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12:00 AM ET, June 11, 2020

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CNN:
Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading  —  CNN poll: Trump sees big drop in approval rating  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign is demanding CNN retract and apologize for a recent poll that showed him well behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
ABC News:
As Trump struggles to respond to crises, internal polling instills fear in advisers: Sources  —  Some advisers say the president needs a course correction before November.  —  One week ago President Donald Trump met with advisers from his 2020 re-election campaign, who greeted him with bad news.
Discussion: Breitbart and POLITICUSUSA
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
A retired judge's sharp rebuke of William Barr confirms the worst  —  The latest development in the saga of Michael Flynn — disgraced former national security adviser, admitted criminal, conspiracy theorist and all-around sleaze — gives us yet more evidence of how completely President Trump …
Discussion: Townhall and The Crime Report
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
More than 1,250 former Justice Dept. workers call for internal watchdog to probe Barr role …
Washington Post:   House impeachment managers: Trump is as lawless and corrupt as ever
Washington Post:
Live updates: Trump rejects calls to rename military bases honoring Confederate generals
Discussion: IJR
Chuck Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
The White House vs. John Bolton  —  Officials are attempting to use national security as a pretext to prevent the publication of his memoir.  —  President Trump doesn't want John Bolton to publish his book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.”
Discussion: Breitbart and Axios
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New York Times:
White House Tells Bolton His Book Still Contains Classified Information  —  A White House official said Mr. Bolton would be given a redacted version of his manuscript by June 19, four days before the book's current publication date.  —  The White House has told John R. Bolton …
Washington Post:   Bolton plans to move forward with book despite new White House warning that it contains classified material
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
LeBron James and Other Stars Form a Voting Rights Group  —  “This is the time for us to finally make a difference,” the N.B.A. superstar said of the new group, which will aim to protect African-Americans' voting rights.  —  WASHINGTON — The N.B.A. superstar LeBron James and a group …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Will Return to Campaign Trail With Rally in Tulsa  —  The president is set to hold his first rally since the coronavirus shuttered most of the country, with polls showing Joe Biden establishing a significant national lead over his rival.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump will return …
Discussion: National Memo
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J.K. Rowling:
J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues  —  This isn't an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it's time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity.  I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity.
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Amrou Al-Kadhi / The Independent:   How Britain's colonial past can be traced through to the transphobic feminism of today
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Three corporations that say they support Black Lives Matter but sponsor Tucker Carlson [UPDATED]  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)  —  Over the last several days, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has used his platform to repeatedly attack and denigrate the Black Lives Matter movement.
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James Doubek / NPR:   D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser: ‘Not At All’ Reconsidering Police Funding
New York Times:
Economics, Dominated by White Men, Is Roiled by Black Lives Matter
Discussion: Breitbart
John Ismay / New York Times:
The Army Was Open to Replacing Confederate Base Names.  Then Trump Said No.  —  “My Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations,” President Trump tweeted Wednesday.  —  Monuments and memorials bearing the names of men who fought …
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Michael Levenson / New York Times:
NASCAR Says It Will Ban Confederate Flags
Discussion: NBC News and Mediaite
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
NASCAR bans Confederate flag at all events and properties
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, The Spun, ESPN and Breitbart
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Senate Armed Services on collision course with Trump over Confederate names  —  The Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday voted to require the Pentagon to rename military bases and other assets named after Confederate generals, a move that puts the Republican-led panel on a collision course with the White House.
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Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon blindsided by Trump tweet on Confederate bases
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:   As Coronavirus Infections Climb, Washington Moves On to Other Business
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
HISTORY!  Congress Poised to Get Its First QAnon Believer  —  Barring the unexpected, Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to be elected the next representative from Georgia's 14th district.  And boy does she have some wild ideas.  —  A believer in a conspiracy theory the FBI classifies …
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org and Jewish Insider
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘Live P.D.’ Canceled By A&E Amid Ongoing Protests Against Police Brutality  —  EXCLUSIVE: A&E has canceled its flagship series and one of the highest-rated shows on basic cable.  A week after Live P.D. was pulled in the wake of George Floyd's death, the reality series' has been canceled.
Courier-Journal:
Louisville police release the Breonna Taylor incident report.  It's virtually blank  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nearly three months after Louisville Metro Police officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her South End apartment, the department has released the incident report from that night.
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Know The Signs: How to tell if your grandparent has become an antifa agent  —  Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment.  @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed.
Slate:
Donald Trump's Increasingly Elaborate Bid to Create His Own America  —  On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump, whose unsurprising character defects still never fail to surprise, tweeted a Russian-sourced conspiracy theory claiming that the 75-year-old peace activist who remains hospitalized …
Discussion: Mediaite, Axios and POLITICUSUSA
CNN:
Noel Francisco to step down as US solicitor general, sources say  —  (CNN)US Solicitor General Noel Francisco is expected to resign from his role as the government's top lawyer before the Supreme Court in the coming days, according to two sources familiar with the move.
New York Times:
Aggressive Tactics by National Guard, Ordered to Appease Trump, Wounded the Military, Too  —  The world responded the evangelical guard the eyes of the world were gone.  The National Guard.  The actions that occurred this past week, were absolutely used to work.
Discussion: Raw Story
USA Today:
USA TODAY Poll: Forceful clearing of Lafayette Square protest was defining moment for president and protests  —  The police crackdown to clear protesters from Lafayette Square last week looms as a defining moment in the national debate over race and law enforcement that has been sparked by the death of George Floyd.
Discussion: alicublog and New York Times
Washington Post:
Britain briefly suspends sending evidence to U.S. law enforcement, in move some see as a sign of fraying relationship  —  British authorities earlier this month told their American counterparts that they had suspended sending over all evidence in criminal cases because the United States still uses …
Discussion: UPI
Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
'I can't breathe,' Oklahoma man tells police before dying.  'I don't care,' officer responds.  —  Newly released body camera footage from an arrest in Oklahoma City last year shows a suspect saying “I can't breathe” before he died at a hospital.  —  In the May 20, 2019 footage …
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Fired inspector general says he told aides about Pompeo probe so that they 'wouldn't be surprised'  —  Before he was fired last month, State Department Inspector General Steve Linick said, he told top aides he was investigating the personal conduct of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife …
Courier-Journal:
‘Change agent’ Charles Booker is best Democratic candidate in Kentucky Senate race  —  This is a historic time in our state and nation.  A time when young and old, black, white and brown are calling for change — not just incremental change, but sweeping reform that will usher in true equality and justice for all.
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg:
Patagonia CEO Steps Down, Search Begins For a Successor  —  Patagonia is searching for a new chief executive officer to lead the company as it emerges alongside the rest of retail from a lengthy shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.  —  CEO Rose Marcario is leaving Patagonia after six years on the job …
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
Repudiate the Anti-Police Narrative  —  Comments submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives in response to the Oversight Hearing on Policing Practices  —  The following is testimony delivered to the House Committee on the Judiciary on June 10.
Discussion: Power Line
CNN:
Biden repeatedly pushed bill in Senate that critics said would have made investigating police officers for misconduct more difficult  —  (CNN)In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has called for more accountability for police officers accused …
Discussion: Redstate
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Trump Job Approval Slides to 39%  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating has fallen to 39% amid nationwide protests about racial injustice.  His ratings this year had been the best of his presidency but are now back near his term average of 40%.
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Speaker Pelosi wants Confederate statues in Capitol removed  —  She's pushing for the removal of eleven Confederate statues.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Wednesday called for the removal of nearly a dozen Confederate statues from the halls of Congress, throwing …
Christopher Wilson / Yahoo News:
Coronavirus infections appear to spike in U.S. even as they decline elsewhere  —  While many countries are seeing a decline in COVID-19 cases, infections in the United States appear to be spiking, according to documents obtained by Yahoo News.  —  In a Centers for Disease Control …
Discussion: CNBC and Daily Kos
Politico:
‘Everything about this is irregular’: Ex-judge tapped to review Flynn case blasts Trump DOJ  —  A former judge selected to advise on a path forward in the criminal case against Michael Flynn is accusing the Justice Department of exercising a “gross abuse of prosecutorial power” …
Glenn K. Beaton / The Aspen beat:
A report from the big white suburban guilty girls picnic march  —  Urban trekking around Denver the other day, I happened across a protest march of maybe a thousand people.  Here's what I observed.  —  The marchers were almost all white.  I saw fewer than a dozen black people and no Hispanics.
Virginian-Pilot:
Portsmouth Confederate statues beheaded, partially pulled down by protesters … Demonstrators beheaded the four Confederate statues before pulling one down using a tow rope Wednesday night at the Portsmouth Confederate monument as police watched.  —  A protester was injured as the statue fell, hitting him on the head.
NBC News:
Coronavirus is making a comeback in Arizona three weeks after governor lifted stay-at-home order  —  PHOENIX — Three weeks after Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey lifted his stay-at-home order, the state has seen a big spike in the number of coronavirus cases.  —  With nearly 1,100 dead …
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Amanda Hess / New York Times:
The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’  —  A backlash is mounting against depictions of “good cops,” on television and in the street.  —  It was only a matter of time before the protests came for “Paw Patrol.”  —  “Paw Patrol” is a children's cartoon about a squad of canine helpers.
Discussion: Breitbart
Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal:
Chinese Sporting Power Couple Issues Rare Rebuke of Ruling Communist Party  —  Retired soccer star Hao Haidong and his wife, former badminton world champion Ye Zhaoying, are speaking out against Beijing's leadership  —  Two of China's most celebrated athletes have denounced the ruling Communist Party …
Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart / Task & Purpose:
Former DIA Director: Please, take your knee off our necks so we can breathe  —  “It's hard to explain what it was like for me on the first day of elementary school, or the pain I felt in high school when I was stopped and searched nearly every time I left my apartment.”
 
 
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Oregonian:
Police officers' personal information is being posted online, Homeland Security document says
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James Arkin / Politico:
Ossoff wins Georgia Senate primary, will face Perdue in general election
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Washington Post:
Voting debacle in Georgia came after months of warnings went unaddressed
Jessie Van Berkel / Star Tribune:
Protesters topple Columbus statue on Minnesota Capitol grounds
Politico:
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Edwin Mora / Breitbart:
Ghana Invites African Americans to ‘Come Home’ in Wake of U.S. Protests
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MSNBC:
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Cotton and Schumer clash over police reform
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Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist “to comply with local law”
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Des Moines Register:
Iowa State Fair canceled for the first time since World War II
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