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12:50 PM ET, June 28, 2020

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CNN:
Trump thanks ‘great people’ shown in Twitter video in which a man chants ‘white power’  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump on Sunday widely shared a video he said is from the Villages, a retirement community in Florida, in which a man driving a golf cart with Trump campaign posters is seen chanting “white power.”
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump promotes video showing apparent supporter shouting ‘white power’  —  President Donald Trump promoted a video on Twitter Sunday morning showing a man in a golf cart with Trump campaign gear shouting “white power.”  —  The video, which Trump said was from the Florida retirement community known …
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump promotes video of a supporter saying ‘white power’  —  President Trump promoted a video Sunday that includes a Trump supporter saying “white power” while facing off with counterprotesters, calling his supporters at the Florida retirement community where the demonstration occurred “great people.”
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Video retweeted by Trump shows supporter yelling “white power”  —  President Trump tweeted, “Thank you to the great people of The Villages” on Sunday morning in response to a video of protesters verbally clashing with Trump supporters — including one man who yelled “white power” while passing in a golf cart.
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Removes Tweet With ‘White Power’ Reference  —  Republican Sen. Tim Scott had called the Twitter post ‘indefensible’ after the president shared it  —  President Trump removed a tweet Sunday in which he shared a video showing one of his supporters yelling “white power” at an opponent at a political rally in Florida.
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Rishika Dugyala / Politico:
Pelosi on Trump: ‘With him, all roads lead to Putin’  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday blasted the president for being beholden to the Russian government, following a startling New York Times report that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Discussion: ABC News, Mediaite and Political Wire
Alistair Bunkall / Sky News:
Russia paid Taliban fighters to attack British troops in Afghanistan  —  The group responsible for the payments is the same Russian intelligence outfit behind the Skripal poisonings, Sky News is told.  —  Defence and security correspondent @AliBunkallSKY  —  Created with Sketch.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump admits it: He's losing  —  Donald Trump knows he's losing.  —  The president has privately come to that grim realization in recent days, multiple people close to him told POLITICO, amid a mountain of bad polling and warnings from some of his staunchest allies that he's on course to be a one-term president.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Health secretary says “window is closing” to get coronavirus under control  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that the “window is closing” for the U.S. to take action and get the coronavirus under control, calling the current state of the outbreak a …
Discussion: CNN
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 …
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Christina Maxouris / CNN:
Only two US states are reporting a decline in new coronavirus cases  —  (CNN)Only two US states are reporting a decline in new coronavirus cases compared to last week — Connecticut and Rhode Island.  —  A rise was reported in a staggering 36 states, including Florida …
Discussion: Axios, WISC-TV and Fox News
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The data is in: Fox News may have kept millions from taking the coronavirus threat seriously  —  It's another one of those Trump Era realities best described as unsurprising but nevertheless shocking.  —  Three serious research efforts have put numerical weight — yes, data-driven evidence …
New York Times:
How Michael Flynn's Defense Team Found Powerful Allies  —  A lawyer for the former national security adviser turned to the attorney general for help, and he delivered, months before a pair of appellate judges handed Mr. Flynn another legal victory.  —  WASHINGTON — Sidney Powell …
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Think twice about why the media attacks William Barr
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Cable News Networks to Team Up on Convention Coverage, Limiting Staff Exposure  —  CNN, MSNBC, Fox News in talks to coordinate pool coverage to reduce number of journalists in potentially infectious areas  —  Two years ago, CNN staffers descended on Charlotte, N.C., to start planning coverage …
New York Times:
Trump Faces Mounting Defections From a Once-Loyal Group: Older White Voters  —  No Democrat has won or broken even with voters over 65 in two decades.  But seniors' dismay about President Trump could change that.  —  Clifford Wagner, an 80-year-old Republican in Tucson, Ariz., never cared for President Trump.
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Trump is the only thing holding Democrats' uneasy coalition together  —  If elected, Biden will need to manage a party supported by socialists as well as suburbanites.  The backlash will be fierce if he's unable to steer a pragmatic path.  —  Here's the good news for Democrats …
Wall Street Journal:
Masks Could Help Stop Coronavirus.  So Why Are They Still Controversial?  —  Confusing government advice at the start of the pandemic and cultural misgivings may have limited acceptance  —  As countries begin to reopen their economies, face masks, an essential tool for slowing the spread of coronavirus …
Molly Jong-Fast / Vogue:
New York Is Ending Its Lockdown.  I'm Not Sure I'm Ready to End Mine.  —  I've been in my New York City apartment since early March.  I had just gotten back from covering the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C., where one of the high-level participants tested positive …
Lisa Shumaker / Reuters:
Crowds pack Arizona river as U.S. posts record COVID cases for three days running  —  (Reuters) - Hot and sunny weather in Arizona led to crowds tubing on at least one river this weekend as that state and a dozen others face the worst surge in coronavirus cases since the pandemic started.
Gabby Orr / Politico:
A new dilemma for Trump's team: Preventing super-spreader churches  —  One month after President Donald Trump ordered the nation's governors to immediately reopen churches, his administration is facing a difficult dilemma.  —  Clusters of Covid-19 cases are surfacing in counties across …
Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
1 Dead After Man Shoots Into Crowd at Breonna Taylor Protest  —  Video footage showed a man firing more than a dozen shots at a park in Louisville, Ky., where protesters had gathered to call for justice for Ms. Taylor, who was killed by the police in March.  —  One man was killed …
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Week
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Tammy Duckworth is Biden's Best Running Mate Pick  —  She, more than anyone, can get under Trump's skin.  —  Whatever his wobbles, Joe Biden has, from the start of his presidential campaign, got one thing exactly right: The 2020 election is a battle for the soul of America.  That's not just a pretty slogan.
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump's attacks seen undercutting confidence in 2020 vote  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a startling declaration about one of the pillars of American democracy, all the more so given its source.  —  The president of the United States last week publicly predicted without evidence …
Nolan Clay / Oklahoman.com:
Some OKC protesters charged with terrorism, rioting, assault  —  Protesters blamed for the violence that broke out in Oklahoma City the last weekend in May were charged Friday with terrorism, rioting and assault.  —  If convicted of the felony offenses, they could be sentenced to years in prison.
Discussion: Redstate and The Gateway Pundit
Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times:
In ‘God, guns and Trump’ country, simmering doubts about the president  —  In this dry stretch of northwestern Arizona, Trump campaign signs dot the desert landscape, and Trump flags fly from the backs of dusty pickup trucks.  —  Last fall, an event called “Trumpstock” …
Shannon Najmabadi / The Texas Tribune:
Want a coronavirus test in Texas?  You may have to wait for hours in a car.  —  Months into the pandemic, demand for coronavirus tests is soaring.  Texans report problems with almost every facet of the testing process, starting with the glitching websites and unanswered phone lines used …
Christopher L. Eisgruber / Washington Post:
I opposed taking Woodrow Wilson's name off our school.  Here's why I changed my mind.  —  Christopher L. Eisgruber is president of Princeton University.  —  The Princeton University Board of Trustees voted on Friday to remove Woodrow Wilson's name from the university's School of Public and International Affairs.
Discussion: TheBlaze and NPR
 
 
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Ashraf Khalil / Associated Press:
DC mayor caught between activists, police in funding battle
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Ilya Somin / The Atlantic:
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Actual Coronavirus Infections Vastly Undercounted, C.D.C. Data Shows
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Wilfred M. McClay / First Things:
Of Statues and Symbolic Murder
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NPR:
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Co-founder of Maryland group that protested for state to reopen tests positive for coronavirus
Discussion: New York Post
Siraj Datoo / Bloomberg:
Zuckerberg Loses $7 Billion as Firms Boycott Facebook Ads
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Andrew Court / Daily Mail:
High school student sparked a coronavirus cluster in New York after they travelled from Florida …
Andrew J. Campa / Los Angeles Times:
Orange County Democrats condemn ‘racist’ comments by John Wayne, call for airport to drop his name
Washington Post:
With Trump leading the way, America's coronavirus failures exposed by record surge in new infections
Discussion: Mediaite
Sheena Jones / CNN:
Patrons are asked to self-quarantine after about 85 people who visited a Michigan bar get Covid-19
New York Times:
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