More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study  —  A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals.  There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported.

Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Rent Relief  —  The president's family business pays at least $3 million a year to the federal government for the lease on its D.C. hotel, which is all but empty because of the virus.  The next monthly payment is coming due.

NIH Panel Recommends Against Drug Combination Trump Has Promoted For COVID-19  —  A panel of experts convened by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recommends against doctors using a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for the treatment of COVID-19 patients because of potential toxicities.

CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus this winter could be worse  —  Even as states move ahead with plans to reopen their economies, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that a second wave of the novel coronavirus will be far more dire …

Barr Threatens Legal Action Against Governors Over Lockdowns  — Businesses need ‘more freedom,’ the attorney general says  — Trump has undercut his guidance on how states should reopen  —  The Justice Department will consider taking legal action against governors who continue …

Director of U.S. agency key to vaccine development leaves role suddenly amid coronavirus pandemic  —  WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, one of the nation's leading vaccine development experts and the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, is no longer leading the organization, officials told STAT.

Senate Intel report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Senate passes $484 billion deal to bolster small businesses and hospitals  —  UPDATE:  —  The Senate has approved a nearly half a trillion dollar coronavirus aid bill, sending the legislation to the House for passage later this week.  —  The bill includes $380 billion for small businesses …

At least 7 new coronavirus cases appear to be related to Wisconsin's election, Milwaukee health commissioner says … (Photo: MIKE DE SISTI / MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL)  —  Officials have identified seven people who appear to have contracted COVID-19 through activities related to the April 7 election …

‘Another nail in an almost closed coffin’: Trump faces his next coronavirus test  —  President Donald Trump's political fate now hinges on a simple premise: Everybody who needs a coronavirus test must be able to get a test.  —  More than five weeks into a devastating shutdown of the U.S. economy …

Trump's crisis mismanagement alienating seniors  —  Older voters have been a pivotal part of the president's base.  But they're beginning to turn on him over the coronavirus.  —  A fundamental rule of politics is the party that's divided is the one that's losing.

28,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis  —  At least 28,000 more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic over the last month than the official Covid-19 death counts report, a review of mortality data in 11 countries shows — providing a clearer …

Trump's Coronavirus Task Force Increasingly Ignores Trump  —  The president encouraged protests against his own administration's public health policies.  And his team greeted it with a collective shoulder shrug.  —  As the country enters its second month of a social lockdown and shuttered economy …

Michigan Governor Whitmer Awards Coronavirus Contract to Dem Consulting Firm  —  Michigan Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer has handed over control of the state's new contact-tracing operation to one of her own campaign vendors and one of the left's biggest technology firms.

De Blasio's social distancing tip line flooded with penis photos, Hitler memes  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio's critics let him know how they really felt about his ordering New Yorkers to snitch on each other for violating social-distancing rules — by flooding his new tip line with crank complaints including …

Secret Recording Reveals NRA's Legal Troubles Have Cost The Organization $100 Million  —  Audio will be available later today.  —  The National Rifle Association's legal troubles have cost the powerful gun rights group $100 million, according to a recording of the group's board meeting obtained by NPR.

Bitter Taste For Coffee Shop Owner, As New $600 Jobless Benefit Closed Her Business  —  Audio will be available later today.  —  $600 per week.  —  That's what the federal government is now offering to people who've lost their jobs because of the coronavirus.

GOP Texas Lieutenant Governor Says We Need to Take Risk to Get Back to Work: ‘There Are More Important Things Than Living’  —  The lieutenant governor of Texas, who was criticized last month for saying it was worth risking lives to return to work if that meant saving the economy, has doubled down on his comments.

The Quiet Hand of Conservative Groups in the Anti-Lockdown Protests  —  Groups in a loose coalition have tapped their networks to drive up turnout at recent rallies in state capitals and financed lawsuits, polling and research to combat the stay-at-home orders.

Trump to halt most green cards, with notable exceptions  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday will unveil an order to temporarily block most people from receiving permanent work visas in the United States, according to a person familiar with the plan.  —  But the order, issued as a pause lasting …

Some Democrats are bothered nominee is an older white man - and they solidly back Biden in November  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has the backing of the overwhelming majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning registered voters …

The coming GOP plot to sabotage a Biden presidency  —  We are in the midst of the most significant national crisis most of us will ever see.  By the time it's over, Americans' feelings about government will be transformed, as they come to understand that the question isn't whether government should be …

Coronavirus Live Updates: Senate Passes $484 Billion Aid Package  —  Oil prices cratered.  Mayors in Georgia pushed back on the governor's decision to reopen the state.  President Trump is expected to announce a pause in issuing green cards.  —  RIGHT NOW The Senate passed …

Hospital analysis: Nearly half of COVID-19 patients are obese  —  Americans' addiction to greasy junk food and heaping meal portions, disparities in access to healthy food and sitting for hours on end have made us especially vulnerable to COVID-19.  —  The United States has more obese people …

These U.S. citizens won't get coronavirus stimulus checks — because their spouses are immigrants  —  She works as a film producer and her small business has ground to a halt, forcing her and her husband to eat red beans and rice most nights, scramble to find small business loans and apply for medical assistance for their two children.

The deep-seated fear driving Trump's invented and exaggerated popularity rankings  —  It's just so obvious.  —  In a pair of tweets Tuesday morning, offered alongside complaints about a TV show being mean to him and the “fake news” more generally, President Trump tried to assure the world …

Volunteers in Coronavirus Response Ruffle Some at FEMA  —  Some private-sector employees helped source supplies, but communications prompted concerns  —  WASHINGTON—White House senior adviser Jared Kushner in March launched an effort under the government's emergency powers …

Federal documents: more than 300,000 likely to die if restrictions are lifted  —  Federal health officials estimated in early April that more than 300,000 Americans could die from COVID-19 if all social distancing measures are abandoned, and later estimates pushed the possible death toll even higher …

3 takeaways from AP review of small-business loan program  —  Small businesses have, like much of the U.S. economy, been walloped by the coronavirus.  In response, Congress created the Paycheck Protection Program to infuse small businesses, which typically have less access to quick cash and credit …

Can Colleges Survive Coronavirus?  ‘The Math Is Not Pretty’  —  Toggle more options  —  Most campuses in the United States are sitting empty.  Courses are online, students are at home.  And administrators are trying to figure out how to make the finances of that work.

GOP lawmakers ask Supreme Court to block Tony Evers' order to stay home  —  MADISON - Republican leaders of the state Legislature took Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to court Tuesday to stop his administration from keeping businesses and schools closed through May in an effort to slow the spread of a deadly virus.

‘Plague on a Biblical Scale’: Hasidic Families Hit Hard by Virus  —  In the New York area, the epidemic has killed influential religious leaders and torn through large, tight-knit families.  —  One of the first people Shulim Leifer knew who died of the coronavirus was his great-uncle.