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2:00 PM ET, April 25, 2020

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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 …
Discussion: emptywheel
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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 …
Discussion: The Daily Dot, Mediaite and Contemptor
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
No, Poison Control Calls Aren't Suddenly Spiking After Trump's Disinfectant Comments  —  On Thursday, the president suggested that perhaps an “injection” of disinfectant could help cure people of COVID-19.  Critics of Donald Trump went to town—and rightfully so!—while supporters scrambled …
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: Althouse, Fox News and Raw Story
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 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump: My Idea to Inject Disinfectant Was a Prank on Reporters ‘Just to See What Would Happen’
Discussion: IJR, The Daily Dot and HuffPost
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 …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Putin Statement Stirs Concern Among Some  —  Rare declaration comes amid U.S.-Russian strains, military tension, disinformation complaints  —  President Trump issued a symbolic joint statement Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a move that has stirred debate within …
Discussion: The Week and New York Post
Brian Flood / Fox News:
CNN slammed for treatment of Biden sexual assault allegations after old Larry King clip surfaces  —  Mother of Biden accuser reportedly phoned into Larry King's show to complain about ‘prominent senator’  —  CNN, which has already drawn fire for its reluctance to cover a claim of sexual assault …
Discussion: Redstate, PJ Media Home and NB Blog
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:   New evidence surfaces in Tara Reade allegation against Biden
Scott Whitlock / NB Blog:
SHOCK Video: Is This the Mother of Joe Biden's Accuser Talking to CNN in 1993? [UPDATED]
CBS News:   Joe Biden campaign returns donation from Louis C.K.
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.
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.
Discussion: The Hill
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.
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 …
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
SATURDAY UPDATE: Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Virginia jump by 733, deaths increase by 25  —  The Virginia Department of Health reported Saturday there are 11,902 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state - an increase of 733 from the 11,169 reported Friday.  —  Also, there are 432 confirmed …
Kiyerra Lake / WLNS-TV:
“It was not a Confederate flag,” State Senator explains questionable mask  —  LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Friday afternoon during a senate vote at the capitol it was brought to our attention that one State Senator was wearing a mask that appeared to have the confederate flag on it.
Discussion: The Hill and Detroit Metro Times
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
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.
Teran Powell / WUWM:
40 Coronavirus Cases In Milwaukee County Linked To Wisconsin Election, Health Official Says  —  Forty people in Milwaukee County may have become infected with the coronavirus as a result of participating in Wisconsin elections on April 7.  —  Milwaukee Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik …
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.
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 …
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
‘My World Is Shattering’: Foreign Students Stranded by Coronavirus  —  When the pandemic shuttered colleges, many international students had no idea where to live or whether they would ever be able to return to class.  —  When universities abruptly shut down last month because of the coronavirus pandemic …
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
NBC News:
Firms with Trump links or worth $100 million got small business loans  —  Three companies with ties to the Trump admin received millions under the PPP program.  Another got a loan from a bank that once employed its board's chair.  —  The government's $349 billion small business lending program …
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.
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
San Francisco mayor says city's PPE orders have been diverted, confiscated: It ‘blows my mind’
Wall Street Journal:
Piling on Georgia's Governor
Discussion: Raw Story
Margaret Carlson / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Is Living Groundhog Day in Reverse—and We're All Stuck in His Nightmare
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Focus group: Ohio swing voters want Trump to act more like a governor
Discussion: Political Wire
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
Associated Press:
Bloomberg moves past presidential defeat with virus crusade
 Earlier Items: 
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
The pandemic at sea … On land, more than 300,000 people worldwide …
Discussion: The Verge
Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes:
Kanye West Is Now Officially A Billionaire—And He Really Wants The World To Know
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Page Six
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Voters: Virus briefings show ‘bias and disrespect’ of Trump by media
Washington Post:
One country, one system: The week that China shredded its promise on Hong Kong
Marina Villeneuve / Associated Press:
Gift of the Mask: Cuomo lauds retired farmer's gesture
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
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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