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The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Pushes CDC to Revise Down Its COVID Death Counts — The president and members of his task force are skeptical of the numbers and want the methodology changed. — President Donald Trump and members of his coronavirus task force are pushing officials at the Centers for Disease Control …
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POLITICUSUSA and IJR
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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David Sherfinski / Washington Times:
Former Trump campaign chairman Manafort released from prison amid COVID-19 crisis
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The Gateway Pundit
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Manafort released to home confinement amid coronavirus threat: lawyer
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Townhall
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 …
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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Redstate, Power Line and New York Post
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Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Flynn judge wrong to allow anti-Trump former Watergate prosecutors to interfere in case — It's a sure sign of desperation whenever lawyers try to raise President Richard Milhous Nixon from the dead. — And so it is that a group of former Watergate special prosecutors this week resurrected …
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Redstate
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Judge Hesitates to Accept Justice Dept. Move to Drop Flynn Charge
Laurence H. Tribe / The Boston Globe:
Judge Sullivan must reject Barr's usurpation of judicial power
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Washington Post
CNN:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to co-chair Biden campaign climate task force — (CNN)Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will co-chair a task force for Joe Biden's campaign on climate change, a source with direct knowledge of the planning tells CNN, a move that adds progressive credentials …
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Fox News, KLAS - 8 News Now, VICE, Althouse, The Daily Caller and New York Post
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Ocasio-Cortez is working with the Biden campaign on climate policy
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Jeffery C. Mays / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Commits Re-election Gaffe, Losing a Progressive Ballot Line
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National Review
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, New York Post and Raw Story
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
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
With Obamagate, Trump returns to a favorite distraction tactic — Donald Trump launched his political career turbocharging the conspiratorial birther movement. Now Trump is trying to keep his presidency afloat with another theory about his predecessor: Obamagate.
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National Review, Unprecedented, The Gateway Pundit and Vox
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
‘Obamagate’ Isn't A Conspiracy Theory, It's The Biggest Political Scandal Of Our Time
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Politico, emptywheel and The American Spectator, more at Mediagazer »
Wall Street Journal:
Chinese, Iranian Hacking May Be Hampering Search for Coronavirus Vaccine, Officials Say — In a possible escalation, U.S. to accuse China of actions some officials consider attacks on American public health — WASHINGTON—Chinese and Iranian hackers are aggressively targeting American universities …
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National Review
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.”
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Politico
Josh Campbell / CNN:
FBI arrests researcher for NASA who allegedly failed to report ties to China — (CNN)Federal agents have arrested an Arkansas professor who allegedly failed to disclose his ties to Chinese entities during the course of securing funding for a NASA research project, the Justice Department announced.
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National Review, The Hill and Breitbart
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
It's time to take off the gloves against Chinese cybercrime
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Breitbart, Sara A. Carter and Just The News
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Powell Says Washington Will Need to Spend More to Battle Downturn — ‘Reversal of economic fortune has caused a level of pain that is hard to capture in words,’ says Fed leader — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Congress and the White House will need to spend more money …
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Mother Jones and Raw Story
New York Times:
As Coronavirus Restrictions Lift, Millions in U.S. Are Leaving Home Again — Where people started leaving home again — Percentage point change in the share of people staying home — Note: The map shows the change in the average share of people sheltering at home from May 1 to May 8 …
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Althouse
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.
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.
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National Journal and The Hill
Nurith Aizenman / NPR:
Different Coronavirus Models Are Starting To Agree: 110,000 Dead In U.S. By June 6 — Toggle more options — More than 82,000 people in the United States have died of COVID-19 as of Tuesday. How many more lives will be lost? Scientists have built dozens of computational models to answer that question.
Bob Herman / Axios:
Coronavirus likely forced 27 million off their health insurance — Roughly 27 million people have likely have lost job-based health coverage since the coronavirus shocked the economy, according to new estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation. — Why it matters: Most of these people …
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Washington Post, The Henry J. Kaiser … and The Hill
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
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Think we have military primacy over China? Think again. — Here's a fact that ought to startle every American who assumes that because we spend nearly $1 trillion each year on defense, we have primacy over our emerging rival, China. — “Over the past decade, in U.S. war games against China …
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 …
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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Gothamist, Streetsblog New York City and BuzzFeed News, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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New York Post
Michael R. Pompeo / US Department of State:
Secretary Michael R. Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Before Their Meeting — PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Good morning. Mr. Secretary, Mike, welcome once again to Jerusalem. This visit comes a few days after the loss of your late father, Wayne.
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 …
Bonchie / Redstate:
CNN's Chris Cuomo Continues to be an Awful Person and Hypocrite — Chris Cuomo has been something to behold during the Wuhan virus pandemic. Perhaps no other “journalist” (yes, he laughably claims to be non-biased) has seen such wild swings, with the CNN figure at one point lamenting …
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NB Blog
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
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Is the Trump Campaign App Designed to Win the Election, or Launch Trump TV? — Brad Parscale's “Death Star” looks less like it's trying to win in 2020 than start a TV network in 2021. — At first glance, President Trump's digital campaign operation appears fairly impressive.
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Infection rates were climbing at Nebraska meatpacking plants. Then health officials stopped reporting the numbers. — More than a thousand have been infected at meatpacking plants, but state officials won't say which ones. Workers and families say they have a right to know.
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: CDC docs stress plans for more virus flareups — GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Advice from the nation's top disease control experts on how to safely reopen businesses and institutions in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic included detailed instructive guidance …
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Axios, Mediaite and Yahoo News
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Fed's Powell: More spending from Congress ‘costly but worth it’ — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday warned that fallout from the coronavirus crisis could result in lingering pain for the U.S. economy and said further action by Congress to head off that damage would be worth the high cost.
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