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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump offered a confusing coronavirus theory. Conservative pundits explained it for him. — For once, President Donald Trump's latest tossed-out suggestion for a way to combat coronavirus — injecting ultraviolet rays — did not originate from a Fox News guest, a viral Twitter thread or an article on a conservative website.
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
‘It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle,’ Birx says of Trump's disinfectant and light comments — Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, downplayed President Donald Trump's suggestion last week that injected disinfectants and light could work as treatments …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House to shift to economic message on coronavirus
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Beth Baumann / Townhall:
‘Squad’ Member Is Now Encouraging People to Ignore Health Experts' Coronavirus Advice
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
White House aiming for Trump pivot from virus to economy
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
The cost of Trump's deadly state of denial
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Washington Post:
Kim Jong Un's train spotted at coastal resort, intel reports scotch death rumors — TOKYO — Evidence that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is still alive and in the coastal resort of Wonsan is mounting, as satellite images showed his train apparently traveled there in the past few days …
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Is the talk about Kim Jong Un being sick — or worse — true? Pyongyang is abuzz, too. — Where is Kim Jong Un? Is the devious despot dead after heart surgery? Is he lying in a vegetative state in a hospital bed? Or is he happily chain-smoking at his beachfront palace in Wonsan?
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Hyung-jin Kim / Associated Press:
Satellite imagery finds likely Kim train amid health rumors
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
What does CNN know about the Biden assault allegation that we don't? — Right now, the available evidence does not prove that Joe Biden more likely than not committed the 1993 assault that his former Senate staffer Tara Reade has alleged. Part of this is purely on the virtue of the age …
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Charles Duhigg / New Yorker:
Seattle's Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York's Did Not — The initial coronavirus outbreaks on the East and West Coasts emerged at roughly the same time. But the danger was communicated very differently. — The first diagnosis of the coronavirus in the United States occurred …
Financial Times:
Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported — Mortality statistics show 111,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across 15 countries analysed by the FT — The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts …
Washington Post:
13 hours of Trump: The president fills briefings with attacks and boasts, but little empathy — President Trump strode to the lectern in the White House briefing room Thursday and, for just over an hour, attacked his rivals, dismissing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as a …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Hey, teachers, cops, etc. — Mitch McConnell wants your job, pension. Will he kill the GOP instead? — It's been a generation since the right-wing activist Grover Norquist said his movement's goal wasn't to eliminate government but merely to “shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.”
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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
'Is this another death I'll have to pronounce?' … I'm always driving, going back-and-forth between nursing homes, the hospital, and the morgue. All these roads should be empty if you ask me. But now I see people out running errands, rushing back into their lives, and it's like: “Why?
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CNN:
People receiving stimulus checks get letter signed by President Donald Trump — Why millions still haven't received stimulus money — (CNN)If you're getting money from the federal government as part of the recent stimulus response to the coronavirus, you'll also get a letter from President Donald Trump explaining why.
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Raw Story
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The White House tried to move a reporter to the back of the press room, but she refused. Then Trump walked out. — A White House official ordered a CNN reporter to give up her front-row seat and move to the back of the press room before President Trump's briefing on Friday …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Why Trump went off on Brian Kemp — One of the more surprising recent political moments was when President Trump publicly lambasted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. It's rare — and politically damaging — for a Republican official to get steamrolled the way Kemp did last week.
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Abigail Leonard / TIME:
This Japanese Island Lifted Its Coronavirus Lockdown Too Soon and Became a Warning to the World — Japan's northern island of Hokkaido offers a grim lesson in the next phase of the battle against COVID-19. It acted quickly and contained an early outbreak of the coronavirus with a 3-week lockdown.
Doree Lewak / New York Post:
NYC tailor defies state order: 'I'm opening my doors come hell or high water' — One defiant NYC business owner — who's been deemed “non-essential” during the pandemic — has a message to New York: “I'm opening my doors come hell or high water.” — Eliot Rabin, whose Upper East Side boutique …
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New York Times:
Closed Hospitals Leave Rural Patients ‘Stranded’ as Coronavirus Spreads — A for-profit company bought three struggling hospitals in West Virginia and Ohio. Doctors were fired, supplies ran low and many in need of care had to journey elsewhere. Then the doors shut for good.
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Trump Turns Shared American Experiences Into Us vs. Them — Nostalgia for a time when Democratic leaders could embrace Republican leaders in a moment of crisis — and when a bipartisan group would gather for an annual roasting in Washington. — WASHINGTON — Last weekend …
Ashe Schow / The Daily Wire:
New York Required Nursing Homes To Admit ‘Medically Stable’ Coronavirus Patients. The Results Were Deadly. — On March 25, New York's Health Department issued a mandate that state nursing homes could not refuse COVID-19-positive patients who were “medically stable,” meaning facilities …
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Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared — Tens of millions of pounds of American-grown produce is rotting in fields as food banks across the country scramble to meet a massive surge in demand, a two-pronged disaster that has deprived farmers of billions of dollars …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
To Pressure Iran, Pompeo Turns to the Deal Trump Renounced — The secretary of state is preparing an argument that the U.S. remains a participant in the Obama-era nuclear deal, with the goal of extending an arms embargo or destroying the accord. — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …
Washington Post:
'We're basically ill-prepared': Hobbled House majority frets about its effectiveness amid pandemic — House Democrats have blasted President Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic as inept and dangerous. Party leaders insisted on the creation of a special committee to root out abuse …
New York Times:
One Rich N.Y. Hospital Got Warren Buffett's Help. This One Got Duct Tape. — The inequities of New York City's health care system are clear at a public hospital in a section of Brooklyn hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. — It has been hours since the 71-year-old man in Room 3 …
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
America Isn't Actually Doing So Badly Against Coronavirus — The U.S., like all countries, has made its share of mistakes, but that doesn't make it a “failed state.” — We don't have enough tests for Covid-19 in the U.S. President Donald Trump spent weeks minimizing the threat …
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Public companies took far more small business loans than first thought — here's the latest tally — Even as the U.S. small business relief program is set to reopen Monday with fresh funding, the full extent that public companies tapped the emergency facility is only now becoming clear.
Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Means the Era of Big Government Is...Back — History shows that national shocks—the Depression, World War II, the financial crisis—have a way of expanding the role of government in lasting ways. This one is looking like no exception. — TEXT — RESPONSES
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