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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Says Some Domestic Travel Could Be Curtailed, and Senate Cancels Recess  —  A Brazilian official tested positive days after being with the president and Vice President Mike Pence, as Americans returning from Europe are grappling with the prospect of self-quarantine for 14 days.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump and Pence Won't Be Tested After Meeting With Infected Brazilian Official  —  “Both the president and vice president had almost no interactions with the individual who tested positive,” the White House press secretary said.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump will not be tested …
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump's Europe Travel Ban Is Met With Confusion and Anger
Nora Gámez Torres / Miami Herald:
Brazilian official who met with Trump in South Florida tests positive for coronavirus
Discussion: Reuters and Florida Politics
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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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Who could have predicted Trump would be such a bad crisis manager? Everyone, actually.
Discussion: USA Today, The Week and The Bulwark
Ryan Heath / Politico:
Trump's travel ban sidesteps his own European resorts
Lauren Fruen / Daily Mail:   The panic came after Donald Trump addressed the Nation from the Oval Office about the widening crisis of the coronavirus
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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Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: White House Officials Allege Speaker Pelosi Pushed To Include Hyde Amendment Loophole Into Coronavirus Stimulus Plan  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to include a potential way to guarantee federal funding for abortion into the coronavirus economic stimulus plan, according to multiple senior White House officials.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
America shuts down  —  Financial markets are careening.
Discussion: Politico
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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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Coronavirus Speech Sparks ‘Total Chaos’ in His Own Administration  —  U.S. officials overseas didn't even know if they were allowed home and got little clarity from the president's team after his new policy was unveiled.  —  President Donald Trump's Oval Office address Wednesday evening …
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 …
Discussion: The Wrap and Common Dreams
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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
Discussion: TechCrunch
Wall Street Journal:
Stocks Plunge 10% In Dow's Worst Day Since 1987  —  Benchmarks slide as S&P, Nasdaq join Dow in bear-market territory  —  The U.S. stocks selloff that pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a bear market worsened Thursday as the coronavirus pandemic threatened to deeply harm global growth.
Discussion: The Week, VICE and Common Dreams
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Bloomberg:   U.S. Stocks Sink in Worst Day Since Black Monday: Market Wrap
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Stocks Have Lost Around 25% Of Their Value Since Trump, Kudlow Offered Market Advice
Discussion: Washington Post
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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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Coronavirus is the Trump catastrophe we've been terrified of  —  President Donald Trump speaking from the White House in Washington, DC, February 7, 2017.  Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images  —  It's Hurricane Maria all over again, but the storm is coming for us all.
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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 …
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 …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Chelsea Manning ordered released from jail  —  Chelsea Manning will be released from jail after a federal judge determined that her testimony was no longer necessary against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.  —  The grand jury investigating the anti-secrecy group is no longer active …
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.
Washington Post:
'I'm a hand-shaker': Many older Americans are playing down the coronavirus threat while others opt for safety  —  As experts plead for social distancing, some seniors continue to get together for movies, Zumba and concerts  —  At her home in The Villages, a sprawling central Florida retirement community …
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 …
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 …
Tariro Mzezewa / New York Times:
'If I'm Going to Get Sick and Die, I Might as Well Do It at Disney World'  —  Visitors to Disney World and Universal Studios recently seemed unfazed, even as its safety became an increasingly searched online question.  —  When Vice President Mike Pence was asked, earlier this month …
Discussion: The Hill and The Week
The Seattle Times:
Inslee to order all private, public K-12 schools in King, Pierce, Snohomish counties to close through April 24 due to coronavirus concerns  —  Gov. Jay Inslee is planning to announce the closure of all K-12 schools, public and private, in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties for more than a month …
Discussion: Chalkbeat and The Hill
New York Times:
How the Coronavirus Changed the 2020 Political Campaign  —  The three major presidential candidates have quickly pivoted to try to shape a new political discourse, as they face a real-time test of leadership in a national crisis.  —  WASHINGTON — For the past year, the Democratic presidential …
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Sanders wins delegate-rich California, NBC News projects  —  California, which voted on March 3, has 415 delegates at stake.  —  Sanders wins California primary, NBC News projects  —  NBC News projected on Thursday that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., won the Democratic primary in California …
Discussion: UPI, CNN and Townhall
CNN:
Russian election meddling is back — via Ghana and Nigeria — and in your feeds  —  Accra, Ghana (CNN)The Russian trolls are back — and once again trying to poison the political atmosphere in the United States ahead of this year's elections.  But this time they are better disguised and more targeted, harder to identify and track.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump's Oval Office speech did the opposite of what it was supposed to do  —  In times of national crisis, people look to the president for direction, reassurance and confidence.  President Trump's Oval Office speech on Wednesday night provided precisely the opposite.
 
 
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Sanders warns of coronavirus ‘meltdown’ on par with World War II
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Ohio health official estimates 100,000 people in state have coronavirus
Discussion: The Atlantic, IJR, PJ Media Home and Forbes
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Mr. President, Shut Up About Coronavirus
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Biden campaign takes first significant step to formally ask for Secret Service protection
Discussion: The Hill
Amy Forliti / Associated Press:
Omar marries political consultant, months after affair claim
Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
Inside China's high-stakes campaign to smear the United States over coronavirus
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Iran badly needs coronavirus help. Releasing all hostages could be the key.
Discussion: National Review, Reuters and Al Jazeera
Miami Herald:
At Miami's public hospital, doctors and nurses ‘begging’ to do coronavirus tests
 Earlier Items: 
ABC News:
Coronavirus live updates: 39 deaths in US, Disneyland to close, March Madness canceled
Discussion: IJR and Consequence of Sound
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
America Is Broken  —  What we are seeing right now is the collapse …
Discussion: The Intercept and Mediaite
Nick Coltrain / Des Moines Register:
Iowans split on President Donald Trump's job performance in new Iowa Poll
Discussion: Breitbart and The Hill
Rahm Emanuel / Wall Street Journal:
Democratic Voters Smash Media Myths
Alex Bollinger / LGBTQ Nation:
Pastor says only “sissies” & “pansies” wash their hands to prevent coronavirus
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Trump passes coronavirus test with flying colors
 

 
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