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8:45 AM ET, October 6, 2020

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New York Times:
White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines  —  The F.D.A. proposed stricter guidelines for emergency approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but the White House chief of staff objected to provisions that would push approval past Election Day.  —  WASHINGTON — Top White House officials …
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New York Times:
White House Is Not Tracing Contacts for ‘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 …
CNN:
Trump's reckless return met with a dramatically changed White House  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump may be eagerly seeking a return to normal after three nights in the hospital.  But the White House he arrived home to Monday with dramatic and reckless flourish has changed drastically since …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump mounts bizarre and misleading White House return despite warnings  —  (CNN)A strongly medicated President Donald Trump bolted from his VIP hospital bubble Monday, staging a bizarre White House comeback that included an irresponsible mask removal and a reckless pronouncement there is nothing …
Axios:
With Trump's return, risks rise in the West Wing  —  White House aides have advised President Trump to avoid the Oval Office while he's still infected.  But they're making arrangements for him to work out of the Diplomatic Reception Room in the West Wing, and use it as a backdrop …
Washington Post:
Trump returns to White House, downplaying virus that hospitalized him and turned West Wing into a ‘ghost town’  —  President Trump returned to the White House from the hospital on Monday, saying that he had recovered from the novel coronavirus and that people should not be afraid of a disease that has killed more than 209,000 Americans.
Associated Press:   White House staff, Secret Service eye virus with fear, anger
Carrie Johnson / NPR:   Justice Scalia's Son Apologizes To His Parish For Not Wearing Mask At White House
Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
The People Trump Came Home To
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden expands lead over Trump after contentious debate and President's Covid diagnosis  —  Chalian: Trump hit high-water mark of disapproval on key issue  —  (CNN)Joe Biden's advantage over President Donald Trump has expanded and the former vice president now holds his widest lead …
Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg, Slate, The Hill and The Week
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Ken Haddad / WDIV-TV:
Poll: Biden bolsters lead over Trump in Michigan after first debate  —  Biden holds lead in early voting  —  DETROIT - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has increased his lead over President Donald Trump in Michigan following the first debate, according to a new WDIV/Detroit News poll.
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Joe Biden takes shot at Trump over wearing masks with Twitter meme  —  The tweet read, ‘Wear a mask’  —  Did Trump get discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center too soon?  —  When the gloves come off, the mask goes on.  —  Joe Biden tweeted a meme showing President Trump removing …
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Dhruv Khullar / New Yorker:
The Recklessness of Trump's Return to the White House
Discussion: Washington Post
The Times of Israel:   John Hagee, prominent pro-Israel evangelical pastor, ill with COVID-19
Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Still Faces Risk as He Convalesces at White House
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
CNN:
North Carolina elementary school teacher dies days after testing positive for Covid-19  —  (CNN)A third-grade teacher died in North Carolina days after testing positive for Covid-19 and while her students were quarantined as a result of the exposure.  —  Julie Davis, who taught …
Discussion: ABC11
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CNN:   Trump off the air in Ohio and Iowa as polls show tight races in both states
CNN:
More than 3 million general election ballots cast so far in November election
Discussion: Political Wire
Tom Lyden / FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Subject of Project Veritas voter fraud story says he was offered bribe  —  Liban Osman is featured prominently in a video released last week by the conservative media operation Project Veritas claiming there is “massive voter fraud” in Minnesota orchestrated by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
New York Times:
E. Jean Carroll, Trump Accuser, Seeks to Bar Justice Dept. From Case  —  Ms. Carroll, a writer, has asked a judge to reject the department's move to intervene in her lawsuit against the president, whom she has accused of rape.  —  In defending himself against the many legal actions he is facing …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Axios
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New York Times:
Eric Trump Finally Interviewed in N.Y. Fraud Inquiry
Discussion: Bloomberg and MyNorthwest.com
Fadel Allassan / Axios:   Eric Trump deposed in New York probe into family business
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
‘Out of his mouth will come these wild Trumpisms’: Harris preps to take on Pence  —  Vice presidential debates didn't matter — until the president contracted a deadly virus and might be too sick to attend the next two of his own.  —  After last week's screamfest between Donald …
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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.
David Harsanyi / National Review:
The Democrats Are Flirting with the Destruction of the Judiciary  —  House Democrats Want to Force You to Pay for Abortion  —  Trump, Escaping Wile E. Coyotevirus  —  Barrett Sees No ‘Superprecedent’ in Roe  —  Democrats Haven't Landed a Punch on Amy Coney Barrett
Discussion: New York Post
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
On campaign trail, vulnerable GOP senators play down a more conservative Supreme Court
Discussion: The Federalist, CNN and New York Post
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The murky legal concept that could swing the election  —  Amy Coney Barrett hasn't even arrived yet, but the Supreme Court has begun delivering its first big signals of how aggressive a role the court plans to play in setting the rules for next month's election.
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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 …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Seth Meyers Destroys Trump's 'Don't Be Afraid of COVID' Nonsense  —  “Remember, he might get better from COVID, but he will never get better as a person,” the “Late Night” host warned.  —  Seth Meyers wasn't the first late-night host to cover the massive coronavirus outbreak at the White House.
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Weirdest 90 Seconds in Presidential History  —  Don't cry for Donnie, America.  The truth is, he never left you.  —  Donald Trump's photo op on the Truman Balcony following his return to the White House with COVID-19 is one of the most disturbing, absorbing, foreign images I can recall.
Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
Shift in Ohio vote tallies after election not a sign of ‘something nefarious,’ secretary of state says  —  Mail-in ballot requests in the swing state are more than double than 2016  —  Where do voters stand in Ohio and Pennsylvania?  —  EXCLUSIVE: As officials in the key battleground state …
 
 
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Politico:
‘It is not acceptable’: Cuomo, de Blasio at odds as Covid surges in New York
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
A new cold war: Trump, Xi and the escalating US-China confrontation
Discussion: New Republic
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
‘The Coal Industry Is Back,’ Trump Proclaimed. It Wasn't.
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Christenson / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Admits Law Enforcement No Longer Backs Him
Damon Linker / The Week:
Trump's anti-leadership in the pandemic
National Geographic:
Poll finds more Americans than ever think we should wear masks
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 Earlier Items: 
Tom Moran / New Jersey Online:
Ex-NJ Gov. Chris Christie speaks from hospital bed after COVID-19 diagnosis, feisty as ever
Discussion: NBC New York
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Nearly One-Third of Covid Patients in Study Had Altered Mental State
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Trump's touting of ‘racehorse theory’ tied to eugenics and Nazis alarms Jewish leaders
Washington Post:
Trump administration revokes the visa of a Ukrainian political fixer tied to Giuliani
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story