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Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump portrays rampant crime in speech at Black church in Detroit — The presumptive Republican nominee, who hopes to dent Biden's advantage among Black voters, has often disparaged communities where many African Americans live — DETROIT — Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump repeated …
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Overlooked (But Real) Possibility of a Big Democratic Win — Both moderates and progressives are pushing the Biden campaign to get more ambitious. — Democrats have spent the past year talking much more about the prospect of a Donald Trump victory than about their own.
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Trump challenges Biden to a cognitive test but confuses the name of the doctor who tested him — Donald Trump has suggested President Joe Biden “should have to take a cognitive test,” only to confuse who administered the test to him in the next sentence — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump …
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Trump gets name of his doctor wrong as he challenges Biden to cognitive test — Gaffe came as 78-year-old Republican presidential candidate sought to bolster his support among Black and Latino voters in Michigan — Donald Trump has made a point in recent months of deriding his rival Joe Biden …
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Spiritual Adviser Quasi-Confesses to Molesting 12-Year-Old Girl — HOLY MOLY — The senior pastor of megachurch Gateway Church said he engaged in “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a “young lady”—without noting the alleged victim was 12. — The pastor of one of the country's …
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Deepa Shivaram / NPR:
Biden says the next president may get to name two Supreme Court justices — LOS ANGELES - President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year's presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court - a decision he warned would be …
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Chris Gardner / The Hollywood Reporter:
President Biden and Barack Obama Rip Donald Trump During Starry L.A. Fundraiser — Los Angeles Democrats and Hollywood stars like George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand came out in full force on Saturday night for a record-setting fundraiser for Biden's reelection campaign.
New York Times:
The Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started — An emerging coalition that views Donald J. Trump's agenda as a threat to democracy is laying the groundwork to push back if he wins in November, taking extraordinary pre-emptive actions. — Kica Matos with the National …
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New York Times:
Washington Post Publisher and Incoming Editor Are Said to Have Used Stolen Records in Britain — Years before becoming the Post's publisher, Will Lewis assigned an article based on stolen phone records, a former reporter said. — The publisher and incoming editor of The Washington Post …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The Hunter Biden and Trump trials were a litmus test. Only the Bidens passed. — The president's family rallied in support of one of their own. Trump family members were conspicuously absent. — No person with a loved one who has suffered through addiction could feel anything but empathy for Hunter Biden and his family.
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Mark Wingfield / Baptist News Global:
Breaking news: Paul Pressler died and the SBC said nothing — Herman Paul Pressler III of Houston died June 7, four days before the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, where nothing was said about his passing. — Pressler, who had just turned 94, was the co-architect of the so-called “conservative resurgence” in the SBC.
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Jones Hayden / Politico:
Trump threatens to cut US aid to Ukraine quickly if reelected — Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted the scale of U.S. support for Ukraine and said that if he is reelected in November he would immediately “have that settled.” — At a campaign rally in Detroit …
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Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times:
Man Plotted Mass Shooting in Atlanta to Incite ‘Race War,’ Officials Say — Prosecutors said Mark Adams Prieto of Arizona planned to target Black concertgoers at an Atlanta venue. He was indicted on hate crime and firearm charges. — An Arizona man who planned to commit a mass shooting …
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Ex-Trump Official Makes Stunning Revelation: Trump Talked About Executing People At Several WH Meetings — Ex-Trump White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin told Mediaite that then-President Donald Trump discussed “executing” people at multiple White House meetings.
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