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Jonathan Kravis / Washington Post:
I left the Justice Department after it made a disastrous mistake. It just happened again. — Jonathan Kravis was a federal prosecutor for 10 years. — Three months ago, I resigned from the Justice Department after 10 years as a career prosecutor. I left a job I loved because I believed …
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Law & Crime and Raw Story
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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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Washington Post, Redstate, The Gateway Pundit, Patterico's Pontifications, Raw Story and Axios
Gregg Re / Fox News:
NBC admits Chuck Todd's ‘Meet the Press’ deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn
NBC admits Chuck Todd's ‘Meet the Press’ deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn
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Power Line, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Mediaite and NB Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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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The Atlantic
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
CEOs, Farm Bureau President Told To Remove Face Masks Before Meeting With Mike Pence — The vice president walked in soon afterward — without a mask — shortly after learning his press secretary had tested positive for COVID-19. — Four CEOs of food companies and the president …
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VICE, Slate, Political Flare and Raw Story
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USA Today:
White House adopts new safety precautions as coronavirus moves closer to Trump's inner circle — WASHINGTON - With coronavirus exposure arriving in the West Wing, the White House is taking extra precautions to ensure the safety of the president and his staff after two administration aides tested positive for the coronavirus.
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump sticks with positive messaging as coronavirus misery piles up
Trump sticks with positive messaging as coronavirus misery piles up
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The Hill, Raw Story, Vox, Mother Jones and Breitbart
Politico:
Kamala emerges as early Biden VP favorite as sting of debate attack fades — Kamala Harris was written off as a possible vice presidential pick for Joe Biden last year after a cutting debate performance where she seemed to suggest he was racially insensitive.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Why Kamala Harris Isn't Clamoring to Be Biden's Running Mate — The California senator is considered a potential running mate for Joe Biden. But unlike other possible contenders, she has avoided making a pitch for the ticket. — Six years ago, when President Barack Obama had to replace …
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Washington Post
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.
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Townhall, Redstate, No More Mister Nice Blog and Twitchy
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Biden Is Planning an FDR-Size Presidency He thinks he'll survive Tara Reade's accusation. But he knows he can't be an average-Joe Democrat anymore. — When fourth-term senator Joe Biden built his Wilmington, Delaware, home in 1996, he had no plans to turn it into a backup office …
Wall Street Journal:
Factories Close for Good as Coronavirus Cuts Demand — Some manufacturers that furloughed employees during lockdowns say plants won't reopen — Factory furloughs across the U.S. are becoming permanent closings, a sign of the heavy damage the coronavirus pandemic and shutdowns are exerting on the industrial economy.
Washington Post:
Does Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis know what he's doing? We're about to find out. — Florida Man is devil-may-care and slightly oafish, beloved but not admired, newsworthy above all. Florida Man — christened as a meme in the previous decade but perhaps as old as the state itself …
Wall Street Journal:
Barack Obama on Michael Flynn — The lawyer President misstates the crime and the real threat to justice. — By The Editorial Board — Barack Obama is a lawyer, so it was stunning to read that he ventured into the Michael Flynn case in a way that misstated the supposed crime and ignored …
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The Hill
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump charges Obama with ‘biggest political crime in American history’
Trump charges Obama with ‘biggest political crime in American history’
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Talking Points Memo, Townhall, Breitbart, POLITICUSUSA, Political Flare and Rolling Stone
Dion Rabouin / Axios:
Despite polling disadvantage, betting markets see Trump winning re-election — Even after the White House's delayed response to the coronavirus outbreak, unprecedented job losses and a bruising recession, investors and betting markets are still putting their money on President Trump to win re-election in November.
Joe Biden / Washington Post:
How the White House coronavirus response presents us with a false choice — Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States. — The coronavirus, to date, has taken the lives of more than 79,000 Americans. One of every 5 U.S. workers has filed for unemployment …
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Fox News, NBC News, IJR, POLITICUSUSA, The American Independent, Axios, Washington Times and The Hill
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
RIP Democracy … Jack cable sat down at the desk in his cramped dorm room to become an adult in the eyes of democracy. The rangy teenager, with neatly manicured brown hair and chunky glasses, had recently arrived at Stanford—his first semester of life away from home—and the 2018 midterm elections were less than two months away.
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
The Supreme Court Can't Help Trump Now Without Hurting Itself — The conservative majority may want to contort the law so Trump can hide his taxes, but the legitimacy of the courts will take a hit if they do—especially if Biden wins the election — The Supreme Court is about to hear cases …
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Raw Story and Associated Press
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Big Tech Has Crushed the News Business. That's About to Change. — News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news. Now regulators abroad are moving to make that happen. — It reads like a coroner's report on the news business, 623 pages filled with charts …
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Scripting News, more at Mediagazer »
National Review:
Mail-In Ballots Are a Recipe for Confusion, Coercion, and Fraud — So, naturally, Democrats are pushing to have them sent to every voter — or ‘voter.’ — Enormous pressure is being mounted to use our current crisis as an excuse to transform how we vote in elections.
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Gregg Jarrett
John J. Pitney, Jr / The Bulwark:
Trump, Reagan, and “Mourning in America” — The Lincoln Project's “Mourning in America” ad has been the defining spot of the 2020 campaign. — The ad is a play on Ronald Reagan's classic 1984 reelection ad, “Morning in America.” And it seems to have triggered President Trump.
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Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Doctors keep discovering new ways the coronavirus attacks the body … PLEASE NOTE — The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our daily Coronavirus Updates newsletter where all stories are free to read.
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Biden campaign ramps up digital staff amid tech woes, Dem pressure — Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's campaign is beefing up its digital staff, just as it had been hit by a series of technical problems at a virtual event on Thursday — and amid alarm bells from Democratic allies …
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Majority disapprove of coronavirus protests — A majority of Americans disapprove of protests against restrictions aimed at preventing the spread the coronavirus, according to a new poll that also finds the still-expansive support for such limits — including restaurant closures …
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's lying strategy on the economy — You don't need a cheat sheet on President Trump's 2020 campaign strategy. — Step one — the former “wartime president” now wants you to forget his stumbles on the battlefield of the coronavirus pandemic. — Next, playing the role of “CEO president …
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POLITICUSUSA
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
No, Gov. Cuomo, no: Please don't reopen schools last — To all the women screaming, “I love you Andrew Cuomo, and I want to have your baby!”: Would you mind asking him where that baby will go to school? — Millions of New York parents would like to know what, exactly, is the plan for the kids.
Soumya Karlamangla / Los Angeles Times:
A nurse without an N95 mask raced in to treat a ‘code blue’ patient. She died 14 days later — The decision that Celia Marcos made, the one that would ultimately steal years from her life, had been hard-wired after decades working as a nurse. — On the ward that she oversaw …
Miami Herald:
‘Homicide report’ from shooting death seems to contradict Broward sheriff's statements — A 27-year-old police report documenting the details of the case against Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony — who as a 14-year-old shot and killed an 18-year-old in Philadelphia — confirms his acquittal of any crime in the incident.
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Florida Politics