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8:16 PM ET, July 1, 2020

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Jim Sciutto / CNN:
Trump's resistance led intel agencies to brief him less and less on Russia  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's resistance to intelligence warnings about Russia led his national security team, including those who delivered the President's Daily Brief to brief him verbally less often …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's ugly new spin on Russia bounties actually incriminates him  —  With President Trump, it's often difficult to locate the point where his utter lack of self awareness blends into sheer shamelessness.  This poses an urgent problem with the spin he is now offering amid revelations …
Washington Post:
White House does not plan any immediate response over intelligence reports on Russian bounties targeting U.S. troops  —  The White House is not planning an immediate response to intelligence reports of Russian bounties given to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and coalition forces …
The Daily Beast:
Russian Bounties for Killing Americans Go Back Five Years, Ex-Taliban Claims  —  Russia has been courting the Taliban at least since 2014 with money and weapons, ostensibly to fight ISIS, certainly to undermine the American effort in Afghanistan.  —  Taliban veterans like to laugh about the first time …
Discussion: The Guardian and Washington Post
Politico:
Senate Republicans can't catch a break  —  The high point of 2020 for Senate Republicans — if there is one — may have been Feb. 6.  —  The Senate had acquitted President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial the day before, and he held an hour-long “victory celebration” in the East Room of the White House.
Discussion: NBC News and Axios
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Trump revs up for another culture war — over the military
Discussion: Variety, The Daily Beast and KFF
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
McConnell warns Democrats about changing Senate rules to kill the filibuster
Discussion: The Federalist
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Biden expands lead in swing states as voters hammer Trump over coronavirus, CNBC/Change poll says  — Voters in six 2020 swing states largely disapprove of how President Trump is handling the coronavirus as the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the country, a CNBC/Change Research poll found.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
2020's biggest difference with 2016: Trump loses the honesty debate
Discussion: Inside Elections
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump said ‘experience’ was his edge over Biden.  A poll shows voters disagree by a remarkable margin.
Washington Post:
Trump set to headline high-dollar fundraising dinner at a private Florida home next week
Jed Graham / Investor's Business Daily:   Joe Biden Extends Lead As Coronavirus, Protests Sink President Trump Job Approval: IBD/TIPP Poll
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump regrets Kushner advice on prison reform  —  President Trump has told people in recent days that he regrets following some of son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner's political advice — including supporting criminal justice reform — and will stick closer to his own instincts …
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Official U.S. coronavirus death toll is ‘a substantial undercount’ of actual tally, Yale study finds  — The 781,000 total deaths in the U.S. in the three months through May 30 were nearly 19% higher than what would normally be expected, the study said.  — The number of excess deaths …
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
​Popular Pro-Trump ​Digital Strategist Made Racist Comments on a Secret Twitter Account  —  Caleb Hull, ​a digital communications strategist popular with pro-Trump Republicans, made racist ​and inflammatory​ comments, including the use of the n-word …
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Mediaite:   Pro-Trump Operative Caleb Hull Has History of Racist, Anti-Semitic, Homophobic Posts
CNN:
Trump's aides debate a new virus approach as President claims it will ‘disappear’  —  President Trump says he's ‘all for masks’  —  (CNN)A divide has emerged inside President Donald Trump's inner circle over whether he should turn his attention back to the coronavirus pandemic or continue …
ProPublica:
Internal Messages Reveal Crisis at Houston Hospitals as Coronavirus Cases Surge  —  Texas was one of the first states in the nation to ease social distancing mandates.  In Houston, the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 has quadrupled since Memorial Day.  “It's time to be alarmed,” one expert said.
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NBC News:   Internal messages reveal crisis at Houston hospitals as coronavirus cases surge
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Alabama students throwing ‘COVID parties’ to see who gets infected: Officials  —  Rising infections prompt Gov. Kay Ivy to extend ‘Safer at Home’ orders.  —  Students in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 have been attending parties in the city and surrounding area …
Roxanne Roberts / Washington Post:
The virus didn't stop a Washington socialite from throwing a backyard soiree.  Then the tests came back positive.  —  This is A Cautionary Tale featuring well-intentioned people making poor choices.  It is also the tale of a socialite with an Instagram habit who recently held a fabulous backyard soiree during a pandemic.
Discussion: Eschaton
Tim Reid / Reuters:
Exclusive: Hundreds of George W. Bush administration officials to back Biden, group says  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of officials who worked for former Republican President George W. Bush are set to endorse Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden, people involved in the effort said …
The Hill:
GOP senators debate replacing Columbus Day with Juneteenth as a federal holiday  —  Republican senators are debating whether Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, should replace Columbus Day on the federal government's list of official holidays.
Discussion: Redstate, Breitbart and TheBlaze
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
GOP senators propose replacing Columbus Day with Juneteenth as a federal holiday
Discussion: National Review
New York Times:
How Mount Rushmore Became Mount Rushmore  —  The South Dakota landmark has drawn criticism over the land it occupies, the main sculptor behind it and the legacies of the men it memorializes.  —  This year, for the first time in more than a decade, there will be a major fireworks display …
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USA Today:
South Dakota tribal leader joins call to remove Mount Rushmore ahead of Trump visit
Discussion: Townhall and The Hill
Axios:
Scoop: U.S. seizes $800,000 shipment of Xinjiang products made with human hair  —  U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers detained a shipment of almost 13 tons of wigs and other human hair products suspected of being made through forced labor in Xinjiang, China, U.S. government officials tell Axios.
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Isabel Wilkerson / New York Times:
America's Enduring Caste System  —  Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all.  Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries.  —  We saw a man face down on the pavement, pinned beneath a car, and above him another man, a man in uniform …
Discussion: Townhall
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Hugh Hewitt: Rumor has it Samuel Alito will retire from Supreme Court  —  Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito may be eyeing retirement.  —  The “stronger rumor” is that Alito is “going to quit,” conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt told Washington Post reporter Robert Costa on his show Wednesday.
6abc:
Whipping post removed from outside Sussex County Courthouse  —  GEORGETOWN, Delaware (WPVI) — An eight-foot tall whipping post has been removed from outside the Sussex County Courthouse in Georgetown, Delaware.  —  The Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs (HCA) …
Discussion: New York Post
Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Richmond mayor orders prompt removal of Confederate statues  —  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues in the city, saying he was using his emergency powers to speed up the healing process for the former capital …
Washington Post:
In wake of Trump's Tulsa rally, his campaign is still contending with the fallout  —  It was just hours before President Trump was set to take the stage for his rally in Tulsa last month when the news broke: Six staff at the site had just tested positive for the coronavirus.
Mohamed Younis / Gallup:
Americans Want More, Not Less, Immigration for First Time  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thirty-four percent of Americans, up from 27% a year ago, would prefer to see immigration to the U.S. increased.  This is the highest support for expanding immigration Gallup has found in its trend since 1965.
Geoff Pender / Mississippi Today:
'It's an artifact': Mississippi officially retires its state flag to a museum  —  Mississippi's former state flag with the divisive Confederate battle emblem in its canton was officially retired to a museum on Wednesday after flying over the state for 126 years.
About Facebook:
Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate  —  This piece originally ran in AdAge.  —  When society is divided and tensions run high, those divisions play out on social media.  Platforms like Facebook hold up a mirror to society — with more than 3 billion people using Facebook's apps every month …
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
Here's what happens when a neighborhood's only grocery store closes  —  New York (CNN Business)The nearby Save A Lot supermarket was a lifeline for Karina Rayeford, a single mom of three kids in downtown Norfolk, Virginia.  —  The grocery store, located in the predominantly Black public housing community …
New York Times:
Late Action on Virus Prompts Fears Over Safety of U.S. Diplomats in Saudi Arabia  —  Surging outbreaks in the U.S. Embassy and the kingdom and quiet congressional pressure led the State Department belatedly to allow voluntary departures.  Some demand more action.
Tucker Carlson / RealClearPolitics:
Tucker Carlson: Going Forward Republican Voters Must Demand 3 Things From Their Candidates  —  Tucker Carlson said Republican officeholders are not working hard enough for the American people and, at a moment like this, that's a severe and dangerous problem in a monologue delivered on Tuesday's broadcast of his FOX News program.
Joe Kinsey / Outkick:
Chicago Red Stars Soccer Player Defends Decision To Stand For Anthem  —  Alexi Lalas tweeted and then deleted this when players from the National Women's Soccer League kneeled before a recent match: “Now it takes courage to actually stand for the national anthem.”
New York Times:
Meet the Supporters Trump Has Lost  —  A significant majority of people who voted for him in 2016 are planning to do so again.  What is different about those who've had a change of heart?  —  For some, the disenchantment started almost as soon as Donald J. Trump took office.
Discussion: Alternet.org
 
 
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Some States Pause Reopenings as U.S. Cases Surge
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
5-term GOP congressman loses primary to owner of Colorado restaurant with gun-toting servers
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Big tech CEOs agree to testify for House antitrust probe
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
He Says a Union Fired Him Over His Push for Police Reform
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Unemployment is probably worse than reported as states close down again
Discussion: blogs.bls.gov
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Whatever Israel decides, a one-state reality looms
Discussion: The Guardian
Jake Russell / Washington Post:
Hawks turn arena into voting station after Georgia residents struggle to get to polls
Maria Copeland / Campus Reform:
Fresno State faces calls to remove Gandhi statue
Discussion: Breitbart
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Deggans / NPR:
‘Do Right By Us’: Black ‘Survivor’ Alums Say The Reality Was Harmful Stereotypes
Discussion: New York Post and Mercury News
David Harsanyi / National Review:
The Left's Coronavirus Narrative Is a Myth
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
In Mark McCloskey interview, Chris Cuomo fishes for clickbait and proves himself a fool
Discussion: CNN and Redstate
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Trump allies take aim at his global media chief for firings
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Fed officials raised concerns in June that U.S. could enter a much worse recession later this year …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Chris Isidore / CNN:
The Trump administration just lent $700 million to a trucking company sued for ripping off taxpayers
Washington Post:
‘Cries for help’: Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic