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Amy Klobuchar announced that she was ending her presidential campaign, and it seems both she and Pete Buttigieg will be endorsing Joe Biden later today.
Here's everything you need to know about how the coronavirus is transmitted and spread.
The Verge has some tips on how to make homemade hand sanitizer.
Rich people are also prepping for coronavirus in their own special ways: “This is going to destroy the marriages of the rich,” said Mitchell Moss, who studies urban policy and planning at NYU. “All these husbands and wives who travel will now have to spend time with the person they’re married to.”
The Cut profiles cancer survivor, marijuana enthusiast, "Bu-Jew," and anti-capitalist Fran Drescher: "The Jewish girl onscreen who wasn’t a meeskite but a bombshell, who turned what could have been a career-killer — a face that could launch a thousand ships paired with a voice that could sink them — and made it, through gale-force charm, a selling point, a calling card."
Should journalists be impartial? Should they be so impartial they don't vote or have conversations with friends and family about important issues? That's what the Times' chief White House correspondent believes.
RIP James Lipton, longtime host of Inside the Actors Studio.
Here's a distressing piece about the state of American restaurants.
Rhea Seehorn deconstructed Kim Wexler, the heart of Better Call Saul, for Vulture.
Joe Coulombe, the founder and namesake of Trader's Joes, has died at 89.
Can YouTube limit the spread of conspiracy theories on its site? It's apparently trying.
Pulp legend Jarvis Cocker embraces house music on his new single, “House Music All Night Long."
And finally, Lenny apparently loves to slide:

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