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Worried that $2 trillion law wasn’t enough, Trump and congressional leaders converge on need for new coronavirus economic package

washingtonpost.com - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Daniel Kildee (D-Mich.) walk through the Capitol on Friday. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg News) By Erica Werner and close Erica Werner Congressional reporte…

Coronavirus live news: Boris Johnson in intensive care as global deaths approach 75,000

theguardian.com - Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has declared a state of emergency to fight new coronavirus infections in major population centres. He also unveiled a stimulus package he described as among the wor…

Live updates: Boris Johnson receives oxygen support in ICU; China reports no new coronavirus deaths

washingtonpost.com - By Siobhán O'Grady, close Siobhán O'Grady Staff Writer, Foreign desk Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Teo Armus and close Teo Armus Reporter on the Morning Mix team Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Jen…

Japan poised to declare state of emergency over coronavirus

theguardian.com - Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is poised to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo and six other prefectures as early as Tuesday in an attempt to stem a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in the cap…

Overwhelmed Hospitals Face a New Crisis: Staffing Firms Are Cutting Their Doctors’ Hours and Pay — ProPublica

propublica.org - ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The country’s top employers of emergency room doctors are cu…

Trump says IG report finding hospital shortages is 'just wrong'

thehill.com - President TrumpDonald John TrumpOvernight Health Care: US hits 10,000 coronavirus deaths | Trump touts 'friendly' talk with Biden on response | Trump dismisses report on hospital shortages as 'just w…

‘Doctors disagree all the time’: Navarro drags Fauci feud into the open

politico.com - Navarro, who is coordinating the administration’s efforts to purchase and distribute emergency supplies under the Defense Production Act, acknowledged that he was “not the arbiter” of the hydroxychlo…

Untested Covid Treatment Trump Talks Up Can Have Fatal Side Effect, Cardiologists Warn

theintercept.com - An experimental treatment for Covid-19 championed by President Donald Trump — in which patients are given doses of hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria and lupus, along with the antibioti…

Convicted Sex-Abusing Cardinal George Pell set free from prison after High Court overturns conviction

cnn.com - "I do not want my acquittal to add to the hurt and bitterness so many feel; there is certainly hurt and bitterness enough.... The point was whether I had committed these awful crimes, and I did not,"…

Resetting the Bomb

taibbi.substack.com - Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the last bailout, guesses that whoever has his job this time around is going to have a lot of work. “There will be S&L-type frauds, absolutely ostenta…

Imagining a Department of Actual Defense in a Time of Coronavirus

mintpressnews.com - (DavidSwanson.org) — When a few thousand people were murdered on September 11, 2001, I was actually stupid enough – I kid you not – to imagine that the general public would conclude that because mass…

Grocery workers are beginning to die of coronavirus

washingtonpost.com - Two Walmart employees at a Chicago-area store have died of covid-19. (David Santiago/AP) By Abha Bhattarai close Abha Bhattarai Reporter covering the retail industry Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow A…

Online grocery services struggle to meet spike in demand

apnews.com - LONDON (AP) — A pandemic forcing everyone to stay home could be the perfect moment for online grocery services. In practice, they’ve been struggling to keep up with a surge in orders, highlighting th…

There Is No Plan for the End of the Coronavirus Crisis

nymag.com - This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. For a month, American journalists and public-health experts have praised th…

Maduro Pens Letter Urging Americans to Reject Trump's Militarism During Coronavirus

mintpressnews.com - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro released a letter addressed to the American people, urging them to oppose military intervention in South America and instead push the Trump administration to conce…

The Quest for a Pandemic Pill

newyorker.com - And so every time a new virus appears we scramble for a new treatment. Our usual antiviral approach is, as researchers say, “one bug, one drug”; often, it’s no drug. Ho has spent forty years fighting…

After Coronavirus, Let’s Never Forget: Republicans Recklessly Put Our Lives in Danger

theintercept.com - Never forget: GOP governors across the country refused to close beaches, refused to stop going out to crowded public places, and either refused to listen to the scientific advice on social distancing…

‘It's a sh-- sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump

politico.com - By GARY FINEOUT and MARC CAPUTO TALLAHASSEE — The staggering unemployment exploding on President Donald Trump’s watch would worry any incumbent running for reelection, but troubles in Florida are inj…

Cops: Cashier Was Battered Over Social Distancing Beef With Dollar Tree Customer

thesmokinggun.com - After a Dollar Tree cashier chided him for cutting the checkout line and failing to "respect the current social distancing rules," a Florida Man began striking the female employee, according to cops …

Health Care Workers Face Anti-Science Abuse. This Has to Stop.

undark.org - Doctors, nurses, and other health workers are the acknowledged heroes of the Covid-19 pandemic. So why do so many online commentators apparently want Dr. Anthony Fauci dead? Fauci, the U.S. governmen…

"We've shot four people. Everything's fine." The Turkish Coup through the Eyes of its Plotters - bellingcat

bellingcat.com - A group of plotters of the failed Turkish coup attempt used a WhatsApp group to communicate with each other. Bellingcat has transcribed, translated, and analysed the conversation, thereby cross-refer…

'Bad news': radiation 16 times above normal after forest fire near Chernobyl

theguardian.com - Ukrainian officials have sought calm after forest fires in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident, led to a rise in radiation levels. Firefighters said they…

Trump administration slaps sanctions on Russian white supremacists

nbcnews.com - WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday designated a Russian white supremacist group a “foreign terrorist organization” and hit its members with sanctions. The move against the Russian Imperi…

Opinion - US Gunning for Trouble

informationclearinghouse.info - Some 3.7 million checks were carried out in that month alone, corresponding to individuals purchasing firearms. Bear in mind too that each individual can buy several guns under the same application. …

U.S. Hospitals Surveyed Plea For More Federal Coordination Of Testing And Supplies

npr.org - An inspector general's survey of U.S. hospitals finds them scrambling for supplies — even food and toilet paper. They've had to get masks from nontraditional places like autobody shops and nail salon…

Navy chief apologizes for slamming carrier captain as 'naive' and 'stupid'

sfchronicle.com - Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly denounced the former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt Monday as either “too naive or too stupid” to be at the helm, according to a reco…

How the right is responding to the coronavirus: denial, realism or dangerous contrarianism | Jason Wilson

theguardian.com - Crises have a habit of accelerating changes that were already in train. Some of the trends being pushed along by the pandemic are benign, or neutral, like the evolution of better protocols around rem…

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News digest brought to you by the Doomstead Diner.

Worried that $2 trillion law wasn’t enough, Trump and congressional leaders converge on need for new coronavirus economic package

Coronavirus live news: Boris Johnson in intensive care as global deaths approach 75,000

Live updates: Boris Johnson receives oxygen support in ICU; China reports no new coronavirus deaths

Japan poised to declare state of emergency over coronavirus

Overwhelmed Hospitals Face a New Crisis: Staffing Firms Are Cutting Their Doctors’ Hours and Pay — ProPublica

Trump says IG report finding hospital shortages is 'just wrong'

‘Doctors disagree all the time’: Navarro drags Fauci feud into the open

Untested Covid Treatment Trump Talks Up Can Have Fatal Side Effect, Cardiologists Warn

Convicted Sex-Abusing Cardinal George Pell set free from prison after High Court overturns conviction

Resetting the Bomb

Imagining a Department of Actual Defense in a Time of Coronavirus

Grocery workers are beginning to die of coronavirus

Online grocery services struggle to meet spike in demand

There Is No Plan for the End of the Coronavirus Crisis

Maduro Pens Letter Urging Americans to Reject Trump's Militarism During Coronavirus

The Quest for a Pandemic Pill

After Coronavirus, Let’s Never Forget: Republicans Recklessly Put Our Lives in Danger

‘It's a sh-- sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump

Cops: Cashier Was Battered Over Social Distancing Beef With Dollar Tree Customer

Health Care Workers Face Anti-Science Abuse. This Has to Stop.

"We've shot four people. Everything's fine." The Turkish Coup through the Eyes of its Plotters - bellingcat

'Bad news': radiation 16 times above normal after forest fire near Chernobyl

Trump administration slaps sanctions on Russian white supremacists

Opinion - US Gunning for Trouble

U.S. Hospitals Surveyed Plea For More Federal Coordination Of Testing And Supplies

Navy chief apologizes for slamming carrier captain as 'naive' and 'stupid'

How the right is responding to the coronavirus: denial, realism or dangerous contrarianism | Jason Wilson

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