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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.
Discussion: NPR
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Bloomberg:
Deepening Rout in U.S. Stock Futures Triggers Limit Down Rules  — CME rules stipulate futures can't fall more than 5% from close  — S&P 500 futures sink as Saudi Arabia wages oil price war  —  Waves of selling in U.S. stock index futures triggered Chicago Mercantile Exchange limits …
Bloomberg:
Oil Drops 31% in Worst Loss Since Gulf War as Price Fight Erupts  — Saudi Arabia makes deepest price cuts in at least 20 years  — Collapse of OPEC+ alliance triggers crude supply free-for-all  —  Oil markets tumbled more than 30% after the disintegration of the OPEC+ alliance triggered …
Adam Haigh / Bloomberg:
Crude Crashes, Stocks Plunge, FX Sees Wild Moves: Markets Wrap  — Saudi Arabia unleashes all-out campaign on price of crude oil  — U.S. stock futures tumbled so much they hit trading limit  —  Oil prices crashed, equities plunged and currencies and bonds saw wild moves as panic appeared …
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Twitter flags video retweeted by President Trump as ‘manipulated media’  —  It's the first time the social network has enforced a new policy to fight doctored videos and photos  —  Twitter applied its new “manipulated media” label for the first time on Sunday to a deceptively edited video of former vice president Joe Biden.
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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 …
Rishika Dugyala / Politico:
‘Manipulated media’: Twitter applies new label to edited video of Biden
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Bernie Sanders is hammering Joe Biden on Social Security
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and NBC News
Colin Campbell / Yahoo News:
Hillary Clinton: Biden ‘is building the kind of coalition that I had’
Discussion: Big League Politics and Twitchy
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Ted Cruz to self-quarantine after contact with coronavirus patient  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) confirmed via Twitter on Sunday evening he recently interacted with someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, so he's decided to self-quarantine at home.  —  Go deeper: … Go deeper
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Ted Cruz to stay at home this week after interacting with coronavirus patient  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Sunday that he shook hands with a man now confirmed to be infected with the novel form of coronavirus during a recent interaction at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
NBC News:
Cruz to remain in Texas after brief interaction at CPAC with person who tested positive
Discussion: Breitbart
Samantha Ketterer / Houston Chronicle:   Sen. Ted Cruz self-quarantines after contact with CPAC attendee who has coronavirus
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Donald Trump Jr. says he'll debate Hunter Biden and release his taxes  —  In an interview for “Axios on HBO,” Donald Trump Jr. told me he wants to debate Hunter Biden over who has benefited more financially from their father's government service.  —  Driving the news: “We can go full transparency …
Discussion: Breitbart, Raw Story and New York Post
travel.state.gov:
Cruise Ship Passengers … If You Choose to Travel:  — Read our Traveler's Checklist and make sure to:  — Research your destination to learn about important health and safety precautions to take.  — Check our country information for the countries you will be visiting.
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Taylor Dolven / Miami Herald:
State Department warns against traveling by cruise ship during coronavirus outbreak
Discussion: Florida Politics and New York Post
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Trump in the Time of the Coronavirus  —  The first official act of the Trump Administration was the Inauguration—and, within hours, a lie delivered from the White House press room about how this had been “the largest audience to ever witness an Inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.”
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
Discussion: New York Post, GeekWire and Twitchy
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 …
Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Coronavirus case at CPAC brings outbreak closer to Trump, threatening to upend his routine amid reelection bid  —  A growing sense of concern and uncertainty about the reach of the novel coronavirus has begun to take hold in the White House, after an attendee at a recent political conference …
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NBC News:
Mixed White House messaging on coronavirus sparks internal frustration
Discussion: Rolling Stone, Mediaite and The Hill
John Tozzi / Bloomberg:
U.S. Moves From Containment to Preparing for Daily Disruptions
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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Rachel Donadio / The Atlantic:
Italy's Coronavirus Response Is a Warning From the Future
Washington Post:
Confusion spreads as Italy tries to lock down 16 million people
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About the Media  —  The senator's sweeping critique of coverage has more merit than we in the media like to admit.  —  When a BuzzFeed News colleague and I sat down with Bernie Sanders in his Capitol Hill office in 2015, he started with a thank you …
Denise Grady / New York Times:
U.S. Health Experts Say Stricter Measures Are Required to Limit Coronavirus's Spread  —  With more than 500 cases in almost three dozen states, officials worry that containment efforts aren't enough.  —  As the coronavirus gained a foothold in the United States, thousands of employees …
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Wes Parnell / New York Daily News:
ICE agents storm Brooklyn restaurant and douse detainee with pepper spray  —  ICE agents stormed a Brooklyn restaurant and released a cloud of caustic pepper spray to nab an undocumented immigrant worker, unsettling video of the bust shows.  —  The agents barged into La Cabana …
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Anxiety grips companies across the world as virus spreads  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Since breaking out of China, the coronavirus has breached the walls of the Vatican.  It's struck the Iranian holy city of Qom and contaminated a nursing home in Seattle.  —  And around the world …
Ryan Lattanzio / IndieWire:
Bernie Sanders Loves to Watch ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and ‘Melancholia’ on His iPad  —  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who's still currently vying for the top spot over Joe Biden in the ongoing primaries, is a cinephile, it turns out.  As revealed in a recent …
Discussion: Twitchy
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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Washington Post:   D.C.'s first coronavirus case is church rector; Virginia has second presumptive case, bringing region's total to 7
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 …
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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Associated Press:   Despite virus risk, 2020 hopefuls keep up campaigns for now
 
 
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Elizabeth Kim / Gothamist:
Coronavirus Updates: Cuomo Urges New Yorkers To Avoid Crowds As Statewide Cases Surpass 100
Discussion: ABC13, New York Post and Twitchy
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Trump escalates fight against press with libel lawsuits
Washington Post:
With global economy in balance, the White House and Fed are at odds over how to help
CBS News:
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The Seattle Times:
Coronavirus cases may be higher than reported at Kirkland nursing home; 70 of 180 employees have COVID-19 symptoms
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LDS Church discloses the $37.8 billion stock portfolio of its biggest investment fund
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Mitch McConnell's Senate majority is in danger
Chicago Tribune:
Rev. Jesse Jackson endorses Bernie Sanders for president
New York Times:
Failures on the Diamond Princess Shadow Another Cruise Ship Outbreak
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The media is blowing its chance to head off an Election Day debacle
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Russian Media Freak Over Joe Biden's Election Resurrection
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Athena Stavrou / The Independent:
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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