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.

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” …

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 …

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.

Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about coronavirus to Trump administration  —  More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full …

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 …

Exclusive: Neiman Marcus to file for bankruptcy as soon as this week - sources  —  (Reuters) - Neiman Marcus Group is preparing to seek bankruptcy protection as soon as this week, becoming the first major U.S. department store operator to succumb to the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak …

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.

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'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.

Way more people may have gotten coronavirus than we thought, small antibody study suggests  —  Between 50 and 85 times as many people in Santa Clara County have coronavirus antibodies as have tested positive for the virus.  —  A night view of Silicon Valley, including Santa Clara and San Jose.

How the Obamas could easily win eight more years in the White House  —  As the president of the United States shelters in place with the White House press corps, and Joe Biden gibbers senselessly into the GoPro camera in his Delaware basement, this fall's national election has been thrown into a cocked tricorn by the coronavirus.

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 …

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.

Inside nursing homes, coronavirus brings isolation and 7,300 deaths; Outside, families yearn for news  —  Lawmakers demand stronger response, more tracking, more transparency.  —  Throughout March, sirens blared day and night in Brooklyn, as paramedics responded to the Cobble Hill Health Center.

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 …

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.

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 …