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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.”
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
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:
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
New York Times:
Trump's Secret Service Has Struggled With Outbreak at Training Center  —  At least 11 people tested positive at a Secret Service center that serves as a staffing pipeline to the presidential protective force.  —  WASHINGTON — The Secret Service sustained a coronavirus outbreak …
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump's positive Covid-19 test throws country into fresh upheaval
Discussion: KOIN-TV
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
William Mansell / ABC News:
Trump COVID-19 live updates: President, first lady test positive for coronavirus
New York Times:
Trump Says He'll Begin ‘Quarantine Process’ After Hope Hicks Tests Positive for Coronavirus
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 …
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: Raw Story, The Guardian and Roll Call
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.
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
Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Trump sees approval rating increase, majority expect him to beat Biden: poll  —  The poll was conducted in the two weeks before the first presidential debate  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 1  —  A poll conducted in the lead-up to Tuesday's presidential debate showed Americans …
Discussion: NBC News, Gallup, New York Post and IJR
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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
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Hiring slowdown: Jobs gain falls far short of expectation  — Nonfarm payrolls rose by 661,000 in September, lower than the 800,000 Dow Jones estimate.  — The unemployment rate was 7.9%, better than the 8.2% estimate.  — This is the final jobs report before the November election.
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Caller
Jennifer Shutt / Roll Call:
Heavy hitters in House urge return of spending bill earmarks  —  Two of the most influential House Democrats said Thursday that the chamber should bring back earmarks next year, saying a de facto prohibition on “congressionally directed spending” gives too much power to the executive branch.
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 …
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 …
Bobby Burack / OutKick:
NBA Finals Ratings Sink to All-Time Lows  —  The NBA took another L Wednesday.  This time, in the NBA Finals on ABC with the Lakers and LeBron James.  —  Only 7.41 million viewers watched the industry-hyped matchup.  Per Sports Media Watch, this is the least-watched Finals opener since ... on record.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
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Financial Times:
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