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5:35 AM ET, April 27, 2020

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New York Post:
White House officials say Trump works so hard he often misses lunch  —  President Trump's schedule is so packed amid the coronavirus crisis that he sometimes skips lunch, his aides told The Post — refuting a report that the commander-in-chief spends his days obsessing over TV coverage and eating fries.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House to shift to economic message on coronavirus  —  The White House plans to shift its coronavirus messaging toward boosting the economy and highlighting “success stories” of businesses, reducing its public emphasis on health statistics, according to two officials familiar with the planning.
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Trump blasts Fox News, says he wants an “alternative” network  —  President Trump tore into Fox News in a series of tweets on Sunday night, claiming that he has “no respect” for the network's leadership and that it “keeps on plugging to try and become politically correct.”
Tina Nguyen / Politico:   Trump offered a confusing coronavirus theory. Conservative pundits explained it for him.
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
White House aiming for Trump pivot from virus to economy
Discussion: The Week and HuffPost
Beth Baumann / Townhall:
‘Squad’ Member Is Now Encouraging People to Ignore Health Experts' Coronavirus Advice
Discussion: Redstate
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
‘It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle,’ Birx says of Trump's disinfectant and light comments
Discussion: Breitbart
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Trump's Disinfectant Remark Raises a Question About the ‘Very Stable Genius’  —  The president has often said he is exceptionally smart.  His recent suggestion about injecting disinfectants was not.  —  President Trump's self-assessment has been consistent.  —  “I'm, like, a very smart person,” he assured voters in 2016.
Discussion: HuffPost and Axios
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
How Las Vegas Became Ground Zero for the American Jobs Crisis  —  As the U.S. economy shut down, few places in America were hit harder and faster than Las Vegas.  —  When Valicia Anderson starts to count the people she knows in Las Vegas who have lost their jobs, she runs out of fingers fast.
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Muted and vacant, Las Vegas struggles to survive shutdown  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Slot machines are powered down, casinos boarded up and barricaded.  —  Sidewalks are largely deserted and electronic marquees that once flashed neon calls for nightclubs, magic shows and topless revues instead beam somber messages of safety.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Anna Wintour Made Condé Nast the Embodiment of Boomer Excess.  Can It Change to Meet This Crisis?  —  The theatrical flourishes and lavish lifestyles of the great media figures of a generation seem ill suited to the moment.  —  The coronavirus chased the fashion industry across Europe in February …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Why Trump went off on Brian Kemp  —  One of the more surprising recent political moments was when President Trump publicly lambasted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.  It's rare — and politically damaging — for a Republican official to get steamrolled the way Kemp did last week.
Discussion: Raw Story
Financial Times:
Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported  —  Mortality statistics show 111,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across 15 countries analysed by the FT  —  The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts …
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Wait, how long are we supposed to stay in lockdown?  —  What are we waiting for?  The question can be posed in either a wild, irresponsible way — or a sane, measured way.  In New York, our “pause” will continue until at least May 15, and New Yorkers are asking, in a measured, sane way: What exactly are we waiting for?
CNN:
People receiving stimulus checks get letter signed by President Donald Trump  —  Why millions still haven't received stimulus money  —  (CNN)If you're getting money from the federal government as part of the recent stimulus response to the coronavirus, you'll also get a letter from President Donald Trump explaining why.
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
'For black folks, it's like a setup: Are you trying to kill us?'  —  Fear and mistrust in rural Georgia as Gov. Kemp urges the state to reopen.  —  Sheryl Means already has lost so much to the invisible virus burning through her hometown.  Her mother and her aunt died within days of each other.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
To Pressure Iran, Pompeo Turns to the Deal Trump Renounced  —  The secretary of state is preparing an argument that the U.S. remains a participant in the Obama-era nuclear deal, with the goal of extending an arms embargo or destroying the accord.  —  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Is the talk about Kim Jong Un being sick — or worse — true?  Pyongyang is abuzz, too.  —  Where is Kim Jong Un?  Is the devious despot dead after heart surgery?  Is he lying in a vegetative state in a hospital bed?  Or is he happily chain-smoking at his beachfront palace in Wonsan?
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
We Still Don't Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing Us  —  We're committed to keeping our readers informed. … Over the last few weeks, the country has managed to stabilize the spread of the coronavirus sufficiently enough to begin debating when and in what ways to “reopen,” and to normalize …
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Public companies took far more small business loans than first thought — here's the latest tally  — Even as the U.S. small business relief program is set to reopen Monday with fresh funding, the full extent that public companies tapped the emergency facility is only now becoming clear.
Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Means the Era of Big Government Is...Back  —  History shows that national shocks—the Depression, World War II, the financial crisis—have a way of expanding the role of government in lasting ways.  This one is looking like no exception.  —  TEXT  —  RESPONSES
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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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Pelosi Now Says U.S. Should Have Stopped Americans Coming Back From China  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Sunday that the Trump administration's January China travel ban implemented to curb the spread of the novel Wuhan coronavirus should have barred U.S. citizens from returning home.
Discussion: Redstate, The Hill and IJR
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
The cost of Trump's deadly state of denial
Discussion: Raw Story
ABC News:
COVID-19 jobless rates will be comparable to Great Depression: Trump economic adviser  —  Kevin Hassett, the president's economic adviser, appeared on ABC's “This Week.”  —  The U.S. is going to see a jobless rate comparable to what happened during the Great Depression as it recovers …
Discussion: HuffPost, The Hill and Forbes
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:   Mnuchin: 'You're going to see the economy really bounce back in July, August, September'
 
 
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Carl M. Cannon / Real Clear Politics:
How the N.Y. Times Swung at Fox News — and Missed
Discussion: Instapundit
Joyce M. Rosenberg / Associated Press:
A flood of business bankruptcies likely in coming months
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
'Is this another death I'll have to pronounce?'
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Governors urge Trump to keep briefings ‘fact-based’ after disinfectant comments
Discussion: Vox, ABC News and The Root
Anna Gronewold / Politico:
Cuomo eyes construction, manufacturing for regional reopen in New York
Discussion: Breitbart and The Hill
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Why Americans Don't Vote Their Class Anymore
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Evan Halper / Yahoo News:
Lawmakers warn coronavirus contact-tracing is ripe for abusive surveillance
 Earlier Items: 
Doree Lewak / New York Post:
NYC tailor defies state order: 'I'm opening my doors come hell or high water'
Discussion: Redstate
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Hey, teachers, cops, etc. — Mitch McConnell wants your job, pension. Will he kill the GOP instead?
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Closed Hospitals Leave Rural Patients ‘Stranded’ as Coronavirus Spreads
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Tom Cotton: Ban Chinese students from learning science so they can't ‘steal’ coronavirus vaccine
Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed News:
Republicans May Undermine Mail-In Voting Just By Running Down The Clock
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Washington Post sues State Department over coronavirus cables
Discussion: The Hill
Harry Enten / CNN:
Biden's invisible campaign is winning
Discussion: Outside the Beltway