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Trump rants about boaters after reporter confronts him about falling poll numbers

President Donald Trump on Monday was asked about his sagging poll numbers as the coronavirus pandemic pummels America.

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20 - 30 Florida medical professionals went to a house party — and 17 caught COVID-19: report

Thanks to a coronavirus outbreak at the University of Florida Health that resulted from a group of employees attending a house party, at least 17 anesthesiologist residents and a fellow have been infected.

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Texas conservative admits he was a Trump cultist and COVID-19 truther -- until he actually caught the virus

Tony Green attacked the coronavirus as a "scamdemic," but then he was forced to face reality in the worst possible form.

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Trump is ‘trapped by reality’ — and he ‘looks like a fool’: Former senator

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) explained that President Donald Trump's world is collapsing around him because he's been lying to himself for so long that now he's being forced to face the reality of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Republicans claim unemployment cash is making people not want to work — turns out those checks never arrived for some

Republicans are fighting with Democrats on unemployment funds as each week brings another million Americans into the jobless market. Democrats want to keep the $600 in funds while Republicans want to cut the amount to $200. By the end of the month, the payments will stop.

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Trump's dream of an RNC 'dystopian circus' is over: op-ed

Writing for The Week this Monday, Matthew Walther says he's baffled by President Trump's decision to cancel the Republican National Convention scheduled for Jacksonville, Florida, considering that it would have been the dystopian nightmare Trump dreams of.

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'Rich selfish white people': Outrage after Goldman Sachs CEO is caught DJing at crowded show in the Hamptons

Although the United States is still coping with a deadly pandemic that has so far killed more than 147,000 of its residents, the Chainsmokers headlined a crowded drive-in charity concert in the Hamptons on Saturday that, according to Bloomberg News, was attended by “a couple of thousand people.” And the deejay at the high-end event (where some paid up to $25,000 for a parking spot) was Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.

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'Incapable leadership': Trump response to coronavirus eroding US credibility worldwide

"Totally avoidable. Entirely foreseeable."

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GOP slammed for 'absolutely unacceptable' plan to slash unemployment benefits amid America's COVID-19 crisis

Progressives are rejecting out of hand a proposal by Senate Republicans to temporarily slash the weekly federal boost to unemployment benefits from $600 to $200 until states develop the capacity to implement a more complex system that would pay laid-off workers 70% of what they earned prior to losing their jobs.

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Trump’s response to national security advisor’s coronavirus test reveals he rarely gets ‘daily’ intelligence briefings

President Donald Trump is getting very few intelligence briefings. The President was asked by reporters Monday about the state of his National Security Advisor's health. Robert O'Brien was just diagnosed with coronavirus.

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Dr. Fauci admits Trump’s task force messages don’t match the COVID-19 reality on the ground

It what appears to be the closest Dr. Anthony Fauci has gotten in calling out President Donald Trump's lies, the National Institutes of Health epidemiologist said that the information coming out of the coronavirus task force isn't grounded in reality.

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Gym owners featured on Fox News arrested for repeated violations of New Jersey's lockdown orders

The owners of a gym in New Jersey were arrested this Monday after being held in contempt of court for repeatedly violating the state's lockdown mandate.

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'Moron' Trump adviser Larry Kudlow blasted for improperly wearing a face mask

Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Monday got blasted on social media when he walked out of the White House wearing a face mask improperly and leaving his nostrils exposed.

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