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Washington Post:
Two dead and one wounded in Kenosha shootings during Jacob Blake protests — KENOSHA, Wis. — Two people were killed and one was seriously wounded by gunfire late Tuesday at a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake Jr., Kenosha police said early Wednesday.
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2 shot dead and 1 injured in Kenosha during protests; police looking for man armed with a long gun — Kenosha Police said early Wednesday morning that two people had been shot and killed and a third injured during protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake; authorities were looking for a man armed with a long gun.
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Suspect Charged With Murder After 2 Shot Dead At Kenosha Protest — Suspect Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was reportedly arrested in his hometown of Antioch, Illinois, 20 miles from Kenosha where the shootings occurred. — Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of three people ― …
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse arrested for murder after cops let him flee out of state — An Illinois teenager has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a demonstrator in Kenosha, Wisconsin. — Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, of Antioch, was charged Wednesday …
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Axios, The Daily Beast and The Gateway Pundit
Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:
Protesters target D.C. diners, triggering backlash after heckling woman — Lauren Victor refused to go along with raising her fist — although she supports the movement — A demonstration that began Monday evening in the District to protest the shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin wound …
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Bruce C.T. Wright / NewsOne:
Who Is Kyle Rittenhouse? Jacob Blake Protest Shooter Is Reportedly A White Teen Affiliated With Cops
Who Is Kyle Rittenhouse? Jacob Blake Protest Shooter Is Reportedly A White Teen Affiliated With Cops
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Arrest in Overnight Shooting During Unrest in Kenosha, Wis.
Arrest in Overnight Shooting During Unrest in Kenosha, Wis.
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Associated Press:
Kenosha police: 3 shot, 2 fatally, during Wisconsin protests
Kenosha police: 3 shot, 2 fatally, during Wisconsin protests
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Robert Chappell / Madison365:
Kenosha police opened fire less than 5 minutes after being called: scanner audio
Kenosha police opened fire less than 5 minutes after being called: scanner audio
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CNN:
CDC was pressured ‘from the top down’ to change coronavirus testing guidance, official says — (CNN)A sudden change in federal guidelines on coronavirus testing came this week as a result of pressure from the upper ranks of the Trump administration, a federal health official close to the process tells CNN.
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Katherine J. Wu / New York Times:
C.D.C. Now Says People Without Covid-19 Symptoms Do Not Need Testing — The revision prompted confusion and alarm from experts, who called the move “potentially dangerous.” — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly modified its coronavirus testing guidelines this week …
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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Top U.S. Officials Instructed the C.D.C. to Change Testing Guidelines — New York City's transit agency warned of major cuts to the subway without $12 billion in federal aid. Kenya's president extended a nationwide nightly curfew for another 30 days.
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Coronavirus concerns fall and Trump approval ticks higher in swing states, CNBC/Change Research poll finds — Serious concerns about the coronavirus fell in six 2020 swing states, while approval of President Donald Trump's handling of Covid-19 rose, according to a new CNBC/Change Research poll.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump pops to 52%: ‘Best job approval rating on record,’ up with blacks, even Democrats — Buoyed by blacks and independent voters, as well as urban dwellers shocked by the Black Lives Matter protest violence raging in some cities, President Trump's approval rating has hit a new high, according to a survey heavy with minority voters.
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Lis Power / Media Matters for America:
How TV media's coverage of the party conventions compares
How TV media's coverage of the party conventions compares
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The Hill, The US Sun, Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Why the Fuck is the Secretary of State Talking, From Israel, at the Republican National Convention? — Violating norms, standards, ethical guidelines, rules, laws and common sense is nothing new for Pompeo, but his speech Tuesday night will break new ground. — BEAST INSIDE
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Redstate, One America News Network, The Daily Caller and Al Jazeera
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CNN:
Melania Trump Rose Garden speech attendees not all required to get coronavirus tests
Melania Trump Rose Garden speech attendees not all required to get coronavirus tests
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The Atlantic, Raw Story, The Hill, New York Times, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
Fox News:
Pelosi, Schumer call GOP convention ‘sur-reality TV’ on coronavirus
Pelosi, Schumer call GOP convention ‘sur-reality TV’ on coronavirus
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CNN:
Republicans' fake feminism might have worked
Republicans' fake feminism might have worked
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Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Guardian
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Republicans revel in Trump's prime-time convention surprises
Republicans revel in Trump's prime-time convention surprises
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Washington Post:
Republican convention live updates: Democrats step up focus on pandemic; Pence to appear from Baltimore's Fort McHenry
Republican convention live updates: Democrats step up focus on pandemic; Pence to appear from Baltimore's Fort McHenry
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Talking Points Memo
Stuart Anderson / Forbes:
A Review Of Trump Immigration Policy
A Review Of Trump Immigration Policy
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Axios:
How Trump could pull off another upset — It feels like August of 2016 all over again. Polls show Donald Trump losing big. Pundits proclaim he can't win. Reporters sneer at Trump voters on Twitter and cable. — Why it matters: There are several signs that should give the Trump-is-toast self-assured pause.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump goes dark on TV as early voting looms
Trump goes dark on TV as early voting looms
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Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Harris will be Democrats' main counter to Trump on Thursday
Harris will be Democrats' main counter to Trump on Thursday
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Commentary Magazine, OutKick and The Hill
USA Today:
Trump's RNC naturalization ceremony at White House: Tasteless, hollow and probably illegal — I watched the Republican convention start to finish for two days. I'm a former Republican and a Never Trumper, so I understand that none of it was meant to speak to me.
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Trump Plays President in Prime Time
Trump Plays President in Prime Time
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Washington Post:
Lewd cheerleader videos, sexist rules: Ex-employees decry Washington's NFL team workplace — In “Beauties on the Beach,” the official video chronicling the making of the Washington NFL team's 2008 cheerleader swimsuit calendar, the women frolic in the sand, rave about their custom bikinis …
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Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld Has Been Suspended for Sexual Harassment — On Monday morning, members of the Yale Law School faculty received a terse message from their provost informing them that Professor Jed Rubenfeld “will leave his position as a member of the YLS faculty for a two-year period …
Politico:
U.S. service members injured in Syria after skirmish with Russian forces — U.S. service members were injured after an altercation with Russian forces in northeast Syria this week, according to a draft military statement and a person familiar with the matter.
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
They tried to get Trump to care about right-wing terrorism. He ignored them. — Elizabeth Neumann spent March 13 and 14 of 2019 at a conference in the picturesque Spanish port city of Málaga. The topic: terrorism. Western leaders were deeply worried about the dangers foreign …
Politico:
Intel officials contradict Trump on voting by mail — The intelligence community has seen no evidence that foreign powers intend to manipulate mail-in voting in the 2020 election, senior Trump administration officials said Wednesday, undercutting a claim by President Donald Trump that such fraud “will be the scandal of our times.”
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E. Jean Carroll / The Atlantic:
‘I Moved on Her Very Heavily’: Part 1 — In her 2019 memoir, What Do We Need Men For?, E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of rape, in a Bergdorf's dressing room in the mid-1990s. After the president denied ever meeting her and dismissed her story as a Democratic plot, she sued him for defamation.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The RNC Has Made a Compelling Case for America's Imminent Collapse — America has never been greater than it is today — or at greater risk of collapsing tomorrow. — This is the central message of the Republican National Convention through its first two nights.
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FiveThirtyEight:
Is The Electoral Map Changing? — We looked at how 16 battleground states have voted in the last five presidential elections to see how they might go in 2020 — From one presidential election to the next, the battleground states that make — or break — the election remain largely the same.
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Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
After Three Years Attacking L.G.B.T.Q. Rights, Trump Suddenly Tries Outreach — L.G.B.T.Q. advocates say the president has tried to divide their coalition by targeting transgender people in policy rollbacks. — The month of June was filled with big moments for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway undermined the truth like no other Trump official. And journalists enabled her. — Among the many appalling scenes in the many tell-all books written from an inside-the-Trump-administration perspective, one in particular spoke volumes about how Kellyanne Conway operates:
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Requesting Data From Governors of States that Issued COVID-19 Orders that May Have Resulted in Deaths of Elderly Nursing Home Residents — Data will help inform whether the Department of Justice will initiate investigations under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act …
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