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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Daily Death Toll Will Nearly Double by June, Trump Administration Models Predict  —  Tensions between Washington and Beijing escalate.  The Supreme Court hears a case remotely for the first time.  An internal government report projects about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month.
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
CDC privately projects significant May surge in coronavirus cases and deaths  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is projecting that by June 1, the U.S. will see a surge in daily new coronavirus cases from about 25,000 to 200,000, and an increase in daily deaths from about 1,750 to about 3,000 …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Internal Chinese report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation …
Discussion: National Review and New York Post
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Reuters:
Trump administration pushing to rip global supply chains from China: officials  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to punish Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak …
Discussion: Bloomberg and National Review
Mark Moore / New York Post:
Trump has plan to remove US dependency on China supply chain
Discussion: The Guardian and Associated Press
Jason Koebler / VICE:
Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers  —  Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been “firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.”
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Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
Senate secretary declines to release possible Reade report  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The secretary of the Senate has declined Joe Biden's request to release any potential documents pertaining to an allegation of sexual assault against him from a former Senate staffer, citing confidentiality requirements under the law.
Discussion: Axios, Forbes and Los Angeles Times
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Fox News:
Secretary of Senate says cannot comply with Biden request to release records on purported Reade complaint
Discussion: Redstate and The Daily Caller
Quint Forgey / Politico:
McCarthy breaks with McConnell over Trump's testing offer for Congress  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Monday he disagreed with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to decline the Trump administration's offer to provide Congress with rapid-results coronavirus testing.
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The Moscow Times:
Third Russian Doctor Falls From Hospital Window After Coronavirus Complaint  —  A paramedic who complained about being forced to work despite contracting coronavirus is in critical condition after he fell from a hospital window in western Russia this weekend, local media reported.
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Will Stewart / Daily Mail:   THIRD Russian doctor plunges from Covid hospital window: Medic, 37, is now fighting for life …
Kate Irby / Fresno Bee:
Devin Nunes' lawyer facing prospect of sanctions after two recent, rare court warnings  —  The attorney representing Rep. Devin Nunes in six lawsuits has received two recent, rare warnings from judges that raise the prospect of courts sanctioning him.  —  People and organizations that Nunes' attorney …
Nicole Hong / New York Times:
3 Hospital Workers Gave Out Masks.  Weeks Later, They All Were Dead.  —  The coronavirus has taken a steep toll on the often-invisible army of employees who keep New York hospitals running.  —  They did not treat patients, but Wayne Edwards, Derik Braswell and Priscilla Carrow held …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Poll: Ernst lead evaporates in Iowa Senate race  —  The Senate race in Iowa is tightening, according to a new poll that shows Sen. Joni Ernst's (R-Iowa) lead over her likely Democratic opponent Theresa Greenfield narrowing to just 1 point.  —  The survey from the Democratic-leaning firm …
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Public Policy Polling:
Iowa Races Closely Matched
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Smart or Lucky?  How Florida Dodged the Worst of Coronavirus  —  Even though it's too early to draw clear conclusions, and the virus could flare again, there are lessons from its approach  —  MIAMI—When the coronavirus pandemic swept toward Florida, public-health professionals nationally warned …
Discussion: Twitchy
Detroit News:
Police probe shooting of Flint security guard in confrontation over mask at Family Dollar  —  Michigan State Police investigators are looking into reports that a Flint dollar store security guard was fatally shot Friday after an argument with a customer who refused to wear a mask in the store.
Chrissy Clark / The Federalist:
A Rundown Of Major U.S. Corporate Media's Business Ties To China  —  It seems a number of major US media outlets have financial ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and it shows in their coverage.  —  Despite the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) record of oppression, corporate media outlets …
Discussion: CNBC and Politico
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David Wertime / Politico:
'Not the World's Number One': Chinese Social Media Piles On the U.S.
Discussion: Twitchy and Raw Story
United States Department of State:
Briefing With Senior Administration Official and Senior State Department Official On U.S. Global Leadership in the International COVID-19 Response  —  SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: The United States and President Trump are leading the global effort to combat this pandemic.
Clayton Sandell / ABC News:
Colorado man planning armed protest against state's coronavirus restrictions arrested for pipe bombs  —  Bradley Bunn first came to the attention of authorities on social media.  —  A Colorado man arrested after federal agents allegedly discovered pipe bombs in his home had also been helping organize …
Discussion: Raw Story
David Kaye:
Against balancing  —  The New York Times' Editorial Board led on Sunday with this headline: “When Liberty and Health Collide”.  It's a good topic and I am glad that the Times is on it.  The pandemic has led governments at national, state and local levels to take measures that impose all sorts …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest coronavirus spin unmasks his extreme narcissism  —  President Trump has spent the past three years attacking U.S. intelligence officials as corrupt and traitorous.  He even hinted one official should perhaps be executed for telling the truth about his profound and likely criminal betrayal …
Washington Post:
Before pandemic, Trump's stockpile chief put focus on biodefense.  An old client benefited.  —  After Robert Kadlec was confirmed as President Trump's top official for public health preparedness in 2017, he began pressing to increase government stocks of a smallpox vaccine.
Discussion: Raw Story
David Catanese / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
The six states at the center of the battleground map six months from Election Day  —  Six months from Election Day, most Americans have set aside a presidential campaign that's been upended by the worst pandemic in modern history.  —  While the coronavirus has tossed the mechanics of politicking …
Discussion: Fox News
The Daily Beast:
Fake News Kingpin Is Back to Cash In On 2020's Hellscape  —  He transformed fake news into a lucrative business in 2016.  Now Teodor Mircevski is making money off false coronavirus and 2020 election stories—and Americans are falling for it.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
San Diego man wears KKK hood to supermarket after county orders public to wear face masks  —  Officials have condemned a man in California who was pictured wearing a makeshift Ku Klux Klan hood while shopping at a supermarket.  —  Pictures of the man wearing a white hood similar to one worn …
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
How the coronavirus undid Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis  —  There was the time Gov. Ron DeSantis showed up at a coronavirus press conference in  —  a solitary rubber glove, proceeding to repeatedly touch his face with the other, ungloved hand.  And there was the time he went through heroic struggles in
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
What Joe Biden Needs to Do to Beat Trump  —  To win, he has to find a way to get beyond the basement tapes and project himself into our ever more digital world.  —  Mr. Axelrod was the senior strategist for President Barack Obama's campaigns in 2008 and 2012; Mr. Plouffe was Mr. Obama's campaign manager in 2008.
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Politico:
Get ready to see the truly ugly face of Covid-19's impact on the economy  —  Editor's Note: Morning Money is a free version of POLITICO Pro Financial Services' morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need …
Kristin Myers / Yahoo Finance:
Reopening states will cause 233,000 more people to die from coronavirus, according to Wharton model  —  New data from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that relaxing lockdowns across U.S. cities and states could have serious consequences for the country's
Discussion: Raw Story and The Intellectualist
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
For the 5th time in two weeks, Trump tweaks projected death toll  —  When a president finds it necessary to revise a projected death toll five times in 13 days, there's a problem.  —  Two weeks ago today, Donald Trump said he believed the overall American death toll from the coronavirus could be as low as 50,000 people.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
A New York Congressman Says That Trump Shows No Malice  —  Last November, Representative Peter King, a Republican from New York's Second Congressional District, on Long Island, announced that he would retire at the end of his current term.  King, who is seventy-six, has served in Congress since 1993.
USA Today:
‘It makes no sense’: Feds consider relaxing infection control in U.S. nursing homes  —  Marisa Kwiatkowski Tricia L. NadolnyUSA TODAY  —  The federal government is considering rolling back infection control requirements in U.S. nursing homes - even as the long-term-care industry's residents …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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David Marcus / The Federalist:
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Lyz Lenz / Washington Post:
Biden should step aside. We can't sacrifice another woman for political gain.
Discussion: New York Times
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
On Virginia-Tennessee border, one side is now open for business while the other is still on lockdown
Associated Press:
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump says he shares his famed uncle's science genius.  A friend says the uncle ‘would have been horrified.’
Jason Sattler / USA Today:
What Republicans don't get: Donald Trump is our biggest obstacle to coronavirus recovery
Discussion: Raw Story
Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
The Small-Business Die-Off Is Here  —  Outside of Boston …
Discussion: Reason