Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing  —  The Georgia Republican is the second Senator who has gotten rid of their holdings right as the stock market went bad.  —  The Senate's newest member sold off seven figures worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks …

More than half of Californians could become infected with coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom says to Trump  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday asked Congress for $1 billion in federal funds to support the state's medical response to the novel coronavirus, which he expects will infect more than half of all Californians.

Her Facebook Friends Asked If Anyone Was Actually Sick.  She Had an Answer.  —  Heaven Frilot is normally a private person.  But this is not a normal time.  So she and her husband are now the face of the coronavirus for their conservative Louisiana community.

Who wins in the Senate GOP's big bailout  —  The $1 trillion proposal Senate Republicans unveiled Thursday night represents one of the most dramatic bailouts in American history, picking winners and losers during one of the worst economic crises in decades.  —  Airlines, financial markets …

US drugmaker doubled price on potential coronavirus treatment  —  Therapy touted by President Trump made more expensive in January as China outbreak spread  —  The only US drugmaker that makes a potential treatment for the coronavirus that was touted by President Donald Trump raised the price …

‘At War With No Ammo’: Doctors Say Shortage of Protective Gear Is Dire  —  The lack of proper masks, gowns and eye gear is imperiling the ability of medical workers to fight the coronavirus — and putting their own lives at risk.  —  The Open Cities Community Health Center in St. Paul …

Global Level 4 Health Advisory - Do Not Travel  —  Level 4: Do Not Travel  —  The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19.  In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who live …

Coronavirus Live Updates: Senate G.O.P. Plan Includes Large Corporate Tax Cuts  —  Los Angeles County told its 10 million residents to shelter in place.  The Trump administration asked states to hold off on releasing grim data on unemployment claims.  Italy's death toll surpassed China's.

Rethinking the Coronavirus Shutdown  —  No society can safeguard public health for long at the cost of its economic health.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Financial markets paused their slide Thursday, but no one should think this rolling economic calamity is over.

Acting counterterrorism center head fired, according to former U.S. officials  —  The acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center was fired Wednesday night in what insiders fear is a purge by the Trump administration of career professionals at an organization set up after 9/11 …

We Need Time to Absorb All This  —  Everyone is thinking through the reality of the coronavirus pandemic and how to rise to the occasion.  —  This is a quick piece that touches on where we are, where we may be going, and an attitude for the journey.  —  The screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan once …

Evangeline Lilly won't self-quarantine, values ‘freedom’ over her life  —  Evangeline Lilly is taking a stand against self-quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic.  —  The “Ant-Man and the Wasp” star, 40, posted a photo of her “morning tea” on Instagram and said it was “business as usual” …

Coronavirus will radically alter the U.S.  —  Here's what may lie ahead based on math models, hospital projections and past pandemics  —  When Jason Christie, chief of pulmonary medicine at Penn Medicine, got projections on how many coronavirus patients might soon be flocking to his Philadelphia hospital …

Trump's 500 Million Respirators Could Take 18 Months to Deliver  —  Listen  —  The 500 million N95 air-filtering respirator masks President Donald Trump said the federal government ordered could take up to 18 months to be delivered, according to the grant application.

Three pillars of Trump's case for reelection are collapsing all at once  — President Trump's reelection campaign was designed under the premise that the economy would be strong through November, but that's not true anymore.  — Trump also planned to make socialism a central focus of his attacks.

Trump melts down and the media fails the public.  Again.  —  This is not the first time I have warned that the media's inability to confront President Trump with his untruths, and to portray vividly and accurately the extent of his derangement and ignorance (e.g., his unhinged rant in the East Room following his impeachment acquittal).

‘Get off the beach’: Florida's governor under pressure as images of crowded beaches go viral  —  Sen. Rick Scott to spring breakers: What are you thinking?  —  (CNN)The golden sands along Florida's coasts have long been one of the state's greatest resources, helping Republican …

The inside story of the CPAC scare: When the coronavirus passed within a handshake of the president, no public health agency took charge  —  The New Jersey doctor with flu-like symptoms had quickly become the patient.  With a laboratory-confirmed case of covid-19, he was whisked away …

Jeremy Lin rips Trump for ‘empowering’ racism with talk of ‘Chinese Virus’  —  President Trump said Wednesday that his use of the term “Chinese Virus” was “not racist at all.”  Among those who might strongly take issue with that assertion would be Jeremy Lin, given his criticism of the president on Tuesday.

Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded  —  Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus.  But little was done.  —  WASHINGTON — The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China …

96% of small business owners are already feeling coronavirus impact  —  More than half of U.S. small business owners say their business will not be able to continue operating more than three months due to economic strain caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Goldman Sachs survey …

Sean Hannity denied calling coronavirus a hoax nine days after he called coronavirus a hoax  —  When Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, he stressed the importance of Americans taking the coronavirus outbreak seriously.

Open-Access JSTOR Materials Accessible to the Public  —  Editor's Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly implied that JSTOR had made its database accessible to the public for the first time.  In fact, only certain materials from its database are available to the public, and this has been the case for some time.