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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 and The Moderate Voice
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 …
Bloomberg:
Inside the Oval Office, a Fierce Fight Over Trump's Virus Speech — Medical experts made case to ban Europeans from entering U.S. — His economic advisers pushed back, fearing lost jobs — Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office Wednesday before the biggest speech of his presidency …
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The Independent and ImmigrationProf Blog
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
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Amid virus fears, Trump moves away from rallies — for now
Amid virus fears, Trump moves away from rallies — for now
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Politico, NBC News and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
The President as Bystander: Trump Struggles to Unify a Nation on Edge
The President as Bystander: Trump Struggles to Unify a Nation on Edge
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Raw Story, Rod Dreher, New Yorker, IJR and Mediaite
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Behind Trump's coronavirus shift
Behind Trump's coronavirus shift
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The National Interest and Forbes
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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Raw Story
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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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
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 …
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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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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Washington Post:
Lag in coronavirus testing triggers political uproar as Trump insists process is ‘very smooth’
Lag in coronavirus testing triggers political uproar as Trump insists process is ‘very smooth’
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The American Independent
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 …
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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Jason Beaubien / NPR:
Singapore Wins Praise For Its COVID-19 Strategy. The U.S. Does Not — Toggle more options — Hong Kong and Singapore were hit early with the coronavirus. But each now has fewer than 200 cases, while France, Germany and Spain, which were hit late, all have more than 10 times that number.
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The Week
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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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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Issam Ahmed / Agence France-Presse:
Up to 150 million Americans could get coronavirus: US projection
Up to 150 million Americans could get coronavirus: US projection
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The Capitolist
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 …
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.
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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Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Mother Jones and Balloon Juice
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 …
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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The Week
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Pelosi telegraphs third coronavirus funding bill amid scramble to calm markets — As she told Democratic members that the House of Representatives was close to a “bipartisan agreement” on a second bill to fight the coronavirus pandemic, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. …
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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 and Townhall
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Officials have spent the last few years dismantling anti-recession measures — As businesses and schools shutter and entire industries implode, the United States may be hurtling toward recession. — If so, we are woefully unprepared for it. That's because both the Trump administration …
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Balloon Juice and American Enterprise Institute
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Two-thirds of Americans concerned about contracting coronavirus, as country grapples with growing crisis: POLL — Unease over coronavirus also strongly breaks along partisan lines. — Two-thirds of Americans are concerned that they or someone they know will be infected with the novel coronavirus …
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The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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The Nation
CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: By Clarissa Ward, Katie Polglase, Sebastian Shukla, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Tim Lister, CNN — 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.
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Lee Fang / The Intercept:
GOP Lawmaker Who Voted Against Paid Sick Leave in Florida Takes Paid Leave From Congress — Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., decided to self-quarantine this week after coming in contact with an individual who tested positive for a novel coronavirus, which causes the disease Covid-19 …
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New York Times and Mother Jones