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Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
Mayor of Portland, Oregon, tear gassed by federal agents  —  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland, Oregon, was tear gassed by the U.S. government late Wednesday as he stood at a fence guarding a federal courthouse during another night of protest against the presence of federal agents sent …
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Mike Baker / New York Times:
Federal Officers Hit Portland Mayor With Tear Gas  —  Mayor Ted Wheeler denounced federal officers for an “egregious overreaction.”  Some protesters mocked him, recalling the city police's use of tear gas on demonstrators.  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — The mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler …
Associated Press:
Watchdog to review conduct of federal agents in Portland, DC  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department inspector general said Thursday that it will conduct a review of the conduct of federal agents who responded to unrest in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C., following concerns from members of Congress and the public.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Ridge: ‘It would be a cold day in hell’ before I'd let ‘uninvited’ federal agents into cities
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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 …
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Michael Cohen will be released from prison to home confinement, judge rules  —  Avlon: You should be outraged at the muzzling of Cohen  —  New York (CNN)Michael Cohen will be released to home confinement, a judge ruled on Thursday, finding that the government acted in a retaliatory manner …
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Judge Orders Cohen Released, Citing ‘Retaliation’ Over Tell-All Book
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Raw Story
NBC News:
Judge finds Michael Cohen's return to prison ‘retaliatory,’ orders his release
Discussion: MSNBC and Reuters
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Judge orders release of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen by Friday, saying book publication …
Discussion: Mediaite and Law & Crime
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump knows he's going to lose.  He's already salting the earth behind him.  —  How can you tell President Trump thinks he's going to lose in November?  Because he has already begun salting the earth behind him.  —  And his fellow Republicans are helping by sabotaging key institutions that the next …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bloomberg:
Romney Says He Will Oppose Shelton's Fed Board Confirmation
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Steven Rattner / New York Times:
God Help Us if Judy Shelton Joins the Fed
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
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.”
Discussion: PRESS RUN
Jeremy Roebuck / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Former congressman Ozzie Myers, caught in 1970s Abscam sting, has been indicted again — this time for election fraud  —  A former congressman convicted in the 1970s Abscam investigation was charged Thursday with new allegations that he bribed a poll worker to stuff ballot boxes in local elections.
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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.
Joe Nocera / Bloomberg:
I Was Wrong About Florida's Response to Covid-19  —  I gave Governor Ron DeSantis more credit than he deserved for the low death rate in his state.  —  A little after 11 a.m. each weekday, I receive an email alert from the Miami Herald.  It contains the latest Covid-19 numbers for Florida.
Discussion: Balloon Juice 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 …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox News parts ways with a morning host who caused a Covid-19 scare  —  New York (CNN Business)Fox News has parted ways with a host who dismayed fellow staffers when she came to work while visibly sick in the early days of the coronavirus crisis.  —  Heather Childers, who had been an early morning host …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Fiasco
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 …
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
U.S. Senate passes $740 billion defense bill, bucking Trump on Confederate names  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, a $740 billion bill setting policy for the Pentagon that President Donald Trump has threatened …
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:   Senate passes bill with plan to change Confederate-named bases over Trump veto threat
Politico:
Democrats: Packets sent to Trump allies are part of foreign plot to damage Biden  —  Top congressional Democrats are sounding the alarm about a series of packets mailed to prominent allies of President Donald Trump — material they say is part of a foreign disinformation plot …
Discussion: Redstate and HuffPost
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Ocasio-Cortez, Dems assail men's abusive treatment of women  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's outrage over a Republican lawmaker's verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House floor Thursday as she and other Democrats assailed a sexist culture of …
Discussion: The Hill
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New York Times:
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon's U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public  —  U.S. Navy Releases Videos of Unexplained Flying Objects  —  The U.S. Navy has officially published previously released videos showing unexplained objects.  —  [radio transmission] “Whoa, got it — woo-hoo!”
Politico:
State Department Insiders Ask: What Is Susan Pompeo Really Up To?  —  Five years ago, a young Kansan named Jakob Provo had almost gotten a job working for ambitious Congressman Mike Pompeo.  He'd aced the interview, he thought, and he was certainly qualified.
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 …
The Daily Beast:
‘Shaking in Their Boots’: Trump Wanted a Portland-Style Offensive in Chicago  —  “If it were up to him, we would return to the old days [of] eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth—or forget about proportionality altogether,” one former administration official says.
Washington Post:
White House, GOP kill payroll tax cut but flounder on broader coronavirus bill  —  Planned roll-out canceled in roller-coaster morning; White House floats piecemeal plan but Pelosi shoots it down  —  Senate Republicans killed President Trump's payroll tax cut proposal on Thursday but failed …
Brian Fung / CNN:
Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply  —  Washington (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday.
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's frantic new effort to win back seniors is already failing  —  Here's President Trump's new reelection strategy, in a nutshell: Convince vulnerable seniors who rightly fear getting killed by the pandemic that Trump let rampage out of control that they should instead fear getting killed …
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
USA Today:
Teacher: I was a reluctant Trump voter.  Coronavirus is the end of my Republican identity.  —  I am a special education teacher and lifelong Republican who reluctantly voted for Donald Trump in 2016 as the less bad of two bad choices.  When the pandemic hit, the incompetence of the man …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Poll shows Biden beating Trump by 13 points in Florida  —  Joe Biden is beating President Trump by 13 points in Florida — 51% to 38% — per a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.  —  Why it matters: With its 29 electoral votes, Florida is a key state for the president to hang onto in order to win re-election.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
This Is Mask Haters' Most Nefarious Hoax Yet  —  A fake CDC document has spread across Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and more specialized websites like a hunting forum.  —  Face mask haters often don't trust the federal government, whether it's top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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.
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
67 current, former prosecutors defend St. Louis prosecutor from attacks in McCloskey gun case  —  Trump, Missouri Republicans have criticized Kim Gardner for filing weapons charges  —  A group of more than 60 current and former state and federal prosecutors signed a statement Monday defending …
Discussion: American Greatness and Fox News
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Children's news website apologises to JK Rowling over trans tweet row  —  The Day faced legal action from author after implying that her comments on gender harmed trans people  —  A news website aimed at British schoolchildren has agreed to pay an unsubstantiated amount after it implied …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
BuzzFeed News:
“Facebook Is Hurting People At Scale”: Mark Zuckerberg's Employees Reckon With The Social Network They've Built  —  On July 1, Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years, shared a video on the company's internal discussion board that was meant to serve as a warning.
 
 
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
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Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
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Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
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Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
Landlords Jump the Gun as Eviction Moratorium Wanes
Ken Klippenstein / The Nation:
The Federal Response to Protests Extends Far Beyond Portland
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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Met With Startups About Investing, Then Launched Competing Products
Patrick Skinner / Washington Post:
We're police officers. You should know our names. That goes for Portland, too.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Larry Hogan Isn't Coming to Save the Republican Party
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Kansas school board rejects governor's executive order delaying start of the school year
Discussion: The Hill and Governor Laura Kelly
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Putting On a Show in Portland
Andrew Pantazi / Florida Times Union:
RNC plans in jeopardy as Jacksonville council president opposes city bill