Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Administration Models Predict Near Doubling of Daily Death Toll by June  —  Tensions between Washington and Beijing escalated.  The Supreme Court heard a case remotely for the first time.  J. Crew filed for bankruptcy protection.

Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers  —  Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been “firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.”

Trump administration pushing to rip global supply chains from China: officials  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to punish Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak …

3 Hospital Workers Gave Out Masks.  Weeks Later, They All Were Dead.  —  The coronavirus has taken a steep toll on the often-invisible army of employees who keep New York hospitals running.  —  They did not treat patients, but Wayne Edwards, Derik Braswell and Priscilla Carrow held …

What Joe Biden Needs to Do to Beat Trump  —  To win, he has to find a way to get beyond the basement tapes and project himself into our ever more digital world.  —  Mr. Axelrod was the senior strategist for President Barack Obama's campaigns in 2008 and 2012; Mr. Plouffe was Mr. Obama's campaign manager in 2008.

Why Congress is lagging on remote voting amid the coronavirus pandemic  —  Legislatures around the world have been experimenting with remote deliberation during the pandemic, but Congress still insists on in-person voting.  —  Why it matters: With social distancing rules in place …

Devin Nunes' lawyer facing prospect of sanctions after two recent, rare court warnings  —  The attorney representing Rep. Devin Nunes in six lawsuits has received two recent, rare warnings from judges that raise the prospect of courts sanctioning him.  —  People and organizations that Nunes' attorney …

Smart or Lucky?  How Florida Dodged the Worst of Coronavirus  —  Even though it's too early to draw clear conclusions, and the virus could flare again, there are lessons from its approach  —  MIAMI—When the coronavirus pandemic swept toward Florida, public-health professionals nationally warned …

Justice Thomas asks rare question during Supreme Court oral arguments, in teleconference session  —  Famously quiet Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday asked two questions during the court's remote oral arguments, marking just his third time speaking during the sessions in over a decade.

THIRD Russian doctor plunges from Covid hospital window: Medic, 37, is now fighting for life... just days after warning of PPE shortages and being forced to work despite being infected  —  A third Russian doctor has plunged from a hospital window after complaining about medics facing intolerable coronavirus pressures.

The Small-Business Die-Off Is Here  —  Outside of Boston, a marketing company is struggling to figure out how to cover its bills.  In Indiana, a dance studio is waiting on three emergency-loan applications.  In Baltimore, a deli is closed and desperate for help.

Trump's latest coronavirus spin unmasks his extreme narcissism  —  President Trump has spent the past three years attacking U.S. intelligence officials as corrupt and traitorous.  He even hinted one official should perhaps be executed for telling the truth about his profound and likely criminal betrayal …

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Before pandemic, Trump's stockpile chief put focus on biodefense.  An old client benefited.  —  After Robert Kadlec was confirmed as President Trump's top official for public health preparedness in 2017, he began pressing to increase government stocks of a smallpox vaccine.

San Diego man wears KKK hood to supermarket after county orders public to wear face masks  —  Officials have condemned a man in California who was pictured wearing a makeshift Ku Klux Klan hood while shopping at a supermarket.  —  Pictures of the man wearing a white hood similar to one worn …

Reopening states will cause 233,000 more people to die from coronavirus, according to Wharton model  —  New data from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that relaxing lockdowns across U.S. cities and states could have serious consequences for the country's

Iowa Races Closely Matched  —  PPP's newest Iowa poll finds that both the Senate race and the Presidential race in the state have tightened since the winter.  —  In the Senate race Joni Ernst leads Theresa Greenfield just 43-42, an indication that Iowa could make for another tough hold …

World leaders pledge billions for virus vaccine research  —  BRUSSELS (AP) — World leaders, organizations and banks on Monday pledged 7.4 billion euros ($8 billion) for research to find a vaccine against the new coronavirus, but warned that it is just the start of an effort that must be sustained over time to beat the disease.

For the 5th time in two weeks, Trump tweaks projected death toll  —  When a president finds it necessary to revise a projected death toll five times in 13 days, there's a problem.  —  Two weeks ago today, Donald Trump said he believed the overall American death toll from the coronavirus could be as low as 50,000 people.

Biden should step aside.  We can't sacrifice another woman for political gain.  —  The Democrats should drop Biden for the same reason the GOP should have dropped Kavanaugh.  —  It's a story we know all too well.  A woman says a politician hurt her.  He abused her.  She's coming forward now.

Georgia Senate: Loeffler to put $4M behind a wave of new ads  —  U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler will reserve about $4 million worth of airtime for a trio of new ads pushing back on criticism about her stock transactions during the coronavirus pandemic.  —  The ads label the scrutiny from opponents …

How the coronavirus undid Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis  —  There was the time Gov. Ron DeSantis showed up at a coronavirus press conference in  —  a solitary rubber glove, proceeding to repeatedly touch his face with the other, ungloved hand.  And there was the time he went through heroic struggles in

How Bailout Backlash and Moral Hazard Outrage Could Endanger the Economy  —  People are increasingly focusing not on preventing a depression but on which recipients of federal rescue are morally worthy.  —  The United States economy is in free fall, with tens of millions of people unemployed …

Ex-Green Beret Claims He Led Failed Raid Into Venezuela in Attempt to Overthrow Maduro  —  (CARACAS, Venezuela) — A former Green Beret has taken responsibility for what he claimed was a failed attack Sunday aimed at overthrowing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and that the socialist government said ended with eight dead.

Isolated by oceans: Hawaii, other islands tamp down virus  —  HONOLULU (AP) — Flying to a faraway beach might seem like the perfect way to escape a pandemic, but for isolated Pacific islands, controlling the coronavirus means cutting off tourism.  —  Hawaii has among the lowest COVID-19 infection …