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6:40 PM ET, July 23, 2020

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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump cancels in-person Republican convention in Jacksonville, Florida  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he will no longer hold a large, in-person Republican convention in Jacksonville, Florida, because of the coronavirus but will hold virtual events and still give an acceptance speech.
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USA Today:
Trump cancels Jacksonville portion of Republican convention planned for August due to COVID
Graham Gremore / Queerty:   Washed up actor Scott Baio says Hollywood blacklisted him for supporting Trump, can't find a job
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:   Trump cancels Jacksonville part of Republican National Convention
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
Washington Post:   Live updates: Department watchdogs to investigate federal law enforcement conduct at protests
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Ridge: ‘It would be a cold day in hell’ before I'd let ‘uninvited’ federal agents into cities
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Pelosi says $3T coronavirus legislation is ‘a gift’ to Trump
Discussion: Politico
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.
Discussion: The Hill
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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
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.
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
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.
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.
Discussion: Reuters
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 …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate passes bill with plan to change Confederate-named bases over Trump veto threat  —  The Senate on Thursday passed a mammoth defense policy bill that sparked a veto threat from President Trump over its inclusion of a plan to rename bases named after Confederate figures.
Discussion: Associated Press and Common Dreams
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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
U.S. Senate passes $740 billion defense bill, bucking Trump on Confederate names
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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 …
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.
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.
Washington Post:
The Harper's ‘Letter,’ cancel culture and the summer that drove a lot of smart people mad  —  This is what was on Thomas Chatterton Wiliams's mind when he decided to write a short letter on the risks to liberalism and open discourse and get some like-minded thinkers to sign on.
Discussion: New Republic and israpundit.org
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!”
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: The Hill
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
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
Ron Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
No More Blank Checks From Congress for Coronavirus  —  Lawmakers are rushing to spend more money without oversight on the $2.9 trillion already passed.  —  A near-record 158.8 million Americans were employed in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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 …
 
 
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Source says FBI agent used 2016 briefing on election interference as ‘cover’ to question Trump team
Discussion: Politico
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
When Trump turns donors' money into his own money
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In struggle against pandemic, populist leaders fare poorly
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
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Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
Beware the COVID menu police: California cracks down on outdoor restaurants with new rule …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Children's news website apologises to JK Rowling over trans tweet row
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
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 Earlier Items: 
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
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's frantic new effort to win back seniors is already failing
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
Patrick Skinner / Washington Post:
We're police officers. You should know our names. That goes for Portland, too.
USA Today:
Teacher: I was a reluctant Trump voter. Coronavirus is the end of my Republican identity.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
BuzzFeed News:
“Facebook Is Hurting People At Scale”: Mark Zuckerberg's Employees Reckon With The Social Network They've Built
Brian Fung / CNN:
Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
This Is Mask Haters' Most Nefarious Hoax Yet
Discussion: Raw Story