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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Reagan Foundation to Trump, RNC: Quit raising money off Ronald Reagan's legacy  —  The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, which runs the 40th president's library near Los Angeles, has demanded that President Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) …
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Washington Post:
House GOP's pleas to Republican National Committee for financial help go unanswered
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
More willful blindness by the media on spying by Obama administration  —  The Washington press corps seems engaged in a collective demonstration of the legal concept of willful blindness, or deliberately ignoring facts, following the release of yet another declassified document …
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
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New York Times:
The F.B.I. Pledged to Keep a Source Anonymous.  Trump Allies Aided His Unmasking.  —  After a Russia expert who had collected research on Donald Trump for a disputed dossier agreed to tell the F.B.I. what he knew about it, law enforcement officials declassified a road map to identifying him.
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Meet the Steele Dossier's ‘Primary Subsource’: Fabulist Russian at Democrat Think Tank Whose Boozy Past the FBI Ignored
New York Times:
Videos Show How Federal Officers Escalated Violence in Portland  —  Peaceful protests were already happening for weeks when federal officers arrived on July 4.  Our video shows how President Trump's deployment ignited chaos.  —  Federal officers in military gear ... ... clouds of tear gas ... ... crowd control munitions ...
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Wall Street Journal:
Elite Border Patrol Unit Is Among Federal Agents Deployed to Portland
Discussion: JustOneMinute
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Sinclair pulls show where Fauci conspiracy theory is aired  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The Sinclair Broadcast Group said Saturday it is pulling from the air an edition of its “America This Week” program that discusses a conspiracy theory involving Dr. Anthony Fauci and the coronavirus.
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and CBS News
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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 …
People.com:
Regis Philbin, Legendary Television Host, Dies at 88  —  “His family and friends are forever grateful for the time we got to spend with him - for his warmth, his legendary sense of humor, and his singular ability to make every day into something worth talking about,” the Philbin family shares with PEOPLE in an exclusive statement
Barbara Boxer / Washington Post:
DHS was a mistake.  I regret voting for it.  —  I never imagined a president like Trump when I voted to create the Department of Homeland Security.  —  Here are the three words that no elected official, serving or retired, wants to say: “I was wrong.”  —  Throughout my career, I was known for taking some very lonely votes.
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force  —  In a press conference on Tuesday, Chad Wolf, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, responded to media reports that unidentified federal agents using unmarked vehicles have been arresting protesters in Portland, Oregon.
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Rep. Ted Yoho removed from board of Christian charity over his comments about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  —  A Christian nonprofit organization that fights world hunger asked Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) to resign from its board after he confronted a female colleague and then reportedly used …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's surprising decision on churches and the pandemic, explained  —  US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito speaks to graduating students at Georgetown University Law Center in 2016.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images  —  Nevada churches brought an unusually strong challenge …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Split 5 to 4, Supreme Court Rejects Nevada Church's Challenge to Shutdown Restrictions
Gwen Aviles / NBC News:
Florida lawyers offering free living wills to teachers returning to school during the pandemic … A number of Florida lawyers are offering free or discounted living wills for teachers who may be required to return to the classroom this school year.  —  “I had read a story a few weeks ago …
Discussion: The Hill and TODAY.com
Hallie Golden / The Guardian:
'That's an illegal order': veterans challenge Trump's officers in Portland  —  Two veterans asked federal agents if they understood their oath to defend the constitution as teargas was fired  —  The Black Lives Matter protest in Portland looked to be winding down last Saturday night …
New York Times:
Corporate Insiders Pocket $1 Billion in Rush for Coronavirus Vaccine  —  Well-timed stock bets have generated big profits for senior executives and board members at companies developing vaccines and treatments.  —  On June 26, a small South San Francisco company called Vaxart made a surprise announcement …
Discussion: American Prospect
Politico:
Meadows, Mnuchin make rare weekend trip to the Hill amid coronavirus relief talks  —  In an unusual move, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows came to an empty U.S. Capitol on Saturday afternoon to huddle with Senate leadership staff.
Discussion: Reuters and The Hill
USA Today:
As America tops 4 million COVID cases, the cult of Donald Trump has become a death cult  —  America has now passed the milestone of 4 million COVID cases, and we're still arguing with doctors and epidemiologists about masks and school closures.  I expected some of this …
Discussion: Raw Story and Progress Pond
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Ron DeSantis was supposed to star at Trump's Florida convention.  Not anymore.  —  A Jacksonville convention was a chance for the 41-year-old Republican to snag a top billing during Trump's final coronation and test the waters for a potential run at the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Julie Satow / New York Times:
Turning a Second Home Into a Primary Home  —  Those who are lucky enough to have a weekend house have discovered that living there full-time can require some adjustment.  —  20 PhotosView Slide Show  —  ›  —  When the pandemic slammed into New York City in March, Sally Fischer …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Biggest Takeaway from Trump's Barstool Suck-Up Session  —  The president's anti-Black Lives Matter shtick is so extreme he's even lost the Barstool bros.  —  President Trump invited Dave “El Presidente” Portnoy to the White House on Thursday for a discussion vaguely resembling an …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Elon Musk, Blasting Off in Domestic Bliss  —  The billionaire space oddity on life with Grimes and Baby X, Trump, Tesla, tunnels, short shorts, stock surges, Facebook fumbles and everything else under the sun.  —  So how do the King of Mars, his Galactic Princess and their newborn son …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, The Verge and Breitbart
Daniel Turner / Human Events:
Goodbye, Washington DC.  —  Mayor Bowser broke her contract with residents like me.  So we're leaving.  —  During the last night in my condo in DC, I had to walk my dog an extra lap around the block because a crazy person was outside screaming obscenities.  I wasn't afraid.
Danielle Zoellner / The Independent:
Key Trump campaign donor steps back from supporting president's 2020 election bid  —  Robert Mercer, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, donated $15.5m with his wife, Diana, to a number of organisations that supported Mr Trump in 2016 … One of Donald Trump's top presidential donors from 2016 …
Discussion: Business Insider
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
'It's Bleak': Trump's Great American Comeback Is a Dumpster Fire
Discussion: Raw Story
Ian Miles Cheong / The Post Millennial:
Antifa militant arrested for stabbing black Trump supporter in Portland  —  Antifa militant and convicted pedophile Blake David Hampe was arrested in the early hours of Saturday following his alleged stabbing of a black Trump supporter in Portland.The Trump supporter and conservative …
Discussion: Big League Politics
Dann Cuellar / 6abc:
Jewish group asks head of Philadelphia NAACP to resign after anti-Semitic Facebook post  —  PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — The NAACP and the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia have a long history of working together to combat racism and bigotry.  —  So, Jewish leaders say it was shocking …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Procrastination on COVID Relief Is Inexcusable  —  The GOP's ideology has long been a threat to the powerless.  The party's opposition to social welfare immiserates the poor, its nativist demagoguery endangers immigrants, and its contempt for climate science could exhaust …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
American Catastrophe Through German Eyes  —  Trump says he wants to protect law-abiding citizens.  In 1933, Hitler issued his ‘Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State.’  —  PARIS — No people has found the American lurch toward authoritarianism under President Trump more alarming than the Germans.
Washington Post:
Spin, deride, attack: How Trump's handling of Trump University presaged his presidency  —  The judge was out to get him, he said.  So was that prosecutor in New York, whom he called a dopey loser on a witch hunt.  So were his critics, who he said were all liars.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Siobhán O'Grady / Washington Post:
U.N. human rights office calls on U.S. police to limit use of force
New York Times:
Once a Source of U.S.-China Tension, Trade Emerges as an Area of Calm
Discussion: The Week
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
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Discussion: BuzzFeed News
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Phil McCausland / NBC News:
John Lewis memorial services honoring civil rights hero begin today in Alabama
Discussion: John Robert Lewis, The Hill and UPI
Leah Nylen / Politico:
House hearing with big tech company CEOs rescheduled for Wednesday
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Senate: Ossoff in self-isolation after his wife contracts COVID-19
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Republicans are more afraid of change than ever
Discussion: Twitchy
CNN:
A Texas hospital overwhelmed by the coronavirus may send some patients home to die
New York Times:
Anatomy of an Election ‘Meltdown’ in Georgia
Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
The Wages of Woke  —  Dr. Robin DiAngelo, the bestselling author …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's week of retreat: The president reverses course as the coronavirus surges out of control
Discussion: Raw Story and The Moderate Voice
CNN:
Why the Obama-Biden ad may persuade key US voters
Discussion: Washington Post
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Media coverage of the 2016 campaign was disastrous. Now's the last chance to get 2020 right.
Ken Coleman / Michigan Advance:
He spent $10M of his own money running for governor in '18. …