Stock futures drop — hit ‘limit down’ — even as Fed slashes rates; Dow futures off 1,000 points  —  Stock futures plunged Sunday night even after the Federal Reserve embarked on a massive monetary stimulus campaign to curb slower economic growth amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Thousands leave Miami cruise ship without screenings after former passenger got COVID-19  —  Note: The Miami Herald and McClatchy news sites have lifted the paywall on this developing story, providing critical information to readers.  To support vital reporting such as this, please consider a digital subscription.

Biden and Bernie face off: Key moments from Sunday's debate  —  Bernie Sanders spent more than an hour dissecting elements of Joe Biden's record that he considers anathema to today's Democratic Party — from protections for big banks to his skepticism of Medicare for all healthcare.

NY and Coronavirus: Live Coverage  —  The moves are the most far-reaching and disruptive the city has taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus.  —  RIGHT NOW New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that five people in the city had died from the coronavirus, all of whom had underlying health issues.

Landing at Dulles Airport, I encountered a case study in how to spread a pandemic  —  Cheryl Benard is a former senior analyst with the RAND Corporation and has written about health systems in post-conflict environments.  —  Like thousands of Americans and Europeans scrambling …

A Complete List of Trump's Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus  —  He could have taken action.  He didn't.  —  President Trump made his first public comments about the coronavirus on Jan. 22, in a television interview from Davos with CNBC's Joe Kernen.  The first American case had been announced …

Pence's presidential moment  —  Vice President Mike Pence, often caricatured as the White House Yes Man, is doing many of the things critics wish President Trump would do.  —  The big picture: He's a daily, consistent presence on the airwaves.  He provides useful info rather than random digressions.

Sixty percent believe worst is yet to come for the U.S. in coronavirus pandemic  —  Public attitudes about the coronavirus response are split along partisan lines in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.  —  WASHINGTON — A majority of American voters say they're worried that someone …

Germany tries to stop US from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine  —  BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine.

Exclusive: Madeleine Westerhout to release Oval Office memoir  —  Madeleine Westerhout, who spent 2½ years as President Trump's Oval Office gatekeeper, will release a frank memoir on Aug. 11 about one mistake that cost her one of the world's most fascinating jobs.

I'm an epidemiologist.  When I heard about Britain's ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire  —  Vulnerable people should not be exposed to Covid-19 right now in the service of a hypothetical future  —  Your house is on fire, and the people whom you have trusted with your care are not trying to put it out.

Most federal workers will report to the office Monday — as the rest of the country isolates itself  —  Most of the nation's 2.1 million federal employees will report to work Monday to tightly packed office cubicles and other workplaces where they serve the public, even as schools and colleges across …

Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A clinical trial evaluating a vaccine designed to protect against the new coronavirus will begin Monday, according to a government official.  —  The first participant in the trial will receive the experimental vaccine …

Amazon warns of delivery delays, running out of items  —  Amazon warned of delayed deliveries and items going out of stock as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread.  —  The online retailer said the increase in people shopping online is having a short-term impact on how it serves customers.

Trump considering ‘full pardon’ of former national security advisor Michael Flynn  — Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about the nature of his conversations with the Russian ambassador prior to Trump's inauguration as president.  — Flynn is in the process of trying …

Gillum withdraws from politics after link to suspected drug overdose  —  TALLAHASSEE — Andrew Gillum said he would withdraw from public life, closing a chapter in his career that took him from the peak of Florida power to a Miami Beach hotel room where he was found inebriated with a man suspected of overdosing on crystal meth.