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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Why Wisconsin Republicans Insisted on an Election in a Pandemic  —  Mask-wearing voters in endless lines.  Five polling places instead of 180.  Voting amid the coronavirus crisis is full of challenges — and connected to G.O.P. efforts to limit who gets a ballot in the state.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Rulings on Wisconsin Election Raise Questions About Judicial Partisanship
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:   People made the ultimate sacrifice for you to vote. Shouldn't you do the same?
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
In Tuesday's Wisconsin primary, Republicans will literally kill you to win an election
Discussion: Rolling Stone, Fox News and Vox
NBC News:
Coronavirus has ignited a battle over voting by mail. Here's why it's so controversial.
Discussion: Vox, The Nation and CNN
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
They Turned Out to Vote in Wisconsin During a Health Crisis. Here's Why.
Discussion: Washington Post
Politico:
Trump removes independent watchdog for coronavirus funds, upending oversight panel  —  President Donald Trump has upended the panel of federal watchdogs overseeing implementation of the $2 trillion coronavirus law, tapping a replacement for the Pentagon official who was supposed to lead the effort.
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Yahoo News:
Mattis rebukes Trump over removal of Pentagon inspector general  —  Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis issued a rare public rebuke of President Trump Tuesday over his decision to fire Glenn Fine, the Pentagon inspector general charged with overseeing implementation of the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package.
Discussion: The Hill and Mother Jones
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Trump removes inspector general who was to oversee $2 trillion stimulus spending  —  President Trump has removed the chairman of the federal panel Congress created to oversee his administration's management of the $2 trillion stimulus package.  —  Glenn Fine, who had been the acting …
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Sudden Removal of Head of CARES Act Oversight  —  San Francisco - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the abrupt demotion of Acting Defense Department Inspector General Glenn Fine and removal from his position as head of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee created …
Discussion: The Hill and NPR
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Senators to Seek Explanation From Trump of Watchdog's Firing
Discussion: Politico
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Trump's dismissal of competent officials is an attack on accountability
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Trump replaces Pentagon IG, removing him from coronavirus relief oversight panel
Discussion: IJR
Rolling Stone:
John Prine, One of America's Greatest Songwriters, Dead at 73  —  Grammy-winning singer who combined literary genius with a common touch succumbs to coronavirus complications  —  John Prine, who for five decades wrote rich, plain-spoken songs that chronicled the struggles and stories …
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William Grimes / New York Times:
John Prine, Who Chronicled the Human Condition in Song, Dies at 73  —  The folk singer and songwriter with a raspy voice and an offbeat humor was revered by peers including Bob Dylan.  —  John Prine, the raspy-voiced country-folk singer whose ingenious lyrics to songs by turns poignant …
Discussion: The Mahablog, The Wrap and alicublog
New York Times:
Trump Has a New Press Secretary Who Knows How to Defend Him  —  Kayleigh McEnany, his campaign spokeswoman, replaces Stephanie Grisham, who had the job for nine months, and will return to Melania Trump's staff.  —  WASHINGTON — In President Trump's early days in the White House …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
‘Trump Has Never Lied’: New Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany's Long History of Bullshit and Lies
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
CNN:
Grisham out as West Wing press secretary without having held a briefing
Washington Post:
Meadows installs new press secretary as part of White House staff shake-up
Discussion: Twitchy and The Root
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Lara Seligman / Politico:
Navy in crisis: Top leader's resignation roils service in the middle of a pandemic  —  An aircraft carrier sidelined by a coronavirus outbreak.  A promising captain fired for requesting help as infections spread among his 5,000 sailors.  And a service leaderless once more …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's purge is about to get much worse.  Schiff just sent up a flare.  —  After President Trump fired the inspector general of the intelligence community, he didn't bother disguising his true reason for doing so: Because that IG had conducted his lawful duties in a manner that resulted …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Garrett M. Graff / Politico:   Trump Broke the Agencies That Were Supposed To Stop the Covid-19 Epidemic
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Schiff demands that Grenell explain Trump's purge of inspectors general
Discussion: Politico and CyberScoop
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
In praise of Jonathan Karl or: The virtue of not being a self-important drama queen  —  In a sea of self-important buffoonery, ABC News's Jonathan Karl is an island.  —  On Monday, during a White House press briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump berated Karl during a back-and-forth …
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump Anoints a New Class of Media Stars
Discussion: The Wrap, HuffPost and The Daily Beast
Victoria McGrane / The Boston Globe:
Ed Markey falling short of signatures ahead of May deadline  —  Harder to gather in-person support in coronavirus era  —  The e-mail subject line was notable for an incumbent United States senator: “Help get Ed on the ballot.”  —  That was the message the campaign of Edward J. Markey sent …
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies without a word  —  Although President Trump has directed states and hospitals to secure what supplies they can, the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers across the country in the dark …
Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
Drop the Curtain on the Trump Follies  —  Why does the nation need to be subjected to the president's daily carnival of misinformation, preening and political venom?  —  Ms. Cottle is a member of the editorial board.  —  Even as the Trump administration slowly finds its footing in the war …
Discussion: Kaiser Health News and Politico
The Texas Tribune:
Texas City nursing home residents with coronavirus being treated with unproven hydroxychloroquine drug  —  The physician and nursing home medical director who prescribed the drug is a campaign surrogate for President Donald Trump.  —  *Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.
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Kathryn Eastburn / Galveston County Daily News:   Texas City COVID-19 patients receive hydroxychloroquine
Frances Martel / Breitbart:
Report: Wuhan Funeral Homes Burned Coronavirus Victims Alive  —  Locals in Wuhan, where the Chinese coronavirus pandemic originated, have heard screams coming from funeral home furnaces, and some treated in hospitals say they saw workers put living coronavirus patients in body bags, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Monday.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RFA
Gwynne Hogan / Gothamist:
Staggering Surge Of NYers Dying In Their Homes Suggests City Is Undercounting Coronavirus Fatalities  —  If you die at home from the coronavirus, there's a good chance you won't be included in the official death toll, because of a discrepancy in New York City's reporting process.
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida election officials sound the alarm ahead of November  —  TALLAHASSEE — Election supervisors in Florida warned Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday that he needs to change the law to give them more flexibility to avoid a presidential election meltdown in the nation's biggest swing state.
Discussion: Raw Story and electionlawblog.org
Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
The Far-Right Helped Create The World's Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology  —  Clearview AI, which has alarmed privacy experts, hired several far-right employees, a HuffPost investigation found.  —  Advanced facial recognition technology poses a mortal threat to privacy.
Discussion: Raw Story
Oona A. Hathaway / Slate:
After COVID-19, We Need to Redefine “National Security”  —  The post-9/11 era is over.  —  The United States national security system is the best funded, best equipped, and most powerful the world has ever seen.  In the years since the Sept. 11 attacks, if a terrorist group anywhere …
Lis Smith / Vanity Fair:
“Go Everywhere”: How Dr. Anthony Fauci's Media Strategy Is Revolutionizing Coronavirus Messaging  —  The strategic playbook for political communications is being remastered in the most unlikely of places: Donald Trump's White House.  No, not by the president during his highly rated, often bizarre media briefings.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
'It's like nothing else': Klobuchar, husband talk about his battle with coronavirus  —  “It's one of the hardest, hardest things,” Klobuchar told NBC News in an exclusive interview about her family's ordeal.  —  Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her husband recounted the battle with coronavirus that landed …
Discussion: New York Post and The Hill
Washington Post:
Even as deaths mount, officials see signs pandemic's toll may not match worst fears  —  U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported 29,000 more people infected with the novel coronavirus and more than 1,800 more deaths — the highest daily death toll so far.  —  But amid the grim data …
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
New Zealand isn't just flattening the curve.  It's squashing it.  —  HAVELOCK NORTH, New Zealand — It's been less than two weeks since New Zealand imposed a coronavirus lockdown so strict that swimming at the beach and hunting in bushland were banned.  They're not essential activities …
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
ABC News:
Disaster in motion: Where flights from coronavirus-ravaged countries landed in US  —  Thousands of flights came into US as coronavirus raged.  —  An ABC News joint investigation with its owned television stations sheds new light on the likely flow of the coronavirus from global hotspots …
Miami Herald:
Inside Florida's frenzied, failed dash to dole out $600 million in no-bid mask deals  —  When Florida belatedly realized last week that its COVID-19 problem was going to cascade into a statewide crisis, the state Division of Emergency Management embarked on a frantic, frenzied attempt to buy N95 masks …
Discussion: Florida Politics
 
 
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Washington Post:
The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate
Discussion: Axios, WSVN-TV, The Uptake and NBC News
Megan Twohey / New York Times:
New Battle for Those on Coronavirus Front Lines: Child Custody
Jack Phillips / theepochtimes.com:
White House Aims to Reopen US Economy as Soon as Possible, Kudlow and Mnuchin Say
Discussion: Power Line and Bloomberg
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
By A 10-to-1 Margin, Americans Support Orders To Stay At Home
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Isolationist Allies Push Trump to Tap Obscure Colonel for Pentagon Post
Janelle Griffith / NBC News:
Louisiana woman, 86, and three of her sons die after contracting coronavirus
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Rosie O'Donnell Says She Visited Michael Cohen in Prison
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John Anderer / Study Finds:
Study: Air Pollution May Play Role In Italy's High Coronavirus Death Rate
Associated Press:
Coronavirus pandemic breeds Washington lobbying boom
Niall Ferguson / Globe and Mail:
Let's Zoom Xi. He has questions to answer
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Today is Bernie Sanders' last meaningful day as a presidential candidate
Discussion: VTDigger and National Review
Miami Herald:
‘Flu-like’ data might help track coronavirus spread. Why did Florida stop publishing it?
Discussion: Florida Politics
Robert Faturechi / ProPublica:
Senate Intel Chair Sold Dutch Fertilizer Stock in 2018, Right Before a Collapse
Discussion: Law & Crime
Marshall Allen / ProPublica:
A Nurse Bought Protective Supplies for Her Colleagues Using GoFundMe. The Hospital Suspended Her.
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at the rise in video podcasts, as YouTube leads in podcast consumption in the US and companies invest in video to gain new audiences and boost ad revenue

 
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