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Heather Long / Washington Post:
Over 10 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits in March as economy collapsed — A record 6.6 million people filed a new jobless claim the week ending March 28. — More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — a new record …
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Anneken Tappe / CNN:
6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week — a record high as coronavirus takes its toll — New York (CNN Business)The last three weeks have marked one of the most devastating periods in history for the American job market, as first-time claims for unemployment benefits …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US weekly jobless claims double to 6.6 million — Initial jobless claims surged to more 6.6 million last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. — That brings the two-week total to about 10 million due to the coronavirus-induced economic shutdown. — US weekly jobless claims surge to 6.6 million for week ending March 28
Washington Post:
Anthony Fauci's security is stepped up as doctor and face of U.S. coronavirus response receives threats — Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's top infectious-diseases expert and the face of the U.S. response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, is facing growing threats to his personal safety …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The White House gives Dems an opening
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Fauci given security detail after receiving threats
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New York Times:
Where America Didn't Stay Home Even as the Virus Spread — Where people were still traveling last week — Stay-at-home orders have nearly halted travel for most Americans, but people in Florida, the Southeast and other places that waited to enact such orders have continued to travel widely …
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MSNBC:
Governor admits he didn't know asymptomatic people could pass virus — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday announced a stay-at home order across Georgia to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus. During the announcement, Kemp also stated he just learned asymptomatic people could transmit the virus.
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia's May primary is still on for now amid pressure for a delay
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Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Georgia governor to order shelter in place to curb coronavirus
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Politico:
Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response — Dozens of Trump administration officials have trooped to the White House podium over the last two months to brief the public on their effort to combat coronavirus, but one person who hasn't — Jared Kushner …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
No institution has failed the public worse than the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic — No institution has failed the public worse during the COVID-19 pandemic than the news media. — It seems impossible that this should be the case, especially considering the federal government's sluggish …
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Michael James / USA Today:
More than 1,000 in US die in a single day from coronavirus, doubling the worst daily death toll of the flu
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Source close to coronavirus task force: Despite what White House is saying, tougher measures …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Train Operator at Port of Los Angeles Charged with Derailing Locomotive Near U.S. Navy's Hospital Ship Mercy — LOS ANGELES - A train engineer at the Port of Los Angeles was arrested this morning on federal charges for allegedly running a locomotive at full speed off the end of rail tracks near the USNS Mercy.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
OANN threatened with removal from White House press room after correspondent Chanel Rion makes unauthorized appearances — This time, it was a fairly routine question that Chanel Rion, a correspondent for One America News Network, posed to President Trump during Tuesday's White House press briefing …
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Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
A Million N95 Masks Are Coming From China—on Board the New England Patriots' Plane — The Massachusetts governor struck a deal for supplies but needed a way to transport them. The result was a tense saga and a shipment on the NFL team's 767.
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New York Times:
A Ventilator Stockpile, With One Hitch: Thousands Do Not Work — While President Trump has assured states that thousands of ventilators remain at the ready, thousands more are in storage, unmaintained, broken or otherwise unusable. — WASHINGTON — President Trump has repeatedly assured Americans …
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Raw Story
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Alarm, Denial, Blame: The Pro-Trump Media's Coronavirus Distortion — Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing commentators turned a pandemic into a battle of us vs. them — the kind of battle President Trump has waged for much of his life. — On Feb. 27, two days after the first reported case …
Wall Street Journal:
Italy's Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported — Many are dying uncounted as nation's stretched health-care system struggles to save the living and accurately gauge human cost — MILAN—In the town of Coccaglio, an hour's drive east of here, the local nursing home lost over a third of its residents in March.
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Washington Post:
The scramble for the rapid coronavirus tests everybody wants — As hot spots clamor for Abbott Laboratories' quick tests, Trump officials debate where to send them — As Abbott Laboratories began shipping its new rapid-response tests across the country Wednesday, a new flash point emerged …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Pelosi should ‘stand down’ on passing another rescue bill in House, McConnell says — One week after the Senate unanimously passed a $2 trillion emergency relief bill aimed at limiting the financial trauma from the coronavirus pandemic, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) …
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Some Coronavirus Patients Show Signs of Brain Ailments — Neurologists around the world say that a small subset of patients with Covid-19 are developing serious impairments of the brain. — Although fever, cough and difficulty breathing are the typical hallmarks of infection with the new coronavirus …
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Fox News
Washington Post:
Secret Service signs contract this week to rent golf carts in town of Trump club — The Secret Service this week signed a $45,000 contract to rent a fleet of golf carts in Northern Virginia, saying it needed them quickly to protect a “dignitary” in the town of Sterling …
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David J. Mitchell / The Advocate:
Roy Moore, ex-Alabama chief justice, to aid Central church defying coronavirus order — Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice and two-time U.S. Senate candidate, will serve as an adviser for a Central pastor, and his church, during expected litigation over the religious leader's defiance …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Cuomo Is a Media Hero in the Pandemic. De Blasio Is a Scapegoat. — The mayor of New York, who is often disdainful of the media, has become an irresistible punching bag. — Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York called me this morning a little out of breath, feet pounding in the background, on his daily walk in Prospect Park.
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Doug Maccash / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Ellis Marsalis, New Orleans jazz piano legend hospitalized with coronavirus symptoms, dies — Ellis Marsalis Jr., the jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of one of New Orleans' great musical families has died. — The 85-year-old jazz piano legend was hospitalized with symptoms of COVID-19.
Katy Grimes / California Globe:
Gov. Newsom Coronavirus Update: ‘We are at a Completely Different Place Than the State of New York’ — Thursday will be two weeks since California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued his March 19th mandatory shelter-at-home order to the state's 40 million residents. Since then, he predicted his order could extend into June.
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Farmworkers, Mostly Undocumented, Become ‘Essential’ During Pandemic — Immigrant field workers have been told to keep working despite stay-at-home directives, and given letters attesting to their “critical” role in feeding the country. — LOS ANGELES — Like legions of immigrant farmworkers …
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
Experts tell White House coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing — (CNN)A prestigious scientific panel told the White House Wednesday night that research shows coronavirus can be spread not just by sneezes or coughs, but also just by talking, or possibly even just breathing.
United States Department of State:
U.S. Purchase of Needed Supplies from Russia — The United States is committed to the global fight against COVID-19. We are a generous and reliable contributor to crisis response and humanitarian action across the world, but we cannot do it alone. The countries of the G20 agreed last week …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Literally Laughed at How He Can Game the Press With His ‘New Tone’ — The president is acutely aware that if he acts in somber fashion, the media will quickly notice and praise him for it. — BEAST INSIDE — As evening fell on Tuesday, Donald Trump did what he's done virtually every …
Alison Durkee / Vanity Fair:
Americans Can't Sign Up for Health Insurance During a Global Pandemic, Trump Decides — The coronavirus outbreak and ensuing economic fallout is resulting in widespread financial hardship, as entire industries come to a standstill, workers get laid off, and the stock market tanks.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans: ‘Nobody Expected’ the Coronavirus Pandemic. So Joe Biden Is Nobody? — President Trump, having stopped dismissing the threat of the coronavirus and calling criticism of his laggard response “their new hoax,” has begun insisting everybody was shocked. “It's something that nobody expected,” he has said.
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Coronavirus Is About To Explode In Mexico. It's Time To Secure The Border — The Mexican state is weak and corrupt—and totally unprepared for the coronavirus outbreak that's about to hit the country. — Two weeks ago I warned that Mexico was dangerously unprepared for a coronavirus outbreak …
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San Diego Union-Tribune, Austin American-Statesman and USA Today
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Banks warn of chaotic launch of small business lending program — They're concerned that the expectations the administration has publicly set are unrealistic. — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Banks are warning that a $350 billion lending program for struggling small businesses …
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