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Washington Post:
U.S. judge puts on hold Justice Dept. move to dismiss Michael Flynn's guilty plea to hear outside groups' challenges — A U.S. judge on Tuesday put on hold the Justice Department's move to drop charges against Michael Flynn, saying he expects independent groups and legal experts to argue …
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Power Line and New York Post
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Judge Hesitates to Accept Justice Dept. Move to Drop Flynn Charge — Law enforcement officials' abrupt decision to end the case drew accusations from former colleagues that they had undermined the rule of law. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge overseeing the criminal case …
Axios:
The facts on Michael Flynn, the FBI, and Bill Barr's bombshell
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Associated Press, CNN, The Hill, Breitbart, Just The News, Washington Monthly and The Bulwark
TIME:
Jared Kushner Admits There's ‘Risk’ in Reopening the Country Too Soon — The same day that the nation's top infectious-disease expert warned that reopening the economy too quickly could bring serious consequences, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner acknowledged that there is inherent …
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Vanity Fair, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and The Hill
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New York Times:
Kushner, Law Aside, Doesn't Rule Out Delaying 2020 Election — The opinion of a White House staff member has no bearing on when the election is held, but his comment played into the concerns of President Trump's detractors. — WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law …
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
EXCLUSIVE: In court filing, FBI accidentally reveals name of Saudi official suspected of directing support for 9/11 hijackers — WASHINGTON — The FBI inadvertently revealed one of the U.S. government's most sensitive secrets about the Sept. 11 terror attacks: the identity …
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New York Post and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Biden plans to stay home, testing limits of virtual campaign — In this image from video provided by the Biden for President campaign, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual press briefing Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (Biden for President via AP)
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Republicans look to win back California House seat in special election overshadowed by coronavirus — Special House elections in California and Wisconsin headline Tuesday's primaries as former Vice President Joe Biden netted more delegates in the Democratic primary race.
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The Hill
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Ocasio-Cortez is working with the Biden campaign on climate policy — Liberal leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is helping Joe Biden's presidential campaign develop proposals by serving on a climate policy panel that the former vice president created as part of a larger effort to woo the party's left wing.
Orko Manna / KLAS - 8 News Now:
WEB EXTRA: Biden talks COVID-19, sexual assault allegations and more
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NBC News, CNN and New York Post
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The US House's Supreme Court defense of its Trump investigation was a disaster — President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union address in the House chamber on February 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. Photo by Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images
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Reason, The Bulwark, Slate, Lawyers, Guns & Money and SCOTUSblog
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers just made appalling arguments to the Supreme Court
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The Moderate Voice and Raw Story
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court seeks a middle ground on release of Trump's taxes
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New York Times and NBC News
Brian Niemietz / New York Daily News:
Howard Stern to Trump supporters: He hates you and so do I — Howard Stern says he and President Trump are both showmen who love a good time — and they both hate Trump supporters. — “One thing Donald loves is celebrities, he loves the famous,” Stern said on his SiriusXM show Tuesday. “He loves it.
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Breitbart and Washington Times
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump's racism will bring his party down with him — President Trump can't help himself. The former reality-TV host was warned by White House staff, his campaign team, financial contributors and Republicans on Capitol Hill that his afternoon news conferences were causing political damage.
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USA Today, HBCU Digest and CNN
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
As coronavirus roils the nation, Trump reverts to tactic of accusing foes of felonies — On a day when coronavirus deaths passed 80,000 and top government scientists warned of the perils of loosening public health restrictions too soon, President Trump used his massive public platform …
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Mother Jones, Politico, The Wrap, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, The American Independent, Vox and New York Post
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Trump's vicious claim that Joe Scarborough might have murdered an aide
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MSNBC
Politico:
Fauci fatigue sets in among some Republicans — Anthony Fauci came to the Senate, virtually, to issue a dire warning against reopening the country too soon amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic. But his message fell flat with some of his intended audience.
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Reason, New York Times, Bad News and The Week
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell, Senate GOP declare House Democrats' $3T coronavirus bill ‘dead on arrival’
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POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Beast, The Week and Fox News
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working From Home Becomes the Norm — Even after the crisis eases, companies may let workers stay home. That would affect an entire ecosystem, from transit to restaurants to shops. Not to mention the tax base. — Before the coronavirus crisis …
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Streetsblog New York City
Colleen Shalby / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. County could keep stay-at-home orders in place well into summer — Los Angeles County's stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged during a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.
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Just The News, The Hill, Mediaite, Townhall, Redstate, Breitbart, CBS Los Angeles, New York Post, Twitchy, The Week, ProFootballTalk and The Daily Caller
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Trump approval dips amid mounting coronavirus death toll, trails Biden by 8 points: Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - More Americans have grown critical of President Donald Trump over the past month as the death toll mounts from the coronavirus pandemic and he now trails Democratic …
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The Week
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Under fire, President Trump drops his Mar-a-Lago dock plan — for now — President Trump has temporarily withdrawn a controversial dock proposal at his Palm Beach resort that had raised larger questions about the legality of the change of his official residency from New York to Florida.
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The Hill
Ann Limpert / Washingtonian:
Inn at Little Washington Chef Will Fill His Socially Distanced Dining Room With Midcentury Mannequins — The three Michelin-starred destination will also have Marilyn Monroe masks. — A few weeks ago, the Inn at Little Washington sent out an email blast announcing that the luxury Rappahannock …
Robby Soave / Reason:
No, 68 Percent of Americans Did Not Say They Would Avoid ‘Normal Life’ Until There's a Coronavirus Vaccine — Two-thirds of Americans said they would not return to “normal life” until a vaccine becomes available for COVID-19, according to CNN. — The ramifications of this finding …
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Arc Digital, Mediaite and Redstate
David Crary / Associated Press:
As Trump urges reopening, thousands getting sick on the job — NEW YORK (AP) — Even as President Donald Trump urges getting people back to work and reopening the economy, an Associated Press analysis shows thousands of people are getting sick from COVID-19 on the job.
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CNN:
UK railway ticket office worker dies from Covid-19 after being spat on — (CNN)A British railway ticket office worker has died from Covid-19 after being spat on while she was working at Victoria station in central London. — Belly Mujinga, 47, was working with a colleague when a member …
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Small business used to define America's economy. The pandemic could change that forever. — More than 100,000 small businesses have closed forever as the nation's pandemic toll escalates — The coronavirus pandemic is emerging as an existential threat to the nation's small businesses …
Moriah Balingit / Washington Post:
Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican lawmakers in a bind — OWOSSO, Mich. — Armed members of the Michigan Home Guard stood outside Karl Manke's barber shop, ready to blockade the door if police arrived.
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump presses immunity argument in Summer Zervos defamation case — NEW YORK — Lawyers for President Trump this week reiterated their argument that a defamation lawsuit from a woman who alleges Trump groped and kissed her without consent should be halted because the president is immune …
Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
FEMA Cancels $55.5 Million Mask Contract With Panthera — Vendor had no history in the mask business and a parent company in bankruptcy — The federal government said it canceled a $55.5 million contract for respiratory masks, signed last month with a small Virginia firm with no history …
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The Hill
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
They Lost Their Jobs. Now They May Have to Leave the U.S. — The Trump administration is unlikely to allow laid-off holders of H-1B and other work visas to extend their stay in the country amid the coronavirus pandemic. — Like millions of American workers, an Indian software engineer …
ABC News:
Horrific attacks on maternity ward, funeral in Afghanistan may derail peace process — Sitting down for peace negotiations seems less likely. — In the two months since the U.S. and the Taliban signed an agreement to end their 18-year old war, violence between the militant group and Afghan government forces has surged.
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Human Rights Watch, Reuters and Fox News
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
Contact tracing leadership change costing city delays, say involved parties — Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to yank oversight of contact tracing from the health department he's at odds with has delayed the virus-fighting measure by at least a week — precious time the city can hardly afford …
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The Hill
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: McConnell claims Obama didn't leave Trump a pandemic ‘game plan.’ Obama left a 69-page playbook — Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell falsely accused the Obama administration of failing to leave the Trump administration “any kind of game plan” for something like the coronavirus pandemic.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, New York Times and The Root
Washington Post:
Lawsuit by The Washington Post, New York Times, ProPublica, Dow Jones & Bloomberg against SBA — The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, ProPublica and the New York Times filed suit against the Small Business Administration seeking records and data about its loan programs under the Cares Act.
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ProPublica and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Projection: CNN's Stelter Accuses Conservative Media of ‘Obsession’ With Russia Probe — CNN anchor Brian Stelter said Sunday that he was disappointed in right-wing media's “obsession” with recent revelations about the Russia probe and its origins, calling it insignificant in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy
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