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9:40 PM ET, March 15, 2020

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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Stock futures drop — hit ‘limit down’ — even as Fed slashes rates; Dow futures off 1,000 points  —  Stock futures plunged Sunday night even after the Federal Reserve embarked on a massive monetary stimulus campaign to curb slower economic growth amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Discussion: The Week
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement  —  The coronavirus outbreak has harmed communities and disrupted economic activity in many countries, including the United States.  Global financial conditions have also been significantly affected.  Available economic data show that the U.S. economy came …
Bloomberg:
Fed Cuts Main Interest Rate to Near Zero, Vows Massive Bond-Buying Program
Discussion: Reuters and Slate
Heather Long / Washington Post:   Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to zero as part of wide-ranging emergency intervention
Skanda Amarnath:   The Fed Can And Should Support State Government Efforts To Respond To COVID-19 Right Now
Cheryl Benard / Washington Post:
Landing at Dulles Airport, I encountered a case study in how to spread a pandemic  —  Cheryl Benard is a former senior analyst with the RAND Corporation and has written about health systems in post-conflict environments.  —  Like thousands of Americans and Europeans scrambling …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Daily Kos
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Washington Post:
Coronavirus screening causes massive bottlenecks at U.S. airports
Washington Post:
Live updates: Puerto Rico enacts curfew over coronavirus concerns; travelers face hours-long delays at U.S. airports
Discussion: The Week
Taylor Dolven / Miami Herald:
Thousands leave Miami cruise ship without screenings after former passenger got COVID-19  —  Note: The Miami Herald and McClatchy news sites have lifted the paywall on this developing story, providing critical information to readers.  To support vital reporting such as this, please consider a digital subscription.
Discussion: The Hill
Reuters:
Germany tries to stop US from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine  —  BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine.
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Thomas Colson / Business Insider:   President Trump tried to poach German scientists working on a cure for coronavirus and offered cash …
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Sixty percent believe worst is yet to come for the U.S. in coronavirus pandemic  —  Public attitudes about the coronavirus response are split along partisan lines in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.  —  WASHINGTON — A majority of American voters say they're worried that someone …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill, Vox, CNN, Daily Kos and Politico
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Fauci: 'If it looks like you're overreacting you're probably doing the right thing'  —  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony Fauci said Sunday that it was better to err on the side of caution in coronavirus mitigation, even if the steps taken appear to be an overreaction.
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
New York Times:
New York City to Close Public Schools: Live Updates  —  The move is the most far-reaching and disruptive the city has taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus.  —  RIGHT NOW New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that five people in the city had died from the coronavirus, all of whom had underlying health issues.
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Andrew M. Cuomo / New York Times:
Andrew Cuomo to President Trump: Mobilize the Military to Help Fight Coronavirus
Eliza Shapiro / New York Times:
Coronavirus in N.Y.: New York City Public Schools to Close
Jacob Rosenberg / Mother Jones:
O'Hare Airport Was Total Chaos on Saturday.  But the White House Is More Upset About a Tweet.  —  On Saturday night, as images of huge crowds stuck at customs at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport went viral, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker tweeted his frustration—tagging President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
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Bobby Allyn / NPR:
White House Says More Drive-Through Coronavirus Test Sites To Open This Week
Axios:
Pence's presidential moment
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A Complete List of Trump's Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus  —  He could have taken action.  He didn't.  —  President Trump made his first public comments about the coronavirus on Jan. 22, in a television interview from Davos with CNBC's Joe Kernen.  The first American case had been announced …
Politico:
Biden and Bernie go head to head — six feet apart  —  Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders met Sunday night in the Democratic primary's first one-on-one debate, with Biden looking to open up a commanding lead for the nomination Tuesday and with the nation struggling to contain the fast-moving coronavirus.
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William Hanage / The Guardian:
I'm an epidemiologist.  When I heard about Britain's ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire  —  Vulnerable people should not be exposed to Covid-19 right now in the service of a hypothetical future  —  Your house is on fire, and the people whom you have trusted with your care are not trying to put it out.
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Amazon warns of delivery delays, running out of items  —  Amazon warned of delayed deliveries and items going out of stock as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread.  —  The online retailer said the increase in people shopping online is having a short-term impact on how it serves customers.
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A clinical trial evaluating a vaccine designed to protect against the new coronavirus will begin Monday, according to a government official.  —  The first participant in the trial will receive the experimental vaccine …
Discussion: The Week
Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
Trump considering ‘full pardon’ of former national security advisor Michael Flynn  — Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about the nature of his conversations with the Russian ambassador prior to Trump's inauguration as president.  — Flynn is in the process of trying …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Madeleine Westerhout to release Oval Office memoir  —  Madeleine Westerhout, who spent 2½ years as President Trump's Oval Office gatekeeper, will release a frank memoir on Aug. 11 about one mistake that cost her one of the world's most fascinating jobs.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Steven Mnuchin says Trump didn't get ‘things wrong at all’ in his coronavirus address.  That's absurd.  —  This is a time in which the American people need to have confidence in their leaders to tell the truth.  It's also a moment in which Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin set himself …
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
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Washington Post:   With unprecedented force and speed, a global recession is likely taking hold
 
 
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Clyburn calls Trump a racist, warns US could ‘go the way of Germany in the 1930s’
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
Ryan McCrimmon / Politico:
Trump urges no hoarding as coronavirus panic strains grocery stores
Discussion: Breitbart, Kroger and H-E-B Newsroom
The Hill:
California governor calls for bar closures, restaurant restrictions as crisis worsens
Discussion: Politico, Sacramento Bee and IJR
Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun-Times:
Pritzker orders all bars and restaurants to close to dine-in customers by end of day Monday
Discussion: Breitbart, Eater and Mediaite
Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
UK ministers will no longer claim ‘no successful examples’ of Russian interference
Tom Bergeron / ROI-NJ:
Life at the epicenter of N.J.'s coronavirus outbreak
Axios:
Netanyahu rival Gantz to receive mandate for forming Israeli government
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Associated Press:
Virus screenings jam US airports; ‘atrocious,’ a flyer says
Discussion: WBRZ and The Week
David Boroff / The US Sun:
LOCK HIM UP Coronavirus patient under 24/7 armed guard after REFUSING to self-isolate
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The Coronavirus Called America's Bluff
Washington Post:
Without guidance from the top, Americans have been left to figure out their own coronavirus solutions
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
'It's Totally Ad Hoc': Why America's Virus Response Looks Like a Patchwork
 

 
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