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Don Lemon · Los AngelesBy Karina Tsui, Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Independent journalist and former CNN anchor Don Lemon defended his coverage of an anti-ICE protest at a St. Paul, Minnesota, church, which resulted in his arrest last week, telling Jimmy Kimmel on Monday that as a journalist, he “went there to chronicle and document and record what was happening.” “There is a difference between a protester and a journalist,” Lemon said on Kimmel’s late-night show in hi…See the Story
Don Lemon says he offered to turn himself in but federal agents were sent for him anyway
50% Center coverage: 116 sources

Renee Good · MinneapolisThe Trump White House made a rare rhetorical retreat Monday amid public uproar over its initial response to the killing of Alex Pretti, the second U.S. citizen recently shot dead by federal law enforcement agents working in Minneapolis as part of the administration’s deportation efforts. A nation that was already simmering after Renee Good’s death…See the Story
The Memo: White House Pulls Back Amid Public Uproar over Alex Pretti Killing
41% Left coverage: 44 sources

Jimmy Lai · New YorkThere’s a steakhouse on East 50th Street in midtown Manhattan, to which Cardinal Timothy Dolan and I would sometimes walk for dinner after a preprandial or two in his sitting room. The restaurant was less than a block away from the residence of the archbishops of New York, and the walk would ordinarily take two or three minutes. With Cardinal Dolan, it often took ten minutes, sometimes fifteen, because virtually everyone we passed along the way …See the Story
Cardinal Dolan: By No Means Finished Yet
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