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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's name was never ‘masked’ in FBI document on his communications with Russian ambassador  —  A Republican effort to determine who may have leaked the name of Michael Flynn in connection to his 2016 contact with the Russian ambassador has centered on the question …
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Eli Lake / Commentary Magazine:   How it happened and why it matters  —  In their final encounter during …
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Rice tried to protect Obama, blame Comey for withholding intelligence from Flynn & Trump team
QU Poll:
Release Detail  —  May 20, 2020 - Biden Holds 11 Point Lead As Trump Approval On Coronavirus Dips, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Almost Half Say Second Wave Of Coronavirus ‘very Likely’ In Fall  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Trump 50 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just said the corrupt part out loud  —  During the impeachment of President Trump, an expert witness called by Democrats floated a theoretical scenario involving the president threatening a state hammered by a natural disaster, to illustrate the corruption of Trump's shakedown of Ukraine.
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Politico:
Trump misstates Michigan mail-in ballot policy, threatens federal funding  —  President Donald Trump mischaracterized Michigan's absentee ballot policies on Wednesday while threatening federal funding to the state if election officials there do not retreat from measures meant to facilitate mail-in voting.
Brett Neely / NPR:
Trump Repeats Unfounded Claims About Mail-In Voting, Threatens Funding To 2 States  —  President Trump on Wednesday escalated his rhetorical campaign against an expansion of mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic by threatening federal funding to two states with Democratic governors.
CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims Michigan sent out absentee ballots and broke the law
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
CNN:
'We've been muzzled': CDC sources say White House putting politics ahead of science  —  (CNN)In the early weeks of the US coronavirus outbreak, staff members in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tracked a growing number of transmissions in Europe and elsewhere …
Discussion: Sputnik News, IJR, Raw Story and The Hill
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Kristen Holmes / CNN:
CDC's Redfield in the hot seat as White House looks for someone to blame  —  (CNN)A day after President Donald Trump privately excoriated the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Republican senators during a lunch on Capitol Hill, the fate of the agency's director, Dr. Robert Redfield, is in question.
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
White House China report calls Beijing's lack of transparency threat to U.S. interests, say officials
Discussion: Associated Press
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Mueller grand jury material from being turned over to House  —  The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday blocked a House committee from receiving grand jury material gathered by Robert Mueller's special counsel investigators, issuing a stay while a legal dispute over the records is on appeal.
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Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Grants Trump Request to Block Disclosure of Mueller Materials  —  Ruling shields grand-jury materials while administration argues they should remain secret  —  WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court blocked Congress from receiving grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller's investigation …
Discussion: The Week
Politico:
Fired State Department watchdog was probing protocol office  —  The now-fired State Department inspector general had recently wrapped up an investigation into two other top aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, determining that they had likely failed to report allegations of workplace violence …
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NBC News:
Pompeo's elite taxpayer-funded dinners raise new concerns  —  NBC News: Pompeo's elite dinners on taxpayers' dime raising concern  —  WASHINGTON — As federal workers file out of the State Department at the end of a Washington workday, an elite group is often just arriving in the marbled …
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The Ultimate Disgrace of Mike Pompeo  —  The ouster of the State Department's inspector general, who had been investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on at least two charges of misconduct, is yet another instance of how corruption—and the tolerance, almost the expectation, of corruption …
Discussion: Mother Jones, Daily Kos, IJR and The Week
WFLA-TV:
Florida COVID-19 dashboard manager raises red flags about accuracy of state data after being fired  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Cap News/WFLA) - Florida's COVID-19 dashboard, which has been praised and celebrated by officials in Washington in recent months, is now at the center of a controversy …
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
Where Does Ron DeSantis Go to Get His Apology?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:   Florida Gov. DeSantis calls scientist's data-manipulation claim a ‘nonissue’
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Targeting Hunter Biden, Senate panel approves subpoena for lobbying firm over Democrats' objections  —  A Senate committee moved Wednesday to subpoena documents related to the son of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in an election-year escalation of GOP congressional scrutiny of Biden's time as vice president.
Discussion: Raw Story and Axios
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:   Republicans issue subpoena in Biden probe
Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘A moonshot mission’: Trump campaign eyes a return to megarallies  —  The Trump campaign has an order from the president: Find a way to get him back on the road and into megarallies to re-energize his base.  —  In recent meetings with top campaign officials and White House aides …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and Vanity Fair
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Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Swing state voters are sharply divided over coronavirus, CNBC/Change Research poll finds
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Anti-Trump Republicans flex their muscle  —  The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill  —  Republican strategists earlier this month sent a startling message to GOP senators facing reelection: “Don't Defend Trump.”  —  Then last week, a Rasmussen Reports poll …
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Albert Hunt / The Hill:
‘Never Trump’ Republicans: Fringe, or force to be reckoned with?
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Here's How Most Americans Really Feel About Wearing Face Masks  —  If there's a culture war over masks, someone forgot to tell most of the public, a new survey finds.  —  Most Americans consider wearing a mask near others a sign of respect and a matter of public health, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Fans Gobble Up His Favorite, Unproven COVID Drug—Some Are Even Trying To Cook It Themselves  —  IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE?  —  QAnon users are posting make-at-home recipes for hydroxychloroquine as Trump says he's using the drug  —  Donald Trump's allies are seeking …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Believer in QAnon conspiracy theory wins Republican Senate nomination in Oregon  —  Oregon Republicans on Tuesday elected a Senate nominee who believes in QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that has taken root among some far-right supporters of President Trump.
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Christopher Wilson / Yahoo Sports:
QAnon follower wins Senate primary in Oregon
Discussion: Vox
Mark Moore / New York Post:
Progressive group used cell phone data to track protesters at anti-lockdown rallies  —  A progressive health-care advocacy group used cell phone data to track the movements of demonstrators at lockdown protests in five states, according to a report.  —  The Committee to Protect Medicare collected …
Discussion: NaturalNews.com
NBC News:
Here's how the early battleground map has opened up for Joe Biden  —  WASHINGTON — Maybe Joe Biden isn't leading President Trump by 7 points in Arizona, as one poll showed yesterday.  —  But Biden has been ahead of Trump in every Arizona poll released this year.
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Americans harbor strong fear of new infections  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Strong concern about a second wave of coronavirus infections is reinforcing widespread opposition among Americans to reopening public places, a new poll finds, even as many state leaders step up efforts to return to life before the pandemic.
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Senators release bill to offer $4,000 skills training credit to workers displaced by coronavirus  — Four senators introduce a bill to create a $4,000 tax credit for workers who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic to put toward skills training.
Shawn Yancy / WTTG-TV:
Former White House butler Wilson Roosevelt Jerman dies of COVID-19  —  Remembering former White House butler who died from COVID-19  —  Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, one of the White House's longest-serving employees, died last weekend from COVID-19.  He was 91.
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
GOP House candidate demeans Muslims and compares Dreamers to pedophiles  —  Republican congressional candidate Ted Howze said earlier this month he had nothing to do with social media posts from his personal accounts that demeaned Muslims, accused prominent Democrats of murder and mocked a survivor of the Parkland school shooting.
Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
More than 5 million Americans will be infected with coronavirus and 290,000 will die by the end of July if social distancing isn't adhered to, according to COVID-19 model  — Forecast from University Of Pennsylvania's Wharton School model predicts COVID-19 cases will reach 5.4 million and death toll could be 290,000 by July 24
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
America's Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  There was supposed to be a peak.  But the stark turning point, when the number of daily COVID-19 cases …
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
CNN:
Exclusive: Barr met with prosecutor now reviewing Russia probe immediately after Mueller investigation ended, documents reveal  —  (CNN)Almost immediately after special counsel Robert Mueller closed his investigation last year, Attorney General William Barr was huddling with the prosecutor …
Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Sept. 11 convict now says he renounces terrorism, bin Laden  —  FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Sherburne County Sheriff Office shows Zacarias Moussaoui.  Moussaou, the only man ever convicted in a U.S. court for a role in the Sept. 11 attacks now says he is renouncing terrorism, Al-Qaida and the Islamic State.
 
 
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Gosh, what could be behind the right's hatred of Stacey Abrams?
Discussion: Twitchy and Fox News
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Exclusive: Documents show China's secret extradition request for Uighur in Turkey
Discussion: National Review
The White House:
Executive Order on Regulatory Relief to Support Economic Recovery
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Live Updates: Michigan Dam Breaks and Flooding Force Thousands to Evacuate
Sister Toldjah / Redstate:
Biden Pledges Not to Fire Inspectors General, Gets Tripped up When Reminded It Happened Under Obama-Biden
Discussion: Power Line, CNSNews and Vox
Kai Kupferschmidt / Science:
Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don't spread the virus at all?
 Earlier Items: 
CBS Detroit:
‘How Can I Be Sick?’  Woman Who Took Hydroxychloroquine For 19 Years To Treat Lupus Still Got COVID-19
Discussion: CBS Denver and CBS New York
David Brody / CBN News:
EXCLUSIVE: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Armed for Battle with God on Her Side
Discussion: TheBlaze
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Arrests Former Green Beret, Son, in Connection with Carlos Ghosn Escape From Japan
Rasmussen Reports:
Biden Tops Trump in Vote, Economic Confidence
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
10 Years Old, Tearful and Confused After a Sudden Deportation
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
The Worst Is Yet to Come
Discussion: Raw Story and Althouse
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Is Holocaust Denial Conservative Now?
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