilhan Omar Campaign Mailer Accuses Opponent of Being ‘in the Pocket of Wall Street’ and Only Quotes Jewish Donors by Name — The mailer references three Jewish donors, plus “Michael, a donor from Scarsdale, New York.” — Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) campaign recently sent out a mail piece ripping …
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Daily Beast and Washington Times
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate passes bill with plan to change Confederate-named bases over Trump veto threat — The Senate on Thursday passed a mammoth defense policy bill that sparked a veto threat from President Trump over its inclusion of a plan to rename bases named after Confederate figures.
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Associated Press and Common Dreams
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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
U.S. Senate passes $740 billion defense bill, bucking Trump on Confederate names
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Samantha Diaz, Florida Health Care Worker, Dies at 29 — She left behind three children — two of whom have the novel coronavirus — in the care of her parents. “Our world came crashing down,” her mother said after Ms. Diaz died of Covid-19. — Samantha Diaz, a medical assistant in Florida …
Jeremy Roebuck / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Former congressman Ozzie Myers, caught in 1970s Abscam sting, has been indicted again — this time for election fraud — A former congressman convicted in the 1970s Abscam investigation was charged Thursday with new allegations that he bribed a poll worker to stuff ballot boxes in local elections.
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U.S. Department of Justice and The Hill
Politico:
State Department Insiders Ask: What Is Susan Pompeo Really Up To? — Five years ago, a young Kansan named Jakob Provo had almost gotten a job working for ambitious Congressman Mike Pompeo. He'd aced the interview, he thought, and he was certainly qualified.
Washington Post:
The Harper's ‘Letter,’ cancel culture and the summer that drove a lot of smart people mad — This is what was on Thomas Chatterton Wiliams's mind when he decided to write a short letter on the risks to liberalism and open discourse and get some like-minded thinkers to sign on.
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New Republic and israpundit.org
New York Times:
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon's U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public — U.S. Navy Releases Videos of Unexplained Flying Objects — The U.S. Navy has officially published previously released videos showing unexplained objects. — [radio transmission] “Whoa, got it — woo-hoo!”
fcps.edu:
School Board Renames Robert E. Lee High School for Late Congressman John Lewis — The Fairfax County School Board voted to rename Robert E. Lee High School after the late U.S. Congressman John R. Lewis at its business meeting on July 23. The new name will be effective for the 2020-21 school year.
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The Hill
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
67 current, former prosecutors defend St. Louis prosecutor from attacks in McCloskey gun case — Trump, Missouri Republicans have criticized Kim Gardner for filing weapons charges — A group of more than 60 current and former state and federal prosecutors signed a statement Monday defending …
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American Greatness and Fox News
Politico:
Democrats: Packets sent to Trump allies are part of foreign plot to damage Biden — Top congressional Democrats are sounding the alarm about a series of packets mailed to prominent allies of President Donald Trump — material they say is part of a foreign disinformation plot …
Ron Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
No More Blank Checks From Congress for Coronavirus — Lawmakers are rushing to spend more money without oversight on the $2.9 trillion already passed. — A near-record 158.8 million Americans were employed in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
ABC News:
Despite Trump claim, 12 states say some orders for coronavirus supplies still unfilled — Trump claims “zero unfilled requests” but some states await PPE, other supplies. — During his first coronavirus press briefing in nearly three months, President Donald Trump said his administration …
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