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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.
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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 ― …
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Two Killed and One Injured on Third Night of Unrest in Kenosha, Wis.  —  The violence occurred early Wednesday during a confrontation between demonstrators and a group of men armed with guns as protests continued over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.  —  KENOSHA, Wis. …
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.
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 …
Associated Press:
Kenosha police: 3 shot, 2 fatally, during Wisconsin protests
Bruce C.T. Wright / NewsOne:
Who Is Kyle Rittenhouse? Jacob Blake Protest Shooter Is Reportedly A White Teen Affiliated With Cops
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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 …
Discussion: RochesterFirst and KRON4
CNN:
Updated CDC guidelines now say people exposed to coronavirus may not need to be tested  —  (CNN)In a shift that perplexed some doctors, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its Covid-19 testing guidelines to say some people without symptoms may not need to be tested …
New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Top U.S. Officials Instructed the C.D.C. to Change Testing Guidelines
Discussion: KNSD-TV
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
Discussion: Townhall and Power Line
Lis Power / Media Matters for America:
How TV media's coverage of the party conventions compares
Discussion: The Hill, The US Sun and Fox News
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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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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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
RNC Speaker Cancelled After Boosting QAnon Conspiracy Theory About Jewish Plot to Enslave the World  —  Mary Ann Mendoza, an “angel mom,” was set to speak on Tuesday night.  But then she took to Twitter to encourage followers to read a thread about the Rothschilds.
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USA Today:   Trump's RNC naturalization ceremony at White House: Tasteless, hollow and probably illegal
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: ‘This is absolutely not how it works’  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  OK, SORRY ... WE KNOW the convention was Tuesday night, but this was too good to bury.  THE USPS is looking for a VP of government affairs and public policy.  It might be smart to poke around …
Discussion: Bloomberg, NPR and Washington Post
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Forbes and Raw Story
Gavin Bade / Politico:
U.S. blacklists 24 Chinese firms, escalating military and trade tensions  —  The Commerce Department on Wednesday blacklisted 24 Chinese companies, saying that they are helping the ruling Chinese Communist Party construct artificial islands in the South China Sea, which the U.S. sees as a military provocation.
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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.
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:
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.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Emma Copley Eisenberg / Esquire:
Fact Checking Is the Core of Nonfiction Writing.  Why Do So Many Publishers Refuse to Do It?  —  Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses the dangers of authors being forced to hire their own fact-checker out of pocket.  If they do so at all.  —  When I set out to write my first book …
 
 
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Christian Toto / Hollywood in Toto:
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