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Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Melania Trump was in no rush to move into the White House.  That's when she renegotiated her prenup, a new book says.  —  When Melania Trump stayed behind in New York after her husband's presidential inauguration, she said it was because she didn't want to interrupt their then-10-year-old son Barron's school year.
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Melania Trump Delayed White House Arrival to Negotiate a Better Prenup, Says Report
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Axios:
John Bolton's forthcoming book includes multiple allegations about Trump misconduct in office  —  In a memoir coming June 23 that the White House has tried to delay, former national security adviser John Bolton will offer multiple revelations about President Trump's conduct in office …
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Bloomberg:
Bolton Book to Relate Trump Chaos, How Re-Election Drove Policy
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Bolton Book Reportedly to Allege ‘Constitutionally impermissible’ Trump Misconduct
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
How Fox News lost the Black Lives Matter debate  —  A nation turns its back on Murdoch … Support independent voices  —  Channeling his deepest white privilege fury, Tucker Carlson opened his Monday night Fox News show with an angry, 25-minute, race-baiting monologue about Black Lives Matter …
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Loses More Advertisers  —  Disney, Papa John's, Poshmark and T-Mobile backed away from “Tucker Carlson Tonight” after the host's comments about Black Lives Matter protests.  —  On Monday's segment of his prime time show, the Fox News host Tucker Carlson cast doubt …
Discussion: Queerty, Breitbart and The Verge
Robert Cherry / National Review:   Which Black Lives Matter?
CNN:
Trump campaign selling ‘Baby Lives Matter’ onesie on website
Discussion: The Federalist and Raw Story
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Court hears arguments on whether to dismiss Flynn case  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court heard arguments Friday on whether it should order the dismissal of the Justice Department's prosecution of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, wading into a politically charged legal question …
Discussion: The Hill
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Washington Post:
Appeals court appears reluctant to order judge to immediately drop Michael Flynn's conviction  —  A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday appeared reluctant to order a judge to immediately dismiss the guilty plea of President Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn …
Discussion: Raw Story
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:   Flynn Judges Express Doubt About Letting DOJ Toss Case Now
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Most Americans, including Republicans, support sweeping Democratic police reform proposals - Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most Americans, including a majority of President Donald Trump's Republican Party, support sweeping law enforcement reforms such as a ban …
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Chris Jackson / Ipsos:
Americans' concerns about COVID-19 continue to decline
Discussion: The Federalist
New York Times:
As Americans Shift on Racism, Trump Digs In  —  With much of the country acknowledging that protesters' frustrations are justified, the president increasingly sounds detached from many voters in the political middle and even some of his allies.  —  WASHINGTON — NASCAR is demanding that its fans …
NBC News:
Man charged in deputy ambush scrawled extremist ‘Boogaloo’ phrases in blood  —  Steven Carrillo, accused of killing a sheriff's deputy in Santa Cruz County, California, wrote the words on the hood of a car, prosecutors said  —  Steven Carrillo, a California man who was charged with murder …
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
'We're going to have a catastrophe': US faces November election fiasco  —  The chaotic scenes in Georgia's primary this week could be a foretaste as states fail to take urgent action to secure the vote  —  The alarm bells have been going off for months, but the election fiasco in Georgia …
Discussion: Washington Post
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘Scares me to death’: Georgia Republicans fret voting-access issue could sink Trump  —  Republican insiders in Georgia are warning after a balloting meltdown in Fulton County that Democrats could wield voting rights like a cudgel, galvanizing turnout this fall to defeat President Trump in the traditionally red state.
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Will Bill Barr Go to Jail When This Is All Done?  —  In Ep. 16 of The New Abnormal, former DOJ prosecutor Glenn Kirschner takes down Bill Barr.  Plus, Rick and Molly chat election predictions, Confederate flag truthers and more.  —  Attorney General Bill Barr was in on Trump's scheme to bribe and lean on Ukraine's president.
Douglas Brinkley / New York Times:
Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind  —  In a rare interview, the Nobel Prize winner discusses mortality, drawing inspiration from the past, and his new album, “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”  —  A few years ago, sitting beneath shade trees in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., I had a two-hour discussion …
Discussion: Variety
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Grotesque Tulsa Trip  —  A racist president trolls his enemies with a rally on Juneteenth.  —  Most people — or, at any rate, most readers of The New York Times — remember Donald Trump's response to the white nationalist riot in Charlottesville, Va., as a particularly low point in a presidency full of them.
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Reuters:
Trump on Juneteenth rally: ‘Think about it as a celebration’
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Hill
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump Hates Losers, So Why Is He Refighting the Civil War—on the Losing Side?  —  A week of protest, pandemic, and political unrest in the capital.  —  It was a small moment in a week of craziness, but there is nothing like the rage of Donald Trump when a media outlet publishes a poll proclaiming him an almost-certain loser.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Financial Times
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:   Trump defiant as cultural change sweeps America
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kudlow: ‘There is no second wave’ of coronavirus  —  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Friday declared that a “second wave” of the coronavirus was not descending upon the country, even as cases of Covid-19 are spiking in more than a dozen states.  —  “There is no emergency.
Discussion: Fox News, NPR and Political Wire
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
The Virus Will Win  —  Americans are pretending that the pandemic is over.  It certainly is not.  —  Contributing writer at The Atlantic  —  A second wave of the coronavirus is on the way.  When it arrives, we will lack the will to deal with it.  Despite all the sacrifices of the past months …
Michael Flynn / The Western Journal:
Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: Forces of Evil Want To Steal Our Freedom in the Dark of Night, But God Stands with Us  —  There are seminal moments in American history that test every fiber of our nation's soul.  —  We are facing one now.  —  Revolutionary forces are causing every American citizen …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
PNAS:
Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19  — Article - Figures & SI - Info & Metrics - PDF  —  Significance  —  We have elucidated the transmission pathways of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by analyzing the trend and mitigation measures in the three epicenters.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Why Trump Has Trouble Addressing Black Lives Matter  —  The reality TV president once proposed a season of “The Apprentice” pitting white contestants against black contestants.  —  April Ryan, a veteran White House correspondent with American Urban Radio Networks and a political analyst for CNN …
Discussion: Political Wire
Politico:
‘They had a huge opportunity’: People of color on Trump's team reckon with a backlash  —  It's another Charlottesville moment for some aides inside the Trump administration.  —  President Donald Trump's handling of the nationwide anti-racism protests and the response to George Floyd's killing …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Bighorn fire near Tucson has burned over 6,000 acres and is threatening hundreds of homes  —  (CNN)A fire in the Tucson area has grown to thousands of acres and is threatening hundreds of homes.  —  The Bighorn fire was sparked by lightning in Pima County on June 5.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Vows to Boost Nuclear Program, Saying U.S. Diplomacy Failed  —  In a statement marking the second anniversary of a historic summit meeting between Kim Jong-un and President Trump, the North said its hopes had faded into a “nightmare.”  —  SEOUL, South Korea …
Shaun Boyd / CBS Denver:
Corporate Donations To Governor's Office ‘Raises All Sorts Of Red Flags’  —  DENVER (CBS4)- A CBS4 investigation has uncovered millions of dollars in donations from corporations and private foundations to the governor's office.  The off-the-books donations date back at least 20 years.
Bloomberg:
Boris Johnson's Team Is Broken by the Virus and Losing Faith  —  Inside Boris Johnson's government, senior officials are exhausted, demoralized and starting to despair.  —  Their dreams of reshaping Britain for a bright post-Brexit world have been blown off course by coronavirus.
Washington Post:
Live updates: Oregon pauses its reopening plans for one week after coronavirus cases hit new high  —  The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free.  For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter where all stories are free to read.
Discussion: Oregonian and Fox News
Wall Street Journal:
The Second Wave Covid Scare  —  The numbers are better than the headlines, and reopening is necessary.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Stocks sold off Thursday amid investor worries that a “second wave” of coronavirus infections could cause countries and states that are reopening to lock down again.
Associated Press:
Public health workers fighting virus face growing threats  —  Emily Brown was stretched thin.  —  As the director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department in rural Colorado, she was working 12- and 14-hour days, struggling to respond to the pandemic with only five full-time employees for more than 11,000 residents.
Audrey Cleo Yap / Variety:
Dave Chappelle Speaks Out on George Floyd's Death, Blasts Candace Owens in Searing Netflix Special  —  How Director Lynn Chen and Her Team of Asian American Actor-Artisans Created Indie ‘I Will Make You Mine’  —  'Supergirl's' Nicole Maines Wants to Evolve Trans Roles: ‘Trans Characters Can Be Less Than Perfect’
Discussion: Vox, Slate and The Guardian
Louisa Loveluck / Washington Post:
U.S. reaffirms commitment to withdrawing troops from Iraq  —  The United States intends to continue withdrawing troops from Iraq, it said in a statement late Thursday, after the two countries began talks on the future of their strategic relationship.  —  Seventeen years after the U.S.-led invasion …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Tom Cotton Op-Ed and the Cultural Revolution  —  How liberalism, and the liberal media, are changing before our eyes.  —  Acting editorial page editor Kathleen Kingsbury wrote about the decision to publish our writers' responses to the Tom Cotton Op-Ed in Friday's edition of our Opinion Today newsletter.
Discussion: CNN and Fox News
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
The Republican congressman who could get booted for officiating a gay wedding  —  A small universe of Republican Party activists will drive through the parking lot of a central Virginia church on Saturday to decide the fate of Rep. Denver Riggleman.  —  A one-term congressman with a libertarian streak …
Discussion: WSET-TV
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Kelly Loeffler's Fundraising Committee Takes the Prize for Tone Deafness  —  The Georgia Republican is offering donors and fundraisers benefit packages to support her re-election bid.  —  As Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) proclaims her exoneration from allegations of insider trading …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Officer charged with killing George Floyd still eligible for pension worth more than $1 million  —  (CNN)Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin could receive more than $1 million in pension benefits during his retirement years even if he is convicted of killing George Floyd.
 
 
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