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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Trump administration just changed its description of the national stockpile to jibe with Jared Kushner's controversial claim — The Trump administration on Friday changed the description of the Strategic National Stockpile on a government website after journalists noted that it contradicted …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Strategic National Stockpile description altered online after Kushner's remarks — The official government webpage for the Strategic National Stockpile was altered Friday to seemingly reflect a controversial description of the emergency repository that White House adviser Jared Kushner offered at a news conference Thursday evening.
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ProPublica:
How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — Dire shortages of vital medical equipment …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP Sen. Gardner wants probe into ‘mismanagement’ of national stockpile
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Kim Chandler / Associated Press:
County Received 5,000 Rotted Masks From National Stockpile
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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.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Florida GOP Realizes Deliberately Impoverishing the Unemployed Has Downsides
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Recommendation Regarding the Use of Cloth Face Coverings, Especially in Areas of Significant Community-Based Transmission — CDC continues to study the spread and effects of the novel coronavirus across the United States. We now know from recent studies that a significant portion of individuals …
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Live updates: People should wear simple cloth masks in public, CDC recommends, to reduce spread of coronavirus
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White House and CDC in turf battle over guidance on broad use of face masks to fight coronavirus
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News Moguls Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch Stockpile Attorneys Against Coronavirus Lawsuits — After one non-profit org sued the network for pushing coronavirus misinformation, the network is readying to go to war against more such lawsuits. — Amid the mushrooming coronavirus crisis …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Stars Now Pretend They Never Said What They Said About the Coronavirus — Democrats and the media are the real downplayers of the coronavirus, claim two of Fox's biggest stars who spent weeks peddling dismissive talking points about the pandemic. — After spending weeks downplaying …
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Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The 11 wildest lines from Donald Trump's utterly childish letter to Chuck Schumer — (CNN)On Thursday afternoon — moments before he urged people to take politics out of the coronavirus fight — President Donald Trump sent an absolutely unbelievable letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
This Brooklyn Landlord Just Canceled Rent for Hundreds of Tenants — Mario Salerno, who has 18 apartment buildings, said he did not want renters to stress about their payment during the coronavirus pandemic. — A few days after losing his job in March, Paul Gentile was throwing away trash outside …
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Gothamist
Ted Anthony / Associated Press:
Anick Jesdanun, longtime AP technology writer, dies at 51 — He ran marathons on every continent, including Antarctica — 83 of them in all, many followed by a visit to an obscure craft brewery. Last year, he watched 365 movies — most of them in theaters.
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Jennifer Ehrlich / Business Wire:
3M Response to Defense Production Act Order — ST. PAUL, Minn.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—3M issued the following statement in response to the announcements issued by the White House last evening: — Over the last several weeks and months, 3M and its employees have gone above and beyond to manufacture …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court cancels oral arguments for rest of the term — Nine cases were to be argued during the two-week session beginning April 20, including a challenge to the current system used for electing the president. — Supreme court cancels oral argument for remainder of term
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court cancels April arguments, unclear how it will finish term
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Washington Post:
Member of Kennedy family and her son identified as missing boaters in Chesapeake Bay — Two boaters who went missing in the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis on Thursday evening have been identified as Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and her 8-year-old son Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean.
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
GOP governor refusing to implement stay-at-home order says Dr. Fauci 'doesn't have all the information' — While numerous governors have enacted stay-at-home orders shutting down nonessential businesses and ordering residents to shelter in their homes for all but necessary outings, one holdout is Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA).
Bloomberg:
Ivanka Trump Was Conduit for Small Banks Over SBA Program — Trump's daughter forwarded ideas from Bank of America, others — Paycheck Protection Program website up and running Friday — Bank executives concerned about the Trump administration's rollout of a $349 billion emergency …
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Raw Story, The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
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Chad Garland / Stars & Stripes:
‘Captain Crozier! Captain Crozier!’: Videos show sailors sending off ousted USS Roosevelt commander with cheers — Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
How did covid-19 begin? Its initial origin story is shaky. — The story of how the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, has produced a nasty propaganda battle between the United States and China. The two sides have traded some of the sharpest charges made between two nations since …
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National Review, Alliance For Securing … and Twitchy
ProPublica:
Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate — No, the coronavirus is not an “equalizer.” Black people are being infected and dying at higher rates. Here's what Milwaukee is doing about it — and why governments need to start releasing data on the race of COVID-19 patients.
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Detroit Free Press and Morning Consult
The Daily Beast:
Biden Tells Trump: Stop the ‘Pettiness’ and Reopen Obamacare — “Trump must also withdraw his support for a partisan lawsuit that would undo the Affordable Care Act and take health coverage away from almost 20 million Americans,” Biden said. — Former vice president and presumptive …
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Stephanie Armour / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Plans to Pay Hospitals to Treat Uninsured Coronavirus Patients
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Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Kentucky House Race Heats Up After Massie's Lonely Stand on Coronavirus Vote — Top Republicans warned Rep. Thomas Massie that he was sabotaging his career. Supercharged fundraising numbers in his GOP primary race show they may have been on to something. — The Kentucky Republican …
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David Marcus / The Federalist:
We Cannot Destroy The Country For The Sake Of New York City — New York City is being ravaged by the Wuhan coronavirus, but the rest of the country is being destroyed by a generation of economic collapse. — I imagine there are some people who love New York City more than I do, but I do love it.
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Dana Rubinstein / Politico:
New York's coronavirus death toll surpasses that of 9/11
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New York Times
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 …
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Vanity Fair, more at Techmeme »
Nancy H. L. Leung / Nature:
Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks — Nature Medicine (2020) Cite this article — Abstract — We identified seasonal human coronaviruses, influenza viruses and rhinoviruses in exhaled breath and coughs of children and adults with acute respiratory illness.
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Creeping Authoritarianism Has Finally Prevailed — Viktor Orbán is the prime minister of Hungary. He has been in power since 2010. During that time, he has underinvested in hospitals. Instead, public money has gone to pet projects, many of them related to the sports he enjoys.
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Washington Post:
Chinese families should be sweeping graves now. But thousands still haven't buried their dead. — For at least two millennia, Chinese people have headed to their ancestors' graves on the 15th day after the spring equinox to remove weeds and brush away dirt, to offer food and wine and paper money …
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Forbes and Balloon Juice
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign declares war on Dems over voting rules for November — President Donald Trump's political operation is launching a multimillion-dollar legal campaign aimed at blocking Democrats from drastically changing voting rules in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
The Doctor Came to Save Lives. The Co-op Board Told Him to Get Lost. — When an emergency room doctor traveled from New Hampshire to battle the coronavirus in New York, he moved into his brother's building ... but not for long. — At the end of seven hours in mask …
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