Elizabeth Warren's oldest brother dies of coronavirus in Oklahoma  —  Donald Reed Herring, the oldest brother of Senator Elizabeth Warren, died on Tuesday night in Norman, Okla., about three weeks after testing positive for coronavirus.  —  Herring, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was 86.

Special Report: HHS chief Azar had aide, former dog breeder, steer pandemic task force  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On January 21, the day the first U.S. case of coronavirus was reported, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared on Fox News to report the latest on the disease as it ravaged China.

Exclusive: Poll signals strengthening support for Biden over Trump in three Midwest battleground states  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump trails Democrat Joe Biden among registered voters in three Midwestern battleground states that he narrowly carried in 2016 …

The US economy has now erased all job gains since the Great Recession  — The Labor Department reported that the number of Americans applying for state unemployment benefits totaled 4.427 million last week.  — Combined with the prior four jobless claims reports, the number of Americans …

‘Sadness’ and Disbelief From a World Missing American Leadership  —  The coronavirus pandemic is shaking bedrock assumptions about U.S. exceptionalism.  This is perhaps the first global crisis in more than a century where no one is even looking for Washington to lead.

Hidden Outbreaks Spread Through U.S. Cities Far Earlier Than Americans Knew, Estimates Say  —  Hidden Outbreaks Spread Far Earlier Than Americans Knew, Estimates Say  —  New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle had undetected outbreaks long before testing showed a major problem, according to a model.

They lived in a factory for 28 days to make millions of pounds of raw PPE materials to help fight coronavirus  —  At his factory just off the Delaware River, in the far southeastern corner of Pennsylvania, Joe Boyce clocked in on March 23 for the longest shift of his life.

Live Coronavirus Updates  —  Hosted by Michael Barbaro, produced by Jessica Cheung and Austin Mitchell, and edited by M.J. Davis Lin  —  From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.  This is “The Daily.”  [MUSIC]  —  Today, across the U.S. protests are erupting against orders to remain at home and to restrict people's movements.

Trump's coronavirus rift with Kemp puts Georgia Republicans in a tough spot  —  President Donald Trump's opposition to Gov. Brian Kemp's plan to start reopening parts of Georgia's economy will force Republican candidates to pick between their party's leader or the state's top official amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Federalist Publisher's Tweet Was Illegal: Labor Board Judge  —  Listen  —  The publisher of conservative online magazine The Federalist broke federal labor laws when he tweeted last year that he'd send employees “back to the salt mine” if they tried to unionize, a National Labor Relations Board administrative judge decided.

Justice Alito's jurisprudence of white racial innocence  —  Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court's budget during a House hearing on March 7, 2019.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images  —  Alito gets very upset if you suggest that racism exists.  —  On Monday, the Supreme Court held …

Stop Looking on the Bright Side: We'll Be Screwed By the Pandemic for Years to Come  —  The headline certainly sounded grave and full of portent: “Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently.  Here's How.”  —  Those words, emblazoned atop a POLITICO Magazine story last month in the opening days …

Murphy: McConnell's suggestion states declare bankruptcy ‘utterly irresponsible’  —  New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday blasted as “completely and utterly irresponsible” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's suggestion that state governments facing financial disaster during …

February 7: A Day That Will Live in Infamy  —  February 7 is a day that changed the world.  —  It's a day that defines the Trump administration's failures on COVID-19.  —  A day that will shape the campaign around the president's reelection.  —  On February 7, Dr. Li Wenliang …

The Democrats' House Polling Lead: Remarkably Steady  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The Democratic lead in House generic ballot polling has been very consistent over the course of Donald Trump's presidency.  — Democrats also have a significant money edge in the lion's share of their most vulnerable districts.

Fox News hosts go mum on the covid-19 drug they spent weeks promoting  —  At the height of Fox News's coverage of a would-be treatment for the novel coronavirus, the network's medical correspondent, Marc Siegel, offered a remarkable testimonial during Tucker Carlson's show.

Want to Find a Misinformed Public?  Facebook's Already Done It  —  While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in"pseudoscience"  —  Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a post pledging to combat misinformation about COVID-19 circulating on Facebook.

It's Time for Americans to Go Outside Again  —  Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers.  Subscribe to support our journalism.  Start your free trial.  —  The past week's tiny anti-lockdown protests are the exception that proves the rule: The U.S …

Cable news stars like Hannity make headlines.  But more people are watching David Muir's ABC newscast.  —  NEW YORK — I asked a media-savvy friend recently to guess what is the most-watched program on TV right now.  —  “Hannity's show?” she offered.  —  It's “World News Tonight” on ABC, I told her.

Consortium Linked To Steele Dossier Firms Paid $485K To Tech Company That Contributed To Senate Intel Report  — Tax filings show that non-profit groups linked to Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele paid nearly half-a-million dollars to a cyber security firm that contributed a report …

Usama bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so ‘totally unprepared’ Biden would be president, declassified docs show  —  Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the “totally unprepared” Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States “into a crisis …

Publix is buying excess milk and produce from farmers — and donating it to food banks  —  Farmers around the country have been forced to dump milk and waste fresh produce as schools, restaurants and other institutions remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Vaccine Rates Drop Dangerously as Parents Avoid Doctor's Visits  —  Afraid of Covid-19, parents are postponing well-child checkups, including shots, putting millions of children at risk of exposure to preventable deadly diseases.  —  As parents around the country cancel well-child checkups …

'We can't afford to wait': coronavirus could shut out droves of new US voters  —  Covid-19 is severely curbing voter registration across the US - which could have huge consequences in November  —  In a typical election year, canvassers across the country would be beginning to fan out on street corners …

Nick Fuentes and his white nationalist ‘Groyper Army’ have a new home on TikTok  —  He's been booted from YouTube and Reddit—but he's targeting a new frontier.  —  White nationalists and far-right figures have found a new platform to spread their messages and expand their following, moving to TikTok, Gen Z's current favorite app.

The Democrats Totally Want A Depression  —  If the Malevolent Donkey Party was actively seeking to plunge the country into an economic tailspin, while still maintaining some level of deniability to the credulous suckers out there, exactly what would it be doing differently?

Americans prioritize staying home and worry restrictions will lift too fast - CBS News poll  —  Health concerns still take precedence over economic concerns by a wide margin for Americans in their views on when to re-open the economy — both in what they want for the nation, and in what they'd do themselves.

Luxury Hotel Company Is Biggest Beneficiary of Small-Business Funds  —  Ashford Inc. and the real estate investment trusts it oversees have tapped $53 million in Paycheck Protection Program funds via Ritz Carltons and other hotel holdings  —  Hotels, luxury resorts and management companies …

Stores struggle to get shoppers to wear masks  —  New York (CNN Business)A handful of states and cities have mandated that shoppers wear coverings in grocery stores and other public places as they try to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.  —  But retailers are struggling …

The risk of a US double-dip depression is real  —  Reopening states to boost the economy despite the scientific evidence will do more damage than good  —  If you think one lockdown is painful enough, imagine a second.  It is too soon to gauge the lasting impact of putting the US economy into a deep freeze for weeks.

Banks Gave Richest Clients ‘Concierge Treatment’ for Pandemic Aid  —  Some businesses seeking coronavirus loans got to avoid flaky online portals or backed-up queues.  Many other small businesses couldn't get their loan requests submitted before the money dried up.