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11:55 AM ET, April 25, 2020

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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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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.
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 …
Associated Press:
White House could alter virus briefings to limit Trump role
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and WPRI-TV
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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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.
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
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 …
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Trump has proven it. We're on our own, America.
Discussion: 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.
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.
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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CBS News:   Joe Biden campaign returns donation from Louis C.K.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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.
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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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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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 …
Discussion: The Verge
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 …
Agence France-Presse:
Saudi Arabia abolishes flogging  —  Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the state human rights commission said Saturday, hailing a “major step forward” in the reform programme launched by the king and his powerful son.  —  Court-ordered floggings in Saudi Arabia …
New York Times:
‘Playing Russian Roulette’: Nursing Homes Told to Take the Infected  —  California, New Jersey and New York have made nursing homes accept Covid-19 patients from hospitals.  Residents and workers fear the policy is risking lives.  —  Neal Nibur has lived in a nursing home for about a year, ever since he had a bad bout of pneumonia.
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ProPublica:
Nursing Homes Violated Basic Health Standards, Allowing the Coronavirus to Explode
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
Discussion: Page Six
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.
Associated Press:
Bloomberg moves past presidential defeat with virus crusade  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two months after an embarrassing end to his presidential campaign, Mike Bloomberg is again deploying his massive personal fortune - this time to combat the coronavirus.  —  The billionaire former …
 
 
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Sara Simon / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pa. removes more than 200 deaths from official coronavirus count as questions mount about …
Discussion: Breitbart
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Disinfectant riff is latest of many Trump science clashes
New York Times:
E.U. Waters Down Report on China's Coronavirus Propaganda
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Voters: Virus briefings show ‘bias and disrespect’ of Trump by media
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Pompeo Seeks Exceptions to WHO Funding Halt for Seven Countries
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
AutoNation, a retailer worth billions, says it received nearly $80 million in SBA funds
Discussion: VICE
 Earlier Items: 
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Coronavirus Antibody Tests: Can You Trust the Results?
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
The Tax-Break Bonanza Inside the Economic Rescue Package
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Supreme Court denies motion to block Trump ‘public charge’ rule during pandemic
U.S. Department of Justice:
Ex-FBI Agent Arrested on Conspiracy Charge Alleging He Accepted Bribes Paid by Lawyer Linked …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP memo urges anti-China assault over coronavirus
Discussion: Fox News and Vanity Fair
New York Times:
Durham Inquiry Includes Scrutiny of a Media Leak
New York Times:
Navy Leaders Recommend Reinstating Roosevelt Captain Fired Over Virus Warning
Phill Swagel / CBO Publications:
CBO's Current Projections of Output, Employment, and Interest Rates and a Preliminary Look …
 

 
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