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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.
New York Times:
Most States That Are Reopening Fail to Meet White House Guidelines
Discussion: Forbes
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 …
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
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
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.
Politico:
Supreme Court overturns ‘Bridgegate’ convictions  —  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.  —  In a unanimous ruling that further chips away …
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Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Throws Out ‘Bridgegate’ Convictions  —  High court rules political retribution didn't rise to the level of federal fraud  —  WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a pair of public-corruption convictions in the New Jersey scandal known as Bridgegate …
NBC New York:   Supreme Court Tosses Out ‘Bridgegate’ Convictions
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” …
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Associated Press:   Trump tells allies his wearing a mask would ‘send the wrong message’, make him look ridiculous
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
USA Today:
Kristol, Coons: Republicans should reject Trump's divisive approach to pandemic  —  Too many members of Congress, following the lead of President Donald Trump, continue to engage in coronavirus denialism.  —  One of us is a Democratic senator, who, though certainly willing to seek common ground across …
Discussion: In These Times
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Politico:   Republicans praise Trump's pandemic response with Senate majority at risk
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Democrats Are Suddenly Okay With Voting For A Man Accused Of Rape
Discussion: Fox News, The Bulwark and Redstate
New York Times:
Germany and U.S. on Divergent Paths to Reopen  —  Online retailers, backed by Amazon, are beginning a campaign to press for billions of dollars to rescue the Postal Service.  Nearly one in five children in the U.S. are not getting enough to eat.  —  Here's what you need to know:
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
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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.
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: The Hill, CNN and New York Post
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Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek:   Coronavirus Survivors ‘Permanently Disqualified’ from Joining U.S. Military, Recruitment Memo Suggests
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Althouse
Ben Harris / Jerusalem Post:
Meet the 107-year-old woman who survived the coronavirus and Spanish flu  —  “It's remarkable,” Shapiro said.  “That's all I can say.  It's just unbelievable.  I think perhaps it's because of her art that she's still involved in.”  —  After Marilee Shapiro Asher was admitted to the hospital …
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 …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's New Message: Time to Move On to the Recovery  —  The president's cure-can't-be-worse-than-the- disease logic is clear: As bad as the virus may be, the cost of the virtual national lockdown has grown too high.  —  WASHINGTON — Confronted with America's worst public health crisis in generations …
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: Redstate and Big League Politics
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
GOP to launch ‘China Task Force’ that Democrats bailed on  —  For more than a year, top leaders from both parties in the House of Representatives worked to form a bipartisan committee to oversee congressional strategy on China.  But in February, the Democrats bailed on the project.
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story, Wired and The Sun
Kevin Rudd / Foreign Affairs:
The Coming Post-COVID Anarchy  —  The Pandemic Bodes Ill for Both American and Chinese Power—and for the Global Order  —  In January and February of this year, there was audible popping of champagne corks in certain quarters of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
Washington Post:
Arizona halts partnership with experts predicting coronavirus cases would continue to mount  —  Hours after Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, accelerated plans to reopen businesses, saying the state was “headed in the right direction,” his administration halted the work of a team …
Kate Morrissey / San Diego Union-Tribune:
First ICE detainee dies from COVID-19 after being hospitalized from Otay Mesa Detention Center  —  Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia had been hospitalized for a little over a week before he died  —  Hospitalized and on a ventilator for a little over a week, a detainee from Otay Mesa Detention Center …
Bloomberg:
Cold, Crowded, Deadly: How U.S. Meat Plants Became a Virus Breeding Ground  —  By late March, Rafael Benjamin's family was pleading with him to stay home from work even if it cost him his job.  He promised he would, but not until after April 10.  That would be his work anniversary …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
‘This is a Time for Survival’  —  Dear Washington,  —  I've got a friend named JOE MACKLE, and he wonders if you know what you're doing.  —  Now, now.  Don't go getting offended.  It's nothing personal.  Joe doesn't have some partisan axe to grind.  It's just that for a guy like Joe …
Lis Smith / New York Times:
How Joe Biden Can Defeat Trump From His Basement  —  If he can win the battle for our screens, he can benefit from the death of the traditional presidential campaign.  —  Ms. Smith advised campaigns by Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Cuomo and Barack Obama.  —  If Joe Biden plays his cards right …
Discussion: Axios
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Gateway Pundit Reporter Lavishes Praise on Unabomber: ‘A Brilliant Man’  —  Cassandra Fairbanks, a right-wing activist and writer at the pro-Trump blog The Gateway Pundit, approvingly read passages from the Unabomber Manifesto last weekend in a late-night live video on Twitter, where she has hundreds of thousands of followers.
Leah Simpson / Daily Mail:
Shocking video shows white cop repeatedly beating a black man while another pins him to the ground ‘for not following social distancing rules’ - despite the officers not wearing masks themselves  — Footage from the incident on Tuesday afternoon shows a Jersey City police officer …
Curtis Houck / NB Blog:
MIC DROP: McEnany Scorches Media for Early Coronavirus Stories After Gotcha Question  —  Listen to the Article!  —  Cue the Ghanaian pallbearers, NewsBusters readers!  On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany ended the press briefing with a bruising takedown of the liberal media …
 
 
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Discussion: The Hill
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Discussion: Raw Story
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Miami Herald:
FDLE releases list of COVID-19 deaths. Top medical examiner calls it a sham.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
After Reviewing The Transcripts, George Papadopoulos Says He's Now Positive He Knows …
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Trump vetoes resolution to curb war powers against Iran
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