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6:50 PM ET, March 14, 2020

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New York Times:
On a Saturday Night in Florida, a Presidential Party Became a Coronavirus Hot Zone  —  A weekend getaway at Mar-a-Lago put the president in contact with several people who later tested positive for the virus.  He said he has no symptoms.  —  WASHINGTON — The lights were low …
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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 …
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Republican chairwoman is ill and being tested for coronavirus after visiting Mar-a-Lago: report  —  On Saturday, Washington Post White House correspondent Josh Dawsey reported that Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, is being tested for coronavirus after reporting she is feeling unwell.
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:   Trump Helped To Spread Coronavirus At Mar-a-Lago
Joanna Tan / CNBC:
Trump shared table with another Mar-a-Lago guest who tested positive for coronavirus: White House doctor
Discussion: The Guardian, UPI and New York Post
Laura Italiano / New York Post:
Third person at Mar-a-Lago with Trump tests positive for coronavirus
Discussion: The Root
New York Times:
There's a Giant Hole in Pelosi's Coronavirus Bill  —  The legislation passed by the House Friday night doesn't actually guarantee paid sick leave to most American workers.  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.
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Politico:
From complacency to emergency: How Trump changed course on coronavirus
Discussion: Slate
Politico:
White House starts temperature checks for people around Trump
Discussion: Fox News, Associated Press and The Hill
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:   Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised
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 …
Washington Post:
Infighting, missteps and a son-in-law hungry for results: Inside the Trump administration's troubled coronavirus response  —  The economy was grinding to a halt.  Stocks were in free fall.  Schools were closing.  Public events were being canceled.  New cases of the novel coronavirus were popping up across the country.
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Washington Post:
Trump is breaking every rule in the CDC's 450-page playbook for health crisis  —  The communication chaos on coronavirus is eroding the most powerful weapon we have: Public trust  —  Amid an outbreak where vaccines, drug treatments and even sufficient testing don't yet exist …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
America's hospitals will be overrun with coronavirus in just EIGHT DAYS: Obama's Medicare boss …
Discussion: Yahoo Finance and USA Today
Dan Cobb / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia delays presidential primary due to coronavirus pandemic  —  Vote to now be held on May 19  —  Georgia elections officials postponed the presidential primary scheduled for next week because of the coronavirus pandemic, becoming the second state forced to push back a vote in the race for the White House due to the outbreak.
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Please, Don't Go Out to the Bars Tonight  —  Gathering in groups right now is selfish and puts the lives of others at risk.  —  Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large.  —  The coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19, are spreading across the United States faster than we can track or test.
Discussion: The Boston Globe
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realized  —  (CNN)New studies in several countries and a large coronavirus outbreak in Massachusetts bring into question reassuring assertions by US officials about the way the novel virus spreads.
Discussion: Mashable
Ariadne Labs:
Social Distancing: This is Not a Snow Day  —  I know there is some confusion about what to do next in the midst of this unprecedented time of a pandemic, school closures, and widespread social disruption.  As a primary care physician and public health leader, I have been asked by a lot …
Newt Gingrich / Newsweek:
I am in Italy amid the coronavirus crisis.  America must act now—and act big  —  The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic poses two threats: public health and economic.  —  I am living in Italy, where my wife, Callista, is the ambassador to the Holy See.  —  I have watched first-hand …
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:
Live Blog / Coronavirus updates live: France to close all restaurants, clubs, cinemas  —  Here are the latest updates from around the world.  —  President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he had been tested for coronavirus, with results coming in a few days.
NBC News:
Mismanagement, missed opportunities: How the White House bungled the coronavirus response  —  Trump's own advisers acknowledged to NBC News that the failure to focus on widespread testing was a major misstep.  —  Luciana Borio once worked on President Donald Trump's National Security Council …
Marty Swant / Forbes:
Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian Bought A Billboard In Times Square To Inform People About COVID-19  —  Alexis Ohanian wants you to stay home, and he's using Times Square to send the message.  —  The Reddit co-founder and venture capitalist has bought a billboard in the heart of New York telling people …
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.
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.
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:   How coronavirus could change the Supreme Court
Jake Wittich / Chicago Sun-Times:
St. Patrick's Day partiers hit the town over officials' pleas amid coronavirus outbreak  —  Despite the cancelation of St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Chicago amid fears of the spread of COVID-19, people still barhop around the River North neighborhood, Saturday, March 14, 2020.  Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How a blogger in Florida put out an early warning about the coronavirus crisis  —  The news seemed so intriguing — and so potentially alarming — that Sharon Sanders stayed up almost until dawn on Dec. 31 to keep track of it.  —  From her home in Winter Haven, Fla., Sanders began compiling reports …
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Cristóbal Reyes / Orlando Sentinel:
1st Orange County coronavirus case is man who brunched at Mar-a-Lago; unclear whether Trump attended  —  The first case of coronavirus reported in Orange County is a man who told health officials he attended a brunch at Mar-a-Lago, but a health official couldn't confirm to reporters whether President Donald Trump attended that event.
Gregory Barber / Wired:
How Long Does the Coronavirus Last on Surfaces?  —  Researchers looked at how long the virus can survive on cardboard, plastic, and stainless steel, as well as after being aerosolized and suspended in midair.  —  By now, let's hope you're safely ensconced at home—going a little stir-crazy …
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Western media parroting Chinese Communist Party propaganda  —  China is engaged in a wide-scale propaganda effort to convince the world that it is not responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, portraying itself with carefully distributed disinformation as being the most proactive, intelligent, and responsible of the world superpowers.
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Joe Biden Forgets Year, Meanders Off Frame in Disastrous Livestream  —  Grandpa Joe Biden wants to run the country and save us from coronavirus when he can't even run a livestream and has no idea what year it is.  —  On Friday, Grandpa Joe held what his campaign billed as a “virtual town hall” in Illinois.
Discussion: Redstate and Louder With Crowder
 
 
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Fox News:
France, Israel shutter restaurants, cafes, non-essential stores amid coronavirus outbreak
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Hollywood Reporter:
U.S. Movie Theaters Close in Parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Plug pulled on Biden ‘virtual town hall’ after technical glitches, miscues
Helaine Olen / Washington Post:
Coronavirus is an indictment of our way of life
Discussion: Political Junkie
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
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Kat Stafford / Associated Press:
Democrats see a road map for November in Michigan results
Associated Press:
Straight-talking Fauci explains outbreak to a worried nation
 Earlier Items: 
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Could the 2020 Election Be Postponed? Only With Great Difficulty. Here's Why.
Discussion: PJ Media Home and Slate
The Guardian:
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
This Is How the Establishment Maintains Its Grip
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
‘I Could Easily Kill Them’: Terrified Doctors Sound Alarm on Coronavirus
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Right Wing Can't Decide If Virus Is No Big Deal, or Big Deal and China's Fault
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
Associated Press:
Spain to follow Italy into lockdown as virus cases soar
Discussion: Townhall and The Moderate Voice
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Two senators take extreme measures to show allegiance to Trump
Lauren Thomas / CNBC:
Patagonia is closing all of its stores and shutting down its website because of the coronavirus
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Trump asks SCOTUS to pause a law that could ban TikTok on January 19, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the NFL's two Christmas Day games that streamed on Netflix averaged 24.2M US viewers, peaking at 27M for Beyoncé's Ravens-Texans halftime show

 
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