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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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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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Redstate, Townhall, Raw Story, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast and FOX2now.com
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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CNN, The Guardian and WGN-TV
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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Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Joe Biden / New York Times:
My Plan to Safely Reopen America — An effective strategy to beat the virus is the ultimate answer to how we get our economy back on track. — Mr. Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. — People across America are stepping up to the plate.
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Washington Post, Axios, Fox News, IJR and The Hill
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
10 times Trump and his administration were warned about coronavirus — President Trump's tone on the coronavirus pandemic has dramatically shifted in the last month as the illness has swept across the U.S., which has now reported more confirmed cases than any country in the world.
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HuffPost, The Hill, The US Sun and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Live updates: Some churches defy restrictions on Easter; coronavirus cases could spike again …
Associated Press:
Signs missed and steps slowed in Trump's pandemic response
Signs missed and steps slowed in Trump's pandemic response
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Washington Times and PJ Media Home
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Despite encouraging signs, coronavirus is ‘advancing’ worldwide, WHO envoy warns
Despite encouraging signs, coronavirus is ‘advancing’ worldwide, WHO envoy warns
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Axios, Slate, Seeking Alpha, IJR, The National Interest and The Hill
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Fauci on Trump's delayed response to coronavirus: “It is what it is”
Fauci on Trump's delayed response to coronavirus: “It is what it is”
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Washington Examiner, Business Insider Malaysia, Associated Press, Daily Kos, Vox, Fox News and Breitbart
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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The Wrap
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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The Guardian:
Bolsonaro dragging Brazil towards coronavirus calamity, experts fear — Concerns grow that by downplaying threat, Brazil's president risks public health crisis — Medical experts have said they fear that Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, could be hastening the country's march towards …
CNN:
STATE OF THE UNION — Does Trump Have a Plan? ; Interview With Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R- AR); Interview With Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM); Interview With National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci; Interview With Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ). Aired 9-10a ET
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The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Slate and Vox
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David Beavers / Politico:
Governors, health experts push back on Trump's goal to reopen economy in May
Governors, health experts push back on Trump's goal to reopen economy in May
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ABC News
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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Susan Selasky / Detroit Free Press:
First known COVID-19 deaths of grocery store workers in Mich. reported at Kroger, Meijer
First known COVID-19 deaths of grocery store workers in Mich. reported at Kroger, Meijer
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Breitbart
Washington Post:
Sexual assault allegation by former Biden Senate aide emerges in campaign, draws denial — A California woman who last year said Joe Biden touched her neck and shoulders when she worked in his Senate office in 1993 is now accusing him of sexually assaulting her that year in a semiprivate area …
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CNN:
Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research, amid US-China row on virus origin — Hong Kong (CNN)China has imposed restrictions on the publication of academic research on the origins of the novel coronavirus, according to a central government directive and online notices published …
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 …
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Virginia Governor Ralph … and HuffPost
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Coronavirus may give President Trump a long sought chance to privatize the Postal Service — WASHINGTON — Amid a cash crunch threatening to put the U.S. postal service out of business, the Trump administration is being accused of blocking bipartisan efforts to provide money to the agency …
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Breitbart
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The debate over a post office bailout, explained
The debate over a post office bailout, explained
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The Mahablog, Rolling Stone, Daily Kos and PJ Media Home
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.
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Raw Story, Business Insider Malaysia, Fox News and The National Interest
The Daily Beast:
Democrats Fear Trump's New 2020 Strategy Is Working — The president and his team aren't hiding their plans to make Beijing the main villain in America's fight against the pandemic. — President Donald Trump and his allies are leaning heavily into a new 2020 strategy tying Democrats …
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Raw Story
National Review:
In Some Places, Easter Isn't Being Celebrated. It's Being Fined. — Some local officials have come after religious organizations with unseemly zeal. — For Christians, Easter is a time to celebrate resurrection. But it's been hard for some Americans to do that because their local officials …
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The Gateway Pundit
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