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Joe Biden:
Statement by Vice President Joe Biden — April was Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Every year, at this time, we talk about awareness, prevention, and the importance of women feeling they can step forward, say something, and be heard. That belief — that women should be heard …
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Washington Post:
Joe Biden denies he sexually assaulted a former Senate aide, calls on National Archives to release complaint if it exists — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Friday denied that he sexually assaulted a former Senate aide, addressing the allegation publicly …
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Business Insider, NBC News, Politico, BuzzFeed News, Talking Points Memo, The Federalist, Althouse, The Wrap and IJR
Conrad Black / American Greatness:
Joe Biden Is Cooked … Despite polls showing that he leads President Trump in key states and in the country overall, there remains something seriously missing and not credible in the putative presidential nomination of Joe Biden. — The polls are never accurate with Trump …
Robby Soave / Reason:
Joe Biden Denies Sexual Assault Accusation, Fails To Explain Why ‘Believe Victims’ Doesn't Apply to Tara Reade — Former Vice President Joe Biden explicitly denied the sexual assault accusation against him during an appearance on MSNBC Friday morning. Speaking publicly about the matter …
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Mediaite, Patterico's Pontifications and Townhall
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Why won't Biden open up his records to scrutiny?
Why won't Biden open up his records to scrutiny?
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The Hill
BuzzFeed News:
Tara Reade Knows She Has A Difficult Allegation. And She's Had A Difficult Time Getting A Hearing.
Tara Reade Knows She Has A Difficult Allegation. And She's Had A Difficult Time Getting A Hearing.
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Vox, Fox News, TheBlaze, Columbia Journalism Review, The Daily Caller, Forbes, Sara A. Carter, HuffPost, VICE, The Daily Beast, The Bread Line, Mediaite, Twitchy, CNN, The Hill and Los Angeles Times
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden Denies Tara Reade's Assault Allegation
Biden Denies Tara Reade's Assault Allegation
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Real Clear Politics, The Week and The Daily Caller
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Pence staff threatens action against reporter who tweeted about visit to clinic without surgical mask — Vice President Pence's office has threatened to retaliate against a reporter who revealed that Pence's office had told journalists they would need masks for Pence's visit to the Mayo Clinic …
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HuffPost, Mediaite, The American Independent, New York Times, CounterPunch, PRESS RUN, The Week, Raw Story, New York Post, Palmer Report, CNBC, Fox News, Axios and Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »
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Politico:
Wearing a mask is for smug liberals. Refusing to is for reckless Republicans. — In the '60s, protesters burned bras. In 2020, they might soon be burning masks. — Views on how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic have become increasingly polarized, yet another political issue …
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The Points Guy, The American Independent, CNN and Mediaite
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Internal GOP poll points to troubling signs for Georgia Republicans — An internal poll conducted for the Georgia House GOP Caucus points to troubling signs for Republican leaders: President Donald Trump is deadlocked with Joe Biden and voters aren't giving the White House …
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Washington Monthly, Erick Erickson's Confessions …, Deseret News and Washington Post
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Congressional Democrats are governing from the minority — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wears a cloth mask to cover her mouth and nose to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus during her weekly news conference at the US Capitol on April 30. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
The Senate's coronavirus testing conundrum
The Senate's coronavirus testing conundrum
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Vanity Fair, Fox News and The Hill
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. scrutinizes White House-connected doctor linked to disputed coronavirus treatment — Federal prosecutors are examining the communications of a New York family doctor who appears frequently on Fox News and has been in touch with the White House to tout an anti-malarial as a treatment …
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Axios, Politico, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
CNN:
Top HHS spokesman repeatedly directed sexually crude and sexist tweets at women — WARNING: This story contains graphic language. — (CNN)The top spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services repeatedly directed crude and sexist comments toward women in now-deleted tweets, a CNN KFile review finds.
Maggie Fox / CNN:
Expert report predicts up to two more years of pandemic misery — (CNN)The new coronavirus is likely to keep spreading for at least another 18 months to two years—until 60% to 70% of the population has been infected, a team of longstanding pandemic experts predicted in a report released Thursday.
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Bloomberg, New York Post and No More Mister Nice Blog
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Makes Push for Seniors as Coronavirus Crisis Erodes Support — President trails Joe Biden in polls among older voters, who are paying close attention to his handling of the pandemic—and watching his press briefings — WASHINGTON—President Trump has opened a new charm offensive aimed …
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POLITICUSUSA
Leyland Cecco / The Guardian:
Trudeau announces Canada is banning assault-style weapons — Move comes after murder of 22 people in worst mass shooting in Canada's history — Canada has banned assault-style weapons following the murder of 22 people in the worst mass shooting in the country's history, Justin Trudeau announced on Friday.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
History According to Trump: The President and the 1917 Pandemic That Wasn't — The U.S. leader, famously illiterate about history, eagerly promotes his place in it. — As the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted his Presidency, Donald Trump has often complained about the terrible hand that history has dealt him.
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Vox
CNN:
Thank you for your service, Jared Kushner — Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the editor of the Coronavirus Daily Brief and author of the new book “Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos.”
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The Bulwark and Financial Times
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Randall D. Eliason / Washington Post:
No, Michael Flynn wasn't ‘set up’ — Attorneys for former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn claim that “stunning” new documents reveal the FBI “framed” and “set up” their client. Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to FBI agents about his contacts with the Russian ambassador …
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The Hill, New York Times and Breitbart
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
The Case Against Michael Flynn Now Looks a Lot Weaker
The Case Against Michael Flynn Now Looks a Lot Weaker
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Patterico's Pontifications and CNN
John Solomon / Just The News:
FBI found no ‘derogatory’ Russia evidence on Flynn, planned to close case before leaders intervened
FBI found no ‘derogatory’ Russia evidence on Flynn, planned to close case before leaders intervened
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Power Line, Sean Hannity and The Federalist
Washington Post:
Nearly seven weeks into the shutdown, here's why so many are still getting sick — The District, Maryland and Virginia have been shut down for weeks, their economies in tatters. Large swaths of the population venture out only rarely, wrapped in masks and gloves.
PRRI:
President Trump's Favorability Ratings Recede from March's Peak — New data from PRRI shows that President Donald Trump's favorability rating has dropped seven points over the last four weeks. Today, just over four in ten (43%) Americans hold mostly or very favorable views of Trump …
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Raw Story
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
House panel demands that Bezos testify on whether Amazon misled Congress — The House Judiciary Committee today demanded that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testify on whether the company misled Congress about the data tactics it deploys against rivals, setting up a major potential fight with the company.
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns in the state Capitol, demonstrate against Michigan's emergency measures — Protesters held signs, waved American flags and even carried firearms as lawmakers debated extending Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's state of emergency.
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Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Armed protesters demonstrate against Covid-19 lockdown at Michigan capitol
Armed protesters demonstrate against Covid-19 lockdown at Michigan capitol
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Michigan Advance, Detroit Metro Times, IJR, Vox, Forbes and Breitbart
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
What VA isn't saying about hydroxychloroquine — and everything else related to coronavirus — The Department of Veterans Affairs has sidestepped questions about its response to the coronavirus, veteran service organizations and congressional committees have said, even as the number of deaths …
David Caplan / 1010 WINS:
Has Gov. Cuomo found love during the pandemic? He tells WINS anchor, 'I'm eligible' — NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to take in stride being one of the state's — if not country's — most sought-after bachelors. — During an interview Thursday with 1010 WINS' Susan Richard …
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New York Daily News, The Daily Caller and HuffPost
Washington Post:
Public companies received $1 billion in stimulus funds meant for small businesses — Nearly 300 public companies have reported receiving loans. Some have returned them. — Publicly traded companies have received more than $1 billion in funds meant for small businesses …
NBC News:
While Trump minimizes the toll, government orders 100,000 new body bags — Federal coronavirus response documents obtained by NBC News suggest the president's optimism about ‘Opening Up America’ is at odds with dire warnings from inside his administration. — WASHINGTON — The federal …
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Talking Points Memo, The Intellectualist, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Igor Derysh / Salon:
Florida stops releasing medical examiners' coronavirus death counts after they report higher total — Florida also excludes travelers and seasonal residents who died in the state, though medical examiners include them — Florida health officials have stopped publishing real …
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Amid a Rising Death Toll, Trump Leaves the Grieving to Others — President Trump has led no national mourning for the more than 63,000 Americans who have died from the coronavirus, emphasizing confidence about the future rather than dwelling on the present.