Iowa Guv Ignores Feds as Virus Continues to Spread

By Hunter Woodall

“I’m not judging her by issuing a mask mandate here,” said Brad Hart, the Republican mayor of Cedar Rapids. “I’m just trying to protect Cedar Rapidians.”

By Erin Banco, Asawin Suebsaeng

As the president boasts about crushing the deadly virus, his team is struggling to figure out how to handle a resurgence and acknowledging a vaccine may not be too close.

By Margaret Carlson

If he’d told us what he told Woodward, this really might all be winding down now, and he’d be favored for re-election. But that would have meant not lying.

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By Jackie Kucinich, Sam Stein

The president’s son-in-law comes under scrutiny in Bob Woodward’s latest book. And the portrayal isn’t all that flattering.

By Noah Shachtman

Andriy Derkach has been supplying documents to Republicans on Capitol Hill, where Sen. Ron Johnson is conducting an election-eve investigation into the Bidens. 

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In this episode of The New Abnormal, Rick and Molly discuss Trump’s COVID complicity and chat with a Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter about Bill Barr’s motives.

“These are delinquents who want to destroy the U.S.,” one former Obama and Clinton supporter said of protesters they associated with the VP.

Just as Trump faced a state court order to provide his DNA, his fixer found a way to shift the case to the federal courts and get him off the hook at least through November.

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 MONEY TALKS

Ronna McDaniel reportedly told the president she was very worried about the level of cost-cutting in Trump’s 2020 campaign.

 CLIMATE CHANGED

Gov. Kate Brown said more than 900,000 acres of her state have gone up in flames over the past three days, with next to zero containment.

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