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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Judge Won't Force Federal Officers In Portland To Identify Themselves When Making Arrests  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday denied a request by the Oregon attorney general's office for an order that would require federal law enforcement officers in Portland to identify themselves …
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Washington Post:
Operation Diligent Valor: Trump showcased federal power in Portland, making a culture war campaign pitch  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — As statues of Confederate generals, enslavers and other icons tumbled from their pedestals amid protests last month, President Trump issued an executive order meant to break the cascade.
Andrew Crespo / Washington Post:
The federal police in Portland don't even understand what ‘arrests’ are  —  The government cannot lawfully exercise its power of arrest if it doesn't realize it is, in fact, arresting people in the first place.  —  This past week, the Department of Homeland Security held a news conference …
Discussion: Breitbart
Bloomberg:
Oregon Loses Fight With Trump on U.S. Policing of Portland
Discussion: Twitchy
KOIN-TV:
Judge denies restraining order against feds in Portland
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited ‘Plandemic’ researcher's conspiracy theory about Fauci  —  New York (CNN Business)Local television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group are set to air a conspiracy theory over the weekend that suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci …
New York Times:
Inside Trump's About-Face on the Republican Convention in Jacksonville  —  Faced with a surging pandemic, resistance from local officials in Florida and deadlines for items like hotel payments, Mr. Trump chose to cancel the convention in an effort to cast himself as putting safety first.
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NBC News:
Trump's convention cancellation is costing GOP donors millions  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's whipsaw decisions to first move the Republican National Convention's main events, then to cancel them, are costing GOP donors millions of dollars, according to multiple Republicans familiar with the finances.
Dave Levinthal / Business Insider:
Republican Party officials hid COVID-19 mask purchases by labeling them ‘building maintenance’ in federal disclosures
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Post
Lauren Leatherby / New York Times:
How the U.S. Compares With the World's Worst Coronavirus Hot Spots  —  This chart shows the countries with the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world right now.  With its cases surging since mid-June, the United States is squarely in the top 10.  —  Leading the outbreak now are countries …
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump again tells story about being booed at 2015 event he didn't attend  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump boasted on Wednesday about his cognitive abilities, including the memory he has previously called “one of the great memories of all time.”
Discussion: Breitbart and New York Post
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Trump admits he ‘often’ regrets tweets, retweets get him ‘into trouble’, in interview with Barstool Sports CEO  —  The president acknowledged that he ‘loves’ using Twitter ‘too much sometimes’  —  President Trump made a rare admission that his Twitter activity at times gets him “into trouble.”
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
The Poison of Male Incivility When a woman dares respond to it, she's seen as “disruptive.”  —  Yesterday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood up and gave one of the finest speeches recently heard on the House floor, calling out not just Florida representative Ted Yoho for having called her …
Discussion: Jacobin, New York Times and New Yorker
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The New York Times has a misogyny problem, too
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
Dr. Anthony Fauci Explains Why His First Pitch Was Just a Bit Outside  —  He threw a baseball for the first time in decades.  He woke up with a sore arm.  ‘And you saw what happened,’ he says.  —  Anthony Fauci doesn't want to make excuses.  But he can explain.  —  “I completely destroyed my arm!” he said.
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:   Dr. Fauci praises Trump for ‘short and crisp’ COVID-19 briefings
Tom Porter / Business Insider:
Fauci says he has been assigned personal security after receiving ‘serious threats’ to his family
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
David Siders / Politico:
Donald Trump's suburban horror show  —  If current numbers hold, the Republican Party will suffer its worst defeat in the suburbs in decades — with implications reaching far beyond November.  —  President Donald Trump's damage in the suburbs has come primarily, as it has elsewhere, from his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion: Associated Press
Peter Baker / New York Times:
‘Mugged by Reality,’ Trump Finds Denial Won't Stop the Pandemic  —  A president who once claimed that “the worst days of the pandemic are behind us” now acknowledges that it has surged through much of the country and will “get worse before it gets better.”  —  WASHINGTON — He insisted …
CNN:
Chinese fugitive taken into custody as US claims Houston consulate was a part of espionage network  —  Washington (CNN)Senior US government officials said Friday that a Chinese scientist who had been hiding in the country's San Francisco consulate after accusations of visa fraud is now in US custody …
Discussion: New York Times and UPI
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Gary McWilliams / Reuters:
Anti-communist protesters heckle staff emptying Chinese consulate in Houston
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
His approval faltering, Republicans in battleground Houston districts start to distance from Trump  —  During Troy Nehls' recent bid for the Republican nomination in one of Texas' battleground congressional districts, the Fort Bend County sheriff prominently displayed his support for President Trump across his campaign website.
Media Matters for America:
Pro-Trump OAN attacks bans of “the new mainstream” QAnon: “The deep state appears to be fighting back”  —  Laura Ingraham's show used Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's speech condemning sexism to fearmonger about Democrats  —  Twitter just cracked down on QAnon for causing harm.
Discussion: Mediaite
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The Daily Beast:   The Shocking Secret Past of One of QAnon's Most Toxic Stars
Jay Willis / The Appeal:
Conservatives Are Winning The Supreme Court's Most Important Fight: Suppressing The Vote  —  Enabling widespread voter suppression is shaping up to be the Roberts Court's most consequential accomplishment, because every other aspect of the Republican agenda depends on it.
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
CDC: One-third of COVID-19 patients who aren't hospitalized have long-term illness  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged Friday that a significant number of COVID-19 patients do not recover quickly, and instead experience ongoing symptoms, such as fatigue and cough.
Discussion: UPI
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Could Not Be More on the Wrong Side”: New Poll Shows Trump's Black Lives Matter Protest Response Could Cost Him 2020  —  Exclusive polling suggests the protests changed Americans' minds so quickly, and so profoundly, that Trump planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood.
Katherine J. Wu / New York Times:
'It's Like Groundhog Day': Coronavirus Testing Labs Again Lack Key Supplies  —  Just weeks after resolving shortages in swabs, researchers are struggling to find the chemicals and plastic pieces they need to carry out coronavirus tests in the lab — leading to long waiting times.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Shariq Khan / Reuters:
Chevron diversity ratio to improve as layoffs progress  —  (Reuters) - Oil major Chevron Corp (CVX.N) expects to reduce the dominance of white males in company management during cost-cutting this year, upping the share of senior level jobs held by women and ethnic minorities to 44% from 38% last year, the company said in a statement.
Josh Bivens / Economic Policy Institute:
Cutting UI benefits by $400 per week will significantly harm U.S. families, jobs, and growth  —  3.4 million fewer jobs will be created over the next year as a result  —  Last month, we estimated the effect of allowing the $600 supplement to weekly unemployment insurance (UI) …
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Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi opposes temporary extension to enhanced jobless benefits
Gary Fineout / Politico:
LeBron James joins push to turn out ex-felon vote in Florida  —  TALLAHASSEE — A group founded by NBA superstar LeBron James and other Black athletes and entertainers is stepping into the fight to register Florida voters with felony records, saying it will help pay court debts and fees …
Rodneyse Bichotte / BKLYNER:
The Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law To Protect & Care For Pregnant Women Passes State Legislature  —  Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte represents the 42nd Assembly District in Brooklyn covering Ditmas Park, Flatbush, East Flatbush and Midwood.  —  Nearly four years ago, I lost my son, Jonah Bichotte Cowan, after going into preterm labor.
Daniel Nichanian / The Appeal:
Honolulu's Prosecutor Race Could Flip Hawaii's Punitive Culture  —  Running in one of Hawaii's two open elections for prosecutor, a public defender wants the Honolulu prosecutor's office—and the state—to take a drastically progressive turn.  —  In Hawaii's two most populous counties …
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Warner Joint Statement Following ODNI Announcement Regarding Election Security and Foreign Threats  —  Washington, DC - Today, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
A&E Has Lost Half Its Viewers Since Dropping ‘Live PD’  —  Network's prime-time viewership was up 4% this year before it canceled its hit police reality show, Nielsen data show  —  Ratings for A&E Network have plummeted since it canceled the hit police reality show “Live PD” on June 10 …
New York Times:
Kimberly Guilfoyle's Fund-Raising for Trump Draws Scrutiny  —  Ms. Guilfoyle has raised money from donors and has made inroads with some who have rejected calls from others.  Yet Trump supporters inside and outside the campaign say the operation she's built hasn't lived up to expectations.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
A Saudi Spy Chief Hid Abroad. With Appeals and Threats, M.B.S. Tried to Bring Him Back
New York Times:
Woody Johnson Was a Loyal Trump Supporter in 2016. As an Ambassador, He May Be Too Loyal.
Discussion: Raw Story and 1A
New York Post:
Cuomo blames The Post when pressed on probe of nursing home deaths
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Daily News:
Top NYPD chief says cops 'shouldn't be afraid' of accidentally breaking city's anti-chokehold law …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Max MarinNina Feldman / WHYY:
Philly NAACP president shares anti-Semitic meme with misattributed neo-Nazi quote
Discussion: Daily Kos
Washington Post:
McConnell says stimulus deal could take ‘a few weeks,’ putting millions with expiring jobless aid in limbo
Discussion: New Republic and Roll Call
Associated Press:
Virginia evicts Confederate monuments from its state Capitol
Caitlin Emma / Politico:
House passes massive spending bill in bid to thwart election year shutdown
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Arizona Republic:
Fire damages Arizona Democratic Party headquarters in Phoenix building overnight
Discussion: The Hill
Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed News:
An Elite Group Of Scientists Tried To Warn Trump Against Lockdowns In March
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
What's the backup plan if there's no COVID-19 vaccine?
Discussion: The Atlantic
Hamza Shaban / Washington Post:
FDA says at least 77 brands of hand sanitizers may be toxic
Discussion: CBS San Francisco and KRON4
Stacey Matthews / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Conservative UNC-Wilmington Professor Mike Adams Found Dead in His Home
Discussion: WECT-TV, Redstate, Breitbart and Townhall
Dana Stevens / Washington Post:
Held back  —  As parents realize how badly the U.S. botched …
Discussion: Reason
 

 
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