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HuffPost:
Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons' Significant Others — Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle are each receiving $15,000 per month through the campaign manager's private company, GOP sources said, to dodge FEC rules. — WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump's campaign …
NBC News:
In Trump's ‘LIBERATE’ tweets, extremists see a call to arms — Trump's tweets pushed many online extremist communities to speculate whether the president was advocating for armed conflict, an event they've termed “the boogaloo.” — When President Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MINNESOTA! …
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Mary McCord / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘LIBERATE MICHIGAN!’ tweets incite insurrection. That's illegal. — Federal law bans advocating the overthrow of government. — President Trump incited insurrection Friday against the duly elected governors of the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia.
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Redstate, The New Civil Rights Movement, New York Times, Esquire, The US Sun and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Rallies against stay-at-home orders grow as Trump sides with protesters — Protesters at state capitols across the country this week expressed their deep frustration with the stay-at-home orders that are meant to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, pushing a message that is rapidly coalescing among …
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KTLA:
Defying social distancing rules, demonstrators gather in Huntington Beach to protest California's stay-at-home order — More than 100 demonstrators gathered in Huntington Beach Friday, defying social distancing guidelines, to protest California's stay-at-home order.
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Los Angeles Times
Keith Collins / New York Times:
Coronavirus Testing Needs to Triple Before the U.S. Can Reopen, Experts Say — Average Daily Coronavirus Tests in the U.S. — Level needed to safely — reopen — 152 tests — tests per 100,000 people — Current level — 45 tests — tests per 100,000 people — Level to reopen
medRxiv:
COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California … Background Addressing COVID-19 is a pressing health and social concern. To date, many epidemic projections and policies addressing COVID-19 have been designed without seroprevalence data to inform epidemic parameters.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan, National Review, MIT Technology Review, Talking Points Memo, Twitchy, Seeking Alpha and The Spinoff
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ABC News:
Antibody research indicates coronavirus may be far more widespread than known
Antibody research indicates coronavirus may be far more widespread than known
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New York Post, Power Line, The Daily Caller, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Ross Clark / Spectator USA:
Stanford study suggests coronavirus is more widespread than realized
Stanford study suggests coronavirus is more widespread than realized
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Spectator
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Calls For Reopening America's Gyms Day After Call With SoulCycle's Owner — Stephen Ross, the founder and chairman of the Related Companies, is part of the president's economic revitalization team. He also threw Trump a massive fundraiser. — President Donald Trump unveiled …
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The New Civil Rights Movement, Washington Post and The Guardian
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Advisers warn Trump his push to reopen economy carries political risks
Advisers warn Trump his push to reopen economy carries political risks
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Politico, The Hill, Breitbart, Vanity Fair, Daily Kos and POLITICUSUSA
Raleigh News & Observer:
Life Disrupted: 24 hours of coronavirus in North Carolina — In some ways, this is like any other North Carolina springtime. — Pollen coats cars like frosting. Choruses of spring peepers fill the air in wooded areas, while the hum of lawn mowers drones on all day in suburbia.
Washington Post:
Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz aren't coronavirus experts. So why are they talking about it on TV news? — Dr. Phil had much to say about the coronavirus lockdown the other night on Fox News. — “Look, the fact of the matter is we have people dying — 45,000 people a year die from automobile accidents …
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New York Times
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News keeps inviting TV doctors on air who say crazy things
Fox News keeps inviting TV doctors on air who say crazy things
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Daily Kos, Deadline, Talking Points Memo and Forbes
CNN:
Democrats confront Pence: ‘I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life’ — Washington (CNN)Senate Democrats grilled Vice President Mike Pence over coronavirus testing and President Donald Trump's tweets during a tense phone call Friday afternoon on the pandemic response.
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The Mahablog
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life’
‘I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life’
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Letters from an American, Fox News, Bangor Daily News, Daily Kos and Vanity Fair
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Trump administration is muzzling government scientists. It's essential to let them speak candidly to the press again. — Kathryn Foxhall remembers a time when reporters could call up any doctor or researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and ask them questions on the record.
New York Times:
Amid Pandemic, Hong Kong Arrests Major Pro-Democracy Figures — Rarely have so many prominent pro-democracy figures — over a dozen — been arrested at once. The arrests signaled a broader crackdown on the antigovernment movement that roiled the semiautonomous city last year.
New York Times:
'They're Death Pits': Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes — More than six weeks after the first coronavirus deaths in a nursing home, outbreaks unfold across the country. About a fifth of U.S. virus deaths are linked to nursing facilities.
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The Daily Beast, The Hill, The Root and The Week
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James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
Paul O'Neill, Former Treasury Secretary and Alcoa CEO, Dies at 84 — Maverick clashed with colleagues in George W. Bush administration over tax cuts and environment — Paul O'Neill, a former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Alcoa chief executive whose independence and blunt speaking style led …
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
The Coronavirus Doesn't Have a Social Message — Most plagues have had scapegoats. There seems to be something deep, deep, deep in human nature that responds to existential threats like this one by seeking to blame someone else, or some other group, or even an errant individual.
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Equitable Growth
Jason Gay / Wall Street Journal:
Stay Home! Back to Work! A Dog and Cat Debate Reopening America — You think this decision is strictly yours. It's not.
Miami Herald:
Amid rebukes over secrecy, Florida prison system begins to reveal ravages of coronavirus — For weeks the Florida Department of Corrections refused to address rumors that inmates with coronavirus-like symptoms — or those who had come into contact with symptomatic inmates or staff …
Washington Post:
The White House praised hotels for housing doctors. Cities say Trump's hotels aren't participating. — Thousands of U.S. hotels have volunteered to help local authorities house doctors, nurses and other medical personnel at reduced rates — or even free — during the covid-19 pandemic.
New York Post:
Facebook's ‘fact checkers’ are the real fake news after censoring Post story — Way back on Feb. 23, The Post ran an opinion piece by Steven Mosher saying that we couldn't trust China's story about the origins of COVID-19. He argued that the virus might — might — have jumped …
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The National Interest and LifeSiteNews
Yahoo News:
Sunlight destroys virus quickly, new govt. tests find, but experts say pandemic could last through summer — Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight …
governor.wa.gov:
Inslee statement on Trump encouraging illegal and dangerous acts — Gov. Jay Inslee released a statement today on President Trump's comments around “liberating” parts of the country. — “The president's statements this morning encourage illegal and dangerous acts.
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The Intercept, Informed Comment, HuffPost, Breitbart and National Review
Sister Toldjah / Redstate:
WaPo Fact Checker Glenn Kessler Morphs Into WHO Apologist in Ridiculous Fact Check on Trump — If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Media fact checkers need full time fact checkers to fact check their fact checks. — Or something like that.
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The Guardian, Althouse, Washington Post and Twitchy
Los Angeles Times:
Trump and Biden clash over China in dueling ads — President Trump's intensifying criticism of China isn't just about deflecting blame during the coronavirus crisis — it's opening up a new line of attack against Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
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NBC News, YouTube and Washington Post
Scott Shackford / Reason:
A Teenager Posted About Her COVID-19 Infection on Instagram. A Deputy Threatened To Arrest Her If She Didn't Delete It. — A family in Oxford, Wisconsin, is suing the local sheriff's department after a patrol sergeant threatened to arrest a teenage girl for disorderly conduct for posting …
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The College Fix and Redstate
Amir Vera / CNN:
Jacksonville beaches reopen in Florida as states begin easing stay-at-home restrictions — (CNN)Beaches and parks in Jacksonville, Florida, reopened Friday afternoon as more states consider easing restrictions put in place to battle the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Week, HuffPost, ABC17NEWS, Raw Story, COJ.net, The Capitolist and New York Post
Henry Grabar / Slate:
Nothing About New York's Outbreak Was Inevitable — Politicians and pundits are acting like the city was destined for a tragedy. They're wrong. — Seven weeks after its first recorded coronavirus case, New York has become the global center of the pandemic.
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New York Daily News
Daniel McGraw / The Bulwark:
The Problem with the Rush to Reopen — Trump says some states can end their shutdowns “literally tomorrow.” But those states have not yet shown a clear downward trajectory in new COVID-19 cases. — When President Donald Trump announced his “Guidelines for Opening Up America Again” …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
GOP's growing ‘open it up’ caucus urges fewer virus restrictions amid warnings from fellow Republicans — A growing number of Republican lawmakers across the country are pushing for a more rapid reboot of the American economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the risk of spreading more sickness …