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5:55 PM ET, July 18, 2020

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New York Times:
Inside Trump's Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus  —  The roots of the nation's current inability to control the pandemic can be traced to mid-April, when the White House embraced overly rosy projections to proclaim victory and move on.
Barack Obama / Medium:
My Statement on the Passing of Rep. John Lewis  —  America is a constant work in progress.  What gives each new generation purpose is to take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further — to speak out for what's right, to challenge an unjust status quo, and to imagine a better world.
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Joe Biden:
Statement by Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis  —  We are made in the image of God, and then there is John Lewis.  —  How could someone in flesh and blood be so courageous, so full of hope and love in the face of so much hate, violence, and vengeance?
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80
New York Times:
The Radical Resistance of John Lewis
Discussion: Washington Post and Rolling Stone
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
John Lewis practiced what he preached. We are a better nation for it.
Discussion: The Guardian
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
John Lewis Was an American Founder
Discussion: CNBC and NPR
Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated:
I didn't understand John Lewis at first
Discussion: ABC News
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
At the 1963 March on Washington, civil rights leaders asked John Lewis to tone his speech down
Discussion: Vox, Fox News and The Nation
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
John Lewis' Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It's Under Attack.
Discussion: The Atlantic and The Guardian
David Remnick / New Yorker:   John Lewis's Legacy and America's Redemption
Michele L. Norris / Washington Post:
A civil rights giant passes the baton
Discussion: Associated Press and KTLA
New York Times:
Federal Officers Deployed in Portland Didn't Have Proper Training, D.H.S. Memo Said  —  Rather than tamping down persistent protests in Portland, Ore., a militarized presence from federal officers seems to have re-energized them.  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — The heavily armed federal agents facing …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Twitchy
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   DHS Under Boss: We're Taking This National
Washington Post:
Portland officials decry aggressive tactics of federal agents in their city
Discussion: Fox News
USA Today:
‘Secret police force’: Feds reportedly pull Portland protesters into unmarked vehicles, stirring outrage
Discussion: New York Times
Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal:
Face Masks Really Do Matter.  The Scientific Evidence Is Growing.  —  New research suggests that face coverings help reduce the transmission of droplets, though some masks are more protective than others  —  Face masks are emerging as one of the most powerful weapons to fight the novel coronavirus …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and ABC News
The Texas Tribune:
With 4 in 5 Texans living in a “red zone,” coronavirus hot spots are moving targets  —  Early hot spots have been eclipsed by new regions in crisis.  Now that so much of Texas is battling major coronavirus outbreaks, some severely ill patients have to travel long distances to receive the care they need.
Discussion: 6abc and ABC13
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CNN:
85 infants under age 1 tested positive for coronavirus in one Texas county  —  (CNN)Eighty-five infants under age 1 have tested positive for coronavirus in one Texas county.  And local officials are imploring residents to help stop its spread as the state becomes one of the newest hotspots.
Discussion: UPI and WHDH-TV
PBS NewsHour:
How Fauci says the U.S. can get control of the pandemic  —  Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is one of the country's top public health experts.  He was initially a prominent figure at Coronavirus Task Force briefings — but recently …
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Yelena Dzhanova / CNBC:
Fauci holds up New York as model for fighting coronavirus — ‘They did it correctly’
Discussion: Twitchy
Des Moines Register:
Joni Ernst: If Trump has a Supreme Court nominee, Senate should hold hearings  —  U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Friday that the Senate should hold hearings on any Supreme Court nomination President Donald Trump might make this year, even if he loses November's election.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Iowa Starting Line
Washington Post:
From ‘Sleepy Joe’ to a destroyer of the ‘American way of life,’ Trump's attacks on Biden make a dystopian shift  —  President Trump has launched a slash-and-burn campaign against an exaggerated caricature of his Democratic opponent, casting former vice president Joe Biden as a destroyer …
Discussion: Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Promotes Caricature of What Conservatives Want  —  A series of events during his White House tenure has made clear that Mr. Trump views the voters he calls “my people” through the lens of what he imagines they like.  —  Standing in the White House colonnade this week …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trump's trouble in suburbs key to suddenly competitive Ohio  —  CINCINNATI (AP) — During a background briefing with reporters in December, President Donald Trump's reelection campaign team gave only passing mention of Ohio.  Certainly no one suggested a full-scale fall advertising strategy …
Christo Grozev / bellingcat:
World's Most Wanted Man Jan Marsalek Located in Belarus; Data Points to Russian Intel Links  —  It can safely be assumed that Jan Marsalek is currently one of the most hunted-for persons on earth.  The company he oversaw operationally, Germany's Wirecard, collapsed overnight last month …
Twitter:
An update on our security incident  —  As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.  As we head into the weekend, we want to provide an overview of where we are.
Molly Jong-Fast / Vogue:
Mask Wars?  New Yorkers Will Sit This One Out.  We've Already Seen Enough Death.  —  Around 4 p.m. every day, I take my two extremely handsome but very stupid Chinese Crested powder puff dogs for a walk.  Almost everyone I see in my neighborhood is wearing a mask.  Yesterday I saw only one person who was not wearing a mask.
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Trump may finally be facing the political consequences of his untrustworthiness  —  Concerns about President Trump's dishonesty began before he entered the White House, but the consequences of his not being trustworthy are now fully evident.  —  Trump surpassed 20,000 false or misleading claims …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and Breitbart
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The Trump campaign is the grift that keeps on grifting
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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U.S. Department of Justice:
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Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
State Dept. declares Egypt's ex-prime minister immune from torture lawsuit by U.S. citizen …
Associated Press:
Trump talks less about virus, states look inward for answers
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
How Kanye West Is Trying to Get on the Ballot in South Carolina
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Wall Street Journal:
Firms With Troubled Pasts Got Millions of Dollars in PPP Small-Business Aid
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Mistrust of a Coronavirus Vaccine Could Imperil Widespread Immunity
Discussion: Raw Story
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Surging Democrats expand Senate targets to GOP states
John Binder / Breitbart:
Sanctuary State Illinois: Previously Deported Illegal Alien Charged with Sexually Assaulting Young Girl
Faye Flam / New York Times:
Flossie Wong-Staal, Who Unlocked Mystery of H.I.V., Dies at 73
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump keeps fighting a Confederate flag battle many supporters have conceded
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Revolution Is Winning  —  Radicals from the 1960s and 1970s …