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Washington Post:
White House coronavirus plan aims to send $2,000 to many Americans, includes $300 billion for small businesses — Talks remain fluid, but discussions with Congress are intensifying as virus fallout worsens — White House officials are working with congressional Republicans …
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Politico:
Republicans suddenly find a bailout they can back
Republicans suddenly find a bailout they can back
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Manu Raju / CNN:
GOP senators close to agreement among themselves on coronavirus stimulus package
GOP senators close to agreement among themselves on coronavirus stimulus package
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The Week
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Sanders Campaign Is a Menace to Public Health — Bernie Sanders can't beat Joe Biden. But he can force millions of people to risk being exposed to the coronavirus. — On Tuesday night Bernie Sanders lost three more states, all of them large. In Arizona he was on track to lose by double-digits.
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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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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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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.
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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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William Booth / Washington Post:
A chilling scientific paper helped upend U.S. and U.K. coronavirus strategies — LONDON — Immediately after Boris Johnson completed his Monday evening news conference, which saw a somber prime minister encourage his fellow citizens to avoid “all nonessential contact with others,” …
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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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Kate Bennett / CNN:
White House postpones state dinner for Spanish royals
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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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 …
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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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Raw Story
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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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Antonia Farzan / Washington Post:
‘NOT TRUE’: Oprah Winfrey debunks bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory spreading across the Internet — Late Tuesday night, as results trickled in from Democratic primary elections and the number of people infected by the novel coronavirus continued to climb, Oprah Winfrey's name began trending on Twitter.
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Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
The Coronavirus Is Conspiracy Theory Gold For QAnon
The Coronavirus Is Conspiracy Theory Gold For QAnon
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Raw Story
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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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.
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Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Presidential race now leans toward the Democrats — 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. I offered caveats about the economy and the Democratic nomination …
Stuart Stevens / Washington Post:
Republicans like me built this moment. Then we looked the other way. — 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.
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
DHS inspector general's office nearly dormant under Trump as reports and audits plummet — The Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog division has been so weakened under the Trump administration that it is failing to provide basic oversight of the government's third-largest federal agency …
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
DHS faces coronavirus with scores of vacancies and a leadership vacuum
Thomas M. Burton / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Sought to Expand Virus Drug Tests Over FDA Objections — Plan would have expanded use of investigational drugs for coronavirus; FDA officials said plan would pose risks to patients — WASHINGTON—The White House considered issuing an executive order greatly expanding the use …
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 …
Rebecca Burns / The Intercept:
Illinois Used Nearly 50 Facilities for Low-Income Seniors in Chicago as Polling Locations on Tuesday — In order to push forward with in-person elections on Tuesday, local election officials across Illinois relocated hundreds of polling locations due to concerns about exposing particularly …
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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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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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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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Washington Monthly and The US Sun
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.
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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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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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.
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