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New York Times:
As Trump Seeks to Project Strength, Doctors Disclose Alarming Episodes  —  The president made a surprise outing from his hospital bed in an effort to show his improvement, but the murky and shifting narrative of his illness was rewritten again with grim new details.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Didn't Disclose First Positive Covid-19 Test While Awaiting a Second Test on Thursday  —  President received positive result on Thursday evening before making an appearance on Fox News in which he didn't reveal those results  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump didn't disclose a positive result …
Axios:
West Wing melts down as aides point fingers at Mark Meadows  —  White House crises of competence and credibility grew during a botched weekend that left even White House aides dismayed and befuddled.  —  Many complained bitterly about the leadership of chief of staff Mark Meadows.
New York Times:
Use of Dexamethasone to Treat Trump Suggests Severe Covid-19, Experts Say  —  Many of the measures cited by his doctors are reserved for patients severely affected by the coronavirus.  —  President Trump's doctors offered rosy assessments of his condition on Sunday, but the few medical details …
Discussion: Associated Press, Fox News and Politico
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
‘That should never have happened’: Inside Trump's Walter Reed parade  —  Trump surprises crowd with drive-by outside Walter Reed  —  (CNN)Pacing the well-appointed presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center between intravenous doses of remdesivir and near-hourly checks of his vitals …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Annie Karni / New York Times:
At the White House, an Eerie Quiet and Frustration With the Chief of Staff  —  With President Trump hospitalized, Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, delivered no guidance to aides about how they were expected to behave in a moment of crisis.  —  WASHINGTON — In a memo …
Discussion: Raw Story, Eschaton and CNN
Politico:
President Pelosi?  Pence prepares to risk it all for Trump  —  He's the GOP's one line of defense between a hospitalized commander-in-chief and a President Nancy Pelosi, and he's about to depart Washington on a four-day campaign swing in the middle of his boss's health crisis.
Fox News:
Meadows ‘optimistic’ Trump will leave Walter Reed, return to White House Monday after coronavirus treatment  —  Trump spent the weekend at Walter Reed being treated for coronavirus  —  What more progress does Trump need to make to be discharged?  —  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows …
Washington Post:
Secret Service agents, doctors aghast at Trump's drive outside hospital  —  Current and former Secret Service agents and medical professionals were aghast Sunday night at President Trump's trip outside the hospital where he is being treated for the coronavirus, saying the president endangered those inside his SUV for a publicity stunt.
Discussion: NBC News, UPI, The Hill and CNN
CNN:
Trump told Woodward in March he didn't have ‘a lot of time’ to meet with Fauci in newly released audio  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump in March said he didn't have “a lot of time” to meet with Dr. Anthony Fauci as the coronavirus pandemic surged across the US …
Wall Street Journal:   The Trump Coronavirus Spread
Andrew Joseph / STAT:
'There's a disconnect': Outside medical experts question the upbeat portrayal of president's condition
Discussion: Axios, CNN, Bloomberg and The Slot
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump criticized by medical experts after leaving hospital to drive by supporters
Washington Post:
National security experts describe a distracted and potentially vulnerable country
Discussion: Political Wire
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
The president is sick but his followers feel great
Washington Post:
President's blood oxygen levels dropped twice in recent days, doctors say
Washington Post:
Infectious Trump briefly leaves hospital to greet fans as confusion continues over his health
Washington Post:
White House physician Sean Conley draws scrutiny for rosy assessments of Trump's health
Discussion: New York Times, The Guardian and NPR
David Folkenflik / NPR:
VOA White House Reporter Investigated For Anti-Trump Bias By Political Appointees  —  Toggle more options  —  Two political appointees at the federal agency that oversees the Voice of America recently investigated one of its most prominent journalists to make the case he was biased against President Trump.
Politico:
Republicans gripped by dread as multiple crises swirl  —  On Sunday evening Sen. Lindsey Graham, like many Republicans in Washington, was simultaneously monitoring three political crises, all of which were made worse by the spread of coronavirus infections through the upper echelons of the Republican Party.
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Matthew Herper / STAT:
The lesson from Trump catching Covid-19: With this virus, there are no magic bullets  —  What lessons should we learn from the fact that the president of the United States has caught Covid-19?  —  There is one simple one, which the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, keeps teaching …
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Ti-Hua Chang / TYT Network:
EPA Grants Oklahoma Control Over Tribal Lands  —  Agency Decision Reverses Tribal Sovereignty That Was Recognized in Landmark Supreme Court Ruling  —  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted the state of Oklahoma regulatory control over environmental issues on nearly all tribal lands there, TYT has learned.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
How to Cover a Sick Old Man  —  The president is hospitalized and reporters are fighting for basic facts.  What should elderly leaders — many of America's top politicians are over 80 — reveal about their health?  —  When John Bresnahan was starting out as a reporter in the mid-1990s …
Anthony Giannini / whitehousegiftshop.com:
“President Donald J. Trump Defeats COVID”  —  First 1,000 Orders Receive a Complimentary Presidential Blue Mask with Coin!  —  Note from Designer & Series Creator: Anthony Giannini, CEO, USAF-R  —  For these past four years, I have created and co-designed the Historic Moments …
Discussion: Twitchy, Raw Story and HillReporter.com
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Three Interpretations of Trump's Tax Records  —  The New York Times exposé of President Donald Trump's taxes is chock-full of tantalizing revelations.  According to the report, the president avoided paying federal income tax in 10 of the 15 years preceding his election.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Townhall
Paige Williams / New Yorker:
Inside the Lincoln Project's War Against Trump  —  From a secret location, conservative operatives who condemn the President are waging vicious battle against him.  Progressives are wary, but the strategists insist that they're fighting for every American.  —  The week of Labor Day …
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Biden tests negative for coronavirus, campaign says
 
 
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Beth LeBlanc / The Detroit News:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Andrew Seidman / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Rural Pennsylvania voters don't hate Biden as much as they hated Clinton — and Trump may need them to
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Discussion: NPR
 

 
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quits as a contributing columnist at WaPo, after abruptly leaving a Post live video event hosted by Jonathan Capehart

April Rubin / Axios:
Trump's campaign files an FEC complaint claiming WaPo illegally contributed to Harris by running digital ads promoting its critical news coverage of Trump

CNBC:
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