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New York Times:
Live Primary Election Results: Michigan, Washington and More — Six states are holding presidential primaries today. Michigan and Washington State have the largest numbers of delegates. — NO ELECTION NO RESULTS — Primary Results By State … Delegates Won So Far
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Democrats weigh how to nudge Sanders out if he loses Tuesday — DETROIT — Democrats have started loose discussions about how to get Bernie Sanders out of the race if he gets steamrolled in Tuesday night's primaries. — More than two dozen political operatives and delegate experts agreed …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden crushes Sanders in first three states called — Joe Biden dominated Bernie Sanders with three victories in a row Tuesday, including the night's biggest prize of all: Michigan. — As soon as polls closed at 8 p.m. Eastern, Biden was declared the winner in Missouri and Mississippi …
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ABC News:
March 10 primaries live updates: Biden projected to win Michigan, Mississippi and Missouri — There are 352 delegates up for grabs across the six states. — LIVE NOW — Primary voters in the key battleground state of Michigan as well as Missouri, Mississippi, Idaho …
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Power Line, Townhall, The Week, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill and FiveThirtyEight
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Biden projected to win pivotal Michigan primary, in major blow to Sanders' struggling campaign
Biden projected to win pivotal Michigan primary, in major blow to Sanders' struggling campaign
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Joe Biden wins the Mississippi Democratic primary
Joe Biden wins the Mississippi Democratic primary
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Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Biden Builds on Super Tuesday Momentum With Big Win in Michigan Primary
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
2 winners and 3 losers from Tuesday's Democratic primaries
2 winners and 3 losers from Tuesday's Democratic primaries
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Breitbart, The Hill and Washington Post
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump and GOP mount coordinated campaign to paint Biden as senile
Trump and GOP mount coordinated campaign to paint Biden as senile
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CNN:
Exit polls show Democratic primary voters trust Biden more than Sanders in a crisis
Exit polls show Democratic primary voters trust Biden more than Sanders in a crisis
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National Review
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Sanders, Biden cancel rallies because of coronavirus fears
Sanders, Biden cancel rallies because of coronavirus fears
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New York Times:
'It's Just Everywhere Already': How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response — A series of missed chances by the federal government to ensure more widespread testing came during the early days of the outbreak, when containment would have been easier.
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Kelsey Bradshaw / Austin American-Statesman:
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones charged with DWI in Travis Co., authorities say — Austin-based conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was booked into the Travis County Jail on a charge of driving while intoxicated just after midnight Tuesday, the Travis County sheriff's office said.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Arrested on DWI Charge — He claims that he wasn't even legally drunk. — Prominent right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested early Tuesday morning on charges of driving while intoxicated, according to law enforcement.
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BBC:
Coronavirus: Health minister Nadine Dorries tests positive — Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries says she has tested positive for coronavirus. — She said in a statement that as soon as she was informed she took all the advised precautions and had been self-isolating at home.
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Steven Swinford / The Times:
Nadine Dorries: minister with coronavirus had been in No 10
Nadine Dorries: minister with coronavirus had been in No 10
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Washington Post:
White House likely to pursue federal aid for shale companies hit by oil shock, coronavirus downturn — But the idea could face resistance from those who support direct aid to workers. One critic called the idea ‘absurd.’ — The White House is strongly considering pushing federal assistance …
CNBC:
Trump pitched 0% payroll tax rate for the rest of the year, White House official says — President Donald Trump, in a meeting with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday, pitched a 0% payroll tax rate that would last through the rest of this year, a White House official told CNBC.
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Washington Post:
Trump pitches payroll tax cut through election to skeptical GOP senators
Trump pitches payroll tax cut through election to skeptical GOP senators
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Biden's tough talk a new tack for Democrats — Analysis: The party hasn't figured out how to counter the vitriol of the Trump era. But they're liking what they see in some of the former vice president's testy exchanges with voters. — Biden confronts man who accuses him of wanting to take his guns away
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Jake Lahut / Business Insider:
Matt Gaetz ended up sleeping in a Walmart parking lot after potentially exposing Trump to the coronavirus — Rep. Matt Gaetz's whirlwind of a day after he learned he was exposed to the coronavirus ended in a Walmart parking lot, according to the Pensacola News Journal.
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Washington Post:
Trump's acting intelligence chief declines to meet with Congress for election threats briefing — Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has declined to appear before Congress on Tuesday to speak about foreign election threats, citing apprehension about his preparedness …
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The Daily Wire, New York Times, Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo
Rodney Smith / Team Warren to Sanders:
Team Warren for Bernie Sanders — We, former members of the Warren for President Team, are proud to have worked for a candidate who fights tirelessly for a country that works for all of us. Elizabeth ran a campaign on intersectional policy issues like Medicare for All, a Wealth Tax …
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Meet the Insane People Still Planning Cruise Ship Vacations — Some people see the prospect of a deadly virus and a 14-day quarantine and run far, far away. Others see the deal of a lifetime. — The cruise ship industry is reeling. The outbreak of the new coronavirus has made the basic fundamentals …
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Melissa Healy / Los Angeles Times:
True number of U.S. coronavirus cases is far above official tally, scientists say — An analysis of the novel coronavirus' spread inside the United States suggests that thousands of Americans are already infected, dimming the prospects for stomping out the outbreak in its earliest stages.
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Vox and The Mahablog
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Exclusive: Email crash impeded HHS response to coronavirus — As health department officials worked quickly to negotiate an emergency funding package to fight the spreading coronavirus outbreak on Feb. 23, they came to a frustrating realization: Their email system had crashed.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP congressman — who warned Trump about pandemics — offers pointed criticism of proposed CDC cuts — This was the day Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) has been warning about — and essentially predicted. Back in 2017, when the Trump administration first proposed steep cuts to programs …
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Niv Elis / The Hill:
Trump budget chief holds firm on CDC cuts amid virus outbreak
Trump budget chief holds firm on CDC cuts amid virus outbreak
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
CPAC Attendee With Coronavirus Attended Posh VIP Congressional Event Before Confab — The coronavirus-infected individual at the Conservative Political Action Committee's 2020 conference attended a VIP congressional reception held on the Wednesday evening the conference first began …
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Politico:
Democrats should get Mueller evidence, judges rule — House Democrats scored a significant legal victory Tuesday as a federal appeals court panel granted them permission to access grand jury secrets from Robert Mueller's Russia probe. — The 2-1 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals …
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Ann Marimow / Washington Post:
Justice Department must disclose secret Mueller grand jury evidence to Congress, appeals court finds
Justice Department must disclose secret Mueller grand jury evidence to Congress, appeals court finds
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Washington Post:
Trump allies got coronavirus tests despite lack of symptoms and shortage — Two close congressional allies of President Trump underwent coronavirus testing in recent days in apparent defiance of federal recommendations reserving those tests for patients exhibiting symptoms of infection …
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Slate
Wall Street Journal:
How Biogen's Strategy Meeting Spread Coronavirus in Massachusetts and Beyond — Meeting for senior managers is linked to spread of infections to dozens of people around the U.S. — A strategy meeting for senior managers at Boston-area biotech Biogen Inc. late last month has emerged …
The Dworkin Report:
A psychologist just revealed the horrifying truth about Trump's malignant narcissism — The Dworkin Report The Dworkin Report — Scott speaks with Karine Jean-Pierre, the national spokeswoman for MoveOn.org and NBC/MSNBC commentator whose new book “Moving Forward: A Story of Hope …
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
Cancel Everything — Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus. We must start immediately. — Contributing writer at The Atlantic — We don't yet know the full ramifications of the novel coronavirus. But three crucial facts have become clear in the first months of this extraordinary global event.
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ABC News:
US death toll from coronavirus rises to 29, National Guard sent to NYC suburb — The epidemic appeared to be subsiding in China but has found foothold elsewhere. — As a virus epidemic appeared to be subsiding in China, where it first emerged nearly three months ago …
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UPI and Political Flare
Politico:
Exclusive: U.S. coronavirus testing threatened by shortage of critical lab materials — A looming shortage in lab materials is threatening to delay coronavirus test results and cause officials to undercount the number of Americans with the virus. — The slow pace of coronavirus testing …
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STAT and Sputnik News