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8:05 PM ET, June 26, 2020

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New York Times:
Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says  —  The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment.  —  WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded …
Emily Larsen / Washington Examiner:
Republican nightmare: Trump vote-by-mail demonizing driving down GOP participation  —  President Trump's extreme opposition to mail-in ballots is more likely hurting him and down-ballot Republicans than it is helping him.  —  Mounting evidence in voter registration data, a survey …
Discussion: Real Clear Politics and Al Jazeera
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Turns Down Request to Allow All Texans to Vote by Mail  —  Democrats in the state had urged the justices to reinstate a federal trial judge's order based on the 26th Amendment, which bars voting discrimination based on age.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said on Friday …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Bloomberg
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't force Texas to allow absentee ballots for all voters  —  The Supreme Court declined Friday to force Texas officials to offer mail-in ballots to all voters in the state because of the threat of the coronavirus, not just those over 65.  —  The justices, without comment …
Discussion: Law & Crime and The Hill
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Strike Down Affordable Care Act
Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:   U.S. Supreme Court declines Texas Democrats' request to allow all Texans to vote by mail
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Noah Higgins-Dunn / CNBC:
Texas rolls back its reopening a day after pausing plans, as coronavirus cases rise  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Friday that he will roll back some of the state's reopening as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise.  —  “As I said from the start …
Discussion: The Hill and Disrn
David Lim / Politico:
Trump administration restores federal funding for Texas testing sites
Discussion: The Hill
Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times:
E.U. Plans to Bar Most U.S. Travelers When Bloc Reopens  —  Europe will allow outsiders to begin entering again on July 1, but the U.S. and Russia are now among the nations considered too risky because they have not controlled the coronavirus outbreak.  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union …
Discussion: Vox, WHDH-TV and Mediaite
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Trump Disapproval Hits All-Time High And He Trails Biden By 8  —  After weeks of protests against police brutality and racism, and amid a renewed spike in coronavirus cases, the number of voters disapproving of the job President Trump is doing is at an all-time high, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Referendum  —  He still has no second term message beyond his own grievances.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  President Trump may soon need a new nickname for “Sleepy Joe” Biden.  How does President-elect sound?  On present trend that's exactly what Mr. Biden will be on Nov. 4 …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Trump Is in a Deep Hole. Can He Dig Himself Out Before November?
Discussion: Associated Press
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
House approves DC statehood bill, GOP calls move Dem ‘power grab’  —  The bill is presumed dead on arrival in the GOP-led Senate and is opposed by President Trump  —  The House of Representatives on Friday voted to make Washington D.C. the 51st state, a move cheered by Washingtonians …
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Pema Levy / Mother Jones:   Why Do These Trump Campaign Ads Link to Brad Parscale's Facebook Page?
Haley Byrd / CNN:
House Democrats pass DC statehood bill Friday
Discussion: WTOP, Fox News, NPR and Townhall
Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
D.C. statehood approved by U.S. House for first time in history
Discussion: Congresswoman Eleanor … and IJR
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Roger Stone ordered to report to prison July 14, as judge denies request for two-month delay  —  A federal judge has ordered Roger Stone to report to prison July 14, granting him a two-week delay because of the coronavirus pandemic, but not the two months that President Trump's confidant had requested with prosecutors' assent.
Discussion: Axios
Washington Post:
Bowing to pressure, Facebook will start labeling violating posts from politicians.  But critics say it's not enough.  —  Rising public pressure, employee unrest and a burgeoning advertiser boycott have formed over Facebook's long-standing refusal to more aggressively address hate speech.
Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller and Mashable
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
What Ever Happened to Joy Reid's Alleged Hackers and That FBI Investigation?  —  Joy Reid, a weekend fixture of MSNBC, is expected to take over a top weekday hour at the network: 7 p.m., the hour vacated by Hardball host Chris Matthews, who retired amid controversy earlier this year.
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:   MSNBC may soon reward homophobic conspiracy theorist with plum prime-time gig
Politico:
Coronavirus task force returns, but downplays new flareups as local ‘hot spots’  —  The White House Coronavirus Task Force is back on camera — but it wants Americans to know that everything is under control.  —  The panel held a public briefing on Friday for the first time since late April …
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Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
Pence claims ‘remarkable progress’ as Covid-19 cases hit new record in US
Discussion: Balloon Juice
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's legal argument for throwing out all of the ACA is a nightmare for Senate Republicans  —  President Trump insists on the campaign trail that he wants to protect insurance coverage for people with preexisting conditions.  His legal team just told the Supreme Court otherwise.
Caroline Randall Williams / New York Times:
You Want a Confederate Monument?  My Body Is a Confederate Monument  —  The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from.  Who dares to tell me to celebrate them?  —  Ms. Williams is a poet.  —  NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Daily Beast:
Trump Family Makes New Attempt to Kill Niece's Tell-All  —  A New York City judge called their filing “fatally defective,” so they have refiled in a different jurisdiction.  —  Fresh from one legal defeat, the Trump family is taking another stab at halting publication of presidential niece Mary Trump's upcoming tell-all.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:   Mary Trump once stood up to her uncle Donald.  Now her book describes a ‘nightmare’ of family dysfunction.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Appeals court rules funding for Trump border wall construction ‘unlawful’  —  The Trump administration does not have the authority to use military funding to pay for construction of a border wall, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday.  —  In a 2-1 ruling, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court …
Politico:
FEC losing quorum again after Caroline Hunter resigns  —  The Federal Election Commission is losing its short-lived quorum after Caroline Hunter, a longtime Republican commissioner of the FEC and former chair of the agency, is resigning, according to a resignation letter obtained by POLITICO.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:   GOP appointee resigns from Federal Election Commission, once again leaving it without a quorum
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump Retreats to His Hannity Bunker  —  Beaten by the pandemic and down in the polls, a President and his propagandist create an alternate reality.  —  June began poorly for President Trump, and it's ending worse.  Despite his optimistic pronouncements about the coronavirus …
Politico:
Senate panel demands testimony from ex-Obama officials in revived Biden probe  —  A Senate committee is re-engaging former Obama administration officials as part of an investigation targeting Joe Biden's son, demanding transcribed interviews and documents for the Republican-led probe.
Discussion: Raw Story
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
People Spent Thousands To Go On A Cruise With Glenn Beck.  Now They Can't Get Their Money Back.  —  Last June, Jeff and Jennifer Welliver heard about a cruise around the Mediterranean, to be hosted by conservative radio host Glenn Beck and featuring other right-wing luminaries like Bill O'Reilly.
CNN:
Wrongly arrested Black man sues a Georgia city and police officers for excessive force and injury  —  Wrongly arrested Black man sues police and Georgia city  —  (CNN)A Black man who was slammed to the ground as he was wrongly arrested is suing the Georgia city of Valdosta …
CREW:
The DOJ Decided Not to Prosecute Trump.  It's Hiding the Reason Why.  —  The Department of Justice has confirmed the existence of a memo laying out its rationale for not bringing charges against President Trump, but it refuses to make its reasoning public.  In response to ongoing litigation involving …
Discussion: Alternet.org and Law & Crime
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Beyond ‘White Fragility’  —  If you want to let freedom ring, hammer on economic injustice.  —  Since it emerged seven years ago in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Black Lives Matter movement has produced a sea change in attitudes, politics and policy.
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Florida governor under fire over claims state is ‘cooking the books’ on Covid-19  —  Ron DeSantis angrily dismisses allegation from fired scientist that officials are massaging figures to hide true impact of coronavirus  —  Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis's faltering response …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
America Didn't Give Up on Covid-19.  Republicans Did.  —  Partisanship has crippled our response.  —  Earlier this year much of America went through hell as the nation struggled to deal with Covid-19.  More than 120,000 Americans have now died; more than 20 million have lost their jobs.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Carol Robinson / al.com:
16th Street Baptist Church bomber Thomas Blanton dies in prison  —  The last surviving Ku Klux Klan member convicted in the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed four little girls has died.  —  Thomas E. Blanton, 82, died of natural causes Friday morning …
 
 
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Feds Point to Daily Caller Writer as Part of Abramoff Payola Scheme
Melissa Mahtani / CNN:
Bill Gates: US ‘not even close’ to doing enough to fight pandemic
Discussion: New York Post
Travis Fain / WRAL-TV:
After midnight, legislature punts on NC's anti-mask law
Wall Street Journal:
China Message to U.S.: Crossing ‘Red Lines’ Could Put Trade Deal at Risk
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Why Does Trump Want a Second Term?
Discussion: Politico
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump's reality TV presidency is being crushed by reality
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
11 Top Antitrust Experts Alarmed by Whistleblower Complaint Against A.G. Barr …
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Florida Smirked at New York's Virus Crisis. Now It Has Its Own.
New York Times:
Biden Is Getting a Lot of Advice on His V.P. Here's What Voters Think.
Washington Post:
Almost one-third of black Americans know someone who died of covid-19, survey shows
Discussion: The Root, TheGrio and Raw Story