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Trump's New Hampshire rally is an act of 'biological warfare': Portsmouth police commissioner

President Donald Trump's planned rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire has been postponed -- and one public official in the city says that holding it would have been an act of "biological warfare."

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Black Christians bracing for 'whitelash' over nationwide protests -- but hope this time will be different

Conservative white Christians have condemned racial injustice following the police killing of George Floyd, and pledged to fight systemic racism, but Black Christians remain wary.

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Trump threatens tax-exempt status of schools and universities after two sue him

Barely days after at least two top universities announced they are suing him, President Donald Trump on Friday attacked America's universities and school systems and threatened to revoke their tax-exempt status.

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Trump campaign 'frantically defending states' he won in '16 with massive ad buys as Biden surges past him: report

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump's re-election campaign is being forced to spend massive amounts of dollars advertising in states he won in 2016 as the president falls farther and farther behind his presumptive Democratic presidential opponent Joe Biden.

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Silicon Valley CEOs are just like Trump -- 'Their lack of self-reflection is so vast they can’t see themselves in mirrors': tech journalist

Speaking on the latest episode of The New Abnormal podcast, Recode co-founder Kara Swisher shared her thoughts on Silicon Valley executives and their similarity to President Trump.

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'A disgrace': Suburban swing state women hammer Trump for 'deplorable' treatment of racial issues

President Donald Trump's handling of George Floyd's killing at the hands of police is further crushing his support among white women voters in crucial swing states.

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White supremacists have killed far more people than Muslim extremists in recent terror attacks: report

The latest annual report from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) shows that when it comes to fatal terror attacks, anti-Muslim extremists and white supremacists accounted for the largest share between 2015 and 2019, according to The Crime Report.

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Yale economists warn there's only one way the US can truly 'restore' its battered economy

Many far-right allies of President Donald Trump, from Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana to Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to radio host Glenn Beck, have railed against Democratic stay-at-home orders and argued that too much social distancing is strangling the U.S. economy. But economists Steven Berry and Zack Cooper, in a Politico op-ed published on July 10, argue that the only way to “restore” the U.S. economy is to seriously slow down the spread of coronavirus — and doing so is going to require aggressively funding anti-coronavirus measures.

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Swampy Trump aide quits after allegation of 'collecting intelligence' for lobbyists via national security officials: Report

A mere four months to the day he was announced as the new top Trump White House legislative liaison, Chris Cox is exiting the West Wing. Cox is a veteran GOP lobbyist who had suggested he was, as Politico reported, "collecting intelligence."

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Trump's 'living on credit' life is about to be exposed as 'ugly, small and dirty' by his tax returns: Rick Wilson

In a gloating column about the Supreme Court handing New York prosecutors Donald Trump's tax returns to be used in a criminal investigation, GOP campaign consultant and "Never Trumper' Rick Wilson said the president's years of boasting he is a billionaire is about to be exposed as complete "bullsh*t" and that the president knows it and is terrified by the thought of it.

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WATCH: Enraged Trump fan shrieks profanity after seeing driver’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ display

A beefy white man launched into a profane tirade after encountering a driver who had written "Black Lives Matter" on the side of his vehicle.

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Trump’s white evangelical supporters sold their souls to a ‘corrupt, cruel, mendacious’ charlatan — and got precious little for it: conservative

President Donald Trump is hardly a poster child for far-right Christian fundamentalism: he’s twice divorced, he has a long history of adultery, he was never known for being terribly religious, and he has had extramarital affairs with an adult film star and a Playboy model. Regardless, Trump is wildly popular with the Christian Right — perhaps even more so than President George W. Bush and President Ronald Reagan. But conservative activist Peter Wehner, in a July 10 article for The Atlantic, argues that the Christian Right sold its soul to a charlatan and has precious little to show for it.

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