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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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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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Politico:
State Department warns Americans: Don't travel abroad, come home if overseas — The State Department on Thursday issued an extraordinary advisory urging Americans not to travel overseas, to return to the United States if they can, or to otherwise shelter in place, a move that comes amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
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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 …
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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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.
Axios:
Tulsi Gabbard suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden — Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that she will suspend her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign and endorsed Joe Biden. — The state of play: While she was one of the final three candidates left in the race …
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Cornelia Griggs / New York Times:
A New York Doctor's Coronavirus Warning: The Sky Is Falling — Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before. But this is different. — Dr. Griggs is a pediatric surgery fellow. — I've had hard conversations this week. “Look me in the eye,” I said to my neighbor Karen …
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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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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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 …
Dan Cobb / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Ga. lawmakers urged to self-quarantine after senator's positive coronavirus test — AJC AT THE GOLD DOME: CORONAVIRUS March 18, 2020 — 'I'm shaking with rage' — All of Georgia's state lawmakers were urged Wednesday to self-isolate themselves for weeks after a state senator who participated …
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Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 2 — The matriarch of the large New Jersey family, herself sick with the virus, “doesn't realize her two oldest children have passed.” — Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday …
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New York Times:
Mnuchin Proposes $1,000 Checks in $1 Trillion Stabilization Plan — Senate Republicans were hoping to unveil draft legislation that would constitute a third phase of a government rescue package as early as Thursday. — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday …
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NBC News:
The era of small government is over, for now
The era of small government is over, for now
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Donal MacNamee / The University Times:
Open-Access JSTOR Database Accessible to the Public — Online academic resource JSTOR has announced much of its database is accessible to the public, amid the widespread closure of universities across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic. — The database, frequently used …
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Timeline: The early days of China's coronavirus outbreak and cover-up — Axios has compiled a timeline of the earliest weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in China, highlighting when the cover-up started and ended — and showing how, during that time, the virus already started spreading around the world, including to the United States.
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Zac Davis / americamagazine.org:
Washington Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib will not seek re-election in order to join the Jesuits — Cyrus Habib, the lieutenant governor of Washington, will not seek re-election and is entering the Society of Jesus this fall, the lieutenant governor and the Society of Jesus confirmed to America on March 19.
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Cyrus Habib / americamagazine.org:
Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib: Why I am giving up elected office and joining the Jesuits
Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib: Why I am giving up elected office and joining the Jesuits
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's China Hawk Is Trying to Commandeer the Coronavirus Stimulus and Others in the White House Are Alarmed — A draft executive order obtained by The Daily Beast shows that Navarro has his sights on a massive disruption of the medical-supply chain to make it more America-centric.
Washington Post:
VIPs go to the head of the line for coronavirus tests — Dozens of NBA players have gotten tests while many other Americans wait for diagnoses. — For 11 days, Luke Janka, an educator from Brooklyn, went from doctor to doctor to emergency room, pleading for a coronavirus test.
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Justin Fox / Yahoo News:
No, We're Not All Going to Have to Stay Home for 18 Months — (Bloomberg Opinion) — Remember a week and a half ago when CNBC's Rick Santelli said that “maybe we'd just be better off” if we just infected everybody with the coronavirus now? His reasoning: — Then in a month …
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
You Cheered as He Fucked Up. No Take Backs, Trumpists. — The virus doesn't follow him on Twitter. It does what it does, and exploits time and complacency in its human hosts. Trump gave it a six-week pass. — BEAST INSIDE — The cliché about authoritarian leaders being strong …
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
CDC, the top U.S. public health agency, is sidelined during coronavirus pandemic — As the United States enters a critical phase in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the country's leading public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appears to be on the sidelines …
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Rebecca Fishbein / Jezebel:
Help, I Think I'm In Love With Andrew Cuomo??? — My roommates moved out of my Brooklyn apartment just ahead of the pandemic, and their replacements haven't moved in yet. (At this point, they might not move in at all.) This means I haven't had much company in the last week …
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Shadi Hamid / The Atlantic:
China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World — The evidence of China's deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record. In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks …
Anna Edney / Bloomberg:
Trump Touts Drug That FDA Says Isn't Yet Approved for Virus — 'It's not going to kill anybody,' Trump says at White House — Research still examining safety, effectiveness of chloroquine — We're tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response.
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Associated Press:
How long will Americans be fighting the coronavirus? — WASHINGTON (AP) — In a matter of days, millions of Americans have seen their lives upended by measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. — Normally bustling streets are deserted as families hunker down in their homes.
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Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
A Coronavirus Recession Could Doom Trump's Reelection Chances — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The coronavirus public health crisis likely will lead to an economic downturn of unknown length and severity. — Historically, second-quarter GDP growth in the election year …
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Politico:
Trump wanted to bury Biden after the primary. Now he can't. — President Donald Trump's top political advisers in recent weeks envisioned unleashing a massive advertising campaign against Joe Biden to define him for the general election before he had a chance to recover from the primary.
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Washington Post:
As layoffs skyrocket, America's unemployment safety net is underprepared to help many in need — Laid off workers are struggling to apply for unemployment aid as government websites crash and phone lines have hours-long waits — American workers are getting laid off at an unprecedented pace …
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Unsanitized: Private Equity Licks Its Chops — Plus Medicare for All (who have coronavirus), and voting remotely in Congress. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for March 19, 2020. — Private equity targets include health care and “security.” — First Response
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Twitter Suspends Conservative Huckster Jack Burkman Over Coronavirus Disinfo — SMEAR MERCHANT — Twitter suspended prolific smear merchant Jack Burkman on Thursday afternoon, after the blundering conservative operative sent tweets that threatened to incite a panic about coronavirus-related food shortages.
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New York Times:
The Staggering Rise in Jobless Claims This Week — Note: Official figures are seasonally adjusted. This week's claims are not seasonally adjusted and represent a third of total national employment. Source: Department of Labor, state level reporting. — Numbers released on Thursday …
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Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Disinformation and blame: how America's far right is capitalizing on coronavirus — The pandemic, a situation in which people are panic-buying supplies, is ideal for a movement powered by fear and lies — The far right in America has received the coronavirus pandemic in much the same manner …
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
Exclusive: Amazon Confirms First Known Coronavirus Case in an American Warehouse — Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Queens, New York, received a text Wednesday evening that they long feared might come: “We're writing to let you know that a positive case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) was found at our facility today.”
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