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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘Manipulative, deceitful, user’: Tara Reade left a trail of aggrieved acquaintances — Harriet Wrye did a double take the first time she saw Tara Reade on television lodging sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden. — “Jim, that's Tara,” the 79-year-old author and psychologist called …
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Law & Crime, Spectator USA and Townhall
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PBS NewsHour:
What 74 former Biden staffers think about Tara Reade's allegations — Over his decades-long career in the Senate, former Vice President Joe Biden was known as a demanding but fair and family-oriented boss, devoted to his home life in Delaware and committed to gender equality in his office.
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Politico, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Twitchy, Law & Crime, Washington Monthly and Washington Times
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
New Reporting Increases Doubts on Tara Reade's Allegation Against Joe Biden — When Tara Reade first made her assault allegation against Joe Biden, I thought the charge was more likely to be true than false. To be clear, I had no intention of changing my vote.
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The Atlantic and Quillette
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
How the Biden Campaign Aims to Win Battleground States
New York Times:
A Sitting President, Riling the Nation During a Crisis — By smearing his opponents, championing conspiracy theories and pursuing vendettas, President Trump has reverted to his darkest political tactics in spite of a pandemic hurting millions of Americans.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn isn't a martyr. He's a crook and a crackpot. — For anyone with a memory that stretches all the way back to 2016, it is positively bizarre to see Republicans suddenly claiming that Michael Flynn, President Trump's former national security adviser, is a martyr.
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PREVAIL and New York Times
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
Former National Security Officials: The “Unmasking” List Could Be Bad News for Mike Flynn — “This is a long list of names of people across disparate areas of government who independently felt” incidents involving Flynn were problematic, said one former official.
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Political Wire, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
McEnany, pressed on Trump's accusations of Obama administration crimes, points to Flynn leaks
McEnany, pressed on Trump's accusations of Obama administration crimes, points to Flynn leaks
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Associated Press, Just Security and Breitbart
CNN:
‘He lied on national television’: Trump says truckers protesting industry problems are actually honking to support him — This is what brings out Trump's inner child — Washington (CNN)When blaring truck horns intruded on President Donald Trump's Friday speech in the White House Rose Garden …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
How Not to Listen to Donald Trump — It turns out President Donald Trump's status as the most accessible person to ever hold the office is more a curse than a blessing. Day after day, he fills the air with the ack-ack of disinformation and misdirection, needlessly alarming the public …
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Business Insider Nederland, New York Times, Breitbart, The Atlantic and Redstate, more at Mediagazer »
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden pledges not to pardon Trump
Biden pledges not to pardon Trump
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Associated Press and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department, State Attorneys General Likely to Bring Antitrust Lawsuits Against Google — Officials at Justice Department are focused on Google's ad business, how it has used its search dominance — WASHINGTON—Both the Justice Department and a group of state attorneys general …
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Politico, New York Times, archive.is, Breitbart, The Wrap, National Review, The Verge, One America News Network and Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
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CNN:
Behind the Justice Department's split over the Flynn dismissal — (CNN)Before the Justice Department moved last week to drop the charges against Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, department officials and the FBI were in sharp disagreement …
Politico:
State Department watchdog ousted — State Department Inspector General Steve Linick has been removed, according to a senior administration official and a congressional aide. — Linick, a Justice Department veteran appointed to the role in 2013 by then President Barack Obama …
Manu Raju / CNN:
GOP congressman on why he's not wearing a mask: 'There's just no need' — Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida was spotted Friday walking around the Capitol and on the House floor without wearing a mask. — Asked why not, he told CNN: “There's just no need.”
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The Hill and Talking Points Memo
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Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed News:
JetBlue's Founder Helped Fund A Stanford Study That Said The Coronavirus Wasn't That Deadly — A highly influential coronavirus antibody study was funded in part by David Neeleman, the JetBlue Airways founder and a vocal proponent of the idea that the pandemic isn't deadly enough to justify continued lockdowns.
Victoria F. Piccoli / ODNI Newsroom:
Director of National Intelligence Announces Changes to Election Security Briefings — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the ODNI announced that the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) will lead all intelligence-based threat briefings to candidates, campaigns, and political organizations under the U.S. Government's notification framework.
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Washington Post:
Growing friction between White House, CDC hobbles pandemic response — The meager guidelines for safely reopening the country released this week are the latest sign of the Trump administration's efforts to sideline the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the increasing tension between …
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The Lancet:
Reviving the US CDC
Reviving the US CDC
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The Wrap, Fox News, NPR, The American Independent, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Mike Baker / New York Times:
F.D.A. Halts Coronavirus Testing Program Backed by Bill Gates — The program allows people in the Seattle area to easily take a coronavirus test at home. Researchers say such testing is essential for future monitoring of the virus. — SEATTLE — An innovative coronavirus testing program …
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Raw Story
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Dan Abrams: Based on All We Know Right Now, ‘This Obamagate Theory Is 100 Percent Bullsh*t’ — Mediaite founder and ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams went on a tear during his SiriusXM show Friday calling the idea of the “Obamagate' scandal “100 percent bullshit.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Mike Bloomberg plots spending blitz to support Joe Biden's run for president — Billionaire and former presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is plotting a massive spending blitz to back Joe Biden's quest for the White House. — The former New York mayor and his advisors are discussing whether …
Fox News:
Space Force flag unveiled in Oval Office, presented to Trump — President Trump on Friday was presented with the newly unveiled official flag of the U.S. Space Force (USSF) — the first official flag of a new U.S. military service in 72 years. — “This is a very special moment,” …
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Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
Trump, Unveiling Space Force Flag, Touts What He Calls New ‘Super-Duper Missile’
Trump, Unveiling Space Force Flag, Touts What He Calls New ‘Super-Duper Missile’
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Highly Transmissible and POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
Trump sets goal of hundreds of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses by January, but scientists doubt it — Some warn it's dangerous to set a timetable, given the scientific unknowns and the danger of rushing testing. — President Trump formally unveiled an initiative Friday afternoon aimed …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Trump, Biden and the Myth of ‘But 2016’ — There are members of both parties who believe the president has the ability to defy the normal rules of politics. That view ignores electoral trends of recent years. — WASHINGTON — At first glance, there seems little in common between red-hat-wearing admirers …
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Carissa Byrne Hessick / Slate:
What the Judge Overseeing Michael Flynn's Case Can Do Now — After months of speculation about whether President Donald Trump would pardon his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, the Justice Department relieved the president of that responsibility by deciding to abandon its prosecution.
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Redstate and Law & Crime
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Law Firm Hackers Claim to Have Dirt on Donald Trump, Up Data Ransom to $42M — UPDATED: The cyber-extortionists who stole a trove of private data from entertainment law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks now have a new target in their sights: President Donald Trump.
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The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Beast
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: New York Admits Knowingly Undercounting Nursing Home Deaths After Quietly Changing Reporting Rules — The New York State Department of Health acknowledged that its recent reporting does not fully reflect the known carnage coronavirus has caused among nursing home and adult care residents.
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Redstate, Twitchy, Breitbart, Washington Post, Raw Story, Washington Examiner and Wall Street Journal
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Newly reopened South Florida seen as an emerging coronavirus hotspot — WASHINGTON — Federal officials responding to the coronavirus pandemic are concerned about the rapidly rising number of cases in Palm Beach County, Fla., according to an internal Trump administration document reviewed by Yahoo News.
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
‘Traitor!’: Local News Reporter Abused and Stalked By Lockdown Protestors on Long Island (VIDEO) — A local news correspondent was subjected to verbal abuse, threats, and was even stalked while trying to report from a demonstration protesting the lockdown in New York State Thursday.
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Redstate, News 12, CNN, The Hill, New York Post and Right Wing Watch, more at Mediagazer »
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Burr asks that final volume of Senate Intel report on Trump and Russia be declassified — The last part of the Senate Intel Committee's bipartisan report on Russian election interference is a 1,000-page volume on “counterintelligence findings.” — WASHINGTON — In a final act before stepping …
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
House passes $3T coronavirus relief — the most expensive bill in history — The House of Representatives on Friday evening passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill, the most expensive legislation approved in history, that Democrats hailed as the unprecedented response needed to deal …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
The New CBS Reporter Driving Democrats—and Some of Her Own Colleagues—Crazy — THE POST-FOX LIFE — Since jumping from Fox News to CBS last year, the veteran journalist has frustrated Democrats and some of her own co-workers, who worry she pushes “GOP talking points.”
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Mediaite, Twitchy and Washington Post
detroitnews:
Detroit man arrested after allegedly threatening to kill Whitmer, Nessel — Lansing — A 32-year-old Detroit man is facing a felony charge after allegedly making “credible threats to kill” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said Friday.
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Newsweek, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
Venessa Wong / BuzzFeed News:
Even If You're Trying To Avoid Grubhub By Calling Your Favorite Restaurant Directly, Grubhub Could Still Be Charging It A Fee — BuzzFeed News has reporters across five continents bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus. To help keep this news free …
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