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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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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 …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
New York Post:
Trump: Coronavirus briefings will return, blasts ‘angry’ CBS News reporter  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday that “everybody” enjoyed his White House coronavirus briefings — including himself — and vowed they will be back, just not daily.  —  In an Oval Office interview …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Models Project Sharp Rise in Deaths as States Reopen  —  An internal Trump administration report expects about 200,000 daily cases by June.  The White House bars coronavirus task force officials from testifying to Congress without approval. … Here's what you need to know:
New York Post:
Trump says coronavirus comeback underway: People are ‘starting to feel good’
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Washington Post:
Trump cheers on governors even as they ignore White House coronavirus guidelines in race to reopen
Tim Miller / Rolling Stone:   With Kayleigh McEnany, the White House Isn't Even Pretending the Truth Matters
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
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Democrats, Tara Reade and the #MeToo Trap  —  Don't compare the case against Joe Biden to the one against Brett Kavanaugh.  —  Here is one thing that Christine Blasey Ford and Tara Reade have in common: The Intercept reporter Ryan Grim was pivotal in publicizing their stories.
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Mike Dennison / KBAO-TV:
MSU Poll: Bullock leads Daines in Senate contest  —  Bullock up 46-39; within margin of error  —  MT's U.S. Senate race attracting money from across the country.  —  HELENA — A new poll from Montana State University shows Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock leading Republican Sen. Steve Daines …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
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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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.
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: Politico, Daily Kos 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
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 …
Washington Post:
Americans widely oppose reopening most businesses, despite easing of restrictions in some states, Post-U. Md. poll finds  —  Americans clearly oppose the reopening of restaurants, retail stores and other businesses, even as governors begin to lift restrictions that have kept the economy locked …
Discussion: The Week
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.
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.
Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
A mutant coronavirus has emerged, even more contagious than the original, study says  —  Scientists have identified a new strain of the coronavirus that has become dominant worldwide and appears to be more contagious than the versions that spread in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic …
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
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
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 …
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Money for Welfare Instead Funded Concerts, Lobbyists and Football Games, Audit Finds  —  According to a state audit, Mississippi allowed tens of millions of dollars in federal anti-poverty funds to be used in ways that did little or nothing to help the poor.
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Two-thirds of Americans doubt the coronavirus death toll  —  Most Americans say they doubt the U.S. death count — but whether they think it's actually higher or lower depends on whether they're Democrats or Republicans, according to the latest installment of the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
Discussion: Washington Times
New York Times:
Coronavirus in the U.S.: An Unrelenting Crush of Cases and Deaths  —  While cities like New York have seen a hopeful drop in cases, upticks in other major cities and smaller communities have offset those decreases.  —  In New York City, the daily onslaught of death from the coronavirus has dropped to half of what it was.
Henry Fountain / New York Times:
Billions Could Live in Extreme Heat Zones Within Decades, Study Finds  —  As the climate continues to warm over the next half-century, up to one-third of the world's population is likely to live in areas that are considered unsuitably hot for humans, scientists said Monday.
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
Virus-afflicted 2020 looks like 1918 despite science's march  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a century's progress in science, 2020 is looking a lot like 1918.  —  In the years between two lethal pandemics, one the misnamed Spanish flu, the other COVID-19, the world learned about viruses …
USA Today:
Stop politicizing, and start fixing, the Postal Service  —  USPS is vital to the economy and the election.  But the president is threatening to withhold needed aid as a way to punish Amazon and its owner: Our view  —  The Editorial BoardUSA TODAY  —  The United States Postal Service is in dire financial condition.
Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast:
Michelle Obama Is Mad at ‘Our Folks,’ 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: Mediaite, HuffPost and Fox News
Anna Gronewold / Politico:
States were supposed to team up on reopening.  It hasn't gone as planned.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — When seven northeastern states announced they would reopen their virus-shuttered economies in lockstep when the time was right, it was seen as a very-public flexing of local government muscle …
Ayanna Pressley:
It's 2020 and we still don't know what survivor justice looks like  —  I'm here for an uncomfortable conversation.  Not because it's convenient.  Not because it's strategic.  Because it's necessary.  I am a survivor.  I am an elected official.  I am not new to watching survivors bare their souls …
Discussion: HuffPost
Dan Diamond / Politico:
How a 96-hour project helped Trump's team reverse its testing debacle  —  Fifty-two days ago, the president vowed to a worried nation: Coronavirus testing is finally coming, and you won't even have to leave your car.  —  “The goal is for individuals to be able to drive up and be swabbed,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Don Sweeney / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
FBI seizes four pipe bombs from home of Colorado anti-lockdown protester, feds say  —  A 53-year-old anti-lockdown protester in Colorado has been arrested on suspicion of having pipe bombs and bomb-making materials at his home, the U.S. Attorney's Office says.
Discussion: ABC News, VICE, Forbes, Fox News and Law & Crime
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says ‘bailouts’ unfair to GOP since states needing aid ‘run by Democrats in every case’  —  The president said in an interview that N.Y., Calif. and Illinois “have been mismanaged over a long period of time.”  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says it would be unfair to Republicans …
Discussion: New York Post and 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: Fox News
Center for Global Policy:
The Makhlouf Incident and the Infighting Within the Syrian Regime  —  On April 30, Rami Makhlouf, who is a cousin of Syrian President Bashar Assad and is thought to be Syria's wealthiest businessman, released a monologue defending himself against government accusations of tax evasion and attempts …
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Chris Christie pushes to reopen country despite dire Covid-19 projections: ‘There are going to be deaths’  —  (CNN)Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that the country needs to reopen, despite separate key coronavirus models forecasting that thousands may die daily in the United States …
 
 
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Sarah Chaney / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: National Review and Fox News
Joe Biden:
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BBC:
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Survivors Want Answers, and China Is Silencing Them
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
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