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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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Talking Points Memo, 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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National Review, The Daily Caller, Al Jazeera, New York Post and Raw Story
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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The Henry J. Kaiser … and The Hill
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump has a major vulnerability. Democrats should keep pounding it. — It may seem like grotesque malpractice — both from a political and a public health standpoint. But it's true: Amid a pandemic that has killed more than 80,000 Americans, President Trump and many Republicans …
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 »
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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
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 »
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 …
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The Daily Caller
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
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
The Cruelty of Conspiracy: A Personal Story — “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ― Mark Twain — I know that I should really be writing about the clash between Anthony Fauci and Rand Paul, the arguments in the Supreme Court …
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The Bulwark Podcast
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
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