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11:45 AM ET, March 9, 2020

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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Free Press poll: Biden holds huge 24-point edge over Sanders in Michigan  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden, riding a wave of momentum from primaries in South Carolina and Super Tuesday states, comes into Tuesday's Michigan primary with a 24-point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders in a new Free Press poll.
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CNN:
CNN poll: Biden has double-digit lead over Sanders for Democratic nomination  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden has a double-digit lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination, a new CNN poll of Democratic voters nationwide conducted by SSRS shows.
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Cory Booker Endorses Joe Biden  —  The endorsement from Mr. Booker comes 24 hours after Kamala Harris endorsed Mr. Biden, and the two senators will appear with the former vice president at a rally in Detroit on Monday night.  —  Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey endorsed former Vice President …
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Biden to get cover from major super PAC as GOP attacks ramp up
Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill and Breitbart
Firehouse Strategies:
BREAKING: Trump Loses Ground Against Democratic Challengers in Battleground States
Discussion: Breitbart and The Guardian
WOOD-TV:
Poll: Biden leads in Michigan ahead of primary
Discussion: Daily Kos
David Winning / Wall Street Journal:
Global Markets in Turmoil as Oil Plunges  —  Bond investors push U.S. Treasury yields to fresh record as concerns about global economic stability escalate  —  The prospect of an energy glut ratcheted up turmoil across markets world-wide on Monday, with oil plunging 20% and the yield …
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Bloomberg:
Deepening Rout in U.S. Stock Futures Triggers Limit Down Rules  — CME rules stipulate futures can't fall more than 5% from close  — S&P 500 futures sink as Saudi Arabia wages oil price war  —  Waves of selling in U.S. stock index futures triggered Chicago Mercantile Exchange limits …
Yun Li / CNBC:
Dow futures tumble 900 points as all-out oil price war adds to coronavirus stress  —  Stock futures tumbled in overnight trading Sunday as investors continued to brace for the economic fallout from the spreading coronavirus, while a shocking all-out oil price war added to the anxiety.
Bloomberg:
Oil Drops 31% in Worst Loss Since Gulf War as Price Fight Erupts
Discussion: Quartz and allAfrica.com
Adam Haigh / Bloomberg:
Crude Crashes, Stocks Plunge, FX Sees Wild Moves: Markets Wrap
Axios:
Joe Biden's secret governing plan  —  This is a new “Axios on HBO” column on the reality behind the curtain of the powerful, by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen.  —  Joe Biden confidants are privately discussing potential leaders and Cabinet members for his White House, including the need to name …
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Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Donald Trump Jr. says he'll debate Hunter Biden and release his taxes
Discussion: Breitbart, Mediaite and Raw Story
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Fissures widen between White House and health agencies over coronavirus  —  (CNN)Fissures between the White House and national health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have begun to expand as the coronavirus pandemic spreads to more American states …
Discussion: Politico and NBC News
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Washington Post:   With global economy in balance, the White House and Fed are at odds over how to help
NBC News:
Mixed White House messaging on coronavirus sparks internal frustration
Discussion: Mediaite, Bloomberg, MSNBC and Rolling Stone
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Twitter flags video retweeted by President Trump as ‘manipulated media’  —  It's the first time the social network has enforced a new policy to fight doctored videos and photos  —  Twitter applied its new “manipulated media” label for the first time on Sunday to a deceptively edited video of former vice president Joe Biden.
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New York Times:
Surge of Virus Misinformation Stumps Facebook and Twitter
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Manipulated Biden Video Escalates Online Speech War With Trump
Discussion: The Independent and VICE
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Simple Reason the Left Won't Stop Losing  —  Progressives need to care more about winning.  —  How did the political left squander the opportunity that was the 2020 primary campaign?  —  The Trump presidency has created tremendous energy among progressives.  More than half of Democratic voters now identify as liberal.
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ohpredictiveinsights.cmail20.com:   Joe Biden Leads in Arizona Democratic Primary
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says Warren ‘singlehandedly destroyed’ Sanders' campaign
Discussion: Politico
Michael Fumento / New York Post:
Coronavirus going to hit its peak and start falling sooner than you think  —  Nations are closing borders, stocks are plummeting and a New York Times headline reads: “The Coronavirus Has Put the World's Economy in Survival Mode.”  Both political parties have realized the crisis could severely impact …
Discussion: Power Line
NBC News:
Anxiety in an aging Congress as coronavirus marches across U.S.  —  “There's a lot of concern that members could bring it home,” a senior Democratic leadership aide says as offices discuss recessing Congress.  —  WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are becoming increasingly anxious about coronavirus …
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Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Congress Considering Emergency Shutdown Over Coronavirus Threat to Aging Members
Discussion: NBC News, The Independent and Raw Story
Ben Smith / New York Times:
What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About the Media  —  The senator's sweeping critique of coverage has more merit than we in the media like to admit.  —  When a BuzzFeed News colleague and I sat down with Bernie Sanders in his Capitol Hill office in 2015, he started with a thank you …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
What the media missed about Joe Biden's electability  —  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at Tougaloo College on March 08, 2020 in Tougaloo, Mississippi.  Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images  —  Political devotees don't like Joe Biden, but voters do.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Beast
Peter Baker / New York Times:
For Trump, Coronavirus Proves to Be an Enemy He Can't Tweet Away  —  A president who is at his strongest politically when he has a human target to attack has found it harder to confront a growing outbreak that has rattled the country.  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — Defending against criticism …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Michelle Malkin: Mother of Groypers  —  How did the darling of Conservatism Inc. get caught up with Nick Fuentes, America First, and the groypers?  —  When I first heard that Michelle Malkin was going to speak to a bunch of anti-Semitic, racist, and homophobic “groypers,” I thought (1) Oh …
Discussion: The Other McCain and Fox News
Washington Post:
Hundreds exposed to D.C. church rector with coronavirus urged to self-quarantine  —  This is a developing story.  It will be updated.  —  D.C. officials on Monday urged hundreds who attended Christ Church Georgetown on several recent days to self-quarantine because of their exposure …
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Trump in the Time of the Coronavirus  —  The first official act of the Trump Administration was the Inauguration—and, within hours, a lie delivered from the White House press room about how this had been “the largest audience to ever witness an Inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.”
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Michigan Was Once Bernie's Resurrection.  Now It Could Be His Burial.  —  ANN ARBOR, Michigan—When Bernie Sanders scored the biggest upset of the 2016 primary, defeating Hillary Clinton in Michigan after late polls showed him losing the state by an average of 30 points, he celebrated it as a turning point in the campaign.
Discussion: The Guardian
Seth Hettena / New Republic:
Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse?  —  About a week before Christmas, I received a most unwelcome email.  A criminal complaint had been filed against me in Bulgaria, a country I have never visited and with which I had no personal connection.  I stood accused of defamation; attempted censorship …
 
 
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Columbia University Cancels Classes After Coronavirus Exposure
Discussion: Gothamist and CBS New York
Michele Munz / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Family of Missouri's first coronavirus patient broke self quarantine, St. Louis County officials say
Denise Grady / New York Times:
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Sammy Gecsoyler / The Guardian:
BBC presenter Liz Bonnin's likeness was used in an ad after the company running the campaign was tricked by a fake, likely AI-generated, version of her voice

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