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8:35 PM ET, March 16, 2020

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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 …
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.
Discussion: Redstate
Rick Rouan / The Columbus Dispatch:
Coronavirus: Judge denies request to move Ohio Primary to June 2  —  A Franklin County judge Monday night denied the state's attempt to postpone Election Day until June 2.  —  Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Frye said it would be a “terrible precedent” for a judge to step in 12 hours before polls open to rewrite the election code.
Discussion: New York Post
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Laura Hancock / Plain Dealer:   Judge denies request to delay Ohio primary election until June over coronavirus
Laura Hancock / Plain Dealer:   Judge denies request to delay Ohio primary election until June over coronavirus
Justine Coleman / The Hill:   Judge refuses to reschedule Ohio primary amid coronavirus fears
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 …
CNN:
White House press secretary works from home after exposure to Brazil delegation with coronavirus
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 …
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Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
U.S. Justice Dept. abandons prosecution of Russian firm indicted in Mueller election interference probe  —  The U.S. Justice Department moved Monday to drop its two-year-long prosecution of a Russian company charged with orchestrating a social media campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Justice Department drops plans for trial over Russian interference in 2016 U.S. election
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
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.
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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Politico:
House passes revised coronavirus package, paving way for Senate to take up
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 Collins / NBC News:
False coronavirus rumors surge in ‘hidden viral’ text messages  —  Some users, even those who have no intention of spreading wrong information, are forwarding along viral rumors and urban legends.  —  The various false text messages forwarded to many Americans on Sunday and Monday all started …
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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 …
Discussion: Mediaite, Politico and CNN
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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Tim Wu / New York Times:
Don't Feel Sorry for the Airlines
Discussion: HuffPost and Boondoggle
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.
Discussion: The Independent
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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.
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.
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
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.
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 …
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,” …
Discussion: New York Times and Fox News
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.
 
 
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Sister Toldjah / Redstate:
Dan Bongino and Others Call out NYT Editor for Altering Trump Quote From Conference Call With Governors
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Trump licks his chops as Biden veers left on sanctuary cities, fracking
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Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
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Marist Poll:
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Mohara / The Office of Governor Larry Hogan:
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How China is planning to use the coronavirus crisis to its advantage
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
GOP senator says Trump should ‘step back’ from response messaging
Kathleen Arberg / Supreme Court of the United States:
For Immediate Release  —  In keeping with public health …
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump finds his MAGA movement fracturing over coronavirus
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos