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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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The Hill, Washington Times and Politico
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC News/Marist polls: Biden holds big leads over Sanders in Arizona and Ohio
NBC News/Marist polls: Biden holds big leads over Sanders in Arizona and Ohio
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CNBC
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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David Edwards / Raw Story:
McConnell pushing coronavirus vote to later in week over GOP opposition to House bill: report
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
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.
Yun Li / CNBC:
Trump applauds Fed's move to slash interest rates and says investors ‘should be very thrilled’
Trump applauds Fed's move to slash interest rates and says investors ‘should be very thrilled’
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The Federalist, Reason and Talking Points Memo
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
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Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Nation, The Daily Caller, NPR, One America News Network, Foreign Policy, CNBC, Breitbart, Quartz, Bloomberg, Econlib, Just The News, UPI, Vox, Washington Post, Politico, Redstate, Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
Kellie Mejdrich / Politico:
Stock plunge triggers new market-wide trading pause
Stock plunge triggers new market-wide trading pause
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Breitbart
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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Vox, Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, POLITICUSUSA, IJR, SCOTUSblog, New York Times and Daily Kos
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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
NBC News:
Me, worry? For coronavirus, it depends on your politics — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — You realize just how warped politics has become in the United States …
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Washington Monthly, Fox News, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post
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NBC News:
Live Blog / Democratic debate live updates: Biden and Sanders go head to head in Washington, D.C.
Live Blog / Democratic debate live updates: Biden and Sanders go head to head in Washington, D.C.
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Politico, The Hill, New York Times, ImmigrationProf Blog, The Daily Beast, Breitbart and New York Times
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, more at Mediagazer »
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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National Review, Townhall, Fox Business, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze and Fox News, more at Techmeme »
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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 splitting over the coronavirus pandemic. — On one side are those like Bill Mitchell …
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Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
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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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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Mediaite
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 Guardian, Washington Post, The American Independent, Common Dreams, Raw Story, CNBC and Politico
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 …
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The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
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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The Root, Queerty, The Capitolist and New York Post
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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.
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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Redstate and New York Times
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.
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 …
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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.
Dan Hannan / Washington Examiner:
The end of globalization is here — The coronavirus didn't mark the end of globalization. It accelerated a malign trend that was already underway. — Yes, the European travel ban is a peculiarly Trumpian flourish. It is hard to imagine any previous president issuing a decree so far removed from scientific advice.
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
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.