Navy Captain Removed From Carrier Tests Positive for Covid-19  —  Captain Crozier was fired after a leak of a letter he had emailed to Navy leaders detailing the service's failures in dealing with a coronavirus outbreak on the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt.  —  Capt. Brett E. Crozier …

Official Counts Understate the U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll  —  Inconsistent protocols, limited resources and a patchwork of decision-making has led to an undercounting of people with the coronavirus who have died, health experts say.  —  WASHINGTON — A coroner in Indiana wanted …

How The Coronavirus Stranded This Couple in the Maldives  —  They were surrounded by a fleet of staff, who were stranded themselves, trapped in an eternal honeymoon in the Maldives.  Their adventure continues.  —  After publication, this article was updated to reflect new conditions.

Surgeon General implores holdout governors to ‘give us a week’  —  “Give us what you can so that we don't overwhelm our health care systems over this next week,” Jerome Adams said on “Meet the Press” Sunday.  —  WASHINGTON — Surgeon General Jerome Adams Sunday called on U.S. governors …

Biden says call with Trump over coronavirus response hasn't happened  —  Biden reiterated he was open to speaking with the president.  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden said a suggested call between himself and President Donald Trump about the novel coronavirus response hasn't happened …

George W. Bush in 2005: ‘If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare’  —  A book about the 1918 flu pandemic spurred the government to action.  —  In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he began flipping through …

U.S. ‘wasted’ months before preparing for virus pandemic  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster …

Governor Hogan Takes Aggressive Action to Protect Nursing Home Residents and Staff Amid COVID-19 Outbreaks  —  Nursing Home Facilities Required to Provide Personal Protective Equipment for Staff  —  Facilities Must Expedite Testing of Symptomatic Residents Through Maryland State Lab

Giuliani, a familiar voice in Trump's ear, promotes experimental coronavirus treatments  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was in the center of the impeachment storm earlier this year as an unpaid private attorney for President Trump, has cast himself in a new role: as personal science adviser …

The worst president.  Ever.  —  Until now, I have generally been reluctant to label Donald Trump the worst president in U.S. history.  As a historian, I know how important it is to allow the passage of time to gain a sense of perspective.  Some presidents who seemed awful to contemporaries …

In Chicago, 70% of COVID-19 Deaths Are Black  —  The COVID-19 virus is killing black residents in Cook County at disproportionately high rates, according to early data analyzed by WBEZ.  —  While black residents make up only 23% of the population in the county, they account for 58% of the COVID-19 deaths.

He Went to Jared  —  Heaven help us, we're at the mercy of the Slim Suit crowd.  —  A few years ago, when some photos by Times photographers adorning our office walls were swapped out for others, I found one headed for the dumpster.  —  It captured the scene when Andy Card came over to whisper …

Exclusive: Pressed by Trump, U.S. pushed unproven coronavirus treatment guidance  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In mid-March, President Donald Trump personally pressed federal health officials to make malaria drugs available to treat the novel coronavirus, though they had been untested for COVID-19, two sources told Reuters.

Consider the Possibility That Trump Is Right About China  —  When a new coronavirus emerged in China and began spreading around the world, including in the United States, President Donald Trump's many critics in the American foreign-policy establishment were quick to identify him as part of the problem.

Italy's Virus Shutdown Came Too Late.  What Happens Now?  —  Italy underestimated the outbreak, then ordered a national lockdown to contain it.  A month later, officials warn it is still too soon to reopen.  —  Milan  —  Venice  —  Turin  —  Genoa  —  Bologna  —  Florence  —  Rome

How long until sports can return?  You might not like the answer.  —  As fields, arenas and stadiums sit vacant and silent, the desire for sports to return far exceeds the capacity among those who oversee them to determine when they will.  Assessing probability is futile …

Fox News ‘willfully and maliciously deceived public’ about coronavirus  —  Suit filed in Washington State on Thursday.  Fox owner Rupert Murdoch and CEO Lachlan Murdoch are seen above.  Sean Hannity is seen top right.  Trish Regan is seen bottom right.

“Dead on Arrival”: A N.Y. Fire Chief's COVID Journal  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Simon Ressner is a battalion chief with the Fire Department of New York based in central Brooklyn.

Bill Gates calls coronavirus pandemic a ‘nightmare scenario,’ but predicts lower death toll than Trump  — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called the coronavirus pandemic a “nightmare scenario.”  — However, he predicted that the U.S. could see less than 100,000 to 240,000 deaths from COVID-19 before the outbreak is under control.