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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Judge Calls Barr's Handling of Mueller Report ‘Distorted’ and ‘Misleading’ — The judge said the attorney general lacked credibility on the matter and said he would review the report to decide whether to make its redacted portions public. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Federal Judge Says He Needs to Review Every Mueller Report Redaction Because Barr Can't Be Trusted — Attorney General William Barr's wildly inappropriate campaign to spin the Mueller report in Donald Trump's favor last year may have finally backfired. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge …
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Judge demands unredacted Mueller report, questions Barr's ‘credibility’ — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to hand over to him a copy of the unredacted Mueller report and accused Attorney General William Barr of misrepresenting its findings in the days before it was submitted to Congress last year.
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TIME:
‘Doomed from the Start.’ Experts Say the Trump Administration's Coronavirus Response Was Never Going to Work — The Trump Administration's strategy to combat COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, began with a relatively simple focus: keep it out of the United States.
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Tamara Keith / NPR:
Trump's Gut Collides With Science On Coronavirus Messaging — President Trump is known to say what's on his mind, to go with his gut and accentuate the positive. That approach is now colliding with a public health emergency in the form of coronavirus. — The challenge posed …
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity — Previously unseen documents from a Soviet archive show how hard Mr. Sanders worked to find a sister city in Russia when he was a mayor in the 1980s. Moscow saw a chance for propaganda.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Calamitous Coronavirus Response — A whole-of-government mobilization to protect the president's ego. — Last month, after analyzing figures on epidemics since 1960, The Economist concluded that people die at a higher rate from such disease outbreaks in authoritarian countries …
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Hannah Sampson / Washington Post:
Sick cruise passengers await coronavirus results at sea as officials debate quarantine — A Princess Cruises ship that recently carried people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus was still being kept off the coast of California Thursday as officials sent kits to test passengers …
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Cases Surge in U.S. and Europe, Thousands Quarantined in N.Y.C.
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump abruptly scraps trip to CDC Friday — President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his scheduled Friday visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta even as the coronavirus outbreak escalates. — Trump's schedule Friday, which was released publicly at nearly midnight …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Pence admits 'we don't have enough tests' to meet demands as delay in coronavirus testing persists
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ABC News:
Controversial execution carried out despite pleas from advocates — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey refused to step in and stop the lethal injection. — The controversial execution of Nathaniel Woods was carried out late Thursday in Alabama just minutes after the Supreme Court denied a temporary stay, issued only hours earlier.
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Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Nathaniel Woods executed as accomplice in 2004 police murders — A Birmingham man was executed Thursday evening on a 2005 conviction of being an accomplice to the murder of three police officers. — Nathaniel Woods, 43, was pronounced dead at 9:01 p.m. after an execution that lasted 15 minutes.
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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Was It Always Going to Be the Last Men Standing? — For Elizabeth Warren, the historic number of women in the 2020 field and the Democrats who supported them, the question will linger. — WASHINGTON — In the end, the pink wave carried two white men ashore.
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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
The Amy Klobuchar Exit Interview
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Warren, Klobuchar, Harris, Gillibrand: Did gender sink Democratic women in 2020? Nope.
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Pelosi cites ‘element of misogyny’ after Warren drops out
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Romney could derail Republican subpoena targeting Bidens — A Republican effort to subpoena records about Joe Biden and his son Hunter could be derailed amid concerns from at least one GOP senator that the push appears politically motivated. — The Senate Homeland Security Committee is set …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Romney may vote against Trump again — this time with some bite
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Romney: Biden, Burisma probe ‘appears political’
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New York Times:
'It's Pure Panic': A Wrenching Wait at Nursing Home Where Coronavirus Took Hold — Cut off from their relatives inside a virus-stricken nursing center, families are frantically searching for help and basic information. — KIRKLAND, Wash. — The hardest day of Debbie de los Angeles's life …
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Timothy Shenk / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Was the Wrong Kind of Radical — She wanted to reform everything except the Democratic Party itself. — Mr. Shenk is a co-editor of Dissent. — Remember when Elizabeth Warren was going to save the Democratic Party? — Back in 2016, it looked as if she had been engineered …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job growth smashes expectations for February as unemployment falls back to 3.5% — By Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM — Nonfarm payrolls rose by 273,000 in February vs. a 175,000 estimate, while the unemployment rate edged lower to 3.5%. — Job gains were widespread, with health care adding 57,000 to lead the way.
Associated Press:
Sanders struggles to expand supporter base after Warren exit — WASHINGTON (AP) — It took Joe Biden's moderate rivals just hours to unite behind his presidential campaign after they left the race. Bernie Sanders hasn't been so fortunate. — Elizabeth Warren, one of Sanders' closest ideological allies …
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Warren calls out Sanders for ‘organized nastiness’ and ‘bullying’ by his supporters
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POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Mara Gay / New York Times:
Why Southern Democrats Saved Biden — For those who live in the shadow of segregation and racial terror, the election is not about policy or personality. It's about something much darker. — Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board. — At the Lorraine Motel in Memphis …
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Mike Bloomberg plans new group to support Democratic nominee — Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to form a new independent expenditure campaign that will absorb hundreds of his presidential campaign staff in six swing states to work to elect the Democratic nominee this fall.
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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Trump to take questions at 1st TV town hall of 2020 campaign
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May Warren / Toronto Star:
Person who travelled to Vegas tests positive for coronavirus; Toronto Public Health monitoring — A person who travelled to Las Vegas for an international conference has tested positive for COVID-19. This brings the total number of infections in Ontario to 24.
Washington Post:
Tens of thousands of political ads on Facebook lacked key details about who paid for them, new report finds — Researchers discovered major gaps in Facebook's ad archive that could “enable a malicious advertiser to avoid accurate disclosure of their political ads,” they wrote
Washington Examiner:
Elizabeth Warren's pandering and dishonesty brought her campaign to an end — “Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy.” — This embarrassing, obsequious, pandering line, tweeted by Elizabeth Warren in November as her campaign began …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Why Americans should care about Syria — The situation in Syria is catastrophic. The Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies are bombarding the rebel-held enclave of Idlib, continuing their wholesale slaughter of civilians. Turkey, drawn into the conflict by the chaos along its border …
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