- Trump is cracking as his distraction superpowers falter amid the coronavirus pandemic (rawstory.com)
- N.Y. suspends Manhattan’s White Horse Tavern’s liquor license over social distancing violations (nydailynews.com)
- Infectious disease expert warns that the US is ‘back to square zero’ with COVID-19 (alternet.org)
- Elite hospitals have an epidemic of greed (alternet.org)
- White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s parents received at least $1 million in relief funds (salon.com)
- Trump’s June rally “more than likely” resulted in COVID-19 spike in Tulsa, top health official says (salon.com)
- In 2020, Trump’s distraction superpowers have finally stopped working (salon.com)
- Megachurch denies throwing ‘COVID-19 parties’ after death of Florida teen (rawstory.com)
- A second stimulus check? Here’s how much you could get (cbsnews.com)
- Activist and historian Mike Davis breaks down the 4 main ways capitalism threatens human survival (alternet.org)
- California security guard charged with murder over fight with customer about masks (nydailynews.com)
- Mike Pence: “The best expert I know” on reopening schools amid a deadly pandemic is “my wife Karen” (salon.com)
- Supreme Court rules Trump’s tax returns must be handed over to New York prosecutors (nydailynews.com)
- Illinois Governor: White House Made States Fight “Sick Hunger Games” to Get PPE (politicususa.com)
- GOP has all but given up on containment — instead they’re feeding Americans to the ‘coronavirus meatgrinder’: op-ed (rawstory.com)
- Houston mayor cancels Texas GOP convention over ‘public health concerns’ (alternet.org)
- Cell-like decoys could mop up viruses in humans – including the one that causes COVID-19 (rawstory.com)
- CDC Refuses to Change School Reopening Policy Despite Pressure from Trump (politicususa.com)
- Ohio state lawmaker calls for people to stop getting tested (rss.cnn.com)
- USS Arizona Memorial boat tours to resume at Pearl Harbor after coronavirus shutdown (nydailynews.com)
- Trump spends morning hurling all-caps rage tweets while COVID-19 pandemic spirals out of control (rawstory.com)
- New Hampshire locals concerned about ‘loud and boisterous’ Trump supporters bringing COVID-19 to town (rawstory.com)
- TSA implements changes amid pandemic following whistleblower complaint (rss.cnn.com)
- The new NYC? Houston hospitals struggle with ‘astonishing’ rise in coronavirus cases (rawstory.com)
- A New Civil War Inside the VA (dcreport.org)
- Democrats increasingly worry Trump will push out dangerous COVID-19 vaccine as ‘October surprise’ (rawstory.com)
- Tulsa health official says Trump rally “likely” led to COVID spike (cbsnews.com)
- Jacksonville prepares for Republican convention amid COVID-19 spikes (cbsnews.com)
- ‘An entire nation is suffering’ from Trump’s ‘narcissistic incompetence’: Ex-New Hampshire GOP chair (rawstory.com)
- The last 4 months have brought an unprecedented crackdown on legal US immigration (rss.cnn.com)
- Analysis: Trump’s handling of the coronavirus is the only election issue that matters (rss.cnn.com)
- Tokyo to pay nightclubs to close as virus cases surge (rawstory.com)
- Biden beats Trump to the punch with massive ‘Buy American’ spending package — and GOP allies are fuming (rawstory.com)
- GOP advisers beg Trump to focus on real issues instead of racist conspiracies as voters keep falling away (rawstory.com)
- BEST-SELLER! President Trump’s niece lays out unflattering profile of uncle, says he cheated on SATs in new book (cbsnews.com)Investigative journalist who’s been covering Trump for 35 years explains why you need to take Mary’s Trump’s book seriously (alternet.org)Here are 5 of the most stunning details from Mary Trump’s tell-all book (rawstory.com)
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- New coronavirus projection predicts 208,000 US deaths by November — says universal mask usage would save 45,000 lives (rawstory.com)
- ‘We repent’: Evangelical Christians wrestle with racism and their own silence (rawstory.com)
- COVERUP: John Roberts hospitalized in June after injuring head in fall (cbsnews.com)
- Trump is now openly feuding with Dr. Fauci about the state of the pandemic (rawstory.com)
- Police radio calls weren’t recorded as cops, feds cleared out protesters for Trump’s Bible photo op in June (nydailynews.com)
- DEATH ADMINISTRATION: Trump administration informs Congress it is withdrawing from World Health Organization (rss.cnn.com)Dr. Fauci contradicts Trump’s boasts about lower COVID death rate — and calls it a ‘false narrative’ (rawstory.com)
- America’s nervous breakdown: Trump’s white supporters lose it as their grievance-spouting Mad King spirals down the drain (salon.com)
- Republican Senators Are Refusing To Attend Trump’s Virus Spreading Convention (politicususa.com)
- ‘That’s what sociopaths do’: Trump’s niece delivers devastating psychoanalysis of her family in new book (rawstory.com)Trump ‘has been institutionalized for most of his adult life’ — and 5 other shocking revelations from Mary Trump’s book (rawstory.com)‘Ironic if Donald’s SATs were taken by someone in Kenya’: Internet piles on Trump over charge he cheated to get into college (rawstory.com)
- Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus (nydailynews.com)
- Trump Spreads Fake News and Accuses NASCAR Driver of Noose “Hoax” (politicususa.com)
- Republican attorneys general go to war for Trump (alternet.org)
Top wire stories
- KAREN ALERT! White woman calls the cops on Black man for sitting in his car in front of his house (rawstory.com)
- Justice Department supports Roger Stone going to prison on Tuesday (rss.cnn.com)
- IT’S OFFICIAL! Internet Celebrates Joy Reid Taking MSNBC Nighttime Anchor Slot (rawstory.com)
- Confederate statues are part of a destructive mythology of white supremacy. Calling it ‘history’ is an insult (alternet.org)
- GOP unhinged after Ilhan Omar makes simple call to ‘dismantle all systems of oppression’ (alternet.org)
- Seattle driver who plowed through Black Lives Matter protest charged with vehicular homicide (nydailynews.com)
- CDC Refuses to Change School Reopening Policy Despite Pressure from Trump (politicususa.com)
- Trump spends morning hurling all-caps rage tweets while COVID-19 pandemic spirals out of control (rawstory.com)
- Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke Endorses Trump, Says Tucker Carlson Should Be VP (politicususa.com)
- TikTok is a national security threat, US politicians say. Here’s what experts think (rss.cnn.com)
- Bill Barr warns of “mutiny” at Department of Justice if Trump commutes Roger Stone’s sentence: rpt (salon.com)
- Trump’s Fox News obsession is destroying his re-election chances: conservative professor (rawstory.com)
- Lara Trump-RNC robocall called mail-in voting safe and secure while President railed against it (rss.cnn.com)
- CFPB Director facing calls to resign over new rule exposing consumers to predatory ‘debt traps’ in middle of recession (alternet.org)
- BUSTED: Arizona GOP Sen. Martha McSally says women in the military get pregnant to ‘skirt’ deployment in unearthed 2007 video (rawstory.com)
- North Korea’s Kim ordered to pay damages to Seoul POWs (rawstory.com)
- As Virus Spreads, States Face a Truth: ‘We Cannot Test Our Way Out of This’ (nytimes.com)
- Science-denying GOP candidate flew on private jet, then trashed climate activists over jets (salon.com)
- WATCH! Louisiana woman threatens black family with bat, gun for driving down her flooded street (nydailynews.com)
- Anti-hate advocates blast Mark Zuckerberg after Facebook boycotters meet with execs (nydailynews.com)
- Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher who raped and later married student, dies from cancer at 58 (nydailynews.com)
- WATCH! Maskless Florida man freaks out, threatens Costco customer filming him (nydailynews.com)
- All-white Mississippi county board votes unanimously against removing Confederate monument (nydailynews.com)
- ‘Never Trump’ Republicans use Reagan’s classic ‘City on a Hill’ speech to trash GOP pick (nydailynews.com)
- Johnny Depp denies ‘wife-beater’ claim in London libel trial (rawstory.com)