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Brentin Mock / Bloomberg:
Philadelphia's Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents — After numerous reports and lawsuits in Portland regarding un-badged and un-uniformed federal officers arresting, beating, and detaining people in unmarked vehicles, the Trump administration's response is that they're going to do it even more, and in more cities.
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Attorney General William P. Barr Joins President Donald J. Trump to Announce Expansion of Operation Legend — Originally launched in Kansas City, MO., additional cities include Chicago and Albuquerque — Today, Attorney General William P. Barr joined President Donald J. Trump to announce …
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump announces “surge” of federal law enforcement to Chicago and Albuquerque — President Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr announced on Wednesday that the Justice Department will “immediately surge” federal law enforcement officers to Chicago and Albuquerque in an effort to combat violent crime.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's ugly law enforcement crackdown is even alienating Republicans — Under fire for dispatching federal law enforcement into cities in defiance of local leaders, in part to create TV imagery that sends an authoritarian thrill up President Trump's leg, top officials are offering several new defenses.
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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Trump to ‘surge’ federal agents to Chicago, other cities, amid spike in violent crime
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Tulsi Kamath / Click2Houston.com:
Houston fire and police respond to reports of documents being burned at Consulate General of China — HOUSTON - Houston police and fire officials responded to reports that documents were being burned in the courtyard of the Consulate General of China in Houston Tuesday night, according to the Houston Police Department.
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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Prosecutors say S.F. consulate is harboring Chinese military researcher wanted by FBI — A researcher who lied about her affiliation with a Chinese military university entered the Chinese consulate in San Francisco after being interviewed by the FBI on June 20 about alleged visa fraud and has remained there …
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Justice News and Breitbart
Mia Jankowicz / Business Insider:
A new Trump campaign ad depicting a police officer being attacked by protesters is actually a 2014 photo of pro-democracy protests in Ukraine — Foto: This image of protesters and police in Ukraine, from 2014, has been used by the Trump 2020 US election campaign.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump's New Ad Is Amazing — The Trump campaign just ran the most ironic ad in the history of American politics. — A couple weeks ago the Trump campaign rolled out an ad proclaiming that the president would protect a statue of Jesus from the woke left. The only problem was that the statue pictured …
CNBC:
GOP considers extending unemployment benefit at reduced level of $100 a week through December — Republicans are considering extending the enhanced unemployment insurance through the end of the year at a drastically reduced level of $400 per month, or $100 a week.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Geraldo Rivera: Trump Was ‘Brave’ to Wish Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Well’ — Geraldo applauding Trump's courage for wishing the accused sex-trafficker well came after Rivera blasted a judge for denying bail for Maxwell. — Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera on Wednesday once again rallied …
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Lisette Voytko / Forbes:
Here's Every Time Donald Trump And Ghislaine Maxwell Have Been Photographed Together — Topline: During a Tuesday coronavirus briefing, President Trump offered well-wishes to Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante who now faces multiple federal charges related to Epstein's alleged sex ring.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump wishes Ghislaine Maxwell well — and the media barely reacts
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CNN:
NFL owner and Trump ambassador to UK sparks watchdog inquiry over allegations of racist and sexist remarks and push to promote Trump business — Washington (CNN)The billionaire NFL owner who serves as President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Kingdom was investigated …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's Portland crackdown is controversial. The man spearheading it might be doing so illegally. — In Wednesday's Washington Post, Nick Miroff and Matt Zapotosky dig into the Trump administration's highly controversial — and in some cases legally questionable — use of the Department …
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Garrett M. Graff / Washington Post:
The federal crackdown in Portland is ‘legal.’ That's the problem with it.
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Gina Harkins / Military.com:
SecDef Wants to Stop Federal Law Enforcement Agents Dressing Like US Troops
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
Biden says Trump is America's first ‘racist’ president — Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on Wednesday called President Trump the country's first racist to be elected to the White House. — The former vice president's blunt assessment came during …
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Cory Stieg / CNBC:
MIT engineers designed an affordable, reusable face mask that's as effective as an N95 — take a look — The iMASC is a clear rubber mask that covers the nose and mouth, with a nose bridge and two nylon elastic straps that go around the head. The fit was based on the 3M 1860 respirator …
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Tom Cleary / Heavy.com:
Portland Mom Says She Was Groped & Assaulted by Feds During Protest Arrest — Jennifer Kristiansen is a 37-year-old Portland mother and attorney who was arrested while protesting with the “Wall of Moms,” a group of women who have joined protests outside of the federal courthouse in the Oregon city.
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Marissa Lang / Washington Post:
‘What choice do we have?’: Portland's ‘Wall of Moms’ faces off with federal officers at tense protests
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Center for Public Integrity:
Exclusive: White House privately warns 11 cities must take “aggressive” action in coronavirus fight — This article is available for republishing — We ask that you credit our newsroom at the top with a line that says, “This article about coronavirus aggressive action was originally published …
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Politico:
Matt Gaetz appears to run afoul of House ethics rules — Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has privately engaged in several spending practices in his nearly four years in office that appear to be in conflict with the House's ethics rules, a POLITICO investigation has found.
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Michael Brune / Sierra Club:
Pulling Down Our Monuments — The Sierra Club is a 128-year-old organization with a complex history, some of which has caused significant and immeasurable harm. As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past …
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Biden campaign goes on offensive against Sen. Ron Johnson's Burisma probe — Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Tuesday launched a highly personal broadside at Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, for pushing forward …
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump's Pick To Run The Consumer Product Safety Commission Has Stalled, Says Senator — Nancy Beck, a former chemical industry lobbyist opposed by environmental and consumer groups, “doesn't have the votes,” the senator told HuffPost. — WASHINGTON ― Nancy Beck …
Washington Post:
Trump's assault on election integrity forces question: What would happen if he refused to accept a loss? — President Trump's relentless efforts to sow doubts about the legitimacy of this year's election are forcing both parties to reckon with the possibility that he may dispute the result …
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Political Wire
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Americans tune in to ‘cancel culture’ — and don't like what they see — One of the few things that Barack Obama and Donald Trump agree on is cancel culture. — In the last year, as numerous public figures have become the targets of online campaigns by social media swarms …
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Reason, Vox, New York Post, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Louder With Crowder and American Greatness
Tony Webster / Minnesota Reformer:
Derek Chauvin charged with felony tax fraud for claiming Florida residency — Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis Police officer charged with second degree murder in the killing of George Floyd, has been charged with nine felony counts of aiding and abetting tax fraud in Washington County, Minn.
Heather Caygle / Politico:
House votes to remove Confederate statues from Capitol — Democrats touted the bill as a way to honor the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis. — The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol, the latest effort by Congress to respond …
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The Hill and The American Independent
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump's pick to head Office of Personnel Management spread ‘satanic’ conspiracy theory, called Democrats party of ‘Islam’ and ‘gender-bending’ — (CNN)The Trump administration announced this week the nomination of a former conservative commentator with a history of inflammatory …
Fox News:
President Trump praises Dr. Deborah Birx — President Trump speaks with Fox News medical correspondent Dr. Marc Siegel.
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Tucker's Got Real Scandals, So He Keeps Inventing Imaginary Enemies — The Fox News star went on vacation after his chief writer was exposed as a bigot, and returned just as he was accused of harassment. So he doxxed a reporter to change the subject. — BEAST INSIDE
Noah Smith / Yahoo Finance:
The U.S. Is on the Verge of Lockdown 2.0 … (Bloomberg Opinion) — After two months of what looked like a nascent recovery, the U.S. economy is faltering again. Restaurant reservations, one of the most commonly tracked indicators of local business activity, are stagnating:
New York Times:
Hearst Employees Say Magazine Boss Led Toxic Culture — At Cosmopolitan staff meetings, workers complain of discrimination and tokenism. Former employees say Hearst Magazines president Troy Young made sexually offensive remarks. — For decades Hearst magazines have advised American women …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The breathtaking unconstitutionality of Trump's new census policy — President Donald Trump talks to reporters while hosting Republican congressional leaders and members of his cabinet in the Oval Office on July 20 in Washington, DC. Doug Mills/Getty Images — It's a direct attack on the 14th Amendment.
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