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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 …
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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 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
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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
Kimmel roasts Mike Pence after he's caught on hot mic joking about carrying ‘empty’ PPE boxes into a nursing home
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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 …
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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.
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Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:
Pardoning Flynn would have looked bad. Dropping the charges is far worse. — The Trump administration's Justice Department is undermining the rule of law. — For months, President Trump has suggested that he might pardon retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Washington Post:
After Flynn reversal, Trump signals his FBI director is on thin ice — President Trump voiced uncertainty Friday over the future of his FBI director, Christopher A. Wray, a day after the Justice Department moved to throw out the guilty plea of the president's former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn.
Mark Hemingway / RealClearInvestigations:
New Red Flags Emerging From FBI's Handling of Michael Flynn's Case
New Red Flags Emerging From FBI's Handling of Michael Flynn's Case
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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
Skeptical judge could hold up Trump administration's bid to clear Flynn, legal experts say
Skeptical judge could hold up Trump administration's bid to clear Flynn, legal experts say
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Lawfare and Vanity Fair
Alan M. Dershowitz / Gatestone Institute:
Flynn Was Innocent All Along: He Was Pressured to Plead Guilty
Paul Rosenzweig / The Atlantic:
An Attack on a Fundamental Principle of Justice
An Attack on a Fundamental Principle of Justice
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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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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
A record 20.5 million jobs were lost in April as unemployment rate jumps to 14.7%
A record 20.5 million jobs were lost in April as unemployment rate jumps to 14.7%
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New York Times and Twitchy
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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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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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 NYPD Arrested 40 People on Social Distancing Violations. 35 Were Black.
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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
Republicans not sold on new round of relief checks
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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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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.
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Watchdog recommends ousted vaccine expert be temporarily reinstated: lawyers — A federal watchdog said it has found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the Trump administration retaliated against a top public health official who says he was ousted after raising alarms about an unverified …
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Federal agency says removal of vaccine chief may have been retaliation
Federal agency says removal of vaccine chief may have been retaliation
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National Review
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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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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Well Being Trust, Redstate, Louder With Crowder, The Daily Caller and The Week
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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Fox News, Townhall, Redstate and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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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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.
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The Week
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.
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.
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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.
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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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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.
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The Week
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 …
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 …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democratic senators propose $2,000 monthly payments to most Americans — A trio of Democratic senators are pitching a big idea: pay most American families thousands of dollars each month until the coronavirus's economic crisis subsides. — On Friday, Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) …
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Pro-Biden super PAC launches $10 million ad blitz — One of the top two super PACs supporting former Vice President Joe Biden's White House bid announced on Friday that it's launching a $10 million pre-Democratic convention ad blitz that kicks off this weekend.
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