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10:15 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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Associated Press:
White House staff, Secret Service eye virus with fear, anger  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The West Wing is a ghost town.  Staff members are scared of exposure.  And the White House is now a treatment ward for not one — but two — COVID patients, including a president who has long taken the threat of the virus lightly.
Discussion: Daily Kos and New York Times
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 …
New York Times:
Trump Live Updates: Trump, Back at the White House, Continues to Downplay Virus  —  The president is charging into uncharted territory, against the advice of doctors who warned against leaving the hospital and about the random and often lethal nature of Covid-19.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Joe Biden takes shot at Trump over wearing masks with Twitter meme
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 …
Associated Press:
‘An embarrassment’: Trump tweet angers pandemic survivors  —  SEATTLE (AP) — Dizzy with a soaring fever and unable to breathe, Scott Sedlacek had one thing going for him: He was among the first people to be treated for COVID-19 at Seattle's Swedish Medical Center, and the doctors and nurses were able to give him plenty of attention.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Dhruv Khullar / New Yorker:
The Recklessness of Trump's Return to the White House
Discussion: Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Still Faces Risk as He Convalesces at White House
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
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
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
Discussion: The Hill
CNN:
More than 3 million general election ballots cast so far in November election
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
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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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Politico:
Plexiglass to separate Harris and Pence at VP debate
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.
Josh Kaplan / DCist:
Thousands Of D.C. Renters Are Evicted Every Year.  Do They All Know To Show Up To Court?  |  DCist  —  This story is the result of a months-long investigative project in partnership with Spotlight DC.  Evictions have been suspended in D.C. since Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a state …
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 …
Discussion: 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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David Wasserman / New York Times:
The 10 Bellwether Counties That Show How Trump Is in Serious Trouble  —  Each one is in a battleground state.  Votes from people there will matter a lot — and offer Joe Biden several paths to victory.  —  Mr. Wasserman is the House editor at The Cook Political Report.
Discussion: Raw Story and Real Clear Politics
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Biden makes $6M bet on Texas, ending drought for Democrats who've written off state for decades … Former VP still hasn't shown up in person, but 'it's a hell of a lot more than anybody else ever spent,' state Democratic chairman says.  —  WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump hamstrung …
 
 
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Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
ANALYSIS: Amy Coney Barrett's Family More Diverse Than Top Liberal Institutions
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Trump risks new backlash with COVID bravado
Discussion: Towleroad Gay News
Politico:
EU court ruling threatens EU-UK data flows
Politico:
‘It is not acceptable’: Cuomo, de Blasio at odds as Covid surges in New York
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
‘The Coal Industry Is Back,’ Trump Proclaimed. It Wasn't.
Discussion: Raw Story
Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
Shift in Ohio vote tallies after election not a sign of ‘something nefarious,’ secretary of state says
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Seth Meyers Destroys Trump's 'Don't Be Afraid of COVID' Nonsense
New York Times:
E. Jean Carroll, Trump Accuser, Seeks to Bar Justice Dept. From Case
Discussion: Bloomberg and Axios
The Times of Israel:
John Hagee, prominent pro-Israel evangelical pastor, ill with COVID-19
Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose:
The next chapter in the Task & Purpose story
Tom Moran / New Jersey Online:
Ex-NJ Gov. Chris Christie speaks from hospital bed after COVID-19 diagnosis, feisty as ever
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Nearly One-Third of Covid Patients in Study Had Altered Mental State
Washington Post:
Trump administration revokes the visa of a Ukrainian political fixer tied to Giuliani
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story