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7:15 PM ET, April 24, 2020

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump plans to cut daily coronavirus briefings  —  President Trump plans to pare back his coronavirus press conferences, according to four sources familiar with the internal deliberations.  As soon as next week, he may stop appearing daily and make shorter appearances when he does, the sources said.
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NBC News:
Trump's remarks on disinfectants left even close aides shocked  —  West Wing aides and members of the coronavirus task force were taken aback by the president's “off-the-cuff” remarks.  —  WASHINGTON — Members of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force and aides in the West Wing …
Jordan Valinsky / CNN:
Lysol maker: Please don't drink our cleaning products  —  New York (CNN Business)The company that makes Lysol is urging customers not to consume its cleaning products after President Donald Trump suggested the possibility of injecting disinfectants to protect people from coronavirus.
Washington Post:
Trump asked if disinfectants could be injected to kill the coronavirus inside the body.  Doctors answered: ‘People will die.’  —  After a presentation Thursday that touched on the disinfectants that can kill the novel coronavirus on surfaces and in the air, President Trump pondered whether …
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Lysol manufacturer warns against internal use after Trump comments
Emily Ashton / BuzzFeed:
Please Don't Drink Disinfectant, Lysol And Dettol Maker Says After Trump Suggested People …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says remarks about heat, light, disinfectant were sarcastic
New York Times:
Navy Leaders Recommend Reinstating Roosevelt Captain Fired Over Virus Warning  —  Capt. Brett E. Crozier, who was removed from command after sending a letter pleading for help to fight the coronavirus on his aircraft carrier, was largely cleared after Navy review.
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Lara Seligman / Politico:
Navy recommends reinstating fired captain who sounded alarm on coronavirus outbreak
Discussion: Associated Press
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus ‘cure’ wrote to Trump this week  —  Mark Grenon wrote to Trump saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment  —  The leader of the most prominent group …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Stacey Abrams's Remarkable Campaign for Vice President  —  Stacey Abrams has a theory about how Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump: Pick her as his running mate.  —  “We have to win the election.  And I would point out that I ran the most successful campaign to engage the communities we need …
Discussion: ABC News, The Hill and The Federalist
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HuffPost:
Poll Finds Elizabeth Warren VP Pick Most Likely To Pull In Bernie Sanders Voters
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Joseph Biden / Action Network:
BLACK WOMEN LEADERS LETTER TO DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOSEPH BIDEN
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Newly Filed Court Documents Include Exculpatory Evidence For Michael Flynn  —  New documents filed under seal in federal court include exculpatory information about former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, an FBI official told The Federalist on Friday.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
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New York Times:
Durham Inquiry Includes Scrutiny of a Media Leak  —  The attorney general has suggested that the Justice Department review of the Russia investigation has uncovered “troubling” findings without going into details.  —  WASHINGTON — For years, President Trump has complained bitterly about F.B …
Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Christopher Wray Pushed To Withhold Exculpatory Evidence In Mike Flynn Case
Discussion: Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Phill Swagel / CBO Publications:
CBO's Current Projections of Output, Employment, and Interest Rates and a Preliminary Look at Federal Deficits for 2020 and 2021  —  CBO has developed preliminary projections of key economic variables through the end of calendar year 2021, based on information about the economy …
Washington Post:
Trump says he will block coronavirus aid for U.S. Postal Service if it doesn't hike prices immediately  —  The president said the postal agency should quadruple its package delivery prices and said he will stop congressionally approved funding  —  President Trump on Friday said he would not be approving …
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump: Postal service is a ‘joke’ that must raise prices to get bailout money
Discussion: The Hill
Yahoo Finance:   Here's Where $881 Billion in U.S. Aid Went in Month of Spending
Washington Post:
Stephen Miller has long-term vision for Trump's ‘temporary’ immigration order, according to private call with supporters  —  Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller told White House supporters in a private call this week that the president's new executive order curbing immigration will usher …
Politico:
Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China — and the loan is due soon  —  Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president.  —  But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China: In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced …
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
New Poll Shows a Hidden Danger for Trump: Double Haters  —  During the last weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's data team was obsessed with a particular subset of voters: those who disliked both Trump and Hillary Clinton.  As I reported in my book about the race …
Discussion: National Review and Vox
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Man Who Died Ingesting Fish Tank Cleaner Remembered as Intelligent, Levelheaded Engineer  —  In death, he has become famous as a cautionary tale about the risks of mindlessly following the armchair medical advice President Donald Trump has dispensed from the White House podium.
Discussion: Redstate and Twitchy
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Pressured by China, E.U. Softens Report on Covid-19 Disinformation  —  A revised report shows how Beijing reacts swiftly and effectively to tamp down Western criticism of its pandemic response.  —  BRUSSELS — Bowing to heavy pressure from Beijing, European Union officials softened …
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
Trump Speech to Bring 1,000 West Point Cadets Back to Campus  —  The president's off-again, on-again speech in June will bring back cadets who had scattered across the country to help counter the coronavirus.  —  WASHINGTON — For President Trump, who adores the pomp and precision of military ceremonies …
Mike Stunson / Sacramento Bee:
Six new coronavirus symptoms just officially added to CDC list.  What are they?  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tripled the number of coronavirus symptoms it lists on its website.  —  The federal organization previously listed fever, cough and shortness of breath as symptoms of COVID-19.
Discussion: New York Post and Mercury News
Windsor Mann / The Week:
The president is unwell  —  The only thing worse than a pandemic is having Donald Trump as your president during a pandemic.  Tens of thousands of Americans have died.  Tens of millions have lost their jobs.  President Trump, meanwhile, has indulged in self-pity, touted an unproven drug …
Discussion: Raw Story
BNN:
Resentment grows on Main Street over bailout winners and losers … Robyn Shultz was waiting for approval of her US$40,000 small-business loan last week when the government's first-come-first-served lending program ran out of cash.  —  Shultz, 60, owns Quality Electric Co. in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband, Steve Bearden.
Reuters:
Exclusive: China sent team including medical experts to advise on North Korea's Kim, sources say  —  BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to three people familiar with the situation.
Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade has tens of thousands of missed coronavirus infections, UM survey finds  —  About 6 percent of Miami-Dade's population — about 165,000 residents — have antibodies indicating a past infection by the novel coronavirus, dwarfing the state health department's tally of about 10,600 cases …
Discussion: Redstate, Talking Points Memo and Vox
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Amid The Pandemic, U.S. Militia Groups Plot ‘The Boogaloo,’ AKA Civil War, On Facebook  —  Extremists are promoting anti-government violence on Facebook during the coronavirus pandemic.  The social media giant appears to be doing little about it.  —  Thousands of armed right-wing militants …
Discussion: Gizmodo and BuzzFeed News
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP memo urges anti-China assault over coronavirus  —  The National Republican Senatorial Committee has sent campaigns a detailed, 57-page memo authored by a top Republican strategist advising GOP candidates to address the coronavirus crisis by aggressively attacking China.
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Taylor Swift Hits Soros Family for ‘Shameless Greed’  —  Pop singer Taylor Swift took another swing at billionaire investor George Soros on Thursday, condemning the “shameless greed” of the financier for partnering with her ex-manager Scooter Braun to release a new album of her songs.
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
I Used to Make Fun of Silicon Valley Preppers.  Then I Became One.  —  In tech circles, gearing up for the apocalypse was a cliché.  Now it's a credential.  —  For years, one of the most smirked-at subspecies in the technology ecosystem was that of the Silicon Valley Prepper.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Ex-FBI Agent Arrested on Conspiracy Charge Alleging He Accepted Bribes Paid by Lawyer Linked to Armenian Organized Crime Figure  —  LOS ANGELES - A Bay Area man who retired from the FBI last year after 20 years as a special agent was arrested today on a federal criminal charge alleging …
Washington Post:
White House faces internal debate over ‘liability shield’ for firms seeking protection from covid-19 lawsuits  —  Business executives say the shield is necessary for Trump's effort to reopen the economy, but workers' groups call the effort ‘appalling’  —  White House officials …
Simon Romero / New York Times:
How New Mexico, One of the Poorest States, Averted a Steep Death Toll  —  New Mexico showed how a state can fight the coronavirus with aggressive social distancing, free testing and scientific expertise.  But contagion threats are building.  —  ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico has f ewer hospital beds per capita …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 
 
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Washington Post:
Faces of the dead  —  No infectious disease in a century …
Dan Diamond / Politico:
HHS staffer arrested for bringing gun and ammunition to work
Discussion: The Hill
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Southern Republicans Lifting Coronavirus Lockdowns Are Also Keeping the Working Poor From Health Coverage
Discussion: Retirementrevised.com
ProPublica:
Nursing Homes Violated Basic Health Standards, Allowing the Coronavirus to Explode
Chris Christie / Washington Post:
Don't let our covid-19 response be governed by extremes
Associated Press:
Two states ease lockdowns; US COVID-19 toll passes 50,000
Liz Szabo / Yahoo News:
The anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown movements are converging, refusing to be ‘enslaved’
 Earlier Items: 
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Controversial idea to speed coronavirus vaccine gains ground
Discussion: Big Think and Al Jazeera
Yahoo News:
California stay-at-home faces its biggest test: A heat wave driving people to the beach
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pat Toomey for governor?  As he weighs in on Pa. coronavirus plans, insiders see a marker for the future
Neera Tanden / USA Today:
A lesson about Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden for progressives in doubt
New York Times:
Turmoil in Brazil: Bolsonaro Fires Police Chief and Justice Minister Quits
Nathaniel Flakin / Left Voice:
Noam Chomsky Is a Liberal
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump team moves to scrap protections for LGBTQ patients
Discussion: Vox, Slate and Raw Story
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney board members are exploring fresh candidates in their search for a successor to Bob Iger, including EA CEO Andrew Wilson

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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