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Politico:
'It's a sh— sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump — TALLAHASSEE — The staggering unemployment exploding on President Donald Trump's watch would worry any incumbent running for reelection, but troubles in Florida are injecting an added dose of fear into a jittery GOP.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Florida GOP Realizes Deliberately Impoverishing the Unemployed Has Downsides
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Trump administration just changed its description of the national stockpile to jibe with Jared Kushner's controversial claim — The Trump administration on Friday changed the description of the Strategic National Stockpile on a government website after journalists noted that it contradicted …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Jared Kushner Is Going to Get Us All Killed — Trump's son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response. — Reporting on the White House's herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Strategic National Stockpile description altered online after Kushner's remarks — The official government webpage for the Strategic National Stockpile was altered Friday to seemingly reflect a controversial description of the emergency repository that White House adviser Jared Kushner offered at a news conference Thursday evening.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP Sen. Gardner wants probe into ‘mismanagement’ of national stockpile
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The 11 wildest lines from Donald Trump's utterly childish letter to Chuck Schumer — (CNN)On Thursday afternoon — moments before he urged people to take politics out of the coronavirus fight — President Donald Trump sent an absolutely unbelievable letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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Chad Garland / Stars & Stripes:
‘Captain Crozier! Captain Crozier!’: Videos show sailors sending off ousted USS Roosevelt commander with cheers — Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here.
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Jennifer Ehrlich / Business Wire:
3M Response to Defense Production Act Order — ST. PAUL, Minn.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—3M issued the following statement in response to the announcements issued by the White House last evening: — Over the last several weeks and months, 3M and its employees have gone above and beyond to manufacture …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Stars Now Pretend They Never Said What They Said About the Coronavirus — Democrats and the media are the real downplayers of the coronavirus, claim two of Fox's biggest stars who spent weeks peddling dismissive talking points about the pandemic. — After spending weeks downplaying …
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
This Brooklyn Landlord Just Canceled Rent for Hundreds of Tenants — Mario Salerno, who has 18 apartment buildings, said he did not want renters to stress about their payment during the coronavirus pandemic. — A few days after losing his job in March, Paul Gentile was throwing away trash outside …
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Trump nominates McConnell ally to powerful appeals court — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is nominating a 37-year-old judge and former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a seat on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump taps former Kavanaugh clerk to fill vacancy on powerful D.C. appeals court
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
How did covid-19 begin? Its initial origin story is shaky. — The story of how the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, has produced a nasty propaganda battle between the United States and China. The two sides have traded some of the sharpest charges made between two nations since …
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Twitchy
ProPublica:
Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate — No, the coronavirus is not an “equalizer.” Black people are being infected and dying at higher rates. Here's what Milwaukee is doing about it — and why governments need to start releasing data on the race of COVID-19 patients.
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Morning Consult and The Guardian
Washington Post:
Member of Kennedy family and her son identified as missing boaters in Chesapeake Bay — Two boaters who went missing in the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis on Thursday evening have been identified as Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and her 8-year-old son Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean.
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CNN, Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast, New York Post and The Independent
Nancy H. L. Leung / Nature:
Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks — Nature Medicine (2020) Cite this article — Abstract — We identified seasonal human coronaviruses, influenza viruses and rhinoviruses in exhaled breath and coughs of children and adults with acute respiratory illness.
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The Verge
New York Times:
Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury — It has been about two weeks since the Illinois governor ordered residents to stay at home, but nothing has changed about Adarra Benjamin's responsibilities. She gets on a bus nearly every morning in Chicago …
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Vanity Fair, more at Techmeme »
Emma Dumain / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Mitch McConnell champions coronavirus relief bill but warns of ‘glitches’ — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday there are “bound to be plenty of mistakes” with implementing the massive coronavirus economic relief package he helped negotiate and get signed into law.
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ProPublica:
How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — Dire shortages of vital medical equipment …
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Stephanie Ruhle Confronts Rubio for Saying Journalists Are Giddy About Coronavirus: ‘I Need to Understand Why on Earth You Did This’ — MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle confronted Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) over a comment he made earlier in the week in which he claimed that some media figures …
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
The Doctor Came to Save Lives. The Co-op Board Told Him to Get Lost. — When an emergency room doctor traveled from New Hampshire to battle the coronavirus in New York, he moved into his brother's building ... but not for long. — At the end of seven hours in mask …
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Patterico's Pontifications
Mark Kennedy / Associated Press:
‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81 — Bill Withers, who wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including “ Lean On Me, ” “Lovely Day” and “Ain't No Sunshine,” has died from heart complications, his family said in a statement to The Associated Press.
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Minxin Pei / Foreign Affairs:
China's Coming Upheaval — Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping — Over the past few years, the United States' approach to China has taken a hard-line turn, with the balance between cooperation and competition in the U.S.-Chinese relationship tilting sharply toward the latter.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign declares war on Dems over voting rules for November — President Donald Trump's political operation is launching a multimillion-dollar legal campaign aimed at blocking Democrats from drastically changing voting rules in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Shannon Bond / NPR:
A Must For Millions, Zoom Has A Dark Side — And An FBI Warning — Audio will be available later today. — Dennis Johnson fell victim last week to a new form of harassment known as “Zoombombing,” in which intruders hijack video calls and post hate speech and offensive images such as pornography.
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses — Two months before the novel coronavirus probably began spreading in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China …
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Daily Kos, Common Dreams, The Hill, Politico and The Week
David Marcus / The Federalist:
We Cannot Destroy The Country For The Sake Of New York City — New York City is being ravaged by the Wuhan coronavirus, but the rest of the country is being destroyed by a generation of economic collapse. — I imagine there are some people who love New York City more than I do, but I do love it.
Washington Post:
Chinese families should be sweeping graves now. But thousands still haven't buried their dead. — For at least two millennia, Chinese people have headed to their ancestors' graves on the 15th day after the spring equinox to remove weeds and brush away dirt, to offer food and wine and paper money …
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Forbes and Balloon Juice
ABC News:
Coronavirus live updates: New York City morgues almost full as death toll mounts — “New York is in crisis,” the governor said Friday. — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed at least 6,699 people in the United States. — With more than 261,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 …
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Ben White / Politico:
Trump's biggest 2020 pitch disintegrates — The fundamental pillars of Donald Trump's presidency — a hot economy, strong job growth and a rocking stock market — are all being smashed to splinters by the ravaging coronavirus, which has shuttered much of the nation and now officially ended …
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New York Times, Raw Story, Daily Kos and Townhall
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Creeping Authoritarianism Has Finally Prevailed — In Hungary, the pandemic was just an excuse. — Staff writer at The Atlantic — Viktor Orbán is the prime minister of Hungary. He has been in power since 2010. During that time, he has underinvested in hospitals.
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The Guardian
Politico:
Senators clashed over Hunter Biden probe in classified briefing — A key Senate committee is vowing to press forward with its investigation targeting former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter, despite logistical challenges posed by the global coronavirus pandemic.
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
There's Nothing Generous About Putin's Coronavirus Aid to US — Russian state media make it clear Putin's “humanitarian aid” to the U.S. is anything but. It's meant to show Russia's superiority over an America in disastrous decline. — BEAST INSIDE — The Kremlin's highly publicized …
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