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The Daily Beast:
Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing  —  The Georgia Republican is the second Senator who has gotten rid of their holdings right as the stock market went bad.  —  The Senate's newest member sold off seven figures worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks …
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ProPublica:
Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Soon after he offered public assurances …
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Republican Jim Inhofe dumped up to $450,000 in stock — the fourth GOP senator implicated in scandal: report … Third GOP Senator caught dumping stock before the market crash — this time up to $25 million worth
Discussion: Political Flare
Karl Evers-Hillstrom / OpenSecrets.org:
Senate Intel chair unloaded stocks in mid-February before coronavirus rocked markets
Washington Post:   Sen. Richard Burr, head of powerful committee, sold large amount of stocks before sharp declines in market
Sarah Chaney / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Asks States to Keep Quiet About Jobless Figures  —  Coronavirus crisis spurs a spike in unemployment claims as industries are forced to shut down  —  The Trump administration asked states to abstain from releasing unemployment-claims figures prior to the publication …
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Elaina Plott / New York Times:
Her Facebook Friends Asked If Anyone Was Actually Sick.  She Had an Answer.  —  Heaven Frilot is normally a private person.  But this is not a normal time.  So she and her husband are now the face of the coronavirus for their conservative Louisiana community.
New York Times:
California Governor Orders All Residents to Stay Home  —  The Trump administration asked states to hold off on releasing grim data on unemployment claims, and Italy's death toll surpassed China's. … Staying at home “is not a permanent state,” California's governor says.
Discussion: CNN, HuffPost, The Week and Seeking Alpha
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Jobless Claims Mount as Employers and Workers Face Bleak Outlook
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Political Flare
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Newsom orders all 40M Californians to stay home in nation's strictest lockdown  —  BERKELEY — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered California's nearly 40 million residents to stay home, making it the first state to impose that strict mandate on all residents to counteract a looming surge of new infections.
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CNBC:
California governor issues statewide order to ‘stay at home’ effective Thursday evening  — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued a statewide order for all residents to ‘stay at home’ amid a coronavirus outbreak.  — The stay home order is in place till further notice.
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Exclusive: McConnell defends crafting $1 trillion stimulus plan without Democrats  —  Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday defended the Senate Republicans coming up with a proposed $1 trillion economic stimulus plan to battle the coronavirus without any input from Democrats …
Discussion: Political Wire, The Hill, UPI and Politico
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Politico:
Who wins in the Senate GOP's big bailout
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Sister Toldjah / Redstate:   Never Trumper Jen Rubin Tries a Gotcha on McConnell, but the WaPo Had to Issue an Embarrassing Correction
Wall Street Journal:
Rethinking the Coronavirus Shutdown  —  No society can safeguard public health for long at the cost of its economic health.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Financial markets paused their slide Thursday, but no one should think this rolling economic calamity is over.
Discussion: Power Line
Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times:
US drugmaker doubled price on potential coronavirus treatment  —  Therapy touted by President Trump made more expensive in January as China outbreak spread  —  The only US drugmaker that makes a potential treatment for the coronavirus that was touted by President Donald Trump raised the price …
Discussion: US Food and Drug …, The Week and CNN
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
We Need Time to Absorb All This  —  Everyone is thinking through the reality of the coronavirus pandemic and how to rise to the occasion.  —  This is a quick piece that touches on where we are, where we may be going, and an attitude for the journey.  —  The screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan once …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
3 Rules for the Trump Pandemic  —  One: Don't trust the president.  —  So Donald Trump is now calling Covid-19 the “Chinese virus.”  Of course he is: Racism and blaming other people for his own failures are the defining features of his presidency.  But if we're going to give it a nickname …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Red and Blue America Aren't Experiencing the Same Pandemic  —  Even a disease as far-reaching as the coronavirus hasn't entirely crossed the chasm between red and blue America.  —  In several key respects, the outbreak's early stages are unfolding very differently in Republican- and Democratic-leaning parts of the country.
Discussion: WCMH-TV
New York Times:
‘At War With No Ammo’: Doctors Say Shortage of Protective Gear Is Dire  —  The lack of proper masks, gowns and eye gear is imperiling the ability of medical workers to fight the coronavirus — and putting their own lives at risk.  —  The Open Cities Community Health Center in St. Paul …
Discussion: Politico and ProPublica
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Michael Donnelly:
COVID-19: NYC should brace for impact and shut down now.  —  Five days ago I wrote this medium post (COVID-19: New York Will Be The Next Italy, But Doesn't Have to Be).  In it, I forecast that NYC's hospitals would be at capacity as early as March 30.  Unfortunately, I was wrong.
travel.state.gov:
Global Level 4 Health Advisory - Do Not Travel  —  Level 4: Do Not Travel  —  The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19.  In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who live …
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Michelle Kaufman / Miami Herald:
American Airlines grounds 55,000 flights, offers voluntary leaves to employees
Discussion: The Points Guy
New York Times:
Under the Virus's Cloak, Trump Pursues Long-Sought Policies  —  From border controls to anti-union efforts, the Trump administration is using the coronavirus to seek policies that the president wanted before the pandemic.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House, under the guise of its coronavirus response …
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Coronavirus and Poverty: A Mother Skips Meals So Her Children Can Eat  —  Americans with tight financial resources have fewer options as they navigate coronavirus closures and layoffs.  —  BRENHAM, Texas — With her six hungry children in the car, Summer Mossbarger was one of the first in line for lunch at the drive-through.
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump's new public health ‘star’  —  After being sidelined for much of the Trump administration, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has suddenly emerged as a key player in its messaging about the coronavirus outbreak, often echoing the president's arguments and winning his favor.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Acting counterterrorism center head fired, according to former U.S. officials  —  The acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center was fired Wednesday night in what insiders fear is a purge by the Trump administration of career professionals at an organization set up after 9/11 …
Baltimore Sun:
Howard County 5-year-old is first Maryland child with confirmed coronavirus; Hogan says some Marylanders treating crisis like ‘spring break’  —  A 5-year-old girl in Howard County became the first Maryland child to test positive for the new coronavirus, Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday as he imposed …
Tomas Pueyo:
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance  —  What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time … Summary of the article: Strong coronavirus measures today should only take a few weeks, there wouldn't be a peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society …
Des Bieler / Washington Post:
Jeremy Lin rips Trump for ‘empowering’ racism with talk of ‘Chinese Virus’  —  President Trump said Wednesday that his use of the term “Chinese Virus” was “not racist at all.”  Among those who might strongly take issue with that assertion would be Jeremy Lin, given his criticism of the president on Tuesday.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Don't blame ‘China’ for the coronavirus — blame the Chinese Communist Party
 
 
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump peddles unsubstantiated hope in dark times
Discussion: IJR and HuffPost
Jon Meacham / New York Times:
We Can't Let Coronavirus Postpone Elections
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Oversells Breakthroughs in Boasts of U.S. Virus Response
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Teva USA:
Teva to Donate Potential COVID-19 Treatment, Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Tablets to Hospitals Nationwide
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Coronavirus upends nation as three in four Americans' lives changed by pandemic: POLL
Discussion: Mediaite and Politico
Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg:
Trump Told Governors to Buy Own Virus Supplies, Then Outbid Them
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Adam Schiff fights to keep impeachment subpoena records secret
Discussion: Redstate and WND
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Pam Bondi rejoins Trump-connected lobbying firm
 Earlier Items: 
Patrick Klepek / VICE:
GameStop Instructs Employees to Ignore Law Enforcement And Not Shut Down
Discussion: The Verge, The Wrap and Raw Story
Washington Post:
The inside story of the CPAC scare: When the coronavirus passed within a handshake of the president …
Discussion: National Review
JM Rieger / Washington Post:
Sean Hannity denied calling coronavirus a hoax nine days after he called coronavirus a hoax
Shira Stein / Bloomberg Law:
Trump's 500 Million Respirators Could Take 18 Months to Deliver
Discussion: Raw Story, Slate and The Independent
Washington Post:
Coronavirus will radically alter the U.S.
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Three pillars of Trump's case for reelection are collapsing all at once
 

 
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