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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 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
Inside the Oval Office, a Fierce Fight Over Trump's Virus Speech
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Behind Trump's coronavirus shift
Behind Trump's coronavirus shift
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The National Interest and Forbes
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
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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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
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 …
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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BBC, Cal OES News and San Francisco Chronicle
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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Vox, Vanity Fair, Business Insider, Mediaite, TheBlaze, Raw Story, HuffPost, NBC News and Political Flare
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
Singapore Wins Praise For Its COVID-19 Strategy. The U.S. Does Not
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The Week
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Anthony Fauci fights outbreaks with the sledgehammer of truth — A virus that is deadly and little understood. An administration in deep denial. Anthony S. Fauci has been here before. — As the coronavirus epidemic escalates, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases …
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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 …
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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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 …
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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Daniel Turner / The Federalist:
How The Wuhan Virus Is Accomplishing The Green New Deal's Goals — Coronavirus is a glimpse of the long-term pain a Green New Deal and environmental radicalism would inflict on America. And besides, grandma would die eventually anyway. — Coronavirus is accomplishing in a matter of weeks …
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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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