Stranger Than Fiction

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TOP NEWS

• The Dow fell over 3000 points, the largest single day point decline in history and the largest percentage decline since “Black Monday” in 1987.

• San Francisco has implemented the strongest large scale isolation in the country. Six counties are ordered to shelter-at-home beginning at 12:01 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, impacting 6.5 million people.

• In Italy, 349 people died from coronavirus just yesterday, bringing their total death toll so far to 2,158.

• Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is pitching Senate Republicans on a roughly $850 billion economic stimulus package to soften the economic impact of the coronavirus.

• Voters in three states will head to polls today to decide between Sanders and Biden. Ohio postponed their voting after the governor declared a “health emergency” over coronavirus.

• The Justice Department dropped its two-year-long prosecution of a Russian company accused of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government with its social media campaign to interfere in the 2016 election.

THE ELECTION

• Bernie doesn’t want to drop out.

• Florida is weird. So is its primary.

• Biden declared winner in Washington State

THE COMMENT

“What begins every kind of mobilized response by the president — clear assignments and some sense that this is an absolute priority — none of that seemed to be a part of the president’s discussion,” said Kathleen Sebelius, who served as the health and human services secretary under President Barack Obama. “The agencies were kind of left to their own devices.”

THE STRANGEST

• Two New Jersey men used drones to smuggle drugs and cell phones into a prison, federal authorities say

THE AV ROOM

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