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Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Admin shelves CDC guide to reopening country  —  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A set of detailed documents created by the nation's top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen public places such as mass transit …
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CNN:
One of Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus  —  (CNN)A member of the US Navy who serves as one of President Donald Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus, CNN has learned Thursday, raising concerns about the President's possible exposure to the virus.
Associated Press:
Face masks make a political statement in era of coronavirus  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The decision to wear a mask in public is becoming a political statement — a moment to pick sides in a brewing culture war over containing the coronavirus.  —  While not yet as loaded as a “Make America Great Again” …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The sharp hypocrisy of the White House position on testing  —  There's a straightforward way in which businesses and other institutions can relax social distancing measures without spurring a surge in new coronavirus infections: frequent and repeated assessments of employee health, including tests for those showing signs of infection.
Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:   Former CDC Official: Trump Should Quarantine For 14 Days, Could Have Coronavirus
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Republicans now want us to embrace mass death
Discussion: The Sun and POLITICUSUSA
NBC News:   White House considers measures to boost economy without Congress
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Justice Dept dropping Flynn's criminal case  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for Trump …
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Drops Case Against Michael Flynn  —  The extraordinary move came after the former national security adviser had fought the case in court for months, a reversal after pleading guilty twice and cooperating with investigators.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is dropping …
Discussion: Discourse.net and emptywheel
Politico:
DOJ drops criminal case against Michael Flynn  —  The Justice Department has abandoned its prosecution of President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, throwing in the towel on one of the most prominent cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Top Michael Flynn prosecutor moves to withdraw from case
Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart and Raw Story
Nancy Rommelmann / Reason:
She Said Anthony Fauci Sexually Assaulted Her.  Now She Says Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman Paid Her to Lie.  —  I'd just finished Saturday morning's second cup of coffee when an email popped through, subject line: “Exposing Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman.”  —  “Hi Nancy, I hope you are having a nice weekend.
Discussion: Mediaite
Laura McGann / Vox:
The agonizing story of Tara Reade  —  Tara Reade, a former staff assistant in Joe Biden's Senate office, on April 11.  Max Whittaker/New York Times/Redux  —  I started reporting on Tara Reade's story a year ago.  Here's what I found, and where I'm stuck.
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Alana Wise / NPR:
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Says Biden Sexual Assault Allegation ‘Not Clear-Cut’  —  Toggle more options  —  Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of an alleged sexual assault.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., says an accusation of sexual assault against former Vice President Joe Biden …
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR, VICE and The Hill
New York Times:
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks  —  The coronavirus outbreak in New York City became the primary source of infections across much of the country by early March, researchers have found.  —  Munich  —  Paris  —  London  —  Rome  —  Barcelona, Spain  —  Rafina, Greece
Washington Post:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to stop release of Mueller material  —  The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block a ruling that requires the Justice Department to give Congress certain secret grand jury material from the investigation conducted by former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Discussion: Axios
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Politico:
Supreme Court overturns ‘Bridgegate’ convictions as Christie slams ‘political crusade’  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday tossed the federal government's case in the infamous “Bridgegate” scandal, clearing the convictions of two allies of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery  —  Another black man falsely assumed to be a criminal is dead.  —  The video is short and shocking.  —  It's taken from the perspective of a vehicle following a young black man running at a jogger's pace.  The jogger is 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery.
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Christian Living / Russell Moore:
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the Justice of God
Discussion: Raw Story
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
James Carville Warns Trump: Your ‘Grifter’ Campaign Aides Are Lying To You  —  Trump aides are “giving him fake polls” so they can continue to make money off the failing campaign, the Democratic political consultant says.  —  Democratic political consultant James Carville said President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Palmer Report and Balloon Juice
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign to unload on Biden with negative ad onslaught
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
The Jobs Report Friday Will Be a Portrait of Devastation  —  For such numbers, there are no words.  —  Just how bad are the April employment figures going to be?  —  We know they will be awful.  After all, the number of people filing new claims for unemployment insurance was in the millions …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Rebecca Rainey / Politico:
Weekly unemployment claims rise by 3.2M as states move to reopen
Discussion: Reuters and The Capitolist
Reade Pickert / Bloomberg:
U.S. Jobless Claims Top 3 Million, With Little Relief in Sight
Discussion: Redstate
Conrad Swanson / Denver Post:
Colorado GOP Chair Ken Buck pressured local official to submit incorrect election results  —  Fellow Republican says congressman tried to bully him into committing a crime  —  Colorado Republican Party Chair Ken Buck, a U.S. representative from Windsor, pressured a local party official …
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Can't decipher Trump-speak?  Meet Margaret, the computer bot  —  Bill Frischling's moment of inspiration came three years ago, when Margaret, his artificial intelligence bot, tried to transcribe a 127-word section of a speech by President Trump.  —  The passage, ostensibly commemorating a World War II battle, careened wildly.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Remove Patriot Missile Batteries from Saudi Arabia  —  Removing missiles, other measures mark end of recent military buildup to counter Iran, officials say  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. is removing Patriot antimissile systems from Saudi Arabia and is considering reductions to other military capabilities …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell under mounting GOP pressure to boost state aid  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is facing growing calls within his own conference to increase financial assistance to state and local governments, something the GOP leader shut down during recent coronavirus relief talks with Democrats.
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USA Today:
Kristol, Coons: Republicans should reject Trump's divisive approach to pandemic
Discussion: Washington Post and In These Times
Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
Woman killed by alligator in SC was doing homeowner's nails  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The woman attacked and killed by an alligator in a gated community along the South Carolina coast was visiting the homeowner to do her nails and was trying to touch the animal when it grabbed her, authorities said.
Katherine Shaver / Washington Post:
Smartphone data shows out-of-state visitors flocked to Georgia as restaurants and other businesses reopened  —  One week after Georgia allowed dine-in restaurants, hair salons and other businesses to reopen, an additional 62,440 visitors arrived there daily, most from surrounding states …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Washington Post:
SBA slashes disaster-loan limit from $2 million to $150,000, shuts out nearly all new applicants  —  Shortage of money and crush of applications leads the Small Business Administration to close its portal to most businesses and limit the size of loans.  —  An emergency disaster lending program …
Politico:
Azar faulted workers' ‘home and social’ conditions for meatpacking outbreaks  —  The country's top health official downplayed concerns over the public health conditions inside meatpacking plants, suggesting on a call with lawmakers that workers were more likely to catch coronavirus based …
New York Times:
News Outlets Want More Advertisers to Act Like Burger King  —  The Home of the Whopper, Verizon and Amazon are among the relative few that haven't been afraid to run ads near coverage of the coronavirus.  —  Most companies regularly take steps to make sure their ads don't run near headlines that could upset potential customers.
Wall Street Journal:
FDA Pulls Approval for Dozens of Mask Makers in China  —  Tests have shown many imported masks perform far short of N95 filtration standards  —  Federal officials withdrew approval for more than 60 manufacturers in China to export N95-style masks to the U.S. after finding …
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
What Trump Has in Common With Napoleon  —  A brash outsider who knew his terrain like nobody else, he succeeded until he faced a new kind of enemy.  —  Russia is the country that, more than any other, has haunted Donald Trump's presidency.  It began when allegations of Russian collusion …
Matt Olberding / Lincoln Journal Star:
Health district to stop reporting meatpacking cases  —  At least one Nebraska health department says it will no longer report specific COVID-19 case numbers linked to meatpacking plants after Gov. Pete Ricketts said the state will not release information related to specific businesses and only do so by industry.
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Putin Discussed Coronavirus, Arms Control During Call  —  White House says Trump offered Russia assistance in fight against the virus  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the coronavirus pandemic and other bilateral issues in a phone call Thursday …
 
 
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Alexandra DeSanctis / National Review:
‘How Much Is a Human Life Worth?’
Andy Puzder / Fox Business:
Coronavirus not an ‘opportunity’ to grow government, reshape economy
Nicole Cobler / Austin American-Statesman:
Texas Supreme Court orders jailed salon owner released
Discussion: Forbes
Karen Gilchrist / CNBC:
China gets top score as citizens rank their governments' response to the coronavirus outbreak
Discussion: Mediaite
Fox News:
Steve Scalise will be top Republican on new coronavirus committee
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
House Republicans should be getting nervous about November
Discussion: New York Magazine, CNN and POLITICUSUSA
Victoria Taft / pjmedia.com:
‘Every One of Them’: California Begins Forcibly Quarantining People - Separating Families - Over COVID-19
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Kevin Yamamura / Politico:
California faces $54B budget deficit
Bloomberg:
Cold, Crowded, Deadly: How U.S. Meat Plants Became a Virus Breeding Ground
Tim Alberta / Politico:
‘This is a Time for Survival’
Ben Harris / Jerusalem Post:
Meet the 107-year-old woman who survived the coronavirus and Spanish flu
Meghann Myers / Military Times:
Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military
Ben Collins / NBC News:
‘What are we doing this for?’: Doctors are fed up with conspiracies ravaging ERs
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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