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New York Times:
How Kushner's Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies  —  Roughly a dozen young, inexperienced workers were assembled to sort through tips on masks, gloves and other equipment.  Warehouses were running bare, and doctors fighting the coronavirus were forced to make their own protective gear.
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The Daily Beast:
Kushner's Screwed Up His COVID Jobs—Now He's Got an Even Bigger One  —  Operation Warp Speed is certainly ambitious.  But Trump's own advisers say it's overly so, even with his son-in-law involved.  —  Already under fire for his role atop a shadow task force aiding the administration's response …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Save us all from Jared Kushner
Discussion: Raw Story
Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:   “Political Connections and Cronyism”: In Blistering Whistleblower Complaint, Rick Bright Blasts …
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.
Discussion: Power Line
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:   Grenell To Schiff: Release The Secret Russia Probe Transcripts Or I Will
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Texas Governor Admits Dangers of Reopening State on Private Call With Lawmakers  —  “Pretty much every scientific and medical report shows that whenever you have a reopening... it actually will lead to an increase and spread,” Gov. Greg Abbott said.  —  During a private call on Friday …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Texas governor slammed after being caught on hot mic admitting his reopen order will worsen the pandemic
Discussion: quorumreport.com
Claire Galofaro / Associated Press:
'It's gone haywire': When COVID-19 arrived in rural America  —  DAWSON, Ga. (AP) — The reverend approached the makeshift pulpit and asked the Lord to help him make some sense of the scene before him: two caskets, side by side, in a small-town cemetery busier now than ever before.
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  —  Every parent has warily confronted the hypothetical question: What would you do if you suspected your child was unwell?  —  Not physically, but emotionally unwell, or mentally unstable?
Discussion: NB Blog and Raw Story
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Trump administration faces backlash over talk of winding down coronavirus task force  —  Democrats were quick to condemn the Trump administration Tuesday following comments from Vice President Mike Pence that the White House is in talks to potentially wind down its coronavirus task force …
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump says coronavirus task force will keep working ‘indefinitely,’ with a focus on vaccines and reopening
Discussion: NPR, Mediaite and Second Nexus
Bloomberg:   Trump Pivots to ‘Phase Two,’ Risking More Death to Save Economy
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 and Raw Story
Rachel Leingang / Arizona Republic:
State health department tells university COVID-19 modeling team to stop work, limits data access  —  The Arizona Department of Health Services told a team of university experts working on COVID-19 modeling to “pause” its work, an email from a department leader shows.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Loeffler Got Lucrative Parting Gift From Public Company en Route to the Senate  —  The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, which her husband runs, changed compensation terms to give Kelly Loeffler, a top executive, awards worth millions of dollars as she left for Congress.
Discussion: New York Post and Roll Call
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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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Wisconsin's Supreme Court Is Going to Use Fox News Arguments to Undo the State's COVID-19 Restrictions
Discussion: CNN and Vox
New York Times:
What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State?  —  As the coronavirus pandemic cuts through the country, it is leaving behind large numbers of deaths that surpass those of recent history.  A New York Times analysis of state data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Michigan Advance
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.
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.
Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
Zoom Blog:
Zoom Adds Board Member H.R. McMaster and Head of Global Public Policy and Government Relations Jonathan Kallmer to Leadership Team  —  Zoom announced today that it has appointed Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond “H.R.” McMaster as an independent director on Zoom's Board of Directors …
Discussion: Politico
Nicholas Johnston / Axios:
Where the virus is spreading fastest  —  In addition to keeping an eye on the tragic, and climbing, numbers of total coronavirus cases and deaths across the U.S., it's important to watch how those trends are playing out over time at the state level.  —  Why it matters: Rising, or falling …
Discussion: Breitbart and Sara A. Carter
NBC News:
The White House waves a white flag in fight against coronavirus  —  First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  WASHINGTON — Let's be blunt about it: President Trump signaled Tuesday …
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
How ‘Never Trumpers’ Crashed The Democratic Party  —  Anti-Donald Trump activism among conservatives — known informally as the “#NeverTrump” movement — started in early 2016 as a way to stop the businessman from winning the GOP nomination.  It failed.  —  Even by the slightly broader standard …
Leander Schaerlaeckens / Slate:
Was Donald Trump Good at Baseball?  —  The president has long claimed he could have gone pro.  We looked into it.  —  In President Donald Trump's memory, he was a high school baseball star.  —  “I was supposed to be a pro baseball player,” Donald Trump wrote in 2004.
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Daily Beast and HuffPost
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court weighs whether to make the Electoral College even less democratic  —  Hillary Clinton, the winner of the popular vote in 2016's presidential election, giving her concession speech.  Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images  —  The Court's “faithless electors” …
HuffPost:
Win Or Lose, Trump's Top Campaign Aides Are Raking In The Cash  —  His campaign chief bought a waterfront house with a yearly tax bill higher than the average Floridian's annual income, a $400,000 boat, a Ferrari, condos and more.  —  WASHINGTON ― The bad news for President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
LaVendrick Smith / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas salon owner jailed for reopening in violation of court order  —  Shelley Luther defied local and state orders and a judge's restraining order in operating her business during the coronavirus pandemic. … A Dallas salon owner will spend a week in jail after she was found in contempt …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
What's Behind South Korea's COVID-19 Exceptionalism?  —  On February 16, a Sunday, a 61-year-old woman with a fever entered the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu, South Korea.  She touched her finger to a digital scanner.  She passed through a pair of glass doors and proceeded downstairs …
Jared Keller / Task & Purpose:
The inside story behind the Pentagon's ill-fated quest for a real life ‘Iron Man’ suit  —  The history of the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit and the ‘Iron Man’ prototypes that came before it reveals the military's long-standing fascination with the science-fiction future of mechanized warfare
Sujatha Gidla / New York Times:
‘We Are Not Essential.  We Are Sacrificial.’  —  I'm a New York City subway conductor who had Covid-19.  Now I'm going back to work.  —  Ms. Gidla is an M.T.A. conductor and author.  —  When I heard that a co-worker had died from Covid-19 — the first in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority …
Discussion: Twitchy
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Captured American Mercenary Appears to Be Really Into Qanon  —  Judging by the social media followings of one of the captured, Trump-connected American mercenaries who attempted a bizarre and spectacularly failed coup in Venezuela, he was highly interested in the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Discussion: Reuters
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
I usually ignore all Trump's tweets.  Not this one.  —  To preserve what passes for my mental health, I avoid as much as possible President Trump's Twitter habits.  Some theorize that his feed is a sort of cat toy that he dangles in front of the media to distract us from his agenda.
New York Times:
Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus  —  In 1847 the Choctaw people sent $170 to help during the potato famine.  Irish donors are citing that gesture as they help two tribes during the Covid-19 pandemic.  —  DUBLIN — More than 170 years ago …
Discussion: WBRZ, The Week and New York Post
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
A massive drop in car sales sparks new push in Congress to aid the auto industry  —  Since outbreak began, retailers have sold nearly 800,000 fewer vehicles than forecast, spurring some lawmakers to consider new federal incentives for buyers  —  A precipitous decline in car sales amid …
Discussion: New York Post
Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
Native American health center asked for COVID-19 supplies.  It got body bags instead.  —  “Are we going to keep getting body bags or are we going to get what we actually need?” a Seattle Indian Health Board official asked.  —  In mid-March, as the Seattle region grappled with a coronavirus outbreak …
Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
Betsy DeVos to issue Title IX rules on campus sexual assault this week  —  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos plans to release as early as Wednesday her much-anticipated final rules governing how schools must investigate sexual assault allegations, bolstering the rights of the accused, people familiar with the matter said.
Discussion: Instapundit
Anna Mikhailova / Telegraph:
Exclusive: Government scientist Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover  —  Prof Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing  —  The scientist whose advice …
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
The coronavirus has mutated and appears to be more contagious now, new study finds  — The coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China, has mutated and the new, dominant strain spreading across the U.S. appears to be even more contagious, according to a new study.
 
 
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Henry Goldman / Bloomberg:
NYC May Lose 900,000 Jobs During Lockdown, Comptroller Says
Dominic Green / Spectator USA:
Lockdown is over. Someone tell the government
Discussion: Instapundit and Boston.com
Renée DiResta / The Atlantic:
Virus Experts Aren't Getting the Message Out
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Defense officials: Iran pulling out of Syria as Israel pummels its forces there
Cary Huang / South China Morning Post:
A US move to seek coronavirus pandemic damages from China might well trigger war
Washington Post:
Live updates: Trump admits reopening states may cost lives, as U.S. death toll surpasses 70,000
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
This nursing home disaster is on you, Gov. Cuomo
Victor Morton / Washington Times:
‘Live and Let Die’ blares as Trump tours mask factory, without mask
Discussion: HuffPost
Rebecca Woolington / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida adds 113 coronavirus deaths, a new one-day record
Discussion: Redstate
Emma Loop / BuzzFeed News:
Obama Privately Blasted A Republican Investigation Into Joe Biden And Ukraine, Calling It An Effort …
 

 
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