Elizabeth Warren's oldest brother dies of coronavirus in Oklahoma  —  Donald Reed Herring, the oldest brother of Senator Elizabeth Warren, died on Tuesday night in Norman, Okla., about three weeks after testing positive for coronavirus.  —  Herring, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was 86.

‘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.

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 …

New data on Gilead's remdesivir, released by accident, show no benefit for coronavirus patients.  Company still sees reason for hope  —  The antiviral medicine remdesivir from Gilead Sciences failed to speed the improvement of patients with Covid-19 or prevent them from dying …

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.

Murphy: McConnell's suggestion states declare bankruptcy ‘utterly irresponsible’  —  New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday blasted as “completely and utterly irresponsible” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's suggestion that state governments facing financial disaster during …

Task force members sent Birx to convince Trump to denounce Kemp's Georgia reopening decision, source says  —  Trump: I told Georgia governor I disagree with decision to reopen  —  (CNN)Members of the coronavirus task force had to convince President Donald Trump to change his view …

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 …

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 …

In Hawaii case, justices see broad reach of Clean Water Act  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route to rivers, oceans and other navigable waterways.

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.

Coronavirus is invading Red America, new data show.  That's ominous for Trump.  —  The political geography of our pandemic is shifting.  And that's bad news for President Trump.  —  I don't mean that this is bad news for Trump's reelection chances, though that might prove the case.

Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products  —  Contrary to assertions to Congress, employees often consulted sales information on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise  —  Amazon.com Inc. employees have used data about independent sellers …

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 …

Hidden Outbreaks Spread Through U.S. Cities Far Earlier Than Americans Knew, Estimates Say  —  Hidden Outbreaks Spread Far Earlier Than Americans Knew, Estimates Say  —  New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle had undetected outbreaks long before testing showed a major problem, according to a model.

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 …

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.

Want to Find a Misinformed Public?  Facebook's Already Done It  —  While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in"pseudoscience"  —  Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a post pledging to combat misinformation about COVID-19 circulating on Facebook.

Dallas Hotel Owner Is Biggest Beneficiary of Coronavirus Loan Program  —  Lodging companies affiliated with hotelier Monty Bennett poised to receive $59 million in loans from U.S. Paycheck Protection Program  —  Monty Bennett's lodging business has been hit hard by the pandemic.

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 …

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Audio shows Governor Rick Snyder's ‘Fixer’ lied about warnings Snyder and his administration received on ‘toxic’ Flint water, attempted to pay off sick Flint couple, and the mystery of the stolen Flint pipe  —  AG Dana Nessel hasn't filed any charges over the Flint water crisis …

Publix is buying excess milk and produce from farmers — and donating it to food banks  —  Farmers around the country have been forced to dump milk and waste fresh produce as schools, restaurants and other institutions remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Dems Hold Edge for Prez, Senate; House More Competitive  —  6 in 10 support marijuana ballot question  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Democrats Joe Biden and Cory Booker hold substantial leads among New Jersey voters in their races for president and U.S. Senate, respectively.

Bernie Sanders' ex-press secretary explains why she's not endorsing Biden  —  The Bernie Sanders campaign's former press secretary Briahna Joy Gray told the Atlantic in an interview Thursday that Joe Biden has not done enough to secure her endorsement, or the votes of many progressive Democrats.

She got a forgivable loan.  Her employees hate her for it.  —  Jamie Black-Lewis received loans from the Paycheck Protection Program for her two spas, Oasis Medspa & Salon and Amai Day Spa, in Washington state.  Many of her 35 employees think they will make more money collecting unemployment benefits than from their regular paychecks.

In New York's largest hospital system, 88 percent of coronavirus patients on ventilators didn't make it  —  New data shows many of those hospitalized had high blood pressure, obesity or diabetes  —  Throughout March, as the pandemic gained momentum in the United States …

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 …

Stores struggle to get shoppers to wear masks  —  New York (CNN Business)A handful of states and cities have mandated that shoppers wear coverings in grocery stores and other public places as they try to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.  —  But retailers are struggling …

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.

February 7: A Day That Will Live in Infamy  —  February 7 is a day that changed the world.  —  It's a day that defines the Trump administration's failures on COVID-19.  —  A day that will shape the campaign around the president's reelection.  —  On February 7, Dr. Li Wenliang …