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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Why Wisconsin Republicans Insisted on an Election in a Pandemic — Mask-wearing voters in endless lines. Five polling places instead of 180. Voting amid the coronavirus crisis is full of challenges — and connected to G.O.P. efforts to limit who gets a ballot in the state.
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The American Independent and Axios
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Rulings on Wisconsin Election Raise Questions About Judicial Partisanship
Rulings on Wisconsin Election Raise Questions About Judicial Partisanship
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The Atlantic
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
They Turned Out to Vote in Wisconsin During a Health Crisis. Here's Why.
They Turned Out to Vote in Wisconsin During a Health Crisis. Here's Why.
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Washington Post
NBC News:
Coronavirus has ignited a battle over voting by mail. Here's why it's so controversial.
Coronavirus has ignited a battle over voting by mail. Here's why it's so controversial.
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The Nation, HuffPost and CNN
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Next Coronavirus Bill Is Democrats' Last Chance to Ensure a Fair Election
The Next Coronavirus Bill Is Democrats' Last Chance to Ensure a Fair Election
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Slate, Vox, Washington Post, Law & Crime, CNN and HuffPost
Washington Post:
Long lines, anger and fear of infection: Wisconsin proceeds with elections under court order
Long lines, anger and fear of infection: Wisconsin proceeds with elections under court order
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Associated Press, Vox, Raw Story, electionlawblog.org and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
In Tuesday's Wisconsin primary, Republicans will literally kill you to win an election
In Tuesday's Wisconsin primary, Republicans will literally kill you to win an election
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Rolling Stone, National Review and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Hannah Bleau / Breitbart:
Bernie Sanders Rages over Wisconsin Election: It ‘May Very Well Prove Deadly’
Bernie Sanders Rages over Wisconsin Election: It ‘May Very Well Prove Deadly’
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NPR, The Guardian and Talking Points Memo
Politico:
Trump removes independent watchdog for coronavirus funds, upending oversight panel — President Donald Trump has upended the panel of federal watchdogs overseeing implementation of the $2 trillion coronavirus law, tapping a replacement for the Pentagon official who was supposed to lead the effort.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Trump removes inspector general who was to oversee $2 trillion stimulus spending — President Trump has removed the chairman of the federal panel Congress created to oversee his administration's management of the $2 trillion stimulus package. — Glenn Fine, who had been the acting …
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Vanity Fair, Talking Points Memo, Law & Crime and The Root
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Senators to Seek Explanation From Trump of Watchdog's Firing
Senators to Seek Explanation From Trump of Watchdog's Firing
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Politico
CNN:
Acting secretary of the Navy resigns after calling ousted aircraft carrier captain ‘stupid’ — Washington (CNN)Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned on Tuesday, a day after leaked audio revealed he called the ousted commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt “stupid” in an address to the ship's crew …
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Lawfare, The Mahablog, The Drive, VICE, The Daily Caller, Axios, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
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Lara Seligman / Politico:
Navy in crisis: Top leader's resignation roils service in the middle of a pandemic — An aircraft carrier sidelined by a coronavirus outbreak. A promising captain fired for requesting help as infections spread among his 5,000 sailors. And a service leaderless once more …
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CNN, Axios, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Foreign Policy, HuffPost, The Drive, One America News Network, Talking Points Memo, Fox News, New York Post and The Daily Beast
Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose:
Acting Navy Secretary Modly resigns
Acting Navy Secretary Modly resigns
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Vox, The Guardian, GovExec.com, WISC-TV, NPR, Breitbart, IJR and Patterico's Pontifications
New York Times:
Trump Has a New Press Secretary Who Knows How to Defend Him — Kayleigh McEnany, his campaign spokeswoman, replaces Stephanie Grisham, who had the job for nine months, and will return to Melania Trump's staff. — WASHINGTON — In President Trump's early days in the White House …
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Axios, CNN, Daily Kos, Media Matters for America, Politico, The Hill, Vanity Fair, Breitbart, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, IJR, Mediaite, The American Independent, The Wrap, PJ Media Home, The Guardian, The Gateway Pundit, HuffPost, Talking Points Memo, Slate and National Review, more at Mediagazer »
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
‘Trump Has Never Lied’: New Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany's Long History of Bullshit and Lies — Along her rise to a White House gig, Trump's newest press secretary perfected the art of MAGA nonsense with a veritable greatest hits of bonkers claims. — After just 10 months on the job …
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The Hill
CNN:
Grisham out as West Wing press secretary without having held a briefing
Grisham out as West Wing press secretary without having held a briefing
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Raw Story, Mediaite, The Hill, The Federalist, Washington Post, The White House, IJR, Twitchy, Politico, The Wrap, The Daily Beast, Daily Kos and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump's new press secretary has a history of birtherism and wildly inaccurate coronavirus takes
Trump's new press secretary has a history of birtherism and wildly inaccurate coronavirus takes
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Fox News, CNN, Vanity Fair and Crooks and Liars
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's purge is about to get much worse. Schiff just sent up a flare. — After President Trump fired the inspector general of the intelligence community, he didn't bother disguising his true reason for doing so: Because that IG had conducted his lawful duties in a manner that resulted …
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Daily Kos
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Schiff demands that Grenell explain Trump's purge of inspectors general
Schiff demands that Grenell explain Trump's purge of inspectors general
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CyberScoop
Garrett M. Graff / Politico:
Trump Broke the Agencies That Were Supposed To Stop the Covid-19 Epidemic
Rolling Stone:
John Prine, One of America's Greatest Songwriters, Dead at 73 — Grammy-winning singer who combined literary genius with a common touch succumbs to coronavirus complications — John Prine, who for five decades wrote rich, plain-spoken songs that chronicled the struggles and stories …
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CBS Los Angeles and New York Post
Gwynne Hogan / Gothamist:
Staggering Surge Of NYers Dying In Their Homes Suggests City Is Undercounting Coronavirus Fatalities — If you die at home from the coronavirus, there's a good chance you won't be included in the official death toll, because of a discrepancy in New York City's reporting process.
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ABC News, New York Post, Gizmodo, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, PJ Media Home, Raw Story, National Review and www.wnyc.org
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida election officials sound the alarm ahead of November — TALLAHASSEE — Election supervisors in Florida warned Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday that he needs to change the law to give them more flexibility to avoid a presidential election meltdown in the nation's biggest swing state.
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Raw Story and electionlawblog.org
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies without a word — Although President Trump has directed states and hospitals to secure what supplies they can, the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers across the country in the dark …
Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
Drop the Curtain on the Trump Follies — Why does the nation need to be subjected to the president's daily carnival of misinformation, preening and political venom? — Ms. Cottle is a member of the editorial board. — Even as the Trump administration slowly finds its footing in the war …
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Kaiser Health News, Politico and CNN
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
'It's like nothing else': Klobuchar, husband talk about his battle with coronavirus — “It's one of the hardest, hardest things,” Klobuchar told NBC News in an exclusive interview about her family's ordeal. — Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her husband recounted the battle with coronavirus that landed …
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New York Post and The Hill
Lis Smith / Vanity Fair:
“Go Everywhere”: How Dr. Anthony Fauci's Media Strategy Is Revolutionizing Coronavirus Messaging — The strategic playbook for political communications is being remastered in the most unlikely of places: Donald Trump's White House. No, not by the president during his highly rated, often bizarre media briefings.
Frances Martel / Breitbart:
Report: Wuhan Funeral Homes Burned Coronavirus Victims Alive — Locals in Wuhan, where the Chinese coronavirus pandemic originated, have heard screams coming from funeral home furnaces, and some treated in hospitals say they saw workers put living coronavirus patients in body bags, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Monday.
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The Daily Caller and RFA
Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
The Far-Right Helped Create The World's Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology — Clearview AI, which has alarmed privacy experts, hired several far-right employees, a HuffPost investigation found. — Advanced facial recognition technology poses a mortal threat to privacy.
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Raw Story
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
New Zealand isn't just flattening the curve. It's squashing it. — HAVELOCK NORTH, New Zealand — It's been less than two weeks since New Zealand imposed a coronavirus lockdown so strict that swimming at the beach and hunting in bushland were banned. They're not essential activities …
Marshall Allen / ProPublica:
A Nurse Bought Protective Supplies for Her Colleagues Using GoFundMe. The Hospital Suspended Her. — She raised more than $12,000 to buy and distribute protective gear for her colleagues, who say they felt inadequately protected against COVID-19. How a confrontation in one of the nation's …
Oona A. Hathaway / Slate:
After COVID-19, We Need to Redefine “National Security” — The post-9/11 era is over. — The United States national security system is the best funded, best equipped, and most powerful the world has ever seen. In the years since the Sept. 11 attacks, if a terrorist group anywhere …
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New York Times
Mike Baker / New York Times:
A ‘Liberty’ Rebellion in Idaho Threatens to Undermine Coronavirus Orders — Even some public officials have challenged social-distancing requirements, calling them assaults on the Constitution. One group wants to gather up to 1,000 people for Easter. — SANDPOINT, Idaho …
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Raw Story and No More Mister Nice Blog
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Rosie O'Donnell Says She Visited Michael Cohen in Prison — “He looks good. He looks thin. He looks fit. He looks rested,” she says of President Donald Trump's former personal attorney. — Rosie O'Donnell on Tuesday told Howard Stern she visited disgraced former attorney Michael Cohen …
Niall Ferguson / Globe and Mail:
Let's Zoom Xi. He has questions to answer — Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford — In Liu Cixin's extraordinary science-fiction novel The Three-Body Problem, China recklessly creates, then ingeniously solves, an existential threat to humanity …
Victoria McGrane / The Boston Globe:
Ed Markey falling short of signatures ahead of May deadline — Harder to gather in-person support in coronavirus era — The e-mail subject line was notable for an incumbent United States senator: “Help get Ed on the ballot.” — That was the message the campaign of Edward J. Markey sent …
Miami Herald:
‘Flu-like’ data might help track coronavirus spread. Why did Florida stop publishing it? — Flu season normally winds down in Florida as March turns to April. This year was no exception — but with an alarming anomaly. While positive flu tests declined as expected …
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Florida Politics
Miami Herald:
Inside Florida's frenzied, failed dash to dole out $600 million in no-bid mask deals — When Florida belatedly realized last week that its COVID-19 problem was going to cascade into a statewide crisis, the state Division of Emergency Management embarked on a frantic, frenzied attempt to buy N95 masks …
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Florida Politics