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Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has voted by mail 11 times in 10 years — The Republican spokeswoman has said it shouldn't be available to everyone. — For a week, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has defended President Donald Trump's assault on vote-by-mail, insisting …
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Trump's slanderous attack on Joe Scarborough is incompatible with leadership — Nearly two decades ago, when Joe Scarborough was a conservative Republican member of Congress from Florida, his office suffered a tragedy. One of his staff, a 28-year-old woman, named Lori Klausutis …
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A Presidential Smear — Trump imitates the Steele dossier in attacks on Joe Scarborough. — By The Editorial Board — Donald Trump sometimes traffics in conspiracy theories—recall his innuendo in 2016 about Ted Cruz's father and the JFK assassination—but his latest accusation …
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Trump Is Smearing Joe Scarborough Because Republicans Reward His Bullying — The United States is in the midst of its worst economic catastrophe in 90 years, and its deepest public-health crisis in more than 100, and the president is laser-focused on the co-host of a morning cable-news talk …
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‘Ugly Even for Him’: Trump's Media Allies Recoil at His Smear of MSNBC Host
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“Close them down”: Trump threatens action against social media platforms — President Trump threatened to shut down or regulate social media platforms due to anti-conservative bias in a pair of Wednesday tweets — the day after Twitter's first fact-check against the president's claims on its platform.
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Trump threatens social media outlets with regulation, closure after fact check added to tweet
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Twitter's Trump ‘Fact Check’ Does Not Disclose Company Partnered with Groups Pushing Mail-In Ballots
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Twitter exec in charge of effort to fact-check Trump has history of anti-Trump posts, called McConnell a ‘bag of farts’
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Don't Blame Twitter — You can't mistake the pus for the infection.
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Trump threatens social media after Twitter fact-checks him
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Twitter Fact-checker Claimed Trump Admin Are ‘ACTUAL NAZIS’; Mocked ‘Fly Over’ States
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Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 — He worked hard to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency. But his confrontational approach could sometimes overshadow his achievements. — Larry Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous …
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U.S. Officially Declares That Hong Kong Is No Longer Autonomous — ‘It is now clear that China is modeling Hong Kong after itself,’ said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — WASHINGTON—The State Department has officially determined that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China …
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There Are 3 Things We Have to Do to Get People Wearing Masks
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PRC National People's Congress Proposal on Hong Kong National Security Legislation

Pompeo officially declares Hong Kong ‘no longer autonomous,’ slams China intervention
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Rod Rosenstein slated to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee — Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has been scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 3 as part of the Republican-led inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation, the panel announced Wednesday.
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New book claims Bill Clinton had an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell — Bill Clinton had an affair with British-born socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of helping recruit underage victims for notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to a blockbuster new book.
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‘Why are you not burying him?’: Trump allies fret over rising Biden threat — Some of President Donald Trump's political allies and donors are starting to get antsy. — With only five months until the November general election, several Trump advisers, campaign veterans and prominent Republicans …
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Did the governor break her own rules? — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) -Did Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham play by her own rules during the public health order? KRQE News 13 has learned in April, when she ordered non-essential businesses to shut down and lectured all New Mexicans to stay home …
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The unluckiest generation in U.S. history — Millennials have faced the worst economic odds, and many will never recover — After accounting for the present crisis, the average millennial has experienced slower economic growth since entering the workforce than any other generation in U.S. history.


CNBC Segment Explodes as Andrew Ross Sorkin Accuses Joe Kernen of Being in the Tank for Trump During Crisis: ‘100,000 PEOPLE DIED!’ — A CNBC debate over the stock market completely exploded early Wednesday, with two Squawk Box hosts throwing down in a vicious debate which saw one accusing …


Revealed: conservative group fighting to restrict voting tied to powerful dark money network — Honest Elections Project, part of network that pushed supreme court pick Brett Kavanaugh, is now focusing on voting restrictions — A powerful new conservative organization fighting to restrict voting …
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Trump tweet throws House vote on government surveillance powers into doubt — Hurd slams FISA court abuses: ‘Absolutely outrageous’ — (CNN)A House vote to reauthorize national security surveillance authorities that have been expired since March was thrown into doubt on Wednesday following …
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Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden — Inside the experiments, data wars, and partisan news sites that Silicon Valley thinks can help Biden catch up to Trump. — Joe Biden has a problem. Silicon Valley billionaires think they have a solution.


Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities Account for 43% of COVID-19 Deaths — A startling statistic has profound implications for the way we've managed the coronavirus pandemic. — Based on a new analysis of state-by-state COVID-19 fatality reports, it is clear that the most underappreciated aspect …
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Tulsi Gabbard drops defamation suit against Hillary Clinton — Former Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard dropped her defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton Wednesday, citing the coronavirus pandemic and importance of defeating President Trump in November.


Disney World sets reopening date — New York (CNN Business)Disney World will reopen its gates, ending a multi-month closure of the park that left the Walt Disney Company reeling. — The Disney theme park, which employs some 70,000 people, plans to begin a phased reopening on July 11 …
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The Billionaire Governor Who's Been Sued Dozens of Times for Millions in Unpaid Bills — Gov. Jim Justice is West Virginia's richest man. Over the last three decades, lawsuits over unpaid bills have cost his constellation of companies more than $128 million in judgments and settlements.


Marco Rubio zeroes in on Russia — not Obama — Donald Trump's allies on Capitol Hill are pushing aggressive new investigations targeting the president's political opponents. Marco Rubio isn't joining the fray. — As Rubio assumes the acting chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee …


New research rewrites history of when Covid-19 took off in the U.S. — and points to missed chances to stop it — New research has poured cold water on the theory that the Covid-19 outbreak in Washington state — the country's first — was triggered by the very first confirmed case of the infection in the country.


“We're surging:” Alabama reports largest COVID-19 increases to date — Alabama saw its largest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases Monday, according to the state, as daily case counts continue an upward trend and hospitals across the state report increasing hospitalizations.


Trump administration to end Iran deal waivers in a blow to Obama-era pact — The Trump administration is ending sanctions waivers that allow Russian, Chinese and European companies to do work at sensitive Iranian nuclear sites, following an internal battle between Iran hawks and a more aggressive group …


Conservative Activists Lose Lawsuit That Accused Twitter, Google and Facebook of Censorship — A federal court dismissed activist Laura Loomer's lawsuit against several tech platforms on Wednesday. The complaint alleged a far-flung conspiracy to censor conservative speech.


Trump's foreign policy doctrine? The Withdrawal Doctrine. — Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of “The World: A Brief Introduction.” — President Trump has been in the Oval Office for more than three years and has yet to claim a foreign policy doctrine of his own.
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