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Trump Raises New Objections to Subpoena Seeking His Tax Returns

William K. Rashbaum and Benjamin Weiser at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago

The effort came less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the Manhattan district attorney to demand the records.

Trump is probably insolvent.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/14/us/elections/results-alabama-maine-texas-election.html

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This Time, the White House Disavows a Fauci Critic

Katie Rogers at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago

The criticism voiced by Peter Navarro, President Trump’s top trade adviser, in an op-ed is “Peter’s alone,” Alyssa Farah, a White House spokeswoman, wrote on Twitter.

Fauci speaks undeniable truth.

3 

Sessions Falls in Alabama, and Gideon Rises in Maine

Giovanni Russonello at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 6 hours ago

Alabama sides with Trump, and anti-G.O.P. energy builds in Maine: This is your morning tip sheet.

The 2020 campaign is going well.

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The Legacy of the First Nuclear Bomb Test

Maria Cramer at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 6 hours ago

The 75th anniversary of what’s known as the Trinity explosion, the world’s first nuclear weapon test, comes as tensions over nuclear devices intensify.

Army lieutenant general Leslie Groves is the only villain in this report.

The technical project believed in the existential chrisis.
The U.S. learned better after the end of the war.
The competition with the Soviet Union was the disaster.
The nuclear disaster was reduced by Mutual Assured Destruction.
Attempts to subject the world to Nuclear Blackmail have continued the
problem.

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A Resurgence of the Virus, and Lockdowns, Threatens Economic Recovery

Jim Tankersley and Ben Casselman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago

Hopes for a rebound are endangered by prolonged closures of schools, renewed state restrictions on business and fears of a difficult autumn and winter.

The hope for an economic recovery during a pandemic chrisis is fantasy.
 
6 

Trump to Weaken Environmental Rules to Speed Infrastructure Permits

Lisa Friedman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago

President Trump has used a regulatory reinterpretation to limit one of the country's bedrock environmental laws and speed permitting of infrastructure projects.

Trump suffers from fixed false ideas.

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Trump’s Falsehoods on Police Shootings, Biden, Coronavirus and China

Linda Qiu at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 13 hours ago

Speaking in the Rose Garden and in an earlier television interview, the president made incorrect, misleading and exaggerated statements on a wide variety of topics.

"Ignorance is no excuse."

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Ronny Jackson, Ex-White House Doctor, Wins Texas House Runoff

Annie Karni at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 13 hours ago

Dr. Jackson, a Republican who was backed by President Trump and based his campaign around their close relationship, effectively stamped his ticket to Congress in a deep-red district.

There will be a Trump believer in the house.

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Trump Says, ‘So Are White People,’ When Asked About Black Americans Killed by Police

Jeremy W. Peters at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 13 hours ago

The president rejected the fact that Black people suffer disproportionately from police brutality and made startling remarks about the Confederate flag and a recent confrontation in St. Louis.

Trump is a racist.

10 

Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data

Sheryl Gay Stolberg at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 13 hours ago

Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information to a central database in Washington, raising questions about transparency.

The virus is not equiped to care.

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Sara Gideon Wins Democratic Nomination in Maine to Challenge Susan Collins

Emily Cochrane at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago

Ms. Gideon, backed by the Senate Democratic campaign arm and outside political groups, had long been the favorite to challenge Senator Collins, the sole remaining New England Republican in Congress.

Susan Collins has not aged well.

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Sessions Pays the Price for Incurring Trump’s Wrath, Losing Alabama Senate Race

Elaina Plott and Jonathan Martin at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago

In Maine, Sara Gideon prevailed over limited competition in the Democratic primary for Senate and will face Susan Collins in a race that has become the priciest Senate campaign in the state’s history.

Sessions is not a loss to the Republican party.
He was never a progressive.

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Why Sessions' Campaigning in Alabama Couldn't Overcome Trump

Elaina Plott at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago

He beat back tears. He said he let his family down. He declared of politics, “This chapter of my life is closed.” But he would not criticize his former boss, and even said President Trump could win in November.

Sessions remained loyal to Trump.

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The White House Called a News Conference. Trump Turned It Into a Meandering Monologue.

Peter Baker at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago

The president spoke in the Rose Garden for 63 minutes. He spent only six of those minutes answering questions from reporters.

Trump has lost his stardom.

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Asked About Black Americans Killed by Police, Trump Says, ‘So Are White People’

Jeremy W. Peters at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago

The president rejected the fact that Black people suffer disproportionately from police brutality and made startling remarks about the Confederate flag and a recent confrontation in St. Louis.

Trump is a racist.

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Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data

Sheryl Gay Stolberg at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago

Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information to a central database in Washington, raising questions about transparency.

No government agency can control published data.

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What It’s Been Like to Vote in 2020 So Far

Evan Nicole Brown at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago

Long lines. Pizza at the polls. Absentee ballots that never showed up. And that’s just the warm-up to November.

Republicans have tried to limit the Democratic vote.

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Senate Race Between Sessions, Tuberville Most Negative in the Country

Nick Corasaniti at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 22 hours ago

Neither candidate has aired a positive ad since February in a campaign where both candidates are trying to appeal to the brand of politics popularized by President Trump.

A Republican internecine fight.

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Trump Aide Dan Scavino Posts Cartoon Mocking Fauci

Katie Rogers at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

Dan Scavino, one of the president’s closest advisers, shared the cartoon by Ben Garrison, an alt-right artist who has been criticized for anti-Semitic imagery.

Fauci speaks truth.

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Three Marines, Now Focus of Russian Bounties Investigation, Show the Costs of an Endless War

Helene Cooper, Jennifer Steinhauer, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

The U.S. mission in Afghanistan is now described as training, advising and assisting Afghan troops. But American forces are still patrolling areas that are as deadly as they were in 2001.

American troops die in battle.

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