‘Scary to Go to Work’: White House Races to Contain Virus in Its Ranks  —  With two White House staff members testing positive, some officials fear the disease is already spreading rapidly through the West Wing.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is racing to contain an outbreak …

Bill Barr Twisted My Words in Dropping the Flynn Case.  Here's the Truth.  —  The F.B.I.'s interview of Mr. Flynn was constitutional, lawful and for a legitimate counterintelligence purpose.  —  Ms. McCord was an acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Justice Department from 2016 to 2017.

How Chris Hayes Makes Sense of the “World-Historical Cataclysm”  —  Before the coronavirus pandemic reshaped media priorities, along with just about everything else, the MSNBC host Chris Hayes was spending most of his time covering the Democratic Presidential nomination and the transformation …

Biden's lead is the steadiest on record  —  (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Monmouth University poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump 50% to 41%.  When Rep. Justin Amash is included as the Libertarian Party candidate, it's Biden 47%, Trump 40% and Amash 5%.

South Korea's Early Coronavirus Wins Dim After Rash of New Cases  —  More than 50 cases have been linked to Seoul's nightclubs and bars, which have now been ordered closed  —  SEOUL—South Korea, which largely succeeded in quelling the spread of the coronavirus, is back on the defensive …

Trump wants America to ‘normalize’ coronavirus deaths.  It's the media's job not to play along.  —  Comparing the number of deaths from covid-19 to those caused by car crashes never made any sense.  But the gimmick caught on anyway.  —  “We don't shut down our economy because tens …

Republicans grow nervous about losing the Senate amid worries over Trump's handling of the pandemic  —  Republicans are increasingly nervous they could lose control of the Senate this fall as a potent combination of a cratering economy, President Trump's controversial handling of the pandemic …

Pork Chops vs. People: Battling Coronavirus in an Iowa Meat Plant  —  After President Trump's executive order, meat plants are reopening.  Can they do so without endangering their low-wage workers and their communities?  —  On April 10, Tony Thompson, the sheriff for Black Hawk County in Iowa …

Why Have Late-Night TV Hosts Gone Silent on Tara Reade?  —  HYPOCRISY  —  Colbert, Kimmel, Meyers and Noah have all repeatedly hammered Trump for his treatment of women and gone radio silent on Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden.  —  On Oct. 8, 2016 …

The Bailout Is Working — For the Rich  —  The economy is in free fall but Wall Street is thriving, and stocks of big private equity firms are soaring dramatically higher.  That tells you who investors think is the real beneficiary of the federal government's massive rescue efforts.

Can a reality-TV president create a new U.S. reality that pretends death, despair don't exist?  —  Donald Trump has been here before.  At the dawn of the 2000s, the Manhattan real estate developer and short-fingered vulgarian was literally — as the New York Times would later document …

Trump asking justices to bar demands for taxes, bank records  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is hoping to persuade a Supreme Court with two of his appointees to keep his tax and other financial records from being turned over to lawmakers and a New York district attorney.

Why the Path to Reopening New York City Will Be So Difficult  —  The factors that made the city one of the hardest hit on the planet — its density, mass transit and tourism — complicate a return to normalcy.  —  Nearly 190,000 people were tested for the coronavirus in New York City over the past two weeks, a record number.