Trump's unspoken factor on reopening the economy: Politics  —  President Donald Trump and his aides aren't just weighing coronavirus infection rates as they push for a quick economic restart.  They think it's good politics, too.  —  Trump aides and allies say they are growing confident …

Speaker Pelosi rips Trump as ‘weak leader,’ tells ‘Fox News Sunday’ he's failed on coronavirus response  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave President Trump an ‘F’ for what she called “weak” leadership during the coronavirus pandemic and promised that despite recent snags, Congress will “soon” …

Trump Has Begun His Corona Campaign.  We Don't Have to Play Along.  —  The coronavirus story isn't about the president.  —  Did you hear?  The president said some things today.  Mean things!  About someone I know ... I can't quite remember the details, or whether it was today or yesterday, or what day of the week it is, anyway.

In new poll, 60 percent support keeping stay-at-home restrictions to fight coronavirus  —  Fifty-eight percent say they are more worried about stopping the virus' spread while 32 percent are more concerned with the economic fallout, a new NBC News/WSJ poll shows.

A Beloved Bar Owner Was Skeptical About the Virus.  Then He Took a Cruise.  —  Joe Joyce oversaw JJ Bubbles, a welcoming tavern in a conservative corner of Brooklyn, for 43 years until he died of Covid-19.  —  Decades before he would embark on a cruise to the Mediterranean …

Column: The PPP is letting our small restaurants and businesses die  —  Restaurants are among the hardest-hit businesses during the coronavirus shutdown.  The National Restaurant Assn. estimates that 3 million restaurant employees lost their jobs in March, a month in which restaurants lost about $45 billion in revenue.

Coronavirus hits Indian Country hard, exposing infrastructure disparities  —  “You're saying 20 seconds of wash your hands with water,” a Navajo doctor in Arizona said.  “We do not have plumbing.  And that's how I grew up.”  —  Every third day, someone from Dr. Michelle Tom's family navigates …

Trump and Fox went all-in on a coronavirus silver bullet.  But maybe the wrong one.  —  There is not, as of writing, any medication which has been shown in controlled trials to significantly hasten recovery from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus that's become a global pandemic.

FloridaMorons trends after people flock to reopened Florida beaches  —  Aerial snapshots of people flocking to a reopened beach in Jacksonville, Fla., made waves on the Internet on Saturday.  —  Local news aired photos and videos of Florida's shoreline dotted with people, closer than six feet apart …

Trump's approval rally has disappeared  —  (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Gallup poll finds Present Donald Trump's approval stands at 43%.  His disapproval rating is at 54%.  —  Trump's approval rating is down significantly from 49% in March, while his disapproval rating is up 9 points from 45%.

Record government and corporate debt risks ‘tipping point’ after pandemic passes  —  The United States is embarking on a rapid-fire experiment in borrowing without precedent, as the government and corporations take on trillions of dollars of debt to offset the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic.

Conservative news mogul Matt Drudge fires back at Trump, says his web traffic is at record levels  —  New York (CNN)In a rare statement, Matt Drudge, the prominent conservative news mogul, refuted President Trump's Saturday claim that traffic to his website has plummeted as its coverage has grown more critical of him.

Government is everywhere now.  Where does it go next?  —  Americans are experiencing the biggest expansion of government authority in generations as elected leaders take unprecedented action to fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic.  —  The role of government has changed overnight, in ways no one imagined as this election year began.

Former SEAL makes it an act of valor to run for Congress  —  EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin — There is a tense scene in the movie Act of Valor when Derrick Van Orden, an active duty Navy SEAL at the time of filming, is interrogating a hardcore bad guy.  The grittiness and intensity of the scene …

Battleground power plays rage as everyday politics go quiet  —  Local party activity?  Some Facebook traffic, if that.  —  Across an arc of vital swing states, the coronavirus has put politics on an uneasy pause.  —  Instead, political fights among state leaders from Iowa to Pennsylvania …

Will the Pandemic Keep Third Parties Off the 2020 Ballot?  —  The pandemic may have robbed Donald Trump of a growing economy.  It may have trapped Joe Biden in his basement.  But it may yet do something even worse to the Libertarian and Green party nominees: keep them off the ballot in many of this year's key states.

With Broad, Random Tests for Antibodies, Germany Seeks Path Out of Lockdown  —  It was the first large Western democracy to contain the spread of the coronavirus and is now the first to methodically go about reopening its economy.  Others are watching.  —  BERLIN — Felix Germann …

Create Coronavirus Commission now to review pandemic response: Schiff, Thompson & Murphy  —  This is not an exercise in score-settling or finger-pointing.  Only an objective, bipartisan examination of this pandemic will prepare us for the next.  —  The fight against coronavirus is unlike any our nation has waged in modern history.

How do you know voting by mail works?  The U.S. military's done it since the Civil War.  —  Advocates and lawmakers believe it could be a model for November because of coronavirus.  —  WASHINGTON — The nation in crisis.  A divisive president up for reelection.

25 Years After Oklahoma City, Domestic Terrorism Is on the Rise  —  In an exclusive interview with WIRED, FBI director Christopher Wray discusses a scourge that “moves at the speed of social media.”  —  As the United States marks the 25th anniversary Sunday of the bombing …

Judge halts Kansas governor's order limiting church gatherings to 10 people: report  —  A federal court in Kansas issued a temporary restraining order Saturday against an executive order capping church gatherings at 10 people due to COVID-19, according to a local report.

IT'S TIME TO BUILD  —  Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings.  This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it's not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it.

The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead  —  There will be no quick return to our previous lives, according to nearly two dozen experts.  But there is hope for managing the scourge now and in the long term.  —  The coronavirus is spreading from America's biggest cities to its suburbs …

‘One World’ Concert Review: Rolling Stones & Beyoncé Hit High Notes At Multi-Network Show For COVID-19 Frontline Workers  —  With greetings in a multitude of languages, a suited and booted Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon kicked off the multi-network One World …

Trump Is Asking Us to Play Russian Roulette With Our Lives  —  Are we really going to bet that we can go back to life as normal without proper coronavirus tracking in place?  —  “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!”  “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”  “LIBERATE VIRGINIA.”  —  With these three short tweets last week …