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Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons' Significant Others — Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle are each receiving $15,000 per month through the campaign manager's private company, GOP sources said, to dodge FEC rules. — WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump's campaign …

In Trump's ‘LIBERATE’ tweets, extremists see a call to arms — Trump's tweets pushed many online extremist communities to speculate whether the president was advocating for armed conflict, an event they've termed “the boogaloo.” — When President Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MINNESOTA! …
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Trump's ‘LIBERATE MICHIGAN!’ tweets incite insurrection. That's illegal.
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New York Times, The New Civil Rights Movement, Esquire and The US Sun

Trump Calls For Reopening America's Gyms Day After Call With SoulCycle's Owner — Stephen Ross, the founder and chairman of the Related Companies, is part of the president's economic revitalization team. He also threw Trump a massive fundraiser. — President Donald Trump unveiled …
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The New Civil Rights Movement, Washington Post and The Guardian
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Advisers warn Trump his push to reopen economy carries political risks
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Politico, The Hill, Breitbart, Vanity Fair, Daily Kos and POLITICUSUSA
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Cuomo mocks Trump in Friday diatribe
Cuomo mocks Trump in Friday diatribe
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Analysis: With new virus plan, Trump passes buck to states
Analysis: With new virus plan, Trump passes buck to states
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The Hill, Breitbart, KLAS - 8 News Now and The American Independent
Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
‘Thank you Mr. President - for doing YOUR JOB!’ …

Rallies against stay-at-home orders grow as Trump sides with protesters — Protesters at state capitols across the country this week expressed their deep frustration with the stay-at-home orders that are meant to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, pushing a message that is rapidly coalescing among …
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Defying social distancing rules, demonstrators gather in Huntington Beach to protest California's stay-at-home order — More than 100 demonstrators gathered in Huntington Beach Friday, defying social distancing guidelines, to protest California's stay-at-home order.
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medRxiv:
COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California … Background Addressing COVID-19 is a pressing health and social concern. To date, many epidemic projections and policies addressing COVID-19 have been designed without seroprevalence data to inform epidemic parameters.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan, National Review, MIT Technology Review, Talking Points Memo, Twitchy, Seeking Alpha and The Spinoff
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Antibody research indicates coronavirus may be far more widespread than known — Of 3,300 people in California county up to 4% found to have been infected. — A critical question in the path towards the future is how many people actually have protective novel coronavirus antibodies and possible immunity?
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New York Post, Power Line, The Daily Caller, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Ross Clark / Spectator USA:
Stanford study suggests coronavirus is more widespread than realized
Stanford study suggests coronavirus is more widespread than realized
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Spectator

Coronavirus Testing Needs to Triple Before the U.S. Can Reopen, Experts Say — Average Daily Coronavirus Tests in the U.S. — Level needed to safely — reopen — 152 tests — tests per 100,000 people — Current level — 45 tests — tests per 100,000 people — Level to reopen

Democrats confront Pence: ‘I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life’ — Washington (CNN)Senate Democrats grilled Vice President Mike Pence over coronavirus testing and President Donald Trump's tweets during a tense phone call Friday afternoon on the pandemic response.
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‘I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life’
‘I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life’
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'They're Death Pits': Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes — More than six weeks after the first coronavirus deaths in a nursing home, outbreaks unfold across the country. About a fifth of U.S. virus deaths are linked to nursing facilities.
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The Daily Beast, The Hill, The Root and The Week
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The Coronavirus Doesn't Have a Social Message — Most plagues have had scapegoats. There seems to be something deep, deep, deep in human nature that responds to existential threats like this one by seeking to blame someone else, or some other group, or even an errant individual.
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Equitable Growth

Life Disrupted: 24 hours of coronavirus in North Carolina — In some ways, this is like any other North Carolina springtime. — Pollen coats cars like frosting. Choruses of spring peepers fill the air in wooded areas, while the hum of lawn mowers drones on all day in suburbia.

Amid Pandemic, Hong Kong Arrests Major Pro-Democracy Figures — Rarely have so many prominent pro-democracy figures — over a dozen — been arrested at once. The arrests signaled a broader crackdown on the antigovernment movement that roiled the semiautonomous city last year.

Sunlight destroys virus quickly, new govt. tests find, but experts say pandemic could last through summer — Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight …

Stay Home! Back to Work! A Dog and Cat Debate Reopening America — You think this decision is strictly yours. It's not.

The Trump administration is muzzling government scientists. It's essential to let them speak candidly to the press again. — Kathryn Foxhall remembers a time when reporters could call up any doctor or researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and ask them questions on the record.
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Inslee statement on Trump encouraging illegal and dangerous acts — Gov. Jay Inslee released a statement today on President Trump's comments around “liberating” parts of the country. — “The president's statements this morning encourage illegal and dangerous acts.
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The Intercept, HuffPost, Informed Comment, Breitbart and National Review

Jacksonville beaches reopen in Florida as states begin easing stay-at-home restrictions — (CNN)Beaches and parks in Jacksonville, Florida, reopened Friday afternoon as more states consider easing restrictions put in place to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

Amid rebukes over secrecy, Florida prison system begins to reveal ravages of coronavirus — For weeks the Florida Department of Corrections refused to address rumors that inmates with coronavirus-like symptoms — or those who had come into contact with symptomatic inmates or staff …

WaPo Fact Checker Glenn Kessler Morphs Into WHO Apologist in Ridiculous Fact Check on Trump — If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Media fact checkers need full time fact checkers to fact check their fact checks. — Or something like that.
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The Guardian, Washington Post and Twitchy

Fox News keeps inviting TV doctors on air who say crazy things — New York (CNN Business)Fox News has displayed a knack in recent weeks for inviting prominent television doctors on its air who make absurd comments that ignite controversy. — Since the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic …
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Daily Kos, Deadline, Forbes and Talking Points Memo

Top House Republican Backs Adding Hospital Funding to Small-Business Package — Congress has been at standoff over breadth of next stimulus bill — WASHINGTON—A standoff over replenishing a popular loan program for small businesses showed signs of easing Friday, as a top Republican backed pairing …
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The Hill, Axios and National Review

Nothing About New York's Outbreak Was Inevitable — Politicians and pundits are acting like the city was destined for a tragedy. They're wrong. — Seven weeks after its first recorded coronavirus case, New York has become the global center of the pandemic.
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New York Daily News

Coronavirus: San Clemente Fills Skatepark With 37 Tons Of Sand After Skaters Ignore ‘No Trespassing’ Signs — SAN CLEMENTE (CBSLA) — A popular skatepark in San Clemente was filled with sand to discourage skaters from using it during the coronavirus pandemic and to promote social distancing.
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The Gateway Pundit and TMZ.com

A Teenager Posted About Her COVID-19 Infection on Instagram. A Deputy Threatened To Arrest Her If She Didn't Delete It. — A family in Oxford, Wisconsin, is suing the local sheriff's department after a patrol sergeant threatened to arrest a teenage girl for disorderly conduct for posting …
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The College Fix, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Redstate

Biden looks to placate Sanders by letting him keep delegates — WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to avoid the bitter feelings that marred the 2016 Democratic convention, Joe Biden's campaign is angling to allow Bernie Sanders to keep some of the delegates he would otherwise forfeit by dropping out of the presidential race.
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The Hill

The Problem with the Rush to Reopen — Trump says some states can end their shutdowns “literally tomorrow.” But those states have not yet shown a clear downward trajectory in new COVID-19 cases. — When President Donald Trump announced his “Guidelines for Opening Up America Again” …

GOP's growing ‘open it up’ caucus urges fewer virus restrictions amid warnings from fellow Republicans — A growing number of Republican lawmakers across the country are pushing for a more rapid reboot of the American economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the risk of spreading more sickness …