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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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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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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Republican Jim Inhofe dumped up to $450,000 in stock — the fourth GOP senator implicated in scandal: report … Third GOP Senator caught dumping stock before the market crash — this time up to $25 million worth
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Political Flare
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Perdue, Loeffler among senators whose stock trading during coronavirus raises questions — Georgia's two U.S. senators bought and sold stocks during the same time they were receiving briefings on the coronavirus outbreak, leading to questions about whether they used inside information to guide their financial dealings.
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Raw Story, Outside the Beltway, Fox News and The Rooster
New York Times:
Senator Sold Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Stocks After Suggesting U.S. Was Prepared for Coronavirus
Senator Sold Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Stocks After Suggesting U.S. Was Prepared for Coronavirus
Karl Evers-Hillstrom / OpenSecrets.org:
Senate Intel chair unloaded stocks in mid-February before coronavirus rocked markets
Senate Intel chair unloaded stocks in mid-February before coronavirus rocked markets
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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.
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Sarah Chaney / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Asks States to Keep Quiet About Jobless Figures — Coronavirus crisis spurs a spike in unemployment claims as industries are forced to shut down — The Trump administration asked states to abstain from releasing unemployment-claims figures prior to the publication …
New York Times:
California Governor Orders All Residents to Stay Home — The Trump administration asked states to hold off on releasing grim data on unemployment claims, and Italy's death toll surpassed China's. … Staying at home “is not a permanent state,” California's governor says.
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Jobless Claims Mount as Employers and Workers Face Bleak Outlook
Jobless Claims Mount as Employers and Workers Face Bleak Outlook
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POLITICUSUSA and Political Flare
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Newsom orders all 40M Californians to stay home in nation's strictest lockdown — BERKELEY — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered California's nearly 40 million residents to stay home, making it the first state to impose that strict mandate on all residents to counteract a looming surge of new infections.
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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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CNBC:
California governor issues statewide order to ‘stay at home’ effective Thursday evening — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued a statewide order for all residents to ‘stay at home’ amid a coronavirus outbreak. — The stay home order is in place till further notice.
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Politico:
Who wins in the Senate GOP's big bailout — The $1 trillion proposal Senate Republicans unveiled Thursday night represents one of the most dramatic bailouts in American history, picking winners and losers during one of the worst economic crises in decades. — Airlines, financial markets …
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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
McConnell's coronavirus stimulus plan would provide payments of $1,200 per person, $2,400 for couples
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Sister Toldjah / Redstate:
Never Trumper Jen Rubin Tries a Gotcha on McConnell, but the WaPo Had to Issue an Embarrassing Correction
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Exclusive: McConnell defends crafting $1 trillion stimulus plan without Democrats
Exclusive: McConnell defends crafting $1 trillion stimulus plan without Democrats
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Political Wire, The Hill and UPI
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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Wall Street Journal:
Rethinking the Coronavirus Shutdown — No society can safeguard public health for long at the cost of its economic health. — By The Editorial Board — Financial markets paused their slide Thursday, but no one should think this rolling economic calamity is over.
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Power Line
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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ProPublica and Politico
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Mariel Padilla / New York Times:
‘It Feels Like a War Zone’: Doctors and Nurses Plead for Masks on Social Media
‘It Feels Like a War Zone’: Doctors and Nurses Plead for Masks on Social Media
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Kennebec Journal …, The Hill and Rolling Stone
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
We Need Time to Absorb All This — Everyone is thinking through the reality of the coronavirus pandemic and how to rise to the occasion. — This is a quick piece that touches on where we are, where we may be going, and an attitude for the journey. — The screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan once …
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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Michelle Kaufman / Miami Herald:
American Airlines grounds 55,000 flights, offers voluntary leaves to employees
American Airlines grounds 55,000 flights, offers voluntary leaves to employees
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The Points Guy
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Coronavirus and Poverty: A Mother Skips Meals So Her Children Can Eat — Americans with tight financial resources have fewer options as they navigate coronavirus closures and layoffs. — BRENHAM, Texas — With her six hungry children in the car, Summer Mossbarger was one of the first in line for lunch at the drive-through.
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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Tomas Pueyo:
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance — What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time … Summary of the article: Strong coronavirus measures today should only take a few weeks, there wouldn't be a peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society …
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Coronavirus upends nation as three in four Americans' lives changed by pandemic: POLL — A new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows a far different portrait of a country. — As a deepening public health crisis rocks the nation, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday shows a far different portrait …
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Politico
New York Times:
Under the Virus's Cloak, Trump Pursues Long-Sought Policies — From border controls to anti-union efforts, the Trump administration is using the coronavirus to seek policies that the president wanted before the pandemic. — WASHINGTON — The White House, under the guise of its coronavirus response …
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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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Red and Blue America Aren't Experiencing the Same Pandemic — Even a disease as far-reaching as the coronavirus hasn't entirely crossed the chasm between red and blue America. — In several key respects, the outbreak's early stages are unfolding very differently in Republican- and Democratic-leaning parts of the country.
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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 …
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
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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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump's new public health ‘star’ — After being sidelined for much of the Trump administration, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has suddenly emerged as a key player in its messaging about the coronavirus outbreak, often echoing the president's arguments and winning his favor.
Teva USA:
Teva to Donate Potential COVID-19 Treatment, Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Tablets to Hospitals Nationwide — Teva will donate 6 Million tablets through wholesalers to hospitals by March 31, and more than 10 Million within a month — TEL AVIV, Israel & PARSIPPANY, N.J.—(BUSINESS WIRE) …