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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Contrary to Trump's claim, Google is not building a nationwide coronavirus screening website — Instead, Verily is building a triage website just for the Bay Area — Google is not working with the US government in building a nationwide website to help people determine whether …
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Trump Caught Google Off Guard With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Announcement — Google's not making a nationwide coronavirus testing website. And the company had no idea the president would say it was. — President Donald Trump announced Friday that the US government's coronavirus testing apparatus …
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Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump's False Claims About His Response to the Coronavirus — The president inaccurately described travel restrictions he had announced, falsely blamed his predecessor for testing shortages and misstated the role Google was playing in mitigating the outbreak.
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Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
Does Donald Trump Have the Coronavirus? — Donald Trump insists that he's fine. He feels “extremely good,” in fact, and also “very good.” He'd be happy to get a coronavirus test, he said Friday, if one were ever needed. But, he tells us, there's no reason. The president is doing great.
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Washington Post:
Trump defiant on testing and handshakes even as third Mar-a-Lago case emerges — President Trump said Friday that he has not yet been tested for the novel coronavirus, even as three people who were with him at the Mar-a-Lago Club last weekend have now tested positive. — Trump said he would be tested “fairly soon.
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BuzzFeed News:
A Map Of The Coronavirus Exposures In Trump's Orbit In Just Two Weeks — A growing number of people in President Donald Trump's orbit have been in contact with someone known to be infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus — with a few testing positive themselves.
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Chris Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Fox Business Host Trish Regan on Hiatus After Virus Comments — The Fox Business show hosted by Trish Regan is going on hiatus following controversial comments she made on the air Monday about the coronavirus. — The hiatus also applies to another host, Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox Business Benches Trish Regan After Outcry Over Coronavirus Comments — The host of “Trish Regan Primetime” told viewers this week that concerns about the coronavirus were “yet another attempt to impeach the president.” — The Fox Business anchor Trish Regan, whose on-air dismissal …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox Business Puts Trish Regan, Kennedy Shows on Hiatus — Fox Business Network said it would scrap most of its primetime schedule by putting two of its programs on hiatus “until further notice” in order to staff coverage of the coronavirus crisis elsewhere within Fox News Media.
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The Gateway Pundit
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them — Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks. — On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar — In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, he detailed why he's lost faith in the court. — James Dannenberg is a retired Hawaii state judge. He sat on the District Court of the First Circuit of the state judiciary for 27 years.
Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
This Coronavirus Is Unlike Anything in Our Lifetime, and We Have to Stop Comparing It to the Flu — Longtime health reporter Charles Ornstein says that comparing the novel coronavirus to the flu is dangerously inaccurate. Not one public health expert he trusts has called that comparison valid.
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The White House and Reason
Beth Cameron / Washington Post:
I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it. — The federal government is moving too slowly, due to a lack of leadership. — When President Trump took office in 2017, the White House's National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense survived the transition intact.
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Washington Post:
White House, House Democrats reach deal on coronavirus economic relief package, Pelosi announces — The White House and House Democrats reached agreement Friday on a coronavirus relief package to spend tens of billions of dollars on sick leave, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other measures to address the unfolding crisis.
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
How Trump may have flattened the political curve of coronavirus
Associated Press:
Iraq officials: Rocket attack hits base housing US troops — BAGHDAD (AP) — A barrage of rockets hit a base housing U.S. and other coalition troops north of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi security officials said, just days after a similar attack killed three servicemen, including two Americans.
Politico:
Biden readies plan to finish off Bernie — Joe Biden has long complained about the crowded debate stage and a restrictive format that doesn't allow enough time for candidates to speak. — Now, in his one-on-one debate Sunday with Bernie Sanders, he finally gets the debate terms he wanted …
Lauren Thomas / CNBC:
Patagonia is closing all of its stores and shutting down its website because of the coronavirus — KEY POINTS — Patagonia is closing all of its stores and its online operations because of the coronavirus. — It said it will update customers more broadly about its next steps on March 27.
Paul Farrell / Heavy.com:
Travis Dyson: Andrew Gillum Found in Hotel Room With Male Escort & Crystal Meth, Cops Say — Travis Dyson is the 30-year-old Florida man who was found in a hotel room with Democratic politician Andrew Gillum on March 13. Police said Dyson appeared to have suffered a drug overdose.
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Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
Mexico is considering closing its border to stop Americans bringing coronavirus into its country as US case count passes 2,000 — Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said: 'Mexico wouldn't bring the virus to the United States, rather the United States would bring it here'
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Douglas Quan / Toronto Star:
'We're hustlers': Amid coronavirus fears, this couple has made more than $100,000 reselling Lysol wipes — JOIN THE CONVERSATION — VANCOUVER—As Manny Ranga and his wife, Violeta Perez, loaded up their Ford F-150 pickup outside a Costco near downtown Vancouver this week, some passersby couldn't help but stop and stare.
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Washington Post:
Coronavirus is shutting down American life as states try to battle outbreak — Much of life in America, and across the globe, has ground to a near halt in recent days as the coronavirus spreads, closing schools, thwarting travel, forcing employees to telework and shuttering beloved institutions.
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
What Would a Proper Coronavirus Stimulus Plan Look Like? — After a record fall on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose nearly two thousand points on Friday, as Donald Trump declared a national emergency in response to the coronavirus and negotiators from his Administration tried …
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Politico and New York Times
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
As Europe Shuts Down, Britain Takes a Different, and Contentious, Approach — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has largely kept Britain open, opting for more targeted measures, a strategy that has startled some epidemiologists. — LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain once …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Two senators take extreme measures to show fealty to Trump — Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, a freshman senator up for reelection in November, launched a highly unusual new TV ad this week. — The content was standard, pro-Trump, anti-Democrat fare. What was very atypical …
Brian Naylor / NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump's Accusations About The Obama Administration And Swine Flu — President Trump, widely criticized for his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, tried to shift blame Friday to his predecessor's handling of a health crisis 11 years ago.
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Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Thoughts on the Pandemic — Several reporters have emailed me, asking my thoughts about the current economic situation in light of the ongoing pandemic. Here they are, in abbreviated form: — A recession is likely and perhaps optimal (not in the sense of desirable but in the sense of the best we can do under the circumstances).
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Outside the Beltway
Chad P. Bown / PIIE:
Trump's trade policy is hampering the US fight against COVID-19 — Hexuan Li provided outstanding data assistance. Melina Kolb, William Melancon, and Oliver Ward assisted with graphics. David J. Vanness, Mihir Torsekar, Rod Hunter, and many other experts helped identify COVID-19 related health products.
Gabby Orr / Politico:
USAID chief to leave post — The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development will leave the job at the end of this month, two people familiar with the move confirmed Friday, marking a high-level departure from one of the agencies tasked with responding to the global coronavirus outbreak.
Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
How to Run an Election in a Pandemic — Three days from now, millions of voters in Arizona, Illinois, Florida, and Ohio will grasp the same door handles, drag their fingers across the same touch-screen voting machines, and wait in long lines with dozens of other people.
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