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New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: What Trump's Positive Test Means for the Race  —  The president's announcement early Friday that he tested positive upended the race in an instant, with less than five weeks to go before the election.  It also rattled the world and sent markets tumbling.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
GOP donors panic after coming close to Trump at fundraiser hours before his positive Covid-19 test  — GOP donors, according to a person briefed on the matter, have been reaching out to Trump campaign and GOP officials for any guidance as to what to do next following a fundraiser with the president.
CNN:
President Donald Trump tweets he and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19  —  Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest advisers, tests positive for coronavirus, president to quarantine
Washington Post:
Supreme Court nominee diagnosed with coronavirus this summer but has since recovered  —  Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was diagnosed with the coronavirus earlier this year but has since recovered, three officials familiar with her diagnosis told The Washington Post.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“No One Knows Where This Is Going to Go”: Pandemonium Inside the White House as Trump Contracts COVID-19  —  The president has a cough and a fever; the first lady is said to be asymptomatic.  The real question is how bad it gets—and how the election unfolds.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus  —  The president's result came after he spent months playing down the severity of the outbreak that has killed more than 207,000 in the United States and hours after insisting that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”
New York Times:
Trump's Positive Coronavirus Test Upends Campaign in Final Stretch  —  With his health and the country's stability at risk, strategists and even senior aides to the president said he would face a harsh judgment from voters.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's announcement early Friday …
Discussion: Raw Story
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Conspiracy-Theory Twitter Is Going Nuts Over Trump's COVID Diagnosis  —  Within moments of the Trumps confirming they had both tested positive for COVID-19, conspiracy theorists were going wild.  —  Correspondent-At-Large  —  It took about two full minutes from President Trump's tweet confirming …
Discussion: Politico, The Hill, Vox and Washington Post
Politico:
‘This is the worst nightmare for the Trump campaign’  —  Donald Trump had done everything possible to shift the focus of the presidential campaign away from his handling of the coronavirus.  —  His own infection now ensures that he can't - pulling Trump off the road 32 days before the election …
New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Trump's Virus Symptoms Appear Mild So Far  —  President Trump is experiencing coldlike symptoms after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to two people familiar with his condition.  Vice President Mike Pence and other officials have tested negative.
Washington Post:
Trump says he and first lady have tested positive for the coronavirus  —  President Trump and his wife, Melania, have contracted the coronavirus, he announced early Friday, after months in which he has often played down a pandemic that has killed more than 205,000 Americans and sickened millions more.
Los Angeles Times:
Trump's coronavirus infection is the result of his deadly, foolish recklessness  —  Americans awaken this morning to the grave news that President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the dreadful coronavirus that has killed more than 207,000 people in the U.S. and brought the U.S. economy to its knees.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
White House coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas reacts to Trump's coronavirus diagnosis, says ‘zero reason to panic’  —  Trump and the first lady announced early Friday that they both tested positive for COVID-19  —  Trump, first lady test positive for coronavirus
James Hamblin / The Atlantic:
The Probable Outcomes of Trump's Diagnosis
Discussion: Vox, CNN and Breitbart
Tessa Berenson / TIME:
Amy Coney Barrett Had COVID-19 in Recent Months, Friends of Supreme Court Pick Say
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:   Trump Buddies Are Boasting They Tested Negative. That Doesn't Mean Anything.
Matt Berman / BuzzFeed News:
I Am The Politics Editor And I Have Absolutely No Idea What Happens Next
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Associated Press:
Trump says he and first lady tested positive for coronavirus
Reuters:
Pelosi says agreement on U.S. airline payroll assistance ‘imminent’
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Bloomberg:
Trump Tests Positive for Covid, Roiling Campaign and White House
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Chaos President Gets Hit by the Ultimate October Surprise
Bonchie / Redstate:
CNN Immediately Dives Into the Gutter Over Trump's COVID Diagnosis
Discussion: ABC News and The Sun
Associated Press:
White House Official: Trump Experiencing ‘Mild’ Symptoms of Coronavirus After Positive Test
Discussion: Political Wire
Mike LaChance / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:   Anti-Trumpers Celebrate News That President Tests Positive For Coronavirus
Politico:
Debate moderator Chris Wallace: 'I'm going to have to get a test'
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Beast
ABC News:
Trump COVID-19 live updates: President has ‘mild symptoms,’ Biden tests negative
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump rally-goers urged to get tested if sick
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel received positive coronavirus test Wednesday, spokesman says
Discussion: Politico, Axios, Townhall and The Hill
Associated Press:   Timeline of Trump's activities in week coronavirus hit home
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
In Profane Rant, Melania Trump Takes Aim at Migrant Children and Critics  —  The audio recording puts the first lady's frustrations on full display just weeks before President Trump faces the voters in his bid for a second term.  —  WASHINGTON — The first lady, Melania Trump …
Discussion: National Review, Daily Kos, The Root and CNN
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Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Secretly recorded tapes show Melania Trump's frustration at criticism for family separation policy and her bashing of Christmas decorations
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
PATRICK MARLEY  —  MADISON - No Wisconsin absentee ballots were found in mail discovered in a ditch in the Fox Valley last week, the state's top election official said Thursday.  —  Three trays of mail were found in a ditch in Greenville last week, and the Outagamie County Sheriff's Office …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle's Departure from Fox  —  As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, he trails Joe Biden by thirty percentage points among female voters.
Dave Orrick / Twin Cities:
Contact tracing President Trump in Minnesota: Who hung out with him for how long?  —  Who saw POTUS and for how long?  —  That was the question on the minds of those in top Minnesota Republican circles Friday morning after news broke overnight that President Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Week and WCCO | CBS Minnesota
 
 
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Jacob Grier / Arc Digital:
A Pox on One of Their Houses  —  A lifelong Libertarian voter is driven to break for a major party …
Politico:
Trump team on watch for adversaries seeking to exploit the president's illness
Discussion: Political Wire
ABC News:
Supreme Court to review Arizona ‘ballot harvesting’ law
Russ Travers / USA Today:
Trump's COVID-19 record is the single greatest failure in US history. We need a new president.
Kevin McCullough / Townhall:
The President vs. COVID
 Earlier Items: 
Anna Gronewold / Politico:
Fed Up in Flyover Country
Discussion: Raw Story
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Proud Boys Members Appear in Official Trump Campaign Video
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Foster Klug / Associated Press:
Shock, sympathy, mockery: World reacts to Trump infection
Discussion: Associated Press, Al Jazeera and abc7NY
Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told friends he was under federal investigation just days before meltdown
Discussion: The Bulwark
 

 
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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