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Joe Biden romps in Super Tuesday presidential contests

washingtonpost.com - By Matt Viser and close Matt Viser National political reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Chelsea Janes close Chelsea Janes Reporter covering the 2020 presidential campaign Email EmailBio BioFol…

Coronavirus triggers cancellations, closures and contingency planning across the country

washingtonpost.com - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, right, bumps elbows with a worker at the seafood counter of the Uwajimaya Asian Food and Gift Market in Seattle on March 3, 2020. (Ted S. Warren/AP) By Toluse Olorunnipa, …

WHO says coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally, higher than previously thought

cnbc.com - World health officials said Tuesday the mortality rate for COVID-19 is 3.4% globally, higher than previous estimates of about 2%. "Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died," WHO Dire…

Coronavirus: fears of global slowdown grow as US stimulus fails to rally markets

theguardian.com - Fears of a coronavirus-driven global economic slowdown have mounted after stock markets gave a lukewarm reaction to the emergency cut in US interest rates and new data showed that China and Hong Kong…

Did Covid-19 Just Pop All the Global Financial Bubbles?

charleshughsmith.blogspot.com - Over the past 20 years, the certainty that central banks would support markets has been high, as central banks stepped in at every wobble. Today's 50 basis-points cut by the Fed sustains that certain…

Washington State could see explosion in coronavirus cases, study says

statnews.com - The coronavirus outbreak in the Seattle area is at a critical juncture and could see explosive growth in cases much like Wuhan, China, if public officials don’t take immediate, forceful measures, acc…

Coronavirus live updates: WHO warns protective gear 'rapidly depleting' amid recession fears

theguardian.com - Scotland’s health secretary Jeane Freeman has said that two more cases of coronavirus were confirmed overnight, taking the number of patients diagnosed in the country to three. She refused to give fu…

New York City doctor says he has to 'plead to test people' for coronavirus

cnbc.com - Hospitals across the U.S. are unprepared to identify and treat the new coronavirus, which has begun to spread across the country, New York City-based physician and author Dr. Matt McCarthy said Monda…

Report: Rich Americans Trying to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine Early Like It’s a Pair of Limited Edition Air Jordans

vanityfair.com - POLITICO spoke to 17 current and former officials and individuals close to the Trump administration. Interviews with officials in HHS, who declined to comment on record for fear of retaliation, indic…

Trump coronavirus effort undermined by mixed messages and falsehoods

washingtonpost.com - Vice President Pence, center, leads a press briefing Monday with members of the coronavirus task force at the White House. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Philip Rucker, close Philip Rucker W…

Taliban attacks kill 20 army, police, hours after Trump call

news.yahoo.com - Taliban militants killed at least 20 Afghan soldiers and policemen in a string of overnight attacks, government officials told AFP Wednesday, hours after US President Donald Trump said he had a "very…

Analysis | As Netanyahu claims win, Israel loses U.S. Democrats

washingtonpost.com - By Ishaan Tharoor close Ishaan Tharoor Reporter covering foreign affairs, geopolitics and history Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow March 4, 2020 at 12:00 AM EST Want smart analysis of the most importa…

Trump silent as coronavirus inspires wave of anti-Asian racism

americanindependent.com - Asians and Asian Americans across the country are suffering as a result of racist fearmongering, but the White House has so far been silent. Donald Trump has been mostly silent as coronavirus fears h…

‘We Are Going to Be Back to Where We Were After Reconstruction—Unless We Stop It’

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fair.org - Janine Jackson interviewed Emory University’s Carol Anderson about voter suppression for the February 28, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: Heritage F…

Greece and Turkey Trade Blame for Syrian Boy’s Death

theintercept.com - Nearly five years after Europe’s conscience was stung by the image of a young Syrian refugee’s lifeless body washed up on a beach, another Syrian boy drowned on Monday when a dinghy filled with refug…

When the Abnormal Becomes Typical: Clinging to Memories of Normalcy Three Years into the Trump Administration

justsecurity.org - Three years ago tonight, I took one last look back at the White House, lit brilliantly against the night sky, as I walked out the front gates onto Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s the same look back I’d giv…

Once-Confident Bloomberg Campaign Retreats in Texas as Biden Surges

theintercept.com - Campaign spokesperson Lizzie Lewis sent an email to the Texas state team on Monday advising staff not to allow organizers or volunteers to conduct any media interviews, saying that they needed to foc…

Inside the Fossil-Fuel Industry’s Plan to Profit From Climate Change

nymag.com - “We think democracy is better,” said the jet-fuel salesperson. “But is it? In terms of outcomes?” In a conference room overlooking the gray Thames, a group of young corporate types tried to imagine h…

9 freaky phenomena revealing how warm this winter was

treehugger.com - In many part of the world, the 2019-2020 winter was the winter that wasn't. Here in New York City, I keep waiting for winter to happen ... and now it is, checks calendar, March! There were no spells …

How Pandemics Change History

newyorker.com - In his new book, “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present,” Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, examines the ways in which diseas…

What You Can Do Right Now About the Coronavirus

theatlantic.com - A lot of advice is going around, both good and bad. I hope it’s helpful to compile some good information in one place. Much of what follows is not original—generally don’t trust health advice that no…

The Official Coronavirus Numbers Are Wrong, and Everyone Knows It

theatlantic.com - In total, fewer than 500 people have been tested across the country (although the CDC has stopped reporting that number in its summary of the outbreak). As a result, the current “official” case count…

Lonely Mona: Once again, virus fears close the Louvre

apnews.com - PARIS (AP) — Once again, the “Mona Lisa” is all alone. The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, did not open as scheduled Wednesday morning as its …

According to the WHO, Coronavirus Is WORSE Than the Spanish Flu ... Which Killed Tens of Millions of People | naked capitalism

nakedcapitalism.com - Yves here. I don’t like seeming like a scaremonger, but I see way too much evidence that people are not taking coronavirus risk seriously enough. For instance, I have been e-mailing the service that …

Trump's Mental Health - Now the Worst Case Scenario | DCReport.org

dcreport.org - The moment we feared has come. In a real emergency, the president’s inability to stay with reality and to resist the need to conform the world to what is in his head will result in a tangible loss of…

Trump crisis management by lies, bogus numbers, and superstition

intrepidreport.com - Impeached President Donald Trump has completely bolloxed up America’s carefully thought-out contingency plans that deal with pandemics. In addition to lying about the number of Americans infected wit…

Tim Cook and Apple Bet the Farm on China, But Then Coronavirus Hit | naked capitalism

nakedcapitalism.com - By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. The WSJ published a feature today on Apple’sits depende…

S. Korea hunts sick beds as West braces for long virus fight

apnews.com - BANGKOK (AP) — South Korea struggled to find enough beds for its sick, Italy grappled with a rising number of deaths and concern grew over an expanding outbreak in the United States on Wednesday as t…

The lie of health care ‘choice’

intrepidreport.com - Lyndon Johnson had a saying about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation: “They can’t make chicken salad out of chicken (bleep)!” Yet chicken (ble…


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