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9:40 PM ET, June 27, 2020

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Washington Post:
Workers removed thousands of social distancing stickers before Trump's Tulsa rally, according to video and a person familiar with the set-up  —  In the hours before his rally in Tulsa, President Trump's campaign directed the removal of thousands of “Do Not Sit Here, Please!” …
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Dave Brooks / Billboard:
In Tulsa, Trump Campaign Subverted Social Distancing One Sticker at a Time  —  As BOK Center employees worked to mitigate risk of COVID-19 spread at the President's June 20 rally, his reelection staff set about removing safety warnings.  —  Hours before President Donald Trump took the stage …
Kayleigh Skinner / Mississippi Today:
‘Historic moment’: Lawmakers clear difficult hurdle to consider bill that would remove the Mississippi state flag  —  The House and Senate are expected to act quickly this weekend to remove the Mississippi state flag, the last in the nation containing the Confederate battle emblem, after clearing the procedural path on Saturday.
Discussion: TheBlaze
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Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:   ‘The Flag is Coming Down’: Lawmakers Vote to Change Mississippi State Flag
Geoff Pender / Mississippi Today:
House and Senate clear the path to remove Mississippi state flag
Discussion: Axios
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
Peter Aitken / Fox News:
Princeton drops Woodrow Wilson's name from school due to ‘racist thinking’
Discussion: Townhall
Sean Colarossi / POLITICUSUSA:
House Dem Calls Trump ‘Rotten To The Core’ For Doing Nothing As Russia Puts Bounty On US Troops  —  Donald Trump still hasn't responded to the explosive report that Russia has been paying to have American troops killed in Afghanistan, but Democrats are already expressing outrage.
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NBC News:
New U.S. coronavirus cases break record; Pence cancels campaign events in Arizona, Florida  —  The U.S. set a new grim record in the number of new coronavirus cases in a single day, with reports of nearly 46,000 on Friday.  —  The 45,942 single-day increase was driven by more than 8,000 …
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Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
Pence postpones Florida, Arizona campaign events amid increase in coronavirus cases there
Discussion: Associated Press and Townhall
Evan Semones / Politico:
Pence postpones Florida, Arizona campaign events as coronavirus cases spike
Discussion: The Hill
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
What to wear: Feds' mixed messages on masks sow confusion
Discussion: Fox News and CNN
Washington Post:
With Trump leading the way, America's coronavirus failures exposed by record surge in new infections  —  Six months after the novel coronavirus was first detected in the United States, a record surge in new cases is the clearest sign yet of the country's historic failure to control the virus …
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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Sheena Jones / CNN:
Patrons are asked to self-quarantine after about 85 people who visited a Michigan bar get Covid-19  —  (CNN)People who visited a bar in East Lansing, Michigan, are being asked to self-quarantine because roughly 85 people contracted Covid-19 after visiting the establishment this month, a health official says.
New York Times:
Biden Campaign Says Just Over a Third of 2020 Staff Members Are People of Color  —  Mr. Biden released figures on Saturday after facing questions about racial diversity at the upper echelons of his campaign.  —  Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. released statistics on the diversity …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Biden campaign is 35% people of color and 53% female, new diversity data show
New York Times:
After Asking Americans to Sacrifice in Shutdown, Leaders Failed to Control Virus  —  As Covid-19 cases surge, it is clear many governors underestimated the coronavirus and rushed to reopen before their states were ready.  —  WASHINGTON — More than four months into fighting the coronavirus …
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 …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Four Men Charged in Federal Court for Attempting to Tear Down Statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square Amid Protests  —  WASHINGTON - Lee Michael Cantrell, 47, of Virginia; Connor Matthew Judd, 20, of Washington, D.C.; Ryan Lane, 37, of Maryland; and Graham Lloyd, 37, of Maine …
Trevor Potter / Fox News:
Trump and Barr make baseless and harmful claims about mail-in ballot fraud  —  Trump has expressed nakedly partisan reasons for opposing absentee voting.  —  Attorney General William Barr has been busy following President Trump's lead in spreading unfounded theories about potential widespread fraud in absentee voting.
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.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida Democrats recoil at Karen Bass VP float  —  Florida Democrats are rising in opposition to the news Joe Biden is vetting a running mate who once lamented the death of “Comandante en jefe” Fidel Castro.  —  An early ally of Biden's presidential campaign, California Rep. Karen Bass' name surfaced …
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Making men feel manly in masks is, unfortunately, a public-health challenge of our time  —  It's weird, the things that will break you sometimes.  The world is a giant toilet right now, but you're still paddling as best you can, and then something random and minuscule causes you to throw …
Devon Ivie / Vulture:
Community Episode Removed From Streaming Over Chang's Dungeons & Dragons Blackface  —  No, you don't have Changnesia: Community has become the latest sitcom to remove episodes from streaming services over blackface.  Per Deadline, the season-two episode “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” …
Discussion: Deadline
USA Today:
When Black lives matter to Democrats, and when they don't  —  Do Black lives matter to Democrats?  As Tim Alberta recently reported, a lot of Black voters think the answer is no. That may explain why the Democrats are blocking the GOP justice reform bill in the Senate: With Black voters already discouraged …
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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg
CBS News:
Federal officials allowed distribution of COVID-19 antibody tests after they knew many were flawed  —  Congress is investigating why the FDA didn't regulate the antibody tests flooding the market during the pandemic.  60 Minutes reports, Sunday.  —  Federal officials failed to immediately stop …
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Europe's Far-Right Parties Fail to Capitalize on Coronavirus Pandemic
New York Times:
43% of U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Linked to Nursing Homes
Discussion: Mother Jones
Associated Press:
Nurses, doctors feel strain as virus races through Arizona
Evan Semones / Politico:
Grassley chides Trump, Fox News for answer on second term agenda
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Harry Enten / CNN:
Candidates who recover from Trump-like deficits are rarely incumbents
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Minneapolis Council members get private security after threats
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
What Activities Are Safe as the Coronavirus Continues to Spread?
Kim Barker / New York Times:
The Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Had Pledged to Fix the Police
Discussion: New York Post
Michele L. Norris / Washington Post:
George and Martha Washington enslaved 300 people. Let's start with their names.
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
Stop Firing the Innocent
New York Times:
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Politico:
The Lincoln Project is trolling Trump. But can it sway voters?
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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