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2:00 PM ET, April 12, 2020

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New York Times:
Examining Tara Reade's Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden  —  Ms. Reade, a former Senate aide, has accused Mr. Biden of assaulting her in 1993 and says she told others about it.  A Biden spokeswoman said the allegation is false, and former Senate office staff members do not recall such an incident.
Joe Biden / New York Times:
My Plan to Safely Reopen America  —  An effective strategy to beat the virus is the ultimate answer to how we get our economy back on track.  —  Mr. Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.  —  People across America are stepping up to the plate.
Discussion: The Hill
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Fauci on Trump's delayed response to coronavirus: “It is what it is”  —  Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that “no one is going to deny” that more lives would have been saved during …
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Maya L. Harris / The Atlantic:   Some Patients Really Need the Drug That Trump Keeps Pushing
Daniel Politi / Slate:
U.S. Overtakes Italy as Country With Most Confirmed Coronavirus Deaths
Discussion: USA Today and Associated Press
Associated Press:
Signs missed and steps slowed in Trump's pandemic response  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — By the time President Donald Trump first spoke publicly about the coronavirus, it may already have been too late.  —  Interviewed at Davos, a gathering of global elites in the Swiss Alps …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus  —  Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly.  Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Meg Cunningham / ABC News:
US close to coronavirus peak, but we have to take it ‘day by day’: FDA commissioner  —  FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn appeared on ABC's “This Week.”  —  The United States is close to its peak of the novel coronavirus disease, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn said on ABC's “This Week.”
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Despite encouraging signs, coronavirus is ‘advancing’ worldwide, WHO envoy warns
Spiegel Online:
How Trump Is Fueling a Corona Disaster  —  Donald Trump's disastrous crisis management has made the United States the new epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic.  The country is facing an unprecedented economic crash.  Are we witnessing the implosion of a superpower?  By DER SPIEGEL Staff
Rachel M. Cohen / The Daily Beast:
How the Hunt for a Coronavirus Vaccine Could Go Horribly Wrong  —  ONE SHOT  —  Anti-vaxxers are ready to pounce if the furious push for a COVID-19 fix runs into trouble.  —  Scientists are racing to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, and anti-vaxxers are waiting in the wings.
Simon Tisdall / The Guardian:
US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response  —  International relations expert warns policy failure could do lasting damage as president insults allies and undermines alliances  —  Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, which he once dismissed as a hoax …
Jack Healy / New York Times:
It's ‘People, People, People’ as Lines Stretch Across America  —  Lines for groceries, food aid and unemployment assistance stretch for blocks as the coronavirus crisis forces Americans into quarantine queues.  —  DENVER — Standing in line used to be an American pastime …
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Coronavirus may give President Trump a long sought chance to privatize the Postal Service  —  WASHINGTON — Amid a cash crunch threatening to put the U.S. postal service out of business, the Trump administration is being accused of blocking bipartisan efforts to provide money to the agency …
Associated Press:
Biden beats Sanders to win Alaska Democratic primary  —  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Joe Biden has won the Alaska Democrats' party-run presidential primary, beating Sen. Bernie Sanders days after Sanders suspended his campaign.  —  Biden beat Sanders Saturday 55.3% to 44.7%.  A total of 19,759 votes were cast.
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Jon Levine / New York Post:   The odds on who Joe Biden will pick as his female vice president candidate
Alexander Burns / New York Times:   Biden and Cuomo: Friends, Allies and Supporting Players No Longer
Jason Breslow / NPR:
Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Governor's Order Limiting The Size Of Easter Services  —  The Kansas Supreme Court has voted to uphold an executive order by the state's governor limiting the size of church gatherings on Easter Sunday, ending a dramatic legal clash in which the court was asked amid …
Discussion: PJ Media Home, KS Courts and The Hill
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Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Kansas court strikes down GOP measure allowing in-person Easter church services, lets coronavirus restrictions stand
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The City That Has Flattened the Coronavirus Curve  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  London Breed wasn't going to wait around for COVID-19.  —  San Francisco had yet to confirm a single case …
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Politico:
Cuomo undercuts de Blasio's efforts to close schools until fall
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
How Coronavirus Will Blow Up the 2020 Campaign  —  The chaos around Wisconsin's primary last week has raised the level of concern about November's Election Day to Defcon-1 status.  Will Republican legislators in key states block efforts to expand mail-in voting, and force people to stand in line together?
Maria Varenikova / New York Times:
Chernobyl Wildfires Reignite, Stirring Up Radiation  —  Wildfires are common in the so-called Zone of Alienation around the abandoned Chernobyl plant.  A larger-than-typical fire is stirring up radiation, though levels remain normal in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.
Cara Anna / Associated Press:
African nations, US decry racism against blacks in China  —  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — African officials are confronting China publicly and in private over racist mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, and the U.S. says African-Americans have been targeted too.
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CNN:
Africans in Guangzhou are on edge, after many are left homeless amid rising xenophobia …
Discussion: Instapundit
Kathleen McGrory / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida's count of coronavirus deaths is missing some cases  —  Some snowbirds are being excluded in the state's count.  By Friday, another group had 40 more fatalities.  —  The Florida Department of Health's count of coronavirus deaths reached a grim milestone Friday, surpassing 400 and climbing to 419.
Washington Post:
Don't like the Wisconsin election mess?  Don't blame the courts.  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC.  David Lat is the founding editor of Above the Law, a website covering the legal profession, and a managing director at Lateral Link, a legal recruiting firm.
 
 
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Susan Selasky / Detroit Free Press:
First known COVID-19 deaths of grocery store workers in Mich. reported at Kroger, Meijer
Discussion: Breitbart
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Republicans betting on a political upset in California
Michael Specter / New Yorker:
How Anthony Fauci Became America's Doctor
Washington Post:
Hogan joins other governors in asking Congress for $500 billion as coronavirus cases rise in the D.C. region
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Ruth B. Mandel, a Voice for Women in Politics, Dies at 81
Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
Plagues, pain and politics: Coronavirus grips NYC
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Preëxisting Condition in the Oval Office
David W. Blight / New York Times:
Trump Isn't the First Conservative to Try to Limit the Vote
 Earlier Items: 
James B. Comey / Washington Post:
We know what good leadership in a crisis looks like. This isn't it.
Discussion: The Hill
John Branch / New York Times:
Whoosh! That Car That Just Soared by Might Be Heading for the Coast
The Intercept:
Conservative Operatives Float Plan to Place Retired Military, Police Officers as GOP Poll Watchers on Election Day
Molly Jong-Fast / Vogue:
We Are All Living in the 19th Century Right Now
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Paige St. John / Los Angeles Times:
New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Trump Administration Tells Employers Not To Worry About Recording COVID-19 Cases
NBC News:
As Trump's coronavirus task force amassed power, it boosted industry
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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