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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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POLITICUSUSA, KSHB-TV, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, The Hill, The Daily Dot and Power Line
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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, The Hill, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
Colin Campbell / Yahoo News:
Hillary Clinton: Biden ‘is building the kind of coalition that I had’
Hillary Clinton: Biden ‘is building the kind of coalition that I had’
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Big League Politics and Twitchy
Politico:
Sanders, Biden camps clash over Arizona debate format
Sanders, Biden camps clash over Arizona debate format
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Washington Post, Fox News, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Associated Press, Redstate, The Daily Beast, 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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POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, NBC News and Reuters
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
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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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.
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
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 and Twitchy
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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Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Carson declines to ‘preview’ plan for virus-stricken ship's docking: 'We shouldn't have 16 people saying what the plan is' — Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson on Sunday declined to “preview” the plan for the docking of the Grand Princess cruise ship …
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POLITICUSUSA and ABC News
Taylor Dolven / Miami Herald:
State Department warns against traveling by cruise ship during coronavirus outbreak — Note: The Miami Herald and McClatchy news sites have lifted the paywall on this developing story, providing critical information to readers. To support vital reporting such as this, please consider a digital subscription.
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Cruise Ship Passengers
Cruise Ship Passengers
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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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Yun Li / CNBC:
Dow futures tumble 900 points as all-out oil price war adds to coronavirus stress — Stock futures tumbled in overnight trading Sunday as investors continued to brace for the economic fallout from the spreading coronavirus, while a shocking all-out oil price war added to the anxiety.
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
Coronavirus in N.Y.: Cuomo Attacks C.D.C. Over Delays in Testing
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POLITICUSUSA and Rolling Stone
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 …
Chicago Tribune:
Rev. Jesse Jackson endorses Bernie Sanders for president — A day after Bernie Sanders rallied supporters in Chicago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson endorsed the Vermont senator's bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination, his campaign announced. — Jackson's endorsement came shortly after California …
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Common Dreams
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Rainbow Coalition Comes Full Circle as Jesse Jackson Endorses Bernie Sanders
Rainbow Coalition Comes Full Circle as Jesse Jackson Endorses Bernie Sanders
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Associated Press
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
The Seattle Times:
Coronavirus cases may be higher than reported at Kirkland nursing home; 70 of 180 employees have COVID-19 symptoms — KIRKLAND — The number of deaths and illnesses linked to novel coronavirus at Life Care Center of Kirkland may be higher than health officials have been able to confirm so far, according to the nursing home.
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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.
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.
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 …