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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump contradicts nurse in testy Oval Office exchange over coronavirus protective gear  — President Donald Trump contradicted a nurse who said that access to sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic “has been sporadic.”
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
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Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg:
Trump Contradicts Nurse Who Reports Shortages of Protective Gear  —  President Donald Trump contradicted a nurse who said during a meeting with him at the White House Wednesday that some parts of the country are still experiencing shortages of protective medical gear, insisting the U.S. supply is “tremendous.”
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
Trump and some top aides question accuracy of virus death toll  —  President Trump has complained to advisers about the way coronavirus deaths are being calculated, suggesting the real numbers are actually lower — and a number of his senior aides share this view, according to sources with direct knowledge.
Omar Villafranca / CBS News:
New video emerges of fatal shooting of black jogger in Georgia  —  Warning: The above video depicts graphic violence.  —  There are new developments in a deadly shooting that has had racial tensions simmering in a Georgia community.  Video has surfaced of a young African American man …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
The problem with Biden's pledge of a black woman Supreme Court justice  —  There are few black women serving on the federal judiciary, and none younger than age 67 in appeals courts, the usual stepping stone to the high court.  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has promised that if elected president …
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Associated Press:   Israeli Supreme Court: Netanyahu may form government
Washington Post:
Trump order to paint border wall black could drive up cost $500 million or more  —  President Trump is once more pushing to have his border wall painted black, a design change that is projected to add at least $500 million in costs, according to government contracting estimates obtained by The Washington Post.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Save us all from Jared Kushner  —  Whenever a member of the Trump family gets involved with a project, it is always smart to keep an eye out for the grift.  —  We might have hoped that a pandemic that has already cost more than 70,000 Americans their lives would be an exception to this rule.
Discussion: Business Insider
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The Daily Beast:
Kushner's Screwed Up His COVID Jobs—Now He's Got an Even Bigger One
New York Times:
How Kushner's Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies
David Kaye / Just Security:
The Republic of Facebook  —  With the Naming of Oversight Board Members, What Kind of Institution Will This Become?  —  With Facebook's unveiling of the first 20 (of an expected 40) members of its newly minted Oversight Board for content moderation, it's a good moment to take a step back …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Voters Divided on Alleged Biden Assault  —  Half the electorate consider voting by mail this year  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Recent headlines may have dented Joe Biden's favorability rating ever so slightly but he has actually widened his national lead over Donald Trump in the race for president.
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Trump vetoes resolution to curb war powers against Iran  —  President Trump on Wednesday vetoed a war powers resolution that would have curbed his ability to direct military action against Iran without Congress' authorization.  —  Why it matters: The bipartisan measure came after Trump ordered …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Beijing demanded praise in exchange for medical supplies
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jerusalem Post:
American detained in Venezuela says he planned to capture president  —  “Donald Trump is the direct chief of this invasion,” Maduro said in televised comments, after the video of Denman was broadcast.  —  Venezuelan state television broadcast on Wednesday a video of captured American Luke Denman …
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Jorge Fitz-Gibbon / New York Post:   US will use ‘every tool’ to get ex-soldiers back from Venezuela: Pompeo
Joshua Goodman / Associated Press:   Sources: US investigating ex-Green Beret for Venezuela raid
ProPublica:
On the Same Day Sen. Richard Burr Dumped Stock, So Did His Brother-in-Law.  Then the Market Crashed.  —  The brother-in-law, a Trump appointee, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of stock.  Burr is under federal investigation over whether he traded on non-public information gathered through his work in the Senate.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: EXCLUSIVE - DNI to Schiff: The transcripts are ready to release  —  Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter.  —  Was this email forwarded to you?  Sign up here to receive the newsletter.  —  EXCLUSIVE — DNI TO SCHIFF: THE TRANSCRIPTS ARE READY TO RELEASE.
Change Research:
States of Play: Battleground Survey Shows Voters Concerned About Reopening Economy  —  CNBC/Change Research Poll in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin: May 1-3, 2020  — 68% of voters in the battleground remain seriously concerned about the coronavirus …
Discussion: CNBC, Breitbart and Balloon Juice
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme embarrassment: The flush heard around the country  —  (CNN)Well, someone forgot to mute.  —  The Supreme Court was making history Wednesday afternoon, holding arguments over the phone because of Covid-19, when all of a sudden there was the distinct sound of a toilet flushing.
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Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
That Awkward Moment When a Toilet Flushes During Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Atlantic and Mediaite
wabe.org:
Kemp Warns Of Growing Outbreak Stressing Northeast Georgia  —  Gov. Brian Kemp warned on Tuesday that a growing coronavirus outbreak is stressing resources in northeast Georgia.  —  Kemp has moved aggressively to allow businesses to reopen even though infections are on the rise in some areas of the state.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
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Alan Judd / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
In northeast Georgia, a new COVID-19 hot spot emerges
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Nathaniel Lash / New York Times:
Don't Be Fooled by America's Flattening Curve  —  Here is America's coronavirus curve: the number of newly reported cases each day.  The curve has started declining moderately from the peak in early April.  —  But that's not the whole story.  Separate the region around New York City and the picture becomes far less rosy.
Ben Collins / NBC News:
‘What are we doing this for?’:  Doctors are fed up with conspiracies ravaging ERs  —  “I left work and I felt so deflated,” one doctor said about an effort to counter misinformation he saw on Facebook.  “I let it get to me.”  —  At the end of another long shift treating coronavirus patients …
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
What Happened to Val Kilmer?  He's Just Starting to Figure It Out.  —  Cancer has taken his voice, but the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history still has a lot he wants to say.  —  It's hard to believe now, as I write this, but just two months ago, when we were allowed to roam free …
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
No Virus Deaths by Mid-May?  White House Economists Say They Didn't Forecast Early End to Fatalities  —  Outside economists have criticized a model built by economic advisers in the Trump administration, which appears to predict zero coronavirus deaths in the United States by mid-May.
Discussion: emptywheel, VICE and Palmer Report
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
White House won't modify argument before Supreme Court on invalidating ObamaCare
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman says evidence suggests coronavirus was not man-made or released from lab  —  The Pentagon's top uniformed official on Tuesday maintained that available evidence indicates the virus that has caused a global pandemic was natural and not man-made or released purposely from a Chinese lab.
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Betsy DeVos Completes Sexual Assault Rules  —  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released final regulations for schools dealing with sexual misconduct, giving them the force of law for the first time and bolstering due-process rights.  —  WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos …
Politico:
Trump touted reopening.  Privately, his team sounded alarms.  —  President Donald Trump boasted on May 1 that his success in responding to the coronavirus pandemic has made ventilator, test kit and mask shortages a thing of the past, and that much of the country is ready to quickly send people back to work.
Discussion: The Week, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Connor Richards / www.heraldextra.com:
2 Utah County businesses told staff to ignore COVID-19 guidelines, resulting in 68 positive cases  —  Nearly half of the employees of a Utah County business tested positive for COVID-19 after the business instructed employees to not follow quarantine guidelines and required staff …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ernest Luning / Colorado Politics:
New Colorado poll shows Hickenlooper widening double-digit lead over Gardner  —  Former Gov. John Hickenlooper leads U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner by 18 percentage points in Colorado's U.S. Senate race, according to a poll from Colorado firms released Wednesday.  —  The Keating-Onsight-Melanson poll …
Discussion: The Week
Politico:
DOJ releases Mueller's marching orders  —  The Department of Justice has released a less redacted copy of a memo laying out the scope of former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) after the Judiciary Committee chairman requested it.
Kyle Kaminski / City Pulse:
Armed citizens escort lawmaker into Michigan State Capitol  —  State Rep. Sarah Anthony pushes for tighter security in Lansing  —  After a hoard of armed and angry protesters swarmed Lansing last week, State Rep. Sarah Anthony brought some extra protection on her way to the State Capitol today.
Discussion: Twitchy
Linda Hirshman / New York Times:
I Believe Tara Reade.  I'm Voting for Joe Biden Anyway.  —  The importance of owning an ugly moral choice.  —  Ms. Hirshman is the author, most recently, of “Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment.”  —  Let's be clear: I believe Tara Reade.  I believed Anita Hill, too.
Discussion: Twitchy
 
 
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CNBC:
Cuomo says it's ‘shocking’ most new coronavirus hospitalizations are people who had been staying home
Discussion: Big League Politics
Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
Trump calls Americans ‘warriors’ in fight to open the economy
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Washington Post:
Children are falling ill with perplexing inflammatory syndrome thought to be linked to covid-19
Clive Hammond / Daily Express:
Pope Francis seeks Vatican freedom as Benedict urged to take ‘real retirement’
Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Casts Deep Chill Over U.S.-China Relations
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Coronavirus lessons on density, mass transit, bureaucracy and censorship: They kill.
Discussion: National Review
 Earlier Items: 
Anthony Leonardi / Washington Examiner:
'I'm not willing to sell my soul for anyone': Carly Fiorina says she won't vote for Trump in 2020
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US private payrolls drop by 20.2 million in April, the worst job loss in the history of ADP report
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Coronavirus and xenophobia: ‘Blame China’ is Trump's 2020 version of ‘Build the wall’
Discussion: Raw Story
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Another Left-Wing Attempt to Shut Down Free Speech
Zoom Blog:
Zoom Adds Board Member H.R. McMaster and Head of Global Public Policy and Government Relations …
Discussion: Politico
Claire Galofaro / Associated Press:
'It's gone haywire': When COVID-19 arrived in rural America
Discussion: Eschaton
S.E. Cupp / New York Daily News:
The president is not well: The umpteenth reminders of Trump's mental state and the consequences
Discussion: Raw Story and NB Blog
New York Times:
What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State?
Discussion: WPRI-TV and Michigan Advance
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
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Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
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