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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 …
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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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Slate
Ryan Saavedra / The Daily Wire:
BREAKING: U.S. Officials Have Declassified List Of Obama Officials Who Were Involved In ‘Unmasking’ General Flynn  —  Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has declassified the list of former Obama administration officials who were allegedly involved in the “unmasking” …
Discussion: ABC News
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Vox, CNSNews and Vanity Fair
Lee Smith / Just The News:
Newly declassified evidence undercuts former DNI Clapper's testimony to Congress
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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.
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Fauci Reportedly To Warn Senate Of ‘Needless Suffering And Death’ If U.S. Reopens Too Soon
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Fauci Plans to Use Hearing to Warn of ‘Needless Suffering and Death’
Discussion: The Guardian
Politico:
Mark Meadows finds his inner pragmatist  —  Mark Meadows spent his entire congressional career trying to divorce the Republican Party from its moderate wing.  Now he's trying to make it work with centrist Republicans and even Democrats on Capitol Hill.  —  So far, as President Donald Trump's …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   GOP senators worry Trump, COVID-19 could cost them their majority
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Trump abruptly ends briefing after contentious exchanges  —  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly ended his White House news conference Monday following combative exchanges with reporters Weijia Jiang of CBS News and Kaitlan Collins of CNN.  —  Jiang asked Trump why he was putting …
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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?
Discussion: Political Flare
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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Washington Post:
This is Trump's greatest failure of the pandemic
Discussion: Daily Kos, New York Times, Vox and IJR
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.
Politico:
Trump, RNC narrowly outraise Biden, Dems in April  —  President Donald Trump's political operation narrowly outraised Joe Biden in April, according to fundraising totals released Monday.  —  The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee raked in $61.7 million, they said late Monday …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:   Battleground Biden ad says Trump's coronavirus response “destroyed” economy
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats move to allow remote voting or a virtual summer convention
Discussion: The Week, The Hill and Vanity Fair
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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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 …
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
As States Rush to Reopen, Scientists Fear a Coronavirus Comeback  —  Officials are under pressure to restart the economy, but many states are moving too quickly, researchers say.  The costs may be measured in lost lives.  —  Millions of working people and small-business owners who cannot earn money …
Discussion: The Smoke Eater
Los Angeles Times:
California coronavirus deaths hit stubborn plateau; experts fearful about future  —  Although some hope the worst of California's coronavirus crisis has passed, there are signs the pandemic in the Golden State has merely stabilized, and the worst may be yet to come.
Discussion: Whittier Daily News and The Week
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Los Angeles Times:
California's coronavirus outlook worse than researchers expected, as cases and deaths rise
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Washington Post:
Even finding a covid-19 vaccine won't be enough to end the pandemic  —  If coronavirus persists, the volume of vaccine available in coming years is expected to fall far short of global demand  —  Johnson & Johnson's race to manufacture a billion doses of coronavirus vaccine is ramping …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: Obama ‘should have kept his mouth shut’ on Trump's coronavirus response  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that former President Obama should have held back from criticizing President Trump's handling of the coronavirus, calling the decision “a little bit classless.”
Discussion: Axios
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
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.
Discussion: Politico
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
The Indefensible Cult of Cuomo  —  To hear left-of-center opinion-makers tell it, the model of good governance in the pandemic has been set by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  —  The Empire State governor regularly ranks at the top of lists—a journalistic convention that translates subjective insights …
Discussion: Townhall and Twitchy
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Voters Sour on Biden as Reade Allegations Find Higher Platform  —  Despite dip in popularity, former VP's lead over Trump is virtually unchanged  — 48% of voters view Biden unfavorably, up 3 points since the surge of Tara Reade coverage, while 43% view him favorably, down 2 points since then.
Discussion: Douglas H. Wigdor, NB Blog and Reason
 
 
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Michael Steinberger / The Atlantic:
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Donna Rachel Edmunds / Jerusalem Post:
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Blake Burman / Fox Business:
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Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked top-secret National Security Agency documents showing how the U.S …
Andrew C. McCarthy / The Hill:
Why dismiss the Flynn case? Because the FBI can't prove it
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
WH Adviser Belittles Media Coverage Of Staggering Unemployment As ‘Pity Party’