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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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Dhruv Khullar / New Yorker:
The Recklessness of Trump's Return to the White House
The Recklessness of Trump's Return to the White House
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Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Concern rises for White House residence staffers as their workplace emerges as a virus hot spot
Concern rises for White House residence staffers as their workplace emerges as a virus hot spot
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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 …
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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.
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Stop Telling Joe Biden What to Do
Stop Telling Joe Biden What to Do
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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 …
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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.
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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
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
On campaign trail, vulnerable GOP senators play down a more conservative Supreme Court
On campaign trail, vulnerable GOP senators play down a more conservative Supreme Court
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New York Times:
Eric Trump Finally Interviewed in N.Y. Fraud Inquiry — President Trump's son had sought to postpone a deposition with the New York attorney general's office until after Election Day. — After months of delays, President Trump's son Eric was questioned under oath on Monday as part …
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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
Plexiglass to separate Harris and Pence at VP debate
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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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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.
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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 …
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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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.
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 …
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