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The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Pushes CDC to Revise Down Its COVID Death Counts — The president and members of his task force are skeptical of the numbers and want the methodology changed. — President Donald Trump and members of his coronavirus task force are pushing officials at the Centers for Disease Control …
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Media Matters for America, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, The Daily Caller and POLITICUSUSA
CNN:
Joe Biden's running mate list is shorter than you might think — for now, at least — Washington (CNN)Joe Biden says he has his eye on a dozen women as potential running mates, but those close to him believe the list of top prospects is likely far shorter as a deep vetting process gets underway …
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National Review, Progress Pond, The Guardian and Politico
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Knows What Joe Biden Needs in a Vice President — If Biden wants to win the White House and govern like a New Dealer, Warren is his indispensable partner. — Joe Biden built his political career as the New Deal order came to an end, one of a generation of Democrats …
Jeffery C. Mays / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Commits Re-election Gaffe, Losing a Progressive Ballot Line — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needed 15 signatures to secure a Working Families Party ballot spot, but a court challenge left her short of the mark. — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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National Review, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and The Hill
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden, Sanders name leaders of their ‘unity task forces’ — including AOC
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Washington Free Beacon, Common Dreams and Raw Story
New York Times:
Kushner, Law Aside, Doesn't Rule Out Delaying 2020 Election — The opinion of a White House staff member has no bearing on when the election is held, but his comment played into the concerns of President Trump's detractors. — WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law …
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Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: CDC docs stress plans for more virus flareups
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Jared Kushner Non-Committal When Asked if 2020 Election Could Be Delayed
ABC News:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort released to home confinement amid coronavirus concerns — Manafort's lawyers had requested release, citing age, pre-existing conditions. — President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been released from prison to serve the remainder …
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Washington Post:
U.S. judge puts on hold Justice Dept. move to dismiss Michael Flynn's guilty plea to hear outside groups' challenges — A U.S. judge on Tuesday put on hold the Justice Department's move to drop charges against Michael Flynn, saying he expects independent groups and legal experts to argue …
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Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Flynn judge wrong to allow anti-Trump former Watergate prosecutors to interfere in case
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
‘Obamagate’ Isn't A Conspiracy Theory, It's The Biggest Political Scandal Of Our Time
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The Nation, Daily Kos, Tangle and emptywheel, more at Mediagazer »
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Grassley, Johnson request information on ‘unmasking,’ as Grenell, Barr weigh release of files
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Politico, American Greatness and National Review
Laurence H. Tribe / The Boston Globe:
Judge Sullivan must reject Barr's usurpation of judicial power
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Washington Post
CNN:
Rick Bright will warn Congress of ‘darkest winter in modern history’ without ramped up coronavirus response — Ousted vaccine director files whistleblower complaint — (CNN)Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted director of a key federal office charged with developing medical countermeasures …
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Axios, The Week, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump has a major vulnerability. Democrats should keep pounding it. — It may seem like grotesque malpractice — both from a political and a public health standpoint. But it's true: Amid a pandemic that has killed more than 80,000 Americans, President Trump and many Republicans …
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The American Independent
Washington Examiner:
Time to explode the Andrew Cuomo myth — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is an “authoritative voice” on matters related to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the New York Times. Cable pundits have praised him. And with Joe Biden struggling in his campaign for the White House and facing …
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The Gateway Pundit and The Atlantic
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Powell Says Washington Will Need to Spend More to Battle Downturn — ‘Reversal of economic fortune has caused a level of pain that is hard to capture in words,’ says Fed leader — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Congress and the White House will need to spend more money …
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Mother Jones and Raw Story
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Powell warns of a possible sustained recession from pandemic
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Just The News, Associated Press and ABC7
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
EXCLUSIVE: In court filing, FBI accidentally reveals name of Saudi official suspected of directing support for 9/11 hijackers — WASHINGTON — The FBI inadvertently revealed one of the U.S. government's most sensitive secrets about the Sept. 11 terror attacks: the identity …
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National Review, The Daily Caller, Al Jazeera, New York Post and Raw Story
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Aspen Institute think tank receives $8 million federal small-business loan — Decision to accept funds despite $115 million endowment and billionaire board members divides group's leadership — The Aspen Institute think tank accepted more than $8 million in federal small-businesses funds despite having …
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
Who You Calling Sleepy Joe?: Biden on His Youth Agenda, Internet Memes, and Fighting Trump From His House — “Young people want the truth,” says the presumptive Democratic nominee. And “I sometimes say more than I mean, but no one doubts I mean what I say.”
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Fox News, Townhall, Politico, POLITICUSUSA and Breitbart
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Quietly Gives Digital Show to Alex Berenson, Coronavirus Truther — Public-health experts have taken issue with the former reporter's militantly contrarian takes on the pandemic, but he's found a home in the right-wing media ecosystem. — Fox News has launched a new series …
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Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
The Cruelty of Conspiracy: A Personal Story — “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ― Mark Twain — I know that I should really be writing about the clash between Anthony Fauci and Rand Paul, the arguments in the Supreme Court …
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The Bulwark Podcast
Ann Limpert / Washingtonian:
Inn at Little Washington Chef Will Fill His Socially Distanced Dining Room With Midcentury Mannequins — The three Michelin-starred destination will also have Marilyn Monroe masks. — A few weeks ago, the Inn at Little Washington sent out an email blast announcing that the luxury Rappahannock …
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Fox News, Eater DC, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, New York Post and Gothamist
Bob Herman / Axios:
Coronavirus likely forced 27 million off their health insurance — Roughly 27 million people have likely have lost job-based health coverage since the coronavirus shocked the economy, according to new estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation. — Why it matters: Most of these people …
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The Henry J. Kaiser … and The Hill
New York Times:
As Coronavirus Restrictions Lift, Millions in U.S. Are Leaving Home Again — Where people started leaving home again — Percentage point change in the share of people staying home — Note: The map shows the change in the average share of people sheltering at home from May 1 to May 8 …
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Detroit Metro Times, The Daily Caller and Althouse
Nurith Aizenman / NPR:
Combining Models, New Projection Puts U.S. Coronavirus Deaths At 110,000 By June 6 — Toggle more options — More than 82,000 people in the United States have died of COVID-19 as of Tuesday. How many more lives will be lost? Scientists have built dozens of computational models to answer that question.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A new internal GOP poll suggests tight prez, Senate races in Georgia — An internal poll conducted by a group backing Gov. Brian Kemp showed a deadlocked presidential race in Georgia and tight contests for both U.S. Senate seats, underscoring the challenges Republicans face keeping the state in the GOP column.
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National Journal, The Hill, The American Independent and Vox
Josh Campbell / CNN:
FBI arrests researcher for NASA who allegedly failed to report ties to China — (CNN)Federal agents have arrested an Arkansas professor who allegedly failed to disclose his ties to Chinese entities during the course of securing funding for a NASA research project, the Justice Department announced.
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National Review, The Hill and Breitbart
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
It's time to take off the gloves against Chinese cybercrime
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Breitbart and Sara A. Carter
Sam Baker / Axios:
High-risk states are seeing fewer new coronavirus cases — The first stages of reopening haven't produced a surge in coronavirus cases in most states — at least, not yet. — Yes, but: The reopening process is still in its early stages, so a second wave of infections still remains distinctly possible.
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Louder With Crowder
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Think we have military primacy over China? Think again. — Here's a fact that ought to startle every American who assumes that because we spend nearly $1 trillion each year on defense, we have primacy over our emerging rival, China. — “Over the past decade, in U.S. war games against China …
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Political Wire
Brian Niemietz / New York Daily News:
Howard Stern to Trump supporters: He hates you and so do I — Howard Stern says he and President Trump are both showmen who love a good time — and they both hate Trump supporters. — “One thing Donald loves is celebrities, he loves the famous,” Stern said on his SiriusXM show Tuesday. “He loves it.
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Wall Street Journal:
Chinese, Iranian Hacking May Be Hampering Search for Coronavirus Vaccine, Officials Say — In a possible escalation, U.S. to accuse China of actions some officials consider attacks on American public health — WASHINGTON—Chinese and Iranian hackers are aggressively targeting American universities …
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
People's Republic of China (PRC) Targeting of COVID-19 Research Organizations — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are issuing this announcement to raise awareness of the threat to COVID-19-related research.
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