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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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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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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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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Strategic National Stockpile description altered online after Kushner's remarks
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
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
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Politico, The Hill, 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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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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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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Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers calls lawmakers into session days before election to stop in-person voting — Governor Tony Evers supports having the spring primary election. The state Democratic Party advocated for a delay. — CONNECT — MADISON - Gov. Tony Evers is calling lawmakers …
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Emma Dumain / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Mitch McConnell champions coronavirus relief bill but warns of ‘glitches’ — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday there are “bound to be plenty of mistakes” with implementing the massive coronavirus economic relief package he helped negotiate and get signed into law.
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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 …
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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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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The Guardian
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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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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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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The Daily Beast, Boston Herald, New York Post and The Independent
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
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 …
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Trump nominates McConnell ally to powerful appeals court — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is nominating a 37-year-old judge and former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a seat on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump taps former Kavanaugh clerk to fill vacancy on powerful D.C. appeals court
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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 …
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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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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Patterico's Pontifications
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 …
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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Ben White / Politico:
Trump's biggest 2020 pitch disintegrates — The fundamental pillars of Donald Trump's presidency — a hot economy, strong job growth and a rocking stock market — are all being smashed to splinters by the ravaging coronavirus, which has shuttered much of the nation and now officially ended …
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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Daily Kos, Common Dreams, 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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