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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says of N.Y. Gov. Cuomo: 'I wouldn't mind running against Andrew' — Cuomo is not running for president, and the race for the Democratic nomination is down to just two candidates: Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday …
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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.
Bernie Sanders says he's staying in the presidential race. Many Democrats fear a reprise of their 2016 defeat.
Teri Weaver / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Cuomo's coronavirus fight: 87% of New Yorkers approve, poll shows
Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Biden Goes After ‘Reckless’ Trump Claim That Hospitals Are Using Too Many Face Masks
Biden Goes After ‘Reckless’ Trump Claim That Hospitals Are Using Too Many Face Masks
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New York Magazine, Breitbart, Sputnik News, Daily Kos and WAVY-TV
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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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration — President Trump, who at one point called the coronavirus pandemic an “invisible enemy” and said it made him a “wartime President,” has in recent days questioned its seriousness, tweeting, “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF.”
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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.
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.
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Robert Zaretsky / Slate:
The Trumpian French Doctor Behind the Chloroquine Hype — The source of the hopes for a coronavirus cure should raise a lot of red flags — President Donald Trump's daily press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic has been compared to many things: state propaganda, daily talk show, three-ring circus.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's 'Don't Blame Me' Message Is Going to Wear Terribly — Over the last 24 hours, President Trump has aggressively widened the circle of people or countries that are making it impossible for Donald Trump to handle the coronavirus. In a Thursday night interview with Sean Hannity …
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Media Reaction To Yamiche Alcindor Dustup With Trump Shows Why Their Approval Ratings Are Low
Media Reaction To Yamiche Alcindor Dustup With Trump Shows Why Their Approval Ratings Are Low
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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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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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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 …
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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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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Coronavirus model touted by White House assumes social distancing will stay in effect through May — Debbie Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, said that federal scientists reviewed a dozen different models for how this pandemic might play out before constructing their own.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump beats a retreat on opening the country as coronavirus data, images show dark reality
Trump beats a retreat on opening the country as coronavirus data, images show dark reality
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Politico, New York Times, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, NPR, Daily Kos, The Hill and CNN
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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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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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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Politico:
AOC breaks with Bernie on how to lead the left — Soon after her upset primary victory against a Democratic Party boss in 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez traveled to St. Louis to prove her victory wasn't a one-off by campaigning for Cori Bush, who was similarly taking on a longtime Democratic congressman.
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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 …
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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Alaa Elassar / CNN:
Armed vigilantes blocked a neighbor's driveway with a tree to force him into quarantine — (CNN)A Maine man said armed neighbors descended on his home and chopped down a tree to block his road and prevent him from leaving because they believed he may have coronavirus.
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New York Times, Law & Crime, Redstate, Genevieve McDonald and Fox News
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump: I'm Doing a Great Job Fighting the Coronavirus, and 100,000 of You Will Die — Seriously, literally, things that Trump touches are dying, and he's still just making shit up to get him through each day, and then making up different shit the next day. — BEAST INSIDE
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Robert Tracinski / The Bulwark:
The Federalist's Dangerous Coronavirus Trutherism — WTF happened? The publication's reactionary turn and the hollowing out of conservatism. — Coronavirus Truthers are now a thing, and I regret to inform you that a publication I used to work for has taken the lead in spinning crazy …
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Why That ‘Woman In Michigan’ Keeps Drawing Donald Trump's Wrath — One governor is listening to public health experts on coronavirus; another isn't. Guess which one Trump is trashing? — ANN ARBOR, Michigan ― Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) is following the advice of public health experts.
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Erin Durkin / Politico:
USNS Comfort arrives in New York City — The USNS Comfort arrived in New York on Monday, bringing a massive Navy hospital ship to help relieve city hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. — The 1,000-bed floating hospital docked Monday at Pier 90 on Manhattan's West Side, and is set to begin treating patients Tuesday.
CNN:
Trump administration sent protective medical gear to China while he minimized the virus threat to US — Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah.
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Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:
IRS orders office evacuation, affecting most agency employees — The IRS issued a nearly blanket evacuation order to its workforce beginning today, the latest in a series of steps to shrink the number of on-site employees due to the coronavirus pandemic. — An agency-wide email …
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Workers Facing the Coronavirus: 'We're Up Here Risking Our Life for Chicken' — Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap. — Mr. Greenhouse writes about labor. — Millions of white-collar workers are telecommuting …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Fear in Bulk — Dear Washington, — There's an old trick in horror movies, a clichéd sequence that makes you squirm no matter how many times you've watched it unfold. It's the one where everyone goes into hiding—underneath beds, inside garages—because a monster is stalking them.
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