Shake Shack Will Return Its Entire $10 Million U.S. Government Loan  —  Shake Shack, the U.S.-based burger chain, will return its entire $10 million loan from the U.S. government, the company's leaders said in a statement, amid widespread criticism over who got access to the funds aimed …

Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests  —  A trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations …

5-year-old with rare complication becomes first Michigan child to die of COVID-19  —  A month ago, 5-year-old Skylar Herbert complained to her parents that she had a bad headache.  —  On Sunday, after spending two weeks on a ventilator, the Detroit girl died.

Police: At least 10 killed in shooting rampage in Canada  —  TORONTO (AP) — A 51-year-old man went on a shooting rampage across the northern part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia Sunday, killing at least 10 people, including a policewoman.  Officials said the suspected shooter was also dead.

Coronavirus in Ohio: More than 1,800 inmates at Marion Correctional test positive  —  Patrick Cooley Jim Woods The Columbus Dispatch  —  The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus rose to 11,602 cases on Sunday  —  Coronavirus has overtaken a vast majority of the prison population …

Oil in New York Plunges Below $15 as Storage Sites Fill  — Texan buyers offering as little as $2 a barrel for some crudes  — WTI plummets as much as 22%, though futures expire on Tuesday  —  Oil plunged below $15 a barrel in New York, a fresh 21-year low, as inventories soar …

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 …

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 …

Everyone is in denial about November  —  The 2016 hangover  —  Over the weekend, the hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts read a lot of analysis about what the Trump administration was thinking and doing about reelection.  What all of this analysis had in common was a refusal to acknowledge some brute facts.

Facebook and Google to be forced to share advertising revenue with Australian media companies  —  Mandatory code being developed by ACCC will create ‘level playing field’ in media landscape, Josh Frydenberg says  —  Facebook and Google will be forced to share advertising revenue …

The U.S. Tried to Teach China a Lesson About the Media.  It Backfired.  —  American journalists were showing the world the devastating effects of China's botched response to the coronavirus.  Now, many have been kicked out.  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is better known for yelling at journalists than consoling them.

Residents protest coronavirus stay-at-home orders in 5 states  —  Protests occurred in Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee and Washington.  —  Opposition to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders has continued to build from coast to coast, with at least five states the site of protests Sunday.

Democrats' momentum puts Senate majority in play  —  Republicans started this election cycle as heavy favorites to keep their Senate majority, with a lineup of elections mostly in red-tinted states and GOP incumbents favored over a slate of relatively unknown and untested challengers.

The Foundations of American Society Are Failing Us  —  The unequal impact of the pandemic and economic collapse are forcing us to rethink the assumptions of our system.  —  Mr. Sanders is a senator from Vermont and former Democratic candidate for president.

Piers Morgan says his friend President Trump is ‘failing the American people’  —  New York (CNN Business)The coronavirus pandemic is “the biggest news story that any of us have every dealt with,” Piers Morgan says, and it requires “a different approach from the traditional news anchor approach.”

Trump won't say whether he will pardon Manafort and Stone, calls FBI investigators ‘human scum’  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump Sunday would not say whether he will pardon several former associates who were convicted after being charged as part of the Mueller probe, including former campaign …

Evangelicals Have Abandoned the Character Test.  The Competence Test is Next.  —  On April 15, the United States hit a horrifying milestone.  It not only crossed 30,000 total COVID-19 deaths, but for the fourth consecutive day, the daily death toll was so high that COVID-19 was the single leading cause of death in the United States.

Trump, Head of Government, Leans Into Antigovernment Message  —  With his poll numbers fading after a rally-around-the-leader bump, the president is stoking protests against stay-at-home orders.  —  First he was the self-described “wartime president.”  Then he trumpeted the “total” authority of the federal government.

Protesting for the Right to Catch the Coronavirus  —  The reopen America protests are the logical conclusion of a twisted liberty movement.  —  Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large.  —  At a string of small “reopen America” protests across the country this week, mask-less citizens …

Tax-refund delays mount as IRS struggles with snail mail amid shutdown  —  The IRS is piling unopened business tax refund requests into storage trailers and advising companies to file by fax instead.  It's stopped answering phone calls on taxpayer assistance lines.

Trump says government will step up coronavirus testing efforts, after governors blast federal inaction  —  President Trump said on Sunday that the federal government is stepping up efforts to obtain vital supplies for coronavirus testing, hours after several governors from both parties faulted …

Trump money machine overcomes coronavirus in March  —  The Republican National Committee raised a record $24 million last month, an early indication that President Donald Trump's fundraising machine could be able to withstand the economic collapse brought on by the coronavirus.

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.

Stop Airing Trump's Briefings!  —  The media is allowing disinformation to appear as news.  —  Around this time four years ago, the media world was all abuzz over an analysis by mediaQuant, a company that tracks what is known as “earned media” coverage of political candidates.  Earned media is free media.

A watchdog out of Trump's grasp unleashes wave of coronavirus audits  —  The Government Accountability Office is moving quickly to conduct oversight — and it's got more protection than other Trump targets.  —  U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, head of the Government Accountability Office.

Stirrings of unrest could portend turmoil as economies collapse  —  BEIRUT -As more than half the people in the world hunker down under some form of enforced confinement, stirrings of political and social unrest are pointing to a new, potentially turbulent phase in the global effort to stem the coronavirus pandemic.