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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Three big takeaways from the stunning GOP stock-selling revelations — We already know President Trump spent weeks misleading the country by playing down the potential impact of the coronavirus, at a time when many officials in his government surely knew what a dire threat it posed …
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The Daily Caller, Mediaite, The Week and Fox News
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Perdue, Loeffler among senators whose stock trading during coronavirus raises questions
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National Review, New York Times, Politico, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Outside the Beltway, Raw Story, wabe.org, The Gateway Pundit and The Week
Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
NBC News employee dies after testing positive for coronavirus — Larry Edgeworth “was the guy you wanted by your side no matter where you were,” NBC News Chairman Andy Lack wrote to staff members. — A longtime employee of NBC News died Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus …
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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 …
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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.
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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Washington Post:
Mike Bloomberg transfers his campaign assets to Democratic Party to fight President Trump in swing states — Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg has decided to donate significant componentsof his shuttered presidential campaign to the Democratic Party, a historic bequest that includes …
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Politico, Associated Press and The Hill
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Bloomberg campaign transfers $18 million to DNC — (CNN)Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign transferred $18 million to the Democratic National Committee on Friday, turning to the committee to fund and manage the effort to take down President Donald Trump instead of creating a Bloomberg-backed independent expenditure.
NBC News:
Bloomberg gives $18 million to DNC in lieu of starting his own group to beat Trump — WASHINGTON — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is transferring $18 million left in the accounts of his now-defunct presidential campaign to the Democratic National Committee and forgoing …
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National Review
Kansas City Star:
Kansas official: Pandemic isn't a problem here because there are few Chinese people — BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR EDITORIAL BOARD — The chairman of the Riley County Commissioners suggested this week that the global coronavirus pandemic is not a problem locally because unlike in Italy …
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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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Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Government response updates: Trump moving Tax Day to July 15, says Mnuchin — At least 200 people have died in the U.S. of COVID-19. — The Trump administration on Friday took another big step to ease the economic hardships on Americans amid the coronavirus crisis.
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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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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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Molly Jong-Fast / The Bulwark:
Who Can Trump Blame for the Pandemic? — Can Trump really propaganda his way out of this catastrophe? — The pandemic that Donald Trump has been denying pretty much on the regular since January is no longer possible to deny, what with the thousands of dead Italians and the virus multiplying every …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Of Course Trump Deserves Blame for the Coronavirus Crisis
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Just Security, AIER, Bulletin of the Atomic … and Washington Post
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
3 Rules for the Trump Pandemic
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National Review and Outside the Beltway
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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National Review, Outside the Beltway and The Hill
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Today we are switching our coverage of Donald Trump to an emergency setting — “This means our journalism will work in a different way, as we try to prevent the President from misinforming you through us.” — Even this far into his term, it is still a bit of a shock to be reminded …
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The Atlantic, Balloon Juice and The National Interest
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Michael Donnelly:
COVID-19: NYC should brace for impact and shut down now. — Five days ago I wrote this medium post (COVID-19: New York Will Be The Next Italy, But Doesn't Have to Be). In it, I forecast that NYC's hospitals would be at capacity as early as March 30. Unfortunately, I was wrong.
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 …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's Cult of Personality Did This — The president of the United States is a menace to public health. — I don't mean that I disagree with him on policy, although I do. I don't mean that I abhor the president's expressed bigotry toward religious and ethnic minorities, although that is also true.
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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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The Week, US Food and Drug … and CNN
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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.
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 …
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Raw Story, Associated Press and Kaiser Health News
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Extends Individual Tax Filing Deadline to July 15 — WASHINGTON—The U.S. will extend the individual tax filing deadline until July 15, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Twitter. — The Internal Revenue Service earlier this week deferred the payment deadline for most people until July 15 …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Fauci predicts Americans will likely need to stay home for at least several more weeks — “I cannot see that all of a sudden, next week or two weeks from now it's going to be over. I don't think there's a chance of that,” he said. — WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci …
Jon Meacham / New York Times:
We Can't Let Coronavirus Postpone Elections — Even in war, America has kept up its democratic traditions. We can't stop now. — Mr. Meacham is the author, most recently, of “The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross.” — Darkness reigned.
Martin Vassolo / Miami Herald:
Thousands partied at this Miami Beach festival. Nine tested positive for coronavirus — A cluster of positive coronavirus cases has been linked to an LGBTQ festival that took place on Miami Beach in early March, at a time when concerns over the virus had not yet led to mass cancellations and the upending of ordinary life.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Vindicates Capitalism — Drug companies will save lives, even as Bernie Sanders is denouncing them. — The left is never apt to let a serious crisis go to waste, as we see with its daily use of the coronavirus pandemic to bash the Republican administration.
Joe Sonka / Courier-Journal:
Voter photo ID bill passes Kentucky legislature, heads to Gov. Beshear's desk — An amended bill requiring voters to present photo identification to vote is heading to the governor's desk for his signature or veto. — Kentucky voters are currently required to present identification …
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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