White House Takes New Line After Dire Report on Death Toll  —  Federal guidelines warned against gatherings of more than 10 people as a London report predicted high fatalities in the U.S. without dramatic action.  —  Sweeping new federal recommendations announced on Monday for Americans …

Justice Dept. Moves to Drop Charges Against Russian Firms Filed by Mueller  —  The companies funded Russia's social media-fueled interference in the 2016 election, prosecutors said.  But they tried to weaponize the case instead of fight it.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved …

The UK Only Realised “In The Last Few Days” That Its Coronavirus Strategy Would “Likely Result In Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths”  —  Scientists advising the government say an aggressive new approach adopted to attempt to “suppress” the virus may have to be in place for 18 months.

On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus  —  For weeks, some of Fox News's most popular hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.

Coronavirus: Ohio election is up in air despite judge's ruling  —  Rick Rouan The Columbus Dispatch John Futty The Columbus Dispatch  —  After issuing a release that appears to defy a judge's ruling that Tuesday's primary must go forward, a source in the governor's office says that's not the case.

McConnell calls on McGrath to take down political ads as coronavirus cripples Kentucky  —  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign called on a potential Democratic opponent — former Marine Corps pilot Amy McGrath — to stop running political advertisements during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Before Trump's inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918’  —  Seven days before Donald Trump took office, his aides faced a major test: the rapid, global spread of a dangerous virus in cities like London and Seoul, one serious enough that some countries were imposing travel bans.

How U.S. coronavirus testing stalled: Flawed tests, red tape and resistance to using the millions of tests produced by the WHO  —  When Olfert Landt heard about the novel coronavirus, he got busy.  —  Founder of a small Berlin-based company, the ponytailed 54-year-old first raced …

Inside the Coronavirus Response: A Case Study in the White House Under Trump  —  Infighting, turf wars and a president more concerned with the stock market and media coverage than policy have defined the Trump White House.  They have also defined how it has handled a pandemic.

Bay Area ‘shelter in place’ expected: Only essential businesses open in 6 counties with 6.7 million people until April 7  —  The San Francisco Chronicle has lifted the paywall on our coverage of this developing story to provide critical information to our community.

No, the White House didn't ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office.  I was there.  —  Tim Morrison is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the National Security Council.  —  President Trump gets his share of criticism — some warranted, much not.

Kentucky Derby to be postponed until September as concerns heighten over COVID-19 pandemic  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The 146th running of The Kentucky Derby will be postponed until the first Saturday in September, multiple sources told WDRB News, the latest sporting event to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Pandemic Planning Should Ensure All Votes Can Be Cast by Mail in November, Experts Say  —  As Ohio's governor ordered that his state's primary be delayed until June, citing the need for social distancing in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Senate Democrats and election experts pressed Congress …

Mayor Resisted Harsh Steps on Virus.  Then Aides Said They'd Quit.  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio hesitated to close schools and restaurants, but pushback from advisers changed his mind.  He still went to the gym Monday.  —  For most of last week, as Mayor Bill de Blasio continued to urge …

Casinos ask Congress for emergency aid as coronavirus toll sweeps industry  —  Gaming association says leaders should move ‘urgently’ to back casinos and their employees  —  Casinos have joined the airline industry in asking Congress for emergency financial help as Las Vegas …

SoftBank Owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents  —  Honestly, I wasn't sure how to begin this story or how to fit all the insanity into the title.  It's a story involving patents, patent trolling, Covid-19, Theranos …

U.S. Coronavirus Concerns Surge, Government Trust Slides  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the past month, as the coronavirus moved from an outbreak mainly limited to China to a worldwide pandemic, the percentage of Americans worried about being exposed to the virus has surged …

Assholes Who Ridiculed Preparations For the Covid-19 Pandemic Are Having a Change of Heart  —  Newt Gingrich was on Fox News this morning explaining that all Americans should prepare for the covid-19 pandemic.  But Gingrich has pulled quite a 180 during a very short period of time.

Former Rep. Richard Hanna, GOP moderate from Upstate NY, dies at 69  —  WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, a fiercely independent Republican from Upstate New York who championed LGBT and women's rights, died Sunday at a hospital in Oneida County.  He was 69.

The Coronavirus Hoax  —  Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them.  After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act's hollow promises of security.

Americans kept wondering what the president wanted them to do about coronavirus.  Finally, Trump offered some guidance.  —  President Trump for weeks dismissed the danger of the novel coronavirus.  He distracted himself by stoking unrelated feuds and nursing grievances.

NBC News projects Joe Biden wins Washington state primary  —  Bernie Sanders won the state in a landslide in the 2016 Democratic caucuses there.  —  NBC News projects that former Vice President Joe Biden has won the Democratic primary in Washington state.  —  With 99 percent of the vote …