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12:20 PM ET, April 14, 2020

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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
‘Accelerate the Endgame’: Obama's Role in Wrapping Up the Primary  —  Over the past year, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and former President Barack Obama practiced a political distancing of sorts, with Mr. Obama maintaining a posture of public neutrality in the Democratic primaries …
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Joe Biden / YouTube:
President Barack Obama endorses Joe Biden For President … On April 14, 2020, President Obama endorsed Joe Biden For President.  He noted Biden's leadership on health care, climate change, and the 2008 recovery, and said that he believes that Biden is the person who can heal the country in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
ohpredictiveinsights.cmail19.com:
Biden Extends Lead in Arizona  —  PHOENIX (April 14th, 2020) -As Arizona residents endure a stay-at-home order and thousands of people suffer from coronavirus, President Donald Trump continues to fall in a head-to-head matchup with former Vice President Joe Biden.
Discussion: Forbes, Mediaite and New York Times
NBC News:
Biden's Biden: How the former VP is approaching his running mate search
Discussion: MSNBC
Politico:
Obama endorses Biden's White House bid
Discussion: Fox News, IJR and Too Much Information
Washington Post:
Former president Barack Obama to announce support for Joe Biden, his former vice president
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
NBC News:
Obama to endorse Joe Biden on Tuesday
Discussion: Associated Press and Axios
CBS News:   Obama expected to endorse Biden for president on Tuesday
Neal Rothschild / Axios:   Biden's primary triumph opens Democrats' map against Trump
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Upset Victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Gives Democrats a Lift  —  A liberal challenger's surprise triumph over a Trump-backed incumbent demonstrated strong turnout and vote-by-mail efforts for the Democrats in a key general election state.  —  Democrats scored an enormous political …
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Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
What Happens in Wisconsin May Not Stay in Wisconsin  —  Are Republicans sick and tired of all the #winning yet?  —  Karma being the bitch Goddess that she is, Republican-backed conservative supreme court justice Dan Kelly was defeated by his liberal challenger in Wisconsin.  And it was not even close.
Discussion: New York Times
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Hello, What's This? The Democrats Aren't in Disarray
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:   All seven Supreme Court justices voted absentee, even those who hadn't in the past
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Trump-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court justice falls to liberal challenger in swing-state election
Discussion: ABC News
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Bloomberg News Killed Investigation, Fired Reporter, Then Sought To Silence His Wife  —  Toggle more options  —  Michael Bloomberg's short-lived presidential bid reignited a long-simmering dispute over the widespread use of non-disclosure agreements at American corporations — especially at his own.
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
South Dakota's governor resisted ordering people to stay home.  Now it has one of the nation's largest coronavirus hot spots.  —  As governors across the country fell into line in recent weeks, South Dakota's top elected leader stood firm: There would be no statewide order to stay home.
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New York Times:
U.S. Food Supply Chain Is Strained as Virus Spreads
Tamar Lapin / New York Post:
Coronavirus-stricken Chris Cuomo trashes CNN gig during radio show meltdown  —  Chris Cuomo's coronavirus-induced fever may have subsided but the CNN anchor was red hot on Monday.  —  The longtime cable host, 49, had a mini-existential crisis on his SiriusXM show, lashing …
Samantha J. Gross / Miami Herald:
DeSantis deems pro wrestling ‘essential business’ amid statewide stay-at-home order  —  Count professional wrestling among the essential businesses like grocery stores and pharmacies that can stay open despite coronavirus-related restrictions statewide.  —  WWE will continue taping …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
WWE deemed an essential business in Florida
Discussion: NPR
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The Times Took 19 Days to Report an Accusation Against Biden.  Here's Why.  —  Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, said the article was published when there was enough reporting “to present to readers for them to make their own judgment.”
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David Smith / The Guardian:
Wounded by media scrutiny, Trump turned a briefing into a presidential tantrum  —  President lashed out at reporters, swiped at Biden and refused to accept that he had put a foot wrong in coronavirus response  —  Play Video  —  A toddler threw a self-pitying tantrum on live television on Monday night.
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
The Me President: Trump uses pandemic briefing to focus on himself
Discussion: NBC News
Susan Page / USA Today:
Trump on the defensive: A White House coronavirus briefing becomes a campaign rally
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses  —  Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Cuomo warns of constitutional crisis 'like you haven't seen in decades' if Trump tries to reopen New York  —  “We don't have a king — we have a president,” the governor warned, saying that reopening the economy too soon could result in more coronavirus deaths.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Anti-malarial drug touted by Trump was subject of CIA warning to employees  —  The CIA has privately advised its workforce that taking an anti-malarial drug touted by President Trump and some of his supporters as a promising treatment for the novel coronavirus has potentially dangerous side effects, including sudden death.
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair:
Behold Dune: An Exclusive Look at Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, and More  —  Feuding royals.  A deadly planet.  Before Star Wars or Game of Thrones, there was Frank Herbert's legendary sci-fi novel.  Part two of V.F.'s report on Denis Villeneuve's new movie.
Associated Press:
Fauci: 'We're not there yet' on key steps to reopen economy  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday the U.S. does not yet have the critical testing and tracing procedures needed to begin reopening the nation's economy …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Tax change in coronavirus package overwhelmingly benefits millionaires, congressional body finds  —  The provision, included by Senate Republicans, would cost taxpayers approximately $90 billion in 2020  —  More than 80 percent of the benefits of a tax change tucked into the coronavirus …
Discussion: Mother Jones
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Your Coronavirus Check Is Coming.  Your Bank Can Grab It.  —  Regulators have given banks the green light to use stimulus funds to pay off debts that individuals owe them.  —  The situation highlights many Americans' travails with the consumer banking system.
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Prominent Virginia pastor who said ‘God is larger than this dreaded virus’ dies of covid-19  —  A prominent Richmond-area evangelical pastor died on the eve of Easter after contracting the novel coronavirus.  —  Bishop Gerald Glenn, founder and leader since 1995 of the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church …
Discussion: Kaiser Health News
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Silvia Amaro / CNBC:
IMF slashes growth forecasts, says world will ‘very likely’ experience worst recession since the 1930s  — The Washington-based organization expects the global economy to contract by 3% 2020.  — The Fund expects a “partial recovery” in 2021, but this is conditional on an improvement in the health crisis.
Discussion: Disrn
 
 
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
Our Pandemic Summer … What a difference a few months can make.
Washington Post:
President Trump made 18,000 false or misleading claims in 1,170 days
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NBC News:
Delay the November election? What voters think about coronavirus and the campaign.
Discussion: MSNBC
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Poll: Black VP pick could boost Biden
Discussion: The Hill
David Harsanyi / National Review:
Coronavirus Authoritarianism Is Getting Out of Hand
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Liberal Media Scream: Reporter suggests payback for Trump voters, ‘now your loved ones can die’
Discussion: Redstate and The Gateway Pundit
 Earlier Items: 
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox / Forbes:
What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common? Women Leaders
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Key 2020 States Reel Under Twin Blows of Virus, Job Loss
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Pelosi looks to seize Trump's bully pulpit