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POLITICO’s election forecast: Trump, GOP Senate in trouble

Trump administration releases list of companies that received most money from small business loans

Soros set to double 2016 election spending this year

Nike won’t sell [Redskins] team gear until name changes

Federal judge orders Dakota Access pipeline to close

Electoral College voters can be forced to back state popular vote winners, Supreme Court says

Chinese firm removes Hunter Biden from board on company website, but he still owns 10% of company

Hundreds return to protest outside armed couple’s home in St. Louis

Trump criticizes NASCAR ban on Confederate flags, attacks black driver

Coronavirus hospitalizations grow in more than 20 states as Texas admissions soar to new record

Niagara Falls - area becomes ground zero of maijuana smuggling

Israel blew up nuclear site in Iran, official tells New York Times

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Judge: U.S. must free migrant children from family detention

Credit card industry reins in balance transfer offers as banks from JPMorgan to Amex fear defaults

Anti-police Minneapolis City Council now spending $2.5k/day on private security

FN.c’s Wallace: ‘Just isn’t a history of fraud with mail-in voting’

Appeals court: Trump wrongly directed $2.5 billion for border wall

Nasdaq trades NYSE listings even better than NYSE

Robert Stone ordered to report to prison July 14

Soros group vows to turn out 6m Hispanic voters to defeat Trump

Florida shutters bars as coronavirus cases hit new record

Scorching heat and coronavirus endanger people without AC this summer

Seattle mayor gives CHAZ/CHOP Sunday deadline to remove barriers

Nike reports surprising $790 million loss, 46% plunge in North America

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Fauci to Americans abroad, ‘You will be able to get back’

Coronavirus updates: New York governor wants Trump to mobilize army, NYC mayor calls outbreak ‘war’

Bank in midtown [Manhattan] cleaned out of $100 bills ...

WSJ/NBC poll: Trump approval unchanged in coronavirus outbreak

Top U.S. health official: China’s situation is improving

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin does not expect recession from coronavirus

S&P 500 had choppiest week since Hoover was president ...

Fauci: Hundreds of thousands could die in outbreak

Iran says worsening outbreak could strain its health facilities

Nike is closing all its stores in the US because of the coronavirus outbreak

Mnuchin vows to keep markets open ...

Trump assembles government and private industry to fight coronavirus

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House Dems chose party unity over ICE fight

Store closures are accelerating and may top 12,000 in 2019

Protesters remove U.S. flag, replace it with Mexican flag outside ICE facility

Ocasio-Cortez denies playing ‘race card’ on Pelosi: ‘Stupidly untrue’

Barry crawls ashore in Louisiana, weakens to a tropical storm

This US and EU are fighting over trade when they should be finding common cause

Alexa calls 911 on man beating girlfriend ...

Trump confirms Sunday ICE raids: ‘We’re focused on criminals’

FTC approves $5B Facebook settlement that Democrats call ‘chump change’

As Juul grapples with teen vaping ‘epidemic,’ CEO tells parents ‘I’m sorry’

Brain implant restores vision to blind ...

Black pastors call on Nike to sever relations with Colin Kaepernick

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Border arrests dropped sharply in June

Storm could be first hurricane of season and is already shutting energy operations

Debt piles up!  Deficit 25% higher since election

Limbaugh: Rapinoe ‘wants a Kaepernick deal with NIKE’ — ‘the LGBTQ angle’

Jerome Powell: Facebook’s Libra poses potential risk to financial systems ...

Fed’s Powell explains why return to gold standard would be so damaging

Gatwick airport suffered complete failure of air traffic control system ...

Gun background check record: 2+ million each month of 2019

Appeals court tosses emoluments suit against Trump

Elizabeth Warren reintroduces legislation requiring corporations to disclose climate risks

Merkel seen shaking 3rd time in month ...

Report: Kamala Harris’s ancestors owned slaves, too

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D.C. mayor slams Trump ‘s Fourth of July celebration

Trump tells Iran threats ‘can come back to bite you’ in nuclear standoff

DOJ ordered to find ways to include citizenship question on census

WSJ: Nike’s ‘patriotic fumble’ a ‘donation to Trimp’s re-election’

Most top military chiefs skip Trump’s Fourth of July fest

Trump’s latest Fed moves are another attempt to take control of interest rates

Ruth Bader Ginsburg praises Kavanaugh ...

Ilhan Omar: ‘I don’t know’ if any2020 Democrat can beat Trump

‘We have a predator living in the White House’: Harris sharpens attack’s on Trump

Federal appeals court says Amazon is libel for third-party sellers’ products

STOCKS ROAR TO RECORD HIGHS ...

CNN death spiral continues with double digit Q2 ratings collapse

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National poll: Kamala Harris just two points behind Biden

Tesla stock surges after setting new delivery and production records

Gallup: American pride hits new low ... Nike pulls [Betsy Ross] flag shoe ...

Hunter Biden admits to rental car incident with crack cocaine

MSNBC not planning to air Trump’s July Fourth celebration live

Housing is providing another in a line of troubling signs pointing to an economic slowdown

Judge blocks policy keeping asylum seekers locked up ...

Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher found not guilty of killing ISIS fighter

Sanders trails Buttigieg by millions in second-quarter money chase

Trump administration says it will print census without citizenship question

Trump massive $105 million fundraising haul ...

Poll: Two-thirds of Americans back citizen question on census

Happy Independence Day

Betsy Ross flag

NIKE ... nope ...

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British poll: Brexit-distracted Torres lose voter trust on core issues

The stock market is poised to overtake its record high set last September

Dems know they need white male voters ...

Democrat Beto O’Rourke calls Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu a ‘racist’

Homeland Security chief Nielsen is out

Michael Avenatti dumps 41-pages of documents alleging Nike bribed basketball players

UK to have toughest internet laws in the world ...

Stacey Abrams: Georgia fetal heartbeat bill is ‘evil’

90% of voters want infrastructure legislation passed

UK faces Brexit reckoning with no-deal deadline just days away

Impossible challenge of tracking visa overstays ...

E.U. launches ‘fact checker’ to combat populism ahead of elections

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Mueller’s move dooms impeachment in Senate

Avenati arrested for alleged $29 million extortion plot against Nike, embezzling client’s money

Brennan: ‘I don’t know if I received bad information’ ...

MSM journalists turn on Obama CIA Director John Brennan

Supreme Court to consider new gerrymandering limitations

Trump’s tariffs costing Americans $1.4 billion per month, study shows

Israel strikes Hamas after Gaza rocket attack ...

Don Jr.: Adam Schiff is the ‘leader of the tinfoil hat brigade’ ...

Britain’s House of Commons takes control of Brexit

Democrats want full Mueller report released to Congress by April 2, while GOP resists

Russia deploys troops, equipment to Venezuela ...

France bans Iranian airline for shipping troops and weapons to Syria

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N.C. election board orders new race in disputed House district

A trade deal may not be priced in just yet as study shows S&P should be 11% higher

Dems embrace reparations for slavery ...

Chicago PD superintendent blasts stars, media, Dems over Smollett

Judge broadens gag order against Roger Stone after Instagram post

Tesla shares fall after Consumer Reports says it will no longer recommend Model 3

Video: Bernie praises Castro in 1985 interview ...

Nike stock falls after Zion Williamson shoe blowout, injury

Judge: Prosecutors violated law in dealings with Jeffrey Epstein victims

Tesla customers describe maddening problems with returns and refunds

Putin to USA: I’m ready for another Cuban missile crisis if want one ...

Jobless claims fall by more than expected

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Trump world divided on Rosenstein -- not weather to fire him, bu when

Iran's president blames US after attack on military parade

Yet another witness denies [Christine] Ford's account ...

Only 25 percent of women believe Kavanaugh accusations are creditable

Immigrants may be denied green cards if they've received benefits

OPEC, Russia rebuff Trump's call for immediate boost in oil output

[Keith] Ellison says his accuser fabricated abuse story ...

Grassley accepts Kavanaugh accuser's demand to testify Thursday

Woman denies attending party where alleged Kavanagh attack occurred

[France's] Macron's popularity falls further in September -- polls

Kaepernick is Nike's $6 billion man ...

Hawley: Missouri rally so big we had to turn away 20,000 Trump supporters

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Exclusive: Trump's FEMA administrator under investigation for use of official cars

GM  recalls over 1 million pickups, SUVs for power steering problems

Eyewall down, Florence weakens, winds 105 mph

Dalai Lama: 'Europe belongs to Europeans,' refugees should rebuild homelands

Trump accuses Democrats of inflating Puerto Rico [hurricane] death toll

Alphabet's Larry Page has reportedly checked out, spending more time on his private island

Michael Moore accused of stiffing, smearing vendors ...

Turkey's Erdogan in the Wall Street Journal: 'The world must stop Assad'

GOP Senators: No Sessions replacement could get confirmed

Kaepernick buzz may be fading, Nike online sales return to levels before the ad

Monopoly busting case against Google, Amazon, Uber, Facebook ...

Food stamp usage declines for eight straight month ...

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'It's open season on the president': Anonymous op-ed unleashes fresh West Wing meltdown

Whole Foods employees try to unionize under Amazon ownership

Booker releases 'confidential' Kavanaugh documents ...

Poll: Nike favorability  plunges 34% with Kaepernick  ad campaign ...

Kavanaugh stumbles on whether he discussed Mueller probe

A decade after the housing crash, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are still Uncle Sam's cash cows

GREAT: Jobless claims 49-year low ...

China insists loans to Africa not 'free money'

Presslety upsets incumbent Dem Capuano in Massachusetts primary

The 'deep web' may be 50 times bigger than the normal web. Its use goes well beyond buying drugs.

India Supreme Court legalizes gay sex in landmark ruling ...

Deep State official: There are dozens and dozens of us

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GOP scrambles to avoid shutdown

China's slowing demand for oil is a growing concern for the Middleeast

Regulation risk as high-torch giants head to Congress ...

Nike shock: Kaepernick npw face of brand ...

Trump rolls back worker safety rules

Jeff Bezos said he wanted to build 'space hotels' in his 1982 high school graduation speech

Amazon's secret deal with MasterCard to track offline sales ...

Marco Rubio floats military invasion of Venezuela ...

Trump blasts Sessions over charges against GOP congressmen ahead of midterms

China cracks down on cryptocuttrncy speculation, but not blockchain development

China investments in Africa raise concerns of new colonialism ...

Report: Wikileaks consultant mysteriously disappears

Obvious Truth #16

Nike "Air Jordan 11 Black Out"

Anyone who buys and wears $11,000 sneakers clearly has more money than brains. -- Anon.

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These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. 

Guess which ones came from Politico?

Kremlin-backed media turns on Trump ...

Former CIA Director slams DRUDGE [Report] for peddling 'illigimate' world view

GOP refuses to back Trump's wiretap charge

Nobody likes the Obamacare replacement

Trump proud to support GOP healthcare bill

Trump: GOP healthcare bill 'up for review and negotiation'

Trump, Netanyahu discuss antisemitism, Iran danger in phone call

Supreme Court throws out transgender case, sends it back to lower court

NSA whistleblower backs Trump on wiretapping claims ...

Panama ex-dictator, Noriega, in critical condition after brain surgery ...

Nike introduces swoosh branded Muslim hajib sportswear

Trump campaign approves advisers trip to Moscow

Tête-à-Tête

Nike is set to sell its new line of LeBron sneakers for $315 a pair.  I direct you to a recent news item on this Nike release more for the extensive comments (tête-à-têtes) that follow after this sign-of-the-times squib than the actual article itself.  Please take the time to follow the back and forth between the various polarized views expressed here,  They demonstrate more than I possibly could about where we are and where we are going as a society.  Here is the referenced item for you to click on:  Local 10 Article.  Enjoy!