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3:15 PM ET, April 26, 2020

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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
‘It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle,’ Birx says of Trump's disinfectant and light comments  —  Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, downplayed President Donald Trump's suggestion last week that injected disinfectants and light could work as treatments …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
The cost of Trump's deadly state of denial
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Pelosi Now Says U.S. Should Have Stopped Americans Coming Back From China
Discussion: Redstate, IJR and The Hill
Meg Cunningham / ABC News:
Amid pandemic, country lacks national leadership: Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Discussion: The Hill
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
What does CNN know about the Biden assault allegation that we don't?  —  Right now, the available evidence does not prove that Joe Biden more likely than not committed the 1993 assault that his former Senate staffer Tara Reade has alleged.  Part of this is purely on the virtue of the age …
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Biden's invisible campaign is winning
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The White House tried to move a reporter to the back of the press room, but she refused.  Then Trump walked out.  —  A White House official ordered a CNN reporter to give up her front-row seat and move to the back of the press room before President Trump's briefing on Friday …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The White House attempts to humiliate CNN's Kaitlan Collins
Discussion: CNN
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Hey, teachers, cops, etc. — Mitch McConnell wants your job, pension.  Will he kill the GOP instead?  —  It's been a generation since the right-wing activist Grover Norquist said his movement's goal wasn't to eliminate government but merely to “shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.”
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:   Mnuchin: 'You're going to see the economy really bounce back in July, August, September'
Charles Duhigg / New Yorker:
Seattle's Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead.  New York's Did Not  —  The initial coronavirus outbreaks on the East and West Coasts emerged at roughly the same time.  But the danger was communicated very differently.  —  The first diagnosis of the coronavirus in the United States occurred …
Washington Post:
Kim Jong Un's train spotted at coastal resort, intel reports scotch death rumors  —  TOKYO — Evidence that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is still alive and in the coastal resort of Wonsan is mounting, as satellite images showed his train apparently traveled there in the past few days …
Discussion: The Week
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Washington Post:
13 hours of Trump: The president fills briefings with attacks and boasts, but little empathy  —  President Trump strode to the lectern in the White House briefing room Thursday and, for just over an hour, attacked his rivals, dismissing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as a …
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared  —  Tens of millions of pounds of American-grown produce is rotting in fields as food banks across the country scramble to meet a massive surge in demand, a two-pronged disaster that has deprived farmers of billions of dollars …
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Trump Turns Shared American Experiences Into Us vs. Them  —  Nostalgia for a time when Democratic leaders could embrace Republican leaders in a moment of crisis — and when a bipartisan group would gather for an annual roasting in Washington.  —  WASHINGTON — Last weekend …
New York Times:
One Rich N.Y. Hospital Got Warren Buffett's Help.  This One Got Duct Tape.  —  The inequities of New York City's health care system are clear at a public hospital in a section of Brooklyn hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.  —  It has been hours since the 71-year-old man in Room 3 …
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
America Isn't Actually Doing So Badly Against Coronavirus  —  The U.S., like all countries, has made its share of mistakes, but that doesn't make it a “failed state.”  —  We don't have enough tests for Covid-19 in the U.S. President Donald Trump spent weeks minimizing the threat …
Washington Post:
'We're basically ill-prepared': Hobbled House majority frets about its effectiveness amid pandemic  —  House Democrats have blasted President Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic as inept and dangerous.  Party leaders insisted on the creation of a special committee to root out abuse …
Discussion: Politico and ncsl.org
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
Michigan (and elsewhere): For anyone using the “It's a Detroit problem!” dog whistle, I have some bad news for you.  —  For the past month, I've spent an awful lot of time tracking COVID-19 cases and fatalities on a state-by-state level.  I'm obviously not the only one doing this …
New York Times:
Closed Hospitals Leave Rural Patients ‘Stranded’ as Coronavirus Spreads  —  A for-profit company bought three struggling hospitals in West Virginia and Ohio.  Doctors were fired, supplies ran low and many in need of care had to journey elsewhere.  Then the doors shut for good.
Doree Lewak / New York Post:
NYC tailor defies state order: 'I'm opening my doors come hell or high water'  —  One defiant NYC business owner — who's been deemed “non-essential” during the pandemic — has a message to New York: “I'm opening my doors come hell or high water.”  —  Eliot Rabin, whose Upper East Side boutique …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Exclusive: Coronavirus caused heart to rupture in nation's first known victim, autopsy shows  —  The Santa Clara woman whose death from COVID-19 is the earliest so far known in the United States suffered a massive heart attack caused by coronavirus infection, signs of which were found throughout her body …
Discussion: CNN, NBC Los Angeles, Politico and The Hill
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Tom Cotton: Ban Chinese students from learning science so they can't ‘steal’ coronavirus vaccine  —  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday argued that the United States should ban Chinese students from learning about science while they are in the United States.  —  During an interview …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Why Americans Don't Vote Their Class Anymore  —  For decades now, major left-wing parties throughout the West have been bleeding support from the working-class voters whose interests they claim to represent.  —  In the mid-20th century, a voter's socioeconomic position strongly predicted …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Democrats see Senate suddenly within reach, boosted by Biden's ascent  —  Joe Biden's unexpectedly rapid consolidation of the Democratic presidential nomination has upended calculations in both parties about the U.S. Senate landscape, with Democrats hopeful that Biden can actively help …
 
 
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Abigail Leonard / TIME:
This Japanese Island Lifted Its Coronavirus Lockdown Too Soon and Became a Warning to the World
Anna Gronewold / Politico:
Cuomo eyes construction, manufacturing for regional reopen in New York
Discussion: The Hill
Evan Halper / Yahoo News:
Lawmakers warn coronavirus contact-tracing is ripe for abusive surveillance
Lisa M. Krieger / Mercury News:
Coronavirus: Would you volunteer to be exposed? These Stanford grads did.
New York Post:
De Blasio appoints wife head of coronavirus racial inequality task force
Lauren Gambino / The Guardian:
Biden searches for his own ‘Biden’ - a running mate with chemistry
Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed News:
Republicans May Undermine Mail-In Voting Just By Running Down The Clock
Discussion: Daily Kos
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Thousands of candidates reinventing politics on the fly for the age of pandemic
 Earlier Items: 
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Washington Post sues State Department over coronavirus cables
Discussion: The Hill
The Moscow Times:
Russia's New Military Mega-Church to Feature Putin, Stalin, Crimea Mosaics
USA Today:
Federal coronavirus strategy lurches as plans to help states change, then change again
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic:
It's George Wallace's World Now
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Perfect storm: Lombardy's virus disaster is lesson for world
CNN:
A Labradoodle breeder, an internet thug and a college senior walk into the White House
Katherine Shaver / Stamford Advocate:
Experts worry ‘quarantine fatigue’ is starting
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager
 
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