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Cassie da Costa / The Daily Beast:
Jane Roe's Deathbed Confession: Anti-Abortion Conversion ‘All an Act’ Paid for by the Christian Right  —  REVEALING  —  The new FX documentary “AKA Jane Roe,” out May 22, contains a shocking revelation: Roe (of “Roe v. Wade” fame) played the part of an anti-abortion crusader in exchange for money.
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Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times:
The woman behind ‘Roe vs. Wade’ didn't change her mind on abortion.  She was paid  —  When Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in the landmark Roe vs. Wade case, came out against abortion in 1995, it stunned the world and represented a huge symbolic victory for abortion opponents: “Jane Roe” had gone to the other side.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Mysterious Susan Rice email declassified, release is ‘imminent’: source
Discussion: Townhall and Breitbart
Sean Davis / The Federalist:   BREAKING: Declassified Susan Rice Email Confirms Michael Flynn Was Personally Targeted In Oval Office Meeting
Sean Davis / The Federalist:   BREAKING: Declassified Susan Rice E-Mail Confirms Michael Flynn Was Personally Targeted In Oval Office Meeting
Arizona Republic:
New poll shows Sen. Martha McSally losing ground to Mark Kelly and that's not even the bad news  —  From the Republican uh-oh department: Arizona Sen. Martha McSally is sliding in the polls, dropping four percentage points in a month.  —  McSally now trails Democrat Mark Kelly by 13 points …
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michael Flynn's lawyers try an end run around federal judge  —  Flynn's lawyers also accused a U.S. District Court judge of bias and asked that the case be reassigned for any future proceedings.  —  Former national security adviser Michael Flynn.  Lawyers for former Trump national security …
Discussion: Associated Press and emptywheel
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Erica Orden / CNN:   Judge allows fraud suit against Trump, family and company to proceed
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Michael Flynn's lawyers file petition to force judge to dismiss charges
Discussion: Law & Crime and IJR
Josh Gerstein / Politico:   McConnell challenges judge's handling of Flynn case
USA Today:
Florida's scientist was fired for refusing to ‘manipulate’ COVID-19 data  —  BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. - The scientist who created Florida's COVID-19 data portal wasn't just removed from her position on May 5, she was fired on Monday by the Department of Health, she said, for refusing to manipulate data.
Discussion: Florida Politics
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CNN:
A complicated life and conflicting accounts muddle efforts to understand Tara Reade's allegation against Joe Biden  —  Tara Reade: Biden should not be running on character  —  (CNN)As Tara Reade was leaving her job at Joe Biden's Senate office in 1993, she told a close colleague that she believed …
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Sady Doyle / GEN:
The Tara Reade Saga Is a Failure of Journalism
Carol E. Lee / NBC News:
White House portrait ceremony may be the latest casualty of the political divide  —  Why traditional WH portrait unveiling may cease for now  —  WASHINGTON — It's been a White House tradition for decades: a first-term president hosts his immediate predecessor in the East Room for a ceremony …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump Won't Be Unveiling Obama White House Portrait, Says Report
Discussion: The Hill, NBC News and Breitbart
Matt Lauer / Mediaite:
Why Ronan Farrow Is Indeed Too Good to Be True  —  Editor's Note: After Matt Lauer submitted this piece, a response to Ronan Farrow's book Catch and Kill, Mediaite editors independently fact checked the accounts of the four witnesses/subjects Lauer spoke with and cites in this piece.
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Natasha Turak / CNBC:
Wearing a mask can reduce coronavirus transmission by 75%, new study claims  — Experiments by a team in Hong Kong found that the coronavirus' transmission rate via respiratory droplets or airborne particles dropped by as much as 75% when surgical masks were used.
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
‘Hard stop’: States could lose National Guard virus workers  —  More than 40,000 National Guard members currently helping states test residents for the coronavirus and trace the spread of infections will face a “hard stop” on their deployments on June 24 — just one day shy of many members becoming eligible …
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Trump Administration to End National Guard COVID Deployments One Day Before GI Bill Benefits Kick In
Discussion: The Hill
Alex Koma / Washington, D.C. Business Journal:
Steve Salis has made up his mind: Kramerbooks is leaving Dupont  —  Coronavirus or no, Steve Salis has made up his mind: Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe is moving out of its Dupont Circle home.  —  Salis, the co-founder of &pizza who bought the Dupont retail institution in 2017, has been considering a move for some time.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
How Ben Stiller Will Remember His Father  —  The actor and director on growing up with famous comedians as parents and how his father, Jerry Stiller, saw his son's career.  —  Jerry Stiller, the legendary comedian and entertainer, died this month, at the age of ninety-two.
Washington Post:
EPA staff warned that mileage rollbacks had flaws.  Trump officials ignored them.  —  In its rush to roll back the most significant climate policy enacted by Barack Obama — mileage standards designed to reduce pollution from cars — the Trump administration ignored warnings that its new rule …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Donald Trump Doesn't Want Authority  —  The coronavirus crisis offered the president an opportunity to consolidate power.  It turns out he only wants attention.  —  For the last four years two Western political figures have loomed particularly large in the imaginations of anxious liberals.
Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Federal judge says all Texas voters can apply to vote by mail during pandemic  —  District Judge Fred Biery granted a preliminary injunction that allows all registered voters under 65 to apply to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic after finding the state's existing election rules violate the Equal Protection Clause.
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
Inventors Develop Mask to Let You Eat and Stay Safe  —  Inventors developed a coronavirus mask that lets you eat without taking it off.  Here's how it works: You squeeze a lever and it opens a slot so you can go at it like Pac-Man.  Inventors say the mask lets you dine out with friends without taking your mask off.
Discussion: Twitchy and Eater
Chad Livengood / Crain's Detroit Business:
Whitmer order bans ‘nonessential’ plant tours, but Trump's Ford visit still on; automaker will require mask  —  When Ford Motor Co. hosts President Donald Trump on Thursday for a tour of its Rawsonville Components Plant in Ypsilanti, the automaker will be doing so in technical violation …
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Senate poll: Ossoff leads Dems in Perdue matchup, Loeffler trails Collins  —  A poll released Tuesday shows Jon Ossoff leading other Democrats in a potential head-to-head matchup against U.S. Sen. David Perdue, the latest in a string of surveys that shows a tight race for the seat.
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Vaccine experts say Moderna didn't produce data critical to assessing Covid-19 vaccine  —  Heavy hearts soared Monday with news that Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine candidate — the frontrunner in the American market — seemed to be generating an immune response in Phase 1 trial subjects.
Discussion: UPI
Associated Press:
Trump allies lining up doctors to prescribe rapid reopening  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican political operatives are recruiting “pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed …
Stuart Emmrich / Vogue:
Is Donald Trump Lying About Taking Hydroxychloroquine?  —  President Donald Trump announced at a White House event on Monday that he has been taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine for “a couple of weeks” as a preventive measure against COVID-19.  —  A lot of people don't believe him.
Discussion: Washington Post, NBC News and Vox
Amanda Borschel-Dan / The Times of Israel:
Living underground before the Romans?  2,000-year-old rooms found by Western Wall  —  Purpose of unique ancient complex still unclear, but indicates possible subterranean Second Temple-era life in Jerusalem's Old City prior to the Roman conquest in 70 CE  —  A singular two-millennia-old …
Discussion: UPI and WND
Bill Chappell / NPR:
Maryland Reports Largest Rise Yet In Coronavirus Cases 4 Days After Reopening  —  The Maryland Department of Health reported 1,784 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, setting a new high mark four days after the state began reopening its economy.  Maryland is now reporting 41,546 cases …
Discussion: Fox News
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Order allowing border agents to expel migrants extended indefinitely  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indefinitely extended its public health order on Tuesday, empowering border agents to quickly expel migrants who cross the border illegally.  —  Why it matters: The order will be reviewed every 30 days.
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Bloomberg:
Covid Patients Testing Positive After Recovery Aren't Infectious, Study Shows  — Result is a positive sign for regions reopening economies  — Findings may also aid in the debate over antibody testing  —  Researchers are finding evidence that patients who test positive for the coronavirus …
Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press:
Annie Glenn, 100, famed astronaut's widow, dies of COVID-19  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Annie Glenn, wife of the late astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn who overcame a childhood stutter to become an advocate for others with speech disorders, died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19.  She was 100.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
CDC: Arkansas coronavirus outbreak linked to church services  —  35 of the 92 people (38%) who attended services at a rural Arkansas church March 6-11 tested positive for the coronavirus, ultimately killing three, according to a case study released Tuesday by the CDC.
Politico:
Trump withdraws ATF nominee amid Republican concerns  —  President Donald Trump abruptly withdrew his nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on Tuesday afternoon, officially putting an end to the troubled nomination of Chuck Canterbury.  —  The former president …
Discussion: The Hill
Adrian Carrasquillo / Newsweek:
A Trump-friendly, anti-AOC Democrat is poised to win a New York House seat—with some help from the pandemic  —  New York's 15th congressional district, with Yankee Stadium at its heart, is home to some of the country's poorest and most diverse people, an Obama oasis bordering AOC's neighborhood …
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Trump almost got away with firing the guy who was investigating Mike Pompeo — but now it's all falling apart  —  After being questioned, the President threw Pompeo under the proverbial bus.  Two dogs, some rumors about Saudi weapons and an ‘UberEats with guns’ later, the controversy is only getting worse
Discussion: CNN and New York Times
 
 
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Sam Mintz / Politico:
Democrats blast removal of acting DOT inspector general
James Gordon / Daily Mail:
Joe Biden gives Trump the new nickname ‘President Tweety’ …
Philippe Reines / The Daily Beast:
I Spent a Week Down the Right-Wing Media Rabbit Hole—and Was Mesmerized by It
Discussion: NB Blog and Raw Story
James Barrett / The Daily Wire:
Nikki Haley Responds To Trump's Actions Against China's Huawei, Offers Grim Prediction For China
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
BuzzFeed News:
This Billionaire Oligarch Is Being Investigated By A US Federal Grand Jury For Alleged Money Laundering
Jacqueline Feldscher / Politico:
NASA's human spaceflight chief ousted just before big launch
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News:
Phone Calls Between Biden And Ukraine's Poroshenko Leaked; Details $1 Billion “Quid Pro Quo” To Fire Burisma Prosecutor
 Earlier Items: 
The Daily Beast:
Why Michelle Malkin Is Den Mother of the Alt-Right Dipsh*ts
globalnews.ca:
Deadly attack at Toronto erotic spa was incel terrorism, police allege
Discussion: Toronto Sun and The Daily Beast
April Dembosky / Kaiser Health News:
Fewer Traffic Collisions During Shutdown Means Longer Waits For Organ Donations
Roch Dunin-Wasowicz / LSE Covid-19:
The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19
Discussion: Mother Jones
Detroit Free Press:
Secretary of State: All Michigan voters will get absentee ballot applications at home
Leonardo Blair / The Christian Post:
Georgia church closes two weeks after reopening as families come down with coronavirus