Trump suggests ‘injection’ of disinfectant to beat coronavirus and ‘clean’ the lungs  —  A Homeland Security official, under questioning from reporters, later said federal laboratories are not considering such a treatment option.  —  Trump suggests injecting disinfectant into the body to treat coronavirus

Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China — and the loan is due soon  —  Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president.  —  But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China: In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced …

Trump and the Coronavirus: A Sour President, Home Alone at the White House  —  As his administration grapples with reopening the economy, President Trump is worried about his re-election and how the news media is portraying him.  —  Trump Asks if Sunlight Can Kill Viruses.  ‘Not as a Treatment,’ Birx Says.

New HHS spokesman made racist comments about Chinese people in now-deleted tweets  —  WARNING: This story contains graphic language.  —  (CNN)The new spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services in a series of now-deleted tweets made racist and derogatory comments about Chinese people …

Trump approved of Georgia's reopen plan before bashing it  —  President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly told Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp that they approved of his aggressive plan to allow businesses to reopen, just a day before Trump pulled an about-face and publicly bashed the plan …

“Really Want to Flood NY and NJ”: Internal Documents Reveal Team Trump's Chloroquine Master Plan  —  Forget testing, ventilators, and PPE.  Donald Trump's big plan to beat COVID-19 involved distributing millions of doses of an unproven drug.  Behind the scenes, senior administration officials pushed hard …

No, Trump did not put a Labradoodle breeder in charge of COVID-19 response  —  Yes, the family of the HHS chief of staff sold fancy puppies, but that's not how he got the job, and in any case he wasn't in charge of the coronavirus task force, no matter what you've read online.

Fifty Thousand Americans Dead from the Coronavirus, and a President Who Refuses to Mourn Them  —  In just the past few days, President Trump has blamed immigrants, China, the “fake news” and, of course, “the invisible enemy” of the coronavirus for America's present troubles.

Fact check: Trump wrongly suggests sunlight could help cure coronavirus  —  Washington (CNN)On Thursday, President Donald Trump added to his list of dubious or inaccurate coronavirus-related medical claims, wrongly suggesting at a White House briefing that sunlight could possibly be used to treat people who have the virus.

EXCLUSIVE: Dossier Author Testified His Emails Were ‘Wiped,’ He No Longer Has Documents Related To Primary Source  — Christopher Steele told a British court last month that he no longer has key documents related to his infamous dossier.  — The ex-spy said in a deposition that his email accounts …

Save your bacon: A real meat shortage looms with virus shutdowns  —  Americans could start to see shortages of pork, chicken and beef on grocery shelves as soon as May as major packing plants swept by the coronavirus remain shuttered and the nation's massive stockpiles of frozen meat begin to dwindle.

My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years.  Does the World Need It Anymore?  —  Forced to shutter Prune, I've been revisiting my original dreams for it — and wondering if there will still be a place for it in the New York of the future.  —  On the night before I laid off all 30 of my employees …

Trump administration considers leveraging emergency coronavirus loan to force Postal Service changes  —  President Trump has railed for years against what he sees as mismanagement of the agency, which he argues has been exploited by sites such as Amazon  —  The Treasury Department …

Moving Out and Not Coming Back  —  On the menu today: The possibility of another wave of Americans moving out of the big cities, the likelihood of some future pandemic further down the road, and how the Red America-Blue America divide is likely to be altered when we emerge from this crisis.

Large majorities of Americans back coronavirus restrictions, slower return to normal: POLL  —  Anxiety over the coronavirus is still steep, the ABC News/Ipsos survey shows.  —  Overwhelming majorities of Americans favor restrictions related to containing the coronavirus and fear moving …

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto: 5 things to know about Biden's potential vice presidential nominee  —  Catherine Cortez Masto made history four years ago as the first Latina elected to the U.S. Senate.  —  She'll earn another chapter in the history books if former Vice President Joe Biden names …

Amid Signs Coronavirus Came Earlier, Americans Ask: Did I Already Have It?  —  New revelations have left people wondering about ailments early this year.  Doctors are thinking back to unexplained cases.  Medical examiners are looking for possible misdiagnosed deaths.

Ecuador's Death Toll During Outbreak Is Among the Worst in the World  —  Ecuador took early aggressive measures to stop the coronavirus, but ended up becoming an epicenter of the pandemic in Latin America.  How?  We revisit the first confirmed case and what led to the disease's spread.

White House promotes new lab results suggesting heat and sunlight slow coronavirus  —  Results are preliminary, with many uncertainties remaining.  —  PLEASE NOTE  —  President Trump and Vice President Pence showcased emerging laboratory evidence on Wednesday that suggest the spread …

In Wisconsin, Virus Creates New Front in Long-Simmering Partisan Wars  —  Protests planned for Friday continue a decade-long partisan cleaving in the state and serve as a stand-in for the general election battle to come.  —  Wisconsin had barely finished its fight over whether to hold …

Phunware, a data firm for Trump campaign, got millions in coronavirus small business help  —  A digital technology company that specializes in the mass collection of smartphone location data and is working for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign received millions from the federal coronavirus relief fund for small businesses.

Facing the Coronavirus, Republicans Aren't So Pro-Life After All  —  People are disposable.  So is income.  For the ‘pro-life’ party, one is more important.  —  I look at the numbers every day, sometimes every hour, sometimes before dawn.  China is not to be trusted.  Nor is Russia.

‘Fox & Friends First’ Host Heather Childers Complains About Fox News Benching Her During Coronavirus  —  The Fox morning host has spent weeks repeatedly lamenting that her own show and bosses have ghosted her since the pandemic began.  —  A longtime Fox News host who hasn't appeared …

Top Dem Operative David Brock Accused of Illegally Profiting From His Political Empire by Conservative Group  —  The complaint with the IRS, which comes from Patriots Foundation, details legally murky interactions between various entities in the Brock network.

Dr. Anthony Fauci ‘Not Overly Confident’ With U.S. COVID-19 Testing Capabilities  —  Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, says “we are not in a situation where we can say we are exactly …

‘Florida Is a Terrible State to Be an Unemployed Person’  —  Florida has emerged as one of the slowest states in the nation to process an avalanche of unemployment claims since the coronavirus hit.  —  MIAMI — After Ernst Virgile lost his job at the Fort Lauderdale airport …

Fox News Poll: Biden and Trump in tight race in Florida  —  Florida voters narrowly prefer presumed Democratic nominee Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the presidential race, as a majority says the White House was too slow in responding to the coronavirus outbreak.