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CNN:
How a media-distracted Trump ended up derailing his own briefing — See Dr. Birx's reaction to Trump's dangerous suggestion — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump was absent from the Situation Room on Wednesday when William Bryan, the acting head of science at the Department of Homeland Security …
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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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Politico:
Trump grapples with a surprise threat: Too much Trump — Donald Trump's top aides are fiercely debating a question their boss rarely confronted during his decades of jousting with tabloid newspapers, starring on reality TV shows and running a media-soaked presidential campaign: whether there's such a thing as too much Donald Trump.
Washington Post:
Trump floats another bogus coronavirus cure — and his administration scrambles to stop people from injecting disinfectants — The federal government scrambled Friday to stave off a potential wave of public health emergencies sparked by President Trump's dangerous suggestion that injecting bleach …
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Daily Kos, Raw Story, The Guardian, US EPA and The Verge
Associated Press:
White House could alter virus briefings to limit Trump role
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Outside the Beltway and WPRI-TV
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump: My Idea to Inject Disinfectant Was a Prank on Reporters ‘Just to See What Would Happen’
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IJR, The Daily Dot, Talking Points Memo, HuffPost and Mediaite
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Trump has proven it. We're on our own, America.
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USA Today
New York Times:
Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him — The election is still six months away, but a rash of ominous new polls and the president's erratic briefings have the G.O.P. worried about a Democratic takeover. — WASHINGTON — President Trump's erratic handling …
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying from strokes — Thomas Oxley wasn't even on call the day he received the page to come to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. There weren't enough doctors to treat all the emergency stroke patients, and he was needed in the operating room.
New York Daily News:
A spike in New Yorkers ingesting household cleaners following Trump's controversial coronavirus comments — An unusually high number of New Yorkers contacted city health authorities over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners in the 18 hours that followed President Trump's bogus claim …
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Reason, Mediaite, Contemptor and The Guardian
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
New Evidence Supporting Credibility of Tara Reade's Allegation Against Joe Biden Emerges — A new piece of evidence has emerged buttressing the credibility of Tara Reade's claim that she told her mother about allegations of sexual harassment and assault related to her former boss, then-Sen. Joe Biden.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
America Shouldn't Have to Play by New York Rules — A national lockdown is bad medicine and worse politics. — In 1976, the artist Saul Steinberg drew a cover for The New Yorker — “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” — that became an instant classic. You know the one …
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.
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New York Post and Bloomberg
Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed News:
A Stanford Professor's Wife Recruited People For His Coronavirus Study By Claiming It Would Reveal If They Could “Return To Work Without Fear” — The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus.
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Balloon Juice, The American Spectator and Daily Kos
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
How overly optimistic modeling distorted Trump team's coronavirus response — As coronavirus cases climbed daily by the thousands and the nation entered its second month of an economic standstill, President Donald Trump latched onto a sign of hope: A pandemic model closely followed …
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MSNBC:
Trump facing ‘historic political defeat’ amidst virus, says Bush aide — President Trump is facing backlash for this coronavirus response, including his public remarks at a White House press briefing that suggested humans inject themselves with toxic chemicals as a cure.
Craig Pittman / Politico:
Florida's No-Rules Vibe Gets a Coronavirus Reality Check — At the farthest northwest corner of Florida, straddling the border with Alabama, sits a sprawling, ramshackle beach bar called the Flora-Bama Lounge. First opened as a roadhouse in 1964, it's celebrated in song by Jimmy Buffett …
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Raw Story
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Trump narrowly leads Biden in presidential race in Texas, UT/TT Poll finds — President Donald Trump leads Democrat Joe Biden by 5 points in the race for president in Texas, but voters give the president mixed grades on his handling of the pandemic and the economy. They think Gov. Greg Abbott is doing a better job.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Philip Kahn, 100, Dies; Spanish Flu Took His Twin a Century Ago — Aware of the irony of dying during a pandemic, he said history repeats itself. A family member called the brothers “pandemic bookends.” … Philip Kahn believed that history repeats itself, a truism that has hit home for his family in extraordinary fashion.
Washington Post:
One country, one system: The week that China shredded its promise on Hong Kong — HONG KONG — Martin Lee has tangled with the Chinese Communist Party countless times in his decades-long fight to achieve free elections in Hong Kong and enlist Western support for the city's democratic ambitions.
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Pressured by China, E.U. Softens Report on Covid-19 Disinformation
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
The pandemic at sea … On land, more than 300,000 people worldwide had contracted the deadly coronavirus, and the governor of California had just ordered all 39 million residents to stay at home. But as the Celebrity Eclipse cruise ship steamed north across the Pacific Ocean on March 21 …
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The Verge
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 …
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The Daily Beast, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The End and Raw Story
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Coronavirus Antibody Tests: Can You Trust the Results? — A team of scientists worked around the clock to evaluate 14 antibody tests. A few worked as advertised. Most did not. — The researchers worked around the clock, in shifts of three to five hours, hoping to stave off weariness …
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Michael A. Cohen / The Boston Globe:
Say it loud, say it clear: Donald Trump needs to resign over his handling of the coronavirus — The United States has just over 4 percent of the world's population, but had about one-third of all global coronavirus cases and one-quarter of the fatalities, as of Friday.
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FOX31 Denver, Kaiser Health News and Mediaite
New York Times:
A Candidate in Isolation: Inside Joe Biden's Cloistered Campaign — Walled off from voters in a distinctive kind of lockdown, Mr. Biden has developed a routine, of sorts, as he seeks the presidency from his basement. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. usually rises before 8 a.m. at his home in Wilmington …
Tom Sims / Reuters:
Deutsche Bank refuses to give U.S. senators information on recent Trump dealings — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank has declined a request by prominent U.S. senators to provide information about the German lender's recent business dealings with President Donald Trump and his family, according to a letter this week seen by Reuters.
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Raw Story
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 …
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Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes:
Kanye West Is Now Officially A Billionaire—And He Really Wants The World To Know — When last we checked in with Kanye West, the mercurial hip-hop superstar-turned-footwear magnate, I was tiptoeing through a parking lot crop circle composed of hundreds of pairs of his Yeezy sneakers.
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Marina Villeneuve / Associated Press:
Gift of the Mask: Cuomo lauds retired farmer's gesture — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Help has poured into New York from many places as the coronavirus has killed thousands, but the most humble of gifts — a single N-95 mask — brought a mist to the eyes of the state's governor.
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.
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
The Tax-Break Bonanza Inside the Economic Rescue Package — As small businesses and individuals struggle to obtain federal aid, the wealthiest are poised to reap tens of billions of dollars in tax savings. — As the federal government dispenses trillions of dollars to save the economy …
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