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Shake Shack returning $10 million government loan meant for small businesses — With the Paycheck Protection Program already out of money, the burger chain says other restaurateurs need its loan more than it does. — Shake Shack, one of several large restaurant chains that got federal loans through …
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Randy Garutti / LinkedIn:
Shake Shack is returning its PPP Loan. Here's why: — A letter from Danny Meyer and Randy Garutti — On March 27, when both branches of Congress and the White House came to an agreement to provide sweeping financial assistance via the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, many of us in the restaurant industry cheered with a big sigh of relief.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A raw deal — The pandemic has been devastating for small businesses …
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Alicia Wallace / CNN:
Shake Shack, Ruth's Chris and other chain restaurants got big PPP loans when small businesses couldn't
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Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Shake Shack to return small business loan after uproar
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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 …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Stop Airing Trump's Briefings! — The media is allowing disinformation to appear as news. — Around this time four years ago, the media world was all abuzz over an analysis by mediaQuant, a company that tracks what is known as “earned media” coverage of political candidates. Earned media is free media.
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James Arkin / Politico:
Democrats' momentum puts Senate majority in play — Republicans started this election cycle as heavy favorites to keep their Senate majority, with a lineup of elections mostly in red-tinted states and GOP incumbents favored over a slate of relatively unknown and untested challengers.
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Raw Story
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
White House worried Trump-inspired protests will blow up in his face if attendees are stricken with COVID-19: NYT's Haberman — Appearing remotely on CNN's “New Day” New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman claimed that senior officials in Donald Trump's administration …
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Brett Giroir, Trump's testing czar, was forced out of a job developing vaccine projects. Now he's on the hot seat. — Brett Giroir, the federal official overseeing coronavirus testing efforts, says that his experience working on vaccine development projects at Texas A&M University helped prepare him for this historic moment.
Jasmin Barmore / Detroit News:
5-year-old with rare complication becomes first Michigan child to die of COVID-19 — A month ago, 5-year-old Skylar Herbert complained to her parents that she had a bad headache. — On Sunday, after spending two weeks on a ventilator, the Detroit girl died.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
A watchdog out of Trump's grasp unleashes wave of coronavirus audits — Lawmakers handed President Donald Trump $2 trillion in coronavirus relief — and then left town without activating any of the powerful new oversight tools meant to hold his administration accountable.
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Trump calls FBI investigators in Russia probe ‘human scum’ — President Trump on Sunday lashed out at FBI leadership over the origins of the investigation into Russian election interference, calling investigators who led the probe “human scum.” — Trump made the remarks during …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Everyone is in denial about November — The 2016 hangover — Over the weekend, the hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts read a lot of analysis about what the Trump administration was thinking and doing about reelection. What all of this analysis had in common was a refusal to acknowledge some brute facts.
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George Packer / The Atlantic:
We Are Living in a Failed State — When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had gone untreated for years.
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Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Oil in New York Plunges Below $15 as Storage Sites Fill — Texan buyers offering as little as $2 a barrel for some crudes — WTI plummets as much as 22%, though futures expire on Tuesday — Oil plunged below $15 a barrel in New York, a fresh 21-year low, as inventories soar …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump, Head of Government, Leans Into Antigovernment Message — With his poll numbers fading after a rally-around-the-leader bump, the president is stoking protests against stay-at-home orders. — First he was the self-described “wartime president.” Then he trumpeted the “total” authority of the federal government.
Helen Branswell / STAT:
The months of magical thinking: As the coronavirus swept over China, some experts were in denial — The response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and other countries has been hobbled by a host of factors, many involving political and regulatory officials.
Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press:
Reports suggest many have had coronavirus with no symptoms — file photo, amid coronavirus concerns, a healthcare worker takes the temperature of a visitor to Essentia Health who was crossing over a skywalk bridge from the adjoining parking deck, in Duluth, Minn. A flood of new research suggests …
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Houston Chronicle:
Across nation, masks are the latest political, cultural divide — Kevin Krannawitter won't wear a mask because he just doesn't think it's necessary, whatever the scientists say. Marilyn Singleton won't wear one either - and she's a physician - because she says it's un-American for the government to force people to cover their faces.
Nova Scotia / Canadian Press:
RCMP officer among 17 confirmed dead in Nova Scotia killing spree — Suspected shooter was killed after being intercepted by officers in Enfield, N.S. — RCMP say 17 people are dead, including one of their officers, after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock …
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Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Police: At least 10 killed in shooting rampage in Canada
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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 …
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Reuters:
South Koreans return to work, crowd parks, malls as social distancing rules ease — Hyonhee Shin, Heekyong Yang — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Koreans are returning to work and crowding shopping malls, parks, golf courses and some restaurants as South Korea relaxes social distancing rules amid …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Idaho GOPer says stay-at-home orders ‘no different’ than sending Jews to extermination camps — A Republican state lawmaker compared Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) to Adolf Hitler because she said that stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic are akin to Nazi extermination camps.
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
David Catron / The American Spectator:
Democrats Ignore Lockdown Protests At Their Peril — The voters will exact a heavy price if the Democrats don't lift the lockdowns soon. — YouTube screenshot — 🔊 Listen to this article — In addition to killing thousands of Americans and robbing millions more of their livelihoods …
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Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Residents protest coronavirus stay-at-home orders in 5 states — Protests occurred in Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee and Washington. — Opposition to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders has continued to build from coast to coast, with at least five states the site of protests Sunday.
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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Protesting for the Right to Catch the Coronavirus — The reopen America protests are the logical conclusion of a twisted liberty movement. — Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large. — At a string of small “reopen America” protests across the country this week, mask-less citizens …
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