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 …

Covid-19 Antibody Test, Seen as Key to Reopening Country, Does Not Yet Deliver  —  Antibody Test, Seen as Key to Reopening Country, Does Not Yet Deliver  — The tests, many made in China without F.D.A. approval, are raising alarms.  — Results are off.  Doctors are misusing them.

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.

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'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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

‘Cartels are scrambling’: Virus snarls global drug trade  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Coronavirus is dealing a gut punch to the illegal drug trade, paralyzing economies, closing borders and severing supply chains in China that traffickers rely on for the chemicals to make such profitable drugs as methamphetamine and fentanyl.

How fighting coronavirus taught me about the gift of connection  —  We are publishing personal essays from CNN's global staff as they live and cover the story of Covid-19.  Brooke Baldwin anchors the 2-4p.m. edition of CNN Newsroom.  Based in New York, she was recently diagnosed with coronavirus.

The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE  —  Whenever you start to think that the federal government under Donald Trump has hit a moral bottom, it finds a new way to shock and horrify.  —  Over the last few weeks, it has started to appear as though …

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.

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.

No Fight Over Red Ink Now, but Virus Spending Will Force Tough Choices  —  The surge of deficit spending to “never-before-seen levels” is viewed as necessary, but dangerous for the future.  —  WASHINGTON — The deficit hawks have had their wings clipped.  —  No one wants to hear alarms raised …

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%.

Inslee says Trump's “liberate” tweets are encouraging “illegal activity”  —  Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said on ABC's “This Week” Sunday that President Trump's calls on Twitter to “LIBERATE” states from coronavirus lockdowns last week are “dangerous” and “encourage illegal activity.”

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 …

Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript April 18  —  President Donald Trump's April 18 coronavirus task force press conference.  Trump railed against the media and gun control, going after both in Saturday's press conference. … Donald Trump: (02:13)  —  Thank you very much.

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.

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 …

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.

The Risks of Homeschooling  —  A RAPIDLY INCREASING number of American families are opting out of sending their children to school, choosing instead to educate them at home.  Homeschooled kids now account for roughly 3 percent to 4 percent of school-age children in the United States …

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.

White House adviser Stephen Moore has repeatedly compared those protesting coronavirus lockdowns to Rosa Parks  — White House adviser Stephen Moore has repeatedly compared protesters who demonstrated against social-distancing measures to civil-rights icon Rosa Parks.