Special Report: HHS chief Azar had aide, former dog breeder, steer pandemic task force  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On January 21, the day the first U.S. case of coronavirus was reported, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared on Fox News to report the latest on the disease as it ravaged China.

Trump's coronavirus rift with Kemp puts Georgia Republicans in a tough spot  —  President Donald Trump's opposition to Gov. Brian Kemp's plan to start reopening parts of Georgia's economy will force Republican candidates to pick between their party's leader or the state's top official amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The US economy has now erased all job gains since the Great Recession  — The Labor Department reported that the number of Americans applying for state unemployment benefits totaled 4.427 million last week.  — Combined with the prior four jobless claims reports, the number of Americans …

Exclusive: Poll signals strengthening support for Biden over Trump in three Midwest battleground states  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump trails Democrat Joe Biden among registered voters in three Midwestern battleground states that he narrowly carried in 2016 …

Fox News hosts go mum on the covid-19 drug they spent weeks promoting  —  At the height of Fox News's coverage of a would-be treatment for the novel coronavirus, the network's medical correspondent, Marc Siegel, offered a remarkable testimonial during Tucker Carlson's show.

Live Coronavirus Updates  —  Hosted by Michael Barbaro, produced by Jessica Cheung and Austin Mitchell, and edited by M.J. Davis Lin  —  From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.  This is “The Daily.”  [MUSIC]  —  Today, across the U.S. protests are erupting against orders to remain at home and to restrict people's movements.

The Federalist Publisher's Tweet Was Illegal: Labor Board Judge  —  Listen  —  The publisher of conservative online magazine The Federalist broke federal labor laws when he tweeted last year that he'd send employees “back to the salt mine” if they tried to unionize, a National Labor Relations Board administrative judge decided.

‘Sadness’ and Disbelief From a World Missing American Leadership  —  The coronavirus pandemic is shaking bedrock assumptions about U.S. exceptionalism.  This is perhaps the first global crisis in more than a century where no one is even looking for Washington to lead.

They lived in a factory for 28 days to make millions of pounds of raw PPE materials to help fight coronavirus  —  At his factory just off the Delaware River, in the far southeastern corner of Pennsylvania, Joe Boyce clocked in on March 23 for the longest shift of his life.

The Democrats' House Polling Lead: Remarkably Steady  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The Democratic lead in House generic ballot polling has been very consistent over the course of Donald Trump's presidency.  — Democrats also have a significant money edge in the lion's share of their most vulnerable districts.

Cable news stars like Hannity make headlines.  But more people are watching David Muir's ABC newscast.  —  NEW YORK — I asked a media-savvy friend recently to guess what is the most-watched program on TV right now.  —  “Hannity's show?” she offered.  —  It's “World News Tonight” on ABC, I told her.

Stop Looking on the Bright Side: We'll Be Screwed By the Pandemic for Years to Come  —  The headline certainly sounded grave and full of portent: “Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently.  Here's How.”  —  Those words, emblazoned atop a POLITICO Magazine story last month in the opening days …

Consortium Linked To Steele Dossier Firms Paid $485K To Tech Company That Contributed To Senate Intel Report  — Tax filings show that non-profit groups linked to Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele paid nearly half-a-million dollars to a cyber security firm that contributed a report …

Justice Alito's jurisprudence of white racial innocence  —  Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court's budget during a House hearing on March 7, 2019.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images  —  Alito gets very upset if you suggest that racism exists.  —  On Monday, the Supreme Court held …

Vaccine Rates Drop Dangerously as Parents Avoid Doctor's Visits  —  Afraid of Covid-19, parents are postponing well-child checkups, including shots, putting millions of children at risk of exposure to preventable deadly diseases.  —  As parents around the country cancel well-child checkups …

Usama bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so ‘totally unprepared’ Biden would be president, declassified docs show  —  Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the “totally unprepared” Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States “into a crisis …

Banks Gave Richest Clients ‘Concierge Treatment’ for Pandemic Aid  —  Some businesses seeking coronavirus loans got to avoid flaky online portals or backed-up queues.  Many other small businesses couldn't get their loan requests submitted before the money dried up.

Under Trump, coronavirus scientists can speak — as long as they mostly toe the line  —  Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, issued a candid warning Tuesday in a Washington Post interview: A simultaneous flu and coronavirus outbreak next fall and winter …

Proclamation Suspending Entry of Immigrants Who Present Risk to the U.S. Labor Market During the Economic Recovery Following the COVID-19 Outbreak  —  The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has significantly disrupted the livelihoods of Americans.  In Proclamation 9994 of March 13, 2020 …

How coronavirus changes the political outlook in China and the U.S.  —  Tough talk on China may have consequences.  —  China's role in the covid-19 outbreak has elicited a growing backlash, including dueling campaign ads from Democrats and Republicans.  How will the pandemic reshape China's domestic and international standing?

Most people dying from Covid-19 are old.  Don't treat them just as statistics.  —  Werner Joseph Meyer, the author's grandfather, picking blueberries in New England in 2016.  Courtesy of Maryellen Stewart  —  My grandfather's time was not up.  His death should be treated as the tragedy it is.

States rushing to reopen are likely making a deadly error, coronavirus models and experts warn  —  By the end of the week, residents in Georgia will be able to get their hair permed and nails done.  By Monday, they will be cleared for action flicks at the cineplex and burgers at their favorite greasy spoon.

There's a growing possibility of a W-shaped economic recovery — and it's scary  —  A resurgence of the virus or a spike in defaults and bankruptcies could lead to another painful economic downturn  —  There are growing concerns that any economic recovery later this year could prove short-lived …

Seven more big cats test positive for coronavirus at Bronx Zoo  —  Following a National Geographic inquiry, the zoo confirms that four more tigers and three lions have the virus.  This comes the same day as two pet cats in New York become the first in the U.S. to test positive.

The risk of a US double-dip depression is real  —  Reopening states to boost the economy despite the scientific evidence will do more damage than good  —  If you think one lockdown is painful enough, imagine a second.  It is too soon to gauge the lasting impact of putting the US economy into a deep freeze for weeks.

Americans prioritize staying home and worry restrictions will lift too fast - CBS News poll  —  Health concerns still take precedence over economic concerns by a wide margin for Americans in their views on when to re-open the economy — both in what they want for the nation, and in what they'd do themselves.

It's Time for Americans to Go Outside Again  —  Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers.  Subscribe to support our journalism.  Start your free trial.  —  The past week's tiny anti-lockdown protests are the exception that proves the rule: The U.S …

I need someone in the media to pick this story up.  I have done as much digging as I can do, but I am getting dead ends and literal roadblocks that someone with press credentials would not get.  If this is true, this story would be national news.  —  Virginia Governor Ralph Northam issued …

Observations on the Great Hunkering (11)  —  • Cast your mind back to the early weeks after 9/11.  Who was the person who dominated the scene as New York City coped with the aftermath?  Mayor Rudy Giuliani, of course, so much so that Time magazine made him its Person of the Year for 2001.