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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's name was never ‘masked’ in FBI document on his communications with Russian ambassador — A Republican effort to determine who may have leaked the name of Michael Flynn in connection to his 2016 contact with the Russian ambassador has centered on the question …
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Warner asks intel chief to fork over underlying ‘unmasking’ intel on Michael Flynn
Warner asks intel chief to fork over underlying ‘unmasking’ intel on Michael Flynn
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QU Poll:
Release Detail — May 20, 2020 - Biden Holds 11 Point Lead As Trump Approval On Coronavirus Dips, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Almost Half Say Second Wave Of Coronavirus ‘very Likely’ In Fall — Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Trump 50 …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Mueller grand jury material from being turned over to House — The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday blocked a House committee from receiving grand jury material gathered by Robert Mueller's special counsel investigators, issuing a stay while a legal dispute over the records is on appeal.
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Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Grants Trump Request to Block Disclosure of Mueller Materials — Ruling shields grand-jury materials while administration argues they should remain secret — WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court blocked Congress from receiving grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller's investigation …
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The Week
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just said the corrupt part out loud — During the impeachment of President Trump, an expert witness called by Democrats floated a theoretical scenario involving the president threatening a state hammered by a natural disaster, to illustrate the corruption of Trump's shakedown of Ukraine.
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Brett Neely / NPR:
Trump Repeats Unfounded Claims About Mail-In Voting, Threatens Funding To 2 States — President Trump on Wednesday escalated his rhetorical campaign against an expansion of mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic by threatening federal funding to two states with Democratic governors.
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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 …
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Kristen Holmes / CNN:
CDC's Redfield in the hot seat as White House looks for someone to blame — (CNN)A day after President Donald Trump privately excoriated the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Republican senators during a lunch on Capitol Hill, the fate of the agency's director, Dr. Robert Redfield, is in question.
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The Ultimate Disgrace of Mike Pompeo — The ouster of the State Department's inspector general, who had been investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on at least two charges of misconduct, is yet another instance of how corruption—and the tolerance, almost the expectation, of corruption …
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Politico:
Fired State Department watchdog was probing protocol office — The now-fired State Department inspector general had recently wrapped up an investigation into two other top aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, determining that they had likely failed to report allegations of workplace violence …
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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 …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Targeting Hunter Biden, Senate panel approves subpoena for lobbying firm over Democrats' objections — A Senate committee moved Wednesday to subpoena documents related to the son of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in an election-year escalation of GOP congressional scrutiny of Biden's time as vice president.
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Republican-led Senate panel authorizes subpoena in Hunter Biden probe
Republican-led Senate panel authorizes subpoena in Hunter Biden probe
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Republicans issue subpoena in Biden probe
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Here's How Most Americans Really Feel About Wearing Face Masks — If there's a culture war over masks, someone forgot to tell most of the public, a new survey finds. — Most Americans consider wearing a mask near others a sign of respect and a matter of public health, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds.
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 …
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Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Swing state voters are sharply divided over coronavirus, CNBC/Change Research poll finds
Swing state voters are sharply divided over coronavirus, CNBC/Change Research poll finds
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Anti-China sentiment is on the rise
Anti-China sentiment is on the rise
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Anti-Trump Republicans flex their muscle — The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill — Republican strategists earlier this month sent a startling message to GOP senators facing reelection: “Don't Defend Trump.” — Then last week, a Rasmussen Reports poll …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Believer in QAnon conspiracy theory wins Republican Senate nomination in Oregon — Oregon Republicans on Tuesday elected a Senate nominee who believes in QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that has taken root among some far-right supporters of President Trump.
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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 …
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Ex-Lawyer Michael Cohen Will Be Released to Home Confinement — Cohen expected to serve rest of his three-year sentence under house arrest due to the coronavirus pandemic — President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen will be released from a federal prison due to coronavirus concerns …
Shawn Yancy / WTTG-TV:
Former White House butler Wilson Roosevelt Jerman dies of COVID-19 — Remembering former White House butler who died from COVID-19 — Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, one of the White House's longest-serving employees, died last weekend from COVID-19. He was 91.
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Americans harbor strong fear of new infections — DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Strong concern about a second wave of coronavirus infections is reinforcing widespread opposition among Americans to reopening public places, a new poll finds, even as many state leaders step up efforts to return to life before the pandemic.
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.
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
White House's Own Data Crunchers: Southern Counties About to Get Hit Hard — TEMPTING FATES — The coronavirus task force has been using data from PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to chart the disease. And the new projections aren't great.
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Mark Moore / New York Post:
Progressive group used cell phone data to track protesters at anti-lockdown rallies — A progressive health-care advocacy group used cell phone data to track the movements of demonstrators at lockdown protests in five states, according to a report. — The Committee to Protect Medicare collected …
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Senators release bill to offer $4,000 skills training credit to workers displaced by coronavirus — Four senators introduce a bill to create a $4,000 tax credit for workers who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic to put toward skills training.
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Biden, amid Reade allegations, hires aide who said candidates should not run if accused of sexual misconduct — The Biden campaign on Wednesday hired Karine Jean-Pierre, a commentator and former communications director for the left-wing activist group Move On, as a senior adviser …
Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
More than 5 million Americans will be infected with coronavirus and 290,000 will die by the end of July if social distancing isn't adhered to, according to COVID-19 model — Forecast from University Of Pennsylvania's Wharton School model predicts COVID-19 cases will reach 5.4 million and death toll could be 290,000 by July 24
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Pelosi: ‘Morbidly obese’ was taste of Trump's ‘own medicine’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she called President Donald Trump “morbidly obese” because he's put down women for their weight. And besides, she suggested, the president could lose …
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
America's Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — There was supposed to be a peak. But the stark turning point, when the number of daily COVID-19 cases …
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