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10:10 AM ET, March 6, 2020

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Judge Calls Barr's Handling of Mueller Report ‘Distorted’ and ‘Misleading’  —  The judge said the attorney general lacked credibility on the matter and said he would review the report to decide whether to make its redacted portions public.  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Federal Judge Says He Needs to Review Every Mueller Report Redaction Because Barr Can't Be Trusted  —  Attorney General William Barr's wildly inappropriate campaign to spin the Mueller report in Donald Trump's favor last year may have finally backfired.  On Thursday, U.S. District Judge …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Judge cites Barr's ‘misleading’ statements in ordering review of Mueller report redactions
Discussion: Mother Jones
emptywheel:   Questioning Bill Barr's “No Collusion” Propaganda, Reggie Walton Orders an In Camera Review of Mueller Report
TIME:
‘Doomed from the Start.’ Experts Say the Trump Administration's Coronavirus Response Was Never Going to Work  —  The Trump Administration's strategy to combat COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, began with a relatively simple focus: keep it out of the United States.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Rolling Stone
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Richard E. Besser / Washington Post:
As coronavirus spreads, the bill for our public health failures is due
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity  —  Previously unseen documents from a Soviet archive show how hard Mr. Sanders worked to find a sister city in Russia when he was a mayor in the 1980s.  Moscow saw a chance for propaganda.
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump's trip to CDC in flux after coronavirus scare  —  President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his scheduled Friday visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta even as the coronavirus outbreak escalates.  —  Trump's schedule Friday, which was released publicly at nearly midnight …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Signs Coronavirus Emergency Spending Bill but Cancels Visit to C.D.C.
Discussion: CNBC and Political Wire
Politico:
A presidency of two for coronavirus: Trump hands his sidekick the job of a savior
Kevin Liptak / CNN:   Pence admits 'we don't have enough tests' to meet demands as delay in coronavirus testing persists
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Calamitous Coronavirus Response  —  A whole-of-government mobilization to protect the president's ego.  —  Last month, after analyzing figures on epidemics since 1960, The Economist concluded that people die at a higher rate from such disease outbreaks in authoritarian countries …
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Cases Surge in U.S. and Europe, Thousands Quarantined in N.Y.C.  —  Congress approved an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill to fight the virus, but officials in several countries say the virus will keep spreading fast for some time.
Mara Gay / New York Times:
Why Southern Democrats Saved Biden  —  For those who live in the shadow of segregation and racial terror, the election is not about policy or personality.  It's about something much darker.  —  Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board.  —  At the Lorraine Motel in Memphis …
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:   Jim Clyburn Saves the Democrats
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:   Black voters just rescued the Democratic Party
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job growth smashes expectations for February as unemployment falls back to 3.5%  —  By Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM  — Nonfarm payrolls rose by 273,000 in February vs. a 175,000 estimate, while the unemployment rate edged lower to 3.5%.  — Job gains were widespread, with health care adding 57,000 to lead the way.
ABC News:
Controversial execution carried out despite pleas from advocates  —  Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey refused to step in and stop the lethal injection.  —  The controversial execution of Nathaniel Woods was carried out late Thursday in Alabama just minutes after the Supreme Court denied a temporary stay, issued only hours earlier.
Discussion: Reason
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Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Nathaniel Woods executed as accomplice in 2004 police murders  —  A Birmingham man was executed Thursday evening on a 2005 conviction of being an accomplice to the murder of three police officers.  —  Nathaniel Woods, 43, was pronounced dead at 9:01 p.m. after an execution that lasted 15 minutes.
Los Angeles Times:
Another campaign, another disappointment for women as Elizabeth Warren bows out  —  Just a few days ago, Vanessa Jackson marked the spot beside Elizabeth Warren's name on her Georgia ballot, hopeful she was casting her vote for the first female president of the United States.
Discussion: The Nation and OpenSecrets.org
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Timothy Shenk / New York Times:   Elizabeth Warren Was the Wrong Kind of Radical
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:   Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Fell Apart in the Fall, and It Never Recovered
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Warren calls out Sanders for ‘organized nastiness’ and ‘bullying’ by his supporters  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called out Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for not taking steps to control the “organized nastiness” of some of his supporters during the presidential campaign.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, The Sun and The Week
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May Warren / Toronto Star:
Person who travelled to Vegas tests positive for coronavirus; Toronto Public Health monitoring  —  A person who travelled to Las Vegas for an international conference has tested positive for COVID-19.  This brings the total number of infections in Ontario to 24.
New York Times:
'It's Pure Panic': A Wrenching Wait at Nursing Home Where Coronavirus Took Hold  —  Cut off from their relatives inside a virus-stricken nursing center, families are frantically searching for help and basic information.  —  KIRKLAND, Wash. — The hardest day of Debbie de los Angeles's life …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Romney may vote against Trump again — this time with some bite  —  Mitt Romney became persona non grata in certain parts of the conservative movement last month by becoming the first senator of a president's own party to ever vote to remove them from office.
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Washington Examiner:
Elizabeth Warren's pandering and dishonesty brought her campaign to an end  —  “Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy.”  —  This embarrassing, obsequious, pandering line, tweeted by Elizabeth Warren in November as her campaign began …
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Had a Problem With MSNBC.  Then Came Super Tuesday.  —  After a string of primary losses, the Vermont senator turned to a news network his allies love to criticize.  —  Two weeks ago, in the bowels of a Las Vegas casino, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont confronted the president of MSNBC …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The ‘Million Dollars Per Person’ Affair Is Telling  —  Herewith, a good example of why the Democratic Party is stuck in its current mode. … Obviously, the math here is spectacularly off.  If Michael Bloomberg had divided the money he spent on his presidential run evenly among Americans, we would each have got $1.53, not $1 million.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The next coronavirus crisis  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THINK ABOUT THIS: What if this is only the beginning of the coronavirus economic downturn?  Imagine if stocks keep on slipping and, even more concerning, if Americans truly stop traveling domestically and internationally over the spring and summer.
Washington Post:
Tens of thousands of political ads on Facebook lacked key details about who paid for them, new report finds  —  Researchers discovered major gaps in Facebook's ad archive that could “enable a malicious advertiser to avoid accurate disclosure of their political ads,” they wrote
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Why Americans should care about Syria  —  The situation in Syria is catastrophic.  The Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies are bombarding the rebel-held enclave of Idlib, continuing their wholesale slaughter of civilians.  Turkey, drawn into the conflict by the chaos along its border …
Discussion: Lawfare and BBC
Tamara Keith / NPR:
Trump's Gut Collides With Science On Coronavirus Messaging  —  President Trump is known to say what's on his mind, to go with his gut and accentuate the positive.  That approach is now colliding with a public health emergency in the form of coronavirus.  —  The challenge posed …
Discussion: Informed Comment
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Bill Clinton Explains Monica Lewinsky Affair as ‘Managing My Anxieties’  —  Mr. Clinton was asked about the scandal for the Hulu documentary series “Hillary.”  —  Former President Bill Clinton, recalling the sex scandal that led to his impeachment in 1998, says in a new documentary series …
Discussion: Althouse
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Gun found inside Epstein jail during lockdown  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators found a loaded gun Thursday that had been smuggled into the jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself last summer, following a weeklong lockdown that turned up other contraband and led …
 
 
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Leslie M. Harris / Politico:
I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.
Politico:
Trump loses another White House ‘original’
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
FISA court mistakenly says Fusion GPS was digging up dirt on Hillary Clinton, not Trump
Discussion: CBS News and Power Line
NBC News:
Estimate raises questions about Sanders' proposals to pay for ambitious plans
Discussion: Townhall
Jason Furman / Wall Street Journal:
The Case for a Big Coronavirus Stimulus
New York Times:
As Supreme Court Mulls Dreamers, Kushner Revives Immigration Plan
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Joseph Longo / MEL Magazine:
Meet the ‘Twink of Death’ Cursing Every Democrat's 2020 Campaign
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BBC:
Coronavirus: White House concedes US lacks enough test kits
Kathleen Pender / San Francisco Chronicle:
California orders insurers to waive out-of-pocket costs for coronavirus testing
Discussion: Cal OES News, GeekWire and STAT
Washington Post:
Maryland coronavirus: Hogan confirms three cases in Montgomery County
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
New Special Operations network will serve as security backbone in Afghanistan ahead of U.S. withdrawal
Discussion: The Globe Post
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
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More than 230 media industry professionals, including anonymous BBC staff, sign a letter accusing the BBC of bias favoring Israel in coverage of Gaza

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