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11:25 PM ET, July 16, 2020

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Washington Post:
From dream job to nightmare … A few months after Emily Applegate started working for the Washington Redskins in 2014, she settled into a daily routine: She would meet a female co-worker in the bathroom during their lunch breaks, she said, to commiserate and cry about the frequent sexual harassment and verbal abuse they endured.
Liz Essley Whyte / Center for Public Integrity:
Exclusive: White House document shows 18 states in coronavirus “red zone”  —  Unpublicized recommendations say states should return to stringent control measures … A document prepared for the White House Coronavirus Task Force but not publicized suggests more than a dozen states should revert …
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Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Legendary Foreign Correspondent Chris Dickey Dies in Paris  —  ICON  —  Chris Dickey hopscotched across the globe to land stories—and mentored a generation of journalists in how to do the same.  —  The hardest thing about writing an obituary for Chris Dickey, the legendary foreign correspondent …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Game show host retweeted by Trump deletes his account after announcing his son has coronavirus  —  Former game show host Chuck Woolery announced Wednesday his son has tested positive for COVID-19, just days after accusing medical professionals and Democrats of lying about the virus in an effort …
Discussion: Eschaton
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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:   After Peddling Conspiracy, Chuck Woolery Announces Son Has COVID And Deletes Twitter
Janelle Griffith / NBC News:   Chuck Woolery says ‘everyone is lying’ about coronavirus, then reveals son's COVID-19 diagnosis
David Moye / HuffPost:   Chuck Woolery Changes Stance On COVID-19 ‘Lies’ After Son Tests Positive
CNN:
GOP to Trump: Change tune on mail-in voting or risk ugly November  —  (CNN)Republican officials throughout the country are reacting with growing alarm to President Donald Trump's attacks on mail-in ballots, saying his unsubstantiated claims of mass voting fraud are already corroding the views of GOP voters …
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
The Plot Against America: The GOP's Plan to Suppress the Vote and Sabotage the Election
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
New York Could Throw Out 1 in 5 Mail-in Ballots in One District, Disproportionately Hitting Brooklyn
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Republicans fear campaign shake-up can't counteract Trump's self-sabotage  —  A sudden shake-up of President Trump's campaign was an attempt to refocus a reelection effort cratering under the weight of a deadly pandemic, a stalled economy and a national reckoning on racial injustice.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's campaign team tries to steady operation after messy shakeup  —  President Donald Trump's outgoing campaign manager and his successor gathered staffers at the Trump campaign's Arlington, Va., headquarters Thursday morning for a “pass the torch” ceremony, after Trump abruptly replaced Brad Parscale …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Kemp's office seeks to block Atlanta mask mandate in court  —  Gov. Brian Kemp's administration went to court Thursday seeking to block Atlanta from enacting coronavirus restrictions and requiring residents to wear masks, setting up a legal showdown between the state and local governments …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Media are just plain lying about Kayleigh McEnany ‘science’ quote  —  It has been said before, but it bears repeating: You are better off watching raw footage of the White House press briefings than trusting the word of journalists.  —  Put more simply, members of our vaunted Fourth Estate cannot …
Discussion: Power Line
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany tries to clean up Trump's comment about police killing ‘more white people’
Discussion: The Hill
Jonathan Levinson / OPB:
Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets  —  UPDATE (5:14 p.m. PT) — In the early hours of July 15, after a night spent protesting at the Multnomah County Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, Mark Pettibone and his friend Conner O'Shea decided to head home.
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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Q&A: What's behind the Twitter Bitcoin hack?
NBC News:
After Twitter breach, lawmakers and experts concerned private messages were accessed
Discussion: The Daily Caller, BBC and Politico
Los Angeles Times:
The true story of the heartthrob prince of Qatar and his time at USC  —  When a Qatari sheikh came to live in L.A., an entire economy sprouted to meet his wishes.  “His highness doesn't like to hear no,” one associate told a professor.  —  5 AM  —  Los Angeles has long enjoyed a reputation …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Losing, So When Are Republican Candidates Going to Abandon Him?  —  On Wednesday afternoon, the latest batch of polls in the Presidential campaign were released, and they showed an increasingly grim picture for Donald Trump.  The NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey had Joe Biden up by eleven points.
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: New Cases in the U.S. Soar to More Than 74,000, Shattering the Record  —  Two-thirds of global cases have come from the U.S., Brazil, South Africa and India.  The National Security Agency said a hacking group associated with Russian intelligence …
Discussion: CNN and National Review
Courtney Tanner / Salt Lake Tribune:
In separate rallies, Utahns protest mask mandate and demand in-person classes  —  • As she walked up to the podium to speak, one of the moms grabbed a face mask and spit her gum out into it.  “It's garbage,” she shrugged, wadding it up.  “It doesn't work anyway.  Not for me and not for my kids.”
Christie D'Zurilla / Los Angeles Times:
Mary Trump's memoir sells 950,000 on first day, setting a record for publisher  —  Looks like a lot of people want to read about the president's psychological back story.  “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man” by Mary L. Trump has set …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Pompeo slams ‘rioters pulling down statues’ for ‘assault’ on tradition  —  The secretary's new report on “unalienable rights” seeks to narrow their scope.  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unveiled a new report on “unalienable rights” Thursday, defining human rights in a narrow scope …
Discussion: Washington Post and Breitbart
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Pompeo rolls out a selective vision of human rights
Discussion: Associated Press
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Coronavirus cases shut down Florida's emergency operations center  —  The coronavirus thrashing Florida has penetrated the state's emergency operations center, a clearinghouse for disaster-related information and a command center of sorts for the pandemic response.
Discussion: Tampa Bay Times, The Hill and Daily Kos
David Ian Klein / The Forward:
Southern Poverty Law Center adds Stephen Miller to its extremist list  —  The Southern Poverty Law Center, which documents hate across the United States, added a new entry to its list of extremists on Wednesday: White House senior advisor Stephen Miller.  —  The organization wrote in its entry …
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Scaramucci Says He Wants to See Trump ‘Humiliated’  — Former Trump communications chief seeks GOP votes for Democrat  — Trump politicized coronavirus pandemic, Scaramucci says  —  Merely beating Donald Trump in November won't be enough for Anthony Scaramucci …
Discussion: IJR and The Hill
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Legal Adviser Appears on Kremlin-Backed TV  —  No Trump official had appeared on the network since 2016, in part because U.S. Intel determined it was a propaganda outlet.  —  A top Trump campaign adviser recently appeared on the Russian-government funded TV network RT …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trumpism Corrupts: Wall Street Journal Edition  —  When people show you who they are, you should believe them.  —  The Wall Street Journal ran a strikingly oblique editorial on Thursday morning.  I'm going to quote from it extensively and bold the phrases that are most interesting:
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
lohud:
MSNBC's Mimi Rocah unseats Anthony Scarpino in Westchester County D.A. primary  —  Former federal prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Mimi Rocah has won the Democratic primary for Westchester County district attorney.  —  Incumbent Anthony Scarpino conceded the race Thursday …
Ruy Teixeira / Persuasion:
Demography Is Not Destiny  —  John Judis and I came up with the idea of an emerging Democratic majority.  A dangerous misinterpretation of it helped elect Donald Trump.  —  5 hr … In the months after Barack Obama's historic victory, the conventional wisdom held that Democrats would now dominate the nation's politics for decades.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court Just Stopped 1 Million Floridians From Voting in November  —  The Supreme Court all but guaranteed that nearly one million Floridians will be unable to vote in the 2020 election because of unpaid court debts in a shattering order handed down on Thursday.
Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed News:
Former Employees Say Ellen's “Be Kind” Talk Show Mantra Masks A Toxic Work Culture  —  Ellen DeGeneres has built her worldwide, multimillion-dollar brand on the motto “be kind,” with lavish giveaways and acts of charity.  But behind the scenes, current and former employees on her leading daytime show …
John Sexton / HotAir:
Joy Reid Loses In Court As 2nd Circuit Revives Libel Claim Against Her  —  Joy Reid recently got a promotion at MSNBC where she'll soon have a nightly show instead of the weekend show she has had for the past couple of years.  It looks like it's going to be a rocky start to her new job.
Wall Street Journal:
Growing Wait Times for Covid-19 Test Results Hinder Virus Response  —  Shortages and late results delay public-health officials' view of virus's spread and their ability to respond effectively  —  Over the past week, nearly two dozen states have reported fresh highs in coronavirus cases.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
In the Same Towns, Private Schools Are Reopening While Public Schools Are Not  —  Private schools have always had more flexibility, and usually more money, but never has that disparity made a bigger difference than now.  —  In Honolulu, nearly all public schools are planning to allow students to return for just part of the week.
Discussion: Twitchy and Joanne Jacobs
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Biden cuts deep into Trump's 2020 cash advantage  —  Joe Biden has nearly closed the once-yawning cash gap between him and President Donald Trump, with big donors flooding his campaign and the Democratic National Committee with money in recent months.  —  Trump and the Republican National Committee …
 
 
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Alfredo Ortiz / Fox Business:
Biden's climate plan is a disaster for American workers
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Post:
De Blasio says he has ‘no respect’ for NYPD union leadership
Discussion: Breitbart
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
'I'm... At A Loss For Words': The Unraveling Narrative Behind The Atlantic's Defund-The-Police ‘Shooting’ Tale
David Crary / Associated Press:
Record number of LGBTQ candidates running for office in US
Discussion: Axios and NBC News
Timothy Johnson / Media Matters for America:
Roger Stone accepts Trump's commutation during Infowars appearance with Alex Jones
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Trump-connected college to host in-person graduation, despite state limits on gatherings
Discussion: Hillsdale College and Raw Story
Lev Facher / STAT:
NIH Director Francis Collins defends Fauci amid White House criticism
Detroit Free Press:
785 Michigan restaurants got $150K or more in federal loans. Only 1 listed as Black-owned.
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Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Cornyn Challenger Equates U.S. Border Policies to Chinese Concentration Camps
Politico:
Senate Republicans eye subpoenas of Biden advisers in Burisma probe
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Mary Louise Kelly / Wall Street Journal:
The Pandemic Has Made My Hearing Problem Even More of a Problem
Popular Information:
Kelly Loeffler is running against Black Lives Matter.  These corporations are supporting her campaign.
Discussion: NPR
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Alarmed by Democratic Senate Hopefuls' Fundraising Haul