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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Trump suggests ‘injection’ of disinfectant to beat coronavirus and ‘clean’ the lungs  —  A Homeland Security official, under questioning from reporters, later said federal laboratories are not considering such a treatment option.  —  Trump suggests injecting disinfectant into the body to treat coronavirus
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, MSNBC and Breitbart
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Fact Check: No, Trump Didn't Propose Injecting People with Disinfectant  —  CLAIM: President Donald Trump suggested injecting people with disinfectant to cure coronavirus.  —  VERDICT: False.  Trump was speaking generally about new information about sunlight, heat, and disinfectant killing the virus.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump suggests using light, heat as coronavirus treatment
Discussion: HuffPost, Associated Press and Deadline
CNN:
Fact check: Trump wrongly suggests sunlight could help cure coronavirus
Discussion: Vox
CNN:
New HHS spokesman made racist comments about Chinese people in now-deleted tweets  —  WARNING: This story contains graphic language.  —  (CNN)The new spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services in a series of now-deleted tweets made racist and derogatory comments about Chinese people …
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Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Trump administration health spokesman tweets about Soros and Rothschild family ‘control’  —  WASHINGTON (JTA) — The man President Donald Trump just named to speak for the Health Department accused George Soros and the Rothschild family of seeking to exploit the pandemic for control and to advance their agendas.
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Few Americans trust Trump's info on pandemic  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made himself the daily spokesman for the nation's coronavirus response.  Yet few Americans regularly look to or trust Trump as a source of information on the pandemic …
Discussion: Washington Post, FOX40 and The Week
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Associated Press:
Trump approved of Georgia's reopen plan before bashing it  —  President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly told Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp that they approved of his aggressive plan to allow businesses to reopen, just a day before Trump pulled an about-face and publicly bashed the plan …
Discussion: Mediaite
Associated Press:   Doctors struggle to stay true to science but not cross Trump
New York Times:
Trump and the Coronavirus: A Sour President, Home Alone at the White House  —  As his administration grapples with reopening the economy, President Trump is worried about his re-election and how the news media is portraying him.  —  Trump Asks if Sunlight Can Kill Viruses.  ‘Not as a Treatment,’ Birx Says.
Discussion: Raw Story
Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
“Really Want to Flood NY and NJ”: Internal Documents Reveal Team Trump's Chloroquine Master Plan  —  Forget testing, ventilators, and PPE.  Donald Trump's big plan to beat COVID-19 involved distributing millions of doses of an unproven drug.  Behind the scenes, senior administration officials pushed hard …
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Study: Elderly Trump voters dying of coronavirus could cost him in November  —  Mass casualties from the coronavirus could upend the political landscape in battleground states and shift contests away from President Donald Trump, according to a new analysis.  —  Academic researchers writing …
Discussion: Townhall and Raw Story
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Susan Glasser / New Yorker:
Fifty Thousand Americans Dead from the Coronavirus, and a President Who Refuses to Mourn Them  —  In just the past few days, President Trump has blamed immigrants, China, the “fake news” and, of course, “the invisible enemy” of the coronavirus for America's present troubles.
Jess Bidgood / The Boston Globe:
Elizabeth Warren's oldest brother dies of coronavirus in Oklahoma  —  Donald Reed Herring, the oldest brother of Senator Elizabeth Warren, died on Tuesday night in Norman, Okla., about three weeks after testing positive for coronavirus.  —  Herring, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was 86.
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
No, Trump did not put a Labradoodle breeder in charge of COVID-19 response  —  Yes, the family of the HHS chief of staff sold fancy puppies, but that's not how he got the job, and in any case he wasn't in charge of the coronavirus task force, no matter what you've read online.
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Wisconsin, Virus Creates New Front in Long-Simmering Partisan Wars  —  Protests planned for Friday continue a decade-long partisan cleaving in the state and serve as a stand-in for the general election battle to come.  —  Wisconsin had barely finished its fight over whether to hold …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Dossier Author Testified His Emails Were ‘Wiped,’ He No Longer Has Documents Related To Primary Source  — Christopher Steele told a British court last month that he no longer has key documents related to his infamous dossier.  — The ex-spy said in a deposition that his email accounts …
Brendan Morrow / The Week:
Trump adviser suggests reopening economy by putting ‘everybody in a space outfit’  —  One of President Trump's economic advisers has an admittedly “crazy” idea for how to reopen the country amid the coronavirus pandemic: space outfits.  —  Stephen Moore, a member of Trump's economic task force …
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump says he doesn't agree with Fauci that U.S. is “not there yet” on testing
Discussion: Associated Press, The Hill and The Week
Gabrielle Hamilton / New York Times:
My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years.  Does the World Need It Anymore?  —  Forced to shutter Prune, I've been revisiting my original dreams for it — and wondering if there will still be a place for it in the New York of the future.  —  On the night before I laid off all 30 of my employees …
Liz Crampton / Politico:
Save your bacon: A real meat shortage looms with virus shutdowns  —  Melvin Menendez wears a protective mask as he stocks shelves with meat April 21 at the Presidente Supermarket in Hialeah, Fla.  —  Americans could start to see shortages of pork, chicken and beef on grocery shelves as soon …
Washington Post:
Trump administration considers leveraging emergency coronavirus loan to force Postal Service changes  —  President Trump has railed for years against what he sees as mismanagement of the agency, which he argues has been exploited by sites such as Amazon  —  The Treasury Department …
Discussion: The Hill
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products  —  Contrary to assertions to Congress, employees often consulted sales information on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise  —  Amazon.com Inc. employees have used data about independent sellers …
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Democrats demand answers on whether Amazon ‘lied’ about data tactics
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP has reached its sad, inevitable destination  —  When I think I have reached the bottom of my dejection about the state of public health and of the economy, I can always turn to the state of the Republican Party and go lower still.  —  The Trump captivity of the GOP has reached its sad …
Dr. Scott W. Atlas / The Hill:
The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation  —  The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase.  Tens of thousands of Americans have died, and Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts.
Discussion: Big League Politics and Twitchy
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
‘Fox & Friends First’ Host Heather Childers Complains About Fox News Benching Her During Coronavirus  —  The Fox morning host has spent weeks repeatedly lamenting that her own show and bosses have ghosted her since the pandemic began.  —  A longtime Fox News host who hasn't appeared …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Misunderstanding the math, Trump embraced a coronavirus death toll we'll soon surpass  —  When the White House announced its recommendation last month that Americans refrain from meeting in groups and take other steps to contain the spread of the coronavirus, it presented a chart suggesting …
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto: 5 things to know about Biden's potential vice presidential nominee  —  Catherine Cortez Masto made history four years ago as the first Latina elected to the U.S. Senate.  —  She'll earn another chapter in the history books if former Vice President Joe Biden names …
Gabby Echevarrieta / The Purist:
The Cuomos' Corona Protocol, Week 3  —  Just as my husband, Chris, began to finally kick this, I was stricken with the coronavirus.  I spent a week in isolation battling COVID-19.  Here's what I learned—and what I did to push it out over the week.  —  On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day …
Discussion: Redstate, Page Six and Twitchy
Marc Levy / Associated Press:
Swing-state Republicans pin virus fallout on Democrats  —  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — With legions out of work, Republicans across the critical battleground states are trying to lay blame for the economic wreckage of the coronavirus outbreak on Democratic governors, ramping up a political strategy …
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Kansas GOP chair asks Wagle and Lindstrom to drop out of Senate race for good of party  —  Kansas GOP chair Mike Kuckelman sent letters Thursday to two Republican candidates asking them to drop out of the race for U.S. Senate for the good of the party.  —  In nearly identical April 23 letters …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
‘Florida Is a Terrible State to Be an Unemployed Person’  —  Florida has emerged as one of the slowest states in the nation to process an avalanche of unemployment claims since the coronavirus hit.  —  MIAMI — After Ernst Virgile lost his job at the Fort Lauderdale airport …
Discussion: Florida Politics
Associated Press:
Governor: Antibody survey shows wide exposure to virus in NY  —  NEW YORK (AP) — More evidence is emerging that far more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests, officials said Thursday.  —  A state survey of about 3,000 people found that nearly 14% had antibodies …
Washington Post:
White House promotes new lab results suggesting heat and sunlight slow coronavirus  —  Results are preliminary, with many uncertainties remaining.  —  PLEASE NOTE  —  President Trump and Vice President Pence showcased emerging laboratory evidence on Wednesday that suggest the spread …
CBS News:
Phunware, a data firm for Trump campaign, got millions in coronavirus small business help  —  A digital technology company that specializes in the mass collection of smartphone location data and is working for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign received millions from the federal coronavirus relief fund for small businesses.
Beth LeBlanc / Detroit News:
Democrats plan to censure lawmaker who credited Trump for COVID-19 recovery  —  Detroit Democrats plan to vote Saturday to censure and bar any future endorsements of a Democratic lawmaker who credited President Donald Trump with advocating for the drug that she said cured her of COVID-19.
Douglas Hanks / Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade County misses out on 1 million N95 masks when feds scoop up shipment  —  Miami-Dade's emergency arm was close to taking possession of 1 million N95 masks last week, but the shipment was “taken” by the federal government, WLRN reported.  —  Frank Rollason, Miami-Dade's director …
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Joumana Khatib / New York Times:
11 Books to Watch For in May  —  A prequel to “The Hunger Games …
CNN:
With lobbying push, gyms get on Phase One of Trump's reopening plan
Discussion: Raw Story
CREW:
Does the Vice President's Chief of Staff Have a Coronavirus Conflict of Interest?
Discussion: Raw Story
Trish Turner / ABC News:
House approves $310B for small business loans, $100B for hospitals and testing
Discussion: The Hill
Raisa Habersham / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Wuhan Plague’ plaques found on Atlanta businesses, streets
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Larry Summers Advising Biden Campaign on Economic Recovery
Juana Summers / NPR:
Opposition To Trump Likely To Motivate Young Voters, Poll Shows
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
A Conservative Journalist Admitted To Taking $100,000 From A Financier Connected To A Controversial Chinese Billionaire
 Earlier Items: 
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Officials probe the threat of a coronavirus bioweapon
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
We Won't Do This for 12 to 18 Months  —  Economist Herb Stein …
Mary Kekatos Senior / Daily Mail:
Was Hockney RIGHT?  French researchers to give nicotine patches to coronavirus patients …
Discussion: Big League Politics, RFI, spiked and The Sun
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Do Most Republicans Agree With People Protesting Stay-At-Home Orders?
Discussion: National Review