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CNN:
President Donald Trump tweets he and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19  —  Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest advisers, tests positive for coronavirus, president to quarantine
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New York Times:
Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus  —  The president's result came after he spent months playing down the severity of the outbreak that has killed more than 207,000 in the United States and hours after insisting that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”
Washington Post:
Trump says he and first lady have tested positive for coronavirus  —  President Trump and his wife Melania have contracted the coronavirus, he announced early Friday, after months in which he has played down a pandemic that has killed more than 205,000 Americans and sickened millions more.
New York Times:
Trump's Positive Coronavirus Test Upends Campaign in Final Stretch  —  With his health and the country's stability at risk, strategists and even senior aides to the president said he would face a harsh judgment from voters.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's announcement early Friday …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
On Monday, Trump Updated the Nation on Virus Strategy.  By Friday, He Tested Positive.  —  President Trump interacted with scores of staff members, donors and supporters this week.  Early Friday morning, it was still unclear how many other aides who had come into close contact with him had tested positive.
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
With News That the President Has Tested Positive for Coronavirus (and He Was in Contact with Joe Biden at the Debate Earlier in the Week), What Happens If a Presidential Candidate Dies or is Incapacitated Before Election Day?  A Mess  —  The President and First Lady reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus.
Associated Press:
Statement from Trump's doctor on president's virus diagnosis  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Text of a statement from Sean Conley, physician to the president:  —  I release the following information with the permission of President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
Bloomberg:
Trump Tests Positive for Covid, Roiling Campaign and White House  — First Lady has also tested positive, Trump says on Twitter  — Hope Hicks had traveled with him to debate, Minnesota rally  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said early Friday that he has tested positive for coronavirus along …
New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: What Trump's Positive Test Means for the Race  —  The president's announcement early Friday that he tested positive upended the race in an instant, with less than five weeks to go before the election.  It also rattled the world and sent markets tumbling.
Associated Press:
Timeline of Trump's activities in week coronavirus hit home  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — With just a month to go until the election, President Donald Trump had a busy schedule during the week the coronavirus hit home with him.  Trump tweeted early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Discussion: The Atlantic
ABC News:
Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest advisers, tests positive for coronavirus, president to quarantine
David Remnick / New Yorker:   The President Tests Positive for the Coronavirus, and a Nation Anticipates Chaos
Tom Embury-Dennis / The Independent:
Putin praises Trump's ‘inherent vitality’ as he wishes US president swift recovery from coronavirus
Discussion: Political Wire and LifeSiteNews
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Conspiracy-Theory Twitter Is Going Nuts Over Trump's COVID Diagnosis
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Kevin Liptak / CNN:   Trump's positive Covid-19 test throws country into fresh upheaval
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle's Departure from Fox  —  As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, he trails Joe Biden by thirty percentage points among female voters.
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Proud Boys Members Appear in Official Trump Campaign Video  —  U.S. Proud Boys Donald Trump Far-right White supremacy  —  Supporters of the far-right Proud Boys group can be seen in an official President Donald Trump campaign video released earlier this year following a rally in Colorado.
Discussion: NBC News and HillReporter.com
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Politico:
Trump blames low-income people, minorities for ‘ruining’ suburbia
Discussion: NPR and Vanity Fair
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Secretly recorded tapes show Melania Trump's frustration at criticism for family separation policy and her bashing of Christmas decorations  —  (CNN)First Lady Melania Trump was secretly recorded in the summer of 2018 expressing her frustration at being criticized for her husband's policy …
SOM - State of Michigan:
AG Nessel Files Felony Charges Against Jack Burkman, Jacob Wohl in Voter-Suppression Robocalls Investigation  —  LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed charges today against two political operatives for allegedly orchestrating a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote in the November general election.
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Barrett's participation in 2006 ad calling for overturn of Roe v. Wade was not included in Senate disclosures  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, failed to disclose her participation in a 2006 newspaper ad calling for Roe v. Wade …
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New York Daily News:
To keep Barrett off the Supreme Court, Schumer must fight like a defense attorney with a client on death row
Discussion: New York Times
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Facing Grim Polls, Trump Leans Into Playing the Victim  —  Be it congressional Democrats, the news media, the standards enforcers at Twitter or, now, the debate commission, President Trump has repeatedly blamed others for problems and self-inflicted wounds.  —  On Thursday afternoon …
Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told friends he was under federal investigation just days before meltdown … - Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told campaign staff and friends that he was under federal investigation, just days before police detained him, Trump advisers tell Insider.
Anna Gronewold / Politico:
Fed Up in Flyover Country  —  ROCA, Neb.—Elaine Dlouhy calls herself a “crazy crafting woman,” adopted a dog named Spinks during the pandemic and has been married to the same man for 30 years.  They put off an August anniversary trip to Belize or Costa Rica when the pandemic hit.
Discussion: The Guardian, Raw Story and Roll Call
Foster Klug / Associated Press:
Shock, sympathy, mockery: World reacts to Trump infection  —  TOKYO (AP) — News of the infection of the most powerful man in the world with the most notorious disease in the world drew instant reactions of shock, sympathy, undisguised glee and, of course, the ever-present outrage and curiosity …
Discussion: CNBC and abc7NY
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Pete Wilson endorses Trump, says president has ‘very good judgment’  —  OAKLAND — Former California Gov. Pete Wilson joined a list Thursday of prominent former Republican leaders who endorsed Donald Trump for reelection, arguing in an interview that the president has “brought a badly needed realism to American security policy.”
Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
Stephen Gutowski / Washington Free Beacon:
L.A. Ordered to Pay NRA Six Figures After Losing First Amendment Case  —  City will pay gun-rights group about $150,000 for lawsuit over unconstitutional ordinance  —  A federal court ordered Los Angeles to hand over more than $100,000 to the National Rifle Association after ruling that the city …
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
GOP challenger fundraising tops South Carolina's Cunningham  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham has outraised the freshman Democrat in the final fundraising quarter before their general election matchup, as both candidates ratchet up their rhetoric in the campaign's closing weeks.
WSB-TV:
Following rocky debate, Biden takes lead over Trump in latest exclusive Channel 2 poll  —  ATLANTA — We are seeing how the first presidential debate changed Georgia voters' opinions.  —  For the first time, former Vice President Joe Biden is leading our exclusive Channel 2 Action News/Landmark Communications poll.
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Trump is winning the voter registration battle against Biden in key states  —  In the last few weeks, Joe Biden has led President Donald Trump by a fairly consistent 8-point average in national polls and has maintained leads in more than enough battleground states to win the Electoral College …
Hannah Brenton / Politico:
Mairead McGuinness cruises toward approval as EU financial commissioner  —  Mairead McGuinness is set to cruise through the nomination process to become EU financial services commissioner.  —  The Irishwoman remained poised and in control throughout her three-hour European Parliament hearing Friday …
 
 
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