Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons' Significant Others  —  Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle are each receiving $15,000 per month through the campaign manager's private company, GOP sources said, to dodge FEC rules.  —  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump's campaign …

In Trump's ‘LIBERATE’ tweets, extremists see a call to arms  —  Trump's tweets pushed many online extremist communities to speculate whether the president was advocating for armed conflict, an event they've termed “the boogaloo.”  —  When President Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MINNESOTA! …

Rallies against stay-at-home orders grow as Trump sides with protesters  —  Protesters at state capitols across the country this week expressed their deep frustration with the stay-at-home orders that are meant to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, pushing a message that is rapidly coalescing among …

Coronavirus Testing Needs to Triple Before the U.S. Can Reopen, Experts Say  —  Average Daily Coronavirus Tests in the U.S.  —  Level needed to safely  —  reopen  —  152 tests  —  tests per 100,000 people  —  Current level  —  45 tests  —  tests per 100,000 people  —  Level to reopen

Trump Calls For Reopening America's Gyms Day After Call With SoulCycle's Owner  —  Stephen Ross, the founder and chairman of the Related Companies, is part of the president's economic revitalization team.  He also threw Trump a massive fundraiser.  —  President Donald Trump unveiled …

COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California … Background Addressing COVID-19 is a pressing health and social concern.  To date, many epidemic projections and policies addressing COVID-19 have been designed without seroprevalence data to inform epidemic parameters.

Paul O'Neill, Former Treasury Secretary and Alcoa CEO, Dies at 84  —  Maverick clashed with colleagues in George W. Bush administration over tax cuts and environment  —  Paul O'Neill, a former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Alcoa chief executive whose independence and blunt speaking style led …

Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz aren't coronavirus experts.  So why are they talking about it on TV news?  —  Dr. Phil had much to say about the coronavirus lockdown the other night on Fox News.  —  “Look, the fact of the matter is we have people dying — 45,000 people a year die from automobile accidents …

How Millions of Women Became the Most Essential Workers in America  —  One in three jobs held by women has been designated as essential.  —  Every day, Constance Warren stands behind the cold cuts counter at a grocery store in New Orleans, watching the regular customers come and go.

Facebook's ‘fact checkers’ are the real fake news after censoring Post story  —  Way back on Feb. 23, The Post ran an opinion piece by Steven Mosher saying that we couldn't trust China's story about the origins of COVID-19.  He argued that the virus might — might — have jumped …

Amid Pandemic, Hong Kong Arrests Major Pro-Democracy Figures  —  Rarely have so many prominent pro-democracy figures — over a dozen — been arrested at once.  The arrests signaled a broader crackdown on the antigovernment movement that roiled the semiautonomous city last year.

Life Disrupted: 24 hours of coronavirus in North Carolina  —  In some ways, this is like any other North Carolina springtime.  —  Pollen coats cars like frosting.  Choruses of spring peepers fill the air in wooded areas, while the hum of lawn mowers drones on all day in suburbia.

Democrats confront Pence: ‘I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life’  —  Washington (CNN)Senate Democrats grilled Vice President Mike Pence over coronavirus testing and President Donald Trump's tweets during a tense phone call Friday afternoon on the pandemic response.

Stay Home!  Back to Work!  A Dog and Cat Debate Reopening America  —  You think this decision is strictly yours.  It's not.

The Trump administration is muzzling government scientists.  It's essential to let them speak candidly to the press again.  —  Kathryn Foxhall remembers a time when reporters could call up any doctor or researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and ask them questions on the record.

'They're Death Pits': Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes  —  More than six weeks after the first coronavirus deaths in a nursing home, outbreaks unfold across the country.  About a fifth of U.S. virus deaths are linked to nursing facilities.

The Coronavirus Doesn't Have a Social Message  —  Most plagues have had scapegoats.  There seems to be something deep, deep, deep in human nature that responds to existential threats like this one by seeking to blame someone else, or some other group, or even an errant individual.

The White House praised hotels for housing doctors.  Cities say Trump's hotels aren't participating.  —  Thousands of U.S. hotels have volunteered to help local authorities house doctors, nurses and other medical personnel at reduced rates — or even free — during the covid-19 pandemic.

Amid rebukes over secrecy, Florida prison system begins to reveal ravages of coronavirus  —  For weeks the Florida Department of Corrections refused to address rumors that inmates with coronavirus-like symptoms — or those who had come into contact with symptomatic inmates or staff …

Inslee statement on Trump encouraging illegal and dangerous acts  —  Gov. Jay Inslee released a statement today on President Trump's comments around “liberating” parts of the country.  —  “The president's statements this morning encourage illegal and dangerous acts.

Sunlight destroys virus quickly, new govt. tests find, but experts say pandemic could last through summer  —  Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight …

WaPo Fact Checker Glenn Kessler Morphs Into WHO Apologist in Ridiculous Fact Check on Trump  —  If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Media fact checkers need full time fact checkers to fact check their fact checks.  —  Or something like that.

The Problem with the Rush to Reopen  —  Trump says some states can end their shutdowns “literally tomorrow.”  But those states have not yet shown a clear downward trajectory in new COVID-19 cases.  —  When President Donald Trump announced his “Guidelines for Opening Up America Again” …

Trump and Biden clash over China in dueling ads  —  President Trump's intensifying criticism of China isn't just about deflecting blame during the coronavirus crisis — it's opening up a new line of attack against Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Trump's reopening guidance has a glaring gap  —  THE WHITE HOUSE guidance titled “Opening Up America Again” released Thursday evening comes with a reasonable aspiration for a phased recovery that does not ignite a fresh outbreak of the novel coronavirus.  President Trump wisely didn't repeat his misguided assertion of total authority.

Jacksonville beaches reopen in Florida as states begin easing stay-at-home restrictions  —  (CNN)Beaches and parks in Jacksonville, Florida, reopened Friday afternoon as more states consider easing restrictions put in place to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

A Teenager Posted About Her COVID-19 Infection on Instagram.  A Deputy Threatened To Arrest Her If She Didn't Delete It.  —  A family in Oxford, Wisconsin, is suing the local sheriff's department after a patrol sergeant threatened to arrest a teenage girl for disorderly conduct for posting …