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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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The Daily Caller, The Week, The Guardian, NBC News, The Hill, New York Post, Althouse, KLAS - 8 News Now and Politico
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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 …
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Raw Story, Breitbart, The Guardian and Power Line
Sofi Sinozich / ABC News:
Biden consolidates support, but trails badly in enthusiasm: Poll
Biden consolidates support, but trails badly in enthusiasm: Poll
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Balloon Juice
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Biden leads Trump in new polls despite coronavirus approval bounce
Biden leads Trump in new polls despite coronavirus approval bounce
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CNN, Blue Virginia and Mediaite
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 …
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.
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Steve Gruber, The Daily Caller, USA Today and Politico
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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 …
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Outside the Beltway, The Underground Bunker, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Monthly
Nicky Robertson / CNN:
Fauci says Trump agreed not to invoke a strict quarantine after intensive White House discussions — (CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that President Donald Trump decided not to impose a strict quarantine on parts of the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut after officials had …
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump struggles with tone in virus crisis, aides urge more empathy
Trump struggles with tone in virus crisis, aides urge more empathy
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POLITICUSUSA
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 …
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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Florida Politics, POLITICUSUSA and Associated Press, more at Mediagazer »
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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 …
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Politico, Washington Post, National Review and Twitchy
Axios:
Inside the start of the great virus airlift — A plane from Shanghai arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Sunday morning carrying an extraordinary load: 12 million gloves, 130,000 N-95 masks, 1.7 million surgical masks, 50,000 gowns, 130,000 hand sanitizer units, and 36,000 thermometers.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and New York Times
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.
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 …
David Cohen / Politico:
Pelosi: ‘As the president fiddles, people are dying’ — “As the president fiddles, people are dying,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday morning. — Speaking to host Jake Tapper on CNN's “State of the Union,” Pelosi said President Donald Trump has not taken the coronavirus crisis seriously enough …
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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 …
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.
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
‘Hard to know’ if imperfect stimulus bill will help everybody: Larry Kudlow — He faces criticism after claiming last month new coronavirus was “contained.” — National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow touted President Donald Trump's signing of “the biggest assistance package in history” …
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Adia Robinson / ABC News:
La. governor warns state's health care system could be overwhelmed by early April
La. governor warns state's health care system could be overwhelmed by early April
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Slate, The Hill, CBS New York and CBS Philly
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Fauci says coronavirus deaths in US could top 100,000 — WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's foremost infection disease expert says the United States could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. — Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking on CNN's …
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Erin Cunningham / Washington Post:
As coronavirus cases explode in Iran, U.S. sanctions hinder its access to drugs and medical equipment — ISTANBUL — Sweeping U.S. sanctions are hampering Iranian efforts to import medicine and other medical supplies to confront one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the world, health workers and sanctions experts say.
Matthias Gafni / San Francisco Chronicle:
Coronavirus: The state had 21 million N95 masks stockpiled. All are expired. — As the coronavirus pandemic slammed into California and doctors and nurses sounded the alarm on a dire shortage of masks, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the release of the state's emergency stockpile of 21 million N95 respirators.
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Coronavirus Disinformation Campaign Isn't Working: Poll — The president has presented an overly rosy picture about how the fight against the virus is going. A new poll suggests the public isn't buying it. — A clear majority of the American public, including self-identified Republicans …
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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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California Governor and The Hill
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Jon Passantino / CNN:
NRA sues California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials over gun store closures
NRA sues California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials over gun store closures
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The Hill and The Gateway Pundit