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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
A President Unequal to the Moment  —  Crises clarify.  The bigger the crisis, the more the clarity, which is why the incompetence, dishonesty, and sheer callousness of the Trump Presidency have been clearer in recent days than ever before.  As the coronavirus, as of Wednesday an official pandemic …
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Ryan Heath / Politico:
Trump's travel ban sidesteps his own European resorts  —  President Donald Trump's new European travel restrictions have a convenient side effect: They exempt nations where three Trump-owned golf resorts are located.  —  Trump is already under fire for visiting his properties in both countries as president …
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump's Europe Travel Ban Is Met With Confusion and Anger  —  E.U. leaders condemned the ban.  The actor Tom Hanks and his wife tested positive for the virus.  Italy is under lockdown and the N.B.A. suspended its season.  —  RIGHT NOW China said it had passed the peak of its outbreak.
Lauren Fruen / Daily Mail:   The panic came after Donald Trump addressed the Nation from the Oval Office about the widening crisis of the coronavirus
The White House:
Proclamation—Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Pence says there's been ‘irresponsible rhetoric’ from people downplaying coronavirus  —  Trump said Monday that the “fake news media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything to inflame the coronavirus situation.”  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that there has been …
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Associated Press:
Brazilian who met Trump has virus; no plans to test Trump
Nora Gámez Torres / Miami Herald:
Brazilian official who met with Trump in South Florida tests positive for coronavirus
Discussion: Reuters and Florida Politics
New York Times:   Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Says Some Domestic Travel Could Be Curtailed, and Senate Cancels Recess
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Trump's Coronavirus Speech Was a Cry for Help  —  An unnerving revelation struck me as I watched the president* deliver his address to the nation on Wednesday night concerning this country's response to the coronavirus pandemic.  At this point in his woebegone administration* …
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Coronavirus Speech Was Not Especially Reassuring  —  If anything, it gave the public a lot more to worry about.  —  Wow.  —  If there's been a worse Oval Office address ever, I certainly can't think of it.  All of Donald Trump's ineptness at the job of presidenting …
Politico:
Pelosi and Mnuchin race to clinch a deal on coronavirus aid package  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are moving swiftly to try to reach a deal on a massive emergency aid package for Americans affected by the coronavirus, negotiating in dramatic fashion …
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CNN:
‘We are flying blind’: Lawmakers fume amid lack of coronavirus testing and answers
Discussion: IJR, Daily Kos and Vox
Washington Post:
Coronavirus burial pits so vast they're visible from space … Two days after Iran declared its first cases of the novel coronavirus — in what would become one of the largest outbreaks of the illness outside of China — evidence of unusual activity appeared at a cemetery near where the infections emerged.
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Fed to Inject $1.5 Trillion in Bid to Prevent ‘Unusual Disruptions’ in Markets  —  Move designed to prevent ominous trading conditions stemming from the coronavirus outbreak  —  The Federal Reserve said it would inject more than $1.5 trillion of temporary liquidity into Wall Street on Thursday …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Fed to pump in more than $1 trillion in dramatic ramping up of market intervention amid coronavirus meltdown  —  By Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM  — The Fed announced a bold new initiative in an effort to calm market tumult amid the coronavirus meltdown.
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
CDC tested only 77 people this week; coronavirus testing slow around the nation  —  WASHINGTON — Despite insistent promises from the Trump administration, coronavirus testing in the United States appears to be proceeding with a marked lack of urgency.  An examination of state and federal records …
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The Boston Globe:
CORONAVIRUS RESOURCES  —  Symptoms Travel warnings Ask a question Live updates More coverage  —  Despite assurances from Governor Charlie Baker and top state health officials, Massachusetts doctors say a severe shortage of tests for Covid-19 is hindering efforts to control the local coronavirus outbreak.
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Joe Biden appoints Jen O'Malley Dillon as new campaign manager  —  Former vice president Joe Biden has named Jen O'Malley Dillon as his new campaign manager, a major shake-up that comes just as the party's leading candidate plans a major organizational expansion to prepare for the general election …
Aaron E. Carroll / New York Times:
Here's the Biggest Thing to Worry About With Coronavirus  —  We don't have enough ventilators and I.C.U. beds if there's a significant surge of new cases.  As with Italy, the health system could be overwhelmed.  —  The ability of the American health care system to absorb a shock …
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Trump passes coronavirus test with flying colors  —  Big and bold, optimistic and compassionate.  President Trump's Oval Office address was exactly what America needed to hear  —  This is what it looks like when a president rises up to meet a crisis head-on.
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump may sign disaster or emergency declaration Thursday
Discussion: The Hill and Law & Crime
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon leaders warn of military response after deadly rocket attack  —  Top Pentagon leaders on Thursday said they are presenting military options to the president after militants launched rockets against a base in Iraq a day earlier, killing two U.S. troops.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Alex Bollinger / LGBTQ Nation:
Pastor says only “sissies” & “pansies” wash their hands to prevent coronavirus  —  Christians who use hand sanitizer have “fake faith” and “no balls.”  —  A conservative Christian pastor issued an angry rebuke of churches taking measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, calling them …
Joe Biden for President:
THE BIDEN PLAN TO COMBAT CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) AND PREPARE FOR FUTURE GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS  —  For more information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the coronavirus, please visit here.  —  The American people deserve an urgent, robust, and professional response …
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Government response to coronavirus: Fauci backs Trump travel ban, says testing system is ‘a failing’  —  He called the case for the ban “pretty compelling.”  —  Some of the nation's top public health experts were back on Capitol Hill Thursday to answer questions from lawmakers on how bad …
Discussion: Fox News, The Daily Beast and Twitchy
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson Test Positive With Coronavirus As Outbreak Hits ‘Elvis Presley’ Film  —  EXCLUSIVE: We have just received word that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were tested positive for the Coronavirus.  Both were down in Australia for the pre-production of Baz Luhrmann's untitled Elvis Presley film …
Rahm Emanuel / Wall Street Journal:
Democratic Voters Smash Media Myths  —  Journalists need to start explaining the world as it is—not as it appears to them on Twitter.  —  In Washington, few lines are as hackneyed as Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's aphorism that “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
Hayley Fowler / Sacramento Bee:
Coronavirus vs. Constitution: What can government stop you from doing in a pandemic?  —  Public closures, a ban on gatherings, quarantine notices and orders for isolation have become increasingly common as the coronavirus continues to spread across the United States.
Discussion: New York Times, UPI and Townhall
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Donald Trump's troubling coronavirus address  —  President's travel ban will not calm markets or address the threat facing America  —  On Wednesday night the global pandemic met US nationalism.  It will not take long to see which comes off best.  As Donald Trump was speaking, the Dow futures market nosedived.
Discussion: Washington Post
ABC News:
Coronavirus live updates: Rome closes churches, Israel shutters schools  —  Israel will close schools and universities indefinitely, beginning Friday.  —  LIVE NOW  —  At least 1,323 cases of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, have been confirmed in the United States Thursday as more events are canceled across the country.
Discussion: IJR and CNN
 
 
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David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
America Is Broken  —  What we are seeing right now is the collapse …
Discussion: Mediaite
Washington Post:
Coronavirus pandemic tests clout of cruise industry and its long-standing ties to Trump
Discussion: USA Today
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Senate Republicans were for Biden's anti-corruption efforts before they were against them
Discussion: Politico
Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
Liberal Groups Call for Jailbreak to Fight Coronavirus
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Stocks Have Lost Around 25% Of Their Value Since Trump, Kudlow Offered Market Advice
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
For Trump, the coronavirus crisis is all about the numbers — and they don't look good
Discussion: HuffPost, Mother Jones and Vanity Fair
Pew Research Center:
White Evangelicals See Trump as Fighting for Their Beliefs, Though Many Have Mixed Feelings About His Personal Conduct
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Supporters Fuel Dangerous ‘Election Year’ Coronavirus Claim
Discussion: @politifact and Raw Story
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Democrats smell blood in Texas after sky-high primary turnout
Tomas Pueyo:
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Discussion: Townhall and Reason
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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