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Mike Baker / New York Times:
Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle's ‘Autonomous Zone’  —  President Trump challenged Seattle's mayor to “take back your city” after police vacated a precinct and protesters laid claim to the neighborhood around it.  —  SEATTLE — On the streets next to a police precinct …
Associated Press:
Jefferson Davis statue torn down in Richmond, Virginia  —  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A statue of Jefferson Davis was torn down along Richmond, Virginia's famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday night by protesters.  —  The statue of the president of the Confederacy was toppled shortly before 11 p.m …
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.
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Laura A. Bischoff / daytondailynews:
Lawmaker asks if ‘colored population’ not washing their hands as well as others behind COVID rates  —  During a hearing on whether to declare racism a public health crisis, state Sen. Steve Huffman, R-Tipp City, asked if “the colored population” is hit harder by the coronavirus because perhaps …
Discussion: The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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Cincinnati.com:   Ohio lawmaker wonders if ‘colored’ people get COVID-19 from not washing their hands as much
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:   Ohio GOP lawmaker asks if ‘colored population’ is hard hit by covid-19 because they don't ‘wash their hands as well’
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.
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show Loses Disney & Other Advertisers Over George Floyd Killing & Black Lives Matter POV  —  Tucker Carlson may have one of the most watched shows on cable news, but the Fox News Channel host is losing advertisers - again.  —  Whereas in 2018, over 20 companies yanked …
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New York Times:
Economics, Dominated by White Men, Is Roiled by Black Lives Matter
Discussion: Breitbart
James Doubek / NPR:   D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser: ‘Not At All’ Reconsidering Police Funding
The Economist:
Estimated electoral college votes  —  Our model is updated every day and combines state and national polls with economic indicators to predict a range of outcomes.  The midpoint is the estimate of the electoral-college vote for each party on election day.  —  Chance of winning each state
The Daily Beast:
Lara Logan, the Fox ‘Investigative Journalist’ Who Keeps Falling for Antifa Hoaxes  —  TRUST, DON'T VERIFY  —  Fox News has repeatedly used Logan to lend credibility to its “antifa” coverage, but she seems to have trouble distinguishing between hoaxes and credible information.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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 …
CNN:
Coronavirus deaths are expected to go down before a sharp rise in September, model shows  —  (CNN)The US surpassed 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases as experts predicted Thursday that tens of thousands more people will get infected and die in the months ahead.
Discussion: Vox, New York Post and WGN-TV
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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 …
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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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Rep. Clyburn to today's activists: Don't let ‘defund the police’ hijack new momentum for reform
Discussion: Roll Call, The Hill and ABC News
Michael Wilson / New York Times:
Why Are So Many N.Y.P.D. Officers Refusing to Wear Masks at Protests?  —  Though the city is recording hundreds of new coronavirus cases each week and some officers have died, many are not heeding instructions to cover their faces.  —  Riot helmets, ballistic vests, shields, batons …
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.
Discussion: New York Times
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Jeff Pegues / CBS News:
Man who claimed George Floyd and Derek Chauvin “bumped heads” changes story  —  Editor's Note: This story and headline have been updated to reflect a new account from David Pinney, who previously said he worked with George Floyd and Derek Chauvin.  —  A man who worked at the same club …
Jesse Reed / MSN:
NASCAR truck racer Ray Ciccarelli says he's quitting after Confederate flag ban  —  On Wednesday, NASCAR made a huge announcement regarding the Confederate flag.  Then, driver Ray Ciccarelli made an announcement of his own.  —  Ciccarelli is a 50-year-old racer.
Anita Kumar / Politico:
‘He has to get back to his life’: Trump looks past crises to resume his routine  —  The United States is embroiled in disputes and anger: divided over how to restart the economy, anxious over fresh coronavirus spikes, and raging over police brutality and racial injustice.
Discussion: IJR, Raw Story and Althouse
Rich Lowry / Politico:
A Presidency Is a Terrible Thing to Waste  —  President Trump is in the midst of a polling swoon largely of his own making.  —  Gallup has his approval rating at 39 percent, and his rating in the RealClearPolitics average is down to 42 percent  —  It's true that events have taken a hand …
Discussion: Raw Story
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Coronavirus chaos in Georgia, Wisconsin a ‘warning sign’ for Democrats  —  Even the act of voting has become a partisan issue with racial implications in 2020.  —  Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say they're willing to vote in person during a pandemic …
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.
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Courier-Journal:
‘Change agent’ Charles Booker is best Democratic candidate in Kentucky Senate race
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
courthousenews.com:
Journalist Blinded in One Eye During Protest Sues Minneapolis Police Chief  —  MINNEAPOLIS (CN) — A journalist who was left permanently blind in one eye after she was hit with a projectile during recent protests in Minneapolis claims in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that the city …
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Milley Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op: ‘I Should Not Have Been There’  —  President Trump's walk across Lafayette Square, current and former military leaders say, has sparked a moment of reckoning in the military.  —  WASHINGTON — The country's top military official apologized …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ashley Boucher / People.com:
Ice Cube Under Fire for Tweeting Anti-Semitic Images and Conspiracy Theories  —  Twitter users are asking the actor and rapper to take the posts down  —  Ice Cube is facing criticism for sharing a number of anti-Semitic images and conspiracies on Twitter.  —  The actor, 50 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Rebecca Rainey / Politico:
Unemployment claims climbed by 1.5 million last week, despite jobs gains in May  —  Workers filed another 1.5 million claims for jobless benefits last week, the Labor Department reported, suggesting that some Americans are still being pushed out of work nearly three months into the pandemic.
Discussion: Breitbart
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
Bill Chappell / NPR:
U.S. Hits 2 Million Coronavirus Cases As Many States See A Surge Of Patients  —  Toggle more options  —  The U.S. has reached another dire landmark in its fight against COVID-19, surpassing 2 million confirmed cases on Wednesday.  New coronavirus infections are rising in at least 20 states …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, Axios and Al Jazeera
Emily Jashinsky / The Federalist:
The Corporate Media Is Now Controlled By The Radical Left  —  Top editors are rapidly resigning over allegations of racial insensitivity—most of which are correctable or forgivable if they're accurate—legitimizing the radical left's inane policing of our politics and culture.
Discussion: WWD
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.
Daniel Lombroso / The Atlantic:
Four Years Embedded With the Alt-Right  —  What I learned about the seductive power of hate from making the documentary White Noise … White nationalists have always been able to find one another in America, but the recent resurgence of the white-nationalist movement …
 
 
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CNN:
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