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3:00 PM ET, May 8, 2020

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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
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Daily Caller and WHOTV
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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.
Politico:
Katie Miller, Pence spokesperson, tests positive for coronavirus
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Pence Aide Tests Positive for Virus, Delaying Trip to Iowa
Discussion: CNN and Slate
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump offers Biden rapid COVID-19 test to resume travel
Discussion: The Hill
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
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump says he'd help Biden get access to rapid COVID tests
Discussion: Breitbart and Sean Hannity
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.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Vox
Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:   Pardoning Flynn would have looked bad. Dropping the charges is far worse.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
If Michael Flynn did nothing wrong, why didn't he tell the truth?
Discussion: Mother Jones
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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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.
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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Matt Fountain / San Luis Obispo Tribune:
Exclusive: 1996 court document confirms Tara Reade told of harassment in Biden's office
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
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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NBC News:   As ‘#Plandemic’ goes viral, those targeted by discredited scientist's crusade warn of ‘dangerous’ claims
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Discredited Doctor and Sham ‘Science’ Are the Stars of Viral Coronavirus Documentary ‘Plandemic’
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.
Discussion: New York Post
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Nelly Miles / Georgia Bureau of Investigation:
Ahmaud Arbery Death Investigation
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.
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
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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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Redstate and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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 …
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.
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov coronavirus poll: Almost one in five say they won't get vaccinated  —  As a number of states begin to reopen their economies, a clear majority of Americans believe they are moving too fast, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov coronavirus poll.  Even residents of the reopened states agree.
Discussion: Forbes and Mediaite
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Reopening the country seen as greater risk among most Americans: POLL
Discussion: The Week and FiveThirtyEight
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN and The Hill
Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
First Californian to get coronavirus in community spread was infected at a nail salon, Newsom says  —  The first person in California to contract the coronavirus through community spread caught the virus in a nail salon, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday.  —  Newsom cited the case when asked …
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William Feuer / CNBC:
California identifies nail salons as source of coronavirus community spread, Gov. Newsom says
Discussion: Breitbart and The Week
 
 
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BuzzFeed News:
Ukrainian Prosecutors Drafted Documents To Charge Paul Manafort With Corruption.  Then They Were Fired.
The Guardian:
Revealed: major anti-lockdown group's links to America's far right
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Anti-Lockdown Protesters Have a Twisted Conception of Liberty
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Access journalism is killing us
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
Elizabeth Warren, other Massachusetts Democrats probe Walmart on store with more than 80 coronavirus cases
Garrett M. Graff / Politico:
Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here's What They're Worried About Next.
Washington Post:
Here's how college students can return to campus in the fall
 Earlier Items: 
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Meet OAN, the little-watched right-wing news channel that Trump keeps promoting
Discussion: The Wrap and Twitchy
Rod Dreher:
Anti-Mask Snowflakes Of The Right
Rebecca Jacobs / CREW:
Trump said the Secret Service told him to stay at his hotel. There's no record that's true.
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Martha McSally: Next coronavirus relief package should not be a ‘cash cow’ for mismanaged cities
CyberDust ID / blog maverick:
I Hired a Team of Secret Shoppers to Find Out How Businesses Were Opening in Dallas. It's Not Good.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The White House's coronavirus cure is even more magical than we could have imagined
Discussion: The Hill
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding Spotify to profit from royalty fraud, abusing a distribution process effectively based on the honor system

 
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