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New York Times:
‘Scary to Go to Work’: White House Races to Contain Virus in Its Ranks — With two White House staff members testing positive, some officials fear the disease is already spreading rapidly through the West Wing. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is racing to contain an outbreak …
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Washington Post:
Top White House advisers, unlike their boss, increasingly worry stimulus spending is costing too much — Conservatives are eyeing potential policies to reduce long-term budget impact, but they say Trump probably won't go along — Senior Trump administration officials are growing increasingly wary …
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Michelle Mark / Business Insider Nederland:
Birx said ‘there is nothing from the CDC that I can trust’ in a White House coronavirus task force meeting — Foto: Associated Press/Evan Vucci White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx listens as President Donald Trump holds a meeting about the coronavirus response with Gov. Greg Abbott …
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The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story and NBC News
Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
Fauci won't appear in Senate after exposure to White House staffer infected with coronavirus, Pence will also be self-isolating — Dr. Anthony Fauci won't show up in person in the Senate after all. — The top pandemic doctor decided not to bend the rules by showing up in person …
Sophia Ankel / Business Insider Nederland:
11 Secret Service agents test positive for COVID-19 and fears of it spreading through the White House are mounting
11 Secret Service agents test positive for COVID-19 and fears of it spreading through the White House are mounting
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Raw Story
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Inside House Democrats' whopping $1.2 trillion+ coronavirus relief proposal
Inside House Democrats' whopping $1.2 trillion+ coronavirus relief proposal
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
The White House is a coronavirus hotspot. It's proof-positive we need mass testing.
The White House is a coronavirus hotspot. It's proof-positive we need mass testing.
Maya Parthasarathy / Politico:
White House adviser Hassett: 'It's scary to go to work'
White House adviser Hassett: 'It's scary to go to work'
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Vanity Fair and Breitbart
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Met With GOP Lawmakers For An Hour. Nobody Wore A Mask Or Stayed Apart.
USA Today:
Sanders, Harris, Markey want to give Americans $2,000 a month during coronavirus pandemic, but likely face GOP pushback
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Mnuchin: White House will decide on more coronavirus relief in “a few weeks”
Mnuchin: White House will decide on more coronavirus relief in “a few weeks”
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Fox News, Mother Jones, One America News Network and Associated Press
Mary B. McCord / New York Times:
Bill Barr Twisted My Words in Dropping the Flynn Case. Here's the Truth. — The F.B.I.'s interview of Mr. Flynn was constitutional, lawful and for a legitimate counterintelligence purpose. — Ms. McCord was an acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Justice Department from 2016 to 2017.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Pence says he'd be “happy” to see Michael Flynn back in government
Exclusive: Pence says he'd be “happy” to see Michael Flynn back in government
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Reuters, The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair, The Week, New York Post, The Hill and Breitbart
Chuck Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The long list of people who thought Flynn's lies were material
The long list of people who thought Flynn's lies were material
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New York Times
Associated Press:
Virus Outbreak — The latest news on the worldwide virus pandemic. — The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can...
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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Trump administration cuts funding for coronavirus researcher, jeopardizing possible COVID-19 cure — An American scientist who collaborates with the Wuhan Institute of Virology had his grant terminated in the wake of unsubstantiated claims that COVID-19 is either manmade or leaked out of a Chinese government lab.
Joe Lockhart / CNN:
Why aren't editorial boards screaming: Trump has to go? — Trump disagrees with nurse calling PPE availability ‘sporadic’ — Joe Lockhart is a CNN political analyst. He was the White House press secretary from 1998-2000 in President Bill Clinton's administration. He co-hosts the podcast “Words Matter.”
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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Rishika Dugyala / Politico:
Georgia AG seeks federal probe of jogger's death — Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr formally requested the Justice Department to investigate the handling of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery's case, whose death ignited widespread outrage after local authorities waited more than two months to arrest suspects.
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Shelly Bradbury / Denver Post:
Castle Rock restaurant reopens to Mother's Day crowds in defiance of statewide public health order — A Castle Rock restaurant saw big crowds Sunday when it fully reopened for Mother's Day in open defiance of the statewide public health order that limits restaurants to takeout and delivery services.
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The Four Men Responsible For America's COVID-19 Test Disaster — The White House's inability to track the disease as it spread across the nation crippled the government's response and led to the worst disaster this country has faced in nearly a century — Dr. Robert Redfield …
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
South Korea's Early Coronavirus Wins Dim After Rash of New Cases — More than 50 cases have been linked to Seoul's nightclubs and bars, which have now been ordered closed — SEOUL—South Korea, which largely succeeded in quelling the spread of the coronavirus, is back on the defensive …
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Gizmodo, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
Don Sweeney / Sacramento Bee:
‘^%#! Elon Musk,’ California lawmaker says after Tesla chief threatens move to Texas — A California legislator had a profane response after Tesla chief Elon Musk threatened to move his company out of state in a spat over coronavirus lockdowns. — “F*ck Elon Musk,” wrote Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez …
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Just The News, Redstate and San Francisco Chronicle
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
How Chris Hayes Makes Sense of the “World-Historical Cataclysm” — Before the coronavirus pandemic reshaped media priorities, along with just about everything else, the MSNBC host Chris Hayes was spending most of his time covering the Democratic Presidential nomination and the transformation …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump wants America to ‘normalize’ coronavirus deaths. It's the media's job not to play along. — Comparing the number of deaths from covid-19 to those caused by car crashes never made any sense. But the gimmick caught on anyway. — “We don't shut down our economy because tens …
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Biden's lead is the steadiest on record — (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Monmouth University poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump 50% to 41%. When Rep. Justin Amash is included as the Libertarian Party candidate, it's Biden 47%, Trump 40% and Amash 5%.
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Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Why Have Late-Night TV Hosts Gone Silent on Tara Reade? — HYPOCRISY — Colbert, Kimmel, Meyers and Noah have all repeatedly hammered Trump for his treatment of women and gone radio silent on Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden. — On Oct. 8, 2016 …
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