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Above the Fold

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• Political theater: Congressional Democrats kneel as they unveil Justice in Policing Act to rein in cops (The Daily Wire)

• Economy entered recession in February, the National Bureau of Economic Research says, concluding a historic 128 consecutive months of growth (Washington Examiner)

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Government & Politics

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• Joe Biden rejects calls to defund police departments, plans increased investment in “community policing” (National Review)

• CBS deceptively edits William Barr interview, leaving out key details on violent riots and police oversight (The Federalist)

• Fox News apologizes for preposterously showing graphic of stock-market gains following the deaths of black men (Time)

• Aide says the New York Times’s claim that former President George W. Bush won’t support Trump is “completely made up” (The American Spectator)

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The Latest on COVID-19

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• Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is “very rare,” the ever-shifting World Health Organization says (CNBC)

• The WHO just gave us another great reason to end the lockdowns right now (PJ Media)

• Coronavirus may have been in China in early fall, satellite data suggests (ABC News)

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Business & Economy

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• China May exports slip back into contraction, imports worst in four years (CNBC)

• Pandemic accelerated decline in church funding and membership (Washington Examiner)

• Why GDP metrics won’t tell us much about the post-COVID recovery (Mises Institute)

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Culture & Heartland

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• Illiterate rioters deface monument honoring all-black regiment of Union Civil War soldiers (Disrn)

• Virginia judge halts Governor Ralph Northam’s decision to remove Robert E. Lee statue (National Review)

• Eighteen murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago, where the outrage mob wants to defund the police (Chicago Sun Times)

• “It isn’t hate to speak the truth”: J.K. Rowling defies political correctness by criticizing “people who menstruate” orthodoxy (The Daily Signal)

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Other Notables

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• If you want to know what disbanding the police looks like, look at Mexico (The Federalist)

• Iran says it will execute man who allegedly provided U.S. with information on Qassem Soleimani (Fox News)

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Closing Arguments

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• Policy: There are no good narratives on race (National Review)

• Policy: Joe Biden’s bad foreign-policy ideas (American Enterprise Institute)

• Humor: Utopia breaks out in Minneapolis after police replaced with Chick-fil-A workers (The Babylon Bee)

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