He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump's Failure on the Virus  —  An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.

White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus  —  The pandemic has pushed USPS to the brink, but Trump and Mnuchin shot down emergency aid  —  Through rain, sleet, hail, and even a pandemic, mail carriers serve every address in the United States …

As Trump's coronavirus task force amassed power, it boosted industry  —  Rather than using the president's full power to enlist the private sector's assets on behalf of the public, his team turned agencies into shipping clerks for businesses.  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — The coronavirus presented DuPont …

Texas to Ease Coronavirus Lockdown Under Executive Order to ‘Restore Livelihoods,’ Governor Says  —  Republican governor of Texas Greg Abbott said he plans to allow businesses to reopen with an executive order that would lift the coronavirus lockdown in a “safe” way.

The odds on who Joe Biden will pick as his female vice president candidate  —  With Sen. Bernie Sanders out of the race, the Joe Biden campaign is now moving into the fraught and delicate process of choosing a running mate.  —  Biden, at age 77, would be the oldest president ever elected …

How a stockpile of 39 million masks was exposed as fake  —  A powerful California union that claimed to have discovered 39 million masks for healthcare workers fighting the novel coronavirus was duped in an elaborate scam uncovered by FBI investigators, the U.S. attorney's office said Friday.

Trump leaves trail of unmet promises in coronavirus response  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — For several months, President Donald Trump and his officials have cast a fog of promises meant to reassure a country in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic.  Trump and his team haven't delivered on critical ones.

Footnotes in watchdog report indicate FBI knew of risk of Russian disinformation in Steele dossier  —  The FBI was warned sections of the controversial Steele dossier could have been part of a “Russian disinformation campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations,” according to newly declassified footnotes …

With Each Briefing, Trump Is Making Us Worse People  —  There has never been an American president as spiritually impoverished as Donald Trump.  And his spiritual poverty, like an overdrawn checking account that keeps imposing new penalties on a customer already in difficult straits …

Why Ron DeSantis' popularity has taken a hit since the pandemic started  —  The approval ratings of most governors have soared during the crisis.  DeSantis has seen his support plummet amid a confusing, conflicting response.  —  TALLAHASSEE — From New York to Ohio to California …

Experts fear ‘national naivete’ on COVID optimism  —  After an unprecedented month of strict social distancing and an economic lockdown that has cost tens of millions of jobs and untold billions in damage, Americans saw the faintest glimmers of hope last week that the worst of the coronavirus crisis may be passing.

The Costly Toll of Not Shutting Down Spring Break Earlier  —  People got sick — and some died — after attending crowded parties and theme parks in Florida as the coronavirus spread.  —  MIAMI — You could find Beatriz Diaz at this spring's Winter Party Festival in Miami Beach, giving out hand sanitizer.

Coronavirus In Five States  —  The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation produces the coronavirus model that currently seems to be getting the most attention.  For now, IHME is sticking with its projection of 61,545 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. by August 4.

The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus  —  Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly.  Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.

‘Playing games with numbers’: Florida COVID-19 test backlog worse than state says  —  Florida is significantly under-reporting the state's COVID-19 testing backlog, a blind spot in the data that could obscure the pandemic's size and hamper efforts to decide when it's safe to end restrictions …

Trump's Socially Distanced Campaign Backed by a new loyalist press secretary, the president's coronavirus briefings have replaced reelection rallies.  —  We're committed to keeping our readers informed. … Donald Trump glances up at the TVs on the wall or down at the newspapers on his desk.

Stanley Chera, titan of NYC retail, dies of coronavirus  —  Crown Acquisitions founder built one of city's most prominent property portfolios; was key figure in Trump's rise  —  Stanley I. Chera, who parlayed his father's Brooklyn department store business into one of New York real estate's …

Life and Death as Hospitals Fight the Coronavirus in the Bronx  —  “If people saw this, they would stay home.”  What the war against the coronavirus looks like inside two Bronx hospitals.  —  This is not a time to die.  —  Terror, pain and loneliness mingle in the air with the coronavirus in the …

Abortion providers ask Supreme Court to intervene after Texas bans procedures citing coronavirus  —  The legal tug-of-war between Texas abortion providers and the state's leaders who want to ban the procedure during the coronavirus pandemic landed at the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday night.

EXCLUSIVE: Public given sparse details on deadly outbreak  —  State agencies, hospitals, senior homes hold tight to key details about the coronavirus pandemic  —  Several times a week, Albany's elected leaders and health officials deliver sobering news updates to a besieged community …

Trump Administration Tells Employers Not To Worry About Recording COVID-19 Cases  —  Only health care facilities and select other employers will have to figure out if infections happened at work.  Safety advocates are beside themselves.  —  The Trump administration announced Friday afternoon …

Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic  —  With restaurants, hotels and schools closed, many of the nation's largest farms are destroying millions of pounds of fresh goods that they can no longer sell.  —  In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands …

As feds play ‘backup,’ states take unorthodox steps to compete in cutthroat global market for coronavirus supplies  —  Rushing to stave off a shortage of medical-grade protective gear to combat the spread of the coronavirus, Minnesota officials leaned on a local company's global connections …

‘Unimaginable’ pain: Coronavirus robs Michigan woman of whole family  —  COVID-19 AFFECTED EVERY FACET OF A GRAND BLANC WOMAN'S GRIEF AS SHE DEALS WITH THE VIRUS-RELATED DEATHS OF HER HUSBAND AND ONLY CHILD  —  Grand Blanc — Sandy Brown tried to calm her son, Freddie, alone and scared in a hospital intensive care unit.

Cruz Slams Feinstein: Trying To Send Millions To Iran, While Blocking Relief To American Businesses  —  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz unloaded on his Democratic colleagues on Friday in response to Sen. Dianne Feinstein sending a letter to President Trump declaring that she is “disappointed” …

Furor Erupts: Billions Going To Hospitals Based On Medicare Billings, Not COVID-19  —  Probably few hospital systems need the emergency federal grants announced this week to handle the coronavirus crisis as badly as Florida's Jackson Health does.  —  Miami, its base of operations …

Slow Start for Rapid Coronavirus Tests Frustrates States  —  Most states received materials to conduct about 100 tests, regardless of population; 'I'm banging my head against the wall'  —  A rapid test for the new coronavirus that was touted by the White House as a game-changing development …

New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew  —  A man found dead in his house in early March.  A woman who fell sick in mid-February and later died.  —  These early COVID-19 deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area suggest that the novel coronavirus had established itself …

Bernie Sanders Proposes Emergency Version Of ‘Medicare For All’ For The Pandemic  —  Now off the campaign trail, the senator joined Rep. Pramila Jayapal to float a temporary universal health care program.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is a full-time senator again, and he wants Democrats …

How many missed?  Texas is second-worst in the nation for COVID-19 testing  —  Six times in three weeks, Marci Rosenberg and her ailing husband and teenage children tried to get tested for the new coronavirus — only to be turned away each time, either for not meeting narrow testing criteria …