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10:30 AM ET, April 19, 2020

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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump's unspoken factor on reopening the economy: Politics  —  President Donald Trump and his aides aren't just weighing coronavirus infection rates as they push for a quick economic restart.  They think it's good politics, too.  —  Trump aides and allies say they are growing confident …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Trump campaign concludes there is more to be gained by attacking Biden than trying to promote president's pandemic response  —  President Trump's campaign is preparing to launch a broad effort aimed at linking Joe Biden to China, after concluding that it would be more politically effective …
Discussion: NBC News
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Charlie Kirk calls on Students for Trump members to launch 'peaceful rebellion against governors …
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
A Beloved Bar Owner Was Skeptical About the Virus.  Then He Took a Cruise.  —  Joe Joyce oversaw JJ Bubbles, a welcoming tavern in a conservative corner of Brooklyn, for 43 years until he died of Covid-19.  —  Decades before he would embark on a cruise to the Mediterranean …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Speaker Pelosi rips Trump as ‘weak leader,’ tells ‘Fox News Sunday’ he's failed on coronavirus response  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave President Trump an ‘F’ for what she called “weak” leadership during the coronavirus pandemic and promised that despite recent snags, Congress will “soon” …
Discussion: ABC News, The Hill and Instapundit
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Mnuchin says deal could be struck on PPP as early as Sunday
Mariam Khan / ABC News:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warns Trump may put US in ‘further danger’ during coronavirus crisis
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Trump Has Begun His Corona Campaign.  We Don't Have to Play Along.  —  The coronavirus story isn't about the president.  —  Did you hear?  The president said some things today.  Mean things!  About someone I know ... I can't quite remember the details, or whether it was today or yesterday, or what day of the week it is, anyway.
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Sheila Kaplan / New York Times:
C.D.C. Labs Were Contaminated, Delaying Coronavirus Testing, Officials Say  —  Fallout from the agency's failed rollout of national coronavirus kits two months ago continues to haunt U.S. efforts to combat the spread of the highly infectious virus.  —  Sloppy laboratory practices at the Centers …
Discussion: Sputnik News and Washington Post
Lucas Kwan Peterson / Los Angeles Times:
Column: The PPP is letting our small restaurants and businesses die  —  Restaurants are among the hardest-hit businesses during the coronavirus shutdown.  The National Restaurant Assn. estimates that 3 million restaurant employees lost their jobs in March, a month in which restaurants lost about $45 billion in revenue.
Discussion: WPRI-TV
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NBC News:   Small-business loan program ran out of money within minutes, some banks say
Mark Murray / NBC News:
In new poll, 60 percent support keeping stay-at-home restrictions to fight coronavirus  —  Fifty-eight percent say they are more worried about stopping the virus' spread while 32 percent are more concerned with the economic fallout, a new NBC News/WSJ poll shows.
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
NBC News:
Coronavirus hits Indian Country hard, exposing infrastructure disparities  —  “You're saying 20 seconds of wash your hands with water,” a Navajo doctor in Arizona said.  “We do not have plumbing.  And that's how I grew up.”  —  Every third day, someone from Dr. Michelle Tom's family navigates …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Conservative news mogul Matt Drudge fires back at Trump, says his web traffic is at record levels  —  New York (CNN)In a rare statement, Matt Drudge, the prominent conservative news mogul, refuted President Trump's Saturday claim that traffic to his website has plummeted as its coverage has grown more critical of him.
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead  —  There will be no quick return to our previous lives, according to nearly two dozen experts.  But there is hope for managing the scourge now and in the long term.  —  The coronavirus is spreading from America's biggest cities to its suburbs …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump and Fox went all-in on a coronavirus silver bullet.  But maybe the wrong one.  —  There is not, as of writing, any medication which has been shown in controlled trials to significantly hasten recovery from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus that's become a global pandemic.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Battleground power plays rage as everyday politics go quiet  —  Local party activity?  Some Facebook traffic, if that.  —  Across an arc of vital swing states, the coronavirus has put politics on an uneasy pause.  —  Instead, political fights among state leaders from Iowa to Pennsylvania …
David J. Lynch / Stamford Advocate:
Record government and corporate debt risks ‘tipping point’ after pandemic passes  —  The United States is embarking on a rapid-fire experiment in borrowing without precedent, as the government and corporations take on trillions of dollars of debt to offset the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic.
New York Times:
An Overlooked, Possibly Fatal Coronavirus Crisis: A Dire Need for Kidney Dialysis  —  Ventilators aren't the only machines in intensive care units that are in short supply.  Doctors have been confronting an unexpected rise in patients with failing kidneys.  —  For weeks, U.S. government officials …
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New York Times:
Officials Say C.D.C. Errors Caused Testing Delays
Discussion: The Hill
Marc Andreessen / Andreessen Horowitz:
IT'S TIME TO BUILD  —  Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings.  This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it's not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it.
USA Today:
Create Coronavirus Commission now to review pandemic response: Schiff, Thompson & Murphy  —  This is not an exercise in score-settling or finger-pointing.  Only an objective, bipartisan examination of this pandemic will prepare us for the next.  —  The fight against coronavirus is unlike any our nation has waged in modern history.
Bill Scher / Politico:
Will the Pandemic Keep Third Parties Off the 2020 Ballot?  —  The pandemic may have robbed Donald Trump of a growing economy.  It may have trapped Joe Biden in his basement.  But it may yet do something even worse to the Libertarian and Green party nominees: keep them off the ballot in many of this year's key states.
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
How do you know voting by mail works?  The U.S. military's done it since the Civil War.  —  Advocates and lawmakers believe it could be a model for November because of coronavirus.  —  WASHINGTON — The nation in crisis.  A divisive president up for reelection.
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Judge halts Kansas governor's order limiting church gatherings to 10 people: report  —  A federal court in Kansas issued a temporary restraining order Saturday against an executive order capping church gatherings at 10 people due to COVID-19, according to a local report.
Discussion: Big League Politics
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump's approval rally has disappeared  —  (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Gallup poll finds Present Donald Trump's approval stands at 43%.  His disapproval rating is at 54%.  —  Trump's approval rating is down significantly from 49% in March, while his disapproval rating is up 9 points from 45%.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump lashes out at governors over testing shortfalls  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump on Saturday repeatedly blamed governors for not making full use of coronavirus testing capacity in their states, even as several Democrat and Republican governors said they are facing shortages of critical supplies to conduct tests.
Discussion: ABC17NEWS
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
‘One World’ Concert Review: Rolling Stones & Beyoncé Hit High Notes At Multi-Network Show For COVID-19 Frontline Workers  —  With greetings in a multitude of languages, a suited and booted Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon kicked off the multi-network One World …
Discussion: Consequence of Sound
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Is Asking Us to Play Russian Roulette With Our Lives  —  Are we really going to bet that we can go back to life as normal without proper coronavirus tracking in place?  —  “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!”  “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”  “LIBERATE VIRGINIA.”  —  With these three short tweets last week …
Angie Jackson / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan juvenile lifer who died of coronavirus in prison was weeks away from parole  —  William Garrison was due to come home from prison in early May. After nearly 44 years incarcerated, he would be free from a life sentence handed to him as a juvenile.  —  His sister Yolanda Peterson …
Discussion: Associated Press and New York Post
 
 
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Former SEAL makes it an act of valor to run for Congress
Discussion: Breitbart and Facebook
Reuters:
Judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests
Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
Newsom tells protesters of stay-at-home order he will be swayed by science, not politics
Discussion: The Hill and KTLA
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
No Timeout for FBI Scandals
Molly Jong-Fast / Vogue:
Embracing Life in a Time of Death
Discussion: New York Post
Michael Rosenwald / Washington Post:
The nation's first unemployment check — $15 — and the love story that led to it
Mario Parker / Bloomberg:
Trump Suggests China May Be ‘Knowingly Responsible’ for Virus
Nikki Wentling / Stars & Stripes:
Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins, known for Vietnam heroics, dies of coronavirus
 Earlier Items: 
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Sick, elderly, pregnant: the California renters being evicted even during the pandemic
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
The coronavirus is leading to dangerous shortages of key medications
Discussion: Yahoo Finance
Ted Nesi / WPRI-TV:
RI is only state doing enough tests to safely reopen, Harvard experts suggest
Discussion: Vox and VICE
Spencer Soper / Yahoo Finance:
Amazon Is Poised to Emerge From the Pandemic Stronger Than Ever
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
SC to reopen public beach accesses, retail stores that closed under coronavirus crackdown
Jon Levine / New York Post:
‘Republican AOC’ Laura Loomer gains steam in congressional run
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
ProPublica:
Memo to America's Governors:
Washington Post:
U.S. sent millions of face masks to China early this year, ignoring pandemic warning signs
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post