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4:55 PM ET, April 22, 2020

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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Doctor Says He Was Removed From Federal Post After Questioning Controversial Treatment  —  The first known U.S. death from the illness came in early February in California.  An order by Trump will impose a 60-day halt in issuing green cards.  Some stability returned to the energy market.
Discussion: Politico and Axios
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sccgov.org:
County of Santa Clara Identifies Three Additional Early COVID-19 Deaths  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Three individuals who died at home in February and March were positive for SARS-CoV-2  —  Santa Clara County, CA - The County of Santa Clara Medical Examiner-Coroner has identified three individuals …
Los Angeles Times:
Autopsies reveal first confirmed U.S. coronavirus deaths occurred in Bay Area in February
Discussion: Reason, Balloon Juice and KTLA
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Axios qualifies for PPP loan  —  Axios is among the small businesses that qualified for a PPP loan to protect existing jobs and help weather the coronavirus crisis.  —  Why it matters: We are in the somewhat unique position of being both a media company, which covers government and business …
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump campaign tests lines of attack to define Biden
Discussion: Washington Post
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: Biden's “four Cs” of Trump coronavirus criticism
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Health Chief's Early Missteps Set Back Coronavirus Response  —  HHS Secretary Alex Azar waited for weeks to brief the president and oversold his agency's progress  —  WASHINGTON—On Jan. 29, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told President Trump the coronavirus epidemic was under control.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients  —  Once thought a relatively straightforward respiratory virus, covid-19 is proving to be much more frightening  —  Craig Coopersmith was up early that morning as usual and typed his daily inquiry into his phone.
Discussion: CBS Baltimore
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A disturbing new study suggests Sean Hannity's show helped spread the coronavirus  —  Sophisticated new research links Hannity's coronavirus misinformation to “a greater number of Covid-19 cases and deaths.”  —  Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, media critics have warned that the decision …
Maya T. Prabhu / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Democratic lawmaker announces resignation week after endorsing Trump  —  A little more than a week after he announced that he was endorsing President Donald Trump, Democratic state Rep. Vernon Jones announced Wednesday morning that he would not complete his term.
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump prepares to hit the road  —  President Donald Trump is eager to hit the road.  —  As his own health officials continue to warn against nonessential travel, Trump has privately urged aides over the past week to start adding official events back to his schedule, including photo ops …
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NBC News:   Trump aides explore ways to get a ‘frustrated’ president out of Washington
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
CNN Boss Tells Staff They Will Not Return to Offices Until at Least September  —  STAY AT HOME  —  CNN won't send staffers back into its offices until at least September.  In an internal email obtained by The Daily Beast, network chief Jeff Zucker told staff that the vast majority of company staff will …
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Las Vegas mayor: Reopen casinos, let the ones with the most infections then close  —  Standing in front of an empty storefront along Main Street, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman was beaming with optimism, believing that businesses would make it through the coronavirus pandemic.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Organization, Written Out of U.S. Bailout, Taps Europe Aid
Discussion: The Hill
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Few Americans support easing virus protections  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite pockets of attention-grabbing protests, a new survey finds Americans remain overwhelmingly in favor of stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Washington Post:
The anti-quarantine protests seem spontaneous.  But behind the scenes, a powerful network is helping.  —  The ads on Facebook sounded populist and passionate: “The people are rising up against these insane shutdowns,” they said.  “We're fighting back to demand that our elected officials reopen America.”
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Washington has its cleanest spring air in 25 years: How air quality has improved during the coronavirus crisis  —  Washingtonians are breathing the cleanest spring air they have in decades, a likely side effect of orders to stay at home during the ongoing coronavirus crisis, along with favorable weather, air quality experts say.
David Knowles / Yahoo News:
Birx says Georgia residents ‘can be very creative’ about getting tattoos and haircuts while social distancing  —  Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the leading medical experts on President Trump's coronavirus task force, tried to reconcile the controversial order by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp reopening …
Bloomberg:
McConnell Says He Favors Allowing States to Declare Bankruptcy  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday he favors allowing states struggling with high public employee pension costs amid the burdens of the pandemic response to declare bankruptcy rather than giving them a federal bailout.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Opening up the economy won't save the economy  —  A customer waits for a takeout order at Kelly's Irish Times in Washington, DC, on March 24.  Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images  —  Trump and Republican governors can't make people eat at restaurants.
CBS Miami:
Congresswoman Donna Shalala Admits Mistake In Stock Sales & Apologizes  —  MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Miami Congresswoman Donna Shalala admits she made a mistake by failing to report at least a half dozen stock sales she made after being elected to the House in 2018.
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Miami Herald
Larry Elliott / The Guardian:
Top economist: US coronavirus response is like ‘third world’ country  —  Joseph Stiglitz attacks Donald Trump, saying US on course for second Great Depression  —  Donald Trump's botched handling of the Covid-19 crisis has left the US looking like a “third world” country and on course …
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner  —  An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth.  —  As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily.  Smog stopped choking New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities …
Discussion: The Verge and Kaiser Health News
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump's Coronavirus Response May Be Turning Off Older Voters  —  Two of the political data points that currently spell bad news for Donald Trump are steadily worsening public assessments of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and Joe Biden's strong position among voters over 65 …
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Is Biden Gaining Older Voters, and Losing Young Ones?  —  Even modest differences could prove crucial in an election that begins with numbers and coalitions very similar to those in 2016.  —  After impeachment, a coronavirus pandemic and four years of tweets, the early national polls show …
FIRE:
SURVEY: 77% of colleges use secret social media blacklist to censor the public, in violation of First Amendment  — Colleges block over 1,800 unique terms on their social media pages  — Secret filters automatically remove comments mentioning political figures, corporate partners, sports teams, faculty members, and even an emoji
Discussion: NB Blog and Instapundit
Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
CHP bans protests at California Capitol after rally against Newsom's stay-at-home order  —  Following Monday's protest at the state Capitol where demonstrators defied Gov. Gavin Newsom's orders banning large gatherings, the California Highway Patrol says it will no longer issue permits …
Discussion: The Hill and KRON4
Niv Elis / The Hill:
Five threats to US food supply chains  —  The coronavirus pandemic has upended food supply chains, led to closures of meat producing plants and left Americans with the unsettling experience of seeing empty shelves at supermarkets.  —  Coupled with the run on toilet paper that led to severe shortages …
Associated Press:
Social Security and Medicare funds at risk even before virus  —  In this image provided by U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service, the website for HealthCare.gov is seen.  The Trump administration's opposition to “Obamacare” could become an obstacle to helping millions of uninsured people …
Discussion: Fox News and ABC News
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Jeffrey Sachs on the Catastrophic American Response to the Coronavirus  —  In the early nineties, the economist Jeffrey Sachs was known as a “shock therapist,” for advising the Soviet Union on its controversial transition to a free-market economy.  Since then, Sachs has shifted his focus …
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
U.S. Spy Agencies Weigh Tying Intelligence Sharing to Ending Bans on Gays  —  The move is part of an effort by the acting director of national intelligence to prod countries that outlaw homosexuality to instead decriminalize it.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering cutting …
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
Cindy Adams / Page Six:
Donald Trump and Cindy Adams reminisce about Miss Universe on birthday call  —  This is not to complain or moan.  This is just to tell a story.  Friday is my birthday.  This special age usually gets you a statue in Central Park.  I refused one because I hate pigeons leaving their opinions on me.
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Many small businesses say loans won't get them to rehire  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some small businesses that obtained a highly-coveted government loan say they won't be able to use it to bring all their laid-off workers back, even though that is what the program was designed to do.
Washington Post:
“Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies” to be published by Scribner  —  The new book is authored by The Post's Fact Checker team and will be available June 2 … On June 2, Scribner will proudly publish The Washington Post's Donald Trump …
J.D. Vance / The American Mind:
End the Globalization Gravy Train  —  Donor dollars shouldn't be made in China.  —  In the present crisis, we find ourselves locked in an interminable debate about whether to “reopen” the economy.  To put my cards on the table, I've found many of the orders issued by governments …
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Tyson Foods idles its largest pork plant after Iowa outbreak  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Tyson Foods suspended operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation's pork supply but was blamed for fueling a coronavirus outbreak in the community.
CBS News:
Coronavirus updates: World sees growing toll amid warnings of second wave  —  As the number of deaths blamed on the coronavirus now tops 45,000 in the United States and 180,000 worldwide, California officials say COVID-19 started claiming lives on American soil more than three weeks earlier than previously thought.
 
 
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Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls For National Work Boycott Post-Coronavirus
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Kyle Bagenstose / USA Today:
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Gwen Aviles / NBC News:
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Discussion: The Root
Michael Stratford / Politico:
DeVos urges wealthy colleges to give up their coronavirus aid
CNN:
Governors reopening their states are endangering American lives
David Brody / Just The News:
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National Governors Association:
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Discussion: The Hill
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Why we can't build  —  The Capitol building in Washington, DC, on April 19.
Discussion: Spectator USA
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The next rescue package is now in doubt
Robert Chappell / Madison365:
“Reopen Wisconsin” protest permit denied; organizers say it'll happen anyway
Discussion: The Hill and Althouse