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Trump's ugly new blame-shifting scam spotlights his own failures — President Trump is spinning his new decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization as an act of decisive leadership — one that showcases his devotion to effective crisis management, to gathering good empirical information …
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Crooked Media, The American Independent, The Hill, mercatus.org/bridge, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Tangle and The Week
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Trump halt to WHO funding violates same law as Ukraine aid freeze, House Democrats say — President Donald Trump's halt to World Health Organization funding is illegal and violates the same federal spending laws as the Ukraine aid freeze that partly prompted his impeachment, House Democrats said on Wednesday.
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Law & Crime, Fox News and One America News Network
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Trump's WHO cutoff sends officials, allies scrambling — President Donald Trump's 60-day freeze on U.S. funding of the World Health Organization was met with swift criticism Wednesday, with defenders of the United Nations agency denouncing the directive as a risky and baffling maneuver amid …
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ABC News, The Federalist, Washington Post, CBS News, Talking Points Memo, Vox, The Daily Caller, One America News Network, Raw Story and Breitbart
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Bill Gates, in rebuke of Trump, calls WHO funding cut during pandemic ‘as dangerous as it sounds’
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The American Independent, National Review, Fox News, Mediaite, UN Dispatch, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review and The Week
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's inaction has a staggering toll
Trump's inaction has a staggering toll
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Raw Story, Daily Kos, UN News and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jenna Amatulli / HuffPost:
CDC Director Distances From Trump, Says Relationship With WHO Has Been ‘Productive’
CDC Director Distances From Trump, Says Relationship With WHO Has Been ‘Productive’
Charlie Campbell / TIME:
‘A Crime Against Humanity.’ Why Trump's WHO Funding Freeze Benefits Nobody
‘A Crime Against Humanity.’ Why Trump's WHO Funding Freeze Benefits Nobody
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Just Security, NBC News and POLITICUSUSA
Yeganeh Torbati / ProPublica:
Trump Administration Officials Warned Against Halting Funding to WHO, Leaked Memo Shows
Trump Administration Officials Warned Against Halting Funding to WHO, Leaked Memo Shows
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Washington Post, New York Times, The White House, Daily Kos and NPR
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Trumpists Urging People to Leave Their Homes to Own the Libs — There is a growing resistance on the right that threatens to add additional stress to a political system already nearing the breaking point. — A protest movement is taking hold targeting states that have extended social-distancing rules …
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Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
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Furious Crowd Gathers At Michigan Capitol To Protest ‘Stay Home’ Order — Lineup of cars extends for miles outside of Lansing — (WWJ) Large and raucous crowds showed up in Michigan's capital Wednesday for what organizers are calling “Operation Gridlock.”
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Grassroots backlash grows against Whitmer's excessive stay-home order
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KNWA FOX24, Breitbart, Big League Politics, WZZM-TV and Disrn
Adam K. Raymond / New York Magazine:
Crowds Gather Around the Country to Protest Social Distancing
Crowds Gather Around the Country to Protest Social Distancing
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NBC News, The Daily Caller and Raleigh News & Observer
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A caravan of angry Michiganders exposes the complicated politics of the coronavirus shutdown
A caravan of angry Michiganders exposes the complicated politics of the coronavirus shutdown
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Politico, CNN, Law & Crime, WJBK-TV and Breitbart
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump supporters are willing to die to reopen economy: 'When it's my time to go, God's going to call me home'
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Weed Up, Hoes Down in Whitmer's Michigan
Weed Up, Hoes Down in Whitmer's Michigan
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Detroit News, The Daily Signal and The Gateway Pundit
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We've never backed a Democrat for president. But Trump must be defeated. — The authors are on the advisory board of the Lincoln Project. — This November, Americans will cast their most consequential votes since Abraham Lincoln's reelection in 1864. We confront a constellation of crises …
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Joe Biden Has Yet to Face Single Question on Sexual Assault Allegations — Recent Stories in 2020 Election — Joe Biden Has Yet to Face Single Question on Sexual Assault Allegations — Warren Becomes Last of Major 2020 Dems to Endorse Biden — Bernie Sanders Bends the Knee to the Establishment, Again
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National Review, Fox News, Disrn, Commentary, American Greatness and IJR
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Why Trump's slump is likely to last all year
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Fox News, Washington Post and ohpredictiveinsights …
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Stacey Abrams On Voting Rights, COVID-19, And Being Vice President — “I would be an excellent running mate.” — Experienced politicians know there is a right way to answer questions about pursuing higher office. Be demure. Redirect. Convey vague interest while insisting never to have given it serious consideration.
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Washington Post, IJR, The Daily Caller, Axios, The Hill, Breitbart, National Review, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, The Week, Mediaite, CNN, Business Insider Malaysia, New York Post, Townhall, Twitchy, New York Times and NBC News
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Trump Wanted a Radio Show, but He Didn't Want to Compete With Limbaugh — President Trump said he envisioned a show running two hours a day, according to White House officials, and would do it were it not for the risk of encroaching on Rush Limbaugh, the conservative host.
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Rescue Fund to Run Dry Today, Leaving Small Firms Shut Out — Small fims have been flooding banks with loan applications — Congress is debating allocating an additional $250 billion — A $349 billion federal relief program for U.S. small businesses is expected to run out of money this afternoon …
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Redstate, National Review, Wall Street Journal, Reason, Washington Free Beacon, The Week and Twitchy
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Republicans wary of Mnuchin's coronavirus relief talks with Dems
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Associated Press, Fox News, The Hill and Raw Story
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Big restaurant chains get small business aid, sparking backlash
Big restaurant chains get small business aid, sparking backlash
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Equitable Growth and The Hill
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Trump told testing is key to reopening during business panel call — The call, one of a series with various sectors on Wednesday, was the first task force teleconference aimed at devising a strategy for reopening the country. The call lasted for about an hour and had dozens of participants …
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Politico
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CNN accused of ‘literally publishing Chinese propaganda’ — CNN is under fire for allegedly publishing “Chinese propaganda” in a report that cites a media outlet controlled by the Chinese government. — On Monday, CNN.com ran an article about China People's Liberation Army (PLA) …
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CNN, Townhall, The US Sun, The Daily Caller, American Greatness and Twitchy
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China didn't warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days — In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people …
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The Heartbreaking Last Texts of a Hospital Worker on the Front Lines — Madhvi Aya worked long hours in the emergency room of a hospital in Brooklyn that was battered by the coronavirus. Then she caught the virus herself. — Lying in a hospital bed last month, Madhvi Aya understood what was happening to her.
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Kentucky just made it harder to vote during a pandemic — Wisconsin-style tactics come to Kentucky. — Kentucky's heavily Republican legislature voted Tuesday to require voters to show a government-issued photo ID, overriding Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's veto in the process.
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Baseball? Coachella? Handshakes? Tinder? Anthony Fauci on the New Rules of Living With Coronavirus — Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn't at Donald Trump's side for his daily coronavirus task force briefing on Tuesday. But Fauci's aggressive and unpredictable media tour continued on Snapchat …
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New York Post and The Daily Caller
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Top Israeli prof claims simple stats show virus plays itself out after 70 days — Isaac Ben-Israel, who is not a medical expert, says analysis worldwide shows new cases peaking after about 40 days, slams economic closures; leading doctor dismisses his claims
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Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
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Pentagon barred from discussing Trump in JEDI contract probe — The Pentagon's inspector general “could not definitively determine” whether the White House influenced the procurement process for a major cloud computing contract because senior Defense Department officials were barred …
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Associated Press, more at Techmeme »
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False Prophet — On February 28, Donald Trump stood before a crowd of supporters in South Carolina and told them to pay no attention to the growing warnings of a coronavirus outbreak in America. The press was “in hysteria mode,” the president said. The Democrats were playing politics.
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The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams. Here's why. — The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams. Here's why. — Researchers explain why withdrawal from our usual environments—due to social distancing—has left dreamers with a dearth of “inspiration.”
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As U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House team raced to secure face coverings from Taiwan for senior staff — In mid-March, a National Security Council team rushed to fix what they saw as a threat to the U.S. government's ability to function amid the advancing pandemic …
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Possible Chinese Nuclear Testing Stirs U.S. Concern — Beijing might secretly be conducting small nuclear tests at its Lop Nur site, report says — China might be secretly conducting nuclear tests with very low explosive power despite Beijing's assertions that it is strictly adhering …
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New York Post and The Week
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Which elder-care facilities have COVID-19? Florida won't say, filling families with dread — A devoted grandson learns his grandmother died alone last weekend. The family was never told she had fallen ill. A fragile mother is moved from her room so the senior home can expand its “quarantine wing.”
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Sun-Sentinel and NPR
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Business Leaders Urge Trump to Dramatically Increase Coronavirus Testing — During first call to discuss reopening country, executives tell president more testing is needed to convince public to return to work
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The New Civil Rights Movement and New York Post
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Graphic detail — PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has often likened the American experience of the covid-19 pandemic to a war. In many ways, the public-health battle against the coronavirus has resembled a military one. Health-care workers, like soldiers on the front lines, are sacrificing their lives.