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Daniel Chang / Miami Herald:
Herald drafted a suit seeking ALF records. DeSantis aide pressured law firm not to file it — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' general counsel called a representative of the Miami Herald's law firm seeking to quash a public records lawsuit that would force the state to divulge the names …
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Associated Press:
Signs missed and steps slowed in Trump's pandemic response — WASHINGTON (AP) — By the time President Donald Trump first spoke publicly about the coronavirus, it may already have been too late. — Interviewed at Davos, a gathering of global elites in the Swiss Alps …
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
U.S. Overtakes Italy as Country With Most Confirmed Coronavirus Deaths
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Matt Keeley / Newsweek:
Texas to Ease Coronavirus Lockdown Under Executive Order to ‘Restore Livelihoods,’ Governor Says
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Rep. Andy Biggs / Washington Examiner:
Is Anthony Fauci helping or hurting?
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus — Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly. Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.
Jon Levine / New York Post:
The odds on who Joe Biden will pick as his female vice president candidate — With Sen. Bernie Sanders out of the race, the Joe Biden campaign is now moving into the fraught and delicate process of choosing a running mate. — Biden, at age 77, would be the oldest president ever elected …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Five Takeaways on What Trump Knew as the Virus Spread — An examination by The New York Times reveals that there were warnings from the intelligence community, national security aides and government health officials — even as the president played down the crisis.
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Jack Healy / New York Times:
It's ‘People, People, People’ as Lines Stretch Across America — Lines for groceries, food aid and unemployment assistance stretch for blocks as the coronavirus crisis forces Americans into quarantine queues. — DENVER — Standing in line used to be an American pastime …
New York Times:
Examining Tara Reade's Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden — Ms. Reade, a former Senate aide, has accused Mr. Biden of assaulting her in 1993 and says she told others about it. A Biden spokeswoman said the allegation is false, and former Senate office staff members do not recall such an incident.
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Sarah Oliver / Daily Mail:
WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange fathered two children inside the Ecuadorian embassy with lawyer, 37, who fell in love with him while helping his fight against extradition to the US — Julian Assange secretly fathered two sons while holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
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Jason Breslow / NPR:
Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Governor's Order Limiting The Size Of Easter Services — The Kansas Supreme Court has voted to uphold an executive order by the state's governor limiting the size of church gatherings on Easter Sunday, ending a dramatic legal clash in which the court was asked amid …
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The City That Has Flattened the Coronavirus Curve — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — London Breed wasn't going to wait around for COVID-19. — San Francisco had yet to confirm a single case …
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Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus — The pandemic has pushed USPS to the brink, but Trump and Mnuchin shot down emergency aid — Through rain, sleet, hail, and even a pandemic, mail carriers serve every address in the United States …
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John Branch / New York Times:
Whoosh! That Car That Just Soared by Might Be Heading for the Coast — With far less traffic thanks to coronavirus-induced quarantines, drivers are pushing down hard on their accelerators. Tickets, and records, are the result. — NOVATO, Calif. — A white 2019 Audi A8 L sedan …
Washington Post:
Trump administration has many task forces — but still no plan for beating covid-19 — The Trump administration still has no clear plan for ending the coronavirus crisis, but it does have many task forces. — There is the official task force led by Vice President Pence that meets daily …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Preëxisting Condition in the Oval Office — From the start, the Trump Administration has waged war on science and expertise, making a great nation peculiarly vulnerable to the foreseeable public-health calamity of the coronavirus. — When has New York known a grimmer week?
David W. Blight / New York Times:
Trump Isn't the First Conservative to Try to Limit the Vote — Trump is only the latest to see minority voters as a threat. — Dr. Blight is the author of “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.” — On March 30, the Republican id burst forth when President Trump said that the latest …
Paige St. John / Los Angeles Times:
New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew — A man found dead in his house in early March. A woman who fell sick in mid-February and later died. — These early COVID-19 deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area suggest that the novel coronavirus …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Abortion providers ask Supreme Court to ease pandemic-related ban — Abortion rights advocates asked the Supreme Court on Saturday night to overturn part of the Texas governor's sweeping ban on abortions during the coronavirus pandemic — the first of similar restrictions to reach the high court.
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