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Palm Beach ‘Patriots’ Ready to Die to Breathe Mask-Free

By Michael Daly

Before the county board of commissioners voted to require masks in public places, they were excoriated by witnesses as communist dictators who love the devil—and hate freedom.

By Nick Schager

The comedy god has had a string of duds, from the gay panic-y “Get Hard” to “Daddy’s Home 2” with Mel Gibson. His latest Netflix film, “Eurovision Song Contest,” isn’t any better.

By Rick Wilson

Get ready for 1968 redux with Fat Nixon at the helm. Strap in for apocalyptic rhetoric about MS-13, antifa and socialists, plus those poor, misunderstood Confederate generals.

Calling all news junkies and know-it-alls. Test your knowledge with the all-new Daily Beast Crossword.

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By Will Sommer

Winnie Heartstrong has put out a 23-page document laying out a series of incoherent conspiracy theories about Floyd’s death. She’s likely to be the party’s nominee.

By David Axe

Increasingly, it seems the disease behaves like a covert enemy that slips behind normally stout defenses—a Trojan Horse that deceives the body into submission.

By Marlow Stern

In recent weeks, Simmons has been treated to cushy appearances on platforms run by Jay-Z and Diddy. Two of his victims, Sil Lai Abrams and Drew Dixon, say enough is enough.

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By Nick Schwellenbach, Adam Zagorin

Team Trump cooked up a blueprint to dismantle an agency that protected 2 million civil servants from political interference. Then a DOJ lawyer said some of the moves were illegal.

By Tim Teeman

In the first of a two-part series on Black queer playwrights with work in the “Pride Plays” season, Rodney Hicks and Azure D. Osborne-Lee discuss racism, theater, and change.

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 FALLING BEHIND 

The survey results show voters are rejecting Trump’s handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests.

 ‘ALL-TIME HIGH’ 

Texas surpassed 5,000 new daily cases for the first time, with similar spikes in California, Nevada, and Arizona.

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 ‘POSITIVE GOOD’ 

Charleston’s mayor called the former vice president his state’s “most consequential defender of slavery and white supremacy.”

 NEW GENERATION 

Bowman told supporters that President Trump is terrified of a “Black man with power.”

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