Trump’s DNI Pick: Finding Virus’ Origins Will Be Job One

By Erin Banco

The president’s two-time selection told the Senate Intel panel he would focus America’s spy agencies on “how this happened and when this happened.”

By Hanna Trudo, Sam Brodey

“I am a lot freer to speak about this stuff,” said Rebecca Parson, who is running against Rep. Derek Kilmer from the left.

By Sam Brodey

The move adds to the congressional stonewalling already under way.

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By The Daily Beast

In Episode 5 of The New Abnormal, co-hosts Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast discuss whether Jared Kushner is undead or a robot. Plus, Philippe Reines shares his week-long MAGA diet.

By Lachlan Markay

The shift comes right as the Republican Party is encouraging candidates to turn the COVID conversation away from Trump and on to China.

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Huayi Zhang didn’t just work for top Trump donor Robert Mercer. He bankrolled Trumpist media like his old boss, too.

Fighter jets, happy doctors, Nancy Pelosi’s ice cream, and a wartime president—an ad that turns reality on its head. And it’ll probably work.

“I think when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that and that type of a virus,” Trump said on February 19.

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 GIVE US A BREAK

The finding could mean the coronavirus needs a new vaccine each year, like influenza.

 SO MUCH SUFFERING

The count now includes people believed to have been killed by the virus, even if they hadn’t been tested by the time they died.

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