Trump fires intelligence community watchdog who defied him on whistleblower complaint  —  President Donald Trump has fired the intelligence community's chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, who was the first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he received …

keyboard_arrow_down  —  Navy officials are finding themselves in controversial waters in the wake of Thursday's announcement that the service was relieving Capt. Brett Crozier of his command of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, a decision made following the leak of a four-page letter …

Fact check: Did the Obama administration deplete the federal stockpile of N95 masks?  —  The claim: The Obama administration used and did not replenish the nation's emergency stockpile of medical supplies, including N95 masks  —  As the novel coronavirus pandemic strains health care systems …

Trump Administration Uses Wartime Powers To Be First In Line On Medical Supplies  —  The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries.

Biden to name VP vetting team, thinking about Cabinet makeup  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden said Friday that he will announce a committee to oversee his vice presidential selection process and is already thinking about whom he'd choose to join his Cabinet.

Inside the coronavirus testing failure: Alarm and dismay among the scientists who sought to help  —  On a Jan. 15 conference call, a leading scientist at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assured local and state public health officials from across the nation that there would soon …

CNN's Acosta Interrupts Dr Birx As She Discusses The WHO's Handling Of Coronavirus Pandemic  —  CNN reporter Jim Acosta interrupted Dr. Deborah Birx on Friday as the White House coronavirus task force coordinator was discussing the World Health Organization's handling of the pandemic.

Recommendation Regarding the Use of Cloth Face Coverings, Especially in Areas of Significant Community-Based Transmission  —  CDC continues to study the spread and effects of the novel coronavirus across the United States.  We now know from recent studies that a significant portion of individuals …

The Month Coronavirus Felled American Business  —  March began amid an 11-year expansion and ended with blue-chip companies begging for bailouts.  Swift and sharp, the pandemic cut through the country's commerce like nothing before it.

NEW DETAILS: Georgia beaches reopening as of Friday night  —  Gov. Brian Kemp's stay-at-home order trumps previous city-level orders  —  Some of the state's most popular beaches will be allowed to reopen Friday night due to Gov. Brian Kemp's statewide order superseding that of some city-level shelter-in-place mandates.

Anick Jesdanun, longtime AP technology writer, dies at 51  —  He ran marathons on every continent, including Antarctica — 83 of them in all, many followed by a visit to an obscure craft brewery.  Last year, he watched 365 movies — most of them in theaters.

Married for 51 years, they died of Covid-19 six minutes apart  —  Adrian and Stuart Baker were married for more than 51 years, and their family called them inseparable.  On March 29, they both died of complications due to Covid-19 — just six minutes apart.

Trump says he opposes mail-in voting for November  —  President Trump on Friday said he's confident the general election in November won't be delayed by the coronavirus, but he rejected the idea of having every state prepare to conduct mail-in voting.  —  The president, speaking …

The Media Is Not the Problem with COVID-19  —  Thousands of Americans are dying.  And some conservatives are blaming a favorite scapegoat.  —  As America's death toll from the coronavirus pandemic skyrockets while Donald Trump continues his displays of aggrieved narcissism …

Coronavirus may cause some food shortages, warns government task force  —  WASHINGTON — The nation could begin to see food shortages for some products if the people working on the supply chain lack personal protective equipment, warns an internal Trump administration document obtained by Yahoo News.

Zoom Bombings Started Off as Pranks.  Now Someone Could End Up Dead  —  For those unaware, Zoom officially has a porn problem.  The multibillion-dollar video messaging mainstay among employees at Johnson & Johnson and the Department of Homeland Security—not to mention a household name among …

Bill Gates is funding new factories for 7 potential coronavirus vaccines, even though it will waste billions of dollars  — The Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates told “The Daily Show” on Thursday that his foundation was funding the construction of factories for seven coronavirus vaccine candidates.

Coronavirus in N.Y.: Toll Soars to Nearly 3,000 as State Pleads for Aid  —  “It is hard to put fully into words what we are all grappling with as we navigate our way through this pandemic,” a hospital official said.  —  New York, the increasingly battered epicenter of the nation's coronavirus outbreak …

Coronavirus Ended His Shot at a Second Chance  —  When Patrick Jones called his family members from a federal prison in Louisiana, he'd talk about how hard he was trying to get out.  He wanted to return to Texas and open a restaurant, serving everything from tacos to brisket to soul food.

Holdout States Resist Calls for Stay-at-Home Orders: ‘What Are You Waiting For?’  —  A small number of states in the Midwest and the South are under growing pressure to order all residents to stay at home to fight the coronavirus.  —  A surge in coronavirus deaths in the United States …

Can Keir Starmer Persuade Britain to Dump Its Wartime Prime Minister Like Churchill?  —  In 1945, Brits unceremoniously tossed Winston Churchill aside.  Now Labour's new leader, Keir Starmer, has to convince virus-hit Britain he can repeat history.  —  It's one of history's greatest illustrations of ingratitude.

GOP governor refusing to implement stay-at-home order says Dr. Fauci 'doesn't have all the information'  —  While numerous governors have enacted stay-at-home orders shutting down nonessential businesses and ordering residents to shelter in their homes for all but necessary outings, one holdout is Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA).

Trump Sent Them to the Coronavirus Front Line but Denied Them Health Care  —  Almost 20,000 Guardsmen are on orders that keep them ineligible for the Pentagon's TRICARE system—right as mass unemployment wipes away health care for millions.  —  Thousands of National Guardsmen around the country …