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Jess Bidgood / The Boston Globe:
Elizabeth Warren's oldest brother dies of coronavirus in Oklahoma — Donald Reed Herring, the oldest brother of Senator Elizabeth Warren, died on Tuesday night in Norman, Okla., about three weeks after testing positive for coronavirus. — Herring, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was 86.
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Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
‘Sadness’ and Disbelief From a World Missing American Leadership — The coronavirus pandemic is shaking bedrock assumptions about U.S. exceptionalism. This is perhaps the first global crisis in more than a century where no one is even looking for Washington to lead.
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Katherine Landergan / Politico:
Murphy: McConnell's suggestion states declare bankruptcy ‘utterly irresponsible’ — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday blasted as “completely and utterly irresponsible” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's suggestion that state governments facing financial disaster during …
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
We Don't Have To Do This Again — The central provisions of the CARES act were designed to allow businesses and workers to weather widespread economic shutdown orders, but only for so long. The bill expands unemployment benefits substantially, but only through July 31.
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Washington Post, Politico and Common Dreams
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
McConnell Says States Should Consider Bankruptcy, Rebuffing Calls for Aid
McConnell Says States Should Consider Bankruptcy, Rebuffing Calls for Aid
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CNN:
Task force members sent Birx to convince Trump to denounce Kemp's Georgia reopening decision, source says — Trump: I told Georgia governor I disagree with decision to reopen — (CNN)Members of the coronavirus task force had to convince President Donald Trump to change his view …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump's coronavirus rift with Kemp puts Georgia Republicans in a tough spot
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Rep. Collins sides with Trump in slamming Georgia governor's plan to reopen
Rep. Collins sides with Trump in slamming Georgia governor's plan to reopen
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David Jackson / USA Today:
Trump says he disagrees with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's decision to reopen during coronavirus outbreak
Trump says he disagrees with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's decision to reopen during coronavirus outbreak
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
They lived in a factory for 28 days to make millions of pounds of raw PPE materials to help fight coronavirus — At his factory just off the Delaware River, in the far southeastern corner of Pennsylvania, Joe Boyce clocked in on March 23 for the longest shift of his life.
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
The US economy has now erased all job gains since the Great Recession — The Labor Department reported that the number of Americans applying for state unemployment benefits totaled 4.427 million last week. — Combined with the prior four jobless claims reports, the number of Americans …
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David Gura / NBC News:
U.S. jobless claims reach 26 million since coronavirus hit, wiping out all gains since 2008 recession
U.S. jobless claims reach 26 million since coronavirus hit, wiping out all gains since 2008 recession
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Rebecca Rainey / Politico:
Unemployment claims top 26 million 5 weeks into pandemic
Unemployment claims top 26 million 5 weeks into pandemic
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Reuters:
Special Report: HHS chief Azar had aide, former dog breeder, steer pandemic task force — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On January 21, the day the first U.S. case of coronavirus was reported, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared on Fox News to report the latest on the disease as it ravaged China.
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dems Hold Edge for Prez, Senate; House More Competitive — 6 in 10 support marijuana ballot question — West Long Branch, NJ - Democrats Joe Biden and Cory Booker hold substantial leads among New Jersey voters in their races for president and U.S. Senate, respectively.
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STAT:
New data on Gilead's remdesivir, released by accident, show no benefit for coronavirus patients. Company still sees reason for hope — The antiviral medicine remdesivir from Gilead Sciences failed to speed the improvement of patients with Covid-19 or prevent them from dying …
New York Times:
Luxury Hotel Company Is Biggest Beneficiary of Small-Business Funds — Ashford Inc. and the real estate investment trusts it oversees have tapped $53 million in Paycheck Protection Program funds via Ritz Carltons and other hotel holdings — Hotels, luxury resorts and management companies …
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Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal:
Dallas Hotel Owner Is Biggest Beneficiary of Coronavirus Loan Program
Dallas Hotel Owner Is Biggest Beneficiary of Coronavirus Loan Program
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court says Clean Water Act applies to some groundwater pollution — Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Clean Water Act requires the federal government to regulate some groundwater pollutants that find their way into navigable waters such as oceans, rivers and streams.
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
In Hawaii case, justices see broad reach of Clean Water Act
In Hawaii case, justices see broad reach of Clean Water Act
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Usama bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so ‘totally unprepared’ Biden would be president, declassified docs show — Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the “totally unprepared” Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States “into a crisis …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Coronavirus is invading Red America, new data show. That's ominous for Trump. — The political geography of our pandemic is shifting. And that's bad news for President Trump. — I don't mean that this is bad news for Trump's reelection chances, though that might prove the case.
New York Times:
Hidden Outbreaks Spread Through U.S. Cities Far Earlier Than Americans Knew, Estimates Say — Hidden Outbreaks Spread Far Earlier Than Americans Knew, Estimates Say — New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle had undetected outbreaks long before testing showed a major problem, according to a model.
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KTLA and CBS New York
John F. Harris / Politico:
Stop Looking on the Bright Side: We'll Be Screwed By the Pandemic for Years to Come — The headline certainly sounded grave and full of portent: “Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here's How.” — Those words, emblazoned atop a POLITICO Magazine story last month in the opening days …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Wisconsin, Virus Creates New Front in Long-Simmering Partisan Wars — Protests planned for Friday continue a decade-long partisan cleaving in the state and serve as a stand-in for the general election battle to come. — Wisconsin had barely finished its fight over whether to hold …
Bloomberg Law:
The Federalist Publisher's Tweet Was Illegal: Labor Board Judge — Listen — The publisher of conservative online magazine The Federalist broke federal labor laws when he tweeted last year that he'd send employees “back to the salt mine” if they tried to unionize, a National Labor Relations Board administrative judge decided.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Justice Alito's jurisprudence of white racial innocence — Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court's budget during a House hearing on March 7, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images — Alito gets very upset if you suggest that racism exists. — On Monday, the Supreme Court held …
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
The risk of a US double-dip depression is real — Reopening states to boost the economy despite the scientific evidence will do more damage than good — If you think one lockdown is painful enough, imagine a second. It is too soon to gauge the lasting impact of putting the US economy into a deep freeze for weeks.
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Aaron Sankin / The Markup:
Want to Find a Misinformed Public? Facebook's Already Done It — While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in"pseudoscience" — Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a post pledging to combat misinformation about COVID-19 circulating on Facebook.
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Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Democrats' House Polling Lead: Remarkably Steady — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The Democratic lead in House generic ballot polling has been very consistent over the course of Donald Trump's presidency. — Democrats also have a significant money edge in the lion's share of their most vulnerable districts.
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Poll signals strengthening support for Biden over Trump in three Midwest battleground states — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump trails Democrat Joe Biden among registered voters in three Midwestern battleground states that he narrowly carried in 2016 …
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Danielle Garrand / CBS News:
Publix is buying excess milk and produce from farmers — and donating it to food banks — Farmers around the country have been forced to dump milk and waste fresh produce as schools, restaurants and other institutions remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products — Contrary to assertions to Congress, employees often consulted sales information on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise — Amazon.com Inc. employees have used data about independent sellers …
The Bulwark:
February 7: A Day That Will Live in Infamy — February 7 is a day that changed the world. — It's a day that defines the Trump administration's failures on COVID-19. — A day that will shape the campaign around the president's reelection. — On February 7, Dr. Li Wenliang …
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
In New York's largest hospital system, 88 percent of coronavirus patients on ventilators didn't make it — New data shows many of those hospitalized had high blood pressure, obesity or diabetes — Throughout March, as the pandemic gained momentum in the United States …
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Washington Post:
Fox News hosts go mum on the covid-19 drug they spent weeks promoting — At the height of Fox News's coverage of a would-be treatment for the novel coronavirus, the network's medical correspondent, Marc Siegel, offered a remarkable testimonial during Tucker Carlson's show.
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