In unprecedented move, Treasury orders Trump's name printed on stimulus checks  —  The Treasury Department has ordered President Trump's name be printed on stimulus checks the Internal Revenue Service is rushing to send to tens of millions of Americans, a process that is expected to slow …

Why Trump's slump is likely to last all year  —  The president is losing ground in polls, faces a worsening economy, and is watching Democrats unify behind Joe Biden ahead of schedule.  —  President Trump is in an increasingly precarious position for reelection as he struggles to maintain focus …

China didn't warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days  —  In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people …

Trump Wanted a Radio Show, but He Didn't Want to Compete With Limbaugh  —  President Trump said he envisioned a show running two hours a day, according to White House officials, and would do it were it not for the risk of encroaching on Rush Limbaugh, the conservative host.

Trump wants to declare country open by May 1 — but the reality will be much slower  —  President Trump has all but decided to begin declaring the country ready to get back to business on May 1, two current and two former senior administration officials said, but a scramble is underway inside …

Stacey Abrams On Voting Rights, COVID-19, And Being Vice President  —  “I would be an excellent running mate.”  —  Experienced politicians know there is a right way to answer questions about pursuing higher office.  Be demure.  Redirect.  Convey vague interest while insisting never to have given it serious consideration.

Indiana congressman says he's willing to let more Americans die to save economy  —  Favoring the economy over Americans' health “is the lesser of two evils,” Rep. Trey Hollingsworth said.  —  Reopening the economy is preferable to preventing a new wave of coronavirus deaths, a member of Congress from Indiana said Tuesday.

Bill Gates, in rebuke of Trump, calls WHO funding cut during pandemic ‘as dangerous as it sounds’  —  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates criticized President Trump's decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization as “dangerous,” saying the payments should continue particularly during the global coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus testing hits dramatic slowdown in U.S.  —  The number of coronavirus tests analyzed each day by commercial labs in the U.S. plummeted by more than 30 percent over the past week, even though new infections are still surging in many states and officials are desperately trying to ramp up testing so the country can reopen.

Barr Pressed Australia for Help on Mueller Review as DOJ Worked to Free Its Hostages  —  DOUBLE TRACK  —  While his deputies finalized a plan with Australian officials to free two bloggers from a Tehran prison, Bill Barr had another request: help on his look back at the Russia probe.

MLB players, team employees participating in coronavirus study  —  Employees of Major League Baseball teams are participating in a massive study that will test up to 10,000 people for coronavirus antibodies and should offer researchers a better sense of how widespread the disease …

Major Democratic Group Received $100,000 in Chinese Government-Linked Tech Firm Stock  —  A prominent Democratic group poised to spend millions backing former vice president Joe Biden received $100,000 in the form of stock shares in the Chinese technology giant Baidu from an anonymous donor.

Pritzker arranging secret flights from China to bring millions of masks and gloves to Illinois  —  The governor is worried President Trump might try to seize the supplies for the federal stockpile so he's keeping the details quiet, a source said.  —  Gov. J.B. Pritzker is planning …

N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count  —  The city has added more than 3,700 additional people who were presumed to have died of the coronavirus but had never tested positive.  —  New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak …

Fixing College Corruption  —  America's colleges are rife with corruption.  The financial squeeze resulting from COVID-19 offers opportunities for a bit of remediation.  Let's first examine what might be the root of academic corruption, suggested by the title of a recent study …

Which elder-care facilities have COVID-19?  Florida won't say, filling families with dread  —  A devoted grandson learns his grandmother died alone last weekend.  The family was never told she had fallen ill. A fragile mother is moved from her room so the senior home can expand its “quarantine wing.”

Fox News Anchor: ‘Conservatives’ Heads Would've Exploded' if Obama Claimed ‘Total’ Authority  —  While Baier pointed out the rank hypocrisy, his Fox News colleague Brit Hume waved off Trump's comments as just another of the president's exaggerations.  —  Fox News anchor Bret Baier …

After the end of the world: the eerie silence of the Las Vegas Strip  —  The Las Vegas Strip looks like the morning after the end of the world.  —  On a recent day in late March, the strip was full of advertisements for things that read like transmissions from another planet where the air is easier to breathe.

Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period  —  1Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.  —  2Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Grassroots backlash grows against Whitmer's excessive stay-home order  —  Perhaps “the woman in Michigan” has let all the attention get to her head.  —  The fawning interviews and puff pieces from cable news networks and progressive media outlets happy to carry the Democratic Party's water …

A Time for Statesmanship  —  The president has got to make a decision.  —  “I'm going to have to make a decision, and I only hope to God that it's the right decision.”  -Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, Good Friday, 2020 President Trump was right to declare war …

Rita Wilson Shares How She and Tom Hanks Contracted Coronavirus, “Extreme” Chloroquine Side Effects  —  The actress and singer offered an update on her and her husband's condition more than a month after they both tested positive, and explained the origins of her “Hip Hop Hooray” …

Denial didn't get America past the Depression and it won't work for Trump on coronavirus  —  It's terribly risky in a pandemic to have a president who is anti-fact, anti-science and without empathy.  Bad leaders who ignore crises make them much worse.  —  In March, the president, said the worst would be over in 60 days.

‘I hate bullies’: Bicyclist verbally attacked by Chris Cuomo fires back  —  The Long Island resident blasted as a “jackass loser fat-tire biker” by Chris Cuomo in a radio rant told The Post on Tuesday that the CNN host is nothing but a bully — and has even filed a complaint with cops against him.

A Radical Pseudo-historian Meets His Match  —  Historians tend to be skeptical about the influence of books and ideas upon important historical developments, preferring to draw upon material or broadly social and cultural causes as the best explanations of large-scale change.