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Federal Government Buys Riot Gear, Increases Security Funding, Citing Coronavirus PandemicLee FangThe orders are for disposable cuffs, gas masks, ballistic helmets, riot gloves, and equipment for federal police assigned to Veterans Affairs facilities.
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Ben Smith’s NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow Describes a Toxic, Corrosive, and Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: “Resistance Journalism”Glenn GreenwaldThe ex-BuzzFeed News editor’s criticisms of Farrow are debatable, but his diagnosis of what is destroying U.S. journalism is dead-on.
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In Its Zeal to Blame China for Coronavirus, the Trump Administration Is Thwarting Investigations Into the Pandemic’s OriginsMara HvistendahlThe administration’s claim that the virus spread from a Wuhan lab has made the notion politically toxic, even among scientists who say it could have happened.
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Alarm and Confusion at Fox News as Trump Says He Takes HydroxychloroquineRobert MackeyFox News viewers were warned not to take medical advice from the president, following Donald Trump’s announcement that he takes the drug hydroxychloroquine.
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Defense Workers, Deemed “Essential,” Protest Conditions as Overseas Weapons Sales ContinueAkela LacyThanks to industry lobbying, weapons manufacturing plants are open amid the coronavirus pandemic to fulfill billions of dollars in weapons sales.
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A Detainee at Rikers Island Was Cleared for Release Because of the Coronavirus. Six Weeks Later, He’s Still in Jail.Natasha LennardThe same district attorney that locked David Campbell up has consented to his release amid the coronavirus pandemic. So why is he still in jail?
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Swing-District Democrats Link With Progressives to Back Paycheck Bill Pelosi RejectedRyan GrimTen “front-line” Democrats, who represent swing districts and are valued by party leadership, co-sponsored Pramila Jayapal’s Paycheck Recovery Act.
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Racism, Rather Than Facts, Drove U.S. Coronavirus Travel BansJoe PenneyExperts say ingrained racism informed media and policymakers’ favorable views toward European countries, clouding their judgment on public health.
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Redirecting Asylum-Seekers From U.S. to Guatemala Was a Cruel Farce, Report FindsCora CurrierNearly 1,000 Hondurans and Salvadorans seeking asylum in the U.S. were sent to Guatemala instead, where they face threats similar to those they fled.
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Long Island Protest Praised by Trump Featured Anti-Vaxxer Call to “Hang Fauci”Robert MackeyDonald Trump praised protesters who harassed a journalist on Long Island this week at a rally where one man called for the execution of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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