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3:55 PM ET, May 8, 2020

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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Vice President Mike Pence staffer tests positive for coronavirus  — An aide to Vice President Mike Pence has tested positive for coronavirus.  — The confirmation came one day after news that President Donald Trump's personal valet had also tested positive.  —  Pence staff member tests positive for coronavirus: NBC
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Daily Kos and WHOTV
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Politico:
Katie Miller, Pence spokesperson, tests positive for coronavirus  —  Katie Miller, a spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence, has tested positive for coronavirus, according to two people with knowledge of Miller's diagnosis.  —  Miller's positive diagnosis for Covid-19 puts the potential threat …
David Mack / BuzzFeed News:
No, Mike Pence Did Not Deliver Empty Boxes To A Nursing Home For A Publicity Stunt  —  BuzzFeed News has reporters across five continents bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus.  To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today.
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Deadline
David Badash / Raw Story:
Kimmel roasts Mike Pence after he's caught on hot mic joking about carrying ‘empty’ PPE boxes into a nursing home
Chrissy Clark / The Federalist:
Jimmy Kimmel Deceptively Edits Video Of Mike Pence, Claims He Delivered Empty Boxes To A Nursing Home
Discussion: Twitchy, The Daily Caller and Breitbart
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Wants Flynn Back for 2020, Sees Him as Its ‘Nelson Mandela’  —  Can a disgraced former national security adviser become a campaign MAGA hero?  We may soon find out.  —  With the Justice Department announcing Thursday that it would drop the case against Michael Flynn …
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New York Times:
The Appalling Damage of Dropping the Michael Flynn Case  —  It embeds into official U.S. policy a shockingly extremist view of law enforcement as the enemy of the American people.  —  The authors are law professors at Georgetown.  —  Criminal law specialists and members of the law enforcement community are tough to really shock.
Washington Post:
After Flynn reversal, Trump signals his FBI director is on thin ice
Discussion: Raw Story and Vox
Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:   Pardoning Flynn would have looked bad. Dropping the charges is far worse.
Alan M. Dershowitz / Gatestone Institute:   Flynn Was Innocent All Along: He Was Pressured to Plead Guilty
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
If Michael Flynn did nothing wrong, why didn't he tell the truth?
Christian Boone / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Glynn County commissioner says DA blocked arrests after fatal shooting  —  Glynn County Commissioner Peter Murphy on Friday said that he had determined that District Attorney Jackie Johnson's office refused to allow Glynn police to make arrests immediately after the Feb. 23 shooting death of Ahmaud Abery.
Discussion: National Review and New York Post
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Nelly Miles / Georgia Bureau of Investigation:
Ahmaud Arbery Death Investigation
Ben White / Politico:
Political fantasy battles economic reality after tens of millions of jobs lost  —  The U.S. economy is sitting in its deepest hole since the Great Depression, with more than 33 million Americans losing their jobs in just seven weeks and an unemployment rate now at 14.7 percent …
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Elizabeth Spiers / Washington Post:
I worked for Jared Kushner.  Of course he says his covid-19 failure is a success.  —  President Trump's son-in-law always casts himself as the genius cleaning up someone else's problems.  —  Jared Kushner's coronavirus response team, we learned this week, is fumbling because it's largely staffed with inexperienced volunteers.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
'We're going to fill it': Republicans ready for any Supreme Court vacancy  —  Senate Republicans are quietly beginning to contemplate the possibility of an election-year confirmation battle for the Supreme Court.  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's hospitalization this week and the looming end …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Republicans not sold on new round of relief checks
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live News and Updates  —  The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week rejected a plea from California's Education Department to allow parents or legal guardians of children who are eligible for free school meals to pick up meals for themselves as well as hunger spreads in the nation's largest state.
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
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CBS New York:
EXCLUSIVE: CBS2 Obtains Breakdown Of NYPD's Social Distancing Enforcement
Discussion: Gothamist and Politico
Anna Merlan / VICE:
‘Plandemic’ Is Dangerous, Viral Nonsense  —  Judy Mikovits has an urgent story to tell.  In essence, it goes like this: Top government scientists are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, and a lot else besides.  She knows because she was once one of them, before they tried to destroy …
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NBC News:   As ‘#Plandemic’ goes viral, those targeted by discredited scientist's crusade warn of ‘dangerous’ claims
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
The Downside of Being a Fox News Journalist?  Getting Asked About Sean Hannity  —  News anchors Chris Wallace and Bret Baier have faced frequent questions about the network's powerful opinion hosts and their commentary.  —  Chris Wallace was getting frustrated.  —  “I'm here.
The Daily Beast:
Gretchen Whitmer's Chilling Call With the White House  —  In Ep. 6 of The New Abnormal, co-hosts Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast talk with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about a scary call with the White House and the ad that drove Trump batty.  —  Between being the object of Trump's vitriol and dealing …
Washington Post:
White House pandemic supply project swathed in secrecy and exaggerations  —  On May 1, as White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, an illustration of an airplane flying to the moon appeared on the monitors beside her.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
Prominent lawyer, Trump donor representing Biden accuser  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who alleged Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, is being represented by a prominent lawyer and political donor to President Donald Trump's 2016 Republican campaign.
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Obama Defense Official Evelyn Farkas Admitted She Lied On MSNBC About Having Evidence Of Collusion  —  Former Obama administration defense official Evelyn Farkas testified under oath that she lied during an MSNBC interview when she claimed to have evidence of alleged collusion …
Serena Gordon / CBS News:
Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 “deaths of despair” from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says  —  COVID-19 has directly claimed tens of thousands of U.S. lives, but conditions stemming from the novel coronavirus — rampant unemployment, isolation and an uncertain future …
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Considers Drive-In Theater Campaign Rallies After Coronavirus Destroyed His Preferred Option  —  The president wants to get back on the trail.  His aides are trying to figure out how.  —  President Donald Trump is thirsting to hold campaign rallies again.
Discussion: The Week
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump officials' dysfunction harms delivery of coronavirus drug  —  A complete breakdown in communication and coordination within the Trump administration has undermined the distribution of a promising treatment, according to senior officials with direct knowledge of the discussions.
Discussion: The Hill, New York Times, Raw Story and CNN
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
WATCH: Morning Joe Airs Damning Montage of Trump's Rhetoric as Coronavirus Death Toll Rose  —  Morning Joe aired a damning montage of President Donald Trump's public statements over the roughly three months that the deadly Covid-19 contagion has taken the lives of nearly 75,000 American lives.
Rod Dreher:
Anti-Mask Snowflakes Of The Right  —  Look, I understand people are mad about social distancing and wearing masks, but a lot of people on the Right are losing their minds.  Here's something from a column by Dan Fagan in my local paper, the Baton Rouge Advocate: … I'd say you've boiled your brain, Cap.
Washington Post:
Here's how college students can return to campus in the fall  —  Lanhee J. Chen is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of domestic policy studies in the public policy program at Stanford University.  Vanila M. Singh is a clinical associate professor of anesthesiology …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive - Sen. Pat Toomey Calls for Reopening America Faster: ‘Danger’ of Coronavirus to Most Americans Overstated  —  Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Friday that American political leaders are “overstating the danger” of coronavirus to most Americans while …
Garrett M. Graff / Politico:
Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming.  Here's What They're Worried About Next.  —  You might feel blindsided by the coronavirus, but warnings about a looming pandemic have been there for decades.  Government briefings, science journals and even popular fiction projected the spread of a novel virus …
 
 
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Watchdog recommends ousted vaccine expert be temporarily reinstated: lawyers
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Amid pandemic, Pompeo to visit Israel for annexation talks
Matt Vasilogambros / The Pew Charitable Trusts:
Postal Service's Struggles Could Hurt Mail-In Election
Evan Axelbank / FOX 13 Tampa Bay:
Biden's virtual rally for Tampa falters, plagued by technical issues
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Trump says in his mother's eyes, he ‘could do no wrong’
BuzzFeed News:
Ukrainian Prosecutors Drafted Documents To Charge Paul Manafort With Corruption.  Then They Were Fired.
The Guardian:
Revealed: major anti-lockdown group's links to America's far right
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Access journalism is killing us
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 Earlier Items: 
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump offers Biden rapid COVID-19 test to resume travel
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Meet OAN, the little-watched right-wing news channel that Trump keeps promoting
Discussion: The Wrap and Twitchy
Rebecca Jacobs / CREW:
Trump said the Secret Service told him to stay at his hotel. There's no record that's true.
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov coronavirus poll: Almost one in five say they won't get vaccinated
Discussion: Forbes and Mediaite
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Martha McSally: Next coronavirus relief package should not be a ‘cash cow’ for mismanaged cities
CyberDust ID / blog maverick:
I Hired a Team of Secret Shoppers to Find Out How Businesses Were Opening in Dallas. It's Not Good.