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11:30 AM ET, May 14, 2020

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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.
NBC News:
Trump's roller coaster presidency has the GOP down but not out
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.
Discussion: CNN, Spectator USA and Axios
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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.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Now Rewriting History to Deny Russia Wanted Him to Win
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
Republicans Release Names of Obama-Era Officials in ‘Unmaskings’ That Revealed Flynn
Discussion: Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
The Flynn Unmaskers Unmasked
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
Lee Smith / New York Post:
The scale to which Obama's team spied on his successor should be focus of ‘unmasking’
Discussion: Fox News
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.
Discussion: WQOW-TV, Fox News, POLITICUSUSA and Axios
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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.
Discussion: The Hill, jsonline and Florida Politics
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.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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.
Discussion: Washington Post, IJR and The Hill
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CBS News:
Public says coronavirus containment still going badly in U.S., CBS News poll finds  —  There's fierce debate over when to reopen the U.S. economy, and the partisan gap is opening wide.  Americans feel the timeline for things to return to “normal” has been pushed back dramatically.
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Judge Sullivan's Bad Judgment
Discussion: Townhall and Reuters
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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Reuters:
U.S. appeals court rejects Trump bid to escape ‘emoluments’ lawsuit
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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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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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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Weekly jobless claims total 2.981 million, bringing coronavirus tally to 36.5 million
Discussion: The Federalist
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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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.”
Discussion: 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.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: The Guardian
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Todd Myers / National Review:
The Coronavirus Lockdown Has Not Made the Air Cleaner  —  Why are so many activists saying so anyway?  —  ust about every day, someone claims that the air is cleaner.  That, we are told, is a small benefit of the coronavirus-induced economic lockdowns.  By reducing traffic on our roads …
 
 
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Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
Thousands of Americans Have Become Socialists Since March
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How to Reopen America Safely
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Stephen C. Meyer / The Federalist:
Trump Needs To Recruit A Medical ‘Red Team’ To Challenge Lockdown-Manic Governors
Richard North Patterson / The Bulwark:
The Pandemic and the GOP's Science Problem
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Wall Street / Fox News:
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The FDA just released a ghoulish handbook for how to convert trucks from storing coronavirus …
Discussion: New York Post
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
All He Does Is Fight  —  In 2016, Trump's supporters lauded his ability to fight.
Bloomberg:
Abbott Virus Test Used at White House Faces Accuracy Concern
Brad Plumer / New York Times:
In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Reality TV Personality Charged with Bank Fraud
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From Mediagazer:

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

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