Trump asked if disinfectants could be injected to kill the coronavirus inside the body.  Doctors answered: ‘People will die.’  —  After a presentation Thursday that touched on the disinfectants that can kill the novel coronavirus on surfaces and in the air, President Trump pondered whether …

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.

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 …

Black Leaders Want a Black Woman as Biden's Running Mate.  But Who?  —  Among black leaders close to Joe Biden, a commitment to selecting a woman is not enough.  They have publicly and privately pushed him to select a black woman to fuel black voter enthusiasm.

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 …

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.

“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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Giuliani Calls COVID-19 Contact Tracing ‘Ridiculous’: ‘We Should Trace Everybody for Cancer’ (Video)  —  It's not clear what point Giuliani was trying to make, since COVID-19 is contagious and cancer is not  —  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on “The Ingraham Angle” …

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.

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.

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.

Michigan Legislature wants to create committee to oversee Whitmer's coronavirus response  —  In the midst of the continuing spread of the coronavirus in Michigan, the Michigan Legislature has scheduled a special session for Friday to create an oversight committee to examine how Gov. Gretchen Whitmer …

Political influence skews Trump's coronavirus response  —  The president and his aides have consolidated power amid the coronavirus crisis, picking winners and losers based in part on personal relationships and partisan loyalty.  —  WASHINGTON — In early March, Mike Bowen …

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.

Trump golf course seeks a lifeline from Ireland  —  President's family businesses cannot seek virus aid in the US but are applying for funds overseas  —  Leo Varadkar, Ireland's premier, was in Washington six weeks ago for a St Patrick's day meeting with Donald Trump when he triggered the coronavirus lockdown back home in Dublin.

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 …

Coronavirus shakes the conceit of ‘American exceptionalism’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — What if the real “invisible enemy” is the enemy from within — America's very institutions?  —  When the coronavirus pandemic came from distant lands to the United States, it was met with cascading failures …