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Staffers On Michael Bloomberg's Campaign Are Losing Their Jobs Despite His Promise Of A Yearlong Campaign — Staffers of former presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg are staring down the possibility of losing their jobs and their health care in the middle of an unprecedented global pandemic.
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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.
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Redstate
Washington Post:
Mike Bloomberg transfers his campaign assets to Democratic Party to fight President Trump in swing states
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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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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Nikki Schwab / Daily Mail:
Dianne Feinstein who sits on the Intelligence Committee which was also briefed on coronavirus, sold up to $6m in stock
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New York Times:
Senator Sold Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Stocks After Suggesting U.S. Was Prepared for Coronavirus
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW Files Ethics Complaints Against Burr and Loeffler
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Raw Story
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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's eruption at an NBC reporter says it all about his alternate reality on coronavirus — President Trump on Friday excoriated an NBC reporter for pressing him on whether he was being overly optimistic about the government's ability to deliver drugs to treat the coronavirus.
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Politico, Common Dreams, The Hill and Twitchy
Chicago Tribune:
Gov. J.B. Pritzker to issue lockdown order requiring residents ‘shelter in place’ starting Saturday, sources say — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker plans to issue a “shelter-in-place” order for the entire state starting Saturday, essentially commanding residents to stay in their homes as the officials …
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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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Kendall Karson / 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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Susan Shultz / Darien Times:
CANCELED: Town of Darien has canceled drive-through coronavirus testing — UPDATE: Darien's drive-through testing has been canceled, according to a tweet from First Selectman Jayme Stevenson. The testing was to start Thursday. Some neighbors expressed complaints with the location of testing so close to their home on social media.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The Best-Case Outcome for the Coronavirus, and the Worst — Will we endure 2.2 million deaths? Or will we manage to turn things around? — Here's the grimmest version of life a year from now: More than two million Americans have died from the new coronavirus, almost all mourned without funerals.
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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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New York Times and The Big Picture
esd.ny.gov:
GUIDANCE FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE IS SUBJECT TO A 75% WORKFORCE REDUCTION UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 202.6 — Requests by businesses to be designated an essential function as described below, should only be made if they are NOT covered by the following guidance. — BACKGROUND
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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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Instapundit and WCMH-TV
Abigail Abrams / TIME:
Total Cost of Her COVID-19 Treatment: $34,927.43 — When Danni Askini started feeling chest pain, shortness of breath and a migraine all at once on a Saturday in late February, she called the oncologist who had been treating her lymphoma. Her doctor thought she might be reacting poorly to a new medication …
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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Instapundit and Power Line
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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Raw Story
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Trump: Federal student loan borrowers can suspend payments for 60 days — President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will allow the nation's more than 42 million federal student loan borrowers to take a break from making their monthly payments, without incurring interest or penalties for at least the next two months.
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Exclusive: McConnell defends crafting $1 trillion stimulus plan without Democrats — Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday defended the Senate Republicans coming up with a proposed $1 trillion economic stimulus plan to battle the coronavirus without any input from Democrats …
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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.
New York Times:
The War on Coronavirus Comes to Trump Properties — Health restrictions have led to cutbacks at hotels and golf courses. But the swimming pool remains open at a Florida resort, and a New York golf course offers “fresh air” without caddies. — Reeling from the global fallout of the coronavirus pandemic …
Steven Levy / Wired:
The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming — Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need with lots more testing. — Larry Brilliant says he doesn't have a crystal ball.
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The Independent and Balloon Juice
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 …
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