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 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

AP-NORC poll: Few Americans trust Trump's info on pandemic  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made himself the daily spokesman for the nation's coronavirus response.  Yet few Americans regularly look to or trust Trump as a source of information on the pandemic …

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.  —  Aid for Struggling States Is the Next Big Congressional Battle

Study: Elderly Trump voters dying of coronavirus could cost him in November  —  Mass casualties from the coronavirus could upend the political landscape in battleground states and shift contests away from President Donald Trump, according to a new analysis.  —  Academic researchers writing …

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.

“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.

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 …

Trump adviser suggests reopening economy by putting ‘everybody in a space outfit’  —  One of President Trump's economic advisers has an admittedly “crazy” idea for how to reopen the country amid the coronavirus pandemic: space outfits.  —  Stephen Moore, a member of Trump's economic task force …

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.

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 …

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 …

Save your bacon: A real meat shortage looms with virus shutdowns  —  Melvin Menendez wears a protective mask as he stocks shelves with meat April 21 at the Presidente Supermarket in Hialeah, Fla.  —  Americans could start to see shortages of pork, chicken and beef on grocery shelves as soon …

Governor: Antibody survey shows wide exposure to virus in NY  —  NEW YORK (AP) — More evidence is emerging that far more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests, officials said Thursday.  —  A state survey of about 3,000 people found that nearly 14% had antibodies …

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 …

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 …

The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation  —  The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase.  Tens of thousands of Americans have died, and Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts.

The GOP has reached its sad, inevitable destination  —  When I think I have reached the bottom of my dejection about the state of public health and of the economy, I can always turn to the state of the Republican Party and go lower still.  —  The Trump captivity of the GOP has reached its sad …

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 …

Misunderstanding the math, Trump embraced a coronavirus death toll we'll soon surpass  —  When the White House announced its recommendation last month that Americans refrain from meeting in groups and take other steps to contain the spread of the coronavirus, it presented a chart suggesting …

‘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 …

The Cuomos' Corona Protocol, Week 3  —  Just as my husband, Chris, began to finally kick this, I was stricken with the coronavirus.  I spent a week in isolation battling COVID-19.  Here's what I learned—and what I did to push it out over the week.  —  On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day …

‘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 …

Kansas GOP chair asks Wagle and Lindstrom to drop out of Senate race for good of party  —  Kansas GOP chair Mike Kuckelman sent letters Thursday to two Republican candidates asking them to drop out of the race for U.S. Senate for the good of the party.  —  In nearly identical April 23 letters …

Officials probe the threat of a coronavirus bioweapon  —  The Pentagon and the intelligence community are more forcefully investigating the possibility that adversaries could use the novel coronavirus as a bioweapon, according to defense and intelligence officials, in a shift that reflects …

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 …

Trump Donor Hired Trump-Tied Lobbyists, Then Raked in Coronavirus Relief Cash  —  The real estate investment firm Ashford Inc. turned to big time fundraisers for the president to help it stave off financial ruin.  —  In late March, real estate investment firm Ashford Inc. was on the verge of financial ruin.

Swing-state Republicans pin virus fallout on Democrats  —  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — With legions out of work, Republicans across the critical battleground states are trying to lay blame for the economic wreckage of the coronavirus outbreak on Democratic governors, ramping up a political strategy …

Miami-Dade County misses out on 1 million N95 masks when feds scoop up shipment  —  Miami-Dade's emergency arm was close to taking possession of 1 million N95 masks last week, but the shipment was “taken” by the federal government, WLRN reported.  —  Frank Rollason, Miami-Dade's director …

Was Hockney RIGHT?  French researchers to give nicotine patches to coronavirus patients and frontline workers after lower rates of infection were found among smokers  — A French study found that only 4.4% of 350 coronavirus patients hospitalized were regular smokers and 5.3% of 130 homebound patients smoked