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10:30 AM ET, May 16, 2020

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Politico:
Trump ousts State Department watchdog  —  President Donald Trump has removed State Department Inspector General Steve Linick and replaced him with an ally of Vice President Mike Pence — the latest in a series of moves against independent government watchdogs in recent months.
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CNN:
State Department inspector general becomes the latest watchdog fired by Trump  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump on Friday fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, the latest in a series of dismissals of independent government watchdogs that have come in the wake of the President's acquittal …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
House Foreign Affairs Committee:
Engel Statement on the Firing of Inspector General Linick  —  Washington—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement on the President's removal of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick:
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Trump fires IG said to be investigating Pompeo, involved in impeachment probe  —  Inspector General Steve Linick will be replaced by a Trump appointee.  —  The White House fired the State Department Inspector General late Friday, according to a State Department spokesperson …
Michele Kelemen / NPR:
Trump Removes State Department Inspector General Steve Linick  —  President Trump is ousting State Department Inspector General, Steve Linick, extending a string of administration firings of government watchdogs.  —  The president sent notice of Linick's removal, effective in 30 days, to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's slow-moving Friday night massacre of inspectors general  —  The Friday news dump — also known as the Friday night news dump — is a political trick with plenty of precedent.  Wait till the vast majority of the news business clocks out for on the week, and announce something you'd rather they not cover as much.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Pompeo fires State Dept. watchdog critical of Trump moves
Discussion: Raw Story
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
State Department inspector general fired; Democrats decry ‘dangerous pattern of retaliation’
Discussion: Politico
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘Manipulative, deceitful, user’: Tara Reade left a trail of aggrieved acquaintances  —  Harriet Wrye did a double take the first time she saw Tara Reade on television lodging sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden.  —  “Jim, that's Tara,” the 79-year-old author and psychologist called …
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:   How the Biden Campaign Aims to Win Battleground States
New York Times:
A Sitting President, Riling the Nation During a Crisis  —  By smearing his opponents, championing conspiracy theories and pursuing vendettas, President Tru​mp has reverted to his darkest political tactics in spite of a pandemic hurting millions of Americans.
Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
Two Coasts.  One Virus.  How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California.  —  California's governor and San Francisco's mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat.  For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have died so far.
Carrie Campbell Severino / National Review:
The Woke Left's Assault on the Rule of Law  —  Ever since Donald Trump's election, liberal judges have aligned themselves with the political “resistance,” holding this administration to a different standard from its predecessors.  As I have written before, we have seen this trend …
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CNN:   Behind the Justice Department's split over the Flynn dismissal
Washington Post:
Trump sets goal of hundreds of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses by January, but scientists doubt it  —  Some warn it's dangerous to set a timetable, given the scientific unknowns and the danger of rushing testing.  —  President Trump formally unveiled an initiative Friday afternoon aimed …
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CNBC:
Trump downplays the need for coronavirus vaccine: 'It'll go away at some point'
Discussion: NaturalNews.com
Associated Press:
NIH director: Large-scale vaccine testing expected by July
Discussion: New York Times
Washington Post:
Drug promoted by Trump as coronavirus ‘game changer’ increasingly linked to deaths  —  For two months, President Trump repeatedly pitched hydroxychloroquine as a safe and effective treatment for coronavirus, asking would-be patients “What the hell do you have to lose?”
Discussion: Houston Chronicle
Jack Shafer / Politico:
How Not to Listen to Donald Trump  —  It turns out President Donald Trump's status as the most accessible person to ever hold the office is more a curse than a blessing.  Day after day, he fills the air with the ack-ack of disinformation and misdirection, needlessly alarming the public …
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Sister Toldjah / Redstate:
Reporter Asks Kayleigh McEnany to Explain Obamagate and the Crimes Allegedly Committed, Immediately Regrets It
Discussion: Power Line and Althouse
New York Times:
Intelligence Chief Reduces Size of Counterterrorism Office  —  The cuts to the National Counterterrorism Center were smaller than some former officials feared.  The changes will allow intelligence agencies to shift personnel to other threats.  —  WASHINGTON — The acting intelligence chief announced …
Discussion: ODNI Newsroom and Axios
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Victoria F. Piccoli / ODNI Newsroom:
Director of National Intelligence Announces Changes to Election Security Briefings
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Koh Gui Qing / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. Justice Dept. subpoenas Wall Street banks for small business loans info - sources  —  Koh Gui Qing, Pete Schroeder  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has sent grand jury subpoenas to big banks seeking records as part of a broader investigation …
Discussion: The Hill
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Washington Post:
We could stop the pandemic by July 4 if the government took these steps  —  A $74 billion investment in testing, tracing and isolation could rescue the economy — quickly  —  With the unemployment rate at its highest level since the Great Depression — 14.7 percent and climbing …
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
CNN:
‘He lied on national television’: Trump says truckers protesting industry problems are actually honking to support him  —  This is what brings out Trump's inner child  —  Washington (CNN)When blaring truck horns intruded on President Donald Trump's Friday speech in the White House Rose Garden …
Discussion: IJR
Jeremy Fowler / ESPN:
NFL proposal would improve draft picks for minority hires  —  The NFL is considering improving draft picks for teams that hire minority candidates as head coaches or general managers, sources confirmed to ESPN.  —  Under the proposal, aimed at fixing diversity problems leaguewide …
Discussion: NFL.com, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Corinne Gretler / Bloomberg:
Tobacco-Based Coronavirus Vaccine Poised for Human Tests  — First phase of clinical trials could begin as early as June  — Tobacco-made vaccine would contrast with other health effects  —  An experimental Covid-19 vaccine developed by cigarette maker British American Tobacco Plc is poised to begin testing in humans.
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Trump's emergency powers worry some senators, legal experts  —  FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.  On March 12, during the meeting …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Dan Abrams: Based on All We Know Right Now, ‘This Obamagate Theory Is 100 Percent Bullsh*t’  —  Mediaite founder and ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams went on a tear during his SiriusXM show Friday calling the idea of the “Obamagate' scandal “100 percent bullshit.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Associated Press:
Wisconsin again?  Swing state a hotbed of virus politics  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin has been the battleground for political proxy wars for nearly a decade, the backdrop for bruising feuds over labor unions, executive power, redistricting and President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Axios
James Brooks / Anchorage Daily News:
Alaska legislator compares pandemic safety measures at Capitol to Nazi treatment of Jews  —  JUNEAU — A Nikiski Republican lawmaker opposed to pandemic safety measures at the Alaska Capitol compared them to Nazi Germany's labeling of Jews in an email exchange Friday with fellow members of the Alaska House of Representatives.
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed News:
JetBlue's Founder Helped Fund A Stanford Study That Said The Coronavirus Wasn't That Deadly  —  A highly influential coronavirus antibody study was funded in part by David Neeleman, the JetBlue Airways founder and a vocal proponent of the idea that the pandemic isn't deadly enough to justify continued lockdowns.
New York Times:
Now More Than Ever, Facebook Is a ‘Mark Zuckerberg Production’  —  For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others.  Then Facebook's problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On Jan. 27, at a regularly scheduled Monday morning meeting …
Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Trump's Cordon Un-sanitaire  —  No White House reporter I've ever known was looking to harm anyone, much less the president of the United States, but the federal government never took chances.  Covering Barack Obama and now Donald Trump, I can't recall a single instance when the security cordon surrounding the president frayed.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House changes its rules during pandemic, allowing remote voting for the first time in its 231-year history  —  The House on Friday approved the most radical change to its rules in generations, allowing its members to cast committee and floor votes from afar — the culmination of a months-long struggle …
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Politico:
As crisis continues, an anxious House returns to Washington
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Burr asks that final volume of Senate Intel report on Trump and Russia be declassified
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
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Discussion: PREVAIL
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Mike Bloomberg plots spending blitz to support Joe Biden's run for president
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Growing friction between White House, CDC hobbles pandemic response
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Mike Baker / New York Times:
F.D.A. Halts Coronavirus Testing Program Backed by Bill Gates
Discussion: Raw Story and Marginal REVOLUTION
Manu Raju / CNN:
GOP congressman on why he's not wearing a mask: 'There's just no need'
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo