Draft report predicts covid-19 cases will reach 200,000 a day by June 1  —  A draft government report projects covid-19 cases will surge to about 200,000 per day by June 1, a staggering jump that would be accompanied by more than 3,000 deaths each day.  —  The document predicts a sharp increase …

3 charged in killing of store security guard over virus mask  —  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A woman, her adult son and husband have been charged in the fatal shooting of a security guard who refused to let her daughter enter a Family Dollar in Michigan because she wasn't wearing a face mask to protect against transmission of the coronavirus.

Trump's Pick for Intelligence Chief Follows a Slew of QAnon Accounts  —  John Ratcliffe's campaign Twitter account follows Pizzagaters, JFK Jr. conspiracists, and a 9/11 Truther account with just one follower besides himself.  —  For a nominee to helm the U.S. government's intelligence apparatus …

“Trump Is Really Aiming to Take Down Fox”: A Group Associated With Donald Trump Jr. Is Buying a Major Stake in OANN  —  Possibly hedging against a 2020 loss, the Trump family builds ties to a network that's much more loyal than Fox.  —  When liberals look at Fox News, they tend to see Trump TV …

Fauci: No scientific evidence the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab  —  In an exclusive interview, the face of America's COVID-19 response cautions against the rush for states to reopen, and offers his tips for handling the pandemic's information deluge.  —  SCIENCE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE

Most Events in the Lincoln Memorial Are Banned.  Trump Got an Exception.  —  Citing the “extraordinary crisis” of the coronavirus, the interior secretary relaxed the rules so the president could hold a Fox News interview in one of the nation's most hallowed spaces.

The plan is to have no plan  —  “There is no genius there, only a damaged human being playing havoc with our lives.” … The plan is to have no plan, to let daily deaths between and one and three thousand become a normal thing, and then to create massive confusion about who is responsible …

Newspaper's Top Editor Is Now a ‘Homeless’ Blogger  —  A 54-year-old journalist lost his job running an Indiana newspaper, as well as the apartment that went with it.  He moved to a Motel 6.  —  On Wednesday he was laid off.  On Friday he was living in a Motel 6.

CNN sends Trump campaign cease-and-desist letter for misleading ad  —  New York (CNN Business)A lawyer for CNN's parent company WarnerMedia has written a cease-and-desist letter to President Trump's re-election campaign over the misleading contents of a new campaign ad.

Ex-NBC Producer Rich McHugh Blasts Outgoing Chairman Andy Lack, Says NY AG's Office Probing the Network  —  Rich McHugh, a former NBC News producer who worked with Ronan Farrow, had some tough words for the network tonight over the departure of NBC News/MSNBC chairman Andy Lack.

Exclusive: Internal Chinese report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation …

Australian intelligence knocks back US government's Wuhan lab virus claim  —  Australian intelligence agencies have questioned evidence trumpeted by United States officials supposedly linking the coronavirus to a Wuhan laboratory as concerns within the government grow that the push …

Colorado man planning armed protest against state's coronavirus restrictions arrested for pipe bombs  —  Bradley Bunn first came to the attention of authorities on social media.  —  A Colorado man arrested after federal agents allegedly discovered pipe bombs in his home had also been helping organize …

GOP Ohio state lawmaker refuses to wear face mask because faces are the ‘likeness of God’  —  © The Ohio House of Representatives  —  A Republican Ohio state representative cited his religious beliefs to explain why he would not wear a mask as recommended by Gov. Mike DeWine (R) to help limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Goodbye to Trump's GOP: We've left the Republican Party and all other women should too  —  Call it a divorce.  A case of “irreconcilable differences” perhaps, but we're gone.  Splitsville.  Outta there.  —  We left the GOP at different times for sure, but for the same reasons …

The coronavirus is invading the battleground states  —  The political geography of our pandemic keeps shifting — and now the coronavirus is invading the battleground states in ways that could upend the 2020 presidential race.  —  William Frey of the Brookings Institution …

Michelle Obama Is Mad at Black Voters, Not Trump Voters: 'That's My Trauma'  —  ‘BECOMING’  —  The Netflix documentary “Becoming,” chronicling Michelle Obama's book tour, is light on newsworthy Trump attacks, focusing instead on the former first lady's next chapter.

Poll: Ernst lead evaporates in Iowa Senate race  —  The Senate race in Iowa is tightening, according to a new poll that shows Sen. Joni Ernst's (R-Iowa) lead over her likely Democratic opponent Theresa Greenfield narrowing to just 1 point.  —  The survey from the Democratic-leaning firm …

Senate Democrats stand by Biden: ‘Credible and convincing’ defense against sex assault claim  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats said Monday they back Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for president in spite of allegations by former aide Tara Reade that he sexually assaulted her in 1993 when he was a senator.

Appeals Court Vacancy Is Under Scrutiny Ahead of Contested Confirmation Hearing  —  The chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit publicly advanced a call by a progressive group for an ethics investigation into the circumstances of a plum vacancy.

A man wore a KKK hood at a grocery store after San Diego County required face masks  —  Photos of a man wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood while shopping Saturday prompted a harsh rebuke from local leaders in San Diego County, and police now say they're looking into the unsettling imagery.

Gavin Newsom announces California will enter Stage 2 of reopening Friday  —  California will move into Stage 2 of the state's reopening plan by the end of this week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced during a press conference Monday.  —  “On Friday I said we were days not weeks …