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6:05 PM ET, March 16, 2020

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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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Politico:
House coronavirus package nears resolution after hitting snag  —  A multibillion-dollar House coronavirus package that was hung up in negotiations between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Monday is now close to finalization, with both sides hoping to pass a revised version and clearing it for Senate action.
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Rep. Louie Gohmert delays House coronavirus relief bill from moving to Senate  —  The House was expected to make technical corrections to the bipartisan measure, passed by the House early Saturday, on Monday, but Gohmert is insisting on reading them.  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Louie Gohmert …
Bloomberg:
Trump Says Virus Relief Bill May Be Amended, Delaying Passage
Discussion: Raw Story
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Virus Relief Bill Risks Being Slowed by a Few GOP Senators
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and The Week
David Edwards / Raw Story:   McConnell pushing coronavirus vote to later in week over GOP opposition to House bill: report
New York Times:
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 …
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
Bloomberg:
U.S. Health Agency Suffers Cyber-Attack During Covid-19 Outbreak
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 …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Associated Press:
US officials: foreign disinformation stoking virus fears
Discussion: IJR
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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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC News/Marist polls: Biden holds big leads over Sanders in Arizona and Ohio
Discussion: Fox News and CNBC
Marist Poll:
NBC News/Marist Poll Results and Analysis of Ohio
Discussion: The Hill
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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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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Twitter removes David Clarke's tweets as he and other Trump allies sow coronavirus conspiracy theories and doubts
Discussion: Mother Jones
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.
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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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:   America begins drinking at home
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.
Discussion: Redstate, Townhall, Gothamist and The Hill
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.
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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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court will delay oral arguments, Trump tax case was set for this month
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 …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
The Biden-Sanders coronavirus debate was useless.  Time for Bernie to exit stage left.  —  Democrats are the largest part of the anti-Trump coalition.  By staying in, Sanders deprives them of their clear preference during a national crisis.  —  In America, no one owes a vote to any person or party.
Discussion: New York Post
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Democrats face 2016 déjà vu as left resists peace with primary front-runner
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite and Politico
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Saturday Night Live’ Suspends Next Three Shows Amid Coronavirus Pandemic  —  The NBC staple had been set to air its next episode on March 28.  —  Saturday Night Live is going dark amid the coronavirus outbreak.  —  NBC sketch series is shutting down for three weeks, according to a source with knowledge of the news.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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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Lori Aratani / Washington Post:
Airline industry seeking more than $50 billion in government aid amid coronavirus crisis
Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:
In the United States, there are more than 3,800 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 69 deaths
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Sister Toldjah / Redstate:
Displaying Total Cluelessness, Paul Krugman Mocks People for Buying Guns/Ammo During Wuhan Coronavirus Crisis
Tim Wu / New York Times:
Don't Feel Sorry for the Airlines
Discussion: HuffPost and Boondoggle
Mohara / The Office of Governor Larry Hogan:
Governor Hogan Orders Closure of Bars and Restaurants, Announces Unprecedented Public Health Surge …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
How China is planning to use the coronavirus crisis to its advantage
U.S. Chamber of Commerce:
Letter to U.S. Government Leaders on Coronavirus Response
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
The Appeal:
The Coronavirus Response: Spotlight on State & Local Governments
Discussion: New York Times and Fox News
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
GOP senator says Trump should ‘step back’ from response messaging
Chris Christie / Washington Post:
What Trump must do now to reduce the coronavirus risk
Discussion: Raw Story
A. Gary Shilling / Bloomberg:
Globalists May Soon Become an Extinct Species
The Intercept:
TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People and the Poor to Attract New Users
USA Today:
The best thing everyday Americans can do to fight coronavirus? #StayHome, save lives
 

 
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In an earnings call, David Zaslav says the Trump Administration may be more merger friendly, enabling a “real positive and accelerated impact on this industry”

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches Share to TikTok, which lets users directly share music from Apple Music and Spotify in a post to their TikTok Feed or in DMs via TikTok Messages

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis tells staff they'll be expected to work from the office five days a week, instead of three, by June 2, and by February 3 for managers

 
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