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10:05 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 and Fox News
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: Raw Story
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump sought a reopening but found the virus in the White House instead  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump hoped this would be the week he emerged into a nation recovering from pandemic.  Instead the pandemic came to him.  —  A day after breaking his White House self-isolation …
Politico:
Katie Miller, Pence spokeswoman, tests positive for coronavirus
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Eleven Secret Service agents test positive for COVID-19: report
Discussion: Palmer Report
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 …
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
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 …
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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Jim Jordan / The Federalist:   Rep. Jim Jordan: A Look Back On The Russia, Mueller, And Flynn Investigations
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 …
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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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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 …
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.
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 …
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: Outside the Beltway and WPRI-TV
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 …
Kathleen Ronayne / Associated Press:
California Gov. Newsom formally endorses Biden for president  —  file photo, Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom formally endorsed Joe Biden for president on Friday, praising the former vice president for his “deep compassion and empathy” during a virtual high-dollar fundraiser …
Discussion: The Hill
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ABC News:
Joe Biden to scale up campaign as Democratic anxiety grows ahead of general election fight with Trump
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Biden campaign launches expansion in the face of Democratic worries — but no word on plans to leave his house
Discussion: The Guardian and Fox News
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Steven Doyle / Martinsville Bulletin:
WATCH NOW: Father Mark White receives no-trespass notice to stay off church property and out of his residences  —  Bishop Barry Knestout earlier this week had banned Father Mark White from performing the duties of priest in Martinsville and Rocky Mount, which means he is prohibited …
David Lynch / Washington Post:
Soaring joblessness could shake U.S. economy, politics for years  —  Eye on lessons from the Great Depression and 2008 crisis  —  The United States is facing a political and economic challenge like nothing it has seen in nearly 100 years.  —  Mass unemployment on a scale not seen since …
Discussion: Marketplace
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
This is one of Trump's biggest and most insulting lies yet  —  The new economic report paints a picture of truly extraordinary economic carnage.  In April, a stunning 20 million jobs disappeared into the abyss of the coronavirus crisis, and unemployment soared to 14.7 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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 …
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.
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
Yahoo News:
How coronavirus — a 'rich man's disease' — infected the poor  —  When it arrived in the unforgiving industrial towns of central Mexico, the sand-swept sprawl of northern Nigeria and the mazes of metal shanties in India's commercial capital, Mumbai, COVID-19 went by another name.
Alix Martichoux / ABC7:
Newsom signs executive order to send every registered Californian a mail-in ballot  —  PHASE 3 COMING SOON?  Gov. Newsom teases next stage of reopening California businesses is closer than we thought  —  The election won't be vote-by-mail only; those who still want to vote in-person will be able to do so.
Discussion: Politico
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Newsom orders vote-by-mail in California for November election
 
 
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Rosie O'Donnell Reveals She's Helping Michael Cohen With His ‘Spicy’ Trump Tell-All Book
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Court halts ban on mass gatherings at Kentucky churches
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Fight Over Virus's Death Toll Opens Grim New Front in Election Battle
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The World Is Taking Pity on Us
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Excessive force, zero justice
Discussion: Reason
 Earlier Items: 
Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times:
Newsom warns defiant counties they could lose coronavirus cash for reopening early
New York Times:
‘Found Unresponsive at Home’: Grim Records Recount Lonely Deaths
Discussion: Daily Kos
Julia Azari / Mischiefs of Faction:
The Trump presidency thrives on norms
Politico:
Top career intelligence official departs ODNI
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Other countries are winning against the virus. We are quitting.
Discussion: Michigan Advance
Dan Solomon / Texas Monthly:
Arrested Dallas Hairdresser's GoFundMe Launched Before She Even Reopened
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Robert Caro writes, and waits, during the COVID-19 outbreak