Intelligence Chairman Raised Virus Alarms Weeks Ago, Secret Recording Shows  —  Toggle more options  —  The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned a small group of well-connected constituents three weeks ago to prepare for dire economic and societal effects of the coronavirus …

Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 2  —  The matriarch of the large New Jersey family, herself sick with the virus, “doesn't realize her two oldest children have passed.”  —  Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday …

Gov. Ron DeSantis Says Florida is Shutting Down For Spring Breakers: ‘The Party is Over’  —  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced that he's putting an end to spring break revelry in his state with the coronavirus pandemic growing in the country.  —  In an interview on Thursday with Fox & Friends …

Tulsi Gabbard suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden  —  Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that she will suspend her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign and endorsed Joe Biden.  —  The state of play: While she was one of the final three candidates left in the race …

Ga. lawmakers urged to self-quarantine after senator's positive coronavirus test  —  AJC AT THE GOLD DOME: CORONAVIRUS March 18, 2020  —  'I'm shaking with rage'  —  All of Georgia's state lawmakers were urged Wednesday to self-isolate themselves for weeks after a state senator who participated …

A New York Doctor's Coronavirus Warning: The Sky Is Falling  —  Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before.  But this is different.  —  Dr. Griggs is a pediatric surgery fellow.  —  I've had hard conversations this week.  “Look me in the eye,” I said to my neighbor Karen …

Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded  —  Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus.  But little was done.  —  WASHINGTON — The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China …

The Daily 202: Trump's corporatist response to coronavirus shows no concern for national debt  —  A trillion here, a trillion there and soon you're talking real money.  —  The national debt has surged from $20 trillion to $23 trillion since President Trump took office …

No, We're Not All Going to Have to Stay Home for 18 Months  —  (Bloomberg Opinion) — Remember a week and a half ago when CNBC's Rick Santelli said that “maybe we'd just be better off” if we just infected everybody with the coronavirus now?  His reasoning:  —  Then in a month …

Younger Adults Comprise Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S.  —  New C.D.C. data showed that nearly 40 percent of patients sick enough to be hospitalized were aged 20 to 54.  But the risk of dying was significantly higher in older people.  —  American adults of all ages …

You Cheered as He Fucked Up.  No Take Backs, Trumpists.  —  The virus doesn't follow him on Twitter.  It does what it does, and exploits time and complacency in its human hosts.  Trump gave it a six-week pass.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  The cliché about authoritarian leaders being strong …

Timeline: The early days of China's coronavirus outbreak and cover-up  —  Axios has compiled a timeline of the earliest weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in China, highlighting when the cover-up started and ended — and showing how, during that time, the virus already started spreading around the world, including to the United States.

Trump wanted to bury Biden after the primary.  Now he can't.  —  President Donald Trump's top political advisers in recent weeks envisioned unleashing a massive advertising campaign against Joe Biden to define him for the general election before he had a chance to recover from the primary.

China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World  —  The evidence of China's deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record.  In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks …

The Note: Sanders-Warren wing gets another moment, amid coronavirus crisis  —  Sander's campaign is signaling that he is clear-eyed about the road ahead.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign is signaling that he is clear-eyed about the road ahead, with his campaign manager saying he would use …

As layoffs skyrocket, America's unemployment safety net is underprepared to help many in need  —  Laid off workers are struggling to apply for unemployment aid as government websites crash and phone lines have hours-long waits  —  American workers are getting laid off at an unprecedented pace …

How long will Americans be fighting the coronavirus?  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a matter of days, millions of Americans have seen their lives upended by measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.  —  Normally bustling streets are deserted as families hunker down in their homes.

Rep. Don Young tells Alaska seniors ‘beer virus’ fears are overblown, skips vote on COVID-19 relief  —  Alaska's lone member of the U.S. House, Rep. Don Young, told a gathering of senior citizens last week that dangers posed by the coronavirus pandemic — the “beer virus,” he called it …

CDC, the top U.S. public health agency, is sidelined during coronavirus pandemic  —  As the United States enters a critical phase in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the country's leading public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appears to be on the sidelines …

The Staggering Rise in Jobless Claims This Week  —  Note: Official figures are seasonally adjusted.  This week's claims are not seasonally adjusted and represent a third of total national employment.  Source: Department of Labor, state level reporting.  —  Numbers released on Thursday …

Trump's China Hawk Is Trying to Commandeer the Coronavirus Stimulus and Others in the White House Are Alarmed  —  A draft executive order obtained by The Daily Beast shows that Navarro has his sights on a massive disruption of the medical-supply chain to make it more America-centric.

Exclusive: Amazon Confirms First Known Coronavirus Case in an American Warehouse  —  Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Queens, New York, received a text Wednesday evening that they long feared might come: “We're writing to let you know that a positive case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) was found at our facility today.”

A Coronavirus Recession Could Doom Trump's Reelection Chances  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The coronavirus public health crisis likely will lead to an economic downturn of unknown length and severity.  — Historically, second-quarter GDP growth in the election year …

The era of small government is over, for now  —  First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  WASHINGTON — If President Trump's election ended the Tea Party movement once and for all …

Coronavirus threatens the November election, can vote by mail save it?  —  As states scramble to postpone presidential primaries, election workers abandon their posts, and voters worry about the risk of contagion in crowded polling places, the question of how the nation is going to pull off …

Buzz Aldrin has some advice for Americans in quarantine  —  “We looked at this one crack in the floor, and there were ants crawling in and out.”  —  Buzz Aldrin knows a thing or two about quarantines.  After returning from the Moon in 1969, Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins spent 21 days …

Coronavirus live updates: Public health disaster declared in Texas for first time in 119 years  —  12:48 p.m. A Dallas County man became the fourth Texan to die from the novel coronavirus, local health officials reported.  —  The man, who lived in Richardson and was in his 60s …

Disinformation and blame: how America's far right is capitalizing on coronavirus  —  The pandemic, a situation in which people are panic-buying supplies, is ideal for a movement powered by fear and lies  —  The far right in America has received the coronavirus pandemic in much the same manner …

Evangeline Lilly won't self-quarantine, values ‘freedom’ over her life  —  Evangeline Lilly is taking a stand against self-quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic.  —  The “Ant-Man and the Wasp” star, 40, posted a photo of her “morning tea” on Instagram and said it was “business as usual” …

Surrounded by experts, Trump still needed an intervention by Tucker Carlson to take coronavirus seriously  —  We live in stupid, scary times.  —  And nothing illustrates this more vividly than one bizarre development among many others: That a Fox News host managed to get the president …

Minnesota classifies grocery store workers as emergency personnel  —  Minnesota has classified grocery store workers as emergency personnel, allowing them to access free child care provided by the state.  —  As people continue to practice social distancing and restaurants and bars remain closed …