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7:30 PM ET, April 26, 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.
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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.
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 …
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump offered a confusing coronavirus theory.  Conservative pundits explained it for him.  —  For once, President Donald Trump's latest tossed-out suggestion for a way to combat coronavirus — injecting ultraviolet rays — did not originate from a Fox News guest, a viral Twitter thread or an article on a conservative website.
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
Beth Baumann / Townhall:
‘Squad’ Member Is Now Encouraging People to Ignore Health Experts' Coronavirus Advice
Discussion: Redstate
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
White House aiming for Trump pivot from virus to economy
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
The cost of Trump's deadly state of denial
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: NB Blog and The Daily Caller
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Biden's invisible campaign is winning
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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?
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Washington Post:
Kim Jong Un's train spotted at coastal resort, intel reports scotch death rumors
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 …
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 …
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
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
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 …
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
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
'Is this another death I'll have to pronounce?' … I'm always driving, going back-and-forth between nursing homes, the hospital, and the morgue.  All these roads should be empty if you ask me.  But now I see people out running errands, rushing back into their lives, and it's like: “Why?
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Abigail Leonard / TIME:
This Japanese Island Lifted Its Coronavirus Lockdown Too Soon and Became a Warning to the World  —  Japan's northern island of Hokkaido offers a grim lesson in the next phase of the battle against COVID-19.  It acted quickly and contained an early outbreak of the coronavirus with a 3-week lockdown.
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 …
Discussion: Redstate
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.
Ashe Schow / The Daily Wire:
New York Required Nursing Homes To Admit ‘Medically Stable’ Coronavirus Patients.  The Results Were Deadly.  —  On March 25, New York's Health Department issued a mandate that state nursing homes could not refuse COVID-19-positive patients who were “medically stable,” meaning facilities …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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 …
 
 
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Joyce M. Rosenberg / Associated Press:
A flood of business bankruptcies likely in coming months
Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Means the Era of Big Government Is...Back
Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek:
Gov. Newsom announces plan for restaurants to deliver 3 meals daily to seniors at no charge
Discussion: Just The News
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Governors urge Trump to keep briefings ‘fact-based’ after disinfectant comments
Discussion: Vox, ABC News and The Root
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Pelosi Now Says U.S. Should Have Stopped Americans Coming Back From China
Discussion: The Hill, Redstate and IJR
Anna Gronewold / Politico:
Cuomo eyes construction, manufacturing for regional reopen in New York
Discussion: The Hill
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Why Americans Don't Vote Their Class Anymore
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 Earlier Items: 
Evan Halper / Yahoo News:
Lawmakers warn coronavirus contact-tracing is ripe for abusive surveillance
New York Post:
De Blasio appoints wife head of coronavirus racial inequality task force
Discussion: Jihad Watch
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
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.
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
America Isn't Actually Doing So Badly Against Coronavirus
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic:
It's George Wallace's World Now
 

 
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