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11:10 AM ET, May 9, 2020

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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A single Kayleigh McEnany quote gives away the game  —  Katie Miller, the wife of adviser Stephen Miller, has tested positive for the coronavirus.  The infection of Ms. Miller, a close adviser to Vice President Pence, means potential exposure to President Trump's inner circle …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump flouts coronavirus protocols as security experts warn of need to protect president from a lethal threat  —  President Trump on Friday continued to eschew key public health guidelines from his own administration — meeting with Republican lawmakers and World War II veterans without a face-mask …
Discussion: Gothamist and Raw Story
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Eleven Secret Service agents test positive for COVID-19: report
Discussion: Palmer Report
Politico:
Katie Miller, Pence spokeswoman, tests positive for coronavirus
David Browne / Rolling Stone:
Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87  —  Pianist-singer behind “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “Long Tall Sally” set the template that a generation of musicians would follow  —  Little Richard, a founding father of rock and roll whose fervent shrieks …
Washington Post:
It took 74 days for suspects to be charged in the death of a black jogger.  Many people are asking why it took so long.  —  BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The arrests of two white men in the fatal shooting of a black jogger did little to calm outrage in this coastal community Friday …
Discussion: USA Today and New York Times
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New York Times:
Georgia Killing Puts Spotlight on a Police Force's Troubled History  —  The shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery has renewed criticism of the police agency that released the two suspects.  They were charged by the state months later.  —  BRUNSWICK, Ga. — When the Glynn County Police Department arrived …
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Obama says in private call that ‘rule of law is at risk’ in Michael Flynn case  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama, talking privately to former members of his administration, said Friday that the “rule of law is at risk” in the wake of what he called an unprecedented move …
George Conway / Washington Post:
No one in this country is above the law.  The Supreme Court is about to teach that lesson.  —  Twenty-six years ago, I published my first op-ed. Entitled “'No Man in This Country ... Is Above the Law,'” it addressed news reports that President Bill Clinton planned to claim an immunity …
Discussion: The Hill
Gunjan Banerji / Wall Street Journal:
Why Is the Stock Market Rallying When the Economy Is So Bad?  —  Five reasons the stock market is soaring as the economy is floundering: from buoyant tech stocks to high earnings hopes to fear of missing out  —  The latest jobs report revealing record U.S. unemployment highlights …
Associated Press:
72 got COVID-19 after being at large event  —  MADISON, Wis. — More than 70 people who tested positive for the coronavirus since an April 24 rally at the Wisconsin state Capitol indicated they had attended a large gathering, but the state Department of Health Services cant' say if they were at the rally …
New York Times:
Anxious About the Virus, Older Voters Grow More Wary of Trump  —  Surveys show the president's standing with seniors, the group most vulnerable to the coronavirus, has fallen as he pushes to reopen the country.  —  WASHINGTON — The coronavirus crisis and the administration's halting response …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Outbreaks in Germany, S. Korea show the risks in easing up  —  ROME (AP) — South Korea's capital closed down more than 2,100 bars and other nightspots Saturday because of a new cluster of coronavirus infections, and Germany scrambled to contain fresh outbreaks at slaughterhouses …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The one Republican Senate candidate willing to call out Donald Trump  —  Few Republicans are willing to say a negative word about President Donald Trump.  —  John James — a rising star in the GOP who last year was floated to be Trump's ambassador to the United Nations …
Discussion: Raw Story
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
There's One Big Reason the U.S. Economy Can't Reopen  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  The United States is mired in one of the most immiserating peacetime moments in its history.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Lincoln Project called Facebook to dispute fact-check warning label on anti-Trump ad ‘Mourning in America’  — The Lincoln Project contacted Facebook to push the social media giant to remove a warning label it attached to the group's blistering “Mourning in America” ad.
Discussion: Twitchy, The Hill and Mediaite
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Dirk Draulans / Science:
‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19  —  Virologist Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, fell ill with COVID-19 in mid-March.  He spent a week in a hospital and has been recovering at his home in London since.
CBS News:
Ousted government scientist who pushed back on Trump-touted coronavirus treatment speaks out  —  Rick Bright says he was removed from his position after he warned about deficiencies in the country's response to COVID-19.  —  Rick Bright, the government virologist who says he was removed …
Discussion: Breitbart
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Obama, Biden Oval Office Meeting On January 5 Was Key To Entire Anti-Trump Operation  —  Susan Rice's bizarre Inauguration Day email about that meeting helps explain the campaign of leaks, lies, and obstruction that followed.  —  Information released in the Justice Department's motion …
Discussion: Townhall and Twitchy
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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.
Discussion: WPRI-TV and Outside the Beltway
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Rosie O'Donnell Reveals She's Helping Michael Cohen With His ‘Spicy’ Trump Tell-All Book  —  The comedy and TV legend—and Trump foe—talks to Marlow Stern about how she came to befriend Trump fixer Michael Cohen and help him with his juicy tell-all book.  —  On Friday afternoon, I had a fun …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
In the midst of a pandemic, tensions flare between de Blasio and his health department  —  It took a public health crisis of epic proportions to kick the long-simmering feud between Mayor Bill de Blasio and his health department into high gear.  —  On Friday Morning, as the mayor …
Washington Post:
Defense Secretary Esper stood beside World War II veterans — without a mask  —  President Trump and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper gathered with World War II veterans in Washington on Friday to mark the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe.  —  Trump greeted a rank of seven veterans …
Stephen L. Miller / Spectator USA:
New York has mismanaged COVID-19 from top to bottom  —  Andrew Cuomo is having the time of his life.  His approval ratings are through the roof and he's being talked about as a replacement for Joe Biden should Joe wander off somewhere without his Visiting Angel, never to be found again.
theepochtimes.com:
Richard Grenell, a True Hero of Our Times  —  You may have noticed, as a mere citizen of this country, there are many things you are not supposed to know.  —  You are not mature enough or intelligent enough to handle certain information.  You are in, in effect, a child in a supposedly democratic republic.
Cassandra Negley / Yahoo Sports:
New Title IX regulations no longer require coaches to report sexual misconduct  —  The U.S. Department of Education, led by education secretary Betsy DeVos,  —  announced new Title IX federal regulations that change requirements on who must report sexual assault allegations and how institutions respond to those complaints.
Discussion: The College Fix
New York Times:
Fight Over Virus's Death Toll Opens Grim New Front in Election Battle  —  Elements of the right have sought to bolster the President Trump's political standing by turning scientific questions into political issues.  —  The claim was tailor-made for President Trump's most steadfast backers …
Miami Herald:
Florida oncology network that bilked cancer patients gets $67 million in COVID-19 aid  —  A Fort Myers-based oncology network that was Florida's largest recipient of federal coronavirus relief dollars for healthcare facilities admitted last week to participating in a criminal conspiracy …
Associated Press:
Court halts ban on mass gatherings at Kentucky churches  —  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal court halted the Kentucky governor's temporary ban on mass gatherings from applying to in-person religious services, clearing the way for Sunday church services.  —  U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove …
Discussion: Axios
 
 
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
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Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times:
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David Lynch / Washington Post:
Soaring joblessness could shake U.S. economy, politics for years
Discussion: Marketplace
New York Times:
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Julia Azari / Mischiefs of Faction:
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