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Jason Dearen / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Top White House officials buried CDC report  —  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation's top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House …
Yahoo News:
Document reveals Secret Service has 11 current coronavirus cases, as concerns about Trump's staff grow  —  WASHINGTON—Multiple members of the U.S. Secret Service have tested positive for the COVID 19, the disease caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to Department of Homeland Security documents reviewed by Yahoo News.
Discussion: WHOTV and Raw Story
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Politico:
Katie Miller, Pence spokeswoman, tests positive for coronavirus  —  Katie Miller, a spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence, has tested positive for coronavirus, according to two people with knowledge of Miller's diagnosis.  —  Miller's positive diagnosis for Covid-19 puts the potential threat …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump flouts coronavirus protocols as security experts warn of need to protect president from a lethal threat  —  President Trump on Friday continued to eschew key public health guidelines from his own administration — meeting with Republican lawmakers and World War II veterans without a face-mask …
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary tests positive for coronavirus  — Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary, Katie Miller, has tested positive for coronavirus, Miller confirmed to NBC News on Friday.  — Katie Miller, who said she was asymptomatic, also handled communications for the coronavirus task force.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A single Kayleigh McEnany quote gives away the game
Discussion: Politico, NBC News and Fox News
New York Times:
The Appalling Damage of Dropping the Michael Flynn Case  —  It embeds into official U.S. policy a shockingly extremist view of law enforcement as the enemy of the American people.  —  The authors are law professors at Georgetown.  —  Criminal law specialists and members of the law enforcement community are tough to really shock.
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Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:   Bill Barr Tests Negative for Integrity
Alan M. Dershowitz / Gatestone Institute:
Flynn Was Innocent All Along: He Was Pressured to Plead Guilty
Discussion: Law & Crime
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Barr and Trump hint at coming moves after Flynn is let off
Christian Boone / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Glynn County commissioner says DA blocked arrests after fatal shooting  —  Glynn County Commissioner Peter Murphy on Friday said that he had determined that District Attorney Jackie Johnson's office refused to allow Glynn police to make arrests immediately after the Feb. 23 shooting death of Ahmaud Abery.
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CNN:
Men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery thought he was a burglary suspect.  But no burglaries were reported in the month before the shooting  —  Glynn County, Georgia (CNN)The two white men arrested Thursday evening in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery told police they believed he was a suspect in a series of break-ins.
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Trump made Florida his official residence.  He may have also made a legal mess.  —  For nearly a quarter-century, President Trump has envisioned boats docking at Mar-a-Lago, his swanky club set on 17 acres of prime real estate in Palm Beach, Fla., that rambles across manicured grounds between …
Dan Solomon / Texas Monthly:
Arrested Dallas Hairdresser's GoFundMe Launched Before She Even Reopened  —  As far as PR stunts go, this one has been lucrative.  —  On Friday, Ted Cruz flew to Dallas for a haircut.  He hadn't been looking particularly shaggy, but as hair salons have become the latest front in the culture war …
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Sen. Ted Cruz Gets Haircut At Salon A La Mode After Owner Shelley Luther Released From Jail
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:   A Look At The Democrat Dallas Judge Who Jailed A Salon Owner
Anna Merlan / VICE:
‘Plandemic’ Is Dangerous, Viral Nonsense  —  Judy Mikovits has an urgent story to tell.  In essence, it goes like this: Top government scientists are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, and a lot else besides.  She knows because she was once one of them, before they tried to destroy …
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Greg Fish / Rantt Media:
Debunking “Plandemic,” The Coronavirus Conspiracy Video
Discussion: NBC News
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
I Just Flew.  It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be.  —  The cabin was restless.  It was a weekday afternoon in late April, and I was among dozens of people boarding an airplane that most of us had assumed would be empty.  Flight attendants were scrambling to accommodate seat-change requests.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Other countries are winning against the virus.  We are quitting.  —  Now is the spring of our disgrace.  —  Around the world, countries are winning the battle against the coronavirus and beginning a responsible return to work, school and leisure, confident that their governments have the deadly virus in check.
Elizabeth Spiers / Washington Post:
I worked for Jared Kushner.  Of course he says his covid-19 failure is a success.  —  President Trump's son-in-law always casts himself as the genius cleaning up someone else's problems.  —  Jared Kushner's coronavirus response team, we learned this week, is fumbling because it's largely staffed with inexperienced volunteers.
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Washington Post:
White House pandemic supply project swathed in secrecy and exaggerations  —  On May 1, as White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, an illustration of an airplane flying to the moon appeared on the monitors beside her.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
The Downside of Being a Fox News Journalist?  Getting Asked About Sean Hannity  —  News anchors Chris Wallace and Bret Baier have faced frequent questions about the network's powerful opinion hosts and their commentary.  —  Chris Wallace was getting frustrated.  —  “I'm here.
Politico:
Top career intelligence official departs ODNI  —  A top career official is leaving the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the agency confirmed on Friday.  —  Deirdre Walsh, who spent more than 10 years at ODNI — most recently as chief operating officer …
Bakersfield Californian:
NYC politicians outraged after NYPD reveals 80% of social distancing arrests have been minorities  —  NEW YORK — Coronavirus does not discriminate.  Social distancing enforcement in New York City apparently does.  —  That's the takeaway from newly-released numbers from the New York Police Department …
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Robert Caro writes, and waits, during the COVID-19 outbreak  —  FILE - This May 21, 2019 file photo shows author Robert Caro at the 2019 PEN America Literary Gala in New York.  The historian discusses life during the pandemic and gives a progress report on his final Lyndon Johnson book …
Heather Long / Washington Post:
The coronavirus economy is exposing how easy it is to fall from the middle class into poverty  —  'It's too cold to sleep in my car': Some are slipping through the giant holes in the U.S. safety net  —  Louise Lara apologized for crying as she told her story.
Dirk Draulans / Science:
‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19  —  Virologist Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, fell ill with COVID-19 in mid-March.  He spent a week in a hospital and has been recovering at his home in London since.
The Daily Beast:
Gretchen Whitmer's Chilling Call With the White House  —  In Ep. 6 of The New Abnormal, co-hosts Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast talk with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about a scary call with the White House and the ad that drove Trump batty.  —  Between being the object of Trump's vitriol and dealing …
Serena Gordon / CBS News:
Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 “deaths of despair” from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says  —  COVID-19 has directly claimed tens of thousands of U.S. lives, but conditions stemming from the novel coronavirus — rampant unemployment, isolation and an uncertain future …
Miami Herald:
Florida oncology network that bilked cancer patients gets $67 million in COVID-19 aid  —  A Fort Myers-based oncology network that was Florida's largest recipient of federal coronavirus relief dollars for healthcare facilities admitted last week to participating in a criminal conspiracy …
Washington Post:
Here's how college students can return to campus in the fall  —  Lanhee J. Chen is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of domestic policy studies in the public policy program at Stanford University.  Vanila M. Singh is a clinical associate professor of anesthesiology …
Discussion: Balkinization
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Federal agency says removal of vaccine chief may have been retaliation  —  Ousted vaccine director files whistleblower complaint  —  (CNN)The investigative office reviewing the whistleblower complaint of former federal vaccine chief Dr. Richard Bright has determined there is reason to believe …
Mike Moffitt / SFGATE:
Tesla reopening Fremont plant despite Alameda shelter-in-place order  —  Emails tell 30% of factory's workforce to return to work  —  Tesla is planning to reopen its Fremont plant Friday in apparent defiance of Alameda County's COVID-19 shelter-in-place order.
Discussion: The Drive
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Obama Defense Official Evelyn Farkas Admitted She Lied On MSNBC About Having Evidence Of Collusion  —  Former Obama administration defense official Evelyn Farkas testified under oath that she lied during an MSNBC interview when she claimed to have evidence of alleged collusion …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
'We're going to fill it': Republicans ready for any Supreme Court vacancy  —  Senate Republicans are quietly beginning to contemplate the possibility of an election-year confirmation battle for the Supreme Court.  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's hospitalization this week and the looming end …
Julia Azari / Mischiefs of Faction:
The Trump presidency thrives on norms  —  The main narrative of the Trump presidency has been about its hostility and indifference to norms.  But if we step back from the repeated shock at the administration's personal attacks, flouting of rule of law, and near-constant melding of campaigning and governing, a different picture emerges.
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Trump says in his mother's eyes, he ‘could do no wrong’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Reflecting on Mother's Day this weekend, President Donald Trump said Friday that he could do no wrong in his mother's eyes and perhaps that's what framed his personality today.  —  “I had a great mom.
Discussion: Breitbart
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying  —  Six weeks ago, Ahmaud Arbery went out and never came home.  Gregory and Travis McMichael, who saw Arbery running through their neighborhood just outside of Brunswick, Georgia, and who told authorities they thought …
 
 
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Jim Jordan / The Federalist:
Rep. Jim Jordan: A Look Back On The Russia, Mueller, And Flynn Investigations
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Newsom orders vote-by-mail in California for November election
Discussion: Forbes and California Governor
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: What did Joe Biden know about Michael Flynn?
Discussion: Breitbart and Fox News
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Agencies Warn States That Internet Voting Poses Widespread Security Risks
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Mueller Coverup  —  His probe was an effort to give a fiction …
Discussion: Townhall
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
‘Social Shaming’ Will Not Save Us
Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:
The awful reason wages appeared to soar in the middle of a pandemic
Discussion: The Week
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
UFC Wants You to Watch Brawls, Not Its $5 Billion Lawsuit
Eliza Collins / Wall Street Journal:
Former Aide Spoke of Harassment in Biden's Office in 1990s, Court Document Shows
Jacqueline Laurean Yates / ABC News:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo merch is here and trending all over Etsy
Discussion: Twitchy
The Guardian:
Revealed: major anti-lockdown group's links to America's far right
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Considers Drive-In Theater Campaign Rallies After Coronavirus Destroyed His Preferred Option
 

 
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