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The Daily Beast:
Rodney Howard-Browne, Megachurch Pastor Who Flouted Virus Rules, Arrested — Rodney Howard-Browne has been an outspoken opponent of social distancing requirements, claiming his church has machines that can stop the coronavirus. — A controversial Florida pastor who refused …
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WNYW-TV:
Tampa megachurch pastor arrested after leading packed services despite ‘safer-at-home’ orders — Sheriff Chronister's full press conference — TAMPA, Fla. - The pastor of a Tampa megachurch is facing charges after refusing to close its doors despite a “safer at home” …
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FOX 13 Tampa Bay, Breitbart and Fox News
Tony Marrero / Tampa Bay Times:
Pastor of Tampa church that held two large Sunday services arrested, jailed — Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne of The River at Tampa Bay Church was booked into a local jail on Monday on charges of unlawful assembly and violating Hillsborough County's stay-at-home order. He posted bail 30 minutes later.
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Raw Story, New York Times, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Whole Foods Employees Are Staging a Nationwide ‘Sick-Out’ — Whole Foods employees are planning to strike on Tuesday to protest the lack of protections offered to workers during the coronavirus pandemic—the first national collective action led by workers at the company since it was founded in 1980.
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NPR, Raw Story, CNN, The Week, The Verge, Mashable, Slate, The United Food & … and Gig Workers Collective
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Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Northam to issue a stay-at-home order for Virginia — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam will order state residents to remain at home with some exceptions, as the state steps up its effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a source familiar with the order said. — Northam's order will allow people …
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Townhall and Blue Virginia
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Washington Post:
Live updates: D.C. mayor issues order telling Washingtonians to stay home, following directives in Maryland and Virginia
Live updates: D.C. mayor issues order telling Washingtonians to stay home, following directives in Maryland and Virginia
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NBC4 Washington and Mediaite
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Virginia governor issues stay-at-home order
Virginia governor issues stay-at-home order
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Townhall, Associated Press and The Week
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Virginia, Maryland among latest states to impose stay-at-home orders to stem coronavirus crisis
Virginia, Maryland among latest states to impose stay-at-home orders to stem coronavirus crisis
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Miami Herald and The Hill
Politico:
Congress eyes avoiding Washington for at least a month — After passing the largest economic relief bill in history, Congress is now considering staying away from Washington for a month or more as the coronavirus makes even the routine act of legislating a dangerous risk for new transmissions.
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One America News Network and The Hill
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Rep. Velazquez has presumed COVID-19 infection, was near Pelosi, other lawmakers last week
Rep. Velazquez has presumed COVID-19 infection, was near Pelosi, other lawmakers last week
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IJR
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Second Capitol Police officer tests positive for coronavirus
Second Capitol Police officer tests positive for coronavirus
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Roll Call, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — For Geoff Frost, the first sign of the coronavirus culture war came last weekend on the golf course.
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Woman Who Ingested Fish Tank Cleaner Is Prolific Donor to Democratic Causes — The Arizona woman who said that she and her 68-year-old husband ingested a substance used to clean fish tanks after hearing President Donald Trump tout chloroquine as a cure for the coronavirus has given thousands …
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Power Line, Twitchy, Big League Politics, WayneDupree.com, The American Mirror and Politico
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
President Trump's Prime-Time Pandemic — The coronavirus briefings have given Donald Trump a regularly scheduled reality show again — or, rather, a create-your-own-reality show. — “I've gotten to like this room,” President Trump said March 23 in the White House briefing room.
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CNN and Mother Jones, more at Mediagazer »
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Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders says he's staying in the presidential race. Many Democrats fear a reprise of their 2016 defeat. — Behind the growing fear among many Democrats that Sen. Bernie Sanders's continued presence in the presidential race could spell doom in November is the belief that they've seen it happen before — in the last campaign.
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The Hill, Vanity Fair, Outside the Beltway, NBC News and Mediaite
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says of N.Y. Gov. Cuomo: 'I wouldn't mind running against Andrew'
Trump says of N.Y. Gov. Cuomo: 'I wouldn't mind running against Andrew'
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The American Independent and Althouse
Naaman Zhou / The Guardian:
Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device — Australian Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after inserting magnets in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your face — An Australian astrophysicist has been admitted …
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Breitbart, Gizmodo, Fox News and New York Post
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
GOP Plows Forward on Plans to Kill Obamacare, Pandemic Be Damned — Despite the virus hitting their states, attorneys general say they aren't bending on the idea that the Affordable Care Act must go. — BEAST INSIDE — The worsening coronavirus outbreak may be stretching the limits …
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Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:
General Electric Workers Launch Protest, Demand to Make Ventilators — On Monday, General Electric factory workers launched two separate protests demanding that the company convert its jet engine factories to make ventilators. Workers protested at GE's Lynn, Massachusetts aviation facility held …
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The Independent, Slate, The Verge and Gothamist
TODAY.com:
Dr. Deborah Birx predicts up to 200,000 deaths ‘if we do things almost perfectly’ — Joining TODAY from Washington, the response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Deborah Birx, says, “We're very worried about every city in the United States” and that …
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Washington Monthly, NBC News, Washington Post, Progress Pond, The Week, National Review, NPR, Raw Story, Politico, IJR, CNN and The Hill
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Coronavirus job losses could total 47 million, unemployment rate may hit 32%, Fed estimates — The coronavirus economic freeze could cost 47 million jobs and send the unemployment rate past 32%, according to St. Louis Fed projections. — There are nearly 67 million Americans working …
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Talking Points Memo, NPR, The Gateway Pundit, The Week, Raw Story and Fortune
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Rural-state governors tell Trump they need tests and medical supplies, too — Several rural-state governors alerted President Trump on Monday that they are struggling to obtain urgently needed medical supplies and testing equipment, warning that despite the worsening coronavirus situation …
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Raw Story
Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Joe Biden turns podcaster from his social-isolation basement and uses his first edition to interview Obama's ebola tsar who is now an outspoken critic of Donald Trump's coronavirus plan — The president's approval ratings have ticked up, evan as public health experts blasted parts of the administration's response as slow
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NBC News:
First minor with coronavirus in New York City dies — Only a handful of deaths of people under 18 with coronavirus have been announced around the country. — The first death of a minor who tested positive for coronavirus in New York City was reported Monday, as the city's death toll rose to 790.
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TIME:
Is the U.S. ‘Flattening the Curve?’ Check Our Coronavirus Chart for Daily Updates — Every day, the number of Americans confirmed as infected by the virus that causes COVID-19 is higher than the day before. Such is the brutality of exponential growth: Not only does the raw number of COVID-19 cases grow …
New York Times:
Jobs Aren't Being Destroyed This Fast Elsewhere. Why Is That? — It's not too late to start protecting jobs or to make medical care for Covid-19 free. — The authors are economists at the University of California, Berkeley. — The coronavirus pandemic is laying bare structural deficiencies in America's social programs.
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Raw Story
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Hannity must go — Recent personnel actions at Fox just happen to have fallen when people turn away from their phones and laptops. On Friday, March 13, news emerged that the Fox Business show of Trish Regan had gone on hiatus — along with another show — as part of the network's resource shift toward the coronavirus.
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Raw Story and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
Kadia Goba / BuzzFeed News:
Six Siblings Said Goodbye To Their Mother Via Walkie-Talkie Before She Died Of The Coronavirus — The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today.
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
What Happens in November if One Side Doesn't Accept the Election Results? — The November 2020 presidential election won't be run perfectly—we have never had a perfect election conducted in this country or elsewhere—but the unique challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic add special stress …
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The Guardian
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. investigates at least one lawmaker's stock trades before coronavirus spike in U.S. — The Justice Department is investigating stock trades made by at least one member of Congress as the U.S. braced for the pandemic threat of coronavirus, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Richard Read / Los Angeles Times:
Choir practice turns fatal. Airborne coronavirus strongly suspected — With the coronavirus quickly spreading in Washington state in early March, leaders of the Skagit Valley Chorale debated whether to go ahead with weekly rehearsal. — The virus was already killing people in the Seattle area, about an hour's drive to the south.
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Daily Herald, New York Post and emptywheel
Ben Feuerherd / New York Post:
Crowds ignore social distancing rules to watch USNS Comfort — Crowds of gawkers ignored New York's social-distance regulations and packed the west side of Manhattan on Monday to watch a US Navy hospital ship arrive to give badly needed coronavirus aid. — The throngs of people stood shoulder …
New York Times:
They Can't Afford to Quarantine. So They Brave the Subway. — Subway use has plummeted in recent weeks, but in poorer areas of New York City, many people are still riding. — As the coronavirus pandemic has all but shut down New York City, its subway — an emblem of urban overcrowding — has become almost unrecognizable.
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Gothamist and New York Post
Michael Wayland / CNBC:
Ford, GE plan to produce 50,000 ventilators in 100 days — Ford Motor and GE Healthcare plan to produce 50,000 ventilators within the next 100 days at a facility in Michigan. — Production of the devices is expected to begin with 500 United Auto Workers union members the week of April 20.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump just comes out and says it: The GOP is hurt when it's easier to vote … President Trump on Monday morning became the latest in a procession of Republicans in recent years to say that making it easier for more people to vote would hurt his party politically.
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Law & Crime, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and Daily Kos
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
Nurses Die, Doctors Fall Sick and Panic Rises on Virus Front Lines — The pandemic has begun to sweep through New York City's medical ranks, and anxiety is growing among normally dispassionate medical professionals. — A supervisor urged surgeons at Columbia University Irving Medical Center …