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New York Times:
White House Is Not Contact Tracing ‘Super-Spreader’ Rose Garden Event  —  Since President Trump's Covid diagnosis, numerous associates have tested positive, but the White House has not aggressively investigated the outbreak.  —  Despite almost daily disclosures of new coronavirus infections …
Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Concern rises for White House residence staffers as their workplace emerges as a virus hot spot  —  Charles Allen's father, Eugene Allen, who was the subject of the 2013 film “The Butler” and served eight White House families from the Trumans to the Reagans, never missed a day of work in 34 years of government service.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Forbes, Raw Story and The Hill
Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
The People Trump Came Home To  —  On any given morning, the White House is a blur of activity.  A chef may be whipping up breakfast for the first couple in the second-floor kitchen.  A valet might be shining the president's shoes, while the head butler lingers in the West Sitting Hall, awaiting any urgent presidential requests.
Axios:
West Wing melts down as aides point fingers at Mark Meadows
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says he will be discharged from Walter Reed, return to White House Monday evening
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The murky legal concept that could swing the election  —  Amy Coney Barrett hasn't even arrived yet, but the Supreme Court might be days or even hours away from delivering its first big signal on how aggressive a role the court plans to play in setting the rules for next month's election.
Discussion: ABC News
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court allows South Carolina vote-by-mail restriction  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ensured that a restrictive Republican-backed law in South Carolina that requires voters to have a witness sign mail-in ballots will be in place for the Nov. 3 election.
Richard L. Hasen / New York Magazine:
Trump's New Supreme Court Is Coming for the Next Dozen Elections
Discussion: The Federalist
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Fittingly, Supreme Court term starts with test of political affiliations for judges
Politico:
Plexiglass to separate Harris and Pence at VP debate  —  Pence's campaign opposed the move.  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates has approved plans for plexiglass to be used in Wednesday's vice presidential debate amid mounting concerns about coronavirus transmission, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
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CBS News:
Live updates: Trump is back at the White House after being discharged from Walter Reed  —  Washington — President Trump left Walter Reed Medical Center just after 6:30 p.m. ET on Monday, hours after the medical team treating him cautioned that he is “not out of the woods yet.”
Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Still Faces Risk as He Convalesces at White House  —  He enters a dangerous second-week period during which patients with Covid-19 can quickly worsen  —  President Trump has left the hospital to return to the White House, but he will still require close monitoring …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Don Jr. Thinks Trump Is Acting Crazy”: The President's COVID Joyride Has the Family Divided
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump may be prematurely declaring victory over the coronavirus. Again.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Breitbart
Washington Post:
A U.S. senator kept taking off his mask on a Delta flight, raising questions about safety oversight  —  The chairman of the Senate committee that oversees airlines and U.S. transportation policy had his mask off for extended periods on a Delta flight to Mississippi on Thursday night …
U.S. Department of Justice:
John McAfee Indicted for Tax Evasion  —  Allegedly Hid Cryptocurrency, a Yacht, Real Estate and Other Properties in Nominee Names to Evade Taxes  —  An indictment was unsealed today charging John David McAfee with tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns, announced Principal …
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Justice News:
United States Attorney John F. Bash Announces Resignation
Discussion: Law & Crime
New York Times:
Trump's Campaign Saw an Opportunity.  He Undermined It.  —  The health crisis was a chance for a political reset, some advisers believed, to show a new, more empathetic stance toward the coronavirus.  But the candidate did not stick to the narrative.  —  On Friday, even as President …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Biden Holds Steady Lead Over Trump in Arizona, Latest Poll Finds  —  The Democratic nominee leads 49 percent to 41 percent in Arizona, a state that hasn't voted for a Democrat for president since 1996.  In the Senate race, Mark Kelly, a Democrat, leads the incumbent, Martha McSally.
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Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Cal Cunningham backs out of town hall as new cheating allegation surfaces  —  Cal Cunningham and Thom Tillis are in a tight state Senate race  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 5  —  All eyes are on North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham after he reportedly pulled …
Discussion: National File, TheBlaze and Townhall
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Public Policy Polling:
North Carolina Senate Race Unaffected By Recent Developments
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
U.S. Senate committee formally announces October 12 Supreme Court hearing  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Monday that it would open a confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, on Oct. 12 …
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Emily Holden / The Guardian:
Leader of non-profit labeled ‘hate group’ attended White House Amy Coney Barrett event
Discussion: The 19th
Washington Post:
Trump administration revokes the visa of a Ukrainian political fixer tied to Giuliani  —  The State Department last month revoked the visa of a Ukrainian political fixer who aided President Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in his gambit last year to dig up information from Ukraine …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Nearly One-Third of Covid Patients in Study Had Altered Mental State  —  The hospitalized patients showed signs of deteriorating neurological function, ranging from confusion to coma-like unresponsiveness, new research indicates.  —  Nearly a third of hospitalized Covid-19 patients experienced …
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Biden leading in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appeared to lead President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania less than a month before the Nov. 3 election, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls released on Monday.
Benjamin Wermund / Houston Chronicle:
Sen. John Cornyn says Trump ‘let his guard down’ on COVID  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Monday that President Donald Trump “let his guard down” on the coronavirus and that his rhetoric has created “confusion” as the country has struggled to get the pandemic under control.
Washington Post:
Republicans face major head winds in final stretch to maintain Senate majority  —  Republicans are facing major head winds in their bid to maintain control of the Senate, a troubling outlook for the party roiled by news of President Trump and three GOP senators contracting the coronavirus four weeks before the election.
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Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Trump's touting of ‘racehorse theory’ tied to eugenics and Nazis alarms Jewish leaders  —  President Trump has alarmed Jewish leaders and others with remarks that appeared to endorse “racehorse theory” — the idea that selective breeding can improve a country's performance …
Wall Street Journal:
IRS Investigating NRA's Wayne LaPierre for Possible Tax Fraud  —  New York attorney general previously sued gun-rights organization over alleged expense abuses  —  The Internal Revenue Service is investigating longtime National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre for possible criminal tax fraud related …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
GOP Elites Thought They Could Buy Their Way Out of a Pandemic  —  These people aren't stupid.  Not all of them, anyway.  The white men in dark jackets and well-coiffed ladies in prim dresses you've seen hugging in the White House Rose Garden — or hobnobbing maskless inside the Diplomatic Room …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
 
 
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Tom Moran / New Jersey Online:
Ex-NJ Gov. Chris Christie speaks from hospital bed after COVID-19 diagnosis, feisty as ever
Discussion: CNN
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Won't Approve Closing of Businesses in 9 Hard-Hit N.Y.C. Areas
Discussion: CBS New York
Caitlin O'Kane / CBS News:
102-year-old woman who never missed a vote casts her mail-in ballot in full PPE
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
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