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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 …
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, examine if ex-Trump adviser committed perjury — Michael Flynn's sentencing judge Wednesday asked a former federal judge to explore whether Trump's former national security adviser should face a contempt hearing …
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Redstate and Just The News
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Judge Appoints Outsider to Take On Justice Dept. in Flynn Case — A retired judge will also examine whether the former national security adviser committed perjury. — WASHINGTON — The federal judge overseeing the case against President Trump's former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn appointed …
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Politico:
Federal judge mulls contempt charge against Michael Flynn — A federal judge is signaling that he might pursue perjury or contempt charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn over his effort to abandon a guilty plea to a charge of lying to the FBI.
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Wall Street Journal:
Judge Sullivan's Bad Judgment — Can Flynn be sentenced when prosecutors say there was no crime? — By The Editorial Board — If the prosecution and defense both want to drop a case, can a federal judge refuse and sentence the defendant anyway? The easy call should be no …
Wall Street Journal:
More Than One Dozen Obama Officials Requested ‘Unmasking’ That Revealed Michael Flynn in Intelligence Reports — The list includes administration Vice President Joe Biden and CIA Director John Brennan — The National Security Agency received and approved requests from more than a dozen …
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Q&A: What does ‘unmasking’ someone in an intel report mean? — FILE - In this July 10, 2018, file photo, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, following a status hearing. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
New York Times:
Republicans Release Names of Obama-Era Officials in ‘Unmaskings’ That Revealed Flynn
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Samantha Power Claimed She Never Tried To Unmask Michael Flynn, But Records Show She Unmasked Him 7 Times
Samantha Power Claimed She Never Tried To Unmask Michael Flynn, But Records Show She Unmasked Him 7 Times
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Townhall
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Rand Paul: “Vice President Biden Is Guilty Of Using Government To Go After A Political Opponent”
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
COVID-19 test used by Trump White House may miss nearly half of positive cases: NYU study — A study conducted by New York University has found that the COVID-19 rapid tests used at the White House are missing a significant number of positive coronavirus cases.
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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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Mediaite and The American Independent
Libby Cathey / ABC News:
Coronavirus government response updates: Trump rejects Fauci's caution on reopening schools
Coronavirus government response updates: Trump rejects Fauci's caution on reopening schools
Washington Post:
Abbott coronavirus test missed a large number of positive results caught by a rival firm, preliminary study says
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump to name former pharma exec as vaccine czar
Trump to name former pharma exec as vaccine czar
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jsonline:
Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down Wisconsin's stay-at-home order that closed businesses to limit spread of coronavirus — MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down Gov. Tony Evers' order shutting down daily life to limit the spread of coronavirus — marking the first time a statewide order …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Wisconsin Supreme Court's conservative majority strikes down state stay-home order
Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Wisconsin high court tosses out governor's stay-home order
Wisconsin high court tosses out governor's stay-home order
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks statewide stay-at-home order
Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks statewide stay-at-home order
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Washington Post
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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The Daily Caller
Politico:
McConnell pines for Pompeo as Kansas chaos looms — Republicans fear they could lose a critical Senate seat if the secretary of State doesn't run. — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Mark Wilson/Getty Images — Senate Republicans have a problem in Kansas. And they still think Mike Pompeo is the solution.
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New York Times:
Born Into Carnage, 18 Afghan Babies Face an Uncertain Fate — A day after gunmen stormed a maternity ward and slaughtered new mothers at random, the authorities struggled to reconnect their children with families. — KABUL, Afghanistan — When the carnage was over, the dead bodies bagged …
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BBC, Task & Purpose and Washington Post
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Associated Press:
Emails: Trump nominee involved in shelving CDC virus guide — WASHINGTON (AP) — A former chemical industry executive nominated to be the nation's top consumer safety watchdog was involved in sidelining detailed guideline s to help communities reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, internal government emails show.
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Axios, The Guardian, VICE, IJR and Raw Story
Politico:
Coronavirus drives health insurers back to Obamacare — United Healthcare, the nation's biggest insurer, on Tuesday said it's re-entering Maryland's Obamacare market. — United Healthcare on Tuesday said it's re-entering Maryland's Obamacare market and planning other expansions after abandoning 34 states' ACA exchanges since 2016.
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Likely to Get Sanofi Vaccine First If It Succeeds — Funding for research boosts U.S. push to reopen economy — French company's chief seeks to raise awareness in Europe — Americans will likely get Sanofi's Covid-19 vaccine before the rest of the world if the French pharmaceutical giant can successfully deliver one.
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New York Post and Politico
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
NeverTrump becomes NeverRepublican — Conservative commentator William Kristol explained in an interview for The Post that he finds it impossible to go back to the Republican Party. “Trump's been renominated, and liberating the party from Trump or Trumpism seems awfully far-fetched,” Kristol said.
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Raw Story
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.
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
France Threatens Big Fines for Social Media With Hate-Speech Law — Social-media companies must remove content deemed hateful in France within 24 hours, or face fines of up to 4% of global revenue — PARIS—France is empowering regulators to slap large fines on social-media companies …
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Michigan Barber Has Licenses Suspended After Defying Shutdown Orders — State officials said Karl Manke's decision to reopen his shop during the coronavirus pandemic jeopardized public health and safety. — A Michigan barber who reopened his shop in defiance of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's orders …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
GOP wins special election in California after Democrat concedes — Republicans have won a special election for Congress in Southern California, reclaiming a suburban House seat that they lost to Democrats in the 2018 midterms. — Democrat Christy Smith, a state assemblywoman …
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ABC News and One America News Network
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
‘Calls to violence’: Michigan Gov. Whitmer says armed protests could lengthen stay-at-home order — Another protest is scheduled at the state Capitol building Thursday. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that armed protests at the state's Capitol over her stay-at-home order have …
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Detroit Metro Times, Breitbart, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar / Associated Press:
US immunologist warns of ‘darkest winter’ if virus rebounds — WASHINGTON (AP) — America faces the “darkest winter in modern history” unless leaders act decisively to prevent a rebound of the coronavirus, says a government whistleblower who alleges he was ousted from his job after warning …
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New York Times:
Businesses Chafing Under Covid-19 Lockdowns Turn to Armed Defiance — Armed militia-style protesters have helped businesses across Texas defy coronavirus lockdowns and reopen. Protesters say they are enforcing the Constitution. — SHEPHERD, Texas — When Jamie Williams decided to reopen …
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 …