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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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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Joe Biden racks up another big endorsement: Elizabeth Warren  —  Warren announced she's backing Biden after Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama did the same.  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed Joe Biden for president, marking a third day of high-profile endorsements for the former vice president …
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall:
A Fun Look Back at the Worst Things Bernie and Liz Have Said About Joe  —  So Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have now officially endorsed Joe Biden for president.  And no one is probably more surprised than them.  Some of the worst critiques of the former vice president came from their own mouths.
Max Boot / Washington Post:   Republicans who don't like Trump have no excuses: Endorse Biden
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Sanders says opposing Biden is ‘irresponsible’
Eric Cortellessa / Washington Monthly:
An Open Letter to Bernie's Supporters
Discussion: IJR, HuffPost and The Wrap
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Elizabeth Warren endorses Joe Biden
CBS News:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “It's legitimate to talk about” allegations against Joe Biden
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 Breitbart
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Susan Collins chides Trump for ‘very uneven’ performance on coronavirus
Discussion: National Review
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.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Leaked CDC and FEMA plan warns of ‘significant risk of resurgence of the virus’ with phased reopening
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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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
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.
Politico:
‘Should have happened yesterday’: Republicans press Trump to restart economy  —  President Donald Trump is itching to reopen the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.  And congressional Republicans are mostly giving him the green light — and in some cases, leaning on him to speed up.
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Dennis Romero / NBC News:   Indiana congressman says he's willing to let more Americans die to save economy
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: We must choose ‘loss of American lives’ over ‘loss of our way of life as Americans’
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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) …
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
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 …
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:   False Prophet  —  Media-bashing robocalls, chloroquine Twitter trolls …
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
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
Sheri Fink / New York Times:
Treating Coronavirus in a Central Park ‘Hot Zone’  —  They've set up field hospitals in wartime, after natural disasters and during disease outbreaks overseas.  But this is a first.  —  Rubber boots hung from a tree of wooden pegs in soggy Central Park after being sterilized with chlorine.
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.
Robert Faturechi / ProPublica:
Senator Richard Burr Sold D.C. Townhouse to Donor at a Rich Price  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr …
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
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.
 
 
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Financial Times:
US allies line up to condemn Donald Trump's WHO funding suspension
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Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Major Democratic Group Received $100,000 in Chinese Government-Linked Tech Firm Stock
Discussion: National Review
Walter E. Williams / Townhall:
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David Rothkopf / USA Today:
Denial didn't get America past the Depression and it won't work for Trump on coronavirus
Ingrid Jacques / Detroit News:
Grassroots backlash grows against Whitmer's excessive stay-home order
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Don Jr. blasts Jim Acosta for saying Trump is ‘scapegoating’ …
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The Bulwark:
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Matthew J. Peterson / The American Mind:
A Time for Statesmanship  —  The president has got to make a decision.
Associated Press:
In nod to governors, Trump walks back total authority claim
Discussion: The Hill
France 24:
McDonald's apologises after China store bans black people
Hilary Lewis / Hollywood Reporter:
Rita Wilson Shares How She and Tom Hanks Contracted Coronavirus, “Extreme” Chloroquine Side Effects
Discussion: Vulture, The Hill and Twitchy
Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
 
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