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Alex Wickham / BuzzFeed:
The UK Only Realised “In The Last Few Days” That Its Coronavirus Strategy Would “Likely Result In Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths” — Scientists advising the government say an aggressive new approach adopted to attempt to “suppress” the virus may have to be in place for 18 months.
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Moves to Drop Charges Against Russian Firms Filed by Mueller — The companies funded Russia's social media-fueled interference in the 2016 election, prosecutors said. But they tried to weaponize the case instead of fight it. — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved …
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Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
U.S. Justice Dept. abandons prosecution of Russian firm indicted in Mueller election interference probe — The U.S. Justice Department moved Monday to drop its two-year-long prosecution of a Russian company charged with orchestrating a social media campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
John Solomon / Just The News:
Obama DOJ officials privately told Mueller they were alarmed by FBI treatment of Flynn
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Associated Press:
Feds dropping case for 2 Russian companies in troll probe
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Justice Department drops plans for trial over Russian interference in 2016 U.S. election
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New York Times:
Trump Gives New Guidelines for Containment in the U.S. — President Trump announced new guidelines to control the spread of the virus, advising against gatherings of more than 10 people, as European nations sealed their borders. — RIGHT NOW Health officials ordered millions in six counties …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Trump to Governors on Ventilators: ‘Try Getting It Yourselves’ — On a conference call with the nation's governors, President Trump said they should try to get ventilators on their own ahead of an expected crush of coronavirus cases. — WASHINGTON — President Trump told a group of governors …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Andrew Cuomo Is the Control Freak We Need Right Now — In ordinary times, Mr. Cuomo's relentlessness and bullying drive New Yorkers crazy. In the age of the coronavirus, they soothe our battered nerves. — “A crisis shows you a person's soul,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo mused during a conference call with reporters on Sunday.
Rick Rouan / The Columbus Dispatch:
Coronavirus: Ohio election is up in air despite judge's ruling — Rick Rouan The Columbus Dispatch John Futty The Columbus Dispatch — After issuing a release that appears to defy a judge's ruling that Tuesday's primary must go forward, a source in the governor's office says that's not the case.
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Laura Hancock / Plain Dealer:
Judge denies request to delay Ohio primary election until June over coronavirus — COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Franklin County judge on Monday night denied an effort backed by Gov. Mike DeWine, who sought to move Ohio's primary election until June over concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Laura Hancock / Plain Dealer:
Judge denies request to delay Ohio primary election until June over coronavirus
Rick Rouan / The Columbus Dispatch:
Coronavirus: Judge denies request to move Ohio Primary to June 2
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Associated Press:
Ohio plans to delay primary, but 3 states still planned
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Court denies Ohio governor's request to delay Tuesday's primary until June due to coronavirus
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Washington Post:
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus — For weeks, some of Fox News's most popular hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
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Daniel Desrochers / Lexington Herald-Leader:
McConnell calls on McGrath to take down political ads as coronavirus cripples Kentucky — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign called on a potential Democratic opponent — former Marine Corps pilot Amy McGrath — to stop running political advertisements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit — The Senate majority leader has encouraged judges thinking about stepping down to do so soon to ensure that Republicans confirm their replacements this year. — WASHINGTON — Running out of federal court vacancies to fill …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Rep. Louie Gohmert delays House coronavirus relief bill from moving to Senate
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Politico:
Before Trump's inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918’ — Seven days before Donald Trump took office, his aides faced a major test: the rapid, global spread of a dangerous virus in cities like London and Seoul, one serious enough that some countries were imposing travel bans.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“There's No Boogeyman He Can Attack”: Angry at Kushner, Trump Awakens to the COVID-19 Danger — For weeks, Trump and his son-in-law saw the novel coronavirus mostly as a media and political problem. But the spiraling cases, plunging markets, and a Mar-a-Lago cluster finally opened eyes.
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Politico:
‘This is a very bad one’: Trump issues new guidelines to stem coronavirus spread
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Ron Paul / ronpaulinstitute.org:
The Coronavirus Hoax — Governments love crises because when …
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Erin Allday / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bay Area ‘shelter in place’ expected: Only essential businesses open in 6 counties with 6.7 million people until April 7 — The San Francisco Chronicle has lifted the paywall on our coverage of this developing story to provide critical information to our community.
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Tim Morrison / Washington Post:
No, the White House didn't ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there. — Tim Morrison is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the National Security Council. — President Trump gets his share of criticism — some warranted, much not.
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Washington Post:
How U.S. coronavirus testing stalled: Flawed tests, red tape and resistance to using the millions of tests produced by the WHO — When Olfert Landt heard about the novel coronavirus, he got busy. — Founder of a small Berlin-based company, the ponytailed 54-year-old first raced …
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Casinos ask Congress for emergency aid as coronavirus toll sweeps industry — Gaming association says leaders should move ‘urgently’ to back casinos and their employees — Casinos have joined the airline industry in asking Congress for emergency financial help as Las Vegas …
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New York Times:
Mayor Resisted Harsh Steps on Virus. Then Aides Said They'd Quit. — Mayor Bill de Blasio hesitated to close schools and restaurants, but pushback from advisers changed his mind. He still went to the gym Monday. — For most of last week, as Mayor Bill de Blasio continued to urge …
New York Times:
Inside the Coronavirus Response: A Case Study in the White House Under Trump — Infighting, turf wars and a president more concerned with the stock market and media coverage than policy have defined the Trump White House. They have also defined how it has handled a pandemic.
Mihir Zaveri / New York Times:
Be Wary of Those Texts From a Friend of a Friend's Aunt — Text messages claiming to have inside knowledge were the latest example of misinformation spreading amid anxiety about the coronavirus. — The text messages have largely followed a pattern: The author claims to have a connection …
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Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Former Rep. Richard Hanna, GOP moderate from Upstate NY, dies at 69 — WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, a fiercely independent Republican from Upstate New York who championed LGBT and women's rights, died Sunday at a hospital in Oneida County. He was 69.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Americans kept wondering what the president wanted them to do about coronavirus. Finally, Trump offered some guidance. — President Trump for weeks dismissed the danger of the novel coronavirus. He distracted himself by stoking unrelated feuds and nursing grievances.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
NBC News projects Joe Biden wins Washington state primary — Bernie Sanders won the state in a landslide in the 2016 Democratic caucuses there. — NBC News projects that former Vice President Joe Biden has won the Democratic primary in Washington state. — With 99 percent of the vote …
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Agence France-Presse:
Puerto Rico first US territory under 24-hour virus isolation — A woman sits by herself in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, at a normally busy area after Governor Wanda Vazquez told people to stay home — San Juan (AFP) - Puerto Rico was under 24-hour isolation Monday, governor Wanda Vazquez told local media …
Associated Press:
Coronavirus vaccine test opens as US volunteer gets 1st shot — SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. researchers gave the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday — leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges.
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Lindsay Schnell / USA Today:
California, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington close bars and restaurants in effort to slow coronavirus — The governors in five states — California, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington — closed bars, restaurants and wineries in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
SoftBank Owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents — from the and-that's-not-even-all-the-insane- parts dept — Honestly, I wasn't sure how to begin this story or how to fit all the insanity into the title.
Washington Post:
Live updates: U.S. sees largest one-day increase in death toll since the outbreak began; San Francisco area asked to shelter at home — The Washington Post is providing this story for free so that all readers have access to this important information about the coronavirus.
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Brennan Center for Justice:
How to Protect the 2020 Vote from the Coronavirus — SUMMARY: The Brennan Center's plan to ensure that the 2020 election is free, fair, accessible, and secure — Donate Amount Donate Type — Donate — This document benefited from the input of multiple election officials …
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
The buck never, ever stops with Trump — My conversation with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on March 7 in Birmingham, Ala., was quick. It was on the sidelines of the Faith and Politics Institute's annual civil rights pilgrimage and just moments …
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