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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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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.”
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: ABC News
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:   Exclusive: Michelle Obama to push absentee voting amid coronavirus
The Daily Beast:
Democrats Fear Trump's New 2020 Strategy Is Working
Discussion: The Hill
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Bob Iger Thought He Was Leaving on Top.  Now, He's Fighting for Disney's Life.  —  The former C.E.O. thought he was riding into the sunset.  Now he's reasserting control and reimagining Disney as a company with fewer employees and more thermometers.  —  The Walt Disney Company turned franchises …
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New York Times:
The East Coast, Always in the Spotlight, Owes a Debt to the West
Discussion: The Guardian
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
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.
Discussion: ProFootballTalk and The Wrap
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 …
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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NBC News:
Trump eager to restart economy by May as he weighs ‘toughest’ decision of his presidency
Discussion: CNN
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.
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.”
Discussion: New York Post and The Hill
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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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Analysis: Will voters want a president who feels their pain?
Discussion: ABC News
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 …
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.
Washington Post:
Who's getting these hundreds of billions in the government aid?  For now, the public may be in the dark.  —  The federal government is doling out more than $2 trillion in coronavirus relief.  —  The names of businesses that collectively will receive hundreds of billions of dollars …
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Virginia governor makes Election Day a holiday and expands early voting  —  (CNN)Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Sunday that he signed a series of new measures into law aimed at expanding access to voting in the commonwealth.  —  The new legislation will establish Election Day as a holiday …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and HuffPost
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Virginia Governor / Virginia Governor Ralph Northam:
Governor Northam Signs Sweeping New Laws to Expand Access to Voting
Discussion: The Hill
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.
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.”
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate hits pause on confirming Trump's judges  —  The Senate's streak of judicial confirmations is on hiatus as senators confront the coronavirus outbreak, leaving more than three dozen nominees in limbo.  —  Until now, the Senate has rapidly confirmed President Donald Trump's judicial nominees …
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.
Discussion: PJ Media Home, Townhall and Redstate
Axios:
The coronavirus is about to devastate state and city economies  —  America's economic crisis soon may expand to its states, cities, and towns.  —  The big picture: State and local tax revenue is falling, particularly in areas heavily reliant on sales taxes, while spending is up due to added unemployment and medical obligations.
Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
Sick doctors, nurses and not enough equipment: NYC health care workers on the fight against the coronavirus  —  60 Minutes speaks to a doctor who says NYC hospitals are like hell on Earth as waves of patients suffering from COVID-19 come through their doors.
 
 
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Windsor Mann / Los Angeles Times:
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Politico:
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Washington Post:
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Kevin Clarke / americamagazine.org:
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Kathy Gilsinan / The Atlantic:
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Discussion: CNBC, IJR, American Greatness and Breitbart
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
White House still has no road map for restarting the economy
Associated Press:
As the going gets tough, America returns to experts for help
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Bishop who called marriage equality a ‘Satanic plot’ gives White House Easter blessing
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Sexual assault allegation by former Biden Senate aide emerges in campaign, draws denial
CNN:
Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research, amid US-China row on virus origin
Discussion: The Week
The Guardian:
Bolsonaro dragging Brazil towards coronavirus calamity, experts fear