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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump and his campaign promote dishonestly edited Biden video — Urban defends Sanders: Endorsements don't matter — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and his campaign promoted a dishonestly edited video on Saturday that wrongly made it seem as if Democratic presidential …
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KSHB-TV, The Daily Caller, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Dot and Power Line
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Colin Campbell / Yahoo News:
Hillary Clinton: Biden ‘is building the kind of coalition that I had’ — Hillary Clinton said in a new interview that Joe Biden's path to the 2020 nomination looks similar to hers back in 2016. — “What Joe's victories on Super Tuesday showed is that he is building the kind of coalition …
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Twitchy
Politico:
Sanders, Biden camps clash over Arizona debate format
Sanders, Biden camps clash over Arizona debate format
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Associated Press, Redstate, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, The Hill, The Daily Beast, Fox News, NBC News, MSNBC and Breitbart
Brie Stimson / Fox News:
Klobuchar ‘ticket’ slip-up at Biden event in Michigan sparks speculation she'll be his VP pick
Klobuchar ‘ticket’ slip-up at Biden event in Michigan sparks speculation she'll be his VP pick
David Cohen / Politico:
Hillary Clinton: Sanders wouldn't be our strongest candidate
Hillary Clinton: Sanders wouldn't be our strongest candidate
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The Hill and Associated Press
Sarah Mucha / CNN:
Kamala Harris endorses Joe Biden
Kamala Harris endorses Joe Biden
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The Daily Caller, The Week and Outside the Beltway
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Endorses Joe Biden for President
Kamala Harris Endorses Joe Biden for President
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Vox, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Hill and The Root
Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
Official: White House didn't want to tell seniors not to fly — NEW YORK (AP) — The White House overruled health officials who wanted to recommend that elderly and physically fragile Americans be advised not to fly on commercial airlines because of the new coronavirus, a federal official told The Associated Press.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: SCOOP: Trump skipping annual bipartisan Capitol lunch — DRIVING THE DAY — SCOOP: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is scheduled to skip the annual St. Patrick's Day lunch in the Capitol this Thursday, one of Washington's oldest time-honored bipartisan traditions, Hill sources tell us.
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Redstate, CNN, Breitbart, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis
Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis
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Raw Story, HuffPost, Outside the Beltway, Breitbart, Bloomberg and New York Times
Washington Post:
Confusion spreads as Italy tries to lock down 16 million people — ROME — Italy on Sunday launched a complicated and urgent plan to restrict the movement of roughly 16 million people, a measure that unleashed confusion about how it could be enforced and whether it would be enough to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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Associated Press:
Italy quarantines north in drastic bid to slow virus spread — ROME (AP) — Italy took a page from China's playbook Sunday, locking down around 16 million people — more than a quarter of its population — for nearly a month to halt the relentless march of the new coronavirus across Europe.
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BBC, Slate, Quartz and New York Times
Rachel Donadio / The Atlantic:
Italy's Coronavirus Response Is a Warning From the Future
Italy's Coronavirus Response Is a Warning From the Future
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times and The Verge
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Coronavirus is exposing Trump's unsuitability to handle a crisis — President Trump's bombastic style has served him well through many stages of his political career, but as the coronavirus spreads rapidly throughout the United States, it is exposing how deeply unsuited he is to deal …
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The Hill, Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA, New York Post and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Three more coronavirus infections reported in D.C. area Saturday — A D.C. man in his 50s has been hospitalized with covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said Saturday night. Another man who was traveling in the District appears to have contracted the virus as well.
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Sandi Doughton / The Seattle Times:
Gates-funded program will soon offer home-testing kits for new coronavirus — Testing for the novel coronavirus in the Seattle area will get a huge boost in the coming weeks as a project funded by Bill Gates and his foundation begins offering home-testing kits that will allow people who fear …
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New York Post
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russian Media Freak Over Joe Biden's Election Resurrection — The Kremlin-controlled media hoped and, it would seem, believed that Bernie Sanders would get the Democratic nomination, paving the way to victory for Donald Trump. — Former Vice President Joe Biden's Super Tuesday victories …
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Raw Story
Leslie Brody / Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Cases in New York State Rise to 105 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo urges the CDC to approve testing for Covid-19 by private labs — The number of people across New York infected with coronavirus rose to 105, state officials said Sunday, as residents prepared for a new workweek full …
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Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura / New York Times:
Coronavirus in N.Y.: Cuomo Attacks C.D.C. Over Delays in Testing
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Sanders Is Behind With Black Voters. He Didn't Fix That in Flint. — An event in Michigan was billed as an opportunity for the senator to make his case directly to black voters, who have broken strongly for Joe Biden. It didn't work out that way. — FLINT, Mich. — Cornel West pleaded with his …
Washington Post:
Live coronavirus updates: Grand Princess cruise ship to dock in Oakland; Virginia announces second case — The virus continued to spread across the United States, with Vermont, Missouri and Washington, D.C. reporting their first cases late Saturday and Virginia announcing a second case on Sunday.
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
‘Plan will be in place’ by Grand Princess docking: HUD Secretary Ben Carson — Carson is a member of the White House's coronavirus task force. — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said ABC's “This Week,” that the Trump administration would have a plan to deal with the passengers …
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Vox, Mother Jones, The Hill, Quartz, Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo, New York Post, Mediaite and Bloomberg
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Mitch McConnell's Senate majority is in danger — With Biden poised to be atop the ticket, Democratic candidates are leading in the most consequential Senate races. — Joe Biden's remarkable change of fortune in the presidential race is coinciding with Senate Democrats' growing optimism …
New York Times:
Failures on the Diamond Princess Shadow Another Cruise Ship Outbreak — An alert about a coronavirus infection sat in an unmonitored inbox. A cruise doctor saw “no point” in disinfecting the ship. And Japan disregarded medical guidelines to contain an outbreak.
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Quartz, USA Today and The Guardian
Nate Carlisle / Salt Lake Tribune:
LDS Church discloses the $37.8 billion stock portfolio of its biggest investment fund — For the first time, the LDS Church's biggest investment fund has disclosed its Wall Street holdings, revealing $37.8 billion in stocks and mutual funds. — The federal filing may be the best answer ever …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media is blowing its chance to head off an Election Day debacle — If Election Day 2020 turns into a full-blown disaster, no one can say there weren't plenty of warning signs. — There were the Iowa caucuses, when glitches with an untested new app delayed the state's election results for havoc-filled days that turned into weeks.
Juliette Kayyem / The Atlantic:
The U.S. Isn't Ready for What's About to Happen — For the professionals who try to manage homeland-security threats, reassuring the public after a natural disaster or terrorist attack—or amid a coronavirus outbreak like the one the world now faces—is just part of the job.
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New York Times
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Surgeon General to Jake Tapper: Trump Is ‘Healthier’ Than I Am — OH REALLY? — After Surgeon General Jerome Adams advised on State of the Union Sunday morning that older Americans and those with underlying medical issues should “think very carefully” before taking long flights or going into big crowds …
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Political Wire, The Daily Beast and Contemptor
Dr. Tom Frieden / CNN:
Former CDC director: It's time to restrict visits to nursing homes — Dr. Tom Frieden is the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and former commissioner of the New York City Health Department. He is currently president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives …
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