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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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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.
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.
Discussion: WHOTV, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
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
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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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 …
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 …
Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:   Pardoning Flynn would have looked bad. Dropping the charges is far worse.
Washington Post:
After Flynn reversal, Trump signals his FBI director is on thin ice
Discussion: Forbes, Raw Story and Vox
Alan M. Dershowitz / Gatestone Institute:   Flynn Was Innocent All Along: He Was Pressured to Plead Guilty
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:   Bill Barr Tests Negative for Integrity
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Barr and Trump hint at coming moves after Flynn is let off
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.
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.
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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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
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.
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
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.
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Ashley Southall / New York Times:
The NYPD Arrested 40 People on Social Distancing Violations. 35 Were Black.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Balkinization
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 …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
America's Racial Contract Is Killing Us  —  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 he was a burglary suspect …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
Post and Courier:
SC restaurants given go-ahead to reopen their dining rooms at half capacity on Monday  —  COVID-19: What you need to know now  —  COLUMBIA — Restaurants across South Carolina on Monday can reopen their dining rooms, which almost two months ago were closed by Gov. Henry McMaster in hopes of containing the coronavirus.
Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
Nearly 1 in 5 US kids are obese, according to latest data  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. kids are obese, according to the latest national data.  —  The news is disappointing, given that programs across the country have for years been trying to reduce childhood obesity, one expert said.
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.
Discussion: The Drive
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Twitchy
 
 
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Discussion: The Week
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