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Politico:
Senate Republicans break with Trump over ‘Obamagate’ — President Donald Trump's aggressive campaign to encourage sweeping investigations of his predecessor Barack Obama met a unanimous response from Senate Republicans: No thanks. — Trump's Senate allies on Monday stopped short …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Taking #Obamagate Seriously — President Trump's bonkers theory, explained. — It is easy to overlook some of the everyday corruptions that President Trump has inflicted on the body politic. After all, his unique blend of logorrhea, mendacity, and clownishness creates an atmosphere …
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Martha Raddatz / ABC News:
Acting DNI seeks to declassify any Obama officials involved in Flynn ‘unmasking’: Source — Grenell visited the Justice Department last week over the matter. — Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has sought to declassify a list of former Obama administration officials …
New York Post:
It looks like President Obama ordered up phony RussiaGate scandal — RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter — but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor? — It's now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never …
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Sally Yates Hid from Congress that Obama Told Her about Flynn-Kislyak Calls But Confirmed It to Mueller — Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates hid from Congress during a November 2017 interview that she first learned about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's calls …
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Fauci to Warn Senate of ‘Needless Suffering and Death’ — The risks of reopening the country too soon will be a focus of government hearings on Tuesday. The White House's new mask requirement won't apply to President Trump. — RIGHT NOW Dr. Anthony S. Fauci …
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Fauci to Warn of ‘Needless Suffering and Death’ if States Open Too Soon — The United States' top infectious disease expert is expected to testify at a Senate hearing that moving too quickly to ease restrictions could undermine the country's quest to return to normalcy.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Fauci Plans to Use Hearing to Warn of ‘Needless Suffering and Death’ — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, is scheduled to testify on Tuesday before the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. — WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci …
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Washington Post:
Live updates: Trump claims ‘we have met the moment and prevailed’; U.S. death toll surpasses 80,000
Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Fauci Reportedly To Warn Senate Of ‘Needless Suffering And Death’ If U.S. Reopens Too Soon
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Politico, Mediaite, New York Times and Axios
NBC News:
Unreleased White House report shows coronavirus rates spiking in heartland communities — President Trump's claim that cases are falling everywhere is contradicted by his own task force's report, obtained by NBC News, showing the virus spreading far from the coasts.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Negative ratings for government handling of coronavirus persist — Three members of coronavirus task force in quarantine — (CNN)Most Americans (54%) continue to say the US government is doing a poor job preventing the spread of Covid-19, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
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Washington Post:
Many governors win bipartisan support for handling of pandemic, but some Republicans face blowback over reopening efforts — Governors collectively have been winning widespread praise from the public for their handling of the coronavirus outbreak, often with the kind of bipartisan approval that has eluded President Trump.
CNN:
Video shows food executives removing masks ahead of Pence event — (CNN)Participants at a food supply roundtable convened by Vice President Mike Pence in Iowa on Friday removed their face masks before Pence arrived, according to video from the event posted online.
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump visit to Pennsylvania factory that produces PPE materials was scuttled after plant officials …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Trump abruptly ends briefing after contentious exchanges
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump's Feeling Is, ‘Why Are We Losing Everywhere?’”: With Advisers Feuding and Numbers Plummeting, Trump Eyes Campaign Shake-up — Brad Parscale (and his Ferrari) is in the hot seat. Kushner is pushing for Nick Ayers, and against a Corey Lewandowski return. But whose fault are the disastrous swing state numbers?
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Political Flare
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
‘Should have kept his mouth shut’: McConnell slams Obama for criticizing Trump admin — The Senate Majority leader said the former president broke with tradition by maligning his successor. — WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday evening slammed former President Barack Obama …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: Obama ‘should have kept his mouth shut’ on Trump's coronavirus response
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Politico, The Guardian and Axios
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump's tweets are a strategy of distraction to obscure a policy of abdication — In the fourth month of the greatest crisis of his presidency, Donald Trump issued 126 tweets or retweets during a single Sunday. — Other than claiming “great marks” for handling the pandemic …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court to hear clash over Trump tax, bank records — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up President Donald Trump's bid to keep his tax, bank and financial records private, a major clash over presidential accountability that could affect the 2020 presidential campaign.
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Supreme Court to hear blockbuster case on Trump financial records
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CNN:
Trump's jaw-dropping attack on California's voting plan — Trump and Democrats fight over mail-in voting — Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah.
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Alison Borden / Colorado Public Radio:
Governor Suspends Castle Rock Restaurant's License After Mother's Day Opening Goes Viral — Gov. Jared Polis, calling the restaurant an “immediate health hazard,” has suspended the restaurant license of C&C Breakfast & Korean Kitchen in Castle Rock, a day after a video showing a packed dining room in defiance of public health rules.
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Washington Post:
The Flynn case isn't over until the judge says it's over — John Gleeson served as a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New York and chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in that district. David O'Neil served as the acting assistant attorney general …
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Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
FBI's Man in Europe Undercut Ohr's Claim of Limited Russiagate Role — Above right, FBI agent Michael Gaeta at a 2016 seminar in Rome. — An FBI agent's newly released testimony undercuts top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr's denial of a conflict of interest between his Trump-Russia efforts …
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Mitch McConnell Moves to Expand Bill Barr's Surveillance Powers — Welcome to the Trump-era Patriot Act: a law that protects politicians while giving the government greater knowledge of the websites you searched for and visited. — Days after the Justice Department controversially dropped charges …
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David Siders / Politico:
Trump is getting trounced among a crucial constituency: The haters — President Donald Trump is losing a critical constituency: voters who see two choices on the ballot — and hate them both. — Unlike in 2016, when a large group of voters who disliked both Trump and Hillary Clinton broke sharply …
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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Watchdog Reports Record Number of Anti-Semitic Incidents in U.S. Last Year — (Reuters) - Jews in the United States suffered the largest number of anti-Semitic incidents last year since the Anti-Defamation League began collecting records 40 years ago, the racism watchdog said on Tuesday.
USA Today:
Coronavirus economy: We're in for a painful slog, not Trump's fast, ‘spectacular’ recovery — Some people think the Great Depression, which began in 1929 during the presidency of Herbert Hoover, ended shortly after Franklin D. Roosevelt replaced him in 1933. Not so. It went on and on and on — and on.
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop:
FBI, DHS to go public with suspected North Korean hacking tools — The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to jointly expose North Korean government-backed hacking this week, CyberScoop has learned. — Threat data meant to help companies fend off hackers has already …
Christina Capatides / CBS News:
Doctors Without Borders dispatches team to the Navajo Nation — Doctors Without Borders is best known for sending medical professionals into international conflict zones in the midst of medical crises. The organization has teams in Afghanistan, Iran, Sierra Leone, Venezuela and 66 other countries.
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