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7:25 PM ET, February 27, 2020

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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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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.
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.
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.
ABC News:
Coronavirus live updates: Possible 1st case of ‘community spread’ in US
New York Times:
Trump Has a Problem as the Coronavirus Threatens the U.S.: His Credibility
Discussion: Washington 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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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 …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
New SC 2020 polls show Biden continues to lead over Sanders and Steyer
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How Joe Biden could soon be the Bernie Sanders alternative
Discussion: 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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: 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
Discussion: The Hill
A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:
Latest poll: Joe Biden surging, Mike Bloomberg fading in Florida primary
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Bloomberg:
Pence Says He's in Charge of U.S. Virus Response, Not HHS's Azar
Discussion: Twitchy
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:
Discussion: The Week and Page Six
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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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 …
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
Discussion: 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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
Discussion: Fast Company, Mediaite and Page Six
 
 
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Controversial Trump Fed nominee may be confirmed after all
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
Israeli scientists: ‘In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine’
Brad Heath / USA Today:
Killed by a cartel.  Betrayed by his own?  US re-examines murder of federal agent featured in ‘Narcos’
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
An unsung aide equal parts air traffic controller and caddie exits the Senate
Wall Street Journal:
White House Wants Signoff on Coronavirus Messaging
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
How Alabama blocked a man from voting because he owed $4
Ruth Graham / Slate:
The Bible That Oozed Oil
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Judge may hold Mueller-ensnared Russia firm in contempt
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
MJ Lee / CNN:
Bloomberg releases new heart health information and calls on Sanders to do the same
Discussion: Mediaite
CNN:
Top House Intelligence investigator departing Capitol Hill
Megan Leonhardt / CNBC:
Americans are skipping medically necessary prescriptions because of the cost
Discussion: Washington Post and The Wrap
Bill Text / U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren …:
Senator Warren Unveils Legislation to De-Fund President's Border Wall, Use Funds to Combat Coronavirus Outbreak
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Sierra Blanca Is How Trump Crushes Bernie
Discussion: Townhall
David Wasserman / New York Times:
To Beat Trump, Democrats May Need to Break Out of the ‘Whole Foods’ Bubble
 

 
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN confirms Kaitlan Collins as its chief White House correspondent; she will become CNN's first prime-time anchor to also serve as its top White House reporter

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A group published a project on Hugging Face that seemingly granted brief access to OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls duplicity and “art washing” by OpenAI

Mia Sato / The Verge:
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