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Princeton University News:
President Eisgruber's message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school and Wilson College — President Eisgruber's message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school and Wilson College — Board of Trustees concludes …
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Bryan Pietsch / New York Times:
Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson's Name From School — University trustees concluded that Wilson's “racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college,” Princeton's president said on Saturday. — Princeton University will remove Woodrow Wilson's name …
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Search Sites & People × — Board of Trustees' decision on removing Woodrow Wilson's name from public policy school and residential college — Princeton University Board of Trustees' decision on use of Woodrow Wilson's name June 26, 2020 — The Princeton University Board …
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Brittany Shammas / Washington Post:
Mississippi governor says he would sign bill to remove Confederate emblem from state flag — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R), who has long insisted voters should decide whether to remove the Confederate emblem from the state's flag, said for the first time Saturday that he would sign a bill to change the banner if one is sent his way.
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Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Mississippi could strip Confederate symbol from state flag — JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers could vote this weekend to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.
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CNN:
Measures to protect Trump from coronavirus scale up even as he seeks to move on — (CNN)President Donald Trump appears ready to move on from a still-raging coronavirus pandemic — skipping the first White House task force briefing in months and moving the event out of the White House itself.
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Ari Levy / CNBC:
Trump fans are flocking to the social media app Parler — its CEO is begging liberals to join them — Parler's user base has grown to 1.5 million from 1 million in about a week, CEO John Matze said. — Republican politicians and conservative pundits have flocked to the app …
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Politico:
The Lincoln Project is trolling Trump. But can it sway voters? — The moment President Donald Trump started tweeting at 12:46 a.m. about the “RINO Republicans” at the Lincoln Project who'd just run an ad attacking his response to the pandemic, Reed Galen knew his hunch was right …
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Meena Venkataramanan / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Republicans move forward with plans for an indoor convention in Houston, the state's biggest coronavirus hot spot — Gov. Greg Abbott is allowing limits on outdoor crowds — but not indoor gatherings. His party's convention — with an expected attendance of 6,000 — so far will not require attendees to wear face masks.
Harry Enten / CNN:
Candidates who recover from Trump-like deficits are rarely incumbents — (CNN)The polls are fairly unanimous: Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a significant advantage over President Donald Trump. On average, he's up by 10 points nationally and in the pivotal battleground state of Wisconsin.
Washington Post:
Russian operation targeted coalition troops in Afghanistan, intelligence finds — A Russian military spy unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to attack coalition forces in Afghanistan, including U.S. and British troops, in a striking escalation of the Kremlin's hostility toward …
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Evan Semones / Politico:
Grassley chides Trump, Fox News for answer on second term agenda — Sen. Chuck Grassley laid blame on Fox News — and President Donald Trump — on Saturday over failing to articulate what his administration's second term priorities would be during a recent interview with the news organization.
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Kim Barker / New York Times:
The Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Had Pledged to Fix the Police — Alex Kueng is one of four former officers accused of crimes in the killing of Mr. Floyd, which happened on his third shift. His decision to join the force had frayed friendships.
New York Times:
How the World Missed Covid-19's Silent Spread — Symptomless transmission makes the coronavirus far harder to fight. But health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and contradictory claims in the face of mounting evidence. — MUNICH — Dr. Camilla Rothe …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
What Activities Are Safe as the Coronavirus Continues to Spread? — On Tuesday, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified before Congress that the U.S. is seeing a “disturbing surge” in coronavirus cases.
Michele L. Norris / Washington Post:
George and Martha Washington enslaved 300 people. Let's start with their names. — Since this moment of reckoning has led to a prickly discussion about our Founding Fathers' slave-owning pasts, let us take a moment, starting with George Washington, to think about the people they enslaved.
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
U.S. Must Release Children From Family Detention Centers, Judge Rules — The order, which cited the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, applies to children held in the nation's three family detention centers for more than 20 days. — Citing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic …
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Tom Lyden / FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Minneapolis Council members get private security after threats — MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The City of Minneapolis is spending $4,500 a day for private security for three council members who have received threats following the police killing of George Floyd, FOX 9 has learned.
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New York Times:
‘PizzaGate’ Conspiracy Theory Thrives Anew in the TikTok Era — The false theory targeting Democrats, now fueled by QAnon and teenagers on TikTok, is entangling new targets like Justin Bieber. — WASHINGTON — Four minutes into a video that was posted on Instagram last month …
Business Insider:
Trump is going full steam ahead with his Jacksonville GOP convention speech, but the city is a COVID-19 hot spot and locals don't want him there — Foto: Yuri Gripas/Reuters President Donald Trump with RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. — President Donald Trump and the GOP …
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Trump Calls For Tougher Republican Response To ‘Political War’ — In an Oval Office interview with The Federalist's Ben Domenech, President Trump calls on Republicans to stand strong and unite against lawlessness. — In a wide-ranging interview in the Oval Office Friday …
WPEC:
“I will not be muzzled like a mad dog;' face mask debate turns fierce in St. Lucie County — The debate over a proposed mandate for face masks in certain areas of St. Lucie County turned heated. “I will not be muzzled like a mad dog,” said one man during the public comment session.
New York Times:
How Trump and the Black Lives Matter Movement Changed White Voters' Minds — A majority of American voters support demonstrations on police brutality, and many see the president as ill-equipped on racial justice. — A majority of American voters support the demonstrations against police brutality …
Associated Press:
Nurses, doctors feel strain as virus races through Arizona — PHOENIX (AP) — They saw the ominous photos: Crowded hospitals, exhausted nurses, bodies piling up in morgues. It was far away, in New York, northern Italy and other distant places. — Now, after three months of anxiously waiting …
Associated Press:
Reporter at Trump's Tulsa rally tests positive for COVID-19 — OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A journalist who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa last week said Friday he has tested positive for COVID-19. — Oklahoma Watch reporter Paul Monies said he was notified Friday of his positive diagnosis.
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
Stop Firing the Innocent — As companies and organizations of all sorts have scrambled to institute a zero-tolerance policy on racism over the past few weeks, some of them have turned out to be more interested in signaling their good intentions than punishing actual culprits.
Wall Street Journal:
Europe's Far-Right Parties Fail to Capitalize on Coronavirus Pandemic — In previous crises, populist forces gained support, railing against ‘Brussels elites.’ This time, establishment parties are basking in popularity. — The political center is holding in Europe, despite the pandemic and the economic turmoil.
Max Nisen / Bloomberg:
A Horrifying U.S. Covid Curve Has a Simple Explanation — A growing gap in case growth between Europe and the U.S. tells the tale: Declaring victory too soon is an excellent way to return to new heights. — The alarming chart below has been making the rounds.
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New York Times:
New Numbers Showing Coronavirus Spread Intrude on a White House in Denial — Both President Trump and Vice President Pence seem oblivious to the new chapter in the pandemic. — WASHINGTON — In the past week, President Trump hosted an indoor campaign rally for thousands of cheering …
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New York Times:
43% of U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Linked to Nursing Homes — Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada …
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Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
What to wear: Feds' mixed messages on masks sow confusion — Forgive the American people if they're in a fog about face masks. President Donald Trump and the federal government have done a number on them. — First there was the don't-do-it phase. Then the nice-but-not-for-me dissonance.
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