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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden campaign confirms he will attend three debates with Trump, criticizes the president for flipping on his debate stance — Joe Biden's campaign on Monday committed to three scheduled debates with President Trump in September and October and criticized the president for taking varied positions …
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Talking Points Memo, Deadline, IJR, The Daily Caller and The Hill
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump aides debate future size and look of signature rallies after Tulsa debacle — Why Trump was upset before Tulsa rally started — (CNN)Swaths of empty blue seats and a vacant overflow venue in Oklahoma have led President Donald Trump's aides to begin debating what his signature campaign rallies …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Florida Politics and The Daily Beast
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Trump rally gives Fox News largest Saturday night audience in its history — President Trump's rally on Saturday attracted a record-setting audience on TV despite the smaller-than-expected crowd in attendance at the Tulsa, Okla., event. — A whopping 7.7 million total viewers tuned …
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Redstate, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Ringer, Townhall, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and New Republic
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Trump's Oklahoma debacle
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Axios, HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, The US Sun, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and No More Mister Nice Blog
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Biden says he'll participate in three debates with Trump
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Townhall and POLITICUSUSA
Wall Street Journal:
Attorney General Barr, Berman at Odds Over Letter Criticizing New York City Mayor — Geoffrey Berman, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, refused to sign letter criticizing Mayor de Blasio for enforcing social-distancing rules to block religious gatherings but not protests
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Talking Points Memo, New York Post, The Hill and Law & Crime
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Statement from Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband and U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider on New York City's Reopening Plans — Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Eric Dreiband and U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider for the Eastern District of Michigan, who are overseeing …
CNN:
Fiercely independent New York prosecutors won't be cowed by Barr and Trump — Opinion by Jennifer Rodgers and Elie Honig — Berman to CNN: I'm just here to do my job — Jennifer Rodgers is a former federal prosecutor, the former executive director of the Center for the Advancement …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Stanford Law School and New York Times
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
Three Plausible—And Troubling—Reasons Why Barr Tried to Force Berman Out
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New York Daily News, Washington Post, courthousenews.com, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Craig McCarthy / New York Post:
How conspiracy theories about the NYPD Shake Shack ‘poisoning’ blew up — The three cops at the center of the NYPD milkshake “poisoning” scandal never even got sick, and there wasn't the slightest whiff of criminality from the get-go — but that didn't stop gung-ho brass from rolling …
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
McEnany says Trump calling coronavirus “kung flu” is “linking it to its place of origin” — White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at a press briefing Monday that President Trump's description of the coronavirus as “kung flu” at a rally Saturday was “linking it to its place of origin.”
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Politico, The Hill, IJR and The Daily Beast
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Trump to expand coronavirus-related immigration restrictions
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Associated Press and One America News Network
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Trump declines to say he was joking about slowing down coronavirus testing
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Mike Pence and his wife Karen voted by mail in April from a mansion they haven't lived in for four years — Vice President Mike Pence and his wife mailed in their ballots for Indiana's June GOP primary, according to a copy of the state's voter files obtained by Insider.
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National Review, Washington Post, Breitbart, Bloomberg, NBC News, IJR, The Daily Beast, Daily Kos, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams and Law & Crime
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Seth Cohen / Forbes:
Will Trump Dump Pence? After Her Tulsa Tryout, Elise Stefanik Could Be The President's Next VP
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Roll Call
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Are We Headed for a Voter-Suppression Catastrophe in November? …
Adam Entous / New Yorker:
What Fiona Hill Learned in the White House — The senior fellow at Brookings and expert on modern Russia had hoped to guide the U.S.-Russia relationship. President Trump had other ideas. — The Brookings Institution is one of many think tanks in Washington, D.C., where scholars …
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The Week
The National Pulse:
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-CNN ‘Reporters’ Now Work for The Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Outfit: CGTN — China Global Television Network, a registered foreign agent in the U.S. and integral outlet in the Chinese state-owned media landscape, employs several former CNN correspondents and anchors.
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Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Federal investigation launched after noose found in garage stall of Black NASCAR driver at Talladega Superspeedway — The noose was discovered in the stall of driver Bubba Wallace. — NASCAR has launched an investigation after a noose was found in the garage stall of a Black driver …
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U.S. Department of Justice and Townhall
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Jenna Fryer / Associated Press:
FBI investigating noose left in NASCAR stall of Black driver
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ESPN, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and TheGrio
RI.gov:
Statement from Treasurer Magaziner about the State's Name — PROVIDENCE, RI —Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magazine today made the following announcement about his office's use of the state's name: — “Today, I am announcing that the Office of the General Treasurer will remove the words …
Carmel Dagan / Variety:
Joel Schumacher, Director of Batman Films and ‘Lost Boys,’ Dies at 80 — Joel Schumacher, costume designer-turned-director of films including “St. Elmo's Fire,” “The Lost Boys” and “Falling Down,” as well as two “Batman” films, died in New York City on Monday morning after a year-long battle with cancer.
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The Week, The Hill, The Ringer and Rolling Stone
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
News Analysis: Joe Biden is no Hillary Clinton, and that's a problem for President Trump — Joe Biden is old. He has a paper trail reaching back half a century. He is, by his own admission, a “gaffe machine” who regularly trips over his own tongue. — He is not, however …
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Fox News, Politico and Wall Street Journal
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
TikTok Teens Are Obsessed With Pizzagate — The Comet Ping Pong conspiracy theory has been widely discredited, but it lives on with Gen Z. — BEAST INSIDE — NEWSLETTERS — Right Richter — See what's happening with the extreme right wing from the safety of your inbox.
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New York Times and Gothamist
New York Magazine:
On The Cover: How Bill De Blasio Lost New York City — Weeks into the George Floyd protests, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has alienated his constituents, the police, and even his own staff. For New York's June 22-July 5, 2020 issue cover story, writer David Freedlander speaks …
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
McEnany Says Trump Isn't ‘Angry’ About Rally Crowd, Steve Doocy Doesn't Buy it: The Trump I Know is ‘Furious’ — White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claims that President Donald Trump was not upset by the fact that his rally in Tulsa Saturday night drew just 6,200 people — less than one-third of the arena's capacity.
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Washington Post
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Top Pompeo aide will testify to House about ousted inspector general — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) announced on Monday that Brian Bulatao, a top State Department official and close confidante of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, will testify before the committee …
Washington Post:
Amid threats and political pushback, public health officials are leaving their posts — For Lauri Jones, the trouble began in early May. The director of a small public health department in Washington State was working with a family under quarantine because of coronavirus exposure.
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