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Tim Herrera / New York Times:
My Coronavirus Test: 5 Days, a Dozen Calls, Hours of Confusion — The symptoms have been easy to deal with. The health care system has not. — Almost a dozen calls with five health care providers over five hours. Two hours of hold music. Two hours in a hospital.
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New York Times:
Trump Now Claims He Always Knew the Coronavirus Would Be a Pandemic — The president tried to rewrite his history with advising Americans about the coronavirus. His own words prove him wrong. — WASHINGTON — For weeks, President Trump has minimized the coronavirus, mocked concern about it and treated the risk cavalierly.
New York Times:
Trump Finally Enlists Much of Government in Coronavirus Attack — Hospital ships stayed in port, veterans hospitals awaited orders and requests for help went unanswered, as much of the government remained on the sidelines. — WASHINGTON — The mayor of Seattle wanted “mass tents” …
CNBC:
Mnuchin warns senators of 20% US unemployment without coronavirus rescue, source says — U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned Republican senators that the unemployment rate could hit 20% if they failed to act on a proposed coronavirus rescue package and there was lasting economic damage, sources told Reuters.
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Reuters and The Daily Caller
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Mnuchin warns senators lack of action could result in 20% unemployment rate, source says
Mnuchin warns senators lack of action could result in 20% unemployment rate, source says
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NBC News, National Review, Politico, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller and POLITICUSUSA
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
OPM chief Dale Cabaniss abruptly resigns — Dale Cabaniss, the director of the government's Office of Personnel Management, resigned abruptly on Tuesday, effective immediately. — Cabaniss stepped down because of what two people familiar with the matter said was poor treatment …
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Mike Pence / USA Today:
We need the American people's help to fight coronavirus now — The American people have already pulled together in so many ways in response to this virus, just as we've always done during other challenging times. — In the fight against the coronavirus, the Trump administration …
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TechCrunch
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Jason Breslow / NPR:
Pence Warns Coronavirus Disruptions Could Last ‘Well Into July’
Pence Warns Coronavirus Disruptions Could Last ‘Well Into July’
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Washington Post, NBC News, Politico, WBUR and Vanity Fair
William Booth / Washington Post:
A chilling scientific paper helped upend U.S. and U.K. coronavirus strategies
A chilling scientific paper helped upend U.S. and U.K. coronavirus strategies
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The Daily Beast and Raw Story
New York Times:
These Places Could Run Out of Hospital Beds as Coronavirus Spreads — Percentage of occupied hospital beds that would need to be emptied or added — A new Harvard analysis shows that many parts of the United States will have far too few hospital beds if the new coronavirus continues …
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Washington Post, ProPublica, Minnesota Reformer, Mother Jones and globalepidemics.org
New York Times:
Biden Sweeps Three States and Takes Commanding Lead, as Virus Reshapes American Politics — With a broad coalition, Joseph R. Biden Jr. defeated Bernie Sanders in Florida, Illinois and Arizona, in a rout that could add to pressure on Mr. Sanders to end his campaign.
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New Republic, Outside the Beltway, The Week and Daily Kos
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Addy Baird / BuzzFeed News:
A Progressive Challenger Has Beaten One Of The Last Anti-Abortion Democrats In Congress — WASHINGTON — In an election marked by low turnout and lack of basic voting supplies because of coronavirus concerns, Marie Newman, a progressive, pro-abortion rights challenger to incumbent Democratic …
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Daily Kos, Vox, VICE, Raw Story, CBS Chicago and The Intercept
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Marie Newman Beats Dan Lipinski, Democratic Incumbent, in Illinois House Primary
Marie Newman Beats Dan Lipinski, Democratic Incumbent, in Illinois House Primary
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Townhall, Breitbart, Chicago Tribune and Big League Politics
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
The Pandemic Is Too Big for Trumpworld to Spin — Last Friday, we got a sign that Fox News changed the party line on the coronavirus. Then suddenly, Trump changed his tune, too. Hmmm... BEAST INSIDE — The Trumpy media from top to bottom is having a rough time of it these days.
NBC News:
Senate coronavirus vote delayed after Rand Paul pushes doomed amendment — Mitch McConnell had said he wanted to pass the bill at “warp speed.” — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would move at “warp speed” to pass coronavirus legislation on Tuesday, but Sen. Rand Paul …
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The Independent and Washington Post
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
US and Canada preparing to suspend non-essential travel between the two countries — (CNN)The United States and Canada are preparing to issue a joint statement in the next 24-48 hours to suspend non-essential travel between the two countries, a Trump administration official tells CNN.
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Politico, The Hill, Associated Press, CBC News and Big League Politics
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Trump's Job Approval Rating Slips to 44% — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the COVID-19 pandemic hits the U.S. and President Donald Trump's impeachment acquittal becomes a distant memory for Americans, his 44% job approval rating is down five percentage points, and back to where it was before the Senate acquitted …
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The Week and Opinion Today
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Questioning the Clampdown — Will people lose faith when they find out they are expected to get the virus anyway? — Experts now agree the virus's spread can be slowed but not contained. It will take its place among mostly seasonal respiratory infections.
New York Times:
At Party for Donald Trump Jr.'s Girlfriend, Donors Helped Pick Up the Tab — Attendees of the bash for Kimberly Guilfoyle at the president's private club chipped in — including financial backers of the Trump re-election campaign. — WASHINGTON — It was a lavish birthday party for Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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Raw Story, The Daily Beast, Jezebel and Political Flare
Bloomberg:
Hospital Workers Make Masks From Office Supplies Amid U.S. Shortage — 'We're not getting new supplies and our stores are almost depleted.' — Hospital workers in Washington state have been making protective medical gear out of office supplies and other run-of-the-mill materials as they deal …
Joe Hagan / Vanity Fair:
“Dishonesty...Is Always an Indicator of Weakness”: Tucker Carlson on How He Brought His Coronavirus Message to Mar-a-Lago — The Fox News host believes that an administration (and GOP, and Democrats, and media) obsessed with impeachment couldn't help but see the coronavirus through a political lens.
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Washington Post, The Week and Deadline
New York Times:
U.S. Virus Plan Anticipates 18-Month Pandemic and Widespread Shortages — The 100-page federal plan laid out a grim prognosis and outlined a response that would activate agencies across the government. — WASHINGTON — A federal government plan to combat the coronavirus warned policymakers …
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Political Flare and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Lessons From Italy's Hospital Meltdown. ‘Every Day You Lose, the Contagion Gets Worse.’ — The coronavirus is pushing a wealthy region with high-tech health care toward a humanitarian disaster — BERGAMO, Italy—Ambulances here have stopped using sirens. The frequent blaring only adds to local fears.
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The US Sun
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
Four Pillars to Safeguard Voting Rights with Vote by Mail — Increasingly, we are seeing calls for states to adopt no-excuse absentee and vote by mail. This is a very important step in ensuring the right to vote, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Politico
Ted Anthony / Associated Press:
Analysis: American attitudes make virus response a hard sell — When Americans are summoned to deal with an attack or defy overwhelming odds, the response typically goes something like this: Fight. Hold the line. Stand together. This won't stop us. Keep on living your life. We will prevail.
Greg B. Smith / The City:
FIRST HOMELESS SHELTER RESIDENT TESTS POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS — A resident of a city homeless shelter tested positive for coronavirus — a first-of-its-kind case that sent the woman's dorm roommates into quarantine, officials said Tuesday. — Department of Homeless Services (DHS) …
Politico:
Republicans suddenly find a bailout they can back — For Republicans, this time is different. — Senior GOP lawmakers are moving quickly to inject as much as $1 trillion into the economy to save a slew of industries and millions of jobs from the devastation of the fast-spreading coronavirus.
Ida Garibaldi / Washington Post:
Hello from Italy. Your future is grimmer than you think. — Within weeks, our old lives were gone — My family lives in the Veneto, in Northern Italy, one of the regions worst hit by the novel coronavirus. We are on lockdown. It's scary. It's lonely. It's uncomfortable. And did I mention scary?
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
They Went Off the Grid. They Came Back to the Coronavirus. — 25 days rafting through the Grand Canyon meant no access to the news — and a new reality when the trip ended. — Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large. — Every time Zach Elder sets out on a rafting trip …
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
How To Get More Ventilators And What To Do If We Can't — Factory capacity can be ramped up, but the components come from overseas and they could be hard to find. — The coronavirus pandemic could cause a dramatic upsurge of hospital patients in the U.S., creating unprecedented demand for ventilators.
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Slate, New York Times and Financial Times
Nihar Kabinittal / Associated Press:
White House postpones Spain state visit, cites coronavirus — The White House is postponing an upcoming state visit by Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia because of the coronavirus pandemic — WASHINGTON — The White House says it's postponing an upcoming state visit by Spain's King Felipe VI …
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The Hill
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump tries to erase the memory of him downplaying the coronavirus — Washington (CNN)The somber President Donald Trump of Monday's press conference bore little resemblance to the Trump who had relentlessly played down the coronavirus over the previous two months.
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The Hill, The Daily Signal, Politico and IJR
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
DHS faces coronavirus with scores of vacancies and a leadership vacuum — Roughly two-thirds of top jobs in the department are vacant or filled with acting appointees, more than in any other federal agency. — Airport customs experience huge crowds after Trump's travel ban
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
China's coronavirus information warfare hydra — China's coronavirus messaging isn't about truth, but rather the advancement of a multiheaded information warfare effort. — Like the hydra of Greek mythology, Xi Jinping's monster is designed to destroy all who stand against the Communist Party's interests.
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Chris Walljasper / Reuters:
U.S. limits Mexico guest worker visas, sends farmers scrambling — CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. fruit and vegetable producers are bracing for dramatic disruptions to their labor force after the U.S. government said it was suspending visa interviews in Mexico to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
Ewilliams / DCist:
Coronavirus Is Causing Industry-Wide Layoffs In D.C., Hitting Service Workers Particularly Hard | DCist — Sweeping rounds of layoffs have started to hit D.C.-area businesses in a wide range of sectors. The economic plunge has been widely felt, hitting the wedding industry …
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