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Washington Post:
Trump administration seeks roughly $850 billion in emergency stimulus to confront coronavirus economic fallout — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to present details to Senate Republicans on Tuesday — The Trump administration is asking Congress to approve a massive economic stimulus package …
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Inside the Coronavirus Response: A Case Study in the White House Under Trump — Infighting, turf wars and a president more concerned with the stock market and media coverage than policy have defined the Trump White House. They have also defined how it has handled a pandemic.
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Vanity Fair, Political Flare, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Contemptor
Washington Post:
Casinos ask Congress for emergency aid as coronavirus toll sweeps industry
Casinos ask Congress for emergency aid as coronavirus toll sweeps industry
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story and The Week
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A new poll shows Trump's magical lying powers are failing him
A new poll shows Trump's magical lying powers are failing him
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Vanity Fair
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Senate Democrats have prepped third coronavirus aid package
Senate Democrats have prepped third coronavirus aid package
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Politico
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Stocks set to bounce as Wall Street attempts rebound from the Dow's third-worst day ever
Stocks set to bounce as Wall Street attempts rebound from the Dow's third-worst day ever
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Americans Don't Trust What They're Hearing From Trump On Coronavirus — Americans have little trust in the information they are hearing from President Trump about the novel coronavirus, and their confidence in the federal government's response to it is declining sharply, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
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VICE, POLITICUSUSA, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Hill and Raw Story
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David Nather / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Public trusts health agencies more than Trump
Sheri Fink / New York Times:
White House Takes New Line After Dire Report on Death Toll — Federal guidelines warned against gatherings of more than 10 people as a London report predicted high fatalities in the U.S. without dramatic action. — Sweeping new federal recommendations announced on Monday for Americans …
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Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, Common Dreams and CNN
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Democrats vote in Florida and more: What polls show for Biden, Sanders — Amid the coronavirus pandemic, three states are casting ballots in what could be the Vermont senator's last chance to stop the former VP. — Democrats are scheduled to vote in primaries for their presidential nominee …
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The Independent, Monmouth University … and TheBlaze
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CNN:
Biden receives Secret Service protection — (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden received Secret Service protection starting Tuesday, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. — The development comes with Biden knocked off the campaign trail amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic …
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The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
A Generational War Is Brewing Over Coronavirus — Scientists say lack of alarm among young people could hinder the fight against the virus and endanger elders — Scientists and government officials fighting the coronavirus epidemic say they have a problem: Carefree youths.
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Balloon Juice and Althouse
Rick Rouan / The Columbus Dispatch:
Coronavirus: Ohio election is up in air despite judge's ruling — Rick Rouan The Columbus Dispatch John Futty The Columbus Dispatch — After issuing a release that appears to defy a judge's ruling that Tuesday's primary must go forward, a source in the governor's office says that's not the case.
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Andrew J. Tobias / Plain Dealer:
Ohio polls remain closed following overnight ruling from Ohio Supreme Court
Ohio polls remain closed following overnight ruling from Ohio Supreme Court
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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.
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Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, Raw Story, Four Freedoms, Rolling Stone and HuffPost, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
How U.S. coronavirus testing stalled: Flawed tests, red tape and resistance to using the millions of tests produced by the WHO — When Olfert Landt heard about the novel coronavirus, he got busy. — Founder of a small Berlin-based company, the ponytailed 54-year-old first raced …
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Townhall, Daily Kos, Reason and Common Dreams
Daniel Desrochers / Lexington Herald-Leader:
McConnell calls on McGrath to take down political ads as coronavirus cripples Kentucky — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign called on a potential Democratic opponent — former Marine Corps pilot Amy McGrath — to stop running political advertisements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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.
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Gino Spocchia / The Independent:
Video emerges showing Trump talking about cutting pandemic team in 2018, despite saying last week 'I didn't know about it' — Video appears to contradict president's claim of ignorance about the cuts — A video has emerged of Donald Trump talking about cutting the US pandemic response team in 2018 …
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The Federalist, The Atlantic, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Twitchy, Redstate and Common Dreams, more at Mediagazer »
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
On the Political Right, Anger and Suspicion Over Virus Precautions — An Illinois mayor's emergency decree drew fury from some who view coronavirus preparedness as politically motivated “hysteria.” — WASHINGTON — When Deborah Frank Feinen, the mayor of Champaign, Ill. …
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Big League Politics and Right Wing Watch
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.
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Political Flare, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week and POLITICUSUSA
Derek Hunter / Townhall:
Liberals Are Content To Watch It All Burn — It seems quaint, even a little funny, but during the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to “set aside their differences in case the world was invaded by aliens.” Today, Democrats can't even stop …
Wall Street Journal:
House Democrats Scale Back Paid-Leave Program in Coronavirus-Aid Bill — Measure would still provide two weeks of sick leave to a wide swath of workers, but restrict eligibility for further time off — WASHINGTON—The Democratic-led House scaled back a paid-leave program that the chamber …
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Coronavirus in NYC: Bill de Blasio considering a shelter-in-place edict — Mayor Bill de Blasio may soon order New Yorkers to only leave their homes for food, medicine and exercise — a major escalation of the Big Apple's coronavirus containment plan. — De Blasio was asked on CNN Tuesday morning …
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Neil Irwin / New York Times:
One Simple Idea That Explains Why the Economy Is in Great Danger — What happens when a major section of machinery that is supposed to run perpetually suddenly grinds to a halt? We are about to find out. — To understand why the world economy is in grave peril because of the spread of coronavirus …
New York Times:
Wall Street Wobbles After Monday's Slump: Live Updates — Here's what you need to know: — Big banks plan to borrow funds from the Fed. — Wall Street trading is volatile after worst day of the year. — Stocks were unsteady on Tuesday, as Wall Street attempted a rebound …
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BIG by Matt Stoller
Jason Riley / wdrb.com:
Kentucky Derby to be postponed until September as concerns heighten over COVID-19 pandemic — LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The 146th running of The Kentucky Derby will be postponed until the first Saturday in September, multiple sources told WDRB News, the latest sporting event to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
A collapsing economy is a disaster for an incumbent president — President Trump at an reelection rally on March 2, 2020. Brian Blanco/Getty Images — Here's what political scientists have learned about how the economy influences presidential elections.
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
South Korea's coronavirus success story underscores how the U.S. initially failed — Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — There seems to be no shortage of grim tidings for those in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic. In the United States, public-health officials are bracing …
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Foreign Policy, Common Dreams, Lawfare and Financial Times
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.
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Reuters, Defense One, Just The News, Raw Story and The Hill
Dave Clark / The Amazon Blog:
Amazon ramps hiring, opening 100,000 new roles to support people relying on Amazon's service in this stressful time — Company will invest over $350 million globally to increase pay by $2/hour in the U.S., £2/hr in the UK, and approximately €2/hr in many EU countries for employees …
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Politico:
A chastened Trump presents a newly somber tone — Before markets started spiraling like 1987's “Black Monday” crash, and even before President Donald Trump heard from state governors and G-7 leaders trying to stave off deaths at home, the president received a series of fresh warnings …
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Slate, Associated Press, The Hill, IJR and CNBC
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Labor organizer Jane McAlevey on how the left builds power all wrong — Educators, parents, students, and supporters of the Los Angeles teachers strike wave and cheer in Grand Park on January 22, 2019, in downtown Los Angeles, California. Scott Heins/Getty Images
Ben White / Politico:
How ugly could it get? Trump faces echoes of 1929 in coronavirus crisis. — The early signals from the coronavirus crisis point to a scale of damage unseen in the modern U.S. economy: the potential for millions of jobs lost in a single month, a historic and sudden plunge in economic activity across …
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Albert Samaha / BuzzFeed News:
An ER Doctor Was Diagnosed With COVID-19 — After Attending A National Conference For ER Doctors — A physician from San Francisco, Rosny Daniel, attended a conference for ER doctors in New York City. Two days later, he tested positive for the coronavirus, suggesting that dozens …
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