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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Lashes Out at Fauci Amid Criticism of Slow Virus Response — The president retweeted a post calling for the government's top infectious disease specialist to be fired after the doctor acknowledged that shutting down the country earlier could have saved lives.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Spends Easter Asking Confidants: ‘What Do You Think of Fauci?’ — The president called various friends and allies over the weekend to ask for their opinion on the doctor he says he made a “star”—and even retweeted a call for his firing. — President Donald Trump spent much of this Easter weekend …
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Emma Tucker / The Daily Beast:
Trump Makes First Public Rebuke of Fauci With #FireFauci Retweet — UNNERVING — President Trump delivered his first public rebuke of the nation's top infectious disease expert and a member of his coronavirus task force on Sunday evening by resharing a tweet that said “Time to #FireFauci.”
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Navy Sailor Assigned to USS Theodore Roosevelt Dies of COVID-Related Complications — From U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs — PEARL HARBOR (NNS) — The Sailor assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the U.S. Naval Hospital Guam April 9 …
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New York Times:
‘There Will Be Losses’: How a Captain's Plea Exposed a Rift in the Military — The coronavirus crisis aboard the carrier Theodore Roosevelt spurred another chapter in the hollowing out of the Navy's leadership, in particular under the Trump administration. — WASHINGTON — The captain had reached a breaking point.
Politico:
Democrats fear for November after Wisconsin voting spectacle — Democrats looked on in horror last week as thousands of voters in Wisconsin trekked to polling places and waited in lines for hours to cast ballots in the midst of a pandemic. — Now national Democratic party leaders …
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Exclusive: Michelle Obama to push absentee voting amid coronavirus
Exclusive: Michelle Obama to push absentee voting amid coronavirus
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Michelle Obama group backs expanding voting options for 2020
Michelle Obama group backs expanding voting options for 2020
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
How Mitch McConnell Became Trump's Enabler-in-Chief — The Senate Majority Leader's refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever. — On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the weekend …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Biden's Polling Lead vs. Trump Isn't as Solid as It Looks — Consider two important measurement differences: battleground states versus other states, and registered voters versus likely voters. — President Trump and Joe Biden begin the general election campaign locked …
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Robert Stacy McCain / The American Spectator:
The Worst Governor in America — Gretchen Whitmer imposes insane policies on Michigan. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (YouTube screenshot) — One word keeps recurring in online discussions of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's latest orders to fight the state's raging COVID-19 outbreak: “Insanity.”
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Tim Mak / WBUR:
A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump's Promises Largely Unfulfilled04:32 — One month ago today, President Trump declared a national emergency. — In a Rose Garden address, flanked by leaders from giant retailers and medical testing companies, he promised a mobilization of public …
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Never Spoken to Joe Biden. Here's What She Would Say. — In an interview, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said she intended to support the presumptive Democratic nominee, but the “process of coming together should be uncomfortable for everyone involved.”
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New York Times:
The East Coast, Always in the Spotlight, Owes a Debt to the West — California, Oregon and Washington have shipped 1,000 ventilators to New York. Should Western states be getting more attention for their relative success in battling Covid-19? — LOS ANGELES — California …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Bob Iger Thought He Was Leaving on Top. Now, He's Fighting for Disney's Life.
Bob Iger Thought He Was Leaving on Top. Now, He's Fighting for Disney's Life.
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Tom Polansek / Reuters:
Smithfield shutting U.S. pork plant indefinitely, warns of meat shortages during pandemic — CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving …
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Danielle Wiener-Bronner / CNN:
One of the largest pork processing facilities in the US is closing until further notice
Neil M. Barofsky / New York Times:
Why We Desperately Need Oversight of the Coronavirus Stimulus Spending — Rigorous watchdogs can ensure that vast amounts of taxpayer money aren't lost to fraud or handed out as political favors. — Mr. Barofsky is the former special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The Coronavirus Is Exposing Little Tyrants All Over The Country — Some mayors and governors seem to think their authority is limitless in the face of the pandemic. They need a remedial lesson in the Constitution. — There's nothing like a crisis to bring clarity.
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R. Albert Mohler, Jr / The Federalist:
Government Officials Use Pandemic As Excuse To Attack Christianity
Ken Davidoff / New York Post:
Anthony Causi, beloved Post sports photographer, dies of coronavirus at 48 — Anthony Causi, a longtime photographer for The Post whose prolific talent and larger-than-life personality made him a fixture in the New York sports world, died Sunday of the coronavirus at North Shore University Hospital.
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
GOP governor: Reopening the U.S. will be ‘just as tough, if not tougher’ than start of coronavirus outbreak — “I think that sometimes we all think we're going to turn a switch and we'll get back to normal, and that's just not going to happen,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said.
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Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
‘It feels like a war zone’: As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work — At least 41 grocery workers have died of the coronavirus and thousands more have tested positive in recent weeks — Doug Preszler wasn't thinking about risk when he took a cashier job at a regional supermarket in eastern Iowa.
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Washington Post:
THE PANDEMIC'S FIRST WAVE — Behind every data point on a curve or chart is a name and story of the earliest victims — It began one day in late February, with two people in King County, Wash. — Elsewhere, life in the United States was still relatively normal: economy humming, kids in school, games on, stores open, streets busy.
CNN:
Stanley Chera, New York real estate mogul and Trump friend, has died of coronavirus complications — New York (CNN Business)Stanley Chera, the prominent New York City real estate developer and Republican donor who co-founded Crown Acquisitions, has died of complications related to Covid-19 …
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New York Times:
How Biogen Became a Coronavirus ‘Superspreader’ — Biogen employees unwittingly spread the coronavirus from Massachusetts to Indiana, Tennessee and North Carolina. — BOSTON — On the first Monday in March, Michel Vounatsos, chief executive of the drug company Biogen, appeared in good spirits.
Todd S. Purdum / The Atlantic:
The Biggest Job Joe Biden Ever Had — It was by far the largest enterprise Joe Biden had ever led: a nearly $800 billion government-spending program intended to rescue the country from the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. It involved more than 100,000 projects—275 programs within 28 federal agencies.
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Politico:
States still baffled over how to get coronavirus supplies from Trump — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was pleading with the federal government to send ventilators. — The state was starting to see hundreds of new coronavirus cases pop up each day, and Polis, a Democrat, worried that hospitals …
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