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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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ABC News:
Coronavirus live updates: WHO raises global risk from ‘high’ to ‘very high’ — The FDA said the issue continues to be “an evolving and very dynamic” one. — Countries around the world are scrambling to respond to the influx of new coronavirus cases outside of China.
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Breitbart
ProPublica:
Key Missteps at the CDC Have Set Back Its Ability to Detect the Potential Spread of Coronavirus
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump seeks a ‘miracle’ as virus fears mount
Trump seeks a ‘miracle’ as virus fears mount
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The American Independent, National Review and Vanity Fair
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 …
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Politico, Washington Times, The Hill, CANNONFIRE, National Review and Vanity Fair
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David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Bernie Sanders holds 2-1 lead in California, poll shows — Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken a commanding lead in California's Democratic presidential race, ahead of his nearest rival by 2 to 1 and on track to win a majority of the huge trove of delegates at stake in the state's March 3 primary …
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The Hill
Joe Cunningham / Redstate:
Even in Massachusetts, It's Clear Elizabeth Warren Is Done
Even in Massachusetts, It's Clear Elizabeth Warren Is Done
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WBUR
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Sanders knocks Biden out of first, majority thinks Trump wins
Fox News Poll: Sanders knocks Biden out of first, majority thinks Trump wins
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Political Flare, The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog, courthousenews.com, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
When a Pandemic Meets a Personality Cult — The Trump team confirms all of our worst fears. — So, here's the response of the Trump team and its allies to the coronavirus, at least so far: It's actually good for America. Also, it's a hoax perpetrated by the news media and the Democrats.
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Raw Story, NewNowNext, The National Interest, The Intellectualist, Snopes.com, CNN and Occupy Democrats
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Washington Post:
Trump says he can bring in coronavirus experts quickly. The experts say it is not that simple.
Trump says he can bring in coronavirus experts quickly. The experts say it is not that simple.
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Letters from an American and New York Times
Alexander Heffner / USA Today:
Trump's terrible coronavirus response hands 2020 Democrats a chance to show they can lead
Trump's terrible coronavirus response hands 2020 Democrats a chance to show they can lead
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Colorado Times Recorder, New Republic and Media Matters for America
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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Bloomberg, Political Wire and JustOneMinute
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
With coronavirus, Trump's lies and his reassurances backfire — It mattered when the White House press secretary, in his first day on the job, lied about President Trump's inaugural crowd size. — It mattered when Trump said that wind turbines cause cancer.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House seeks interviews with prosecutors who quit Stone case after Trump's intervention — House Democrats are seeking interviews with the four career prosecutors who quit the case of Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, after Trump and Justice Department leaders intervened to demand a lighter jail sentence.
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Daily Kos
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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.
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.
Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
Sen. Tim Kaine endorses Joe Biden before key primary elections — Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), the 2016 vice presidential nominee, is endorsing former vice president Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, hoping to give him a boost before Saturday's South Carolina primary and Virginia's primary on Super Tuesday.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Gets Giant Lift From Persist PAC
Elizabeth Warren Gets Giant Lift From Persist PAC
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National Review, Vanity Fair and Politico
Politico:
Joe Biden's campaign isn't dead yet
Joe Biden's campaign isn't dead yet
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NBC News, Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, The Daily Beast, The Hill and Breitbart
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
No, Bernie Sanders isn't authentic. Just like Trump.
No, Bernie Sanders isn't authentic. Just like Trump.
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Slate, The Daily Caller and CNN
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Airstrike Hits Turkish Forces in Syria, Raising Fears of Escalation — The Turkish Army suffered mass casualties in an airstrike, officials said, an attack that could set off a direct conflict between Turkey and Russia. — ISTANBUL — The Turkish Army suffered mass casualties in an airstrike …
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Associated Press, Foreign Policy, National Review, Washington Post, Slate, UPI, Reuters, Al Jazeera and TheBlaze
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Hannah Dreier / ProPublica:
When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg — Bloomberg gave media advice to the Sacklers and recommended his longtime mayoral spokesman to them. The relationship could shadow his presidential bid. — Long celebrated …
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National Review
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.
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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io9, Gothamist, Chicago Boyz, STAT, Davis Enterprise, Politico and The American Conservative
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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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The Week and New York Post
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Final Iowa Caucus Results: Pete Buttigieg Wins — The final Iowa Caucus results are finally final: Pete Buttigieg has won (still). — This evening, the Iowa Democratic Party released the results of the recount requested by Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg's campaigns for 23 precincts.
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Iowa Democrats, The Hill and Outside the Beltway
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Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
What's on Mike Pence's schedule as coronavirus point man? A fundraiser in Florida. — The $25,000-per-plate GOP event featuring the vice president is in Longboat Key. — The country's new point man on coronavirus response, Vice President Mike Pence, is expected to travel to Florida on Friday — but not on a public health mission.
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Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Intellectualist, ABC News, The Hill, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Fox News and Washington Post
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP scramble is on to succeed Donald Trump in 2024 — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — President Donald Trump is locked in a tough reelection battle, yet the Republicans looking to succeed him are already circling. — They're visiting early primary states, reaching out to major donors, and …
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Breitbart
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Roger Stone lashes out in Florida testimony — Take a look inside a Roger Stone Deposition — Roger Stone looked like a man on edge, under extreme stress and struggling to contain pent-up fury. — The GOP provocateur was just days away from finding out his fate from a criminal case …
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Mediaite
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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The Week, Columbia Journalism Review, Progress Pond, The Intellectualist, Raw Story, Political Flare and Occupy Democrats