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.

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 …

Trump Warns That Chris Wallace, Fox News Are ‘On A Bad Path’ After Pelosi Interview  —  President Donald Trump once again lashed out at Fox News and its flagship weekend host Chris Wallace in a tweet Sunday, saying that the network is on a “bad path” after an interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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 …

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 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.

Coronavirus Testing Hampered by Disarray, Shortages, Backlogs  —  State officials and labs say competition for supplies and questionable results are prolonging the national crisis  —  Amid efforts to expand coronavirus testing, laboratory operators and state health officials are navigating …

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.

Boris Johnson skipped five virus briefings in early days of pandemic  —  A 5,000-word exposé by the Sunday Times of London — “38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster” — finds that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, distracted by personal turmoil and his Brexit victory lap …

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 …

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.

'They're killing us,' Texas residents say of Trump rollbacks  —  HOUSTON (AP) — Danielle Nelson's best monitor for the emissions billowing out of the oil refineries and chemical plants surrounding her home: The heaving chest of her 9-year-old asthmatic son.

‘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.

More Americans Fear Lifting Coronavirus Restrictions Too Soon, WSJ/NBC Poll Says  —  Nearly 60% of respondents worry that lifting stay-at-home orders quickly will fuel the pandemic  —  Americans are worried about lifting stay-at-home orders too quickly amid the coronavirus pandemic …

Trump, Fox News are trying to gin up a new Tea Party to distract you from their deadly failures  —  One carried a sign with Patrick Henry's famed Revolutionary-era quote — “Give me liberty or give me death!”  — and parked herself in front of a shuttered Baskin-Robbins to show her determination …

AND THE TEAM PLAYED ON  —  As COVID-19 fears grew, public officials and sports executives weighed health risks — and a PR message — but let 33,000 fans into a Sounders match on March 7.  At what cost?  —  Despite coronavirus concerns, some 33,000 fans attended the Seattle Sounders vs …

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 …

North Korea denies that Kim sent Trump ‘a nice note’  —  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday dismissed as “ungrounded” President Donald Trump's comment that he recently received “a nice note” from the North's leader, Kim Jong Un.  —  Trump said during a press briefing …

U.S. coronavirus death toll approaches 40,000 as more than 1,900 people die in 24 hours and the number of cases rises to 741,866  — The coronavirus death toll in the United States climbed by 1,903 in 24 hours to reach 39,115 on Saturday  — Confirmed cases of the highly infectious illness …

Trump is insane: And it's time for leading Democrats to say that out loud  —  Rational Americans already understand that our president is mentally ill. Will Democrats ever speak truth to power?  —  Psychologists warn of the deadly consequences of the “silent partner” in abusive homes.

New Zealand's Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet  —  Jacinda Ardern's leadership style, focused on empathy, isn't just resonating with her people; it's putting the country on track for success against the coronavirus.  —  The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest test …

Trump coronavirus guidelines will get us back to normal and safeguard public health victories  —  Trump recognizing ‘economic reality’ of reopening country: Glenn Hubbard  —  It's time to start getting things back to normal after weeks of unprecedented national sacrifice to stop the coronavirus from spreading.

President Trump still owes El Paso from 2019 campaign rally  —  EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — As the City of El Paso looks to trim costs, KTSM wondered if President Donald Trump's re-election campaign has paid the City the half-a-million dollar bill from his February 2019 campaigns top at the El Paso County Coliseum.

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.