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3:00 PM ET, June 14, 2020

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Associated Press:
Trump rally called ‘dangerous move’ in age of coronavirus  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — After months away from the campaign trail, President Donald Trump plans to rally his supporters this coming Saturday for the first time since most of the country was shuttered by the coronavirus.
Discussion: NBC News and WGN-TV
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Kelsey Tamborrino / Politico:
Oklahoma senator explains change in date of Trump rally  —  Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford said the president did not initially see it as disrespectful to hold his planned comeback rally on Juneteenth, a date which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
Discussion: The Hill, TheGrio and The Daily Caller
Tulsa World:
Tulsa Health Department director ‘wishes’ Trump rally would be postponed as local COVID cases surge
Discussion: The Guardian
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 6-14-20: Dr. Ben Carson, Stacey Abrams, Sen. James Lankford
Discussion: Politico
Jack Arnholz / ABC News:
Police should ban chokeholds: Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
Harry Enten / CNN:
State polls show clear shift toward Democrats since protests began  —  (CNN)The gold standard Iowa Poll released Saturday night showed Democratic Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield with major momentum.  —  Forty-six percent of likely voters would vote for Greenfield if the election …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Theresa Greenfield leads Joni Ernst in tight race for U.S. Senate  —  Fresh off a four-way primary race that drew millions in outside spending, Democrat Theresa Greenfield leads Republican Sen. Joni Ernst by 3 percentage points in Iowa's hotly contested U.S. Senate race, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump tries to explain his slow and unsteady walk down a ramp at West Point  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump late Saturday tried to explain his slow and unsteady walk down a ramp at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which had generated concern and mockery on social media …
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
Trump has trouble lifting glass of water and walking down stairs at West Point graduation
Discussion: Mediaite
Talk Business & Politics:
Poll: Independents dissatisfied with Trump, Cotton; Biden competitive in Arkansas  —  President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are struggling with independent voters in Arkansas less than five months before Election Day.  —  A new survey from Talk Business & Politics-Hendrix College shows …
Discussion: The Hill
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Know His Polls Are Terrible—And Tell Him Otherwise  —  The re-election campaign is increasingly divided between the realist and the wishful thinkers.  —  This past week, Donald Trump's campaign did what one senior aide on the president's 2020 team described to The Daily Beast as the …
Discussion: Raw Story
detroitnews:
Trump supporters burn Michigan absentee ballot applications  —  Walker, Mich. — People burned letters informing them that they can vote by absentee ballot in future elections during a protest near Grand Rapids.  —  The applications were burned Friday during an event called Operation Incinerator outside the DeltaPlex Arena in Walker.
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Ben Carson says shooting of Rayshard Brooks is “not clear-cut” like Floyd killing  —  Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said on “Fox News Sunday” that the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta was “not clear-cut” like the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis …
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CNN:
Virginia congressman who officiated same-sex wedding loses GOP nomination in drive-thru convention
Discussion: Mother Jones
Amy Friedenberger / Richmond Times-Dispatch:   Challenger Bob Good ousts Rep. Denver Riggleman at 5th District GOP nominating convention
New York Times:
Coronavirus Cases Spike Across Sun Belt as Economy Lurches into Motion  —  Arizona, Texas and Florida are reporting their highest case numbers yet.  As of Saturday, coronavirus cases were climbing in 22 states amid reopenings.  —  CHICAGO — The warning has echoed ominously for weeks from epidemiologists …
Voice of America:
VOA Director's Statement on CDC's Media Interview Policy Excluding VOA Journalists  —  We were shocked to read the internal CDC documents instructing the agency's media relations office to refuse media requests from “anyone associated with Voice of America,” citing White House tweets accusing VOA of spreading Chinese propaganda.
Kevin Vaughan / KUSA-TV:
Roofing company workers forced onto ground, held at gunpoint by man who thought they were Antifa  —  Felony charges are possible in wake of the incident in a Loveland neighborhood.  A victim was a CSU football player.  —  LOVELAND, Colo. — A Loveland man faces felony charges …
Discussion: New York Post
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Questions Raised About Second Black Man Found Hanging From Tree  —  Ten days before Robert Fuller was found dead, another black man was found in similar circumstances 50 miles away.  His family says they think suicide is a “comfortable excuse.”  —  As hundreds of protesters gathered in Palmdale …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
Cuomo threatens Manhattan, Hamptons shutdown over lack of social distancing  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday threatened to shut down Manhattan and the Hamptons again if residents don't adhere to the state's social distancing rules.  —  “We're not going to go back to that dark place …
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:
ABC News executive placed on administrative leave after reports surface of insensitive, racist statements  —  Barbara Fedida, a senior ABC News executive in charge of talent, is on administrative leave after a HuffPost report that detailed an alleged extensive history of making racist remarks …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
It's Trump's Revolution  —  His supporters wanted a bulwark against liberalism.  But his failed presidency is pushing the country to the left.  —  In 1804, the Corsican upstart Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself as France's emperor.  His mother, born Letizia Ramolino, did not attend the coronation.
Zev Shalev / Narativ:
Merchant of Death  —  EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein was a key member of a global arms trading network that sold weapons of war to the world's most ruthless leaders.  —  Of the many terms used to describe Jeffrey Epstein's tradecraft, international arms dealer rarely comes up in association with the late Billionaire pedophile.
Haaretz:
Trump Boosts Georgia Candidate Who Peddles Antisemitic, QAnon Conspiracy Theories and Posed With a neo-Nazi  —  ‘A big winner,’ Trump said in a tweet Friday attached to a story on a pro-Trump website reporting on Marjorie Taylor Greene's primary result in Georgia's heavily Republican 14th District
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
WATCH NOW: Police vehicle strikes protesters in Richmond  —  1 of 33  —  A Richmond police SUV drove up on a curb, through a crowd, striking multiple people who were blocking the vehicle's path during a protest at the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue on Saturday night.
NBC News:
Buffalo officials ask state to probe firing of Black officer who stopped white colleague's chokehold  —  The city council in Buffalo, New York, voted this week to call on State Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the 2008 firing of Black officer Cariol Horne, who stopped a white colleague …
Christopher Magan / Twin Cities:
Early test results show few protesters caught COVID-19  — ‘I am a black woman before I am anything else.’ Ramsey Co. sheriff's commander talks about George Floyd's death, law enforcement's future.  —  Early data from coronavirus tests of Minnesotans who participated in demonstrations …
Los Angeles Times:
Airline passengers brought COVID-19 into LAX in March — and no one warned the public  —  When American Airlines flight 341 to Los Angeles lifted off the tarmac at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on a cloudy Thursday in mid-March, much of the country was already on coronavirus lockdown.
 
 
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