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7:45 AM ET, May 13, 2020

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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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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 …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:   Jared Kushner Non-Committal When Asked if 2020 Election Could Be Delayed
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Washington Post:   Acting intelligence chief Grenell gave DOJ list of Obama officials who ‘unmasked’ Michael Flynn
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: The Hill
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CNN:   GOP split on whether to back Fauci's or Trump's assessment on reopening economy
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 …
Discussion: The Week
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers just made appalling arguments to the Supreme Court
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Raw Story
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:   Trump lawyer: 'We're asking for temporary presidential immunity'
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.
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.
Discussion: 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
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Trump's vicious claim that Joe Scarborough might have murdered an aide
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Politico and Axios
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Orko Manna / KLAS - 8 News Now:
WEB EXTRA: Biden talks COVID-19, sexual assault allegations and more
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: The Hill
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Associated Press:   Biden plans to stay home, testing limits of virtual campaign
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: 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.
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Mother Jones
 
 
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Fox News: John Brennan Suppressed Intel Saying Russia Wanted Hillary Clinton to Win
Discussion: American Greatness
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Nobody Is Protected From President Trump
Discussion: Vox
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
CNN skips revived WH briefings after yearlong complaints demanding ‘transparency’
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
They Lost Their Jobs. Now They May Have to Leave the U.S.
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
Contact tracing leadership change costing city delays, say involved parties
Discussion: The Hill
Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
FEMA Cancels $55.5 Million Mask Contract With Panthera
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
Lawsuit by The Washington Post, New York Times, ProPublica, Dow Jones & Bloomberg against SBA
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: CDC docs stress plans for more virus flareups
Discussion: Yahoo News and Mediaite
David Harsanyi / National Review:
Obamagate Is Not a Conspiracy Theory
Liz Essley Whyte / Center for Public Integrity:
As Georgia reopens, its intensive-care beds are largely full
Discussion: NPR and wabe.org
KK Ottesen / Washington Post:
Conservative William Kristol: 'We're really going to pay a price for this terrible failure in leadership'
CNN:
UK railway ticket office worker dies from Covid-19 after being spat on
Stefanie Loh / The Seattle Times:
To reopen, Washington state restaurants will have to keep log of customers to aid in contact tracing
David Crary / Associated Press:
As Trump urges reopening, thousands getting sick on the job