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10:40 AM ET, March 29, 2020

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Washington Post:
Post-ABC poll shows Trump and Biden in a competitive race for the White House  —  President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are in a tightly competitive race for the White House in the November general election, with the president gaining ground on his likely challenger over the past month …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Biden leads Trump in new polls despite coronavirus approval bounce  —  Three polls released over the last week show Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump among voters nationwide, despite the uptick in Trump's approval rating as his administration confronts the coronavirus outbreak engulfing the U.S.
Discussion: CNN, Blue Virginia and Mediaite
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump camp targets Obama's Ebola czar  —  Joe Biden has had limited success with his live-from-Wilmington coronavirus briefings.  His longtime adviser, Ron Klain, is a different story.  —  The nation's former Ebola czar recently cut a video for the Biden campaign making an animated case …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Guardian and Power Line
Sofi Sinozich / ABC News:
Biden consolidates support, but trails badly in enthusiasm: Poll
Discussion: Balloon Juice
David Smiley / Miami Herald:
Florida governor blocks Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times from coronavirus press conference  —  A reporter for the state capital bureau operated jointly by two of Florida's largest newspapers was denied access Saturday to a press conference by Gov. Ron DeSantis detailing the state's latest efforts …
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   BUSTED: Florida's GOP governor illegally denied Miami Herald access to coronavirus briefing
Washington Post:
Desperate for medical equipment, states encounter a beleaguered national stockpile  —  On Feb. 5, with fewer than a dozen confirmed novel coronavirus cases in the United States but tens of thousands around the globe, a shouting match broke out in the White House Situation Room between Health …
New York Times:
The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators.  The Mission Failed.  —  As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America's acute shortage.  —  Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded …
Kelly Mena / CNN:
Cuomo on possible New York quarantine: 'I don't think it's legal' and it would be a ‘federal declaration of war’  —  Washington, DC (CNN)New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday in an interview with CNN that he didn't believe a possible New York quarantine was legal and that it would be a …
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CNN:
CDC issues travel advisory for New York, New Jersey, Connecticut
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump considering ‘enforceable quarantine’ for N.Y., N. J. and parts of Connecticut
Mitch Albom / Detroit Free Press:
Hey, President Trump: Her name is Gretchen Whitmer  —  First of all, she has a name.  Gretchen Whitmer.  She is not “the woman” or “all she does is sit there” or “you know who I'm talking about” — all phrases President Donald Trump has used besides saying the actual name of the person Michigan voters elected to govern us.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Politico
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Eric Bradner / CNN:   ‘That governor is me’: Gretchen Whitmer takes on Trump as coronavirus cases rise in Michigan
Kathleen McGrory / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida coronavirus cases are growing fast.  Here's what that means.  —  Experts say the epidemic in Florida is already past the point of easy containment. … •  •  •  —  The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Florida is doubling every three days …
American Enterprise Institute - AEI:
National coronavirus response: A road map to reopening  — This report provides a road map for navigating through the current COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.  It outlines specific directions for adapting our public-health approach away from sweeping mitigation strategies as we limit …
Discussion: National Review
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
‘Anything good I could say about this would be a lie.’ … She's dead, and I'm quarantined.  That's how the story ends.  I keep going back over it in loops, trying to find a way to sweeten it, but nothing changes the facts.  I wasn't there with her at the end.  I didn't get to say goodbye.
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
N.Y.C.'s 911 System Is Overwhelmed.  'I'm Terrified,' a Paramedic Says.  —  With coronavirus cases mounting, emergency workers are making life-or-death decisions about who goes to a hospital, and who is left behind.  —  The first of many calls that night involved a 24-year-old man who had a fever …
David Lat:
I don't want to be presumptuous, since my condition is stable but still serious.  I require 24/7 oxygen, I need a nurse's help for even the simplest tasks, and I only just now progressed to solid foods.  So I'm not out of the proverbial woods yet.  A number of patients released from the hospital …
Politico:
Inside the White House during ‘15 Days to Slow the Spread’  —  An eerie quiet crept over the White House.  —  Desks were empty.  Office lights were turned off.  Many staffers had been told to work from home.  The bustling Navy Mess was closed, and the usual stream of visitors rushing …
Discussion: Raw Story
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Pelosi on Trump's coronavirus response: ‘As the President fiddles, people are dying’  —  Washington (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying “his denial at the beginning was deadly” and that as he “fiddles, people are dying.”
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David Cohen / Politico:   Pelosi: ‘As the president fiddles, people are dying’
National Geographic:
How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic  —  Social distancing isn't a new idea—it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic.  Here's how it worked.
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ News Exclusive |  Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic  —  Government officials across the U.S. are using location data from millions of cellphones in a bid to better understand the movements of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic and how they may be affecting the spread of the disease.
DW.COM:
German state finance minister Thomas Schäfer found dead  —  Police suspect Thomas Schäfer died by suicide after his body was found on train tracks near Wiesbaden.  He was the finance minister for the state of Hesse, where Germany's financial center Frankfurt lies.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Jared Kushner is demanding his tenants keep paying rent — while asking for leniency from his creditors: WaPo reporter  —  On MSNBC Saturday, Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold revealed the disconnect between what President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is demanding of his tenants …
Discussion: New York Daily News
Elie Levine / WBUR:
Secretary Of Interior Orders Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation ‘Disestablished,’ Tribe Says  —  The Bureau of Indian Affairs told the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe on Friday that their reservation will be “disestablished” and their land taken out of trust, per an order from the Secretary …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
AMI Tabloids, Including National Enquirer, ‘on a Ventilator’ After Pecker Enforces Brutal Staff Pay Cut  —  David Pecker sent a memo to staff on Saturday, claiming coronavirus was the reason for slashing their pay by 23 percent.  —  Supermarket tabloid king and longtime Donald Trump acolyte David Pecker …
Washington Post:
Live updates: Pence to bring recommendations to Trump on when to reopen the U.S. economy; Japan's coronavirus cases accelerate  —  The Washington Post is providing this story for free so that all readers have access to this important information about the coronavirus.
Discussion: Scroll.in
Suzanne Smalley / Yahoo News:
Senator says White House turned down emergency coronavirus funding in early February  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, says that Trump administration officials declined an offer of early congressional funding assistance that he and other senators made on Feb. 5 during a meeting to discuss the coronavirus.
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Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times:
Coronavirus patients in California's ICU beds double overnight  —  The number of coronavirus patients in California's intensive care unit beds doubled overnight, rising from 200 on Friday to 410 on Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.  —  The number of hospitalized patients testing positive …
 
 
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Fauci warns U.S. could see some 100,000 deaths
Ezekiel J. Emanuel / New York Times:
We Can Safely Restart the Economy in June. Here's How.
Discussion: Althouse
Washington Post:
After $25 million stimulus, stunned NSO players receive one-week notice from Kennedy Center
Associated Press:
‘Off the charts’: Virus hot spots grow in middle America
Discussion: Michigan Advance
Anya van Wagtendonk / Vox:
Trump says he won't comply with key transparency measures in the coronavirus stimulus bill
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Infant dies after testing positive for coronavirus in Chicago
Discussion: LiveScience and The Independent
Tim Prudente / Baltimore Sun:
Coronavirus outbreak infects 66 at Carroll County nursing home, Maryland governor says
Hyung-jin Kim / Associated Press:
North Korea fires missiles into sea, criticized by South
 Earlier Items: 
Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
More than 700 New Jersey police officers test positive for the coronavirus
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
A Conversation With Pete Buttigieg, Who's Stuck at Home Like Everyone Else
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Tom Coburn, the ‘Dr. No’ of Congress, Is Dead at 72
Discussion: Vox and Washington Post
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
CNN criticized after graphic wrongly states Trump was ‘incorrect’ about US virus testing claim
Miami Herald:
Longtime Jackson Memorial ICU nurse dies after novel coronavirus infection
New York Times:
Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right
Discussion: Raw Story and Vox
 

 
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Variety:
AMC Networks acquires full control of BBC America, after BBC Studios sold its remaining 50.1% interest in the channel to AMC Networks for $42M in cash

Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
News Corp's HarperCollins reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $546M, led by a 15% YoY gain in digital sales; JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy led titles with ~1.5M copies

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
CNN must face Project Veritas' defamation lawsuit after a federal appeals court finds that Project Veritas plausibly alleged that CNN acted with actual malice

 
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