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Politico:
Oppo dumps and behind-the-scenes lobbying: Biden's VP search heats up — Joe Biden's advisers and allies have become torn over whether it is more important to choose an African American or a progressive running mate. — While the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive …
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Hillary Clinton Endorses Joe Biden for President
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Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
What Biden Has To Say — Joe Biden, Tara Reade, and double-standards.
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
The Biden Trap As the candidate faces credible assault allegations, his progressive female colleagues …
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Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Leading Democrats Stand Behind Biden After Sexual-Assault Allegation
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Hillary Clinton endorses Joe Biden
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Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Joe Biden, I Want You To Release The Personnel Records’: Tara Reade Demands Transparency From Biden
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
McConnell tells GOP senators to “keep the White House in the box” on infrastructure — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell panned the idea of using a coronavirus stimulus bill to fund major infrastructure investment in a conference call today with Republican senators.
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Ben White / Politico:
Trump faces the risk of a coronavirus cliff — Republicans are trying to pull off a high-wire act over the next three months: Reopen the economy enough to get most jobless Americans back to work and off the public dole, while resisting another giant stimulus package.
Politico:
House drops plan to return after lawmaker backlash
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate Republicans eye confirmation hearing for McConnell protégé next week
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
‘Pathetic’: Schumer slams Trump's coronavirus testing blueprint
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump to Order U.S. Meat Plants to Stay Open Amid Pandemic — President Donald Trump plans to order meat-processing plants to remain open, declaring them critical infrastructure as the nation confronts growing disruptions to the food supply, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Politico:
Trump to order meat plants to stay open as worker deaths rise — President Donald Trump plans to order meat-processing plants to continue operating, declaring them critical infrastructure as the nation confronts growing disruptions to the food supply, a person familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
New York Times:
Top E.R. Doctor Who Treated Virus Patients Dies by Suicide — “She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” said the father of Dr. Lorna M. Breen, who worked at a Manhattan hospital hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak. — A top emergency room doctor at a Manhattan hospital that treated …
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Danika Fears / The Daily Beast:
Pence Flouts Mask Policy While Visiting Staff, Patient at Mayo Clinic — WHY??? — Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday refused to wear a mask during his visit to Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, which requires all staff, patients, and visitors to wear a face covering while at the medical center.
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Pence flouts hospital policy, goes maskless in Mayo Clinic visit
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Wall Street Journal:
‘A Bargain With the Devil’—Bill Comes Due for Overextended Airbnb Hosts — Entrepreneurs built mini-empires of short-term rental properties, borrowing against revenue that's now vanishing under coronavirus lockdowns — For years, Cheryl Dopp considered the ding on her phone …
Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
Belgians urged to eat fries twice a week as coronavirus creates massive potato surplus — Belgians are being called upon to eat fries at least twice a week as more than 750,000 tons of potatoes are at risk of being thrown away. — Romain Cools, secretary general of Belgian potato …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Inside Donald Trump and Jared Kushner's Two Months of Magical Thinking — On the afternoon of Thursday, March 19, Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office obsessing over the beaches in Florida. CNN footage of shirtless spring breakers packed onto the sand while the coronavirus pandemic raged …
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David K. Li / NBC News:
Alaska school removes ‘The Great Gatsby,’ other famous books from curriculum for ‘controversial’ content — Bookstores are now fielding requests for works removed from Mat-Su Borough School District classrooms. — An Alaska school board removed five famous — but allegedly “controversial” …
Washington Post:
The U.S. plans to give $500 billion to large companies. It won't require them to preserve jobs or limit executive pay. — The Fed's coronavirus aid program lacks restrictions Congress placed on companies seeking financial help under other programs. — A Federal Reserve program expected …
KK Ottesen / Washington Post:
Jeff Flake on Trumpism: 'I don't know anyone who thinks that this is the future of the party' — Jeff Flake, 57, served Arizona in the U.S. Senate from 2013 to 2019, and for six terms in the House of Representatives before that. He is a contributor at CBS News and lectures around the world.
Patricia Murphy / USA Today:
Dying for cute toes? I hate to say it, Georgia, but on this one, we're as dumb as we look. — We still don't know who is spreading this awful virus, how many cases we really have, or what will happen as the state reopens in earnest. It's scary. — You're laughing at Georgia, again, aren't you?
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Christina Maxouris / CNN:
Reopening states too early will bring deadlier outcomes, coronavirus projection models show
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The Week
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump has played the media like a puppet. We're getting better — but history will not judge us kindly. — Traditional journalism is under siege, NBC News chief Andy Lack wrote this week: President Trump continues to “put the bully in bully pulpit,” and the coronavirus crisis has taken a toll.
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Financial Times:
Virtual rate cut forces Nintendo gamers into riskier assets | Free to read — Shock among users as Animal Crossing's Bank of Nook slashes rates to near zero — Savers at the Bank of Nook are being driven to speculate on turnips and tarantulas, as the most popular video game …
Anna Royal / McSweeney's:
Emails from My Children's School Before 8:00 AM During the COVID-19 Crisis — Good morning! This is an email to let you know that we will be sending another email later this afternoon. That email will contain a special passcode, and in a separate email, we will send you the link that requires this passcode.
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah Attorney General suspends state contract with Banjo in light of founder's KKK past — • The Utah Attorney General's Office will suspend use of a massive surveillance system after a news report showed that the founder of the company behind the effort was once an active participant …
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Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
No Testing, No Treatment, No Herd Immunity, No Easy Way Out — We need to start preparing for a darker reality. — Contributing writer at The Atlantic — The past few months have been bleak. Every day has brought word of new casualties from the coronavirus. The world economy entered free fall.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Arizona GOP chair encourages anti-stay-at-home protesters to dress like health care workers — Washington (CNN)The chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party is encouraging people planning to protest stay-at-home orders imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic to dress like health care workers.
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The Daily Beast:
New Model Shows How Deadly Lifting Georgia's Lockdown May Be — COST OF LIVING — Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi are veering toward a terrifyingly premature end to their COVID-19 lockdowns, according to a new pandemic analysis. — Gov. Brian Kemp's aggressive scheme to lift Georgia …
New York Times:
Trump's Response to Virus Reflects a Long Disregard for Science — The president's Covid-19 response has extended the administration's longstanding practice of undermining scientific expertise for political purposes. — WASHINGTON — At a March visit with doctors and researchers at the Centers …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Former Aides to Bernie Sanders Form a Super PAC to Support Joe Biden — Mr. Sanders's 2016 campaign manager and another architect of the 2016 bid are joining together in an effort to rally progressive support for the former vice president ahead of the November election.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Ohio's G.O.P. Governor Splits From Trump, and Rises in Popularity — Mike DeWine, a low-key career politician, has followed health experts' guidance as Ohio confronts the coronavirus. His constituents are overwhelmingly appreciative. — For 40 years, Mike DeWine rose steadily if blandly …
Politico:
POLITICO's reporting on President Trump and the Bank of China — POLITICO published an article Friday morning on President Donald Trump's business dealings with China. ("Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China - and the loan is due soon.") Since then, new reporting and information …
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New York Times:
How Trump and His Team Covered Up the Coronavirus in Five Days — The president and senior officials manipulated Americans and played down the severity of the pandemic. — Mr. Goodman is a professor at New York University School of Law, where Ms. Schulkin is a student.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
COVID-19 Is This Generation's Vietnam — In six weeks the coronavirus has killed more Americans than the Vietnam war. — On June 8, 1956, Technical Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. was shot in cold blood outside a U.S. base in South Vietnam by a fellow airman.
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