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Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
FBI serves warrant on senator in investigation of stock sales linked to coronavirus — Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department's investigation into controversial stock trades he made as the coronavirus …
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USA Today:
FBI serves warrant, seizes phone of Sen. Richard Burr in stock sales investigation: reports — WASHINGTON - The FBI served a warrant to GOP Sen. Richard Burr as part of its investigation into his sale of stocks ahead of the market crash due to the coronavirus, according to reports.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The 2016 nightmare is already repeating itself — The latest developments in the Michael Flynn case should prompt us to revisit one of the most glaring failures in political journalism, one that lends credibility to baseless narratives pushed for purely instrumental purposes, perversely rewarding bad-faith actors in the process.
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New York Times:
Trump White House Rewrites History, This Time About Flynn — Three years ago, President Trump swiftly fired his first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, for lying to the F.B.I. Ahead of the November election, Mr. Trump and his allies are now telling a very different story.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Now Rewriting History to Deny Russia Wanted Him to Win — Three years ago, American intelligence unanimously concluded that Russia's interference in the 2016 election had been designed, in part, to damage Hillary Clinton. But Trump has never accepted this finding …
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Washington Post:
GOP senators release list of Obama officials, including Biden, who ‘unmasked’ Michael Flynn
GOP senators release list of Obama officials, including Biden, who ‘unmasked’ Michael Flynn
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Reason, Letters from an American, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Obama emerges as central figure in 2020 presidential race
Obama emerges as central figure in 2020 presidential race
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Lee Smith / New York Post:
The scale to which Obama's team spied on his successor should be focus of ‘unmasking’
The scale to which Obama's team spied on his successor should be focus of ‘unmasking’
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New York Times:
Republicans Release Names of Obama-Era Officials in ‘Unmaskings’ That Revealed Flynn
Republicans Release Names of Obama-Era Officials in ‘Unmaskings’ That Revealed Flynn
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Q&A: What does ‘unmasking’ someone in an intel report mean?
Q&A: What does ‘unmasking’ someone in an intel report mean?
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
After Wisconsin court ruling, crowds liberated and thirsty descend on bars. 'We're the Wild West,' Gov. Tony Evers says. — On Wednesday night in the heart of downtown Platteville, Wis., just hours after the Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out the state's stay-at-home order, Nick's on 2nd was packed wall to wall, standing room only.
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USA Today:
‘OPEN IMMEDIATELY!’: Wisconsinites head out to bars after state stay-at-home orders lifted — After the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state's stay-at-home order, which immediately lifted restrictions on businesses and gatherings, some bars opened their doors (and taps) Wednesday night as patrons began trickling out.
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Inside Trump's coronavirus meltdown — When the history is written of how America handled the global era's first real pandemic, March 6 will leap out of the timeline. That was the day Donald Trump visited the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump Feared Testing Too Many People for Virus Would Spook Stock Markets, Says Report — FAILURE TO ACT — President Trump was wary of making preparations for the coronavirus pandemic because he was concerned doing so would sent the stock market into a panic, the Financial Times reports.
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CBS News:
Trump's marks for handling COVID-19 outbreak decline - CBS News poll — Americans continue to say they trust medical professionals for virus information, but Republicans also rank President Trump about as highly among their trusted sources, even as others give him his lowest marks to date for handling the outbreak.
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New York Times:
Ex-F.B.I. Official Is Said to Undercut Justice Dept. Effort to Drop Flynn Case — Prosecutors questioned a former F.B.I. official whose notes were used to buttress their motion to dismiss the charge against the president's first national security adviser. — WASHINGTON — A key former F.B …
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Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Court asks retired judge to oppose Justice Dept. effort to drop Michael Flynn case …
Court asks retired judge to oppose Justice Dept. effort to drop Michael Flynn case …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Judge Appoints Outsider to Take On Justice Dept. in Flynn Case
Judge Appoints Outsider to Take On Justice Dept. in Flynn Case
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court greenlights emoluments suit against Trump — A lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by accepting foreign government money through his luxury Washington hotel can proceed to fact-gathering about Trump's profits, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
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Politico:
McConnell pines for Pompeo as Kansas chaos looms — Senate Republicans have a problem in Kansas. And they still think Mike Pompeo is the solution. — Staring at a messy primary, a credible Democratic challenger and a real battle for Senate control, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cory Gardner joins Josh Hawley's massive coronavirus jobs bill
Cory Gardner joins Josh Hawley's massive coronavirus jobs bill
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
3 million Americans filed jobless claims last week, pushing eight-week total to 36.5 million — The White House and governors are debating different strategies for reopening local businesses, many of which have been devastated by coronavirus pandemic — Roughly 3 million people filed …
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Business Insider Nederland, National Review and Big League Politics
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Weekly jobless claims total 2.981 million, bringing coronavirus tally to 36.5 million
Weekly jobless claims total 2.981 million, bringing coronavirus tally to 36.5 million
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Top Trump critic set to testify before close ally sparks tensions on Capitol Hill — President Donald Trump's ousted vaccine chief turned whistleblower will go public with his claims on Thursday in an unusually friendly setting — a hearing chaired by a close congressional ally whose district benefited from his decisions.
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Obamagate was the worst crime ever committed and here is what it was — “What is the crime exactly that you're accusing him of?” — “You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.”
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POLITICUSUSA and The Guardian
New York Post:
NYC health head rejected NYPD mask plea: 'I don't give two rats' asses about your cops' — New York City's health commissioner blew off an urgent NYPD request for 500,000 surgical masks as the coronavirus crisis mounted — telling a high-ranking police official that “I don't give two rats' asses about your cops,” The Post has learned.
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
The Conspiracy Theorists Are Winning — Friday prayers at the Mustafa Mahmoud Mosque, Cairo, September 21, 2001. Two thousand worshippers, some tense, some angry, some oblivious to the grim new reality. The preacher, Ahmed Youssef, vented his anger in two directions: at al-Qaeda ("gangsters …
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
America's True Covid Toll Already Exceeds 100,000 — The reported numbers leave out thousands of deaths clearly resulting from the pandemic. — Many supporters of President Trump believe that the figures for coronavirus fatalities are inflated, and Trump himself shared a tweet doubting the accuracy of some virus figures.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Curious Case of the People Who Want to “Reopen” America—But Not Wear Masks — The coronavirus, you may have heard, is a biological weapon engineered in a Chinese lab and unleashed—accidentally?— on America by the godless communists. At least, according to Alex Jones. — That's one theory, anyway.
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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
The Prophecies of Q — If you were an adherent, no one would be able to tell. You would look like any other American. You could be a mother, picking leftovers off your toddler's plate. You could be the young man in headphones across the street. You could be a bookkeeper, a dentist, a grandmother icing cupcakes in her kitchen.
Marc Levy / Associated Press:
‘A pressure cooker’: Pa. governor aims to contain GOP revolt — HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — By many accounts, Gov. Tom Wolf has helped mitigate Pennsylvania's coronavirus outbreak and avoided the full-blown disasters seen elsewhere. His success in the next challenge — containing the growing resistance …
Nicholas Johnston / Axios:
The pandemic broke America — Eight weeks into this nation's greatest crisis since World War II, we seem no closer to a national strategy to reopen the nation, rebuild the economy and defeat the coronavirus. — Why it matters: America's ongoing cultural wars over everything have weakened our ability to respond to this pandemic.
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump May Push for Chinese Companies to Follow U.S. Accounting Rules for Stock Listings — President says he and China's Xi Jinping have good relationship, but 'right now, I just don't want to speak to him' — WASHINGTON—President Trump said he was considering whether to require Chinese companies …
Bloomberg:
Abbott Virus Test Used at White House Faces Accuracy Concern — Device missed 48% of positives in one test, NYU study says — Findings of study have yet to be reviewed by other scientists — The coronavirus test from Abbott Laboratories used at the White House to get rapid answers …
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Marty Makary / New York Times:
How to Reopen America Safely — Months ago, I called for a long lockdown. Now we must minimize collateral damage. — Dr. Makary is a surgeon and a professor of health policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. — In late February, as data on the coronavirus pandemic continued to unfold …
Haley Sweetland Edwards / TIME:
There Are Sensible Ways to Reopen a Country. Then There's America's Approach — This brutal spring, the U.S. faces two great crises. Over the past 14 weeks, 84,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. — That's 28 times the death toll of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, more than the U.S. combat deaths …
Brad Plumer / New York Times:
In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S. — The coronavirus has pushed the coal industry to once-unthinkable lows, and the consequences for climate change are big. — WASHINGTON — The United States is on track to produce more electricity this year from renewable power …
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