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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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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.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
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Kellie Mejdrich / Politico:
Stock plunge triggers new market-wide trading pause
Stock plunge triggers new market-wide trading pause
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Breitbart
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 …
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TechCrunch and The Week
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Fox News:
Sanders hints Tuesday's primaries should be postponed over coronavirus
Sanders hints Tuesday's primaries should be postponed over coronavirus
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NBC News
NBC News:
Me, worry? For coronavirus, it depends on your politics
Me, worry? For coronavirus, it depends on your politics
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Washington Monthly, Fox News, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court will delay oral arguments, Trump tax case was set for this month — Justices will not be in the courtroom when they were to resume hearing cases next week and no date has been set for their return.. — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will delay oral arguments …
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Politico, Associated Press and Fox News
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Kathleen Arberg / Supreme Court of the United States:
For Immediate Release — In keeping with public health precautions recommended in response to COVID-19, the Supreme Court is postponing the oral arguments currently scheduled for the March session (March 23-25 and March 30-April 1). The Court will examine the options for rescheduling …
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, IJR, The Daily Caller, SCOTUSblog, New York Times and Daily Kos
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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Fox News, The Hill, Washington Times and Politico
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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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Virus Relief Bill Risks Being Slowed by a Few GOP Senators
Virus Relief Bill Risks Being Slowed by a Few GOP Senators
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The Week
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
Michigan almost had robust sick leave in 2018. Republicans killed it.
Michigan almost had robust sick leave in 2018. Republicans killed it.
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Macro for the Many
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 …
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Washington Post, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump finds his MAGA movement fracturing over coronavirus — Just two weeks after President Donald Trump rallied conservatives to focus on the threat of socialism, his followers are splintering over the coronavirus pandemic. — On one side are those like Bill Mitchell …
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New York Times:
U.S. Offered ‘Large Sum’ to German Company for Access to Coronavirus Vaccine Research, German Officials Say — The United States says it will share any vaccine breakthroughs with the world, but German officials appeared rattled by its reported overture to a biotech firm.
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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 …
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Talking Points Memo and Gizmodo
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Miami Herald:
Gillum seeks rehab for alcohol abuse after incident involving suspected crystal meth — Days after police say they found him in a South Beach hotel room with a collapsed companion and baggies of crystal meth, former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum announced plans Sunday night …
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Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
It's Hard to Believe David A. Clarke Was Recommended for a Real Job in Homeland Security — “GO INTO THE STREETS FOLKS. Visit bars, restaurants, shopping malls, CHURCHES and demand that your schools re-open. NOW! If government doesn't stop this foolishness...STAY IN THE STREETS.
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Health Agency Suffers Cyber-Attack During Covid-19 Outbreak — NSC tweet on disinformation Sunday was connected to hack — Cyber intrusion comes as U.S. battles coronavirus pandemic — We're tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response.
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The Intercept:
TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People and the Poor to Attract New Users — The makers of TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing app with hundreds of millions of users around the world, instructed moderators to suppress posts created by users deemed too ugly, poor …
John Harwood / CNN:
Trump projects confidence, but markets aren't listening — Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to zero — (CNN)President Donald Trump opened his coronavirus press conference Sunday hailing “phenomenal news”: an emergency Federal Reserve interest rate cut to near zero to protect the economy …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
How Trump snapped out of coronavirus delusion mode — It took a stock market crash — and a Fox News star's intervention — to finally snap President Trump's delusional and possibly disastrous fixation with treating the coronavirus like just another winter flu.
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
NSC says text messages about a coronavirus national quarantine are fake, there is no national lockdown — The White House has assured citizens that rumors being spread via text message claiming the government is due to implement a national quarantine in order to deal with the threat of the coronavirus are fake.
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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Breitbart and New York Post
USA Today:
The best thing everyday Americans can do to fight coronavirus? #StayHome, save lives — Be a neat freak. Wash your hands. Give to people in need. If you're going to spread anything, spread help, compassion and humor. And do not panic. — The coronavirus pandemic seemed so far away just weeks ago.