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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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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
This Is the Only Way to End the Coronavirus Financial Panic — Bailouts of companies or industries just cause division. The answer: a government “bridge loan” to everyone. — The Covid-19 crisis will take time to be solved by science. The economic crisis can be solved right now.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Era of Small Government Is Over — We're going to have to reach much deeper than stimulus and bailouts into the way we conduct business with each other. — To stop the spread of the coronavirus, state and local governments have shut down as much of communal life as possible.
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Jacobin, Breitbart, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
USA Today:
Trump invokes wartime authority of Defense Production Act to address coronavirus crisis - live updates — Courtney Subramanian John Fritze David JacksonUSA TODAY — WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump confirmed that he plans to invoke a provision that would allow him to prohibit certain people …
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Politico:
Senate to pass coronavirus package as Treasury proposes emergency checks starting April 6 — The Senate is expected to pass a multibillion-dollar emergency aid package on Wednesday, even as the Treasury Department continued work on a separate proposal that would include $250 billion in direct payments to Americans starting April 6.
Politico:
Republicans suddenly find a bailout they can back
Republicans suddenly find a bailout they can back
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The Hill, Reason, Bangor Daily News, Bloomberg, One America News Network and Daily Kos
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Bernie Sanders suspends his 2020 campaign Facebook ads — Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign currently has no active Facebook ads, the morning after another disappointing finish in a series of primary contests. — Why it matters: A pause in digital advertising spend on Facebook …
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IJR, Deadline, New York Post and Twitchy
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Sanders Campaign Is a Menace to Public Health
The Sanders Campaign Is a Menace to Public Health
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Althouse, The Bulwark Podcast, ABC News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and LGBTQ Nation
Ursula Perano / Axios:
CORRECTION: Bernie Sanders has not decided to suspend campaign
CORRECTION: Bernie Sanders has not decided to suspend campaign
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New York Post
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Focus on the Incompetence — The “Chinese Virus” is a test. Don't fail the test. — Staff writer at The Atlantic — Tests for COVID-19 are not yet widely available in this country, but a test for gullibility is now available on Twitter in the form of Donald Trump's feed.
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IJR, The Guardian and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Kurt Bardella / NBC News:
Trump's ‘Chinese Virus’ coronavirus tweets echo his Mexico insults — with similar results
Trump's ‘Chinese Virus’ coronavirus tweets echo his Mexico insults — with similar results
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Redstate, The Hill, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Kaiser Health News and The Week
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump on ‘Chinese virus’ label: 'It's not racist at all'
Trump on ‘Chinese virus’ label: 'It's not racist at all'
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BuzzFeed News, Bloomberg, The American Independent and Associated Press
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is frantically rewriting his epic failures. Don't let him. — In retrospect, it's now clear that when President Trump defiantly declared that “I don't take responsibility at all” for key aspects of his catastrophic response to the coronavirus, he meant it both seriously and literally.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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New York Times:
Trump Finally Enlists Much of Government in Coronavirus Attack
Trump Finally Enlists Much of Government in Coronavirus Attack
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Vanity Fair, Politico, New York Post, Defense One, The Week and USNI News
Alex Ward / Vox:
Exclusive: Sen. Warren to ask Trump to deploy Army Corps of Engineers for coronavirus help
Exclusive: Sen. Warren to ask Trump to deploy Army Corps of Engineers for coronavirus help
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IJR, Daily Kos and New York Post
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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The Federalist, HeraldScotland, Townhall, Commentary and The Daily Signal
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Michael Auslin / Real Clear Politics:
Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization
Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization
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Power Line, American Thinker and The American Independent
Yun Li / CNBC:
‘Hell is coming’ — Bill Ackman has dire warning for Trump, CEOs if drastic measures aren't taken now — Bill Ackman's plea to Trump to save US from the coronavirus's economic destruction — Bill Ackman urged President Donald Trump to shut down the country for 30 days to contain …
Marcus Weisgerber / Defense One:
US Air Force Flew Half a Million Coronavirus Test Kits From Italy to Tennessee — Similar missions to distribute COVID-19 test kits are expected in coming days. — The U.S. Air Force quietly flew 500,000 COVID-19 testing kits from Italy to Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday, Defense One has learned.
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Politico
Robert Brand / Bloomberg:
U.S. Stocks Plunge; Global Debt and Oil Tumble: Markets Wrap — Europe bonds sell off on fiscal risks; Treasuries stabilize — Dollar gains for seventh day; industrial metals, gold decline — Financial markets continued to spasm Wednesday, with U.S. stocks plunging toward levels …
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Wall Street Journal
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Wall Street Journal:
How Washington Failed to Build a Robust Coronavirus Testing System — Government decisions that limited testing for the pathogen blinded the U.S. to the outbreak's scale. Here's how it happened. — When cases of the new coronavirus began emerging several weeks ago in California …
New York Times:
There Aren't Enough Ventilators to Cope With the Coronavirus — The United States and other countries face a critical shortage of the lifesaving machines — and no easy way to lift production. — As the United States braces for an onslaught of coronavirus cases, hospitals and governments …
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Daily Kos
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
How To Get More Ventilators And What To Do If We Can't
How To Get More Ventilators And What To Do If We Can't
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Slate, Daily Mail and Financial Times
David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Coronavirus poses dreadful choice for global leaders: Wreck your economy or lose millions of lives — The coronavirus pandemic has confronted governments around the globe with the ultimate bad choice: Wreck your economy or lose millions of lives. — While some initially hesitated …
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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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Associated Press:
California preparing for worst case scenarios — In readying the National Guard for action, Gov. Gavin Newsom's office emphasized that it's for duties routinely performed during natural disasters and other emergencies. But Newsom grimly added that “we have the ability to do martial law ... if we feel the necessity.”
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Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Trump calls himself a ‘wartime president’ over coronavirus as he invokes Defense Production Act — President Trump on Wednesday announced that he is invoking the Defense Production Act as part of the administration's efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic — and also described himself as being a “wartime president.”
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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.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
William Weld, Trump's Last G.O.P. Challenger, Exits Presidential Race — The former governor of Massachusetts carried out a long-shot primary campaign focused on appealing to moderate Republicans. — WASHINGTON — A day after President Trump officially racked up enough delegates to become …
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 …
Ryan Prior / CNN:
Searching for love in the time of coronavirus — Angelo Di Gregorio sits on his bed FaceTiming with his new beau, from his room in Verona, Italy, on March 17. With social distancing, an hour's drive might as well be a continent away. — (CNN)Jenny, a 29-year-old woman in Seattle …
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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New York Post, The Verge, Washington Post, Minnesota Reformer, Mother Jones and ProPublica
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.
US Census / “News Releases …:
U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham on Operational Updates — As of this morning, more than eleven million households have responded. America is stepping up to shape our future and ensure families and communities are counted. — Beginning today, in support of guidance …
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Talking Points Memo and NPR
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes near Salt Lake City knocking out Utah's coronavirus hotline — The quake was reported shortly after 7 a.m. local time. — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, early Wednesday, knocking out the state's coronavirus hotline, according to the governor.
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Salt Lake Tribune and The Daily Caller
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 …
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New York Post
CNN:
West Virginia was the 50th state to report a coronavirus case. This may be the reason it took so long — Asymptomatic cases may be driving spread of coronavirus — (CNN)On the surface, West Virginia might have seemed immune to coronavirus. — While the other 49 states had reported …
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Office of the Governor, IJR, KTLA, The Hill, KLAS - 8 News Now, HuffPost and The Daily Beast
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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Washington Post:
There's a massive audience for coronavirus news right now. That might not help the news business. — In a typical week, ABC counts on shows like “The Bachelor” and “American Idol” to deliver its biggest ratings. — But the weeks are no longer typical. — With the coronavirus crisis beginning …
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The Big Picture
Washington Post:
Oil and gas companies want to drill within a half-mile of Utah's best-known national parks — The Interior Department has received over 230 nominations for oil and gas leases covering more than 150,000 acres across southern Utah, a push that would bring drilling as close as a half-mile …