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James Laporta / Associated Press:
Pentagon puts military police on alert to go to Minneapolis  —  DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty U.S. military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis …
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Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
National Guard summoned to aid cities amid police clashes  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Protesters burned businesses in Minneapolis.  They smashed police cars and windows in Atlanta, broke into police headquarters in Portland, Oregon, and chanted curses at President Donald Trump outside the White House.
Jason Koebler / VICE:
NYC Bus Drivers Union Refuses to Transport Protesters for the NYPD  —  Workers for New York City's MTA are refusing to transport people arrested during protests against police brutality in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.  A video of a bus driver refusing …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
America Is a Tinderbox  —  Scenes from a country in free fall.  —  The last two and a half months in America have felt like the opening montage in a dystopian film about a nation come undone.  First the pandemic hit and hospitals in New York City were overwhelmed.
Washington Post:
Gripped by disease, unemployment and outrage at the police, America plunges into crisis  —  A global pandemic has now killed more than 100,000 Americans and left 40 million unemployed in its wake.  Protests — some of them violent — have once again erupted in spots across the country over police killings of black Americans.
CBS News:
Minneapolis protesters defy curfew in fourth night of unrest  —  Protesters in Minneapolis defied curfew orders as firefighters worked to put out fires across the city in the fourth night of unrest over George Floyd's death.  —  CBS Minnesota reports they were battling fires at businesses.
Washington Post:
The death of George Floyd: What video and other records show about his final minutes  —  Play Video  —  On May 25, Minneapolis resident George Floyd was pinned facedown on the ground, in handcuffs, by a white police officer who pressed his knee against Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
How Violent Protests Change Politics  —  On Thursday night, thousands of people gathered in the streets of Minneapolis, and other cities across the country, to protest the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer.
Patrick Condon / Star Tribune:
Gov. Walz to ‘fully mobilize’ the National Guard for Floyd riots
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Sprawling Protest Movement Treads Line Between Justice Agenda and Chaos
Discussion: The Week
Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Biden fails to condemn rioting in remarks on Minneapolis
Discussion: USA Today
New York Times:   A Justice Dept. Skeptical of Police Abuse Cases Vows to Investigate Floyd Death
Tess Owen / VICE:   Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War
Des Moines Register:   Des Moines police clash with protestors, spray tear gas after bricks hit cars
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court, in 5-4 Decision, Rejects Church's Challenge to Shutdown Order  —  A California church argued that restrictions on public gatherings treated houses of worship worse than many businesses.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a request from a church in California …
Discussion: USA Today, LifeNews.com and Breitbart
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J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:
Supreme Court denies California church's challenge to state restrictions
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Shellie Sylvestri / WAVE-TV:
LMPD officer fires pepper balls at WAVE 3 News reporter during Louisville protest  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - WAVE 3 News reporter Kaitlin Rust appeared to have been hit by pepper balls reportedly fired by an LMPD officer during a protest in downtown Louisville.
New York Times:
Flynn Discussed Sanctions at Length With Russian Diplomat, Transcripts Show  —  The former national security adviser now says he does not remember those discussions as he fights a criminal charge he had previously pleaded guilty to.  —  WASHINGTON — The former national security adviser …
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Declassified Flynn Transcripts Contradict Key Mueller Claims Against Flynn
Discussion: Redstate and Twitchy
Washington Post:
All U.S.  —  The number of people reported to have died of the novel coronavirus in the United States surpassed 100,000 this week, a grim marker of lives lost directly to the disease, but an analysis of overall deaths during the pandemic shows that the nation probably reached a similar terrible milestone three weeks ago.
Greg Wilson / Fox News:
Fox News crew harassed, chased by angry mob while reporting on protests outside White House  —  An angry mob of rioters stoked by the death of a black man at the apparent hand of a Minneapolis cop turned its rage on a Fox News crew early Saturday, chasing and pummeling the journalists outside …
Karra Small / FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV:
Partygoer at Lake of the Ozarks pool party tests positive for COVID-19, potentially exposing hundreds  —  CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — A positive COVID-19 case has been confirmed in a Boone County resident who attended a crowded pool party in the Lake of the Ozarks last weekend.
Discussion: fox8.com
CNN:
North Carolina governor: Trump insisted on full convention with no face masks or social distancing  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump called Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday and insisted on a full Republican convention this summer with no face masks or social distancing …
Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country  —  If we talked about what is happening in Minneapolis the same way we talk about events in a foreign country, here's how the Western media would cover it.  The quotes and those “quoted” in the piece below are fictional.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia politicians condemn violent protests, others see ‘day of reckoning’  —  Some of Georgia's top politicians echoed Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' call for violent protesters to “go home.”  Others said outraged demonstrators should translate their anger into votes in November.
Discussion: Althouse
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Violence rocks Atlanta as rioters smash windows, set fires, loot shops
Discussion: IJR
 
 
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
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CNN:
From AIDS to Covid-19: Trump's decades of spreading dangerous misinformation about disease outbreaks
CBS San Francisco:
Security Officers Gunned Down At Oakland Federal Building; One Dead, One Wounded
Discussion: Disrn and New York Post
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Kris Kobach Is Back, and a Kansas Senate Seat May Be Up for Grabs
New York Times:
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump imagines roving bands of child ballot thieves
Keith Cowing / NASA Watch:
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Bloomberg:
Every Single Worker Has Covid at a U.S. Farm on Harvest Eve
Discussion: Daily Kos
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Over Veterans' Protests, Trump Vetoes Measure to Block Student Loan Rules
Discussion: Axios
Mark Zuckerberg:
This has been an incredibly tough week after a string of tough weeks.
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles take minority stakes in The Daily Beast; Sherwood will be CEO and publisher, and Coles will be chief creative and content officer

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: the BBC plans to stop automatic annual pay increases for its highest-paid employees and instead hand them raises based on their performance

Lucy Craymer / Reuters:
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