How a media-distracted Trump ended up derailing his own briefing  —  See Dr. Birx's reaction to Trump's dangerous suggestion  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump was absent from the Situation Room on Wednesday when William Bryan, the acting head of science at the Department of Homeland Security …

N. KOREA DICTATOR KIM JONG-UN REPORTEDLY DEAD ... After Botched Heart Surgery  —  North Korea's Supreme Leader/dictator Kim Jong-un has reportedly died, or is on his death bed with no hope for recuperation — according to media outlets in China and Japan.  —  Amid reports China has sent …

Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him  —  The election is still six months away, but a rash of ominous new polls and the president's erratic briefings have the G.O.P. worried about a Democratic takeover.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's erratic handling …

CNN slammed for treatment of Biden sexual assault allegations after old Larry King clip surfaces  —  Mother of Biden accuser reportedly phoned into Larry King's show to complain about ‘prominent senator’  —  CNN, which has already drawn fire for its reluctance to cover a claim of sexual assault …

Trump, Putin Statement Stirs Concern Among Some  —  Rare declaration comes amid U.S.-Russian strains, military tension, disinformation complaints  —  President Trump issued a symbolic joint statement Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a move that has stirred debate within …

“Immunity passports” in the context of COVID-19  —  Scientific Brief  —  WHO has published guidance on adjusting public health and social measures for the next phase of the COVID-19 response.1 Some governments have suggested that the detection of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 …

'That's the one there': A photo of a protesting nurse in Phoenix goes viral  —  He saw that the rally to reopen businesses shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic was transitioning from speeches at the plaza to a march to the Arizona state Capitol across the street.

Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying from strokes  —  Thomas Oxley wasn't even on call the day he received the page to come to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan.  There weren't enough doctors to treat all the emergency stroke patients, and he was needed in the operating room.

America Shouldn't Have to Play by New York Rules  —  A national lockdown is bad medicine and worse politics.  —  In 1976, the artist Saul Steinberg drew a cover for The New Yorker — “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” — that became an instant classic.  You know the one …

Say it loud, say it clear: Donald Trump needs to resign over his handling of the coronavirus  —  The United States has just over 4 percent of the world's population, but had about one-third of all global coronavirus cases and one-quarter of the fatalities, as of Friday.

“It was not a Confederate flag,” State Senator explains questionable mask  —  LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Friday afternoon during a senate vote at the capitol it was brought to our attention that one State Senator was wearing a mask that appeared to have the confederate flag on it.

I work at Smithfield Foods.  I'm suing them over putting our lives at risk for your dinner.  —  Meat processing plants can do more to protect us from the coronavirus  —  On the “cut floor” at Smithfield Foods, the meat processing company where I work in Milan, Mo., we use knives to butcher …

Trump narrowly leads Biden in presidential race in Texas, UT/TT Poll finds  —  President Donald Trump leads Democrat Joe Biden by 5 points in the race for president in Texas, but voters give the president mixed grades on his handling of the pandemic and the economy.  They think Gov. Greg Abbott is doing a better job.

SATURDAY UPDATE: Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Virginia jump by 733, deaths increase by 25  —  The Virginia Department of Health reported Saturday there are 11,902 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state - an increase of 733 from the 11,169 reported Friday.  —  Also, there are 432 confirmed …

40 Coronavirus Cases In Milwaukee County Linked To Wisconsin Election, Health Official Says  —  Forty people in Milwaukee County may have become infected with the coronavirus as a result of participating in Wisconsin elections on April 7.  —  Milwaukee Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik …

San Francisco mayor says city's PPE orders have been diverted, confiscated: It ‘blows my mind’  —  San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) said Friday that her city's orders for personal protection equipment (PPE) have been diverted to other U.S. cities and foreign countries.

‘My World Is Shattering’: Foreign Students Stranded by Coronavirus  —  When the pandemic shuttered colleges, many international students had no idea where to live or whether they would ever be able to return to class.  —  When universities abruptly shut down last month because of the coronavirus pandemic …

Florida's No-Rules Vibe Gets a Coronavirus Reality Check  —  At the farthest northwest corner of Florida, straddling the border with Alabama, sits a sprawling, ramshackle beach bar called the Flora-Bama Lounge.  First opened as a roadhouse in 1964, it's celebrated in song by Jimmy Buffett …

Column: As coronavirus devastates state budgets, conservatives target public worker pensions  —  Apparently on the principle that one shouldn't let a crisis go to waste, conservatives are using the coronavirus crisis to take aim at a favorite target: public employee pensions.

Focus group: Ohio swing voters want Trump to act more like a governor  —  Some swing voters in Canton, Ohio, who were won over by President Trump's say-anything bravado in 2016, now wish he'd be less partisan and more expert-driven — like a governor.  —  Driving the news …

Philip Kahn, 100, Dies; Spanish Flu Took His Twin a Century Ago  —  Aware of the irony of dying during a pandemic, he said history repeats itself.  A family member called the brothers “pandemic bookends.” … Philip Kahn believed that history repeats itself, a truism that has hit home for his family in extraordinary fashion.

Firms with Trump links or worth $100 million got small business loans  —  Three companies with ties to the Trump admin received millions under the PPP program.  Another got a loan from a bank that once employed its board's chair.  —  The government's $349 billion small business lending program …

Coronavirus detected on particles of air pollution  —  Exclusive: Scientists examine whether this route enables infections at longer distances  —  Coronavirus has been detected on particles of air pollution by scientists investigating whether this could enable it to be carried over longer distances …