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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 of Tampa church that held two large Sunday services arrested, jailed
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, New York Times, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
Justin Schecker / WFLA-TV:
Tampa Bay pastor bonds out of jail after arrest for violating ‘safer-at-home’ order amid coronavirus pandemic
Tampa Bay pastor bonds out of jail after arrest for violating ‘safer-at-home’ order amid coronavirus pandemic
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The Gateway Pundit, IJR and WCMH-TV
New York Times:
Pelosi Floats New Stimulus Plan: Rolling Back SALT Cap — A proposal to retroactively lift a limit on state and local tax deductions would largely funnel money to high earners in high-tax states. — WASHINGTON — As lawmakers prepare for another round of fiscal stimulus to address economic fallout …
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The Hill
NBC News:
Coronavirus deniers take aim at hospitals as pandemic grows — Two videos illustrate the stark disparity in how the coronavirus outbreak is being portrayed on different parts of the internet. — On Saturday, a video taken outside the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York went viral …
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Right Wing Watch and Raw Story
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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, HuffPost, Fortune, Raw Story, Slate, The Week, The Verge, Mashable, The United Food & …, CNN and Gig Workers Collective, more at Techmeme »
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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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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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Redstate, American Greatness, Power Line, Twitchy, WayneDupree.com and Big League Politics
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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Sputnik News, HuffPost, NPR, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, The Week and Fortune
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
CNN Chief Jeff Zucker Defends Not Cutting Away From Trump's Coronavirus Pressers — Zucker said on an internal staff call that he has “probably spent more time on this topic than anything else,” but that he ultimately believes CNN should air the briefings live.
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CNN, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA, The Week, Vanity Fair, TMZ.com, Mother Jones and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »
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James Poniewozik / New York Times:
President Trump's Prime-Time Pandemic
President Trump's Prime-Time Pandemic
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Press Watch and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
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
Politico:
Trump has been nudging MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to run for office — President Donald Trump introduced those tuning into his nightly coronavirus task force briefing on Monday to a special guest: Mike Lindell, the multimillionaire inventor and CEO of the MyPillow empire.
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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 …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Business Insider:
A GOP senator calls on Trump to reopen parts of the coronavirus-stricken economy because ‘death is an unavoidable part of life’ — Sen. Ron Johnson called on Trump to reopen segments of the US economy, saying “death is an unavoidable part of life” in a USA Today op-ed.
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 …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
The Medical News Site That Saw the Coronavirus Coming Months Ago — Stat, started in 2015 by the Red Sox owner John Henry, is drawing four to five times its normal audience. “We were built for this,” one of its editors said. — On New Year's Eve, Helen Branswell, a reporter at the science …
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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National Review, The Daily Signal, NBC News, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, The Week, Progress Pond, Raw Story, CNN, Politico, IJR and The Hill
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Who Slammed AG Barr Obtains Unredacted Version of Mueller Report — A federal judge obtained the full and unredacted report on election interference and obstruction of justice prepared by former special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday. — A two-page filing submitted …
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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Daily Kos and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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.
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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 »
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / New Yorker:
Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders — The debate over the role of government in addressing income inequality, housing insecurity, debt accumulation, and health care continues, now against the grim backdrop of the raging coronavirus. It is difficult to articulate the speed with which the U.S. and …
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.
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Washington Post and Raw Story
David Gilbert / VICE:
Here's How China Is Rewriting the History of the Coronavirus Pandemic to Make Itself the Hero — At midnight on Friday China closed its borders to the rest of the world as it bids to stop a resurgence of the coronavirus. — The move was the culmination of a months-long PR …
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Sen. Josh Hawley / Fox News:
Investigate China's coronavirus actions and make Beijing pay for lives and billions lost
Investigate China's coronavirus actions and make Beijing pay for lives and billions lost
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The Independent
New York Times:
Live Coronavirus News and Updates — Maryland and Virginia issued statewide stay-at-home orders, and the F.D.A. approved two malaria drugs to treat coronavirus patients. Macy's said it would furlough most of its 125,000 workers. — RIGHT NOW President Trump said the United States soon …
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.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll: Biden leads Trump by 10 points as economic pessimism grows — Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Trump by 10 points nationally in a new poll, bolstered by an advantage with independents. — The poll also shows pessimism about the economy growing, a factor that could help Biden and hurt Trump in the poll.
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Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite and NBC News
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
Melissa Weiss / Jewish Insider:
Sheldon Adelson ships two million masks to U.S. hospitals — AIR ADELSON — The majority of the protective gear will go to hospitals in Nevada and New York — Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has procured approximately two million face masks to counter the shortage of the much-needed protective gear …
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Florida Politics and Big League Politics
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 …
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The Moderate Voice
Associated Press:
How dire projections, grim images dashed Trump's Easter plan — WASHINGTON (AP) — The two doctors spread out their charts on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. — The projections were grim: Even if the U.S. were to continue to do what it was doing, keeping the economy closed …
Kyle Hooten / The Daily Caller:
Chinese Markets Reopen — And They Still Sell Bats, Dogs And Cats — Animals are still for sale in Chinese food markets that reopened after the country recently declared victory over coronavirus. — Cages full of cats and dogs waiting for slaughter and the unsanitary preparation of animals …
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Daily Mail, American Greatness and The Gateway Pundit
Joe Biden for President:
Here's The Deal — On “Here's The Deal,” former Vice President Joe Biden provides a voice of clarity during uncertain times. Each episode will feature in-depth conversations about pressing issues with some of the nation's top experts — paired with the heart, compassion, and wisdom only Joe can deliver.
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Daily Mail, NBC News, VodkaPundit, CNBC, IJR, Althouse and POLITICUSUSA
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.