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12:45 PM ET, April 19, 2020

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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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Laurie McGinley / Washington Post:
Dozens of coronavirus antibody tests on the market were never vetted by the FDA, leading to accuracy concerns  —  Aggressive marketing of the tests could confuse those clamoring for the products to determine who may have developed disease-fighting antibodies
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
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 …
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Washington Post:
Trump campaign concludes there is more to be gained by attacking Biden than trying to promote …
Discussion: NBC News
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Pence says reopening economy safely critical to ensure 'cure isn't worse than the disease'
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump lashes out at governors over testing shortfalls
Discussion: Contemptor and ABC17NEWS
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” …
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Mnuchin says deal could be struck on PPP as early as Sunday  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on CNN's “State of the Union” that the White House and Congress may reach an agreement on supplemental funding for the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses later on Sunday.
Discussion: The Hill
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, Axios, The Hill and New York Post
Washington Post:
Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about coronavirus to Trump administration  —  More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Neiman Marcus to file for bankruptcy as soon as this week - sources  —  (Reuters) - Neiman Marcus Group is preparing to seek bankruptcy protection as soon as this week, becoming the first major U.S. department store operator to succumb to the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak …
Discussion: The Week
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
Washington Post:
FloridaMorons trends after people flock to reopened Florida beaches  —  Aerial snapshots of people flocking to a reopened beach in Jacksonville, Fla., made waves on the Internet on Saturday.  —  Local news aired photos and videos of Florida's shoreline dotted with people, closer than six feet apart …
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
NBC News:
Small-business loan program ran out of money within minutes, some banks say  —  “It was Hunger Games,” said one senior banking executive.  —  Much of the $350 billion in the Small Business Administration's emergency coronavirus relief fund was effectively spoken for within the first minutes of launch …
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Lucas Kwan Peterson / Los Angeles Times:
Column: The PPP is letting our small restaurants and businesses die
Discussion: American Prospect
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 …
Discussion: The Week
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
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.
Discussion: Sputnik News
Tia Ghose / LiveScience:
Way more people may have gotten coronavirus than we thought, small antibody study suggests  —  Between 50 and 85 times as many people in Santa Clara County have coronavirus antibodies as have tested positive for the virus.  —  A night view of Silicon Valley, including Santa Clara and San Jose.
Michael A. Walsh / New York Post:
How the Obamas could easily win eight more years in the White House  —  As the president of the United States shelters in place with the White House press corps, and Joe Biden gibbers senselessly into the GoPro camera in his Delaware basement, this fall's national election has been thrown into a cocked tricorn by the coronavirus.
Discussion: IJR
New York Times:
With Broad, Random Tests for Antibodies, Germany Seeks Path Out of Lockdown  —  It was the first large Western democracy to contain the spread of the coronavirus and is now the first to methodically go about reopening its economy.  Others are watching.  —  BERLIN — Felix Germann …
Ellen Cranley / Business Insider:
White House adviser Stephen Moore has repeatedly compared those protesting coronavirus lockdowns to Rosa Parks  — White House adviser Stephen Moore has repeatedly compared protesters who demonstrated against social-distancing measures to civil-rights icon Rosa Parks.
Discussion: HuffPost, Politico and Slate
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
25 Years After Oklahoma City, Domestic Terrorism Is on the Rise  —  In an exclusive interview with WIRED, FBI director Christopher Wray discusses a scourge that “moves at the speed of social media.”  —  As the United States marks the 25th anniversary Sunday of the bombing …
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Former SEAL makes it an act of valor to run for Congress  —  EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin — There is a tense scene in the movie Act of Valor when Derrick Van Orden, an active duty Navy SEAL at the time of filming, is interrogating a hardcore bad guy.  The grittiness and intensity of the scene …
Discussion: Breitbart and Facebook
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.
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.
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.
ABC News:
Inside nursing homes, coronavirus brings isolation and 7,300 deaths; Outside, families yearn for news  —  Lawmakers demand stronger response, more tracking, more transparency.  —  Throughout March, sirens blared day and night in Brooklyn, as paramedics responded to the Cobble Hill Health Center.
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 …
 
 
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San Diego groups protest government-imposed shutdown orders
Erin O'Donnell / Harvard Magazine:
The Risks of Homeschooling  —  A RAPIDLY INCREASING number …
Discussion: Twitchy
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Government is everywhere now. Where does it go next?
U.S. Department of Justice:
Attorney General William P. Barr's Statement on the Recent Arrests of Pro-Democracy Activists in Hong Kong
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Judge halts Kansas governor's order limiting church gatherings to 10 people: report
Discussion: Big League Politics
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
How do you know voting by mail works? The U.S. military's done it since the Civil War.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Is Asking Us to Play Russian Roulette With Our Lives
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
An Overlooked, Possibly Fatal Coronavirus Crisis: A Dire Need for Kidney Dialysis
Discussion: The Hill
Angie Jackson / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan juvenile lifer who died of coronavirus in prison was weeks away from parole
Discussion: Associated Press and New York Post
Reuters:
Judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests
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
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
‘One World’ Concert Review: Rolling Stones & Beyoncé Hit High Notes At Multi-Network Show …
Discussion: Consequence of Sound
Marc Andreessen / Andreessen Horowitz:
IT'S TIME TO BUILD  —  Every Western institution was unprepared …
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
SC to reopen public beach accesses, retail stores that closed under coronavirus crackdown
Discussion: Redstate, The Daily Caller and The Hill
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead
 

 
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Perri Ormont Blumberg / New York Times:
Memo: Condé Nast and the union representing staff at Vogue, Vanity Fair, and others reach a tentative deal for a first contract after over a year of bargaining

Ben Smith / Semafor:
Q&A with NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn, who says polling shows “democracy” is not a prime concern warranting top coverage, while immigration and the economy are

Wall Street Journal:
Kim Godwin steps down as ABC News' president, a role she has held since 2021, and says she will “retire from broadcast journalism”; no successor has been named

 
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