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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 …
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.
Washington Post:
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), head of powerful committee, sold large amount of stocks before sharp declines in market
Discussion: Raw Story
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).
Bloomberg:
Yes, Young People Are Falling Seriously Ill From Covid-19
Discussion: Daily Kos
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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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.
Discussion: The Hill
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.
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 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.
Discussion: The Points Guy
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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Sister Toldjah / Redstate:
Never Trumper Jen Rubin Tries a Gotcha on McConnell, but the WaPo Had to Issue an Embarrassing Correction
Politico:
Who wins in the Senate GOP's big bailout
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
The Hill:
House Democrats eyeing much broader Phase 3 stimulus
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 …
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 …
Discussion: ProPublica and Politico
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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” …
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.
Discussion: The Week
Washington Post:
Live updates: Trump cancels in-person G7 summit at Camp David; Confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. doubled in two days  —  Michael Brice-Saddler and Hannah Knowles  —  The Washington Post is providing this story for free so that all readers have access to this important information about the coronavirus.
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Trump to host June G-7 summit by teleconference, White House says
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 …
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 …
Discussion: CNN, Politico and IJR
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Hospitals sound alarm on funding for supplies to treat patients, protect workers
Discussion: Breitbart and New York Post
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump shrugs off responsibility for any hospital equipment shortages by saying it's up to states
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
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.
Discussion: Slate, Raw Story and The Independent
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 …
Discussion: TheBlaze
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Des Bieler / Washington Post:
Jeremy Lin rips Trump for ‘empowering’ racism with talk of ‘Chinese Virus’  —  President Trump said Wednesday that his use of the term “Chinese Virus” was “not racist at all.”  Among those who might strongly take issue with that assertion would be Jeremy Lin, given his criticism of the president on Tuesday.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Don't blame ‘China’ for the coronavirus — blame the Chinese Communist Party
Discussion: alicublog, Common Dreams and Breitbart
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 …
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 …
Discussion: National Review
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump's ‘Maximum Pressure’ Is Helping COVID-19 Ravage Iran
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GameStop Instructs Employees to Ignore Law Enforcement And Not Shut Down
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Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Coronavirus deniers and hoaxers persist despite dire warnings, claiming 'it's mass hysteria'
NBC News:
Trump nixed aggressive response to attacks by Iranian proxies because of coronavirus, officials say
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Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Coronavirus cases on Capitol Hill renew lawmakers' push for remote voting
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Joshua A. Douglas / Lexington Herald-Leader:
‘Perversion of democracy’ underway in Frankfort as lawmakers continue to meet amid pandemic
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Twitter Suspends Conservative Huckster Jack Burkman Over Coronavirus Disinfo
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