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Trump Gives New Guidelines for Containment in the U.S. — President Trump announced new guidelines to control the spread of the virus, advising against gatherings of more than 10 people, as European nations sealed their borders. — RIGHT NOW Health officials ordered millions in six counties …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Trump to Governors on Ventilators: ‘Try Getting It Yourselves’ — On a conference call with the nation's governors, President Trump said they should try to get ventilators on their own ahead of an expected crush of coronavirus cases. — WASHINGTON — President Trump told a group of governors …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Andrew Cuomo Is the Control Freak We Need Right Now — In ordinary times, Mr. Cuomo's relentlessness and bullying drive New Yorkers crazy. In the age of the coronavirus, they soothe our battered nerves. — “A crisis shows you a person's soul,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo mused during a conference call with reporters on Sunday.
Alex Wickham / BuzzFeed:
The UK Only Realised “In The Last Few Days” That Its Coronavirus Strategy Would “Likely Result In Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths” — Scientists advising the government say an aggressive new approach adopted to attempt to “suppress” the virus may have to be in place for 18 months.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit — The Senate majority leader has encouraged judges thinking about stepping down to do so soon to ensure that Republicans confirm their replacements this year. — WASHINGTON — Running out of federal court vacancies to fill …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“There's No Boogeyman He Can Attack”: Angry at Kushner, Trump Awakens to the COVID-19 Danger — For weeks, Trump and his son-in-law saw the novel coronavirus mostly as a media and political problem. But the spiraling cases, plunging markets, and a Mar-a-Lago cluster finally opened eyes.
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Politico:
‘This is a very bad one’: Trump issues new guidelines to stem coronavirus spread — President Donald Trump on Monday acknowledged the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic, releasing strict new guidelines to limit people's interactions in an increasingly urgent bid to slow the virus in the next …
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Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Government response updates: Trump issues stricter guidelines to stop virus spread
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Washington Post:
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus — For weeks, some of Fox News's most popular hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
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Tim Morrison / Washington Post:
No, the White House didn't ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there. — Tim Morrison is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the National Security Council. — President Trump gets his share of criticism — some warranted, much not.
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Jeremy Konyndyk / Just Security:
Lessons Ignored: John Bolton's Bogus Defense of “Streamlining” Away Our Bio-Readiness
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Erin Allday / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bay Area ‘shelter in place’ expected: Only essential businesses open in 6 counties with 6.7 million people until April 7 — The San Francisco Chronicle has lifted the paywall on our coverage of this developing story to provide critical information to our community.
Laura Hancock / Plain Dealer:
Judge denies request to delay Ohio primary election until June over coronavirus — Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard A. Frye before a Monday court hearing in Franklin County. He ruled Monday against a lawsuit backed by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine that would have postponed Tuesday's presidential primary election.
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Politico:
Before Trump's inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918’ — Seven days before Donald Trump took office, his aides faced a major test: the rapid, global spread of a dangerous virus in cities like London and Seoul, one serious enough that some countries were imposing travel bans.
Lindsay Schnell / USA Today:
California, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington close bars and restaurants in effort to slow coronavirus — The governors in five states — California, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington — closed bars, restaurants and wineries in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus.
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Moves to Drop Charges Against Russian Firms Filed by Mueller — The companies funded Russia's social media-fueled interference in the 2016 election, prosecutors said. But they tried to weaponize the case instead of fight it. — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved …
Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Former Rep. Richard Hanna, GOP moderate from Upstate NY, dies at 69 — WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, a fiercely independent Republican from Upstate New York who championed LGBT and women's rights, died Sunday at a hospital in Oneida County. He was 69.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Twitter Deleted Sheriff Clarke's Wildly Reckless Coronavirus Tweets, So He Says He's Quitting — After being punished for promoting coronavirus disinformation on Twitter, the former Milwaukee sheriff claims he'll move over to a social-media app popular with conservatives.
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CNBC:
White House braces for political fight as it readies coronavirus airline bailout package — The Trump administration is grappling with which industries to bail out as thousands of businesses in the U.S. grind to a halt amid severe measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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Mihir Zaveri / New York Times:
Be Wary of Those Texts From a Friend of a Friend's Aunt — Text messages claiming to have inside knowledge were the latest example of misinformation spreading amid anxiety about the coronavirus. — The text messages have largely followed a pattern: The author claims to have a connection …
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New York Times:
Mayor Resisted Harsh Steps on Virus. Then Aides Said They'd Quit. — Mayor Bill de Blasio hesitated to close schools and restaurants, but pushback from advisers changed his mind. He still went to the gym Monday. — For most of last week, as Mayor Bill de Blasio continued to urge …
Associated Press:
Coronavirus vaccine test opens as US volunteer gets 1st shot — SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. researchers gave the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday — leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges.
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ABC News:
Coronavirus live updates: Major cities shutdown — COVID-19 has reached 49 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. — Major cities are shutting down restaurants, bars, gyms and schools to try to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has killed at least 73 people in the United States.
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Christina Johnsen / Polls:
State Takes on a Purple Hue; Partisans Divided Over Coronavirus — Kelly leads McSally in Senate race — West Long Branch, NJ - Arizona's Electoral College votes could be in play in November, according to a Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll of registered voters in the state.
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
The buck never, ever stops with Trump — My conversation with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on March 7 in Birmingham, Ala., was quick. It was on the sidelines of the Faith and Politics Institute's annual civil rights pilgrimage and just moments …
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CNN:
Elizabeth Warren: We need a grassroots stimulus package — Trump proposes payroll tax cut amid coronavirus outbreak — Elizabeth Warren is a US senator from Massachusetts and a former Democratic candidate for president in 2020. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own; view more opinion at CNN.
The Appeal:
The Coronavirus Response: Spotlight on State & Local Governments — During the COVID-19 pandemic, local and state governments are key actors in protecting the United States's most vulnerable residents. They run jails and state prisons, which are key to “flattening the curve,” …
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New York Times and Fox News
Mariya Petkova / Al Jazeera:
Concern mounts of ‘catastrophic’ coronavirus outbreak in Syria — Gov't says no cases have been logged but fears grow war-hit country will not be able to cope with a COVID-19 outbreak. — As the coronavirus takes a firmer hold across the Middle East, there is growing concern that Syria might face …
Wall Street Journal:
Stocks and Bond Yields Plummet After Fed Slashes Rates — U.S. equity futures drop by almost 5%, signaling markets are poised for a sharp drop after the opening bell — Stocks globally plunged Monday even after the Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark interest rate to near zero …
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump is finally starting to get it on coronavirus — After a long period of flailing and offering false hope, President Trump's Monday press conference on the coronavirus pandemic was much more reassuring. And on one important point, he finally seems to be getting it.
CBS News:
Coronavirus shutdowns spread across U.S. as death toll rises to 80 — The fight against the coronavirus outbreak has disrupted the lives of millions of Americans, with some of its biggest cities closing schools, theaters, bars and restaurants, with the exception of take-out service.
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Los Angeles Times:
As the coronavirus pandemic grows, gun sales are surging in many states — David Stone snagged a cardboard box of .223-caliber ammunition from the shelf and slid it across the glass countertop, offering his go-to sales pitch: “Welcome to the biggest selection of ammunition in all of Oklahoma.”
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