13 hours of Trump: The president fills briefings with attacks and boasts, but little empathy  —  President Trump strode to the lectern in the White House briefing room Thursday and, for just over an hour, attacked his rivals, dismissing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as a …

White House weighing plan to replace Azar  —  White House officials are weighing a plan to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, according to four people familiar with the discussions.  —  Among the names on the short list to replace Azar are White House coronavirus coordinator …

What does CNN know about the Biden assault allegation that we don't?  —  Right now, the available evidence does not prove that Joe Biden more likely than not committed the 1993 assault that his former Senate staffer Tara Reade has alleged.  Part of this is purely on the virtue of the age …

Kim Jong Un's train spotted at coastal resort, intel reports scotch death rumors  —  TOKYO — Evidence that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is still alive and in the coastal resort of Wonsan is mounting, as satellite images showed his train apparently traveled there in the past few days …

Seattle's Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead.  New York's Did Not  —  The initial coronavirus outbreaks on the East and West Coasts emerged at roughly the same time.  But the danger was communicated very differently.  —  The first diagnosis of the coronavirus in the United States occurred …

USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared  —  Tens of millions of pounds of American-grown produce is rotting in fields as food banks across the country scramble to meet a massive surge in demand, a two-pronged disaster that has deprived farmers of billions of dollars …

America Isn't Actually Doing So Badly Against Coronavirus  —  The U.S., like all countries, has made its share of mistakes, but that doesn't make it a “failed state.”  —  We don't have enough tests for Covid-19 in the U.S. President Donald Trump spent weeks minimizing the threat …

'We're basically ill-prepared': Hobbled House majority frets about its effectiveness amid pandemic  —  House Democrats have blasted President Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic as inept and dangerous.  Party leaders insisted on the creation of a special committee to root out abuse …

Hey, teachers, cops, etc. — Mitch McConnell wants your job, pension.  Will he kill the GOP instead?  —  It's been a generation since the right-wing activist Grover Norquist said his movement's goal wasn't to eliminate government but merely to “shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.”

Exclusive: Coronavirus caused heart to rupture in nation's first known victim, autopsy shows  —  The Santa Clara woman whose death from COVID-19 is the earliest so far known in the United States suffered a massive heart attack caused by coronavirus infection, signs of which were found throughout her body …

Closed Hospitals Leave Rural Patients ‘Stranded’ as Coronavirus Spreads  —  A for-profit company bought three struggling hospitals in West Virginia and Ohio.  Doctors were fired, supplies ran low and many in need of care had to journey elsewhere.  Then the doors shut for good.

Trump Turns Shared American Experiences Into Us vs. Them  —  Nostalgia for a time when Democratic leaders could embrace Republican leaders in a moment of crisis — and when a bipartisan group would gather for an annual roasting in Washington.  —  WASHINGTON — Last weekend …

NYC tailor defies state order: 'I'm opening my doors come hell or high water'  —  One defiant NYC business owner — who's been deemed “non-essential” during the pandemic — has a message to New York: “I'm opening my doors come hell or high water.”  —  Eliot Rabin, whose Upper East Side boutique …

Biden searches for his own ‘Biden’ - a running mate with chemistry  —  Biden has taken an unusual approach, gamely answering questions about his search for a vice-president - a role he knows intimately  —  Long before Joe Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee …

Tom Cotton: Ban Chinese students from learning science so they can't ‘steal’ coronavirus vaccine  —  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday argued that the United States should ban Chinese students from learning about science while they are in the United States.  —  During an interview …

Michigan (and elsewhere): For anyone using the “It's a Detroit problem!” dog whistle, I have some bad news for you.  —  For the past month, I've spent an awful lot of time tracking COVID-19 cases and fatalities on a state-by-state level.  I'm obviously not the only one doing this …

One Rich N.Y. Hospital Got Warren Buffett's Help.  This One Got Duct Tape.  —  The inequities of New York City's health care system are clear at a public hospital in a section of Brooklyn hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.  —  It has been hours since the 71-year-old man in Room 3 …

It's George Wallace's World Now  —  he Republican Party has been taken over by an unscrupulous populist demagogue.  His loyalty is to himself, not to his party or any ideology.  He glories in violating political norms.  He trashes liberals and government bureaucrats but has no use for limiting …

De Blasio appoints wife head of coronavirus racial inequality task force  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday that he has put First Lady Chirlane McCray in charge of a special coronavirus task force — insisting her work with her embattled ThriveNYC initiative made her perfect for the new job.

Perfect storm: Lombardy's virus disaster is lesson for world  —  ROME (AP) — As Italy prepares to emerge from the West's first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe's hardest-hit country.