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8:55 AM ET, March 16, 2020

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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Stock futures drop — hit ‘limit down’ — even as Fed slashes rates; Dow futures off 1,000 points  —  Stock futures plunged Sunday night even after the Federal Reserve embarked on a massive monetary stimulus campaign to curb slower economic growth amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Discussion: The Week
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement  —  The coronavirus outbreak has harmed communities and disrupted economic activity in many countries, including the United States.  Global financial conditions have also been significantly affected.  Available economic data show that the U.S. economy came …
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Federal Reserve cuts rates to zero and launches massive $700 billion quantitative easing program  — In an emergency move Sunday, the Federal Reserve announced it is dropping its benchmark interest rate to zero and launching a new round of quantitative easing.
Skanda Amarnath:   The Fed Can And Should Support State Government Efforts To Respond To COVID-19 Right Now
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
‘Go to the YouTube right now’  —  In one of the most prolonged exchanges of the night, Sanders repeatedly attacked Biden, accusing him of having supported cutting Social Security and other entitlement programs.  —  “You have been on the floor time and time again about the need to cut Social Security,” Sanders said.
Discussion: Politico
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Politico:
Biden and Bernie face off: Key moments from Sunday's debate  —  Bernie Sanders spent more than an hour dissecting elements of Joe Biden's record that he considers anathema to today's Democratic Party — from protections for big banks to his skepticism of Medicare for all healthcare.
MSNBC:
Biden leads Trump by 9 points in a one-to-one matchup
Discussion: NBC News, Associated Press and The Hill
ABC News:
Biden commits to female running mate, touts electability in heads-up debate with Sanders
Discussion: Vox
Associated Press:
Sanders says Trump should stop ‘blabbering’ about virus
Discussion: Breitbart and NBC News
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A Complete List of Trump's Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus  —  He could have taken action.  He didn't.  —  President Trump made his first public comments about the coronavirus on Jan. 22, in a television interview from Davos with CNBC's Joe Kernen.  The first American case had been announced …
Discussion: Raw Story
Suhauna Hussain / Los Angeles Times:
Bars to close and restaurants must go takeout only, Mayor Garcetti orders  —  Los Angeles bars and nightclubs will close and restaurants must halt dine-in service and limit their business to takeout until March 31 as part of the city's efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, Mayor Garcetti said Sunday night.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
States order bars and restaurants to close due to coronavirus
Discussion: NPR and USA Today
The Hill:
California governor calls for bar closures, restaurant restrictions as crisis worsens
Discussion: Sacramento Bee, Politico and IJR
Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun-Times:
Pritzker orders all bars and restaurants to close to dine-in customers by end of day Monday
Discussion: Breitbart, Mediaite and Eater
Taylor Dolven / Miami Herald:
Thousands leave Miami cruise ship without screenings after former passenger got COVID-19  —  Note: The Miami Herald and McClatchy news sites have lifted the paywall on this developing story, providing critical information to readers.  To support vital reporting such as this, please consider a digital subscription.
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
Axios:
Pence's presidential moment  —  Vice President Mike Pence, often caricatured as the White House Yes Man, is doing many of the things critics wish President Trump would do.  —  The big picture: He's a daily, consistent presence on the airwaves.  He provides useful info rather than random digressions.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:   Virus Relief Risks Being Slowed by a Few GOP Senators' Concerns
Jonathan Swan / Axios:   How Trump snapped out of coronavirus delusion mode
Karen Weise / New York Times:
Two Emergency Room Doctors Are in Critical Condition With Coronavirus  —  The hospitalizations sharpen fears that the nation's front-line medical workers could be uniquely vulnerable, a health care organization said.  —  SEATTLE — Two emergency medicine doctors, in New Jersey and Washington State …
Discussion: Fox News and ACEP
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The Seattle Times:
EvergreenHealth doctor tests positive for coronavirus, in critical condition  —  An emergency room doctor at EvergreenHealth in Kirkland is in critical condition with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.  —  The hospital at the center of the coronavirus outbreak …
Discussion: Gizmodo
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New York Times:
‘There Is Plenty of Food in the Country’  —  Americans have been alarmed by empty grocery shelves, but while food suppliers and retailers say they are struggling with surging demand, they insist the supply chain remains strong.  —  The aisles and aisles of empty store shelves give the appearance …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Most federal workers will report to the office Monday — as the rest of the country isolates itself  —  Most of the nation's 2.1 million federal employees will report to work Monday to tightly packed office cubicles and other workplaces where they serve the public, even as schools and colleges across …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Hill
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A clinical trial evaluating a vaccine designed to protect against the new coronavirus will begin Monday, according to a government official.  —  The first participant in the trial will receive the experimental vaccine …
Discussion: TechCrunch and The Week
William Hanage / The Guardian:
I'm an epidemiologist.  When I heard about Britain's ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire  —  Vulnerable people should not be exposed to Covid-19 right now in the service of a hypothetical future  —  Your house is on fire, and the people whom you have trusted with your care are not trying to put it out.
Denis Campbell / The Guardian:
UK coronavirus crisis ‘to last until spring 2021 and could see 7.9m hospitalised’  —  Exclusive: Public Health England document seen by Guardian says four in five ‘expected’ to contract virus  —  The coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people …
 
 
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Christina Johnsen / Polls:
State Takes on a Purple Hue; Partisans Divided Over Coronavirus
Discussion: Politico
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump finds his MAGA movement fracturing over coronavirus
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
D.C. closes nightclubs and restricts bars, restaurants; New cases in Md., Va.; NIH employee …
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
The coronavirus paradox - our lowest point and finest hour: Opinion
Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill seeks postponement of March 31 runoffs
New York Times:
New York Officials Weigh Delaying April Primary Election
Discussion: National Review
 Earlier Items: 
Politico:
Gillum withdraws from politics after link to suspected drug overdose
Discussion: The Week, Associated Press and Mediaite
John Bowden / The Hill:
Clyburn calls Trump a racist, warns US could ‘go the way of Germany in the 1930s’
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Amazon warns of delivery delays, running out of items
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Madeleine Westerhout to release Oval Office memoir
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Fauci: 'If it looks like you're overreacting you're probably doing the right thing'
Discussion: Breitbart
Tom Bergeron / ROI-NJ:
Life at the epicenter of N.J.'s coronavirus outbreak
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
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