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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.
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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 …
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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Beijing demanded praise in exchange for medical supplies
Beijing demanded praise in exchange for medical supplies
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The Daily Caller
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Senate Intel chair's brother-in-law also dumped stock before market crash
Senate Intel chair's brother-in-law also dumped stock before market crash
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Raw Story
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Trump vetoes Iran war powers resolution, swipes at Republicans who backed it
Trump vetoes Iran war powers resolution, swipes at Republicans who backed it
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One America News Network
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.”
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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.”
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Raw Story
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Trump defends decision not to wear a mask during factory tour
Trump defends decision not to wear a mask during factory tour
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Palmer Report, The American Independent, One America News Network, Breitbart, HuffPost and CNBC
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 …
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.
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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.
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The Week, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Hill and The Guardian
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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Hotair, CNN, Washington Post, BBC, Vox and Damian J. Penny
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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Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Trump will urge Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration will urge the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare, maintaining its all-out legal assault on the health care law amid a pandemic that will drive millions of more Americans to depend on its coverage.
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
The problem with Biden's pledge of a black woman Supreme Court justice
The problem with Biden's pledge of a black woman Supreme Court justice
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Politico, Fox News, ABC News, The Hill and One America News Network
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 …
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Washington Post and Raw Story
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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.
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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 …
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Big League Politics
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 …
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CNBC, Breitbart and Balloon Juice
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 …
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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.
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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.
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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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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Raw Story, Mediaite, NBC News, HuffPost, The Guardian, CNN and The Moderate Voice
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.
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Macleans.ca, The American Independent, Mother Jones, Axios, Balloon Juice and Unfogged
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 …
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Raw Story
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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Law & Crime, Bloomberg and HuffPost
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 …
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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.
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Twitchy
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 — One of President Trump's former presidential primary opponents won't be voting for him in November. — During a podcast interview with the Bulwark's Charlie Sykes, former CEO …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Coronavirus lessons on density, mass transit, bureaucracy and censorship: They kill. — Coronavirus unknowns include how fatal it is and if we can make a vaccine. But we've already learned about four things that make the pandemic worse. — The novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan …
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National Review
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump's train wreck ABC interview illustrated why he rarely strays from Fox News — President Trump tours a Honeywell plant in Phoenix, Arizona, on May 5. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images — “I'll be honest, uh, I have a lot of things going on,” Trump said, trying to explain his lack of coronavirus preparation.
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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.
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Calls For ‘Immediate Release’ Of Jailed Dallas Salon Owner Shelley Luther — DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has called for the “immediate release” of a Dallas salon owner who was arrested and sent to jail for opening her business …
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Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, IJR, The Hill, Texas Attorney General and The Daily Caller