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Washington Post:
U.S. workers without protective gear assisted coronavirus evacuees, HHS whistleblower says — Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak …
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Wall Street Journal, Fox News, CNN, Talking Points Memo, Slate, New York Post, The American Independent, Mediaite and Daily Kos
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New York Times:
U.S. Health Workers Responding to Coronavirus Lacked Training and Protective Gear, Whistle-Blower Says — Team members were not properly trained, lacked necessary gear and moved freely around and off military bases where Americans were quarantined, a complaint says.
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Talking Points Memo and Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Pence Will Control All Coronavirus Messaging From Health Officials — Government health officials and scientists will have to clear statements with the vice president's office, one of three people designated as the administration's primary coronavirus official.
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Dan Vergano / BuzzFeed News:
New York Is Making Its Own Coronavirus Test After The CDC's Tests Have Repeatedly Failed — Washington, D.C. — Federal health officials met with state and city public health labs on Wednesday to fix a crippling lack of options to diagnose the novel coronavirus, a shortfall driven by botched CDC testing kits.
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Davis Enterprise, Politico, The American Conservative and LiveScience
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Let's Call It Trumpvirus — If you're feeling awful, you know who to blame. — So, our Coronavirus Czar is going to be ... Mike Pence. Feeling more secure? — “I know full well the importance of presidential leadership,” the vice president said as soon as he was introduced in his new role.
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Redstate, The Week, Fox News, New York Post, NOQ Report, Big League Politics, Townhall, Politico, Washington Post, HuffPost, The Wrap, NBC News, Twitchy and Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Coronavirus Patient in California Was Not Tested for Days
Coronavirus Patient in California Was Not Tested for Days
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Washington Post, Slate, Raw Story and SFist
ABC News:
Coronavirus live updates: Possible 1st case of ‘community spread’ in US
Coronavirus live updates: Possible 1st case of ‘community spread’ in US
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Centers for Disease Control …, Breitbart and The Hill
New York Times:
Trump Has a Problem as the Coronavirus Threatens the U.S.: His Credibility
Trump Has a Problem as the Coronavirus Threatens the U.S.: His Credibility
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Washington Post
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News hosts accuse Democrats and journalists of ‘weaponizing’ coronavirus to attack Trump
Fox News hosts accuse Democrats and journalists of ‘weaponizing’ coronavirus to attack Trump
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Twitchy and New York Post
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Biden Maintains Lead — Sanders and Steyer jockey for second — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden stays well atop the field in South Carolina, according to the third Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll of likely Democratic primary voters there. Tom Steyer and Bernie Sanders are fighting for the second spot.
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Fox News, Washington Post, The Hill, Politico, Breitbart, Big League Politics, The National Interest, National Review and New York Times
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Sanders knocks Biden out of first, majority thinks Trump wins — Bernie Sanders pushes Joe Biden out of the frontrunner spot for the Democratic nomination, capturing a record 31 percent support among primary voters in a new Fox News Poll. This is the first 2020 Fox national poll …
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The Hill and Political Wire
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
What The Race Looks Like If Biden Wins — Or Wins Big, Or Loses — In South Carolina
What The Race Looks Like If Biden Wins — Or Wins Big, Or Loses — In South Carolina
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Patterico's Pontifications, Raw Story, ABC News, Daily Kos, Brutal South, Washington Post, The Independent, TheBlaze and Mediaite
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
New SC 2020 polls show Biden continues to lead over Sanders and Steyer
New SC 2020 polls show Biden continues to lead over Sanders and Steyer
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Power Line, FiveThirtyEight and The Hill
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How Joe Biden could soon be the Bernie Sanders alternative
How Joe Biden could soon be the Bernie Sanders alternative
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Associated Press and The Hill
The Daily Beast:
Trump Spends 45 Minutes With ‘Deep State’ Play Actors Amid Coronavirus Mayhem — Meanwhile, the man he tapped to run point on the virus, VP Pence, took to a conservative activists conference and had meetings with pro-Trump media luminaries. — NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — One day after briefing …
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Raw Story, Political Flare and Sarasota Herald-Tribune
New York Times:
Democratic Leaders Willing to Risk Party Damage to Stop Bernie Sanders — Interviews with dozens of Democratic Party officials, including 93 superdelegates, found overwhelming opposition to handing Mr. Sanders the nomination if he fell short of a majority of delegates.
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Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Bloomberg says he would close campaign offices if Sanders wins nomination and rejects his support — Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg said Thursday he would shutter his presidential campaign operation if someone else wins the nomination and rejects his support …
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Associated Press and New York Post
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Bloomberg says he will run ‘right to the bitter end,’ to convention if nomination not locked up
Bloomberg says he will run ‘right to the bitter end,’ to convention if nomination not locked up
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The Hill
A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:
Latest poll: Joe Biden surging, Mike Bloomberg fading in Florida primary
Latest poll: Joe Biden surging, Mike Bloomberg fading in Florida primary
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Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Michael Bloomberg's Campaign Sought Andrew Yang's Backing, Floated Vice- Presidential Slot — Yang didn't commit to join forces — Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign has made overtures to Democrat Andrew Yang, courting the former candidate's endorsement and floating the possibility …
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Fox News, Breitbart, The Hill, The Independent, New York Post and The Week
Baltimore Sun:
Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh sentenced to 3 years for ‘Healthy Holly’ children's book fraud scheme — Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, who held elected offices in Baltimore for two decades and was elevated by voters to lead the city following the upheaval of 2015 …
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National Review, The Root, Breitbart, Washington Free Beacon, New York Post, The Hill, HuffPost, NPR, The Last Refuge, Fox News, The Daily Caller, The Slot and UPI
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Silencing Fauci? — I've been watching the mix of very worrisome mishandling of the Coronavirus by the White House along with more positive developments from within the federal infectious disease bureaucracy. To be clear, in this case I'm talking mainly about things the President …
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Balloon Juice
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Lindsay Crouse / New York Times:
My Ex-Boyfriend's New Girlfriend Is Lady Gaga — How do you compare yourself with one of the most famous women in the world? — Ms. Crouse is a senior staff editor in Opinion. — I was eating bodega grapes at my desk on a recent Monday morning, gearing up to wrangle my inbox, when my phone started buzzing:
Martyn McLaughlin / Scotsman:
Scots ministers told to seek ‘unexplained wealth order’ for Donald Trump resorts — The Scottish Government has been urged to apply for an unexplained wealth order to investigate Donald Trump's deals to acquire his Scottish properties. — Patrick Harvie MSP, co-leader of the Scottish Greens …
Rex Huppke / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Dow drops more after Trump's unconvincing ‘calm down about coronavirus’ message. Blame Mike Pence. — President Donald Trump wants the stock market and the American people to chill out and stop worrying about the coronavirus. — That's why he took time out from his busy schedule Wednesday evening …
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Jeffery Martin / Newsweek:
Mike Pence's ‘Pray On It’ Plan To Combat Indiana HIV Outbreak Resurfaces After Trump Taps VP …
Mike Pence's ‘Pray On It’ Plan To Combat Indiana HIV Outbreak Resurfaces After Trump Taps VP …
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Raw Story, Washington Post, NB Blog, IJR, Mediaite and New York Times
Los Angeles Times:
California grapples with growing coronavirus threat as businesses pull out of state events — California is coming to terms with the growing threat posed by coronavirus, as two communities issued emergency orders and a patient in Northern California was described by authorities as potentially …
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San Francisco Chronicle, UC Davis, National Review, The Seattle Times and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Ukraine court forces probe into Biden role in firing of prosecutor Viktor Shokin — KYIV — A court ruling in Ukraine has forced state investigators to open a probe into alleged pressure by former vice president Joe Biden that led to the 2016 dismissal of Viktor Shokin as the country's prosecutor general, officials said Thursday.
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Bermet Talant / KyivPost:
Ukraine opens probes into Biden after ex-prosecutor Shokin's court appeals
Ukraine opens probes into Biden after ex-prosecutor Shokin's court appeals
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Talking Points Memo
Corey Brettschneider / Politico:
Why President Trump Can't Pardon Roger Stone — Speculation that President Donald Trump might pardon Roger Stone has reached a fever pitch after Stone's sentencing by a federal judge and the president's repeated hints that he thinks the verdict unfair. But fortunately, the Constitution's framers imagined …
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Reason, Sentencing Law and Policy and Raw Story
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
‘You Guys Are Total A**holes’: Dan Bongino Berates Mediaite Writer at CPAC — Fox News contributor Dan Bongino gave this writer an earful in the empty hallways of the Conservative Political Action Conference after it closed up for the night on Wednesday. — After Bongino's Fox News hit …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Trump campaign lawsuit against New York Times exposes honesty of New York Times — As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump declared, “No media is more corrupt than the failing New York Times.” That claim followed an exposé in the Times documenting the stories of women who'd claimed that Trump had groped them.
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The Wrap, Techdirt and Althouse, more at Mediagazer »
Allan Smith / NBC News:
'I can't even': Emails reveal EPA officials' reaction to Trump rant on toilets, showers — The president's claims about water pressure caught the attention of his environmental agency. — When the top EPA official overseeing its WaterSense program first heard President Donald Trump's rant …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
BuzzFeed News:
Clearview's Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy's, Walmart, And The NBA — The United States' main immigration enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, retailers including Best Buy and Macy's, and a sovereign wealth fund in the United Arab Emirates …
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The Economist:
The Supreme Court's chief justice is poised to decide a clutch of controversies — Presidential authority, abortion and Donald Trump's tax returns are all coming before the court — For years after John Roberts was named chief justice by George W. Bush in 2005, he presided over the …
BBC:
China prepares 100,000 ducks to battle Pakistan's locust swarms — China is preparing to deploy 100,000 ducks to neighbouring Pakistan to help tackle swarms of crop-eating locusts. — Chinese agricultural experts say a single duck can eat more than 200 locusts a day and be more effective than pesticides.
Madison Pauly / Mother Jones:
Mark Halperin Says Murderers Are Treated More Fairly Than Canceled People — The disgraced pundit is now portraying himself as a victim. Of cancel culture. — One afternoon last week, disgraced political pundit Mark Halperin and three women settled onto stools in the basement …
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