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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Week It Went South for Trump  —  He hasn't been equal to the crises.  He never makes anything better.  And everyone kind of knows.  —  Something shifted this month.  Donald Trump's hold on history loosened, and may be breaking.  In some new way his limitations are being seen and acknowledged …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden leads in Florida as Trump lags among seniors  —  Voters think Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is better suited to handle the issues of the day, expanding his lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Florida.
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Green Bay mayor warns Trump before visit that hospitality ‘has its limits’
Discussion: Associated Press
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Texas tossup, Biden-Trump a one-point race
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Dana Blanton / Fox News:   Fox News Poll: Trump and Biden in close race in Georgia
Washington Post:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare  —  The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court late on Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act, telling the court that “the entire ACA must fall.”  The administration's argument comes as thousands of Americans …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump says the coronavirus is ‘going away.’ His own task force disagrees.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump keeps spinning a tale about COVID-19 that is at odds with his own administration's disease experts and data compiled by his own coronavirus task force, which was obtained exclusively by NBC News.
Molly Nagle / ABC News:
'He's like a child': Biden slams Trump's handling of coronavirus pandemic amid ‘heartless crusade’ to end Obamacare
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Jason Campbell / Media Matters for America:   Fox anchor talked about Biden being in his basement just minutes after the network ignored his speech in Pennsylvania
New York Times:
Inside Barr's Effort to Undermine Prosecutors in N.Y.  —  The firing of the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan was foreshadowed by a disagreement over a case linked to President Trump.  —  Shortly after he became attorney general last year, William P. Barr set out to challenge …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate panel votes 21-1 to back Justice IG measure over Graham objections  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday to expand the authority of the Justice Department inspector general over opposition from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and the Justice Department.
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Alana Wise / NPR:
Attorney General Barr Says DOJ Acts Independent Of Trump's Interests  —  Toggle more options  —  Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that he doesn't believe President Trump has overstepped the boundaries between the White House and the Justice Department in a number of big recent cases.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:   Trump's pick for Manhattan U.S. attorney refuses to say he would recuse from probes of president's associates
NPR:
Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Attorney General William Barr
Discussion: The Hill
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Graham Rebuffed Over Widening Barr's Powers as GOP Senators Balk
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
How Arizona ‘lost control of the epidemic’  —  PHOENIX — A drive-up testing site equipped for several hundred people in West Phoenix was swarmed on Saturday by about 1,000 people, leaving some baking in their cars for hours.  —  A nearby testing station has already reached capacity for this weekend …
Discussion: CNN, policylab.chop.edu and WGN-TV
Matt Howerton / WFAA-TV:
North Texas family shaken after 18 relatives test positive for COVID-19 following family gathering  —  Three are now hospitalized, including two elderly family members and one woman battling breast cancer.  —  CARROLLTON, Texas — As North Texas watches COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
It's time to rethink the presidential debates  —  Given how many ugly turns this presidential election year has already taken and how many more are surely yet to come, it is probably a fool's errand to go in search of silver linings in 2020.  —  But the realities of campaigning amid a pandemic …
Discussion: Althouse
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Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
Biden Has A Historically Large Lead Over Trump, But It Could Disappear
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook faces trust crisis as ad boycott grows  —  What started out as a few whispers about advertisers pulling Facebook ads has turned into a growing boycott of the social network over its content moderation policies — a situation the company is now describing as a “trust deficit.”
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Brian Fung / CNN:
Verizon is pulling its advertising from Facebook
Discussion: Financial Times and Variety
Politico:
Pelosi and McConnell eye Dunford to lead coronavirus oversight commission  —  Retired Gen. Joseph Dunford is the leading candidate for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to chair the five-member commission tasked with monitoring the Trump administration's economic rescue effort amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion: ABC News
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Politico:
Amid national crisis on police brutality and racism, Congress flails
Discussion: Reason, The Hill and NBC News
NBC News:
Finger pointing begins over stalemate on police reform legislation
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Brad Parscale, Other Trump Staff in Quasi-Quarantine After Tulsa COVID Cases  —  The move, a campaign spokesperson said, was being made out of an abundance of caution.  —  Donald Trump's reelection campaign manager, Brad Parscale, is one of a group of campaign staffers in quasi-quarantine …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:   This Fake Trump Group Is Trying to Get Your Money by Pretending It's the Trump Campaign
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Michigan candidate's daughter urges people not to vote for him in viral tweet  —  The daughter of a candidate running for a seat in the Michigan state House has drawn viral attention online after taking to Twitter earlier this week to plead with voters not to elect her father to office.
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
CDC says COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 10 times higher than reported  —  The true number of Americans who've been infected with COVID-19 may top 20 million, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  —  “Our best estimate right now is that for every case that's reported …
CNN:
Nothing in America fits the GOP's ‘back to normal’ fantasy  —  Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and author of the forthcoming book “OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind,” and of “The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness.”  Follow her on Twitter.
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Charged in Crypto-Currency Case, U.S. Says  —  Jack Abramoff, the onetime Washington insider who went to prison in a lobbying scandal, was charged with a criminal conspiracy related to crypto currency and lobbying disclosure, a U.S. prosecutor said.
Julianne Cuba / Streetsblog New York City:
Campaign To Remove NYPD From Traffic Enforcement Gains Steam  —  The campaign to remove the NYPD from traffic enforcement and return street oversight to the Department of Transportation gained momentum this week as an influential local panel voted to support the move.
Rudy Takala / Mediaite:
Eye-Popping 500k Users Flock to Twitter Competitor After Twitter Shuts Down Pro-Trump Accounts  —  A whopping 500,000 users signed up for social-media platform Parler after Twitter shut down two conservative accounts this week, according to user metrics obtained by Mediaite.
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified the severity of the pandemic  —  The three studies paint a picture of a media ecosystem that entertains conspiracy theories and discourages audiences from taking steps to protect themselves and others
The Daily Beast:
Judge Tosses Trump Family Attempt to Block Mary Trump's Tell-All  —  A Queens County Surrogate Court Judge cited “several improprieties” in Robert Trump's attempt to block niece Mary's tell-all, slated to be published this fall.  —  A New York judge has tossed an application …
Aaron Morrison / Associated Press:
Black Lives Matter network debunks Trump Twitter post  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The Black Lives Matter Global Network distanced itself Thursday from an unaffiliated activist whose comments sparked the ire of President Donald Trump, saying the activist was not speaking on behalf of the movement.
Discussion: Breitbart
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New York Times:
Defense Secretary Faces White House Pressure on Aides and a Military Promotion  —  Senior Defense Department personnel who are perceived as White House critics are resigning or facing reprisal.  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is facing a hemorrhage of talent as senior officials resign amid continued efforts …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Russian Criminal Group Finds New Target: Americans Working at Home  —  A hacking group calling itself Evil Corp., indicted in December, has shown up in corporate networks with sophisticated ransomware.  American officials worry election infrastructure could be next.
Discussion: Raw Story
ESPN:
NASCAR releases image of noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage, says concern was ‘real’  —  NASCAR on Thursday completed its investigation into the garage pull rope formed as a noose that was found in Bubba Wallace's garage at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, with president Steve Phelps saying …
Associated Press:
US virus cases near an all-time high as governors backtrack  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus crisis deepened in Arizona on Thursday, and the governor of Texas began to backtrack after making one of the most aggressive pushes in the nation to reopen, as the daily number of confirmed cases across …
Discussion: Axios, WGN-TV, KTAR.com and Washington Post
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Moscow Held Back Dirt So It Could Slime President Hillary  —  “They fully expected Hillary Clinton to become president, and [the Russians] wanted to have bullets they could use during her presidential term,” John Brennan said.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  After four years, 34 indictments …
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Trump Overhaul of Campus Sex Assault Rules Wins Surprising Support  —  The new approach finds unlikely allies among some feminist scholars, who say colleges and universities were failing to sufficiently protect the rights of young men accused of sexual misconduct.
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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Discussion: Bloomberg
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Yes, Lincoln and the Union Freed the Slaves
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
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Washington Post:
Trump administration wants drilling on more than two-thirds of the largest swath of U.S. public land
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Pew Research Center:
Republicans, Democrats Move Even Further Apart in Coronavirus Concerns
David A. M. Peterson / Wiley Online Library:
Dear Reviewer 2: Go F' Yourself
Jordan Davidson / The Federalist:
In Racist Screed, NYT's 1619 Project Founder Calls ‘White Race’ …
Discussion: Redstate, The Gateway Pundit and NPR