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12:15 PM ET, April 15, 2020

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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
In unprecedented move, Treasury orders Trump's name printed on stimulus checks  —  The Treasury Department has ordered President Trump's name be printed on stimulus checks the Internal Revenue Service is rushing to send to tens of millions of Americans, a process that is expected to slow …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump's self-quarantine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  ONE OF THE DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS of the political persona that DONALD TRUMP created was that he had a knack for relationships — building them and maintaining them.  When relationships weren't going his way …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and HuffPost
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Why Trump's slump is likely to last all year  —  The president is losing ground in polls, faces a worsening economy, and is watching Democrats unify behind Joe Biden ahead of schedule.  —  President Trump is in an increasingly precarious position for reelection as he struggles to maintain focus …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Sanders says opposing Biden is ‘irresponsible’
Max Boot / Washington Post:   Republicans who don't like Trump have no excuses: Endorse Biden
Washington Post:
Trump wants to declare country open by May 1 — but the reality will be much slower  —  President Trump has all but decided to begin declaring the country ready to get back to business on May 1, two current and two former senior administration officials said, but a scramble is underway inside …
Discussion: Raw Story
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David Lim / Politico:
Coronavirus testing hits dramatic slowdown in U.S.  —  The number of coronavirus tests analyzed each day by commercial labs in the U.S. plummeted by more than 30 percent over the past week, even though new infections are still surging in many states and officials are desperately trying to ramp up testing so the country can reopen.
Discussion: National Review
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Leaked CDC and FEMA plan warns of ‘significant risk of resurgence of the virus’ with phased reopening  —  A draft national strategy to reopen the country in phases, developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Discussion: National Review
Associated Press:
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 …
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Bill Gates, in rebuke of Trump, calls WHO funding cut during pandemic ‘as dangerous as it sounds’  —  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates criticized President Trump's decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization as “dangerous,” saying the payments should continue particularly during the global coronavirus pandemic.
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Reuters:
Trump halts World Health Organization funding amid coronavirus pandemic  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would halt funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic while his administration reviews its response to the global crisis.
Mark Leon Goldberg / UN Dispatch:
The Trump Administration's Decision to Freeze Funding for the World Health Organization …
Discussion: The Daily Signal, NPR and RAPPLER
Quint Forgey / Politico:
CDC director: WHO remains ‘a great partner for us’ despite Trump's funding cuts
Discussion: The Federalist, Politico and Raw Story
Elaina Plott / New York Times:
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.
Melissa Harris-Perry / ELLE:
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.
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Indiana congressman says he's willing to let more Americans die to save economy  —  Favoring the economy over Americans' health “is the lesser of two evils,” Rep. Trey Hollingsworth said.  —  Reopening the economy is preferable to preventing a new wave of coronavirus deaths, a member of Congress from Indiana said Tuesday.
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Justine Coleman / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: We must choose ‘loss of American lives’ over ‘loss of our way of life as Americans’
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Elizabeth Warren endorses Joe Biden  —  WASHINGTON — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden's presidential bid Wednesday, making her the latest prominent Democrat to publicly throw their support behind Biden in recent days.
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
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) …
The Daily Beast:
Barr Pressed Australia for Help on Mueller Review as DOJ Worked to Free Its Hostages  —  DOUBLE TRACK  —  While his deputies finalized a plan with Australian officials to free two bloggers from a Tehran prison, Bill Barr had another request: help on his look back at the Russia probe.
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
MLB players, team employees participating in coronavirus study  —  Employees of Major League Baseball teams are participating in a massive study that will test up to 10,000 people for coronavirus antibodies and should offer researchers a better sense of how widespread the disease …
Discussion: The Athletic, HuffPost and The Week
Yahoo News:
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.”
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel and NPR
Anna Merlan / The Guardian:
After the end of the world: the eerie silence of the Las Vegas Strip  —  The Las Vegas Strip looks like the morning after the end of the world.  —  On a recent day in late March, the strip was full of advertisements for things that read like transmissions from another planet where the air is easier to breathe.
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
75% of migrants deported to Guatemala on single flight tested positive for coronavirus: Health minister  —  Health Minister Hugo Monroy said a spike in cases was due to U.S. deportations.  —  A single deportation flight to Guatemala by the U.S. government saw more than 75% …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Frank Main / Chicago Sun Times:
Pritzker arranging secret flights from China to bring millions of masks and gloves to Illinois  —  The governor is worried President Trump might try to seize the supplies for the federal stockpile so he's keeping the details quiet, a source said.  —  Gov. J.B. Pritzker is planning …
Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Major Democratic Group Received $100,000 in Chinese Government-Linked Tech Firm Stock  —  A prominent Democratic group poised to spend millions backing former vice president Joe Biden received $100,000 in the form of stock shares in the Chinese technology giant Baidu from an anonymous donor.
Discussion: National Review
Walter E. Williams / Townhall:
Fixing College Corruption  —  America's colleges are rife with corruption.  The financial squeeze resulting from COVID-19 offers opportunities for a bit of remediation.  Let's first examine what might be the root of academic corruption, suggested by the title of a recent study …
Science:
Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period  —  1Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.  —  2Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Anchor: ‘Conservatives’ Heads Would've Exploded' if Obama Claimed ‘Total’ Authority  —  While Baier pointed out the rank hypocrisy, his Fox News colleague Brit Hume waved off Trump's comments as just another of the president's exaggerations.  —  Fox News anchor Bret Baier …
Matthew J. Peterson / The American Mind:
A Time for Statesmanship  —  The president has got to make a decision.  —  “I'm going to have to make a decision, and I only hope to God that it's the right decision.”  -Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, Good Friday, 2020 President Trump was right to declare war …
David Rothkopf / USA Today:
Denial didn't get America past the Depression and it won't work for Trump on coronavirus  —  It's terribly risky in a pandemic to have a president who is anti-fact, anti-science and without empathy.  Bad leaders who ignore crises make them much worse.  —  In March, the president, said the worst would be over in 60 days.
Ingrid Jacques / Detroit News:
Grassroots backlash grows against Whitmer's excessive stay-home order  —  Perhaps “the woman in Michigan” has let all the attention get to her head.  —  The fawning interviews and puff pieces from cable news networks and progressive media outlets happy to carry the Democratic Party's water …
Wilfred McClay / The James G. Martin Center …:
A Radical Pseudo-historian Meets His Match  —  Historians tend to be skeptical about the influence of books and ideas upon important historical developments, preferring to draw upon material or broadly social and cultural causes as the best explanations of large-scale change.
Discussion: National Review
Hilary Lewis / Hollywood Reporter:
Rita Wilson Shares How She and Tom Hanks Contracted Coronavirus, “Extreme” Chloroquine Side Effects  —  The actress and singer offered an update on her and her husband's condition more than a month after they both tested positive, and explained the origins of her “Hip Hop Hooray” …
Discussion: Vulture, The Hill and Twitchy
 
 
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Financial Times:
US allies line up to condemn Donald Trump's WHO funding suspension
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Don Jr. blasts Jim Acosta for saying Trump is ‘scapegoating’ …
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Associated Press:
In nod to governors, Trump walks back total authority claim
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France 24:
McDonald's apologises after China store bans black people
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Susan Collins chides Trump for ‘very uneven’ performance on coronavirus
Discussion: National Review
New York Times:
N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count
 

 
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