White House, GOP face heat after hotel and restaurant chains helped run small business program dry  —  With program out of money, backlash prompts executives at Shake Shack to return $10 million loan.  —  The federal government gave national hotel and restaurant chains millions of dollars …

Kentucky sees highest spike in coronavirus cases after lockdown protests  —  Kentucky experienced its highest single-day spike in coronavirus cases after protests broke out in the state to lift lockdowns, according to reports.  —  Gov. Andy Beshear announced there were 273 new cases Sunday …

US source: North Korean leader in grave danger after surgery  —  (CNN)The US is monitoring intelligence that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, is in grave danger after a surgery, according to a US official with direct knowledge.  —  Kim recently missed the celebration of his grandfather's birthday …

Powerless to help, Donald Trump worries about incompetent pandemic leadership  —  Why was nobody doing anything?  That was the question President Trump kept asking himself, over and over, as he gazed at the United States' response to the covid-19 pandemic.  —  “The states have to step up their TESTING!” he tweeted.

Democrats say Michelle Obama would be Biden's perfect running mate  —  With the Democratic primary settled, the Rev. Al Sharpton says he now includes a political consideration in his daily prayers: God, please let Michelle Obama be Joe Biden's running mate.  —  Sharpton's decision to implore …

Smithfield Foods Is Blaming “Living Circumstances In Certain Cultures” For One Of America's Largest COVID-19 Clusters  —  The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus.  To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today.

Oil is getting crushed again with one futures contract down 90% to record low under $2  —  Crude oil is collapsing—Five experts on where it could be headed  —  U.S. crude prices plunged to their lowest level in history as traders continue to fret over a slump in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Georgia to allow some shuttered businesses to reopen amid pandemic  —  Gov. Brian Kemp outlined plans Monday to allow some businesses shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic to reopen by the end of the week, as he starts to ease restrictions that have ravaged the state's economy to stem the spread of the disease.

USC-LA County Study: Early Results of Antibody Testing Suggest Number of COVID-19 Infections Far Exceeds Number of Confirmed Cases in Los Angeles County  —  USC and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) today released preliminary results from a collaborative scientific study …

Man Who Called Ohio's Lockdown Order ‘Bullshit’ Has Succumbed To COVID-19  —  John McDaniel railed against Ohio's Gov. Mike DeWine's lockdown order on social media.  Weeks later he contracted the virus.  A few days ago he died.  —  In March, John McDaniel called Ohio's shutdown order of non-essential businesses “madness.”

Yahoo News/YouGov coronavirus poll: Most Americans reject anti-lockdown protests  —  An overwhelming majority of Americans, Republicans included, are rejecting right-wing protests — encouraged by President Trump — to immediately “reopen” the country in the midst of the world's largest and deadliest

Zuckerberg: Some stay-at-home protests organized on Facebook could qualify as ‘harmful misinformation’  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that protests of stay-at-home orders that violate state social distancing rules organized through …

Surgeon general gets pushed to sidelines, sparking questions  —  The Trump administration took Surgeon General Jerome Adams off television last week after his controversial remarks on Covid-19's threat to minorities, silencing the White House's loudest voice on racial disparities …

It's 5 o'clock.  Do you know where your president is?  —  It happens around happy hour, or what used to be happy hour, before the country shut down.  And like any happy hour, it starts late, runs long, and you end up stuck with some guy who loves to hear himself talk.  —  “Always health.

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.

Second night of riots as Paris locals react with fury over ‘racist’ police attacks on minorities during coronavirus lockdown  —  Paris has seen a second night of riots break out over police ‘heavy-handed’ treatment of ethnic minorities during the coronavirus lockdown.

Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing  — Amazon-owned Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing, according to five people with knowledge of the effort and internal documents viewed by Business Insider.

Alex Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez Retain JPMorgan to Raise Money for Mets Bid (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Retired baseball star Alex Rodriguez and his fiancé, recording artist and actor Jennifer Lopez, have retained JPMorgan Chase to raise capital for a possible bid on the New York Mets, people familiar with the matter said.

Poll: Michiganians favor Whitmer's COVID-19 handling over Trump's  —  Michigan residents favor Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's handling of the coronavirus over that of President Donald Trump, according to a poll done for the Detroit Regional Chamber that was released Monday.

U.S. Supreme Court abolishes split jury verdicts; dozens of convictions voided  —  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that juries across the nation must be unanimous to convict or acquit a criminal defendant, outlawing the split verdicts that had persisted in Louisiana since openly racist …

Singapore Seemed to Have Coronavirus Under Control, Until Cases Doubled  —  The spread suggests that it is unrealistic for the United States, Europe and the rest of the world to return to the way they were anytime soon, even if viral curves appear to flatten.  —  Singapore did almost everything right.

Misinformation During a Pandemic  —  We study the effects of news coverage of the novel coronavirus by the two most widely-viewed cable news shows in the United States - Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight, both on Fox News - on viewers' behavior and downstream health outcomes.

China: U.S. a ‘Primitive Society,’ ‘American Democracy Is Dying’  —  China's state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper began the week on Monday with columns proclaiming the end of American democracy and declaring that Washington was “no match for China” in fighting diseases.

Florida releases unemployment data: 1.5 million claims filed but just 40,193 paid  —  Just 40,193 Floridians who have filed for unemployment since March 15 have received their benefits, according to a new website the state launched Monday.  —  That's less than 3% of the more than 1.5 million …

Newsom's secretive $1-billion mask deal with Chinese automaker sparks bipartisan concerns  —  to spend almost $1 billion in taxpayer funds to buy protective masks drew national attention as an aggressive move by California to solve one of the most nagging problems of the coronavirus crisis.

Conservative activist family behind ‘grassroots’ anti-quarantine Facebook events  —  A family-run network of pro-gun groups is behind five of the largest Facebook groups dedicated to protesting shelter-in-place restrictions.  —  Protests against state stay-at-home orders have attracted …

Arrest warrant issued for defiant Louisiana pastor  —  BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Police have issued an arrest warrant for the controversial pastor of Life Tabernacle Church in Central, La.  —  The warrant accuses pastor Tony Spell of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, the Central Police Department says.

Iowa Sends National Guard Troops to Defend Meat Plants From Virus  —  (Bloomberg) — Hundreds of National Guard personnel are being activated in Iowa as coronavirus sweeps through meat-processing plants in a state that accounts for about a third of U.S. pork supply.

Trump surrogates and Fox hosts Diamond and Silk pushed an unhinged 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory  —  Diamond and Silk wonder if “somebody” can use 5G technology to infect people with the coronavirus to fill supposedly “empty” hospitals  —  Right-wing commentators Diamond and Silk …

Marco Rubio: The Coronavirus Shows We Need a More Resilient American Economy  —  Americans are a resilient people.  We persevere through difficult circumstances and arrive triumphant on the other side of adversity.  It's in our national DNA.  —  Once again, Americans are rising to the challenge before us.