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2:10 AM ET, May 5, 2020

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Washington Post:
Draft report predicts covid-19 cases will reach 200,000 a day by June 1  —  A draft government report projects covid-19 cases will surge to about 200,000 per day by June 1, a staggering jump that would be accompanied by more than 3,000 deaths each day.  —  The document predicts a sharp increase …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The White House is focused on per capita coronavirus death tolls.  Here's where we rank.  —  The United States has the most confirmed coronavirus cases and the most confirmed coronavirus deaths in the world.  This became true weeks ago, and the gap between us and the rest of the world is only growing.
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Chris Christie pushes to reopen country despite dire Covid-19 projections: ‘There are going to be deaths’
Associated Press:
3 charged in killing of store security guard over virus mask  —  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A woman, her adult son and husband have been charged in the fatal shooting of a security guard who refused to let her daughter enter a Family Dollar in Michigan because she wasn't wearing a face mask to protect against transmission of the coronavirus.
Discussion: The Week
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NBC News:
Michigan security guard killed in mask dispute; suspect said he ‘disrespected’ them
Discussion: Daily Kos and Fox News
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Is Really Aiming to Take Down Fox”: A Group Associated With Donald Trump Jr. Is Buying a Major Stake in OANN  —  Possibly hedging against a 2020 loss, the Trump family builds ties to a network that's much more loyal than Fox.  —  When liberals look at Fox News, they tend to see Trump TV …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Pick for Intelligence Chief Follows a Slew of QAnon Accounts  —  John Ratcliffe's campaign Twitter account follows Pizzagaters, JFK Jr. conspiracists, and a 9/11 Truther account with just one follower besides himself.  —  For a nominee to helm the U.S. government's intelligence apparatus …
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
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Ivan Pentchoukov / theepochtimes.com:
CIA Watchdog Sitting on Secret House Report Allegedly Critical of Brennan's Role in Russian Meddling Assessment
Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit
Martin Matishak / Politico:
After nearly 2 years, Grassley lifts hold on counterintel chief nominee
Discussion: The Hill
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Newspaper's Top Editor Is Now a ‘Homeless’ Blogger  —  A 54-year-old journalist lost his job running an Indiana newspaper, as well as the apartment that went with it.  He moved to a Motel 6.  —  On Wednesday he was laid off.  On Friday he was living in a Motel 6.
National Geographic:
Fauci: No scientific evidence the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab  —  In an exclusive interview, the face of America's COVID-19 response cautions against the rush for states to reopen, and offers his tips for handling the pandemic's information deluge.  —  SCIENCE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE
Discussion: Raw Story
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
The plan is to have no plan  —  “There is no genius there, only a damaged human being playing havoc with our lives.” … The plan is to have no plan, to let daily deaths between and one and three thousand become a normal thing, and then to create massive confusion about who is responsible …
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Most Events in the Lincoln Memorial Are Banned.  Trump Got an Exception.  —  Citing the “extraordinary crisis” of the coronavirus, the interior secretary relaxed the rules so the president could hold a Fox News interview in one of the nation's most hallowed spaces.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN sends Trump campaign cease-and-desist letter for misleading ad  —  New York (CNN Business)A lawyer for CNN's parent company WarnerMedia has written a cease-and-desist letter to President Trump's re-election campaign over the misleading contents of a new campaign ad.
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 …
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Australian intelligence knocks back US government's Wuhan lab virus claim  —  Australian intelligence agencies have questioned evidence trumpeted by United States officials supposedly linking the coronavirus to a Wuhan laboratory as concerns within the government grow that the push …
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Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Five Eyes network contradicts theory Covid-19 leaked from lab
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Ex-NBC Producer Rich McHugh Blasts Outgoing Chairman Andy Lack, Says NY AG's Office Probing the Network  —  Rich McHugh, a former NBC News producer who worked with Ronan Farrow, had some tough words for the network tonight over the departure of NBC News/MSNBC chairman Andy Lack.
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The Daily Beast:
NBC Shakeup May Spell the End for Ronan Farrow Nemesis Noah Oppenheim
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 …
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Don Sweeney / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
FBI seizes four pipe bombs from home of Colorado anti-lockdown protester, feds say
Discussion: The Hill
Aris Folley / The Hill:
GOP Ohio state lawmaker refuses to wear face mask because faces are the ‘likeness of God’  —  © The Ohio House of Representatives  —  A Republican Ohio state representative cited his religious beliefs to explain why he would not wear a mask as recommended by Gov. Mike DeWine (R) to help limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Discussion: Political Wire, Fox News and Politico
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Ohio GOP lawmaker says he won't wear a face mask because God doesn't wear one
Discussion: The Intellectualist
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
A man wore a KKK hood at a grocery store after San Diego County required face masks  —  Photos of a man wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood while shopping Saturday prompted a harsh rebuke from local leaders in San Diego County, and police now say they're looking into the unsettling imagery.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and KTLA
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Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
Man wears KKK hood while grocery shopping in California
Discussion: Fox News and The Root
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The coronavirus is invading the battleground states  —  The political geography of our pandemic keeps shifting — and now the coronavirus is invading the battleground states in ways that could upend the 2020 presidential race.  —  William Frey of the Brookings Institution …
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David Catanese / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   The six states at the center of the battleground map six months from Election Day
New York Daily News:
Goodbye to Trump's GOP: We've left the Republican Party and all other women should too  —  Call it a divorce.  A case of “irreconcilable differences” perhaps, but we're gone.  Splitsville.  Outta there.  —  We left the GOP at different times for sure, but for the same reasons …
Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast:
Michelle Obama Is Mad at Black Voters, Not Trump Voters: 'That's My Trauma'  —  ‘BECOMING’  —  The Netflix documentary “Becoming,” chronicling Michelle Obama's book tour, is light on newsworthy Trump attacks, focusing instead on the former first lady's next chapter.
Discussion: Fox News and Mediaite
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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 …
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Senate Democrats stand by Biden: ‘Credible and convincing’ defense against sex assault claim  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats said Monday they back Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for president in spite of allegations by former aide Tara Reade that he sexually assaulted her in 1993 when he was a senator.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Appeals Court Vacancy Is Under Scrutiny Ahead of Contested Confirmation Hearing  —  The chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit publicly advanced a call by a progressive group for an ethics investigation into the circumstances of a plum vacancy.
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Massachusetts golf course owner set to defy state's lockdown, will reopen for business  —  A Massachusetts business owner is planning on reopening her two family-run golf courses this week in defiance of the statewide ban on golfing implemented by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker.
Discussion: The Hill
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Kyle Morris / Breitbart:   Massachusetts Golf Course to Reopen During Lockdown
SFGATE:
Gavin Newsom announces California will enter Stage 2 of reopening Friday  —  California will move into Stage 2 of the state's reopening plan by the end of this week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced during a press conference Monday.  —  “On Friday I said we were days not weeks …
 
 
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Associated Press:
Venezuela: 2 US ‘mercenaries’ among those nabbed after raid
Economic Policy Institute:
A majority of H-1B employers—including major U.S. tech firms—use the program to pay migrant workers …
Discussion: Breitbart
Lauren Collins / New Yorker:
Reinventing Grief in an Era of Enforced Isolation
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
The Right Wants to Use Tara Reade's Claims to Snuff Out the #MeToo Movement
Discussion: Washington Post and Twitchy
Tulsa World:
State Supreme Court tosses notary requirement for absentee ballots
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast:
Don Lemon Asks Trump: Why Are You So Obsessed With Obama?
Discussion: The Root
 Earlier Items: 
Tim Miller / Rolling Stone:
With Kayleigh McEnany, the White House Isn't Even Pretending the Truth Matters
Chicago Tribune:
Inmate who agreed to stay in Cook County Jail to avoid immigration trouble lost life to COVID-19 instead
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Biden Campaign Organizers Ratify Union Contract
Ben Tobin / Courier-Journal:
Courier Journal wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Matt Bevin's pardons
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Canada succeeded on coronavirus where America failed. Why?
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney board members are exploring fresh candidates in their search for a successor to Bob Iger, including EA CEO Andrew Wilson

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Netflix says its ad tier has 70M MAUs globally, up from 40M in May 2024, and it sold all out available in-game inventory for its Christmas Day NFL broadcasts

 
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