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11:40 AM 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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CNN:
Obama to endorse Biden for president today  —  (CNN)Former President Barack Obama will endorse Joe Biden on Tuesday, a source familiar with the plans tells CNN.  —  Obama will make the endorsement of his former vice president in a video message, offering why he believes Biden is the candidate needed …
NBC News:
Biden's Biden: How the former VP is approaching his running mate search
Discussion: MSNBC
Washington Post:
Former president Barack Obama to announce support for Joe Biden, his former vice president
Discussion: Politico and Outside the Beltway
CBS News:   Obama expected to endorse Biden for president on Tuesday
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:   Hello, What's This? The Democrats Aren't in Disarray
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
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.
Discussion: Mediaite and Twitchy
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 …
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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Susan Page / USA Today:
Trump on the defensive: A White House coronavirus briefing becomes a campaign rally
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
The Me President: Trump uses pandemic briefing to focus on himself
Discussion: NBC News
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Where the Risk of Coronavirus Comes With Unparalleled Access
Discussion: PressThink
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
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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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 …
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
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.
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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: Mediaite
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:   Biden's primary triumph opens Democrats' map against Trump
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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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
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
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox / Forbes:
What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common?  Women Leaders  —  I write about building gender-balanced businesses  —  Looking for examples of true leadership in a crisis?  From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, women are stepping up to show the world …
Discussion: Latest
Washington Post:
President Trump made 18,000 false or misleading claims in 1,170 days  —  When we last updated our database of President Trump's false or misleading claims, it was on Jan. 19, the end of his third year as president.  The president's most frequently repeated false claim was that he presided …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
 
 
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Your Coronavirus Check Is Coming. Your Bank Can Grab It.
Lawrence Mower / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida should social distance until a vaccine exists — even if it's next year, surgeon general says
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
Bloomberg:
Trump's Key 2020 States Reel Under Twin Blows of Virus, Job Loss
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
It looks like Putin conned the FBI into the ‘Russiagate’ probe
Politico:
Pelosi looks to seize Trump's bully pulpit
Scottie Andrew / CNN:
Nearly 30% in the US believe a coronavirus theory that's almost certainly not true
Discussion: The Guardian
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

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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