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5:20 PM ET, April 12, 2020

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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: Fox News, IJR and The Hill
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.
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  —  One morning during my last semester in college, I woke up with a strange rash on my face.  When it didn't go away after exhausting a tube of over-the-counter cortisone, my mother persuaded me to see a doctor.
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 …
Discussion: PJ Media Home and Washington Times
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
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 …
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 …
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Republicans betting on a political upset in California  —  Navy fighter pilot Mike Garcia looks like a grade-A recruit for House Republicans.  If he scores a surprise victory, Republicans will flip a blue seat in the state for the first time in 22 years.  —  ADD TO BRIEFCASE  —  See more stories about...
Sarah Ladd / Courier-Journal:
Kentucky police record license plates at in-person Easter church service  —  HILLVIEW, Ky. — The sounds of hymns floated from a large outdoor speaker at Maryville Baptist Church and filled the parking lot even as two Kentucky State Police troopers walked through it, placing quarantine notices on many of the cars.
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
Discussion: IJR, The Hill and The National Interest
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: KS Courts, PJ Media Home and The Hill
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Redstate and France 24
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CNN:
Africans in Guangzhou are on edge, after many are left homeless amid rising xenophobia …
Discussion: Instapundit
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.
Daniel Chang / Miami Herald:
Herald drafted a suit seeking ALF records.  DeSantis aide pressured law firm not to file it  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' general counsel called a representative of the Miami Herald's law firm seeking to quash a public records lawsuit that would force the state to divulge the names …
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.
The Daily Beast:
Democrats Fear Trump's New 2020 Strategy Is Working  —  The president and his team aren't hiding their plans to make Beijing the main villain in America's fight against the pandemic.  —  President Donald Trump and his allies are leaning heavily into a new 2020 strategy tying Democrats …
Discussion: Raw Story
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?
David W. Blight / New York Times:
Trump Isn't the First Conservative to Try to Limit the Vote  —  Trump is only the latest to see minority voters as a threat.  —  Dr. Blight is the author of “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.”  —  On March 30, the Republican id burst forth when President Trump said that the latest …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The test for those who want to reopen the economy too soon: You go first  —  Ryan P. Williams, the head of the previously well-respected and now crackpotish Claremont Institute, tweeted this past week in response to enforcement of social distancing and stay-at-home mandates: “It's time for resistance to this insanity.”
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: NBC News, Axios and Washington Post
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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
 
 
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Darren Smith / JONATHAN TURLEY:
WA Governor Inslee's Order Cancelling Remaining School Year Possibly Unconstitutional
Discussion: Redstate
Courtney Mabeus / New York Times:
How an Island Oasis Became the Navy's Coronavirus Epicenter
Susan Selasky / Detroit Free Press:
First known COVID-19 deaths of grocery store workers in Mich. reported at Kroger, Meijer
Discussion: Breitbart
Washington Post:
Don't like the Wisconsin election mess? Don't blame the courts.
Michael Specter / New Yorker:
How Anthony Fauci Became America's Doctor
Maria Varenikova / New York Times:
Chernobyl Wildfires Reignite, Stirring Up Radiation
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
 Earlier Items: 
Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
Plagues, pain and politics: Coronavirus grips NYC
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Preëxisting Condition in the Oval Office
Jack Healy / New York Times:
It's ‘People, People, People’ as Lines Stretch Across America
James B. Comey / Washington Post:
We know what good leadership in a crisis looks like. This isn't it.
Discussion: IJR and The Hill
John Branch / New York Times:
Whoosh! That Car That Just Soared by Might Be Heading for the Coast
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Trump Administration Tells Employers Not To Worry About Recording COVID-19 Cases
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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