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11:35 AM ET, April 13, 2020

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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.
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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 …
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:   Trump Retweets Call for Dr. Fauci to Be Fired Over Coronavirus Comments
Navy.mil The Official Website …:
Navy Sailor Assigned to USS Theodore Roosevelt Dies of COVID-Related Complications  —  From U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs  —  PEARL HARBOR (NNS) — The Sailor assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the U.S. Naval Hospital Guam April 9 …
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New York Times:
‘There Will Be Losses’: How a Captain's Plea Exposed a Rift in the Military  —  The coronavirus crisis aboard the carrier Theodore Roosevelt spurred another chapter in the hollowing out of the Navy's leadership, in particular under the Trump administration.  —  WASHINGTON — The captain had reached a breaking point.
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
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.”
Politico:
Democrats fear for November after Wisconsin voting spectacle  —  Democrats looked on in horror last week as thousands of voters in Wisconsin trekked to polling places and waited in lines for hours to cast ballots in the midst of a pandemic.  —  Now national Democratic party leaders …
Discussion: Associated Press and ABC News
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Exclusive: Michelle Obama to push absentee voting amid coronavirus
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and New York Post
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Michelle Obama group backs expanding voting options for 2020
Discussion: Florida Politics
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.”
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 …
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
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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
Politico:
States still baffled over how to get coronavirus supplies from Trump  —  Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was pleading with the federal government to send ventilators.  —  The state was starting to see hundreds of new coronavirus cases pop up each day, and Polis, a Democrat, worried that hospitals …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
‘Absolute Clusterf-k’: Inside the Denial and Dysfunction of Trump's Coronavirus Task Force
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Neil M. Barofsky / New York Times:
Why We Desperately Need Oversight of the Coronavirus Stimulus Spending  —  Rigorous watchdogs can ensure that vast amounts of taxpayer money aren't lost to fraud or handed out as political favors.  —  Mr. Barofsky is the former special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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Washington Post:   Who's getting these hundreds of billions in the government aid?  For now, the public may be in the dark.
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.
Tom Polansek / Reuters:
Smithfield shutting U.S. pork plant indefinitely, warns of meat shortages during pandemic  —  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving …
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Danielle Wiener-Bronner / CNN:
One of the largest pork processing facilities in the US is closing until further notice
Discussion: PJ Media Home
R. Albert Mohler, Jr / The Federalist:
Government Officials Use Pandemic As Excuse To Attack Christianity  —  Declaring religious services to be ‘non-essential’ is beyond the rightful role of government.  Instead, officials should equally apply all limits.  —  He really said it—and just three days before Easter.
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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.
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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NBC News:
Trump eager to restart economy by May as he weighs ‘toughest’ decision of his presidency
Discussion: CNN
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Supreme Court to hear cases by telephone in May  —  The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments via teleconference in May, it announced Monday.  —  Why it matters: It's the first time the court will hear cases remotely — and it'll allow the media to listen in as well …
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 …
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
‘It feels like a war zone’: As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work  —  At least 41 grocery workers have died of the coronavirus and thousands more have tested positive in recent weeks  —  Doug Preszler wasn't thinking about risk when he took a cashier job at a regional supermarket in eastern Iowa.
Robert Samuelson / Washington Post:
The debt reckoning has finally arrived  —  We finally have a plausible answer to a question that has haunted U.S. government for more than half a century: Why should we bother balancing the budget?  —  The answer, as practiced by political leaders of both parties, has been: We shouldn't.
 
 
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: In four devastating weeks, Americans' fears of the coronavirus have exploded
Discussion: NBC News and Washington Post
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Here's How We Extricate Ourselves From This Lockdown
Wall Street Journal:
The Employer Will Test You Now  —  Reopening the economy …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump campaign, RNC raise $212 million in first quarter amid impeachment, coronavirus
Discussion: The Hill
Josh Smith / Reuters:
South Korea reports more recovered coronavirus patients testing positive again
The City:
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 Earlier Items: 
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Governor DeSantis touted alcohol-free hand sanitizer not recommended by the CDC
New York Times:
How Biogen Became a Coronavirus ‘Superspreader’
Axios:
The coronavirus is about to devastate state and city economies
Todd S. Purdum / The Atlantic:
What Biden Learned the Last Time the World Stopped
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate hits pause on confirming Trump's judges
CNN:
Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research, amid US-China row on virus origin
Discussion: National Review and The Week
The Guardian:
Bolsonaro dragging Brazil towards coronavirus calamity, experts fear
 

 
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Financial Times:
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