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Washington Post:
A second case of coronavirus found through spread in California — California has a second case of community transmission of the coronavirus, a 65-year-old resident of Santa Clara County who has no known history of travel to countries hit hard by the outbreak, people familiar with the case said Friday.
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LiveScience and The Verge
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Washington Post:
Live updates: Second coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in California, indicating virus is spreading in the state — Breaking: Second coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in California, indicating virus is spreading in the state — The patient is a 65-year-old person …
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STAT, CBS San Francisco, The Hill, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, The Guardian and Fortune
Washington Post:
Trump officials discuss tax cuts, other emergency measures in hopes of tackling coronavirus fallout — The proposals would do little to stop the virus's spread, but would aim to arrest economic fears — Trump administration officials are holding preliminary conversations about economic responses …
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National Review, Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money, POLITICUSUSA and CNN
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Media Covering Coronavirus to ‘Bring Down the President,’ Mulvaney Claims — The acting White House chief of staff plays down the risks of the virus and criticizes the media for not covering Mr. Trump's son Barron, something Melania Trump has asked it not to do.
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Mother Jones, Politico, Rolling Stone, Iowa Starting Line, Occupy Democrats, Vanity Fair, IJR, Political Flare and The Wrap
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Trump wants to cut corporate rate again, Mulvaney says
Trump wants to cut corporate rate again, Mulvaney says
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National Review and Associated Press
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump Thinks Corporations Could Use More Tax Cuts
Trump Thinks Corporations Could Use More Tax Cuts
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Who is strongest against Trump? Must-win states and swing voters show Biden holds edge over Sanders — Is Bernie Sanders “electable”? It's a question that's been troubling many Democrats, who fear that despite his strong showings in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada …
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Political Wire, New York Times and The American Spectator
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Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Sanders Opens Substantial Lead In Mass., Challenging Warren On Her Home Turf — With Super Tuesday just days away, a new WBUR poll finds Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders well ahead of Sen. Elizabeth Warren in her home state of Massachusetts. — The poll shows Sanders is the choice …
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
US to sign historic deal with Taliban, Trump announces, beginning end of US war in Afghanistan and withdrawal of American troops — The deal is also supposed to lead to Afghan negotiations with the Taliban. — After a week-long deal to reduce violence across Afghanistan …
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Associated Press, One America News Network and Breitbart
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HuffPost:
Devastating Court Ruling Allows White House To Block Testimony From Former Counsel Don McGahn — The ruling “all but assures future Presidential stonewalling of Congress,” a dissenting judge wrote. — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Friday dismissed a lawsuit from House Democrats …
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The Week
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Has Won Black Activists. She's Losing the Black Vote. — She earned coveted endorsements and released racial justice plans that scholars agree could make a real difference. That hasn't meant much on the ground. — CHARLESTON, S.C. — The crowd at a music venue here was energized …
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Brian Rosenwald / The Week:
The feeble rise of the elderly candidate
The feeble rise of the elderly candidate
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Real Clear Politics
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Stephen Miller's new wife is in charge of approving all coronavirus communications — Texas cops ask local addicts to bring in their meth so it can be purportedly tested for coronavirus — Police in Texas are trying to scare local addicts into bringing their drug stashes …
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KCRG-TV
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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Trump nominates John Ratcliffe for top intelligence post — President Trump on Friday said he is nominating Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe to serve as Director of National Intelligence (DNI), months after the Republican congressman abruptly withdrew his name for the post.
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ABC News and The Daily Beast
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Cory Bennett / Politico:
Trump to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe again as intel chief
PR Newswire:
5WPR Survey Reveals 38% of Beer-Drinking Americans Wouldn't Buy Corona Now — Corona's buzz score has fallen from 75 to 51 in 2020 — 5W Public Relations, one of the top 15 independently-owned PR agencies in the U.S., has conducted a survey via phone of 737 American beer drinkers over the age …
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CNN, The Dispatch, New York Post, Reason, IJR, Mediaite, Eater, KUSI-TV and WCDC-TV
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
For the first time, there are fewer registered Republicans than independents — For the first time in history, there are more registered independents in the United States than there are registered Republicans. — It may not be for the reason you think, though.
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The American Independent and Breitbart
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Jerk, liars and the inexperienced: How voters describe the 2020 candidates
Jerk, liars and the inexperienced: How voters describe the 2020 candidates
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Mother Jones, The Week and The Daily Beast
Laura Bassett / GQ:
Like Warren, I Had My Own Sexist Run-In with Chris Matthews — The Hardball anchor frequently demeans women guests, with objectifying and belittling comments, both on and off air. — MSNBC host Chris Matthews, whose long history of sexist comments and behavior have somehow not yet gotten him fired …
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Variety, The Hill and The Mary Sue, more at Mediagazer »
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Rep. Garamendi: NIH official canceled on five Sunday talk shows after Pence's office ‘took over’ — Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) on Friday said the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was told to “stand down” and not appear on five Sunday morning talk shows to discuss the coronavirus.
ProPublica:
Key Missteps at the CDC Have Set Back Its Ability to Detect the Potential Spread of Coronavirus — The CDC designed a flawed test for COVID-19, then took weeks to figure out a fix so state and local labs could use it. New York still doesn't trust the test's accuracy.
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Washington Post and Letters from an American
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Christina Maxouris / CNN:
California patient with unknown origin of coronavirus is in serious condition, official says
California patient with unknown origin of coronavirus is in serious condition, official says
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Rolling Stone, The Week and New York Post
Ben Jacobs / GEN:
Michael Bloomberg's North Carolina Game Is Seriously Unlike Anything Else — The Super Tuesday state is the former New York mayor's best shot at primary delegates — and he knows it — eeing the Bloomberg presidential campaign up close, there is no easy way to describe it.
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NBC News, NewNowNext and Fox News
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
President Trump's ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy blocked in federal court — A federal appeals court in California halted the Trump administration's “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy on Friday, a blow to the president's restrictive immigration agenda that cripples one of the government's approaches …
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Associated Press, VICE, NOQ Report, UPI, Daily Kos and Raw Story
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Bud Kennedy / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
A paranoid militia infiltrating Texas police is bent on rebellion, ‘ready to rise up’ — A revolution-minded, conspiracy-bent militia group named the Oath Keepers is recruiting law officers in Hood County to take up arms in what the founder predicts will be a “bloody civil war” against the U.S. government.
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Raw Story
CNBC:
Dow falls 350 points Friday to cap the worst week for Wall Street since the financial crisis — Stuart Frankel's Steve Grasso explains his investment strategy amid sell-off — Stocks tumbled once again on Friday, capping off their worst week since the financial crisis …
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The Last Refuge, Denver Post, The Week and CCN.com
Amy Spiro / Jewish Insider:
Sanders would easily beat Trump among Jewish voters, poll shows — SURVEY SAYS — Democratic frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would beat President Donald Trump 65-30% among Jewish voters, according to a new poll of 1,001 American Jews conducted by Garin-Hart-Yang Research Associates …
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Jewish Electorate Institute
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Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed News:
“Good” Jews, “Bad” Jews, And Bernie Sanders
“Good” Jews, “Bad” Jews, And Bernie Sanders
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Jewish Electorate Institute, The Forward and The Federalist
Rachel Paula Abrahamson / TODAY.com:
School policy forbids kids from saying ‘no’ when asked to dance — One mom is fighting back on behalf of her 11-year-old daughter. — Alicia Hobson's 11-year-old daughter, Azlyn, was counting down the days until the Valentine's Day dance at her Utah middle school.
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TheBlaze and Joanne Jacobs
Politico:
Republicans storm out of coronavirus briefing after Democrat rips Trump's response — Several House Republicans walked out of a closed-door coronavirus briefing Friday with Trump health officials in protest after a senior Democrat blasted the Trump administration's handling of the response effort.
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TheBlaze, The CT Mirror and Raw Story
Michael Harriot / The Root:
Every Democratic Candidates' ‘Black Agenda,’ Ranked — On Saturday, voters in South Carolina will sound the starting gun for the race to the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. After giving white America a head start on selecting the party's nominee, the Democratic Party now turns to South Carolina.
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American Prospect
ProPublica:
The RNC Stopped Paying a Data Firm After A Serious Breach. Then It Paid A Mysterious LLC With the Same Address. — Three years after the Republican National Committee publicly sidelined the sullied firm, it paid an LLC with the same address $900,000 for “data services.”
David Brooks / New York Times:
No, Not Sanders, Not Ever — He is not a liberal, he's the end of liberalism. — A few months ago, I wrote a column saying I would vote for Elizabeth Warren over Donald Trump. I may not agree with some of her policies, but culture is more important than politics. She does not spread moral rot the way Trump does.
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Washington Post, Progress Pond, Vox, National Review, Mediaite, Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog and Outside the Beltway
Stephanie Hegarty / BBC:
The boss who put everyone on 70K — In 2015, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff - and personally took a pay cut of $1m. Five years later he's still on the minimum salary, and says the gamble has paid off.
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kottke.org
Harry Cheadle In Money / VICE:
Here's the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too — After a recent, extensive, and rather withering bout of bad press, the facial recognition company Clearview AI has changed its homepage, which now touts all the things it says its technology can do, and a few things it can't.
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