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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Quietly Backs Away From Hyping Trump's Coronavirus ‘Miracle Drug’  —  After spending two full weeks of programming touting an anti-malarial drug as a coronavirus cure, Fox's primetime stars have pulled back almost entirely—and so has the president.
Discussion: Science
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Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press:
More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study  —  A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals.  There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Dodges on Hydroxychloroquine After Study Raises Red Flags  —  A government-funded analysis found hydroxychloroquine did not keep sick veterans alive or even off ventilators and was tied to more deaths.  —  President Trump was grilled Tuesday about his flogging of an anti-malaria drug …
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Southern governors create a Covid-19 coalition and experts fear a ‘perfect storm’  —  TALLAHASSEE — Republican governors across the Southeast are teaming up to reopen the region's economy, even as they lack the testing to know how rapidly the coronavirus is spreading.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Analysis: Pandemic fallout tracks nation's political divide
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Reuters:
Despite scattered protests, most Americans support shelter-in-place: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Hill
Katelyn Burns / Vox:
What reopening will look like in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Discussion: NPR and CNN
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating  —  Even as states move ahead with plans to reopen their economies, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that a second wave of the novel coronavirus will be far more dire …
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Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
Second coronavirus wave could be deadlier, CDC chief warns
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Rent Relief  —  The president's family business pays at least $3 million a year to the federal government for the lease on its D.C. hotel, which is all but empty because of the virus.  The next monthly payment is coming due.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell slams brakes on next round of coronavirus aid  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is drawing a line: There will be no more attempts at long-distance legislating on the coronavirus.  —  In a telephone interview Tuesday after passage of a $484 billion coronavirus relief bill …
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Nicholas Florko / STAT:
Director of U.S. agency key to vaccine development leaves role suddenly amid coronavirus pandemic  —  WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, one of the nation's leading vaccine development experts and the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, is no longer leading the organization, officials told STAT.
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
New York Times:
The Quiet Hand of Conservative Groups in the Anti-Lockdown Protests  —  Groups in a loose coalition have tapped their networks to drive up turnout at recent rallies in state capitals and financed lawsuits, polling and research to combat the stay-at-home orders.
New York Times:
The Death of the Department Store: ‘Very Few Are Likely to Survive’  —  Shuttered flagships.  Empty malls.  Canceled orders.  Risks of bankruptcy.  The coronavirus has hit the behemoths of the retail world.  —  American department stores, once all-powerful shopping meccas that anchored malls …
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Michigan Governor Whitmer Awards Coronavirus Contract to Dem Consulting Firm  —  UPDATE 6:45 p.m.: After publication of this article, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration announced that the contract was being rescinded.  Read more here.  —  _  —  Recent Stories in Coronavirus
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Washington Post:   Michigan cancels contract with two Democratic-linked firms that had been tapped to track coronavirus
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Whitmer backtracks after COVID-19 contract awarded to Dem consultant who said Trump should ‘get coronavirus ASAP’
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Barr Threatens Legal Action Against Governors Over Lockdowns  — Businesses need ‘more freedom,’ the attorney general says  — Trump has undercut his guidance on how states should reopen  —  The Justice Department will consider taking legal action against governors who continue …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Barr calls stay-at-home orders ‘disturbingly close to house arrest’
Discussion: Breitbart and MSNBC
Joe Palca / NPR:
NIH Panel Recommends Against Drug Combination Promoted By Trump For COVID-19  —  • The group of experts, assembled under the agency run by Dr. Anthony Fauci, warns that using a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin could result in potential toxicities.  —  SHOTS - HEALTH NEWS
Tim Mak / NPR:
Secret Recording Reveals NRA's Legal Troubles Have Cost The Organization $100 Million  —  Audio will be available later today.  —  The National Rifle Association's legal troubles have cost the powerful gun rights group $100 million, according to a recording of the group's board meeting obtained by NPR.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Georgia leads the race to become America's No. 1 Death Destination  —  Whether you're going to heaven or hell, the old joke goes, you'll have to change planes in Atlanta.  —  But Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is proposing to offer a new nonstop service to the Great Beyond: He has a bold plan to turn his state into the place to die.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Members of Kemp's coronavirus task force didn't know about his order to reopen businesses
Discussion: ABC17NEWS, The Hill and CNN
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Washington Post:
Trump to suspend immigration to U.S. for 60 days, citing coronavirus crisis and jobs shortage …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Slate
Washington Post:   U.S. is deporting infected migrants back to vulnerable countries
Washington Post:
Nearly 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly from NIH, WHO, Gates Foundation and others are dumped online  —  Who posted them is unknown, but they immediately became fodder for right-wing activists attacking the organizations  —  Unknown activists have posted nearly 25,000 email addresses …
Alex Daugherty / Miami Herald:
Donna Shalala failed to disclose stock sales in 2019 in violation of federal law  —  Miami Democratic Rep. Donna Shalala, the lone House Democrat on the committee set up to oversee $500 billion in taxpayer money being used for coronavirus-related payouts to large businesses …
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Internal Biden campaign rift opens over how to compete with Trump online  —  Joe Biden's campaign leadership is clashing over the future of its digital operation — a rift that comes as campaigning has moved largely online and as Biden faces a yawning deficit against President Donald Trump's massive digital operation.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Mike Bloomberg invested over $20 million in Hawkfish weeks after he dropped out of the 2020 primary
Discussion: New York Post
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Senate Republicans Contradict Trump on Russian Interference  —  But the biggest mysteries of the 2016 election remain unsolved.  —  In what amounts to a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump's views on the subject, the Republican-chaired Senate Intelligence Committee released a 158-page report on Tuesday …
Jill Serjeant / Reuters:
Michael Moore's ‘Planet of the Humans’ asks: what if green energy cannot save the planet?  —  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As environmentalists celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this week, a new documentary poses a sobering question.  —  What if wind farms, solar panels …
Susan Adams / Forbes:
Why Is Harvard Getting $9 Million In Stimulus Money When It Has A $40 Billion Endowment?  —  Harvard is under attack for the $9 million in stimulus money it's getting from the federal government.  “America's Richest University Grabs Nearly $9 Million In Taxpayer Aid,” blasted a Huffington Post headline yesterday.
Discussion: Washington Post
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Valerie Jarrett: ‘No chance’ Michelle Obama will be Biden's VP  —  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has committed to choosing a woman as his running mate.  But an Obama family confidante on Tuesday said there's “no chance” that woman will be Michelle Obama.
Emmanuel Felton / BuzzFeed News:
Justin Trudeau Is Calling For A Ban On All “Assault-Style Weapons” Following The Rampage In Canada  —  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pledging to continue to push for stricter gun laws in the wake of the mass shooting in Nova Scotia that killed at least 23 people, the deadliest mass shooting in the country's modern history.
Trish Turner / ABC News:
Coronavirus pandemic brings Ben's Chili Bowl, iconic DC business, to its knees  —  The family owners wait for its government loan, but so far, nothing.  —  LIVE NOW  —  Sage Ali's family has been through a lot, seen a lot.  His parents, Ben and Virginia, lived through segregation and the strictures of Jim Crow.
Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner:
Bill Clinton stopped CIA from killing bin Laden before 9/11: Documentary  —  Former President Bill Clinton signed an order preventing the CIA from organizing a kill operation against al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a new documentary.  —  The revelation is discussed …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
Alexandra Kelley / The Hill:
This comes after a Louisville church filed a lawsuit against the state's stay-at-home orders.  —  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) announced in a press conference Sunday that 273 new cases of COVID-19 had emerged, the highest Beshear has announced so far.  This brings the current state case count to 2,960 …
Rachel Abrams / New York Times:
Spectrum Employees Are Getting Sick Amid Debate Over Working From Home  —  More than 230 workers at Charter Communications, the cable and internet giant known as Spectrum, have tested positive for Covid-19, as employees question how many of them must work in the office.
 
 
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Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura / New York Times:
Pregnant and Scared of ‘Covid Hospitals,’ They're Giving Birth at Home
Timothy Johnson / Media Matters for America:
Infowars is planning another rally against public health orders in Texas
Washington Post:
This coal company with ties to the Trump administration just got a $10 million small-business loan
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Democrats blast Trump team's handling of federal workers in coronavirus crisis
Michael Stratford / Politico:
DeVos bars undocumented college students from emergency aid
Discussion: The Hill
Matthew Perrone / Associated Press:
US OKs 1st coronavirus test that allows self-swab at home
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Alison Dirr / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Milwaukee Common Council votes to mail absentee ballot applications to city's registered voters
Discussion: HuffPost and WisPolitics.com
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: The Long Strange Trip Of One Shipment Of Millions Of KN95 Masks
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
How reports of Kim Jong Un's health spread and what they tell us about what comes next for North Korea
Elissa Nadworny / NPR:
Can Colleges Survive Coronavirus? ‘The Math Is Not Pretty’
Max Ufberg / GEN:
Meet the Man Judging the Hell Out of TV Pundits' and Politicians' Homes
CDC / SFGATE:
Hospital analysis: Nearly half of COVID-19 patients are obese
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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