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CNN:
Trump says he could send as many as 75,000 federal agents to US cities  —  Seattle Mayor: Unsettling Trump is continuing down this path  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's willing to send as many as 75,000 federal agents into American cities to quell violent crime, a recent campaign theme for the President.
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Rioters barricaded DHS officers in Portland courthouse and tried to set it on fire
Discussion: Breitbart
The Daily Beast:
‘Shaking in Their Boots’: Trump Wanted a Portland-Style Offensive in Chicago
Alejandro Lazo / Wall Street Journal:   Portland Mayor Tear-Gassed Amid Protests Over Federal Agents
Ed Shanahan / New York Times:
Homeland Security Made False Statements in Fight With N.Y., Officials Admit  —  The surprise admission came as the Trump administration unexpectedly reversed its decision to bar New Yorkers from programs that allow travelers to speed through airports.  —  Homeland Security officials …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
A Note to Readers  —  These pages won't wilt under cancel-culture pressure.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  We've been gratified this week by the outpouring of support from readers after some 280 of our Wall Street Journal colleagues signed (and someone leaked) a letter to our publisher criticizing the opinion pages.
Jessica Taylor / The Cook Political Report:
Almost 100 Days Out, Democrats Are Favored to Take Back the Senate  —  With just over 100 days until Election Day, the political climate appears dire for Republicans across the board.  President Trump is the decided underdog against former Vice President Joe Biden in our Electoral College ratings …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Person.  Woman.  Man.  Camera.  TV”: Trump's Mental Health Is a Test for America  —  Person.  Woman.  Man.  Camera.  TV.  Sadly, I suspect I don't need to explain what I'm referring to here.  If you're reading this, you most likely already know what these five words are …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Politico
Graham Gremore / Queerty:
Washed up actor Scott Baio says Hollywood blacklisted him for supporting Trump, can't find a job  —  Everyone's out to get Scott Baio.  At least, according to Scott Baio.  —  The 59-year-old actor, who is perhaps best known for appearing on the sit-com Happy Days about 40 years ago …
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump cancels in-person Republican convention in Jacksonville, Florida
Los Angeles Times:
Trump gives up on GOP convention plan
Discussion: New York Times
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden tops Trump in battlegrounds Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania  —  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania, according to Fox News statewide registered voter surveys.
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Poll shows Biden beating Trump by 13 points in Florida
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Kimberly Guilfoyle under fire for Trump fundraising disarray  —  News that Kimberly Guilfoyle contracted the coronavirus had barely surfaced on July 3 before she hopped on a private flight from Mount Rushmore back to New York with her boyfriend, Donald Trump, Jr.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
The Importance of Reopening America's Schools this Fall  —  As families and policymakers make decisions about their children returning to school, it is important to consider the full spectrum of benefits and risks of both in-person and virtual learning options.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Preparing K-12 School Administrators for a Safe Return to School in Fall 2020
Discussion: NBC News and NPR
New York Times:
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon's U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public  —  Back  —  TRANSCRIPT  —  U.S. Navy Releases Videos of Unexplained Flying Objects  —  The U.S. Navy has officially published previously released videos showing unexplained objects. … By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Maine journalists under siege after false accusations from Fox News's Tucker Carlson  —  Two freelance journalists in Maine have sustained abuse and threats after being named by Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday night as part of an effort by the New York Times to do “a story on the location of my family's house.”
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The problem with Trump's strange denial in his new golf scandal … Some of Donald Trump's scandals are complex and take time to disentangle.  The new British Open scandal is striking in its simplicity.  —  The New York Times reported this week that the president urged his ambassador …
Discussion: New York Times and The White House
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Stephen Miller's Grandmother Died of COVID-19.  Her Son Blames the Trump Administration.  —  This month, Stephen Miller, the extremist anti-immigrant Trump adviser who has promoted white nationalist ideas, lost a relative to the coronavirus pandemic, and his uncle tells Mother Jones …
Associated Press:
Cognitive Test.  Trump.  Biden.  Campaign.  Flashpoint.  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It doesn't quite have the ring of “Morning in America” and “I Like Ike.”  —  But the phrase “Person.  Woman.  Man.  Camera.  TV.” is getting an unlikely moment in the spotlight as President Donald Trump …
Chicago Tribune:
Mayor Lori Lightfoot planning to remove Christopher Columbus statue from Chicago's Grant Park  —  Mayor Lori Lightfoot is planning to remove the controversial statue of Christopher Columbus from Chicago's Grant Park as soon as Thursday night, in part to avoid another high-profile confrontation between police …
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Tucker Carlson / Fox News:   Chicago needs federal help to stop senseless killings
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
A Rare Look Inside Trump's Immigration Crackdown Draws Legal Threats  —  A new documentary peers inside the secretive world of immigration enforcement.  The filmmakers faced demands to delete scenes and delay broadcast until after the election.  —  In early 2017, as Immigration …
Discussion: Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
Trump repeals fair housing rule, amplifying campaign appeals to racial bias  —  With President Trump facing sagging support in the suburbs, his administration on Thursday targeted an Obama-era affordable housing regulation, the latest in a series of appeals to white voters' fears of crime and declining property values.
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Washington Post:
Trump tries to win over ‘Suburban Housewives’ with repeal of anti-segregation housing rule
Discussion: Redstate, HUD and National Review
Zachary Pleat / Media Matters for America:
Sinclair gives “Plandemic” conspiracy theorists a platform to spread their lies about Dr. Fauci and the coronavirus  —  Baseless conspiracy theories about the novel coronavirus and Dr. Anthony Fauci, a prominent member of the White House coronavirus task force, found a platform on the new episode …
Discussion: The Conversation and Raw Story
fcps.edu:
School Board Renames Robert E. Lee High School for Late Congressman John Lewis  —  The Fairfax County School Board voted to rename Robert E. Lee High School after the late U.S. Congressman John R. Lewis at its business meeting on July 23.  The new name will be effective for the 2020-21 school year.
Discussion: WTTG-TV, The Hill and Axios
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Late Rep. John Lewis to lie in state at Capitol next week
Discussion: Reuters
Politico:
New document shows FBI used Trump's candidate briefing to advance Russia probe  —  President Donald Trump's first intelligence briefing as a candidate in August 2016 was led by FBI agents who had just opened an investigation into his team's ties to Russia, according to a newly declassified document obtained by POLITICO.
Discussion: Fox News, Breitbart and Raw Story
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Ilhan Omar Campaign Mailer Accuses Opponent of Being ‘in the Pocket of Wall Street’ and Only Quotes Jewish Donors by Name  —  The mailer references three Jewish donors, plus “Michael, a donor from Scarsdale, New York.”  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) campaign recently sent out a mail piece ripping …
Nicholas Lemann / New Yorker:
J.F.K.'s “Profiles in Courage” Has a Racism Problem.  What Should We Do About It?  —  Every so often I hear from the descendants of Adelbert Ames, a Union general during the Civil War and then the governor of Mississippi during Reconstruction, objecting to a paragraph about him in John F. Kennedy's book …
ABC News:
Despite Trump claim, 12 states say some orders for coronavirus supplies still unfilled  —  Trump claims “zero unfilled requests” but some states await PPE, other supplies.  —  During his first coronavirus press briefing in nearly three months, President Donald Trump said his administration …
Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Facebook ignored racial bias research, employees say  —  In mid-2019, researchers at Facebook began studying a new set of rules proposed for the automated system that Instagram uses to remove accounts for bullying and other infractions.  —  What they found was alarming.
Abrahm Lustgarten / New York Times:
The Great Climate Migration  —  Early in 2019, a year before the world shut its borders completely, Jorge A. knew he had to get out of Guatemala.  The land was turning against him.  For five years, it almost never rained.  Then it did rain, and Jorge rushed his last seeds into the ground.
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
Introducing: Nice White Parents … “Nice White Parents” is a new podcast from Serial Productions, brought to you by The New York Times, about the 60-year relationship between white parents and the public school down the block.  —  We know that American public schools do not guarantee each child …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Samantha Diaz, Florida Health Care Worker, Dies at 29  —  She left behind three children — two of whom have the novel coronavirus — in the care of her parents.  “Our world came crashing down,” her mother said after Ms. Diaz died of Covid-19.  —  Samantha Diaz, a medical assistant in Florida …
New York Times:
Convent in Michigan Loses 13 Sisters to Covid-19  —  From April 10 to May 10, a dozen Felician sisters at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary convent died of Covid-19.  In June, a 13th sister died after contracting the coronavirus.  —  They worked and lived together at a Michigan convent …
Discussion: NBC News and The Daily Caller
Reuters:
Exclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others …
Discussion: ABC News
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump to throw first pitch for Yankees next month  —  President Donald Trump will throw the first pitch for the New York Yankees next month, he announced on Thursday.  —  Speaking during a White House coronavirus news briefing, Trump praised Major League Baseball for its efforts to return …
 
 
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Business Insider:
In New York prisons, inmates say they're punished for trying to protect themselves from coronavirus
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Biden predicts that Trump will try to ‘indirectly steal’ the election
Discussion: Twitchy
Alex Parker / Redstate:
All About the Benjamins: Ice Cube Says Hollywood Owes Black Entertainers Reparations
Discussion: Fox News
Washington Post:
NFL franchise to go by ‘Washington Football Team’ this season, delaying permanent name change
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
When Trump turns donors' money into his own money
Politico:
Democrats: Packets sent to Trump allies are part of foreign plot to damage Biden
 Earlier Items: 
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump knows he's going to lose. He's already salting the earth behind him.
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos and New York Times
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
67 current, former prosecutors defend St. Louis prosecutor from attacks in McCloskey gun case
Discussion: American Greatness and Fox News
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
White House Told Kushner to Divest Cadre to Avoid Conflicts, Emails Show
Ken Klippenstein / The Nation:
The Federal Response to Protests Extends Far Beyond Portland
Washington Post:
The Harper's ‘Letter,’ cancel culture and the summer that drove a lot of smart people mad
Patrick Skinner / Washington Post:
We're police officers. You should know our names. That goes for Portland, too.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway