Pete Buttigieg is ending his presidential bid  —  Pete Buttigieg, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who saw a meteoric rise from virtual unknown to top-tier contender and became the first gay candidate to make a high-profile presidential run, is ending his campaign.

Bernie Sanders: My running mate will back Medicare for All  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders isn't going to soften his views just because some moderates are lining up behind former Vice President Joe Biden after his landslide win in the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary and Pete Buttigieg's supporters are suddenly up for grabs.

Coronavirus May Have Spread in U.S. for Weeks, Gene Sequencing Suggests  —  Two cases detected weeks apart in Washington State had genetic links, suggesting that many more people in the area may be infected.  —  Researchers who have examined the genomes of two coronavirus infections …

Why a Coronavirus Recession Would Be So Hard to Contain  —  A supply shock is not a problem our usual economic tools are particularly good at solving.  But it's the one we face.  —  It looks more and more likely that the novel form of coronavirus will do meaningful economic damage to the United States.

Avoiding Coronavirus May Be a Luxury Some Workers Can't Afford  —  A sick day?  Remote work?  Not so easy if your job is at a restaurant, a day care center or a construction site.  —  Stay home from work if you get sick.  See a doctor.  Use a separate bathroom from the people you live with.

Judge rules head of immigration agency was unlawfully named  —  A federal judge has ruled that Ken Cuccinelli was unlawfully appointed to lead the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency and, as a result, lacks authority to give asylum seekers less time to prepare for initial screening interviews