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Biden, Warren: There's no oversight of coronavirus relief — because that's what Trump wants — Sixty-four thousand dead. Thirty million people out of work. Small businesses collapsing. Communities of color hit exceptionally hard. — Even the most ideological conservatives …
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Balloon Juice
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CBS News poll: Elizabeth Warren tops Democrats' wish list for Biden's vice president — Economic expertise and crisis management skills are top qualities Democratic voters want to see in a vice-presidential pick for their party — even more so than executive or legislative experience …
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The Hill, Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA and Daily Kos


Trump Got Dow 36,000 Author to Model the Coronavirus. It Didn't Go Well. — President Trump's habit of promising unrealistically low casualty counts is one of the more inexplicable unforced errors in the administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump's desperate attempts to reopen America — The epidemiological models under review in the White House Situation Room in late March were bracing. In a best-case scenario, they showed the novel coronavirus was likely to kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans.
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Mother Jones, CNN, New York Times, Vox, NBC News, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Raw Story


What the Coronavirus Models Can't See — We're committed to keeping our readers informed. … On April 20, less than two weeks ago, Donald Trump predicted the ultimate coronavirus death toll would be between 50,000 and 60,000 Americans. The prediction was strategic …
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Vox, abc7NY, Digby's Hullabaloo and USA Today


Kudlow defends claiming U.S. had coronavirus “contained” in February — White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow defended his claim on Feb. 25 that the U.S. had “contained” the coronavirus “pretty close to airtight,” arguing on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that his comments were “based on the actual facts” at the time.
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Pompeo says there's “enormous evidence” coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab
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Fox News and The Daily Caller

Cuomo announces 7-state consortium for buying PPE
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Politico and The Mahablog


How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump — To understand the President's path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country's executive class. — Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of future Presidents, was the eight-time club champion on the golf course …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money


Dinner organizer says Biden was not at 2008 event where he was accused of sexual harassment — A past organizer for Delaware's First State Gridiron Dinner now says Joe Biden did not attend the event in 2008, after a woman recently claimed the former vice president and senator sexually harassed her there, Fox News has learned.
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The Daily Caller, Law & Crime and Althouse
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Tara Reade Isn't Ready to Respond to Biden Sexual-Harrassment Denial
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Washington Examiner and The Hill

Tara Reade says ‘creepy’ voice messages, online harassment targeting her, family
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Breitbart, No More Mister Nice Blog and Slate

AP Admits Not Reporting, Deleting Tara Reade 2019 Interview Detailing Charges Against Joe Biden
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Balloon Juice, The Hill and Outside the Beltway


Birx decries Michigan protests: It's ‘devastatingly worrisome’ — “They will feel guilty for the rest of our lives.” — White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx. Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said on Sunday she found it …
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DNC Chair Tom Perez compares Biden sexual assault allegation to ‘Hillary emails’ — The RNC and DNC chairs appear on ABC's “This Week.” — Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez addressed the accusation of sexual assault against the party's presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden …
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Fox News, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, New York Post and Breitbart
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City's proclamation requiring face masks in stores and restaurants is amended after threats of violence — (CNN)An emergency proclamation issued Thursday in Stillwater, Oklahoma, requiring the use of face masks in stores and restaurants was amended Friday after threats of violence.
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stillwater.org and The Hill
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Oklahoma city ends face mask rule for shoppers after store employees are threatened
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New York Post, Slate, Law & Crime, Althouse and fox8.com


The Coronavirus Becomes a Battle Cry for U.S. Extremists — White supremacists seek to stoke the fear and disruption caused by the pandemic to push their agenda and to recruit. — America's extremists are attempting to turn the coronavirus pandemic into a potent recruiting tool …


How Trump has broken the polls — (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Ipsos/Reuters poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by a 45% to 39% margin. — The Ipsos poll is just the latest to find Biden ahead. He's never not been ahead in the polling average.


Anti-Vaccination Activists Are Growing Force at Virus Protests — Public health experts fear that their messaging could further harm the country's response to the pandemic. — The protest on Friday in Sacramento urging California's governor to reopen the state resembled the rallies …
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Quartz


Florida county's medical examiner begged officials to close beaches, internal emails reveal — Beaches in Florida's St. Johns County remained open to record crowds through most of March, despite mounting concerns raised by the county's medical examiner and residents.


Biden wins Kansas primary conducted with all-mail balloting — TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Joe Biden has overwhelmingly won a Democratic presidential primary in Kansas that the state party conducted exclusively by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic. — The former vice president had been expected …
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The Hill


The big problem coronavirus poses for White House economists — Another 3.8 million Americans file for unemployment benefits — (CNN)The numbers evoke the worst economic nightmares in American history. But White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett freely admits he can't map the path out.


Fears rise that Trump will incite a global vaccine brawl — When global leaders gathered virtually last month at the behest of the World Health Organization to commit to distributing a future coronavirus vaccine in an internationally equitable way, the United States didn't join in.
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Vanity Fair, France 24 and Raw Story


Ohio governor says his face mask order went ‘too far’ — On May 11, consumer and retail stores in Ohio will be allowed to reopen. — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Sunday that a statewide order mandating face masks be worn in stores went “too far.” — “It became clear to me that that was just a bridge too far.


Pompeo Says ‘Enormous Evidence’ Connects Virus to Wuhan Lab — Top diplomat stops short of calling Covid-19 virus man-made — Comments as Trump, aides sharpen criticism of Beijing — U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said “enormous evidence” shows the novel coronavirus outbreak began …
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HuffPost


These Arizona sheriffs say they won't enforce governor's stay-at-home order. But they don't expect a free-for-all — Two Arizona county sheriffs, one on the western edge of the state and another just south of Phoenix, say they won't enforce the stay-at-home order imposed by Gov. Doug Ducey …
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Townhall


Endangered Republicans keeping distance from Trump — As the president's numbers slip, Republicans are recalibrating their strategy for winning in tough times. — At the end of a recent column, I argued that the odds of a Democratic blowout in this November's election were now as likely as a Trump victory.
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Washington Post, Raw Story and Daily Kos