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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.
Discussion: The Hill
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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: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Beijing demanded praise in exchange for medical supplies
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Senate Intel chair's brother-in-law also dumped stock before market crash
Discussion: Raw Story
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Trump vetoes Iran war powers resolution, swipes at Republicans who backed it
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: Raw Story
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Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg:
Trump Contradicts Nurse Who Reports Shortages of Protective Gear
Discussion: Raw Story
Nikki Carvajal / CNN:   Trump contradicts nurse he's honoring over PPE availability
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 …
George Conway / Washington Post:
Trump lashed out at me on Twitter.  It's because he knows the truth.  —  Americans died from covid-19 at the rate of about one every 42 seconds during the past month.  That ought to keep any president awake at night.  —  Not Donald Trump.  —  Just days ago, the president flipped …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Lincoln Project has its biggest day of fundraising after president attacks ‘Never Trump’ group  — The Lincoln Project, which is run by Republican operatives who oppose President Donald Trump, raised $1 million after the president ripped the group on Twitter this week - marking the super PAC's biggest day of fundraising yet.
Discussion: Newsweek, IJR and The Hill
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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Washington Post:
Top Republican fundraiser and Trump ally named postmaster general, giving president new influence over Postal Service  —  A top donor to President Trump and the Republican National Committee will be named the new head of the Postal Service, putting a top ally of the president in charge …
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.
CNBC:
Cuomo says it's ‘shocking’ most new coronavirus hospitalizations are people who had been staying home  — Early look at data from 100 New York hospitals shows that 66% of new admissions related to the virus are people who were at home, Cuomo said.  — He also said a majority of the cases …
Discussion: Big League Politics
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Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:   ‘Shocking’: 66% of new coronavirus patients in N.Y. stayed home: Cuomo
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 …
Discussion: Politico, Fox News, ABC News and The Hill
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Alan Judd / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
In northeast Georgia, a new COVID-19 hot spot emerges  —  A new coronavirus hot spot has emerged in northeast Georgia, stirring fears the region could see the devastating human toll already experienced in the state's opposite corner.  —  The number of new cases in the Gainesville area …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
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wabe.org:
Kemp Warns Of Growing Outbreak Stressing Northeast Georgia
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
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.
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.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) after the current and former Judiciary Committee chairmen requested it.
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:   Rosenstein Scope Memo For Mueller Peddled Steele Dossier, Logan Act Conspiracy Theories
New York Times:
We Are a New Board at Facebook.  Here's What We'll Decide.  —  The company's independent oversight body will focus on challenging content issues, such as hate speech and harassment.  —  The authors are co-chairs of Facebook's oversight board.  —  Social media affects people's lives in many ways, good and bad.
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David Kaye / Just Security:   The Republic of Facebook  —  With the Naming of Oversight Board Members …
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.
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Trump Wanted a Softball Interview.  ABC's David Muir Obliged.  —  Insiders were dismayed as the president—who asked for Muir over ABC's chief anchor George Stephanopoulos—seemed to steamroll the star newscaster.  —  With the sort of near-mystical media savvy on which Donald Trump built …
Discussion: Forbes, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
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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 Twitchy
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 …
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.
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
J. David McSwane / ProPublica:
The TSA Hoarded 1.3 Million N95 Masks Even Though Airports Are Empty and It Doesn't Need Them  —  TSA officials stockpiled a huge shipment of N95 masks they knew they didn't need even after two agency officials asked to donate them.  Airport traffic fell 95 percent, and the masks have sat unused …
Discussion: New York Post
Oklahoman.com:
House Republicans vote to reverse court ruling on absentee ballots  —  Mere days after the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a requirement that absentee ballots be notarized, House Republicans moved Wednesday to reverse the ruling.  —  Despite fierce opposition from House Democrats …
Discussion: The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
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
Federal Communications Commission:
Sinclair Agrees to Pay $48 Million Civil Penalty  — Full Title: Sinclair Agrees to Pay $48 Million Civil Penalty; FCC Penalty Will Be Largest Ever Paid by a Broadcaster  — Bureau(s): Enforcement, Media, Media Relations  —  The FCC announced the largest civil penalty involving a broadcaster in the agency's 86-year history.
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.
Meghann Myers / Military Times:
Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military  —  As the Defense Department negotiates its way through the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout, military entrance processing stations are working with new guidance when it comes to bringing COVID-19 survivors into the services.
Discussion: CNN
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
 
 
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
McEnany says it's ‘simply nonsensical’ for every person in US to be tested for coronavirus
Discussion: Breitbart
Agence France-Presse:
Pentagon announces new mission for secretive space drone
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Pandemic especially tough on people of color
Discussion: The Hill
Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
New York's patron saint of PPE went $600,000 in debt to outfit workers — and hospitals keep turning her down
Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
Trump calls Americans ‘warriors’ in fight to open the economy
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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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
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
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Coronavirus and xenophobia: ‘Blame China’ is Trump's 2020 version of ‘Build the wall’
Discussion: Raw Story
Zoom Blog:
Zoom Adds Board Member H.R. McMaster and Head of Global Public Policy and Government Relations …
Discussion: Politico
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