White House officials say Trump works so hard he often misses lunch  —  President Trump's schedule is so packed amid the coronavirus crisis that he sometimes skips lunch, his aides told The Post — refuting a report that the commander-in-chief spends his days obsessing over TV coverage and eating fries.

White House to shift to economic message on coronavirus  —  The White House plans to shift its coronavirus messaging toward boosting the economy and highlighting “success stories” of businesses, reducing its public emphasis on health statistics, according to two officials familiar with the planning.

Muted and vacant, Las Vegas struggles to survive shutdown  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Slot machines are powered down, casinos boarded up and barricaded.  —  Sidewalks are largely deserted and electronic marquees that once flashed neon calls for nightclubs, magic shows and topless revues instead beam somber messages of safety.

Why Trump went off on Brian Kemp  —  One of the more surprising recent political moments was when President Trump publicly lambasted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.  It's rare — and politically damaging — for a Republican official to get steamrolled the way Kemp did last week.

Trump's Disinfectant Remark Raises a Question About the ‘Very Stable Genius’  —  The president has often said he is exceptionally smart.  His recent suggestion about injecting disinfectants was not.  —  President Trump's self-assessment has been consistent.  —  “I'm, like, a very smart person,” he assured voters in 2016.

Anna Wintour Made Condé Nast the Embodiment of Boomer Excess.  Can It Change to Meet This Crisis?  —  The theatrical flourishes and lavish lifestyles of the great media figures of a generation seem ill suited to the moment.  —  The coronavirus chased the fashion industry across Europe in February …

People receiving stimulus checks get letter signed by President Donald Trump  —  Why millions still haven't received stimulus money  —  (CNN)If you're getting money from the federal government as part of the recent stimulus response to the coronavirus, you'll also get a letter from President Donald Trump explaining why.

Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported  —  Mortality statistics show 111,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across 15 countries analysed by the FT  —  The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts …

Is the talk about Kim Jong Un being sick — or worse — true?  Pyongyang is abuzz, too.  —  Where is Kim Jong Un?  Is the devious despot dead after heart surgery?  Is he lying in a vegetative state in a hospital bed?  Or is he happily chain-smoking at his beachfront palace in Wonsan?

Wait, how long are we supposed to stay in lockdown?  —  What are we waiting for?  The question can be posed in either a wild, irresponsible way — or a sane, measured way.  In New York, our “pause” will continue until at least May 15, and New Yorkers are asking, in a measured, sane way: What exactly are we waiting for?

To Pressure Iran, Pompeo Turns to the Deal Trump Renounced  —  The secretary of state is preparing an argument that the U.S. remains a participant in the Obama-era nuclear deal, with the goal of extending an arms embargo or destroying the accord.  —  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …

'For black folks, it's like a setup: Are you trying to kill us?'  —  Fear and mistrust in rural Georgia as Gov. Kemp urges the state to reopen.  —  Sheryl Means already has lost so much to the invisible virus burning through her hometown.  Her mother and her aunt died within days of each other.

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 …

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 …

Public companies took far more small business loans than first thought — here's the latest tally  — Even as the U.S. small business relief program is set to reopen Monday with fresh funding, the full extent that public companies tapped the emergency facility is only now becoming clear.

Coronavirus Means the Era of Big Government Is...Back  —  History shows that national shocks—the Depression, World War II, the financial crisis—have a way of expanding the role of government in lasting ways.  This one is looking like no exception.  —  TEXT  —  RESPONSES

New York Required Nursing Homes To Admit ‘Medically Stable’ Coronavirus Patients.  The Results Were Deadly.  —  On March 25, New York's Health Department issued a mandate that state nursing homes could not refuse COVID-19-positive patients who were “medically stable,” meaning facilities …

A flood of business bankruptcies likely in coming months  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The billions of dollars in coronavirus relief targeted at small businesses may not prevent many of them from ending up in bankruptcy court.  —  Business filings under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy law rose sharply in March …

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 …

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.”

'Is this another death I'll have to pronounce?' … I'm always driving, going back-and-forth between nursing homes, the hospital, and the morgue.  All these roads should be empty if you ask me.  But now I see people out running errands, rushing back into their lives, and it's like: “Why?

COVID-19 jobless rates will be comparable to Great Depression: Trump economic adviser  —  Kevin Hassett, the president's economic adviser, appeared on ABC's “This Week.”  —  The U.S. is going to see a jobless rate comparable to what happened during the Great Depression as it recovers …