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Jason Dearen / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Top White House officials buried CDC report — GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation's top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House …
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Politico:
Katie Miller, Pence spokeswoman, 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 …
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Yahoo News:
Document reveals Secret Service has 11 current coronavirus cases, as concerns about Trump's staff grow — WASHINGTON—Multiple members of the U.S. Secret Service have tested positive for the COVID 19, the disease caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to Department of Homeland Security documents reviewed by Yahoo News.
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Raw Story
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.
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary tests positive for coronavirus — Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary, Katie Miller, has tested positive for coronavirus, Miller confirmed to NBC News on Friday. — Katie Miller, who said she was asymptomatic, also handled communications for the coronavirus task force.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, WHOTV, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
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.
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Mark Hemingway / RealClearInvestigations:
New Red Flags Emerging From FBI's Handling of Michael Flynn's Case — Above, Peter Strzok of the FBI, one of two agents who interviewed Flynn. — The Justice Department's closing of its criminal case against President Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Thursday came …
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Fox News, Real Clear Politics and Instapundit
Alan M. Dershowitz / Gatestone Institute:
Flynn Was Innocent All Along: He Was Pressured to Plead Guilty
Flynn Was Innocent All Along: He Was Pressured to Plead Guilty
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Law & Crime
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
Bill Barr Tests Negative for Integrity
Paul Rosenzweig / The Atlantic:
An Attack on a Fundamental Principle of Justice
An Attack on a Fundamental Principle of Justice
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The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Wants Flynn Back for 2020, Sees Him as Its ‘Nelson Mandela’
Team Trump Wants Flynn Back for 2020, Sees Him as Its ‘Nelson Mandela’
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Barr and Trump hint at coming moves after Flynn is let off
The Daily 202: Barr and Trump hint at coming moves after Flynn is let off
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New York Times, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
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.
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CNN:
Men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery thought he was a burglary suspect. But no burglaries were reported in the month before the shooting — Glynn County, Georgia (CNN)The two white men arrested Thursday evening in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery told police they believed he was a suspect in a series of break-ins.
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Dan Solomon / Texas Monthly:
Arrested Dallas Hairdresser's GoFundMe Launched Before She Even Reopened — As far as PR stunts go, this one has been lucrative. — On Friday, Ted Cruz flew to Dallas for a haircut. He hadn't been looking particularly shaggy, but as hair salons have become the latest front in the culture war …
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Sen. Ted Cruz Gets Haircut At Salon A La Mode After Owner Shelley Luther Released From Jail
Sen. Ted Cruz Gets Haircut At Salon A La Mode After Owner Shelley Luther Released From Jail
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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
A Look At The Democrat Dallas Judge Who Jailed A Salon Owner
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Ted Cruz gets haircut at Dallas salon where owner was jailed
Ted Cruz gets haircut at Dallas salon where owner was jailed
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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Trump made Florida his official residence. He may have also made a legal mess. — For nearly a quarter-century, President Trump has envisioned boats docking at Mar-a-Lago, his swanky club set on 17 acres of prime real estate in Palm Beach, Fla., that rambles across manicured grounds between …
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Balloon Juice
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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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.
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be. — The cabin was restless. It was a weekday afternoon in late April, and I was among dozens of people boarding an airplane that most of us had assumed would be empty. Flight attendants were scrambling to accommodate seat-change requests.
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
Republicans not sold on new round of relief checks
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
A devastating jobs report for April will show virus's impact — WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday is poised to report the worst set of jobs numbers since record-keeping began in 1948, a snapshot of the devastating damage the coronavirus outbreak has inflicted on the economy.
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Ben White / Politico:
Political fantasy battles economic reality after tens of millions of jobs lost
Political fantasy battles economic reality after tens of millions of jobs lost
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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.
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.
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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 …
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One America News Network
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Robert Caro writes, and waits, during the COVID-19 outbreak — FILE - This May 21, 2019 file photo shows author Robert Caro at the 2019 PEN America Literary Gala in New York. The historian discusses life during the pandemic and gives a progress report on his final Lyndon Johnson book …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Other countries are winning against the virus. We are quitting. — Now is the spring of our disgrace. — Around the world, countries are winning the battle against the coronavirus and beginning a responsible return to work, school and leisure, confident that their governments have the deadly virus in check.
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Michigan Advance, New York Times, Raw Story and Andy Slavitt
Heather Long / Washington Post:
The coronavirus economy is exposing how easy it is to fall from the middle class into poverty — 'It's too cold to sleep in my car': Some are slipping through the giant holes in the U.S. safety net — Louise Lara apologized for crying as she told her story.
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Agencies Warn States That Internet Voting Poses Widespread Security Risks — Entire elections can be compromised if online voting systems are hacked, U.S. says in blunt warning to states
Jacqueline Laurean Yates / ABC News:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo merch is here and trending all over Etsy — Cuomo couture? — via — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has built quite the fan base throughout the duration of the coronavirus crisis. — As New York continues to be one of the top states with reported COVID-19 cases …
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Twitchy
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Federal agency says removal of vaccine chief may have been retaliation — Ousted vaccine director files whistleblower complaint — (CNN)The investigative office reviewing the whistleblower complaint of former federal vaccine chief Dr. Richard Bright has determined there is reason to believe …
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The Guardian:
Revealed: major anti-lockdown group's links to America's far right — American Revolution 2.0, which presents itself as bipartisan, has been assisted by far-right individuals - some with extremist links — Leaked audio recordings and online materials obtained by the Guardian reveal …
Eliza Collins / Wall Street Journal:
Former Aide Spoke of Harassment in Biden's Office in 1990s, Court Document Shows — Declaration made in 1996 doesn't name then-senator as harasser of Tara Reade or specify what she says took place — The former Senate aide who has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault told her former husband …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying — Six weeks ago, Ahmaud Arbery went out and never came home. Gregory and Travis McMichael, who saw Arbery running through their neighborhood just outside of Brunswick, Georgia, and who told authorities they thought …
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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.
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Trump says in his mother's eyes, he ‘could do no wrong’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — Reflecting on Mother's Day this weekend, President Donald Trump said Friday that he could do no wrong in his mother's eyes and perhaps that's what framed his personality today. — “I had a great mom.
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Mike Moffitt / SFGATE:
Tesla reopening Fremont plant despite Alameda shelter-in-place order — Emails tell 30% of factory's workforce to return to work — Tesla is planning to reopen its Fremont plant Friday in apparent defiance of Alameda County's COVID-19 shelter-in-place order.
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