Beyoncé Tells Anderson Cooper That His Laugh Is ‘So Good’

Coronavirus Hot Spot States by the Numbers

By Matt Stieb and Adam K. Raymond

A rundown of states — like Arizona, Florida, and Texas — facing alarming summer outbreaks, including closures, caseloads, and hospitalizations.

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ICE Makes International Students Choose Between Coronavirus Risk and Deportation

By Matt Stieb

ICE’s new ruling requires that college students with visas must take in-person courses, transfer to a campus with physical classes, or exit the U.S.

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The mayor of Atlanta — and a possible Biden VP pick — tests positive for COVID-19

COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive.

—@KeishaBottoms

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Trump Targeting Wrong Battleground States, Just As Clinton Did in 2016

The president needs to focus on lifting his national numbers, not “playing defense” in Ohio or Iowa.

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Trump Can’t Turn Bubba Wallace Into Colin Kaepernick

By Will Leitch

In his attempt to demonize an innocent driver, the president finds that even NASCAR won’t listen to him anymore.

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Amy Cooper Faces Charges After Calling Cops on Black Birder in Central Park

By Chas Danner

If convicted, she could face up to a year in jail.

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A policy with no seeming point except to get foreign students out of the country

NEW: ICE just put down a notice to students in the US on student visas that they must leave the United States if their classes are going to be only online this fall. If they want to stay, ICE says they must transfer to a school with in person instruction. https://t.co/hAtfFaNIKn pic.twitter.com/8l0C2MmX34

—@BillFOXLA

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Americans Reach Peak Partisan Polarization Under Trump

The biggest danger sign for Trump is that independents don’t like him much at all.

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As the lockdowns ease, gun violence in New York is soaring

According to @NYPDDCPI there was a 130% increase in the number of shootings across the City during the month of June.

—@ZackFinkNews

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Once again, Trump’s effort to block a tell-all book backfires

Publisher Simon & Schuster cited “high interest and extraordinary interest” in the book by Mary Trump titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” The book will now arrive July 14. https://t.co/AWYXZperRs

—@MiamiHerald

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Trump’s Latest Coronavirus Strategy: Hope Americans Learn to ‘Live With’ It

By Adam K. Raymond

With no real strategy for combating the pandemic, Trump’s team is reportedly hoping Americans grow numb to mass illness and death.

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Supreme Court Lets States Punish ‘Faithless Electors’

A unanimous Supreme Court found no constitutional sanction for treating presidential electors as free agents.

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One of the more closely watched cases from this term ends with unanimity

In “faithless electors” cases, unanimous #SCOTUS rules that state laws that penalize or remove presidential electors who do not vote for candidate they pledged to support do not violate the Constitution

—@SCOTUSblog

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Trump Attacks Bubba Wallace, Defends Confederate Flag

By Adam K. Raymond

The president is being racist again.

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The first big senate poll of Maine in a long time

Sara Gideon 46%-Susan Collins 42%

In PPP’s poll of #MESen: https://t.co/b2z9JS4KIp

—@Taniel

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Two Weeks With Rachel Noerdlinger, the Movement’s Publicist

By Lisa Miller

From Bill de Blasio’s City Hall to George Floyd’s memorial service.

Everything We Do and Don’t Know About New York’s Reopening Plan

By Chas Danner, Matt Stieb, and Adam K. Raymond

Indoor dining will not resume in New York City in phase three as planned, though tattoo parlors, nail salons, and more park activities can return.

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One of America’s big pipeline projects has run out of gas

The builders of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are pulling the plug on the project as companies continue to meet mounting environmental opposition to new fossil fuel conduits in the U.S.

Duke Energy Corp. and Dominion Energy Inc. said Sunday that they were abandoning the proposed $8 billion pipeline—which aimed to carry natural gas 600 miles through West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina and underneath the Appalachian Trail—citing continued regulatory delays and uncertainty, even after a favorable Supreme Court ruling last month. …

Duke and Dominion said Sunday that the ruling wasn’t enough to mitigate an “unacceptable layer of uncertainty and anticipated delays” for the project. They cited a Montana court ruling last month that threw another roadblock in the path of the Keystone XL Pipeline as an example of the continued challenges such projects face.

Companies Cancel Atlantic Coast Pipeline After Years of Delays

—The Wall Street Journal

What We Know About the Killing of Elijah McClain

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By Claire Lampen

The 23-year-old died last year after police brutally detained him while he was walking home from a convenience store.

7/5/2020

Some cold water for the Kanye takes

the belief that a singular celebrity or community leader is representative of all black voters without supplemental evidence is not just galaxy brain, it is an outgrowth of the racist attitudes about black electorates

—@AsteadWesley

Can Trump Pull Off an Upset Like Harry Truman’s in 1948?

The more you look at Truman’s shocker, the less it looks like anything Trump can duplicate.

David Horowitz’s Book Predicting a Trump Victory Was Not Well-Timed

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By Jonathan Chait

“As this book was in its final stages and heading for the printer, America and the world were struck by a deadly virus.” Uh-oh.

Trump Is Throwing a Mount Rushmore Fireworks Show. What Could Go Wrong?

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By Adam K. Raymond

Between the coronavirus and potential for wildfires, experts are warning that the Friday night’s event could spell trouble.

John Lewis’s Lifelong Struggle for Voting Rights Isn’t Over

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Once it looked like Obama’s election represented the culmination of John Lewis’s career. A new documentary shows battles for old causes persist.

Andrew Sullivan: China Is a Genocidal Menace

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By Andrew Sullivan

It’s time we treat the country as the rogue dictatorship that it is.

To Reopen the Economy, Close the Bars

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By Josh Barro

Areas that reopened bars may have increased the spread of the coronavirus and made the public more afraid to engage in activities unrelated to bars.