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ProPublica:
Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — Soon after he offered public assurances …
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The Daily Beast:
Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing — The Georgia Republican is the second Senator who has gotten rid of their holdings right as the stock market went bad. — The Senate's newest member sold off seven figures worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks …
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Raw Story
Tim Mak / NPR:
Intelligence Chairman Raised Virus Alarms Weeks Ago, Secret Recording Shows — Toggle more options — The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned a small group of well-connected constituents three weeks ago to prepare for dire economic and societal effects of the coronavirus …
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Karl Evers-Hillstrom / OpenSecrets.org:
Senate Intel chair unloaded stocks in mid-February before coronavirus rocked markets — As the coronavirus outbreak began to spread across the U.S. in mid-February, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) unloaded his holdings in dozens of stocks that would lose much of their market value over the coming weeks.
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travel.state.gov:
Global Level 4 Health Advisory - Do Not Travel — Level 4: Do Not Travel — The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19. In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who live …
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Senate G.O.P. Plan Includes Large Corporate Tax Cuts — Los Angeles County told its 10 million residents to shelter in place. The Trump administration asked states to hold off on releasing grim data on unemployment claims. Italy's death toll surpassed China's.
Michelle Kaufman / Miami Herald:
American Airlines grounds 55,000 flights, offers voluntary leaves to employees — American Airlines is grounding 55,000 flights in April and is parking 450 planes — about half of its fleet — in response to decreased demand and travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times:
US drugmaker doubled price on potential coronavirus treatment — Therapy touted by President Trump made more expensive in January as China outbreak spread — The only US drugmaker that makes a potential treatment for the coronavirus that was touted by President Donald Trump raised the price …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump melts down and the media fails the public. Again. — This is not the first time I have warned that the media's inability to confront President Trump with his untruths, and to portray vividly and accurately the extent of his derangement and ignorance (e.g., his unhinged rant in the East Room following his impeachment acquittal).
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Anna Edney / Bloomberg:
Trump Touts Drug That FDA Says Isn't Yet Approved for Virus
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Redstate
Elaina Plott / New York Times:
Her Facebook Friends Asked If Anyone Was Actually Sick. She Had an Answer. — Heaven Frilot is normally a private person. But this is not a normal time. So she and her husband are now the face of the coronavirus for their conservative Louisiana community.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Acting counterterrorism center head fired, according to former U.S. officials — The acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center was fired Wednesday night in what insiders fear is a purge by the Trump administration of career professionals at an organization set up after 9/11 …
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New York Times:
‘At War With No Ammo’: Doctors Say Shortage of Protective Gear Is Dire — The lack of proper masks, gowns and eye gear is imperiling the ability of medical workers to fight the coronavirus — and putting their own lives at risk. — The Open Cities Community Health Center in St. Paul …
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Mariel Padilla / New York Times:
‘It Feels Like a War Zone’: Doctors and Nurses Plead for Masks on Social Media
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Washington Post, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times:
More than half of Californians could become infected with coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom says to Trump — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday asked Congress for $1 billion in federal funds to support the state's medical response to the novel coronavirus, which he expects will infect more than half of all Californians.
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Francesca Bacardi / Page Six:
Evangeline Lilly won't self-quarantine, values ‘freedom’ over her life — Evangeline Lilly is taking a stand against self-quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic. — The “Ant-Man and the Wasp” star, 40, posted a photo of her “morning tea” on Instagram and said it was “business as usual” …
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Washington Post:
Coronavirus will radically alter the U.S. — Here's what may lie ahead based on math models, hospital projections and past pandemics — When Jason Christie, chief of pulmonary medicine at Penn Medicine, got projections on how many coronavirus patients might soon be flocking to his Philadelphia hospital …
Associated Press:
Joe Biden, nominee-in-waiting. And waiting. And waiting. — WASHINGTON (AP) — In the three weeks since his blowout win in the South Carolina primary, Joe Biden has emerged as the Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting. But, amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, put the emphasis on waiting.
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Axios:
Tulsi Gabbard suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a former 2020 foe, backs Joe Biden for president
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New York Post and The Hill
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Three pillars of Trump's case for reelection are collapsing all at once — President Trump's reelection campaign was designed under the premise that the economy would be strong through November, but that's not true anymore. — Trump also planned to make socialism a central focus of his attacks.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Gov. Ron DeSantis Says Florida is Shutting Down For Spring Breakers: ‘The Party is Over’ — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced that he's putting an end to spring break revelry in his state with the coronavirus pandemic growing in the country. — In an interview on Thursday with Fox & Friends …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
‘Get off the beach’: Florida's governor under pressure as images of crowded beaches go viral
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Politico and New York Post
Shira Stein / Bloomberg Law:
Trump's 500 Million Respirators Could Take 18 Months to Deliver — Listen — The 500 million N95 air-filtering respirator masks President Donald Trump said the federal government ordered could take up to 18 months to be delivered, according to the grant application.
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Center for American Progress:
To Respond to the Coronavirus, Trump Should Take 6 Immediate Steps on the Defense Production Act — This week, President Donald Trump announced that he was invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) to leverage domestic private industry to generate much-needed medical equipment and supplies …
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New York Times:
Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded — Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus. But little was done. — WASHINGTON — The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China …
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
McConnell's coronavirus stimulus plan would provide payments of $1,200 per person, $2,400 for couples — Saying lawmakers “need to take bold and swift action as soon as possible,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday introduced legislation to provide as much as $1,200 per person …
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Politico, NBC News, Fox Business, National Review and The Hill
Donal MacNamee / The University Times:
Open-Access JSTOR Materials Accessible to the Public — Editor's Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly implied that JSTOR had made its database accessible to the public for the first time. In fact, only certain materials from its database are available to the public, and this has been the case for some time.
Washington Post:
The inside story of the CPAC scare: When the coronavirus passed within a handshake of the president, no public health agency took charge — The New Jersey doctor with flu-like symptoms had quickly become the patient. With a laboratory-confirmed case of covid-19, he was whisked away …
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National Review
JM Rieger / Washington Post:
Sean Hannity denied calling coronavirus a hoax nine days after he called coronavirus a hoax — When Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, he stressed the importance of Americans taking the coronavirus outbreak seriously.
Axios:
96% of small business owners are already feeling coronavirus impact — More than half of U.S. small business owners say their business will not be able to continue operating more than three months due to economic strain caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Goldman Sachs survey …
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Raw Story
Josef Federman / Associated Press:
Israelis accuse Netanyahu of exploiting virus to keep power — JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel appeared to be barreling toward a constitutional crisis Thursday as opponents took to the streets and turned to the Supreme Court to fight a series of unprecedented steps taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …
Patrick Klepek / VICE:
GameStop Instructs Employees to Ignore Law Enforcement And Not Shut Down — GameStop has informed employees that if local authorities attempt to shut down their store in states with orders to close establishments deemed “non-essential,” they are to inform law enforcement that the company believes …
The Hill:
House Democrats eyeing much broader Phase 3 stimulus — House Democrats are indicating they want to go bigger and broader than the already-massive economic stimulus package offered by Senate Republicans to blunt the coronavirus pandemic. — On a Thursday conference call featuring …
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POLITICUSUSA, Just The News and NBC News
Associated Press:
Brazil's Bolsonaro strives to regain leadership amid virus — RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After questioning the seriousness of COVID-19, defying his own health ministry's recommendations and denouncing a “certain hysteria,” Brazil's president is now projecting himself as leading the nation's response …
Ramona Shelburne / ESPN:
How the NBA moved so quickly on coronavirus testing — THE FIRST REPORTS started landing in NBA commissioner Adam Silver's inbox at about the same time he was writing the eulogy for his mentor, David Stern. — It was mid-January, and news of the coronavirus in China …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Don't blame ‘China’ for the coronavirus — blame the Chinese Communist Party — It's crucial for our health and safety that the United States push back against the Chinese government's efforts to rewrite the history of the coronavirus pandemic. It's also crucial we don't fuel racism …
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Common Dreams, Mother Jones and alicublog
Fran Marion / New York Times:
‘If I Caught the Coronavirus, Would You Want Me Making Your Next Meal?’ — The government's relief bill doesn't cover many McDonald's workers. It's time for the company to step up. — I've worked at McDonald's for over 10 years. I'm that face that you see that serves you your hash browns …
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