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How public health failed nursing homes
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POLITICO While America wasn’t looking, family visitors, staff and other health professionals unknowingly brought the virus into long-term care facilities, spreading it among the population least likely to withstand it 2h
How coronavirus is affecting campaign fundraising
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Wisconsin voting still on for Tuesday, despite pleas to postpone — House Majority PAC makes fall reservations
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POLITICO Congressional campaigns are expecting the coronavirus to devastate fundraising over the coming months, which could freeze the landscape in the battle for control of the House and Senate 4h
Food goes to waste amid coronavirus crisis
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The Covid-19 pandemic is leading to "tsunami" of change in how people buy food.
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POLITICO Millions of gallons of milk are being dumped. Produce is decaying in fields without migrant labor. Some farmers are turning fresh vegetables into mulch. Airline cutbacks are crushing the capacity to import perishable foods. 6h
Hospitals in crisis as coronavirus cases mount, HHS watchdog says
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Many hospitals lack enough thermometers to monitor the temperatures of its own staff.
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POLITICO Many hospitals lacked enough thermometers to monitor the temperatures of its own staff and a sufficient number of masks to protect their workers while caring for infected patients 7h
Marco Rubio finds his next act
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The Republican senator is playing a key role in the coronavirus crisis. And he says he may run for president again in a post-Trump era.
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POLITICO Marco Rubio is playing a key role in the coronavirus crisis. And he says he may run for president again in a post-Trump era. 11h
Trump's moves to hold medical supplies tip Trudeau to China
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Turning to China requires its own complicated political calculus for Canada.
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POLITICO Parallel efforts to combat the coronavirus are fraying an already tense alliance as Justin Trudeau struggles to rely on the Trump administration for critical medical supplies 38h
Trump fires intelligence community inspector general who defied him on Ukraine
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The president informed Congress of the move in a Friday-evening letter to the House and Senate intelligence committees.
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POLITICO BREAKING: Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, who was the first to sound the alarm to Congress about an “urgent” complaint involving Trump’s communications with Ukraine 3d
GOP Sen. Gardner wants probe into 'mismanagement' of national stockpile
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Gardner also criticized Jared Kushner's comment that the stockpile isn't supposed to help the states.
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POLITICO Sen. Cory Gardner is pushing for an investigation into possible mismanagement of the Strategic National Stockpile of ventilators needed to treat coronavirus patients 3d
Desperate for insight, Trump's team turns to the past to try and save his presidency
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One aide studied the Spanish flu while another reviewed FDR’s inaugural address, searching for inspiration to tackle today’s crisis.
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POLITICO As Covid-19 claims more lives, Trump officials are digging through history for analogs that might help them rally the nation & protect their boss’s legacy. One NSC official recently read "The Great Influenza," another has been studying FDR speeches 3d
Pelosi pivots on 'Phase 4' coronavirus relief push
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The speaker appears open to a more focused aid package.
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POLITICO Speaker Nancy Pelosi shifted her tone today, calling for a much more focused “Phase 4” relief package to address immediate needs related to the coronavirus pandemic 3d
Acting Navy secretary defends firing of captain who warned of virus outbreak
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Thomas Modly has argued that Capt. Brett Crozier did not follow the proper chain of command in reporting his concerns.
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POLITICO Crew members of the USS Roosevelt cheer for their former commanding officer as acting Navy secretary defends firing of the captain who warned of coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship 3d
Poll: Majority of Americans now disapprove of Trump's coronavirus response
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The president's latest rating in the survey shows Trump's support backsliding from the levels he achieved in mid-March.
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POLITICO An ABC News/Ipsos poll released today reports that 52 percent of respondents disapprove of Trump's management of the deadly outbreak, while only 47 percent approve 3d
Trump's vaporized economy
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Jobs report won't tell the tale — Banks worried about small business loan program
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POLITICO The March jobs report out this morning is not expected to show anything close to the full hit so far from the coronavirus. Consensus is for a loss of 100K, ending a record run of 113 straight months with job gains. 3d
Multiple state AGs looking into Zoom’s privacy practices
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The service has quickly become a household name as federal and state officials call on a vast majority of Americans to self-isolate.
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POLITICO Multiple state attorneys general are banding together to scrutinize virtual conferencing company Zoom’s privacy and security practices 3d
Hunter Biden probe moving forward after senators clashed in classified briefing
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A Senate committee is pressing ahead with an investigation into the former vice president's son even as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
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POLITICO A Senate committee is pressing ahead with an investigation into the former vice president's son even as the coronavirus pandemic rages on 3d
2 Fox News regulars are finalists for Pentagon policy chief
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As leaders scramble to respond to a global pandemic, the Pentagon is moving to fill vacancies in the upper echelons of the department.
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POLITICO Regular Fox News commentators Douglas Macgregor and Anthony Tata are the leading candidates for the job of undersecretary of defense for policy 4d
Yes, We Need to Measure Lives Against Money. Here’s How.
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When can America reopen from its coronavirus shutdown? The answer depends how you weigh human health against the economy. We asked experts how to think about the tricky calculus.
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POLITICO When can America reopen from its coronavirus shutdown? The answer depends how you weigh human health against the economy. We asked experts how to think about the tricky calculus 4d
Indian Health Service, rural areas to have priority access to rapid coronavirus tests
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“These are new tests, and we have prioritized the groups that we think have the least access to testing now,” Deborah Birx said.
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POLITICO Rapid point-of-care coronavirus tests will be used to support areas of the country with the least access to testing, as well as nursing homes, White House coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx said today 4d
Reporter from pro-Trump channel to attend White House coronavirus briefing, defying press corps
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The enforcement of rules put in place by the White House Correspondents' Association is placing OAN in direct conflict with other news organizations.
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POLITICO One day after her employer was kicked out of the rotation to cover daily press briefings by President Trump's coronavirus task force, OAN correspondent Chanel Rion plans to be back in the briefing room at press secretary Stephanie Grisham’s request 4d
Trump set to urge Americans to wear face coverings when outside
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Trump's planned guidance would encourage Americans to use homemade coverings, like cloth masks, scarves or bandannas, when outside the home.
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POLITICO President Trump is preparing to encourage Americans to wear face coverings, the latest effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus 4d