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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 …
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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 …
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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:
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Washington Post:
Draft report predicts covid-19 cases will reach 200,000 a day by June 1
Draft report predicts covid-19 cases will reach 200,000 a day by June 1
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Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Researcher Behind Model Predicting 3,000 Daily Deaths Claims It Was Not ‘Intended to Be a Forecast’
Researcher Behind Model Predicting 3,000 Daily Deaths Claims It Was Not ‘Intended to Be a Forecast’
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Mother Jones and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Trump cheers on governors even as they ignore White House coronavirus guidelines in race to reopen
Trump cheers on governors even as they ignore White House coronavirus guidelines in race to reopen
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Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
Scientists have identified a new strain of the coronavirus that appears to be more contagious — 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 …
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 …
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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
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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 …
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YouTube:
Mourning in America … Donald Trump's failed presidency has left the nation weaker, sicker, and teetering on the verge of a new Great Depression. — There's mourning in America.
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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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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
After Watching Biden Deny Reade's Claims, 1 in 4 Democrats Want a Different Nominee
After Watching Biden Deny Reade's Claims, 1 in 4 Democrats Want a Different Nominee
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Team Trump's Gross Exploitation of Tara Reade
CNN:
Barr urges Trump administration to back off call to fully strike down Obamacare — Washington (CNN)Attorney General William Barr made a last-minute push Monday to persuade the administration to modify its position in the Obamacare dispute that will be heard at the Supreme Court this fall …
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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
Five Eyes network contradicts theory Covid-19 leaked from lab
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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 …
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The Bulwark, Daily Kos and The Week
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
15 Children Are Hospitalized With Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19 — The health authorities in New York City issued an alert saying that the children had a syndrome that doctors do not yet fully understand. — Fifteen children, many of whom had the coronavirus …
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 …
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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.
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Marina Villeneuve / Associated Press:
Another 1,700 virus deaths reported in NY nursing homes — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state is reporting more than 1,700 previously undisclosed deaths at nursing homes and adult care facilities as the state faces scrutiny over how it's protected vulnerable residents during the coronavirus pandemic.
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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.
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.
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The President Is Unraveling — In case there was any doubt, the past dozen days have proved we're at the point in his presidency where Donald Trump has become his own caricature, a figure impossible to parody, a man whose words and actions are indistinguishable from an Alec Baldwin skit on Saturday Night Live.
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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.
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Washington Times
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 …
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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.
Rich Lowry / National Review:
Lockdown Extremism Is a Vice — We've flattened the curve. Now let states and municipalities decide when to loosen up. — We will be in a fight against the coronavirus for months, if not years, and yet it is time to declare mission accomplished on one very important goal.
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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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 …
Rod Dreher:
Woke Totalitarianism Wins A Big One — Some commenters on this blog think I'm way out of line saying that the totalitarian threat in the US comes much more from the left than the right. Didn't I see the men with rifles in the Michigan statehouse? (Yes, I did — and I criticized them.)
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