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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 — When Republican Rick Scott became its governor in 2011, Florida already had one of the stingiest unemployment-insurance systems in the country. As the Great Recession rained pink slips down on the Sunshine State …
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Discourse.net and Raw Story
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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New Republic, The American Independent, CNN and The Hill
Kim Chandler / Associated Press:
County Received 5,000 Rotted Masks From National Stockpile
County Received 5,000 Rotted Masks From National Stockpile
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The Hill
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP Sen. Gardner wants probe into ‘mismanagement’ of national stockpile
GOP Sen. Gardner wants probe into ‘mismanagement’ of national stockpile
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Fauci: 'I don't understand' why all states are not under stay-at-home orders
Fauci: 'I don't understand' why all states are not under stay-at-home orders
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Politico, Washington Post, One America News Network and Breitbart
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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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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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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Washington Post, The White House and Letters from an American
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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:
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 »
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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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 …
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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The Guardian
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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The Verge
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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Mark Kennedy / Associated Press:
‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81 — Bill Withers, who wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including “ Lean On Me, ” “Lovely Day” and “Ain't No Sunshine,” has died from heart complications, his family said in a statement to The Associated Press.
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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 …
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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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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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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Common Dreams, Daily Kos, The Hill, Politico and The Week
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.
Politico:
Senators clashed over Hunter Biden probe 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.
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Shannon Bond / NPR:
A Must For Millions, Zoom Has A Dark Side — And An FBI Warning — Audio will be available later today. — Dennis Johnson fell victim last week to a new form of harassment known as “Zoombombing,” in which intruders hijack video calls and post hate speech and offensive images such as pornography.
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Stephanie Ruhle Confronts Rubio for Saying Journalists Are Giddy About Coronavirus: ‘I Need to Understand Why on Earth You Did This’ — MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle confronted Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) over a comment he made earlier in the week in which he claimed that some media figures …
Associated Press:
‘Surreal’: NY funeral homes struggle as virus deaths surge — NEW YORK (AP) — Pat Marmo walked among 20 or so deceased in the basement of his Brooklyn funeral home, his protective mask pulled down so his pleas could be heard. — “Every person there, they're not a body,” he said.
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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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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.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Mobilizes the White House to Tackle Coronavirus but Adds to the ‘Fog of War’ — Some aides and government officials say president's own actions at times have exacerbated uncertainty — WASHINGTON—As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the U.S., President Trump has put the government on what officials describe as a war footing.
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
There's Nothing Generous About Putin's Coronavirus Aid to US — Russian state media make it clear Putin's “humanitarian aid” to the U.S. is anything but. It's meant to show Russia's superiority over an America in disastrous decline. — BEAST INSIDE — The Kremlin's highly publicized …
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Juana Summers / NPR:
‘Mike Borrowed My Credibility And Abused It’: Fired Bloomberg Campaign Workers Speak — When Amol Jethwani interviewed for a job on Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign in December, the benefits were unlike anything he had heard of for political campaign field workers.
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Stephanie Armour / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Plans to Pay Hospitals to Treat Uninsured Coronavirus Patients — Hospitals would have to agree not to bill patients or issue unexpected charges — The Trump administration is expected to use a federal stimulus package to pay hospitals that treat uninsured people …
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
The 41 Worst People You Meet on Twitter — From the Assassins to the Ahabs to the Dufflepuds — a beginner's guide — Twitter, even more so than blogs, offered us the revolutionary promise of a virtual town square: You could hear from and engage with people from many walks of life, the prominent and the ordinary, in real time.
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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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Politico:
Consensus starts to grow on ‘Phase 4’ coronavirus relief — Congress is finally beginning to sketch the outlines of its next big coronavirus response. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi shifted her tone on Friday, calling for a much more focused “Phase 4” relief package to address immediate needs related …
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The Hill
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
As Trump faces heat on coronavirus response, Republicans try to elevate China's role in domestic political debate — For months, national Republicans hoping to wrest back control of the House this fall have targeted first-term Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), hitting him on his vote to impeach President Trump …
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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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