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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Trump administration blocks states from using Medicaid to respond to coronavirus crisis — Despite mounting pleas from California and other states, the Trump administration isn't allowing states to use Medicaid more freely to respond to the coronavirus crisis by expanding medical services.
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Washington Post:
Ten minutes at the teleprompter: Inside Trump's failed attempt to calm coronavirus fears — In the most scripted of presidential settings, a prime-time televised address to the nation, President Trump decided to ad-lib — and his errors triggered a market meltdown, panicked travelers overseas …
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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 …
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Sputnik News, The Moderate Voice and Esquire
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
‘Biden became president today’: Even Republicans are now deserting Trump over his coronavirus response — Compare Biden's speech today about coronavirus with the one Trump made last night and you have everything you need to know — Just before 9pm on Wednesday, Donald Trump was preparing …
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Behind Trump's coronavirus shift
Behind Trump's coronavirus shift
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Bloomberg:
Inside the Oval Office, a Fierce Fight Over Trump's Virus Speech
Inside the Oval Office, a Fierce Fight Over Trump's Virus Speech
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
'I don't want to use the b-word': Trump aides race to rescue the economy
'I don't want to use the b-word': Trump aides race to rescue the economy
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Tax Foundation, The Hill and Raw Story
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Democrats Pushed Impeachment While Coronavirus Spread — We now know the cost of impeachment. — While Democrats were diverting the attention and energy of the entire country into a pointless trial that could not possibly have ended in anything other than President Donald Trump's acquittal …
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New York Times:
Congress Nears Stimulus Deal With White House as Wall Street Suffers Rout — House Democrats closed in on a compromise with the Trump administration that would provide paid sick leave and free testing as coronavirus fears fueled a steep sell-off in stocks. — WASHINGTON — Financial markets plunged …
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Vox, The Week, National Review and UPI
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
Something Weird Is Happening on Wall Street, and Not Just the Stock Sell-Off — A sinking feeling reminiscent of the global financial crisis, when all kinds of obscure markets went haywire. — It has been an unsettling week on global financial markets, and not just because the stock market …
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Sheri Fink / New York Times:
The Worst-Case Estimate for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths — Officials at the C.D.C. and epidemic experts conferred last month about what could happen in the U.S. — Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred …
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Peter Dutton, Australian Official Who Recently Met Ivanka Trump, Has the Virus — A Chinese official promoted a conspiracy theory that the U.S. introduced the virus to China. In the United States, Congress neared a deal with the White House on a sweeping economic rescue package.
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CBS News:
Coronavirus updates: COVID-19 pandemic takes a fast-mounting toll on lives and the economy — A week of dizzying escalation has seen the coronavirus pandemic spread to more than 120 countries, with senior members of governments around the world among those affected.
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Washington Post, Law & Crime and The Hill
Farah Stockman / New York Times:
Sick People Across the U.S. Say They Are Being Denied the Coronavirus Test — In a U.S. health care system that is already difficult to navigate, some patients describe Kafkaesque quests for tests. — BOSTON — First came the tickle in the throat. Then, a hacking cough.
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Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost:
California Governor Calls Out What A Mess Coronavirus Testing Is Right Now
California Governor Calls Out What A Mess Coronavirus Testing Is Right Now
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Anger grows at Trump administration's coronavirus testing failures
Anger grows at Trump administration's coronavirus testing failures
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Julia Ioffe / GQ:
Trump Voters Wanted to Blow up the System. Well, Here We Go. — Julia Ioffe on how hollowing out the government has endangered America. — None of this is surprising, just as there was nothing even remotely unexpected about President Trump's Oval Office address on Wednesday night.
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Matt McDonald / Spectator USA:
EXCLUSIVE: Karlie Kloss's dad helps Jared with coronavirus ‘research’ — Jared Kushner has a lot on his plate. The White House senior adviser was tasked this week with conducting research into the coronavirus to help Trump decide whether to declare a national emergency.
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
A Facebook group gets an assignment: Help Jared Kushner combat coronavirus — Just before midnight Wednesday, a doctor asked a group of fellow emergency room physicians on Facebook how they would combat the escalating coronavirus outbreak. — “I have direct channel to person now in charge at White House …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Ohio health official estimates 100,000 people in state have coronavirus — A top health official in Ohio estimated on Thursday that more than 100,000 people in the state currently have coronavirus, a shockingly high number that underscores the limited testing so far.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
“This feels much worse than 2008”: Obama's chief economist on coronavirus's economic threat — A New York Stock Exchange trader watched as President Barack Obama signed a $800 billion economic stimulus bill on February 17, 2009. Mario Tama/Getty Images — Coronavirus could do more economic damage …
Terry Gross / NPR:
White House Knew Coronavirus Would Be A ‘Major Threat’ — But Response Fell Short — Politico reporter Dan Diamond says infighting at the Department of Health and Human Services and the need to flatter Trump impeded the response to the coronavirus. — TERRY GROSS, HOST: — This is FRESH AIR.
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Crisis Tests Trump's Unusual Governing Style — The president's improvisations add to the challenges his administration faces in coordinating a response — WASHINGTON—President Trump's rare prime-time speech Wednesday was designed to reassure the nation about his administration's response …
Christine Stapleton / Palm Beach Post:
Coronavirus in Florida: Hundreds to attend Mar-a-Lago fundraiser despite crowd warnings — Big Dog Ranch Rescue will not cancel its annual Wine, Women & Shoes fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's private club, in response to the coronavirus pandemic but guests will be encouraged to …
Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
China hints at denying Americans life-saving coronavirus drugs — Now that the number of new people infected with the coronavirus in China is slowing down, the country's Communist Party is ratcheting up threats against the West, with a particularly nasty warning about access to life-saving drugs aimed at the United States.
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Coronavirus is a test that no one knows how to pass — Now we're all under the microscope. An invisible virus will make visible our true strengths and weaknesses. It will expose the faults in our systems, the sincerity of our relationships, the ways in which we work together or don't.
Tim Loh / Bloomberg:
New Coronavirus Test 10 Times Faster Is FDA Approved — FDA grants emergency use approval to highly automated process — Roche shares jump 11%, the most in more than two decades — We're tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response.
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National Review, Townhall and New York Post
CNBC:
Stocks set to surge following worst day since the '87 crash, S&P 500 futures hit ‘limit up’ — Wall Street points toward higher open following Thursday's historic drop — U.S. stock futures surged in volatile trading on Friday as Wall Street tried to recoup some of the sharp losses suffered …
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Jennifer Gould Keil / New York Post:
Jing Fong, NYC's largest Chinese restaurant, closes as coronavirus hurts business — Jing Fong, the city's largest Chinese restaurant, has closed. — After 48 years in business, the iconic restaurant known for its classic dim sum carts, is shuttering due to a slowdown triggered …
Sara Swann / The Fulcrum:
Can he do that? Ga. governor, voting rights villain, cancels election. — It's a startlingly bold move, the legality of which is now being challenged in court: Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, already an enemy of voting rights groups nationwide, has canceled an election and says he'll fill …
Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Dan Crenshaw rips Biden coronavirus tweet slamming Trump actions: ‘Walls quite literally stop a virus’ — U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw fired back overnight after former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden criticized President Trump's actions on the coronavirus outbreak.
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Li Zhou / Vox:
The Michigan primary results raised a striking question about sexism — The parallels between 2016 and 2020 proved to be quite telling. — Joe Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton in county after county in the Michigan Democratic primary on Tuesday, raising questions yet again about whether “electability” really is just about sexism.
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