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Washington Post:
Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about coronavirus to Trump administration — More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full …
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CNN, Vox, POLITICUSUSA, Mother Jones and Raw Story
Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
Trump Warns That Chris Wallace, Fox News Are ‘On A Bad Path’ After Pelosi Interview — President Donald Trump once again lashed out at Fox News and its flagship weekend host Chris Wallace in a tweet Sunday, saying that the network is on a “bad path” after an interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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New York Times, Sputnik News and Raw Story
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Speaker Pelosi rips Trump as ‘weak leader,’ tells ‘Fox News Sunday’ he's failed on coronavirus response
Speaker Pelosi rips Trump as ‘weak leader,’ tells ‘Fox News Sunday’ he's failed on coronavirus response
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The Hill, The US Sun, Mediaite, Twitchy, ABC News, Mother Jones, New York Post and Instapundit
Washington Post:
Trump administration, congressional leaders near deal on virus aid that includes major boost for small businesses
Trump administration, congressional leaders near deal on virus aid that includes major boost for small businesses
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Fox News, Mother Jones, New York Times, Politico, The Week and Financial Times
Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Police: At least 10 killed in shooting rampage in Canada — TORONTO (AP) — A 51-year-old man went on a shooting rampage across the northern part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia Sunday, killing at least 10 people, including a policewoman. Officials said the suspected shooter was also dead.
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CBC News, ABC News and New York Post
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE — Whenever you start to think that the federal government under Donald Trump has hit a moral bottom, it finds a new way to shock and horrify. — Over the last few weeks, it has started to appear as though …
Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Testing Hampered by Disarray, Shortages, Backlogs — State officials and labs say competition for supplies and questionable results are prolonging the national crisis — Amid efforts to expand coronavirus testing, laboratory operators and state health officials are navigating …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests — A trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Neiman Marcus to file for bankruptcy as soon as this week - sources — (Reuters) - Neiman Marcus Group is preparing to seek bankruptcy protection as soon as this week, becoming the first major U.S. department store operator to succumb to the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak …
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The Gateway Pundit, Vox, The Daily Caller, CNBC and The Week
New York Times:
Covid-19 Antibody Test, Seen as Key to Reopening Country, Does Not Yet Deliver — Antibody Test, Seen as Key to Reopening Country, Does Not Yet Deliver — The tests, many made in China without F.D.A. approval, are raising alarms. — Results are off. Doctors are misusing them.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Hold these Republicans accountable for deaths caused by recklessness — President Trump tweeted a series of all-caps messages Friday that Virginia, Michigan and Minnesota —states with responsible stay-at-home orders — should “LIBERATE” themselves. It's not clear whether this was a suggestion …
Mark Murray / NBC News:
In new poll, 60 percent support keeping stay-at-home restrictions to fight coronavirus — Fifty-eight percent say they are more worried about stopping the virus' spread while 32 percent are more concerned with the economic fallout, a new NBC News/WSJ poll shows.
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Catherine Lucey / Wall Street Journal:
More Americans Fear Lifting Coronavirus Restrictions Too Soon, WSJ/NBC Poll Says
More Americans Fear Lifting Coronavirus Restrictions Too Soon, WSJ/NBC Poll Says
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Mother Jones
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump, Fox News are trying to gin up a new Tea Party to distract you from their deadly failures — One carried a sign with Patrick Henry's famed Revolutionary-era quote — “Give me liberty or give me death!” — and parked herself in front of a shuttered Baskin-Robbins to show her determination …
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New York Times, Vox and The Atlantic
Washington Post:
FloridaMorons trends after people flock to reopened Florida beaches — Aerial snapshots of people flocking to a reopened beach in Jacksonville, Fla., made waves on the Internet on Saturday. — Local news aired photos and videos of Florida's shoreline dotted with people, closer than six feet apart …
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The Guardian, Daily Kos, PJ Media Home, The Hill, Orlando Sentinel, Slate and Post and Courier
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Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
‘Very, Very Scary’: Officials Dumbfounded as Florida Beaches Reopen, 3 Days After Death Spike
‘Very, Very Scary’: Officials Dumbfounded as Florida Beaches Reopen, 3 Days After Death Spike
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Sun Herald and WTVY
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Trump Has Begun His Corona Campaign. We Don't Have to Play Along. — The coronavirus story isn't about the president. — Did you hear? The president said some things today. Mean things! About someone I know ... I can't quite remember the details, or whether it was today or yesterday, or what day of the week it is, anyway.
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Sheila Kaplan / New York Times:
C.D.C. Labs Were Contaminated, Delaying Coronavirus Testing, Officials Say
C.D.C. Labs Were Contaminated, Delaying Coronavirus Testing, Officials Say
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Sputnik News
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Boris Johnson skipped five virus briefings in early days of pandemic — A 5,000-word exposé by the Sunday Times of London — “38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster” — finds that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, distracted by personal turmoil and his Brexit victory lap …
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The Sunday Times, Balloon Juice and Sputnik News
The Seattle Times:
AND THE TEAM PLAYED ON — As COVID-19 fears grew, public officials and sports executives weighed health risks — and a PR message — but let 33,000 fans into a Sounders match on March 7. At what cost? — Despite coronavirus concerns, some 33,000 fans attended the Seattle Sounders vs …
Brooke Baldwin / CNN:
How fighting coronavirus taught me about the gift of connection — We are publishing personal essays from CNN's global staff as they live and cover the story of Covid-19. Brooke Baldwin anchors the 2-4p.m. edition of CNN Newsroom. Based in New York, she was recently diagnosed with coronavirus.
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Mediaite
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Oklahoma City Marks 25 Years Since America's Deadliest Homegrown Attack — On the anniversary of the attack that killed 168 people, there is concern that the national memory is fading even as the violent ideology that inspired Timothy McVeigh spreads. — Timothy J. McVeigh slaughtered 168 people …
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
25 Years After Oklahoma City, Domestic Terrorism Is on the Rise
25 Years After Oklahoma City, Domestic Terrorism Is on the Rise
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The Federalist
Uri Friedman / The Atlantic:
New Zealand's Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet — Jacinda Ardern's leadership style, focused on empathy, isn't just resonating with her people; it's putting the country on track for success against the coronavirus. — The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest test …
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The Spinoff and The National Interest
Liz Sly / Laredo Morning News:
Stirrings of unrest could portend turmoil as economies collapse — BEIRUT -As more than half the people in the world hunker down under some form of enforced confinement, stirrings of political and social unrest are pointing to a new, potentially turbulent phase in the global effort to stem the coronavirus pandemic.
Kristen Jordan Shamus / Detroit Free Press:
Family ravaged by coronavirus begged for tests, hospital care, but was repeatedly denied — The man who raised Keith Gambrell, who loved him like a son and married his mother, died in a blue recliner of novel coronavirus in his Grosse Pointe Woods home. — Gary Fowler, 56 …
Patrick Cooley / The Columbus Dispatch:
Coronavirus in Ohio: More than 1,800 inmates at Marion Correctional test positive — Patrick Cooley Jim Woods The Columbus Dispatch — The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus rose to 11,602 cases on Sunday — Coronavirus has overtaken a vast majority of the prison population …
Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
'They're killing us,' Texas residents say of Trump rollbacks — HOUSTON (AP) — Danielle Nelson's best monitor for the emissions billowing out of the oil refineries and chemical plants surrounding her home: The heaving chest of her 9-year-old asthmatic son.
Associated Press:
‘Cartels are scrambling’: Virus snarls global drug trade — NEW YORK (AP) — Coronavirus is dealing a gut punch to the illegal drug trade, paralyzing economies, closing borders and severing supply chains in China that traffickers rely on for the chemicals to make such profitable drugs as methamphetamine and fentanyl.
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump, Facing Criticism, Vows to Increase Swab Production — Governors say reopening their economies must be linked with wider testing for the virus but they continue to face shortages of supplies and testing kits. — RIGHT NOW President Trump said the administration …
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Raw Story
Anderson Cooper / CBS News:
Addressing the strain the coronavirus has put on America's food supply chain with José Andrés — Getting food to people in the U.S. has become an enormous challenge since the country has been gripped by COVID-19. Anderson Cooper reports on the charge being led, in part …