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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 …
Discussion: TechCrunch
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Kate Bennett / CNN:   White House postpones state dinner for Spanish royals
William Booth / Washington Post:
A chilling scientific paper helped upend U.S. and U.K. coronavirus strategies
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
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.
Discussion: Gizmodo
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New York Times:   Once Political B-Listers, Governors Lead Nation's Coronavirus Response
New York Times:
Trump Now Claims He Always Knew the Coronavirus Would Be a Pandemic
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
Discussion: Reuters
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CNBC:
Dow plunges 1,000 points as stretch of unprecedented volatility continues because of coronavirus
Discussion: The Week
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A global pandemic in the age of political venom
Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg and CNBC
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:
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” …
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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BBC:
US election 2020: Rampant Biden crushes Sanders in hat-trick
Discussion: Contemptor
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 …
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
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.
Kurt Bardella / NBC News:
Trump's ‘Chinese Virus’ coronavirus tweets echo his Mexico insults — with similar results  —  Just as we saw following Trump's rhetoric against Latinos, the violent trickle-down effect is clear.  —  CBS White House correspondent Weijia Jiang tweeted Tuesday that “this morning …
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.
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 …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Illinois Rep. Lipinski loses to insurgent Marie Newman in high-profile Democratic primary rematch
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 …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
China's coronavirus propaganda campaign is putting lives at risk  —  The Chinese authorities are engaged in a full-scale effort to rewrite the history of the coronavirus epidemic.  Some in the West might be tempted to dismiss the significance of Beijing's propaganda efforts.  But they shouldn't.
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Week and Opinion Today
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) …
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, Washington Post and Deadline
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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Politico
Stuart Stevens / Washington Post:
Elections have consequences.  We're now living with them.  —  Stuart Stevens is a writer and Republican political consultant who has advised a pro-Bill Weld super PAC in the 2020 election.  His book about the Republican Party, “It Was All A Lie,” will be published next month.  —  Don't just blame President Trump.
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.
Discussion: Slate, Daily Kos and The Hill
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 …
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?
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Presidential race now leans toward the Democrats  —  Democrats' coalescing around Biden shifts race away from Trump  —  ANALYSIS — More than 14 months ago, I wrote a column in this space suggesting that the 2020 presidential contest was a toss-up, but one that tilted toward the Democrats.
Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
The Coronavirus Is Conspiracy Theory Gold For QAnon  —  The fact that these folks are among Trump's most avid supporters tells you all you need to know about him.  —  By now, most of us have heard about QAnon, the group of conspiracy theorists that formed soon after Donald Trump was elected.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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.
 
 
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
The FBI Has Limited Public Records Requests During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Brandon Judd / Fox News:
Coronavirus pandemic requires US to adopt new policy to quickly deport illegal immigrants
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Michael Tanner / National Review:
Big Government Has Hurt Our Ability to Deal with This Crisis
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
China's coronavirus information warfare hydra
Discussion: UPI
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
DHS faces coronavirus with scores of vacancies and a leadership vacuum
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