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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Jared Kushner Is Going to Get Us All Killed — Trump's son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response. — Reporting on the White House's herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror.
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New York Times:
Kushner Puts Himself in Middle of White House's Chaotic Coronavirus Response — President Trump's son-in-law has become a central player in the administration's effort to curb the pandemic. But critics say he is part of the problem. — WASHINGTON — Peter T. Gaynor …
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Kushner company stands to benefit from freeze on federal mortgage payments
Kushner company stands to benefit from freeze on federal mortgage payments
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Raw Story
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 3 Patients. — “It's a joke,” said a top hospital executive, whose facilities are packed with coronavirus patients. — Such were the expectations for the Navy hospital ship U.S.N.S. Comfort that when it chugged into New York Harbor this week …
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Spectator USA, New York Post, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Washington Post:
Experts and Trump's advisers doubt White House's 240,000 coronavirus deaths estimate — Inside the White House's effort to create an projected death toll. — Leading disease forecasters, whose research the White House used to conclude 100,000 to 240,000 people will die nationwide from the coronavirus …
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CNN:
Top doctor says White House coronavirus task force still missing 50% of testing data — Birx: This begins and ends with community — (CNN)Dr. Deborah Birx said that the White House coronavirus task force is missing 50% of the data for coronavirus tests that have been conducted.
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump passes the buck as deadly ventilator shortage looms
Trump passes the buck as deadly ventilator shortage looms
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POLITICUSUSA and New York Times
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Navy expected to relieve captain who raised alarm about COVID-19 outbreak on aircraft carrier — The United States Navy is expected to relieve the captain who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. — The Navy is expected to announce it has relieved …
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Washington Post:
Navy removes aircraft carrier captain who raised alarm about coronavirus response — The Navy on Thursday removed the captain of an aircraft carrier crippled by the coronavirus, two days after a blunt letter the officer wrote warning the service of the need to get more sailors off the vessel created a furor.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
CNN: Fauci advises all states issue stay-at-home orders — Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci recommended on Thursday that all states across the U.S. implement stay-at-home orders, at a CNN town hall. — Why it matters: The recommendation stands …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
One America News Network to White House Correspondents' Association: Who needs ya?
One America News Network to White House Correspondents' Association: Who needs ya?
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Washington Post:
Commander of confusion: Trump sows uncertainty and seeks to cast blame in coronavirus crisis — In the three weeks since declaring the novel coronavirus outbreak a national emergency, President Trump has delivered a dizzying array of rhetorical contortions, sowed confusion and repeatedly sought to cast blame on others.
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses — Two months before the novel coronavirus probably began spreading in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China …
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The Week
Will Oremus / Marker:
What Everyone's Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage — It isn't really about hoarding. And there isn't an easy fix. — round the world, in countries afflicted with the coronavirus, stores are sold out of toilet paper. There have been shortages in Hong Kong, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Axios:
Mark Meadows considers new White House press secretary — White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has privately discussed bringing on Pentagon spokeswoman Alyssa Farah or Trump campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany as a new White House press secretary, two sources familiar with the talks tell Axios.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Dear Colleague to All Members Announcing House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis — The greatness of our nation is its ability to rise to extraordinary challenges, no matter how big. Now is such a time. We face a deadly virus and a battered economy with millions of Americans suddenly out of work.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
With virus crisis raging, Pelosi and Schiff ramp up new Trump investigations
With virus crisis raging, Pelosi and Schiff ramp up new Trump investigations
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Townhall, PJ Media Home, Twitchy and Washington Post
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump Has Broken the Republican Party—and Conservatism—for Good
Politico:
Inside the National Security Council, a rising sense of dread — On the second day in January, as a mysterious pathogen was infecting its way across China, Dr. Robert Redfield contacted the National Security Council. — The U.S. government had unconfirmed information about what they believed …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Replaced White House Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner
Trump Replaced White House Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner
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Inside Political Risk, Mother Jones, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Daily Kos, Vox and Raw Story
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Fewer than half of Americans believe their daily routine will return to normal by June, as fears over coronavirus rise: POLL — Just over nine in 10 Americans say the outbreak disrupted their daily routines. — Fewer than half of Americans believe their regular daily routine will return …
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Paul Blest / VICE:
Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: 'He's Not Smart or Articulate' — Leaked notes from an internal meeting of Amazon leadership obtained by VICE News reveal company executives discussed a plan to smear fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls, calling him …
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NBC News:
Trump administration's lack of a unified coronavirus strategy will cost lives, say a dozen experts — Each day that passes without a national strategy, the experts say, will raise the ultimate U.S. death toll from the coronavirus. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's decision …
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New York Times:
Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury — It has been about two weeks since the Illinois governor ordered residents to stay at home, but nothing has changed about Adarra Benjamin's responsibilities. She gets on a bus nearly every morning in Chicago …
New York Times:
Trump's Company Seeks Financial Help as Coronavirus Takes Toll — As companies nationwide look for relief, the Trump Organization has talked with Deutsche Bank and a Florida county about delaying payments on some loans and other obligations. — All over the country, businesses large …
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Raw Story, Mother Jones and Law & Crime
Politico:
'It's a sh— sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump — TALLAHASSEE — The staggering unemployment exploding on President Donald Trump's watch would worry any incumbent running for reelection, but troubles in Florida are injecting an added dose of fear into a jittery GOP.
Politico:
Hunter Biden probe moving forward after senators clashed in classified briefing — A key Senate committee is vowing to press forward with its investigation targeting former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter, despite logistical challenges posed by the global coronavirus pandemic.
New York Times:
President's Campaign Calls Sessions ‘Delusional’ for Tying Himself to Trump — In an unusual letter, President Trump's campaign said that Jeff Sessions, who is running to reclaim his Senate seat in Alabama, was misleading the public. — President Trump's campaign is demanding that Jeff Sessions …
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Gov. Tony Evers / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
As coronavirus rages in Wisconsin, it is no time to have an in-person election. Postpone it or convert to mail-in balloting. — How do you hold an election in the middle of a pandemic? — You don't. — And yet Wisconsin's political leaders, from both parties, say we must.
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The Hill
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Wisconsin Democrats apoplectic over governor's handling of Tuesday primary
Wisconsin Democrats apoplectic over governor's handling of Tuesday primary
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Washington Post, Associated Press, The Week, The Recombobulation Area and Mother Jones
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Ron DeSantis quietly signed second executive order targeting local coronavirus restrictions — The order says the statewide stay-at-home order ‘shall supersede any conflicting official action or order issued by local officials.’ — Hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay …
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Tom Winter / NBC New York:
Grim New Rules for NYC Paramedics: Don't Bring Cardiac Arrests to ER for Revival — What to Know — A regional EMT group has issued new guidelines almost unthinkable even days ago — if someone's in cardiac arrest and you can't revive them in the field, don't bring them to the emergency room
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Blue Lives Matter and New York Post