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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Fans Gobble Up His Favorite, Unproven COVID Drug—Some Are Even Trying To Cook It Themselves  —  IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE?  —  QAnon users are posting make-at-home recipes for hydroxychloroquine as Trump says he's using the drug  —  Donald Trump's allies are seeking …
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CNN:
'We've been muzzled': CDC sources say White House putting politics ahead of science  —  (CNN)In the early weeks of the US coronavirus outbreak, staff members in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tracked a growing number of transmissions in Europe and elsewhere …
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
NBC News:
Pompeo's elite taxpayer-funded dinners raise new concerns  —  WASHINGTON — As federal workers file out of the State Department at the end of a Washington workday, an elite group is often just arriving in the marbled, flag-lined lobby: Billionaire CEOs, Supreme Court justices …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump threatens federal funding for Michigan over mail-in voting push  —  President Donald Trump announced Wednesday his intention to block federal funding to Michigan if election officials there do not retreat from measures meant to facilitate mail-in voting.
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump threatens to withhold Michigan, Nevada funding over mail-in voting
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump administration declassifies full Susan Rice email sent on Inauguration Day  —  On the day of President Donald Trump's inauguration, outgoing national security adviser Susan Rice sent herself an email that has since drawn intense scrutiny from Republicans.
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New York Times:
Pompeo Declined Interview Request From Inspector General About Saudi Arms Sales  —  The secretary of state instead offered written answers.  He was aware of the inquiry and the specific lines of questioning about his decision to resume the sales.  —  WASHINGTON — Secretary …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Bringing back Obama
Washington Examiner:
Trump is right to hold WHO accountable  —  President Trump's effort to hold the World Health Organization accountable for its bungled handling of the coronavirus is well justified.  It is outrageous to expect taxpayers to continue supporting an international body which acts as a lapdog for Beijing.
CNN:
A complicated life and conflicting accounts muddle efforts to understand Tara Reade's allegation against Joe Biden  —  New details emerge on Reade's exit from Biden's office  —  (CNN)As Tara Reade was leaving her job at Joe Biden's Senate office in 1993, she told a close colleague …
Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘A moonshot mission’: Trump campaign eyes a return to megarallies  —  The Trump campaign has an order from the president: Find a way to get him back on the road and into megarallies to re-energize his base.  —  In recent meetings with top campaign officials and White House aides …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Anti-China sentiment is on the rise
Nathan Heller / New Yorker:
The Town That Tested Itself  —  Bolinas, a tiny hippie enclave north of San Francisco, mounted one of the most advanced coronavirus-testing efforts in America.  What did it learn?  —  Bolinas, California, is not a place one finds oneself by accident, in part because it is a place that must be found.
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
The Worst Is Yet to Come  —  The coronavirus and our disastrous national response to it has smashed optimists like me in the head.  —  For as long as I can remember, I have identified as an optimist.  Like a seedling reaching toward the golden sun, I'm innately tuned to seek out the bright side.
Discussion: Althouse
USA Today:
Trump calls high number of coronavirus cases in the US a ‘badge of honor,’ attributes it to testing  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States - the highest in the world - a “badge of honor,” arguing the still-increasing number …
Discussion: Contemptor
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Associated Press:
States accused of fudging or bungling COVID-19 testing data
Discussion: Associated Press and The Week
Dion Rabouin / Axios:
Airlines pack in customers like there's no coronavirus  —  As restaurants, department stores and other local businesses grapple with operating at half occupancy (or less) to comply with social distancing guidelines, airlines are packing customers to near capacity on a reduced number of flights.
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Is Holocaust Denial Conservative Now?  —  Trump's no-enemies-to-the-right mentality has made it impossible for the right to police itself.  —  Among dozens of addled tweets from the commander-in-chief over the past few days, one in particular deserves pausing over, because it demonstrates …
Discussion: Jerusalem Post
Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low  —  Last year's data are another sign of how American childbearing, which began declining during the 2007-09 recession, never fully rebounded  —  American women had babies at record-low rates last year and pushed U.S. births down to their smallest total in 35 years …
Discussion: National Review
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Vaccine experts say Moderna didn't produce data critical to assessing Covid-19 vaccine  —  Heavy hearts soared Monday with news that Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine candidate — the frontrunner in the American market — seemed to be generating an immune response in Phase 1 trial subjects.
Discussion: Vox, CNBC and UPI
Associated Press:
Trump allies lining up doctors to prescribe rapid reopening  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican political operatives are recruiting “pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed …
Rich Lowry / National Review:
Where Does Ron DeSantis Go to Get His Apology?  —  The Florida governor explains a COVID-19 strategy that has gotten bad press and favorable results.  —  A couple of months ago, the media, almost as one, decided that Governor Ron DeSantis was a public menace who was going to get Floridians killed …
Discussion: TheBlaze
David Brody / CBN News:
EXCLUSIVE: Kayleigh McEnany's Emotional Tribute to Ravi Zacharias  —  In an exclusive interview with CBN News, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany got emotional discussing the recent passing of famous Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias, someone who made an enormous impact on her with his Christian faith.
Matt Lauer / Mediaite:
Why Ronan Farrow Is Indeed Too Good to Be True  —  Editor's Note: After Matt Lauer submitted this piece, a response to Ronan Farrow's book Catch and Kill, Mediaite editors independently fact checked the accounts of the four witnesses/subjects Lauer spoke with and cites in this piece.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Failing at Governing But Winning at Authoritarianism  —  Donald Trump has been battering away at American democracy for about four years now, first as a populist candidate warning of rigged elections and inciting his supporters to violence, and then as a president.
Discussion: New York Times
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
The COVID ‘Spike’ in Reopened Texas: CNN Gets It Wrong  —  On Sunday CNN ran a segment on the spread of COVID-19 in Texas.  The news channel promoted it with the jarring tweet “Texas is seeing the highest number of new coronavirus cases and deaths just two weeks after it officially reopened.”
Discussion: Breitbart
Washington Post:
Ukrainian lawmaker releases leaked phone calls of Biden and Poroshenko  —  A Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Rudolph W. Giuliani late last year released recordings of private phone calls between former vice president Joe Biden and former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko in a new broadside …
Nicole Narea / Vox:
Cory Booker's new bill would expand immigrants' health care access during the pandemic  —  US Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference on March 2, 2020.  Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
Nikki Schwab / Daily Mail:
Joe Biden calls Donald Trump Jr. ‘sick’ for suggesting he's a pedophile and says Donald Trump is ‘petty’ for not wanting to hang Barack Obama's portrait  — Joe Biden laid into two generations of Trumps Tuesday night while appearing at a virtual town hall hosted by Yahoo News
Discussion: Daily Kos, New York Sun and Mediaite
Li Zhou / Vox:
Paid sick leave could be a deciding issue in November's key House races  —  People protest against a paid sick leave policy in the Bronx, New York, on April 17.  David Dee Delgado/Getty Images  —  A new poll finds that the policy could sway independents and undecided voters in favor of Democrats.
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
The Strange Case of Ron Johnson  —  From champion of the IGs to crocodile tears.  —  I go way back with Ron Johnson.  —  A mutual friend introduced us in early 2010, when I was still a radio host in Wisconsin.  Democratic senator Russ Feingold was cruising to re-election …
Discussion: New York Post and Politico
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
GOP House candidate demeans Muslims and compares Dreamers to pedophiles  —  Republican congressional candidate Ted Howze said earlier this month he had nothing to do with social media posts from his personal accounts that demeaned Muslims, accused prominent Democrats of murder and mocked a survivor of the Parkland school shooting.
Washington Post:
Trump-Biden voters could decide the 2020 election  —  Nine percent of Trump's 2016 voters say they're planning to vote for Biden, our data suggest.  —  After the 2016 election, analysts spilled tubs of ink arguing that “Obama-Trump” voters helped swing the election.
NBC News:
Here's how the early battleground map has opened up for Joe Biden  —  WASHINGTON — Maybe Joe Biden isn't leading President Trump by 7 points in Arizona, as one poll showed yesterday.  —  But Biden has been ahead of Trump in every Arizona poll released this year.
SnowBrains:
Mount Everest is Visible From Kathmandu, Nepal for First Time in Living Memory  —  Last week Mount Everest was visible from Kathmandu for the first time in living memory.  —  Due to the global lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, vehicles are off the roads, and industry has ground to a halt …
Tammy Bruce / Washington Times:
N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's careless cruelty shows in coronavirus nursing home policy  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  The core of cruelty defining New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo marches on.  As many contend, his policies are responsible for the shocking number of deaths at nursing homes in the state.
Richard North Patterson / The Bulwark:
Break Up Amazon  —  The actions of the monopolistic giant are dangerous and anticompetitive.  —  The coronavirus pandemic is diminishing or destroying countless American businesses—large and small.  Not Amazon, though.  —  Lockdown is its friend: Amazon is widely perceived as our national supply chain …
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
CDC: Arkansas coronavirus outbreak linked to church services  —  35 of the 92 people (38%) who attended services at a rural Arkansas church March 6-11 tested positive for the coronavirus, ultimately killing three, according to a case study released Tuesday by the CDC.
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Biden's New Pressure From Progressives  —  He's moving in the right direction, but will he appoint the right people?  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders are cooperating on joint task forces to shape the Democratic policy agenda ahead of the 2020 election.
Discussion: The Atlantic
 
 
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Lateshia Beachum / Washington Post:
Two churches reclose after faith leaders and congregants get coronavirus
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Christian Post
Errin Haines / Washington Post:
Biden campaign adds Karine Jean-Pierre as senior adviser
Discussion: Twitchy
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
More Than 900 Children Have Been Expelled Under a Pandemic Border Policy
New York Times:
Trump Judges or Federalist Society Judges? Try Both
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Minnesota Governor Stonewalls Conservative Journalist
Discussion: Power Line
William Haseltine / Washington Post:
Moderna's claim of favorable results in its vaccine trial is an example of ‘publication by press release’
Discussion: The Week
Rupert Darwall / National Review:
ESG for Thee, but Not for Me  —  Activist investors …
USA Today:
Health leaders: We stuck together to #StayHome, now we can start together to #OpenSafely
 Earlier Items: 
Brittany Wallman / Sun-Sentinel:
Analyst was praised for creating and running Florida's coronavirus data website.
Discussion: The Guardian, Florida Politics and NPR
Joyce Karam / The National:
Donald Trump administration open to conditional Israeli annexation, as Palestinians abandon all past agreements
Jeff Schogol / Task & Purpose:
Trump is purging the Pentagon of perceived enemies and installing loyalists in their place, critics say
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
Asian American doctors and nurses are fighting racism and the coronavirus
Discussion: VICE
Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in talks to become Joe Biden's VP pick
Discussion: The Hill and TODAY.com
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