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7:40 AM ET, May 9, 2020

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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.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A single Kayleigh McEnany quote gives away the game  —  Katie Miller, the wife of adviser Stephen Miller, has tested positive for the coronavirus.  The infection of Ms. Miller, a close adviser to Vice President Pence, means potential exposure to President Trump's inner circle …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Fox News
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump sought a reopening but found the virus in the White House instead  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump hoped this would be the week he emerged into a nation recovering from pandemic.  Instead the pandemic came to him.  —  A day after breaking his White House self-isolation …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Two White House Coronavirus Cases Raise Question of if Anyone Is Really Safe  —  If it is so hard to maintain a healthy environment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, then how can businesses across the country establish a safe space for their workers?  —  WASHINGTON — In his eagerness to reopen the country …
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Eleven Secret Service agents test positive for COVID-19: report  —  Newly unveiled documents suggest nearly a dozen U.S. Secret Service members have tested positive for COVID-19, Yahoo News reports.  —  According to documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
Discussion: Palmer Report
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 …
Dan Diamond / Politico:
FDA chief self-quarantines after exposure to Pence aide
Discussion: Mediaite and New York Post
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Obama says in private call that ‘rule of law is at risk’ in Michael Flynn case  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama, talking privately to former members of his administration, said Friday that the “rule of law is at risk” in the wake of what he called an unprecedented move …
Discussion: Mediaite and Breitbart
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Alan M. Dershowitz / Gatestone Institute:
Flynn Was Innocent All Along: He Was Pressured to Plead Guilty
Discussion: Law & Crime
New York Times:
Georgia Killing Puts Spotlight on a Police Force's Troubled History  —  The shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery has renewed criticism of the police agency that released the two suspects.  They were charged by the state months later.  —  BRUNSWICK, Ga. — When the Glynn County Police Department arrived …
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George Conway / Washington Post:
No one in this country is above the law.  The Supreme Court is about to teach that lesson.  —  Twenty-six years ago, I published my first op-ed. Entitled “'No Man in This Country ... Is Above the Law,'” it addressed news reports that President Bill Clinton planned to claim an immunity …
Discussion: The Hill
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Lincoln Project called Facebook to dispute fact-check warning label on anti-Trump ad ‘Mourning in America’  — The Lincoln Project contacted Facebook to push the social media giant to remove a warning label it attached to the group's blistering “Mourning in America” ad.
Discussion: Twitchy, The Hill and Mediaite
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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 …
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.
Kathleen Ronayne / Associated Press:
California Gov. Newsom formally endorses Biden for president  —  file photo, Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom formally endorsed Joe Biden for president on Friday, praising the former vice president for his “deep compassion and empathy” during a virtual high-dollar fundraiser …
Discussion: The Hill
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ABC News:
Joe Biden to scale up campaign as Democratic anxiety grows ahead of general election fight with Trump
Discussion: Washington Post and Fox News
Washington Post:
Biden campaign launches expansion in the face of Democratic worries — but no word on plans to leave his house
Discussion: The Guardian and Fox News
David Lynch / Washington Post:
Soaring joblessness could shake U.S. economy, politics for years  —  Eye on lessons from the Great Depression and 2008 crisis  —  The United States is facing a political and economic challenge like nothing it has seen in nearly 100 years.  —  Mass unemployment on a scale not seen since …
Discussion: Marketplace
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Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:   The awful reason wages appeared to soar in the middle of a pandemic
Steven Doyle / Martinsville Bulletin:
WATCH NOW: Father Mark White receives no-trespass notice to stay off church property and out of his residences  —  Bishop Barry Knestout earlier this week had banned Father Mark White from performing the duties of priest in Martinsville and Rocky Mount, which means he is prohibited …
Alix Martichoux / ABC7:
Newsom signs executive order to send every registered Californian a mail-in ballot  —  PHASE 3 COMING SOON?  Gov. Newsom teases next stage of reopening California businesses is closer than we thought  —  The election won't be vote-by-mail only; those who still want to vote in-person will be able to do so.
Discussion: Politico
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Newsom orders vote-by-mail in California for November election
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.
Discussion: WPRI-TV
David Mack / BuzzFeed News:
No, Mike Pence Did Not Deliver Empty Boxes To A Nursing Home For A Publicity Stunt  —  BuzzFeed News has reporters across five continents bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus.  To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today.
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Washington Post:
Defense Secretary Esper stood beside World War II veterans — without a mask  —  President Trump and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper gathered with World War II veterans in Washington on Friday to mark the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe.  —  Trump greeted a rank of seven veterans …
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 …
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.
Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times:
Newsom warns defiant counties they could lose coronavirus cash for reopening early  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration sent a clear warning this week to rural counties defying his state's stay-at-home order to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus: Keep it up, and you'll lose disaster funding.
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 …
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 …
Greg Fish / Rantt Media:
Debunking “Plandemic,” The Coronavirus Conspiracy Video  —  Moments like these require unrelenting truthtelling.  We take pride in being reader-funded.  If you like our work, support us by subscribing to our community.  —  Support our journalism  —  A lie can travel twice around the world …
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Excessive force, zero justice
Discussion: Reason
New York Times:
‘Found Unresponsive at Home’: Grim Records Recount Lonely Deaths
Discussion: Daily Kos
Bakersfield Californian:
NYC politicians outraged after NYPD reveals 80% of social distancing arrests have been minorities
Jim Jordan / The Federalist:
Rep. Jim Jordan: A Look Back On The Russia, Mueller, And Flynn Investigations
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Other countries are winning against the virus. We are quitting.
 Earlier Items: 
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Actually, the Orange Man Is Bad
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Agencies Warn States That Internet Voting Poses Widespread Security Risks
Heather Long / Washington Post:
The coronavirus economy is exposing how easy it is to fall from the middle class into poverty
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
The Downside of Being a Fox News Journalist? Getting Asked About Sean Hannity
Washington Post:
White House pandemic supply project swathed in secrecy and exaggerations
Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo