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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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Talking Points Memo, New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Vanity Fair, Political Flare, 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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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 …
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Al Jazeera, Raw Story and New York Post
ABC News:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort released to home confinement amid coronavirus concerns — Manafort's lawyers had requested release, citing age, pre-existing conditions. — President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been released from prison to serve the remainder …
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Raw Story and The Daily Beast
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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Politico:
Fauci fatigue sets in among some Republicans
Fauci fatigue sets in among some Republicans
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New York Times, Reason, Bad News, Washington Post 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
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
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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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
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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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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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'
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.
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.”
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
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
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 …
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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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
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
Michelle Alexander / New York Times:
The Horror of Prison During the Coronavirus — A letter from inside Marion Correctional Institution is the voice of those locked in cages and discarded during this pandemic. — I have been wondering what to say about the horror of Covid-19 behind bars. Much has already been written …
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
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 …
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
CNN skips revived WH briefings after yearlong complaints demanding ‘transparency’ — Ever since President Trump took office, one of CNN's longest-running complaints was that the White House had broken norms when it no longer held regularly-scheduled press briefings.