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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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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Obamagate” Is Niche Programming for Trump Superfans — Donald Trump will not shut up about Barack Obama—not now, not ever. On Thursday morning, amid the gravest economic crisis in a century and a deadly pandemic that will have killed more than a hundred thousand Americans by the end of this month …
Lee Smith / New York Post:
Who, O, who can the Flynn leaker be? — Who leaked to The Washington Post the fact that Michael Flynn had spoken to the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition? The phone call was not unusual — but leaking information about it was a felony.
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Washington Post:
How a Flynn theory became central to the Trump reelection campaign — On the day Attorney General William P. Barr moved to drop criminal charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, again winning the adulation of President Trump, he was paid a special visit.
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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Biden says he would not pardon Trump — Biden committed to ensuring that any prosecutorial decisions would be dictated by the law, in contrast to what he called the “dereliction of duty” by Trump and his attorney general, William Barr. — Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday …
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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Biden tells MSNBC he would not pardon Trump, when asked about hypothetical prosecution
Biden tells MSNBC he would not pardon Trump, when asked about hypothetical prosecution
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Politico, Breitbart and Washington Post
NBC News:
Trump allies push ‘Obamagate,’ but record fails to back them up
Trump allies push ‘Obamagate,’ but record fails to back them up
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Breitbart, New Republic, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Citizen's Brief, emptywheel, The Atlantic, Vox, The Guardian and CNBC
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Barr vs. the Beltway
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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Kevin Quealy / New York Times:
The Richest Neighborhoods Emptied Out Most as Coronavirus Hit New York City — Map represents share of people who lived in New York over a two-week period in February but who were not living there on May 1. Hundreds of thousands of New York City residents, in particular …
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New York Times:
De Blasio Relies on Aide Who Saw ‘No Proof’ Closures Curb Virus — The head of New York City's public hospitals pushed to keep the city open in early March. Now Mayor de Blasio has put him in charge of contact tracing, deepening a rift with the Health Department.
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Mary T. Bassett / New York Times:
The Coronavirus Isn't Worse in Cities Because of Density
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
McConnell admits he was wrong to say Obama administration failed to leave a pandemic playbook — (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conceded Thursday night that he was wrong to claim that the Obama administration had not left behind a plan to deal with a pandemic in the US. — “I was wrong.
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Barack Obama Speaks Out After Mitch McConnell Tells Him To Keep His ‘Mouth Shut’
Barack Obama Speaks Out After Mitch McConnell Tells Him To Keep His ‘Mouth Shut’
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Washington Examiner, NBC News and IJR
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell says Obama administration ‘did leave behind’ pandemic plan
McConnell says Obama administration ‘did leave behind’ pandemic plan
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Axios and Washington Post
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
McConnell admits he was wrong to say Obama didn't leave Trump a pandemic ‘game plan’
McConnell admits he was wrong to say Obama didn't leave Trump a pandemic ‘game plan’
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MSNBC
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Law firm hackers double ransom demand, threaten Donald Trump — The ransom demand for the secret files of a cyber-attacked lawyer to A-list stars has doubled to $42 million — as the hackers now threaten to reveal “dirty laundry” on President Donald Trump in just a week if they are not paid in full.
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Dr. Susan Berry / Breitbart:
Poll: 40% of Families More Likely to Homeschool When Pandemic Ends — A RealClear Opinion Research poll released Thursday found 40 percent of families are more likely to choose to homeschool their children or engage in virtual learning once the coronavirus pandemic subsides.
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
DeVos Funnels Coronavirus Relief Funds to Favored Private and Religious Schools
Erik Ortiz / Yahoo News:
ACLU sues Betsy DeVos over new campus sexual assault rules
ACLU sues Betsy DeVos over new campus sexual assault rules
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Reason, Patterico's Pontifications, The Hill and Twitchy
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Does Donald Trump Want to Be Re-Elected? — The president's inattention to the coronavirus doesn't suggest someone desperate to win in November. — It's becoming more and more obvious that President Donald Trump has simply stopped dealing with the coronavirus pandemic …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
How Brad Parscale Conned Donald Trump — What if the Trump campaign's digital operation is a Potemkin Death Star? — 1. Trump Digital — A lot has been written about the Trump campaign's super-sophisticated digital operation. I am . . . not skeptical, exactly. But let me say this:
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Raw Story
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
PBS Stations That Received Millions In Federal Funds Partnered With Chinese Foreign Agent On Pro-Beijing Film — PBS affiliates receiving millions of dollars in federal funds yearly are airing a documentary produced in conjunction with CGTN, a Chinese government controlled media outlet that is registered as a foreign agent.
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Jessica Taylor / The Cook Political Report:
Georgia Senate's Perdue Moves to Lean Republican — Both Georgia Senate seats are on the ballot this fall, but the regularly scheduled race where Republican Sen. David Perdue is seeking a second term has been overshadowed by the special election in the state, with appointed …
Washington Post:
A majority of Americans going to work fear exposing their household to the coronavirus — Even as most Americans spent the past two months hiding indoors, Damion Campbell has been rushing into retail and grocery stores in Columbia, S.C., each day. — The 45-year-old owns …
The Lancet:
Reviving the US CDC — The Lancet — The COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen in the USA with 1 ·3 million cases and an estimated death toll of 80 684 as of May 12. States that were initially the hardest hit, such as New York and New Jersey, have decelerated the rate …
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New York Times:
Sweden Stayed Open. A Deadly Month Shows the Risks. — While Sweden has avoided the worst outbreaks in Italy, Spain and Britain, it has also seen an extraordinary increase in deaths, mortality data shows.
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USA Today:
Daughter-in-chief: Ivanka Trump pushes food distribution program — WASHINGTON - The U.S. Agriculture Department is unveiling a new food distribution program with an emphasis on aiding small businesses - an issue that is being pushed by a very prominent White House adviser. — Her name: Ivanka Trump.
ABC News:
The Note: Public not seeing pandemic realities Trump is describing — We have prevailed," President Donald Trump declared this week. — “We have prevailed,” President Donald Trump declared this week, in a comment he said was about COVID-19 testing. — “I think you should absolutely open the schools …
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Politico:
How Burr's stock scandal shocked the Senate
How Burr's stock scandal shocked the Senate
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Arizona Republic:
Mark Kelly's business subsidies, ties to Chinese tech firm under fire — Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly has cast himself as a successful astronaut-turned-entrepreneur who has made millions from good investments and generous speaking fees. — Republicans are now hitting Kelly …
Washington Examiner:
Keeping schools closed in the fall is not a viable option — In most parts of America, children have been out of school since the middle of March, and in-person learning has been canceled for the rest of the academic year. With a wave of summer camp closures rippling across the country …
Associated Press:
Tensions rise as Texas governor readies to lift more rules — AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Two weeks into the reopening of Texas, coronavirus cases are climbing. New outbreaks still crop up. And at Guero's Taco Bar in Austin, which offers the occasional celebrity sighting …
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Hannah Sampson / Washington Post:
Meet the people who can't wait to get back on a cruise ship — Amber O'Hara was stuck at sea. But that didn't ruin her appetite for another cruise. — The Golden, Colo., retiree had been aboard the Azamara Pursuit for nearly two weeks when the industry decided to pause operations because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Politico:
‘They are angry’: Pandemic and economic collapse slam Trump across Rust Belt — The Industrial Midwest was always going to be a battleground in November. — The region is now becoming a new front line for Americans' lives and livelihoods as coronavirus hot spots proliferate and jobless rates spiral.
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New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos and The Daily Beast
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
It Really Could Be Warren — The coronavirus has transformed Joe Biden's campaign, and his search for a running mate. And it has transformed Elizabeth Warren's chances of being picked for the job. — The Massachusetts senator and the former vice president don't have much of a personal relationship.
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New York Times:
U.S. Navy Releases Videos of Unexplained Flying Objects … The incidents in the videos were investigated by a little-known Pentagon program that for years looked into reports of unidentified flying objects, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
We need to prepare for the possibility of Trump rejecting election results — Since 2017, so many events in U.S. politics that were previously unthinkable have come to pass. Don't believe me? A few days ago, the president of the United States baselessly accused a cable television host …
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