Trump Lashes Out at Fauci Amid Criticism of Slow Virus Response  —  The president retweeted a post calling for the government's top infectious disease specialist to be fired after the doctor acknowledged that shutting down the country earlier could have saved lives.

Navy Sailor Assigned to USS Theodore Roosevelt Dies of COVID-Related Complications  —  From U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs  —  PEARL HARBOR (NNS) — The Sailor assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the U.S. Naval Hospital Guam April 9 …

A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump's Promises Largely Unfulfilled04:32  —  One month ago today, President Trump declared a national emergency.  —  In a Rose Garden address, flanked by leaders from giant retailers and medical testing companies, he promised a mobilization of public …

The Worst Governor in America  —  Gretchen Whitmer imposes insane policies on Michigan.  —  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (YouTube screenshot)  —  One word keeps recurring in online discussions of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's latest orders to fight the state's raging COVID-19 outbreak: “Insanity.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Never Spoken to Joe Biden.  Here's What She Would Say.  —  In an interview, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said she intended to support the presumptive Democratic nominee, but the “process of coming together should be uncomfortable for everyone involved.”

How Mitch McConnell Became Trump's Enabler-in-Chief  —  The Senate Majority Leader's refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.  —  On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the weekend …

Why Biden's Polling Lead vs. Trump Isn't as Solid as It Looks  —  Consider two important measurement differences: battleground states versus other states, and registered voters versus likely voters.  —  President Trump and Joe Biden begin the general election campaign locked …

Democrats fear for November after Wisconsin voting spectacle  —  Democrats looked on in horror last week as thousands of voters in Wisconsin trekked to polling places and waited in lines for hours to cast ballots in the midst of a pandemic.  —  Now national Democratic party leaders …

Why We Desperately Need Oversight of the Coronavirus Stimulus Spending  —  Rigorous watchdogs can ensure that vast amounts of taxpayer money aren't lost to fraud or handed out as political favors.  —  Mr. Barofsky is the former special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The East Coast, Always in the Spotlight, Owes a Debt to the West  —  California, Oregon and Washington have shipped 1,000 ventilators to New York.  Should Western states be getting more attention for their relative success in battling Covid-19?  —  LOS ANGELES — California …

Government Officials Use Pandemic As Excuse To Attack Christianity  —  Declaring religious services to be ‘non-essential’ is beyond the rightful role of government.  Instead, officials should equally apply all limits.  —  He really said it—and just three days before Easter.

THE PANDEMIC'S FIRST WAVE  —  Behind every data point on a curve or chart is a name and story of the earliest victims  —  It began one day in late February, with two people in King County, Wash.  —  Elsewhere, life in the United States was still relatively normal: economy humming, kids in school, games on, stores open, streets busy.

Smithfield shutting U.S. pork plant indefinitely, warns of meat shortages during pandemic  —  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving …

Anthony Causi, beloved Post sports photographer, dies of coronavirus at 48  —  Anthony Causi, a longtime photographer for The Post whose prolific talent and larger-than-life personality made him a fixture in the New York sports world, died Sunday of the coronavirus at North Shore University Hospital.

GOP governor: Reopening the U.S. will be ‘just as tough, if not tougher’ than start of coronavirus outbreak  —  “I think that sometimes we all think we're going to turn a switch and we'll get back to normal, and that's just not going to happen,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said.

Stanley Chera, New York real estate mogul and Trump friend, has died of coronavirus complications  —  New York (CNN Business)Stanley Chera, the prominent New York City real estate developer and Republican donor who co-founded Crown Acquisitions, has died of complications related to Covid-19 …

‘It feels like a war zone’: As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work  —  At least 41 grocery workers have died of the coronavirus and thousands more have tested positive in recent weeks  —  Doug Preszler wasn't thinking about risk when he took a cashier job at a regional supermarket in eastern Iowa.

States still baffled over how to get coronavirus supplies from Trump  —  Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was pleading with the federal government to send ventilators.  —  The state was starting to see hundreds of new coronavirus cases pop up each day, and Polis, a Democrat, worried that hospitals …

How Biogen Became a Coronavirus ‘Superspreader’  —  Biogen employees unwittingly spread the coronavirus from Massachusetts to Indiana, Tennessee and North Carolina.  —  BOSTON — On the first Monday in March, Michel Vounatsos, chief executive of the drug company Biogen, appeared in good spirits.

Garbage Pickups Tell a Tale of Two Cities, With Part of Manhattan Shrinking  —  Need to know more about coronavirus in New York?  Sign up for THE CITY's daily morning newsletter.  —  As many New Yorkers began to stay away from work, school and restaurants, city sanitation workers picked …

Governor DeSantis touted alcohol-free hand sanitizer not recommended by the CDC  —  SARASOTA, Fla. — A hand sanitizer made in Florida and touted by Gov. Ron DeSantis during a demonstration during a news conference does not use ingredients recommended by the CDC as effective against coronavirus …