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4:55 AM ET, March 18, 2020

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CBS News:
Live updates: Joe Biden picks up wins in Florida and Illinois  —  Joe Biden picked up an early win in Florida, the biggest delegate prize in Tuesday's three contests, and in Illinois.  Voters also went to the polls in Arizona, with the scheduled contest in Ohio postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion: Vox, CBS Chicago and Townhall
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New York Times:
Live Primary Election Results: Florida, Illinois and Arizona
Discussion: The Week
NBC News:
NBC News Primary Poll: Arizona's Latino voters split between Biden and Sanders
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
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.
Discussion: Political Flare
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New York Times:
Once Political B-Listers, Governors Lead Nation's Coronavirus Response  —  Governors of both parties have taken a lead role in confronting the crisis, asserting themselves in ways that have only highlighted the initial lack of seriousness from the White House.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Federal personnel chief quits abruptly amid coronavirus planning for the workforce of 2.1 million  —  The federal personnel director quit with no notice Tuesday after five months on the job, leaving the agency that oversees workplace policy for 2.1 million civil servants with no leader amid …
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” …
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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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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Illinois Rep. Lipinski loses to insurgent Marie Newman in high-profile Democratic primary rematch
Discussion: Fox News
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Marie Newman Beats Dan Lipinski, Democratic Incumbent, in Illinois House Primary
Discussion: Big League Politics
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
Los Angeles Times:
U.S. delays April 15 tax payment deadline by 90 days for millions  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Tuesday that his department was pushing back the April 15 deadline to pay taxes owed, giving individuals and many businesses 90 extra days to send checks to the government.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Foreign Policy
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Small business leader praises tax deferment deal as ‘huge’
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
Politico:
Emergency stimulus to soar above $1 trillion
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Anger builds over virus dangers in immigration courts  —  President Donald Trump's increasingly urgent campaign to attack the coronavirus outbreak is having a notably meager impact in the immigration courts, where dramatic moves could undercut his signature policy of getting tough on undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Associated Press
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New York Times:
Administration Seeks $850 Billion and Plans Strict Border Controls
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
fmprc.gov.cn:
China Takes Countermeasures Against Restrictive Measures on Chinese Media Agencies in the US  —  In recent years, the US government has placed unwarranted restrictions on Chinese media agencies and personnel in the US, purposely made things difficult for their normal reporting assignments …
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Wall Street Journal:
China Bans All U.S. Nationals Working for The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington …
Discussion: NB Blog and The Daily Caller
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Flare
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.
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.
Andy Newman / New York Times:
Coronavirus in N.Y.C.: Drastic ‘Shelter in Place’ May Be Next  —  Life in New York City, a colossus of 8.6 million people and an economic engine for the country, is grinding to a shocking halt.  —  New York City, a colossus of 8.6 million people and an economic engine for the country …
Discussion: UPI and The Daily Caller
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Noah Higgins-Dunn / CNBC:
New Yorkers should be prepared for a ‘shelter in place order,’ Mayor Bill de Blasio says
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?
Brian Resnick / Vox:
Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for a year or more  —  Researchers say we face a horrible choice: practice social distancing for months or a year, or let hundreds of thousands die.  —  Life in America — and in many countries around the world — is changing drastically.
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Hill, Politico, IJR and HuffPost
Colleen Shalby / Los Angeles Times:
California death toll from coronavirus rises to 11 amid extraordinary rules to slow spread  —  More than 8 million Californians are living under shelter-in-place orders — the nation's most stringent public health measures yet — as state and local governments rush to address the coronavirus pandemic.
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Arlene Martinez / USA Today:
In California: Millions locked down; 911 gets calls about neighbors coughing
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 …
Discussion: PoPville
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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Jason Breslow / NPR:
Pence Warns Coronavirus Outbreak Could Last ‘Well Into July’
Discussion: Washington Post, WBUR and Politico
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sanders faces growing pressure to withdraw from presidential race
Discussion: Politico
Stephen Singer / Hartford Courant:
Connecticut unemployment claims reach 30,000 since Friday as coronavirus takes toll on state's economy
Emma Court / Bloomberg:
In Coronavirus Testing Ramp-Up, U.S. Called Private Sector in Late
Discussion: Raw Story
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Cory Gardner will self-quarantine after contact with coronavirus patient
The Daily Beast:
U.S. Soldier in Virus Quarantine: ‘Prisoners Receive Better Care’
Discussion: Raw Story
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Trump loyalists take command of the intelligence community
Pankaj Mishra / Bloomberg:
Get Ready, A Bigger Disruption Is Coming
Bill Scher / Politico:
Biden's Top 12 Running Mates, Ranked
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