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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 …
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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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
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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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
Washington Post:
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), head of powerful committee, sold large amount of stocks before sharp declines in market
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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Twitchy, Political Flare, The Week and The US Sun
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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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The Hill
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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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.
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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NBC News, Fox Business, National Review and The Hill
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 …
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
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, Rolling Stone, The Hill, The Daily Caller and The Drive
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.
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The Week
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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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Political Flare and POLITICUSUSA
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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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.
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 …
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 …
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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Slate, Raw Story and The Independent
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.
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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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Daily Beast, Daily Kos and IJR
Dan Merica / CNN:
‘Get off the beach’: Florida's governor under pressure as images of crowded beaches go viral — Sen. Rick Scott to spring breakers: What are you thinking? — (CNN)The golden sands along Florida's coasts have long been one of the state's greatest resources, helping Republican …
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Politico and New York Post
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Gov. Ron DeSantis Says Florida is Shutting Down For Spring Breakers: ‘The Party is Over’
Gov. Ron DeSantis Says Florida is Shutting Down For Spring Breakers: ‘The Party is Over’
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TheBlaze
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
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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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
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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The National Interest
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 …