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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 …
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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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New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Political Flare, Vanity Fair, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and The Hill
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
The facts on Michael Flynn, the FBI, and Bill Barr's bombshell
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Associated Press, The Hill, CNN, Breitbart, Just The News, Washington Monthly and The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
Acting intelligence chief Grenell gave DOJ list of Obama officials who ‘unmasked’ Michael Flynn
Politico:
Judge slows down effort to drop Flynn case
Judge slows down effort to drop Flynn case
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The Federalist, Townhall, Redstate and Breitbart
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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Al Jazeera, Raw Story and New York Post
Politico:
Senate braces for fight over renewing lapsed surveillance powers — Senate leaders are preparing for what could be a protracted brawl over government surveillance powers during a rare public debate Wednesday over how to reauthorize key national security tools that lapsed two months ago.
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The Hill
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Politico:
Fauci fatigue sets in among some Republicans
Fauci fatigue sets in among some Republicans
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New York Times, Reason, Washington Post, Bad News and The Week
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: McConnell claims Obama didn't leave Trump a pandemic ‘game plan.’ Obama left a 69-page playbook
Fact check: McConnell claims Obama didn't leave Trump a pandemic ‘game plan.’ Obama left a 69-page playbook
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The Dispatch, New York Times and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell, Senate GOP declare House Democrats' $3T coronavirus bill ‘dead on arrival’
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
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 …
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The Week
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The US House's Supreme Court defense of its Trump investigation was a disaster
The US House's Supreme Court defense of its Trump investigation was a disaster
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New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Reason, The Bulwark and Slate
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers just made appalling arguments to the Supreme Court
Trump's lawyers just made appalling arguments to the Supreme Court
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The Moderate Voice and Raw Story
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump lawyer: 'We're asking for temporary presidential immunity'
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court seeks a middle ground on release of Trump's taxes
Supreme Court seeks a middle ground on release of Trump's taxes
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Associated Press, New York Times, NBC News and Washington Post
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, Political Flare, The Week 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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Raw Story, 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
As coronavirus roils the nation, Trump reverts to tactic of accusing foes of felonies
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Politico, Political Flare, Mother Jones, The Wrap, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Mediaite, The American Independent, New York Post, Vox, The Week and Damian J. Penny
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Trump's vicious claim that Joe Scarborough might have murdered an aide
Trump's vicious claim that Joe Scarborough might have murdered an aide
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MSNBC
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.
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Orko Manna / KLAS - 8 News Now:
WEB EXTRA: Biden talks COVID-19, sexual assault allegations and more
WEB EXTRA: Biden talks COVID-19, sexual assault allegations and more
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CNN, NBC News and New York Post
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
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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 and BuzzFeed News, more at Techmeme »
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A new internal GOP poll suggests tight prez, Senate races in Georgia — An internal poll conducted by a group backing Gov. Brian Kemp showed a deadlocked presidential race in Georgia and tight contests for both U.S. Senate seats, underscoring the challenges Republicans face keeping the state in the GOP column.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Republican voters give Trump and GOP governors cover to reopen — Republican voters have undergone a significant shift on the coronavirus in a few short weeks. — A month ago, half of GOP voters said they were more worried about public health than the economy.
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Daily Kos and Marquette Law School Poll
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
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, Townhall, Redstate, Mediaite, The Week, The Hill, CBS Los Angeles, Breitbart, New York Post, Twitchy, ProFootballTalk and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
Who You Calling Sleepy Joe?: Biden on His Youth Agenda, Internet Memes, and Fighting Trump From His House — “Young people want the truth,” says the presumptive Democratic nominee. And “I sometimes say more than I mean, but no one doubts I mean what I say.”
Washington Post:
Americans' expectations for safe public gatherings slip to July at the earliest, Post-U. Md. poll finds — As the coronavirus spreads across the country, Americans are curbing their expectations about when it will be safe for gatherings of 10 or more people, with about 2 in 3 adults now saying …
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 …
Pete Williams / NBC News:
‘Faithless elector’: Supreme Court hears cases that could change presidential contests — If presidential electors are determined to be free agents, a handful — or even one in a close election — could change the outcome. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday takes up a …
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The Hill
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
Wall Street Journal:
All the Adam Schiff Transcripts — Newly released documents show he knew all along that there was no proof of Russia-Trump collusion. — By The Editorial Board — Americans expect that politicians will lie, but sometimes the examples are so brazen that they deserve special notice.
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Townhall
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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Mediaite, Arc Digital and Redstate
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
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 …
New York Times:
Latin America's Outbreaks Now Rival Europe's. But Its Options Are Worse. — An analysis by The New York Times found some cities in Latin America have seen spikes in fatalities that match the worst of the pandemic elsewhere. — Deaths doubled in Lima, rivaling the worst month of the pandemic in Paris.
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Mother Jones