How Kushner's Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies  —  Roughly a dozen young, inexperienced workers were assembled to sort through tips on masks, gloves and other equipment.  Warehouses were running bare, and doctors fighting the coronavirus were forced to make their own protective gear.

Trump order to paint border wall black could drive up cost $500 million or more  —  President Trump is once more pushing to have his border wall painted black, a design change that is projected to add at least $500 million in costs, according to government contracting estimates obtained by The Washington Post.

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The problem with Biden's pledge of a black woman Supreme Court justice  —  There are few black women serving on the federal judiciary, and none younger than age 67 in appeals courts, the usual stepping stone to the high court.  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has promised that if elected president …

Trump touted reopening.  Privately, his team sounded alarms.  —  President Donald Trump boasted on May 1 that his success in responding to the coronavirus pandemic has made ventilator, test kit and mask shortages a thing of the past, and that much of the country is ready to quickly send people back to work.

'It's gone haywire': When COVID-19 arrived in rural America  —  DAWSON, Ga. (AP) — The reverend approached the makeshift pulpit and asked the Lord to help him make some sense of the scene before him: two caskets, side by side, in a small-town cemetery busier now than ever before.

Texas governor slammed after being caught on hot mic admitting his reopen order will worsen the pandemic  —  BREAKING: As @GovAbbott reopens the state in the midst of a rising infection and death rate, leaked audio from a call with Texas Legislators reveals that he knows reopening puts …

GOP lawmakers cheer Texas salon owner for violating stay-at-home order  —  Republican officials across the country have urged reopening businesses despite public health experts' advice that doing so too quickly will result in more cases of the virus.  —  Republican elected officials are rushing …

Voters Divided on Alleged Biden Assault  —  Half the electorate consider voting by mail this year  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Recent headlines may have dented Joe Biden's favorability rating ever so slightly but he has actually widened his national lead over Donald Trump in the race for president.

The president is not well: The umpteenth reminders of Trump's mental state and the consequences  —  Every parent has warily confronted the hypothetical question: What would you do if you suspected your child was unwell?  —  Not physically, but emotionally unwell, or mentally unstable?

Ann Vandersteel Reported That Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and Their ‘Minions’ Would All Be Arrested by May 5  —  During last Thursday's episode of her “Steel Truth” program, right-wing QAnon conspiracy theorist Ann Vandersteel claimed that one of her sources, who she said had never been wrong …

State health department tells university COVID-19 modeling team to stop work, limits data access  —  The Arizona Department of Health Services told a team of university experts working on COVID-19 modeling to “pause” its work, an email from a department leader shows.

What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State?  —  As the coronavirus pandemic cuts through the country, it is leaving behind large numbers of deaths that surpass those of recent history.  A New York Times analysis of state data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows …

Don't Be Fooled by America's Flattening Curve  —  Here is America's coronavirus curve: the number of newly reported cases each day.  The curve has started declining moderately from the peak in early April.  —  But that's not the whole story.  Separate the region around New York City and the picture becomes far less rosy.

Loeffler Got Lucrative Parting Gift From Public Company en Route to the Senate  —  The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, which her husband runs, changed compensation terms to give Kelly Loeffler, a top executive, awards worth millions of dollars as she left for Congress.

New Colorado poll shows Hickenlooper widening double-digit lead over Gardner  —  Former Gov. John Hickenlooper leads U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner by 18 percentage points in Colorado's U.S. Senate race, according to a poll from Colorado firms released Wednesday.  —  The Keating-Onsight-Melanson poll …

Where the virus is spreading fastest  —  In addition to keeping an eye on the tragic, and climbing, numbers of total coronavirus cases and deaths across the U.S., it's important to watch how those trends are playing out over time at the state level.  —  Why it matters: Rising, or falling …

Was Donald Trump Good at Baseball?  —  The president has long claimed he could have gone pro.  We looked into it.  —  In President Donald Trump's memory, he was a high school baseball star.  —  “I was supposed to be a pro baseball player,” Donald Trump wrote in 2004.

Health workers that volunteered to come to NY during pandemic have to pay state income tax: Cuomo  —  NEW YORK — Health care workers that came to New York to help fight the coronavirus pandemic at its epicenter will have to pay state taxes, according to the governor.  —  He addressed the issues Tuesday at a news conference.

Trump's trainwreck ABC interview illustrated why he rarely strays from Fox News  —  President Trump tours a Honeywell plant in Phoenix, Arizona, on May 5.  Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images  —  “I'll be honest, uh, I have a lot of things going on,” Trump said, trying to explain his lack of coronavirus preparation.

Exclusive: Government scientist Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover  —  Prof Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing  —  The scientist whose advice …

Kemp Warns Of Growing Outbreak Stressing Northeast Georgia  —  Gov. Brian Kemp warned on Tuesday that a growing coronavirus outbreak is stressing resources in northeast Georgia.  —  Kemp has moved aggressively to allow businesses to reopen even though infections are on the rise in some areas of the state.

Zoom Adds Board Member H.R. McMaster and Head of Global Public Policy and Government Relations Jonathan Kallmer to Leadership Team  —  Zoom announced today that it has appointed Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond “H.R.” McMaster as an independent director on Zoom's Board of Directors …

Win Or Lose, Trump's Top Campaign Aides Are Raking In The Cash  —  His campaign chief bought a waterfront house with a yearly tax bill higher than the average Floridian's annual income, a $400,000 boat, a Ferrari, condos and more.  —  WASHINGTON ― The bad news for President Donald Trump …

Democrats Say Black Voters Are Being Disenfranchised In The Special Election To Replace Katie Hill In Congress  —  Our news is free on LAist.  To make sure you get our coverage: Sign up for our daily newsletters.  To support our non-profit public service journalism: Donate Now.

Trump administration faces backlash over talk of winding down coronavirus task force  —  Democrats were quick to condemn the Trump administration Tuesday following comments from Vice President Mike Pence that the White House is in talks to potentially wind down its coronavirus task force …

I usually ignore all Trump's tweets.  Not this one.  —  To preserve what passes for my mental health, I avoid as much as possible President Trump's Twitter habits.  Some theorize that his feed is a sort of cat toy that he dangles in front of the media to distract us from his agenda.

Captured American Mercenary Appears to Be Really Into Qanon  —  Judging by the social media followings of one of the captured, Trump-connected American mercenaries who attempted a bizarre and spectacularly failed coup in Venezuela, he was highly interested in the QAnon conspiracy theory.

The Supreme Court weighs whether to make the Electoral College even less democratic  —  Hillary Clinton, the winner of the popular vote in 2016's presidential election, giving her concession speech.  Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images  —  The Court's “faithless electors” …

Trump Can't Handle the Truth, and We Just Proved It  —  The Gipper was an avatar of America's dreams; The Donald's brand is American weakness and decline, and the preposterous idea that he alone can fix it.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Like most of you, I didn't start Monday wondering what it would feel …

What's Behind South Korea's COVID-19 Exceptionalism?  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  On February 16, a Sunday, a 61-year-old woman with a fever entered the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu, South Korea.

‘We Are Not Essential.  We Are Sacrificial.’  —  I'm a New York City subway conductor who had Covid-19.  Now I'm going back to work.  —  Ms. Gidla is an M.T.A. conductor and author.  —  When I heard that a co-worker had died from Covid-19 — the first in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority …

American Meat Workers Are Starting to Quit With Plants Reopening  — Unions say employees are scared, more protective gear needed  — Companies restart operations following wave of shutdowns  —  America's meat-processing plants are starting to reopen, but not all workers are showing up.

How ‘Never Trumpers’ Crashed The Democratic Party  —  Anti-Donald Trump activism among conservatives — known informally as the “#NeverTrump” movement — started in early 2016 as a way to stop the businessman from winning the GOP nomination.  It failed.  —  Even by the slightly broader standard …