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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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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Navy expected to relieve captain who raised alarm about COVID-19 outbreak on aircraft carrier
Navy expected to relieve captain who raised alarm about COVID-19 outbreak on aircraft carrier
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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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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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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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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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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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USA Today:
Trump hasn't ordered any ventilators from GM, despite saying he was using wartime powers to force production — John Fritze Jayne O'DonnellUSA TODAY … WASHINGTON - Nearly a week after invoking his powers under a Korean War-era law to compel General Motors to manufacture ventilators for coronavirus …
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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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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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
David Marcus / The Federalist:
We Cannot Destroy The Country For The Sake Of New York City — New York City is being ravaged by the coranavirus, 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.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce:
New U.S. Chamber - MetLife Poll: One in Four Small Businesses on Brink of Permanent Closure, Half Eyeing Temporary Shutdown — Poll reveals provisions in the CARES Act are among those most likely to offer relief to small businesses — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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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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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump taps former Kavanaugh clerk to fill vacancy on powerful D.C. appeals court — President Trump is tapping a young district judge and former clerk to now-Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to fill a vacancy on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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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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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 …
Associated Press:
In time of crisis, Trump-Pelosi relationship remains broken — WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of the most powerful people in Washington have not spoken in five months at a time when the nation is battling its worst health crisis in a century, one that has already killed more than 5,000 Americans and put 10 million others out of work.
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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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Justin Wolfers / New York Times:
The Unemployment Rate Is Probably Around 13 Percent — It's almost certainly at its highest level since the Great Depression. Here's how we estimated it. — The jobless rate today is almost certainly higher than at any point since the Great Depression.
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Weighs on Americans: 'I Don't Think There Is an Easy Answer' — Residents in Iowa, Philadelphia and Georgia reflect on how pandemic is affecting their lives, jobs and political views — The coronavirus pandemic is hitting Americans at different times, as infections rise …
Ben Jacobs / GEN:
Your Most Paranoid Pandemic Election Questions, Answered — If the 2020 election is canceled, a Vermont senator (no, not that one) could become president — he coronavirus pandemic has disrupted life across the United States, forcing more than 297 million people into obeying stay-at-home orders.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Coronavirus Is the World's Only Superpower — Trump's America? Not so much. — On Tuesday, the U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest challenge that the world has faced since the Second World War. More than a hundred and fifty countries …
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 …
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Americans are underestimating how long coronavirus disruptions will last, health experts say — Public health experts are increasingly worried that Americans are underestimating how long the coronavirus pandemic will disrupt everyday life in the country, warning that the Trump administration's timelines …
USA Today:
Here's how to safely reopen America when coronavirus pandemic wanes — It's important that we assess the threat of the virus region by region and consider reopening in phases or by industry — The Problem Solvers Caucus — 50 members of Congress, half Democrats and half Republicans …
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.
The Citizen Lab:
Move Fast & Roll Your Own Crypto — A Quick Look at the Confidentiality of Zoom Meetings — This report examines the encryption that protects meetings in the popular Zoom teleconference app. We find that Zoom has “rolled their own” encryption scheme, which has significant weaknesses.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
“Don't let us die”: Women in ICE custody plead for release amid coronavirus pandemic — The women detained at the for-profit jail in the small, rural town of Jena, Louisiana, hail from all corners of Latin America. Some are asylum-seekers who fled repressive regimes.
Bloomberg:
Georgia Senator Sold Travel Shares Ahead of Trump Flight Ban — Loeffler advisers took some defensive steps as market swooned — Another series of options bet on a stock rebound by year end — Senator Kelly Loeffler sold a total of $46,027 worth of stock in an online travel company …
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 …