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New York Times:
Where New Yorkers Moved to Escape Coronavirus — Top 50 metropolitan destinations outside New York City — Top 50 metropolitan destinations outside New York City — Top 50 metropolitan destinations — outside New York City — New York City has long been a cheek-to-jowl town with cramped apartments and determined strivers.
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New York Post and Instapundit
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Sara Dorn / New York Post:
People flock to NYC-area bars, beaches as ‘quarantine fatigue’ intensifies — They're partying like it's 2019. — Lockdown-weary New Yorkers ditched the distancing to get social instead this weekend — transforming parts of the Big Apple into a raucous, late-season Mardi Gras.
6abc:
Drexel study: 45-day shutdown saved 6,202 lives, kept 57,072 out of hospital — UNIVERSITY CITY (WPVI) — After more than 6 weeks of closed schools and businesses, and staying at home, some people are wondering whether it's been worth it. — A new Drexel University study says it has paid off.
Harry Enten / CNN:
State polls suggest Biden has a clear national lead — (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Marquette Law School poll finds former Vice President Joe Biden with a 46% to 43% lead over President Donald Trump in Wisconsin. — The poll matches the last poll from Marquette, which also had Biden up by 3 points in Wisconsin.
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The Guardian
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump is winning on the economy. That may not matter
Rishika Dugyala / Politico:
‘Grossly incompetent’: Trump dismisses Obama over coronavirus criticism — President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed his predecessor as “grossly incompetent,” a day after former President Barack Obama said leaders weren't “even pretending to be in charge” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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NBC News and The Daily Caller
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Michael Morell / Washington Post:
The only culprit in the Flynn ‘unmasking’ scandal is the Trump administration — There was no wrongdoing on the part of Obama administration officials who, during the presidential transition in 2016 and 2017, “unmasked” the identity of Michael Flynn, who was set to become national security adviser.
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IJR and Law & Crime
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Talia Kaplan / Fox News:
President Trump discusses bombshell revelations in Flynn case in exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo — President Trump called the Russia probe “the greatest political crime in the history of our country, ” and labeled his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn a hero …
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ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, Fox Business and Redstate
USA Today:
Wisconsin's economy is reopening and it's a hot coronavirus mess. Don't do what we did. — Some curious photos began rocketing around social media sites Wednesday night —pictures of people in Wisconsin once again in their natural habitat, crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in bars.
Axios:
Eric Trump accuses Democrats of “milking” coronavirus lockdowns to win the election — Eric Trump suggested on Fox News Saturday that Democrats are “milking” coronavirus lockdowns in order to “deprive” his father President Trump of campaign rallies and hurt him in November's election.
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Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and House Foreign Affairs …
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Wyatt Massey / timesfreepress.com:
Chattanooga software firm Transcard terminates employee after firestorm over Obama noose meme — An employee at a local software company was terminated after a social media firestorm identified him as the person who posted a racist meme showing former president Barack Obama with a noose around his neck.
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Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump is leaning toward preserving his total funding cut to the WHO — President Trump is leaning toward preserving his total funding cut for the World Health Organization after being on the brink of announcing he'd restore partial funding, according to three sources familiar with the situation.
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Redstate, Raw Story, Townhall, Gizmodo, Breitbart, Just The News, Wall Street Journal and The Hill
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Nevada congressman admits to affair with intern after podcast exposé — A married Nevada congressman has admitted having a longstanding affair with a former intern calling herself “Love Jones” — after she exposed him in an explosive series of podcasts.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Nevada Independent, The Hill and Fox News
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
There is a huge difference between Christine Blasey Ford and Tara Reade — When Tara Reade, a former staffer in the office of then-Sen. Joe Biden, stepped forward to make a claim that Biden had sexually violated her, an endless stream of commentary ensued: It's hard to not believe …
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Big League Politics, Redstate and The Atlantic
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Why Deborah Birx is the real power doctor — Don't be fooled by the grandmotherly demeanor and whimsical scarf collection. Administration officials say they've been taken aback by Deborah Birx's masterful political skills — including a preternatural ability to get what she wants while telling people what they want to hear.
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The Daily Beast:
Billionaire MAGA Fan Peter Thiel Has Had It With Trump's COVID-19 Response — More than a dozen sources in Trump's orbit said they could not say whether the Silicon Valley luminary was going to play any meaningful role in the re-elect, like he did in 2016. — During the last presidential campaign …
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
European leaders are blunt: A vaccine won't come soon enough — SOAVE, Italy (AP) — In separate, stark warnings, two major European leaders have bluntly told their citizens that the world needs to adapt to living with the coronavirus and cannot wait to be saved by the development of a vaccine.
Evelyn N. Farkas / Washington Post:
Russia is interfering in our elections again. And Trump supporters are emulating Russian tactics. — Evelyn N. Farkas was deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia from 2012 to 2015. She is a Democratic candidate to represent New York's 17th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Washington Post:
In next phase of pandemic, Trump appears poised to let others take the lead — President Trump has proclaimed the latest phase of pandemic response the “transition to greatness.” But Trump appears poised to preside over the eventual transition more as a salesman and marketer than a decider.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Seeking: Big Democratic Ideas That Make Everything Better — By the end of primary season, the Democratic Party had all but settled on a conventional center-left agenda. But the pandemic is forcing the Biden campaign and other leaders to redraw plans for 2021. — More than 36 million Americans are suddenly unemployed.
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Common Dreams and Associated Press
Elizabeth Warren / The Atlantic:
My Brother's Death Didn't Have to Happen — Senator Elizabeth Warren's oldest brother, Donald Reed Herring, died of COVID-19 in late April, and I heard that she sometimes mentioned this in conversations about policy, though she was reluctant to talk about it publicly.
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Mother Jones and Axios
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
I'll Take Biden's Confusion Over Trump's Corruption — Let's not repeat the false equivalence of 2016. — Please tell me why I should care whether Joe Biden is declining mentally when Donald Trump bottomed out morally long ago. — I'm serious. I'd rather drink milk past its expiration date than arsenic.
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Slate
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Navarro claims lockdowns will kill “many more” Americans than coronavirus — White House economic adviser Peter Navarro claimed on NBC's “Meet the Press” Sunday that lockdowns to curb the spread of the coronavirus will “indirectly” kill more people than the virus itself.
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
CNN's Jake Tapper Blasted for Hypocrisy After Accusing Trump of ‘Smear Campaign’ Against Rivals — CNN's Jake Tapper was hit by a wave of criticism on social media Sunday after he accused President Donald Trump of “launching an unprecedented smear campaign against any rival,” with many accusing him and CNN of hypocrisy.