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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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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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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 …
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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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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Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:
Pardoning Flynn would have looked bad. Dropping the charges is far worse.
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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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 …
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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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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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
A Look At The Democrat Dallas Judge Who Jailed A Salon Owner — A Dallas salon owner was thrown in jail this week by a local judge after defying state restrictions ordering her business remain closed. Shelly Luther was fined $7,000 and ordered to seven days in jail by District Court Judge Eric Moye …
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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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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.
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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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
A devastating jobs report for April will show virus's impact
A devastating jobs report for April will show virus's impact
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Zachary Evans / National Review:
NYT, NBC Reporters Parrot Jimmy Kimmel's False Accusation that Pence Delivered Empty Boxes of PPE — Late night host Jimmy Kimmel falsely claimed on Thursday that Vice President Mike Pence engaged in a publicity stunt by delivering supposedly empty boxes of medical equipment to a healthcare facility …
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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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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Watchdog recommends ousted vaccine expert be temporarily reinstated: lawyers
Watchdog recommends ousted vaccine expert be temporarily reinstated: lawyers
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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.
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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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 …
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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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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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
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.
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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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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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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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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Washington Post:
Biden campaign launches expansion in the face of Democratic worries — but no word on plans to leave his house — Former vice president Joe Biden has greenlit a major hiring spree to shore up his campaign for the general election and calm roiling concerns among Democratic leaders about his operation's scale and reach.
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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Matt Perez / Forbes:
McEnany On Trump Not Wearing Mask Around WWII Vets: ‘They Made The Choice To Come Here’ — Asked why President Trump didn't wear a mask while honoring World War II veterans in their 90s—just a day after one of his personal valets tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus …
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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.