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8:30 PM ET, April 24, 2020

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump plans to cut daily coronavirus briefings  —  President Trump plans to pare back his coronavirus press conferences, according to four sources familiar with the internal deliberations.  As soon as next week, he may stop appearing daily and make shorter appearances when he does, the sources said.
NBC News:
Trump's remarks on disinfectants left even close aides shocked  —  West Wing aides and members of the coronavirus task force were taken aback by the president's “off-the-cuff” remarks.  —  WASHINGTON — Members of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force and aides in the West Wing …
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Washington Post:
Trump asked if disinfectants could be injected to kill the coronavirus inside the body.
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Lysol manufacturer warns against internal use after Trump comments
Jordan Valinsky / CNN:
Lysol maker: Please don't drink our cleaning products
Washington Post:
Trump floats another bogus coronavirus cure …
Discussion: US EPA
Emily Ashton / BuzzFeed:
Please Don't Drink Disinfectant, Lysol And Dettol Maker Says After Trump Suggested People …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says remarks about heat, light, disinfectant were sarcastic
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
New Evidence Supporting Credibility of Tara Reade's Allegation Against Joe Biden Emerges  —  A new piece of evidence has emerged buttressing the credibility of Tara Reade's claim that she told her mother about allegations of sexual harassment and assault related to her former boss, then-Sen. Joe Biden.
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Scott Whitlock / NB Blog:   SHOCK Video: Is This the Mother of Joe Biden's Accuser Talking to CNN in 1993? [UPDATED]
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus ‘cure’ wrote to Trump this week  —  Mark Grenon wrote to Trump saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment  —  The leader of the most prominent group …
New York Times:
Navy Leaders Recommend Reinstating Roosevelt Captain Fired Over Virus Warning  —  Capt. Brett E. Crozier, who was removed from command after sending a letter pleading for help to fight the coronavirus on his aircraft carrier, was largely cleared after Navy review.
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Lara Seligman / Politico:   Navy recommends reinstating fired captain who sounded alarm on coronavirus outbreak
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Newly Filed Court Documents Include Exculpatory Evidence For Michael Flynn  —  New documents filed under seal in federal court include exculpatory information about former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, an FBI official told The Federalist on Friday.
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New York Times:
Durham Inquiry Includes Scrutiny of a Media Leak  —  The attorney general has suggested that the Justice Department review of the Russia investigation has uncovered “troubling” findings without going into details.  —  WASHINGTON — For years, President Trump has complained bitterly about F.B …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Stacey Abrams's Remarkable Campaign for Vice President  —  Stacey Abrams has a theory about how Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump: Pick her as his running mate.  —  “We have to win the election.  And I would point out that I ran the most successful campaign to engage the communities we need …
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Joseph Biden / Action Network:
BLACK WOMEN LEADERS LETTER TO DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOSEPH BIDEN
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
HuffPost:
Poll Finds Elizabeth Warren VP Pick Most Likely To Pull In Bernie Sanders Voters
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Phill Swagel / CBO Publications:
CBO's Current Projections of Output, Employment, and Interest Rates and a Preliminary Look at Federal Deficits for 2020 and 2021  —  CBO has developed preliminary projections of key economic variables through the end of calendar year 2021, based on information about the economy …
Washington Post:
Trump says he will block coronavirus aid for U.S. Postal Service if it doesn't hike prices immediately  —  The president said the postal agency should quadruple its package delivery prices and said he will stop congressionally approved funding  —  President Trump on Friday said he would not be approving …
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump: Postal service is a ‘joke’ that must raise prices to get bailout money
Discussion: The Hill
Yahoo Finance:   Here's Where $881 Billion in U.S. Aid Went in Month of Spending
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
New Poll Shows a Hidden Danger for Trump: Double Haters  —  During the last weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's data team was obsessed with a particular subset of voters: those who disliked both Trump and Hillary Clinton.  As I reported in my book about the race …
Discussion: National Review and Vox
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Washington Post:
Stephen Miller has long-term vision for Trump's ‘temporary’ immigration order, according to private call with supporters  —  Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller told White House supporters in a private call this week that the president's new executive order curbing immigration will usher …
Reuters:
Exclusive: China sent team including medical experts to advise on North Korea's Kim, sources say  —  BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to three people familiar with the situation.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Politico:
Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China — and the loan is due soon  —  Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president.  —  But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China: In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced …
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Pressured by China, E.U. Softens Report on Covid-19 Disinformation  —  A revised report shows how Beijing reacts swiftly and effectively to tamp down Western criticism of its pandemic response.  —  BRUSSELS — Bowing to heavy pressure from Beijing, European Union officials softened …
Discussion: Breitbart
U.S. Department of Justice:
Ex-FBI Agent Arrested on Conspiracy Charge Alleging He Accepted Bribes Paid by Lawyer Linked to Armenian Organized Crime Figure  —  LOS ANGELES - A Bay Area man who retired from the FBI last year after 20 years as a special agent was arrested today on a federal criminal charge alleging …
Mike Stunson / Sacramento Bee:
Six new coronavirus symptoms just officially added to CDC list.  What are they?  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tripled the number of coronavirus symptoms it lists on its website.  —  The federal organization previously listed fever, cough and shortness of breath as symptoms of COVID-19.
Discussion: New York Post and Mercury News
New York Times:
Trump Speech to Bring 1,000 West Point Cadets Back to Campus  —  The president's off-again, on-again speech in June will bring back cadets who had scattered across the country to help counter the coronavirus.  —  WASHINGTON — For President Trump, who adores the pomp and precision of military ceremonies …
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Man Who Died Ingesting Fish Tank Cleaner Remembered as Intelligent, Levelheaded Engineer  —  In death, he has become famous as a cautionary tale about the risks of mindlessly following the armchair medical advice President Donald Trump has dispensed from the White House podium.
Discussion: Redstate and Twitchy
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
I Used to Make Fun of Silicon Valley Preppers.  Then I Became One.  —  In tech circles, gearing up for the apocalypse was a cliché.  Now it's a credential.  —  For years, one of the most smirked-at subspecies in the technology ecosystem was that of the Silicon Valley Prepper.
Washington Post:
Faces of the dead  —  No infectious disease in a century has exacted as swift and merciless a toll on the United States as covid-19.  With no vaccine and no cure, the pandemic has killed people in every state.  The necessary isolation it imposes has robbed the bereaved of proper goodbyes and the comfort of mourning rituals.
Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade has tens of thousands of missed coronavirus infections, UM survey finds  —  About 6 percent of Miami-Dade's population — about 165,000 residents — have antibodies indicating a past infection by the novel coronavirus, dwarfing the state health department's tally of about 10,600 cases …
Discussion: Redstate, Talking Points Memo and Vox
ProPublica:
Nursing Homes Violated Basic Health Standards, Allowing the Coronavirus to Explode  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  One by one, toward the end of March, residents of Enumclaw Health …
Windsor Mann / The Week:
The president is unwell  —  The only thing worse than a pandemic is having Donald Trump as your president during a pandemic.  Tens of thousands of Americans have died.  Tens of millions have lost their jobs.  President Trump, meanwhile, has indulged in self-pity, touted an unproven drug …
Discussion: Raw Story
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Amid The Pandemic, U.S. Militia Groups Plot ‘The Boogaloo,’ AKA Civil War, On Facebook  —  Extremists are promoting anti-government violence on Facebook during the coronavirus pandemic.  The social media giant appears to be doing little about it.  —  Thousands of armed right-wing militants …
Discussion: Gizmodo and BuzzFeed News
 
 
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Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
North American trade deal to take effect on July 1
Anthony L. Fisher / Business Insider:
The ADL's extremism statistics make it seem like ultraright-wing violence in the US is more common than it actually is
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Supreme Court denies motion to block Trump ‘public charge’ rule during pandemic
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Southern Republicans Lifting Coronavirus Lockdowns Are Also Keeping the Working Poor From Health Coverage
Discussion: Retirementrevised.com
Washington Post:
White House faces internal debate over ‘liability shield’ for firms seeking protection from covid-19 lawsuits
Chris Christie / Washington Post:
Don't let our covid-19 response be governed by extremes
BNN:
Resentment grows on Main Street over bailout winners and losers
Liz Szabo / Yahoo News:
The anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown movements are converging, refusing to be ‘enslaved’
 Earlier Items: 
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Controversial idea to speed coronavirus vaccine gains ground
Discussion: Big Think and Al Jazeera
Neera Tanden / USA Today:
A lesson about Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden for progressives in doubt
New York Times:
Turmoil in Brazil: Bolsonaro Fires Police Chief and Justice Minister Quits
Nathaniel Flakin / Left Voice:
Noam Chomsky Is a Liberal
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Taylor Swift Hits Soros Family for ‘Shameless Greed’
Simon Romero / New York Times:
How New Mexico, One of the Poorest States, Averted a Steep Death Toll
Discussion: Balloon Juice
New York Times:
Biden Will Fund-Raise With D.N.C. and His Appointee Will Lead the Committee
Discussion: NBC News and The Hill
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump team moves to scrap protections for LGBTQ patients
Discussion: Slate, Raw Story and Vox
 

 
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Variety:
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