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Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza’s top deputy has officially jumped ship, while another top educrat is joining a Department of Education exodus one observer likened to escaping the Titanic. Cheryl Watson-Harris, Carranza’s first deputy chancellor for just two years, is leaving to become schools superintendent in DeKalb County, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta with 99,000 students.... New York Post
VOA VIEW: Madness!
President Trump is betting big on the primaries. With no serious challengers for the Republican Party nomination and high approval numbers among the GOP’s rank and file, Trump could have cruised through the spring campaign season like most incumbent presidents do. Instead, he traveled to 18 states for campaign rallies and spent more than $155... New York Post
VOA VIEW: Trump will win big on November 3rd.
As President Trump plans a no-expense-spared, blow-out convention in Jacksonville, Fla., some Democrats are increasingly nervous their party’s pandemic-conscious gathering won’t be able to offer up a compelling alternative. “The nightmare scenario is [Trump] comes out and rallies his base and gives a speech to an insane crowd and it is covered on every channel... New York Post
VOA VIEW: The truth hurts.

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Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is looking to expand her “squad” in the House, putting her considerable firepower behind a slew of progressive primary challengers in New York Tuesday — but insiders say she’s been pulling her punches. Friends and allies of AOC as well as Democratic insiders say lawmakers who have gone the extra mile... New York Post
VOA VIEW: AOC is an idiot and loser.
Tulsa police arrested a woman in an "I can't breathe" shirt after she refused to leave the area near where President Trump's campaign rally is set to take place later Saturday. Police officers arrested the woman late Saturday morning, more than eight hours before the rally was set to start, ... Washington Times
VOA VIEW: Good!
President Trump's campaign announced Saturday that six staffers working on his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. "Per safety protocols, campaign staff are tested for COVID-19 before events. Six members of the advance team tested positive out of hundreds of tests ... Washington Times
Richmond police warned people to stay away from the Robert E. Lee monument. ABC
VOA VIEW: Madness!
Authorities in Jacksonville, Florida, are investigating after motorists saw a startling scene Saturday morning as they drove along a Florida interstate: a mannequin dressed in a police uniform dangling from a rope at an overpass ABC
VOA VIEW: Crazy!
Vice President Mike Pence is set to meet with Black leaders in Tulsa ahead of a campaign rally with President Donald Trump ABC

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Francis Scott Key, who wrote the national anthem, was a slave owner. ABC
VOA VIEW: Stupid!
A US judge denies the Trump administration's bid to halt publication of John Bolton's memoir. BBC
VOA VIEW: Questionable!
Attorney General William Barr said earlier that Geoffrey Berman was stepping down — but Berman said "I have not resigned." CBS
VOA VIEW: As he can.
The book "Superpower Showdown" tells the story of the monumental standoff between the U.S. and China, and how it defines both our world today and our future. Tensions between the two nations are at a new level amid a global pandemic, protests in Hong Kong and then upcoming U.S. presidential election. Jeff Glor speaks to the authors of the book, two reporters with deeply personal ties to the story. CBS

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Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan says the unemployment rate could be "as high as 8% or more" at the end of 2020. CBS
VOA VIEW: Time will tell.
Protests in Atlanta continued for a second night over the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man, at a Wendy's parking lot on Friday night. The Fulton County district attorney said he's weighing potential criminal charges, including murder or felony murder, against the officer who shot Brooks. CBS
VOA VIEW: Fools looking for trouble.
When a mall goes dark, a community loses hundreds, if not thousands, of workers providing a significant amount of dollars to the local tax base. CNBC
VOA VIEW: It would hurt retail sales with limited brick and mortar stores.

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The much-anticipated legislation, which has provoked deep concerns in Washington and Europe, paves the way for the most profound change to the city's way of life since it returned to Chinese rule. CNBC
VOA VIEW: China is making a major mistake.
President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee announced that they raised $74 million in the month of May. It was close to $6 million behind Joe Biden and the DNC's haul. CNBC
VOA VIEW: What about the many months before?
A total of 11 Apple stores will close in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Arizona. CNBC
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham's announcement Saturday that he will honor tradition to let home-state senators sign off on a replacement for Geoffrey Berman's US attorney post means that it will be a tough climb to confirm anyone new to the job before the November elections, according to Senate sources. CNN
VOA VIEW: Berman is out, legally.
A statue of former President Ulysses S. Grant-- the Union general who led his army to victory against the Confederacy during the Civil War-- was toppled on Friday as hundreds gathered in San Francisco to celebrate Juneteenth.  FOX News
VOA VIEW: Pitiful!

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The week-long session ended in frustration as neither party was willing to budge. FOX News
VOA VIEW: Good!
Protesters toppled the only statue of a Confederate general in the nation's capital and set it on fire Friday night. FOX News
VOA VIEW: Fools!
The White House said in a statement Friday, they will be hosting a “2020 Salute to America” on the South Lawn for the Fourth of July. FOX News

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The Sheriff's office for Sacramento County announced on Friday that it will not enforce Gov. Gavin Newsom's coronavirus order, forcing residents to wear masks or facial coverings, while they are out in public. FOX News
VOA VIEW: Good!
Crime statistics released by the New York Police Department (NYPD) on Thursday, showed a rise in the city's murder rate during the month of May, as protests and riots continued following the death of George Floyd.  FOX News
VOA VIEW: Just the beginning.
China's legislature on Saturday proposed a law that would set up a national security agency to crack down on dissent in the semi-autonomous zone. UPI
VOA VIEW: A dumb idea.

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