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2:05 PM ET, April 13, 2020

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Tim Mak / WBUR:
A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump's Promises Largely Unfulfilled04:32  —  One month ago today, President Trump declared a national emergency.  —  In a Rose Garden address, flanked by leaders from giant retailers and medical testing companies, he promised a mobilization of public …
Discussion: Raw Story
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Spends Easter Asking Confidants: ‘What Do You Think of Fauci?’  —  The president called various friends and allies over the weekend to ask for their opinion on the doctor he says he made a “star”—and even retweeted a call for his firing.  —  President Donald Trump spent much of this Easter weekend …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Lashes Out at Fauci Amid Criticism of Slow Virus Response  —  The president retweeted a post calling for the government's top infectious disease specialist to be fired after the doctor acknowledged that shutting down the country earlier could have saved lives.
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:   Trump Retweets Call for Dr. Fauci to Be Fired Over Coronavirus Comments
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Never Spoken to Joe Biden.  Here's What She Would Say.  —  In an interview, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said she intended to support the presumptive Democratic nominee, but the “process of coming together should be uncomfortable for everyone involved.”
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Robert Stacy McCain / The American Spectator:
The Worst Governor in America  —  Gretchen Whitmer imposes insane policies on Michigan.  —  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (YouTube screenshot)  —  One word keeps recurring in online discussions of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's latest orders to fight the state's raging COVID-19 outbreak: “Insanity.”
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Brandon Morse / Redstate:   Petition to Recall Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Floods With Signatures
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
‘Absolute Clusterf-k’: Inside the Denial and Dysfunction of Trump's Coronavirus Task Force  —  Missed warnings, conflicting messages, and broken promises — how the White House fumbled its response to the worst pandemic in a century  —  On February 24th, Dr. Duane Caneva …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
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Politico:
States still baffled over how to get coronavirus supplies from Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Trump says decision on coronavirus reopening belongs to him, not governors  —  President Trump tweeted Monday that the “decision to open up the states” following shutdown measures taken to stop the spread of the coronavirus lies with him, not governors.  —  Why it matters: The tweet undermines …
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Fox News:
Trump says decision coming ‘shortly’ on reopening economy, as task force formed
Discussion: Redstate and The Gateway Pundit
Kathleen Arberg / Supreme Court of the United States:
For Immediate Release  —  The Court will hear oral arguments by telephone conference on May 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13 in a limited number of previously postponed cases.  The following cases will be assigned argument dates after the Clerk's Office has confirmed the availability of counsel:
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Supreme Court to hear cases by telephone in May
YouTube:
White House adviser to 60 Minutes: Show me your pandemic story … 60 Minutes opens the archive on previous stories on U.S. pandemic preparedness after being challenged by White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.  See this week's full report on the need for PPE in hospitals, here: https://cbsn.ws/34AqLSK
Discussion: The Hill and The Root
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Biden's Polling Lead vs. Trump Isn't as Solid as It Looks  —  Consider two important measurement differences: battleground states versus other states, and registered voters versus likely voters.  —  President Trump and Joe Biden begin the general election campaign locked …
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
Josh Smith / Reuters:
South Korea reports more recovered coronavirus patients testing positive again  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea reported on Monday that at least 116 people initially cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again, although officials suggested they would soon look …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
GOP governor: Reopening the U.S. will be ‘just as tough, if not tougher’ than start of coronavirus outbreak  —  “I think that sometimes we all think we're going to turn a switch and we'll get back to normal, and that's just not going to happen,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said.
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Cuomo details goals for eventual reopening as NY death toll surpasses 10,000
Discussion: Politico
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Timeline of the Coronavirus Pandemic and U.S. Response  —  What follows is a comprehensive timeline of major U.S. policy events related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.  We've focused on the U.S. government's preparation for a pandemic, tracking warning signals of COVID-19 …
Washington Post:
THE PANDEMIC'S FIRST WAVE  —  Behind every data point on a curve or chart is a name and story of the earliest victims  —  It began one day in late February, with two people in King County, Wash.  —  Elsewhere, life in the United States was still relatively normal: economy humming, kids in school, games on, stores open, streets busy.
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump likely to announce new curbs on funding for World Health Organization this week  —  President Trump is likely to announce restrictions on U.S. funding for the World Health Organization this week over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as the administration and conservative allies ramped …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest rage-fest is one of his most absurd and dangerous yet
The Intercept:
Erik Prince Offered Lethal Services to Sanctioned Russian Mercenary Firm Wagner  —  Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater and a Trump administration adviser, has sought in recent months to provide military services to a sanctioned Russian mercenary firm in at least …
Stuart Emmrich / Vogue:
If You Can't Stop Staring at TV Anchors Home Backgrounds, You're Not Alone  —  On a recent morning, I found myself in my usual position—on my couch, planted in front of the TV, watching the news, something I have done every single day for hours at a time since the coronavirus pandemic came to New York.
New York Times:
The East Coast, Always in the Spotlight, Owes a Debt to the West  —  California, Oregon and Washington have shipped 1,000 ventilators to New York.  Should Western states be getting more attention for their relative success in battling Covid-19?  —  LOS ANGELES — California …
Discussion: The Guardian
Peter Kafka / Vox:
What went wrong with the media's coronavirus coverage?  —  President Trump speaks during a news conference with members of his Coronavirus Task Force on March 19.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images  —  And can we do better?  —  The coronavirus pandemic has crippled America.
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
How Mitch McConnell Became Trump's Enabler-in-Chief  —  The Senate Majority Leader's refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.  —  On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the weekend …
Miami Herald:
We're looking like ‘Flori-duh’ again, Gov. DeSantis.  Any idea how that happened?  —  You know what Florida really needs right now?  —  A governor.  —  But in Ron DeSantis, Florida, at this most challenging time of the coronavirus, has a hesitant leader who continues to split the baby …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Here's How We Extricate Ourselves From This Lockdown  —  ESCAPE PLAN  —  One expert said New Yorkers might be able to “throw a small party, depending on your age and demographic”—and who attends—by the end of the summer.  —  No politician or public health expert can say when the novel …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ken Davidoff / New York Post:
Anthony Causi, beloved Post sports photographer, dies of coronavirus at 48  —  Anthony Causi, a longtime photographer for The Post whose prolific talent and larger-than-life personality made him a fixture in the New York sports world, died Sunday of the coronavirus at North Shore University Hospital.
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
COVID-19 Impact on Daily Life Heightens  —  Many report increased stress, layoffs, shortages, loneliness  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The number of Americans who say the COVID-19 outbreak has had a major impact on their lives has risen by 9 points in the past three weeks, according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
Discussion: The Hill
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
February 2020  —  And every feeling Within me responds To the dismal knell; Shadows are trailing, My heart is bewailing And tolling within Like a funeral bell.  —  February 2020.  I doubt it will ever have the historical resonance, the immediacy of recognition, of either August 1914 or September 1939.
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate hits pause on confirming Trump's judges  —  The Senate's streak of judicial confirmations is on hiatus as senators confront the coronavirus outbreak, leaving more than three dozen nominees in limbo.  —  Until now, the Senate has rapidly confirmed President Donald Trump's judicial nominees …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
CNN:
Stanley Chera, New York real estate mogul and Trump friend, has died of coronavirus complications  —  New York (CNN Business)Stanley Chera, the prominent New York City real estate developer and Republican donor who co-founded Crown Acquisitions, has died of complications related to Covid-19 …
NBER:
How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19?  Early Evidence from a Survey  —  NBER Working Paper No. 26989  —  NBER Program(s):Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Law and Economics, Labor Studies, Public Economics, Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
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Axios:
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