April 2020

Coronavirus: WHO Funding

• Timeline: Trump’s fight with WHO over coronavirus handling (Al Jazeera)
• World reacts to Trump withdrawing WHO funding (Al Jazeera)
• Coronavirus: Trump’s WHO de-funding ‘as dangerous as it sounds’ (BBC)
• Health Experts Condemn Donald Trump’s WHO Funding Freeze: ‘Crime Against Humanity’ by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
• Trump And WHO: How Much Does The U.S. Give? What’s The Impact Of A Halt In Funding? by Pien Huang (NPR)
• Opinion: Trump’s decision to cut WHO funding is an act of international vandalism by Andrew Gawthorpe (Guardian)
• ‘A Crime Against Humanity.’ Why Trump’s WHO Funding Freeze Benefits Nobody by Charlie Campbell (TIME)
• Trump’s WHO cutoff sends officials, allies scrambling by Quint Forgey and Nahal Toosi (Politico)
• Trump Administration Officials Warned Against Halting Funding to WHO, Leaked Memo Shows by Yeganeh Torbati (ProPublica)

Coronavirus: Stimulus Checks / Relief

• Coronavirus: Trump’s name to appear on US relief cheques (BBC)
• IRS launches second web tool to expedite stimulus payments by Toby Echert (Politico)
• Trump’s Signature Printed on Stimulus Checks Even if It Delays Getting Americans Their Money by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Trump’s Treasury Department gives banks green light to seize individuals’ $1,200 stimulus checks by Jake Johnson (Salon)
• Order to print Trump’s name on every stimulus check expected to delay payments to Americans by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• Millionaires receive $1.7m in coronavirus relief as most taxpayers get $1,200 payments thanks to hidden Republican loophole by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• Here’s how to speed up and track your $1,200 stimulus check as IRS races to issue payments by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• House Democrats introduce plan to pay Americans $2,000 a month until economy recovers from COVID-19 by Charles Davis (Business Insider)

Coronavirus: Michigan

• Trump backers protest Michigan stay-at-home orders at state capitol by Seth Herald (Reuters)
• Coronavirus lockdowns turn political with protests in US (Al Jazeera)
• Michigan protesters turn out against Whitmer’s strict stay-at-home order by Myah Ward (Politico)

Coronavirus: Reopening Economy

• CDC director says 19-20 U.S. states may be ready to reopen May 1 by Doina Chiacu, Susan Heavey (Reuters)
• How Trump’s reopening plans could collide with reality by Ben White (Politico)
• WHO Sets 6 Conditions For Ending A Coronavirus Lockdown by Bill Chappell (NPR)
• A preliminary Trump administration plan shows how far America is from reopening by German Lopez (Vox)
• Coronavirus: Social distancing may need to last until 2022, Harvard study shows by Rory Sullivan (Independent)
• Elon Musk, Jamie Dimon, and Vince McMahon: Here are 20 of the biggest names on Trump’s list of advisers to reopen the US economy by Theron Mohamed (Business Insider)
• Will Trump try to “reopen the economy” by force — even if thousands more die? by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
• Trump threatens to adjourn Congress to push through nominees by John Bresnahan (Politico)

Coronavirus: California

• California Just Became the First State to Offer Coronavirus Cash to Undocumented Workers by Fernanda Echavarri (Mother Jones)
• COVID-19: California to give payments to undocumented immigrants (Al Jazeera)
• California To Give Cash Payments To Immigrants Impacted By Coronavirus by Adam Beam / AP (Huffington Post)

Coronavirus

• Senate Democrats seek $30 billion plan for national coronavirus testing program (Reuters)
• As U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House team raced to secure face coverings from Taiwan for senior staff by Carol D. Leonnig, Elizabeth Dwoskin, and John Hudson (Washington Post)
• Analysis: The brewing state battles over how to hold elections in a pandemic by Amber Philips (Washington Post)
• There are so many coronavirus myths that even Snopes can’t keep up by Elahe Izadi (Washington Post)
• Trump’s ‘Opening Our Country Council’ Runs Into Its Own Opening Problems by Annie Karni, Kate Kelly and David Gelles (NY Times)
• How COVID-19 Is Wreaking Havoc On Our Ability To Make Things — Including Vaccines by Maggie Koerth (FiveThirtyEight)

Trump vs. Congress

• Coronavirus US live: Trump threatens to close Congress over ‘obstruction’ by Kari Paul and Joan E Greve (The Guardian)
• Trump threatens to adjourn Congress to push through nominees by John Bresnahan (Politico)
• Trump Threatens To Adjourn Congress For Not Confirming His Judicial Nominees by Sanjana Karanth (Huffington Post)
• Donald Trump Threatens to Adjourn Congress Unilaterally in What Would Be Unprecedented Power Grab by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)

Other News

• There Have Been 13 Arizona Polls in the Last 14 Months and Trump Has Led Only One of Them by Tim Murphy (Mother Jones)
• Pentagon barred from discussing Trump in JEDI contract probe by Jacqueline Feldscher (Politico)
• White House Misses Deadline To explain Firing Intelligence Watchdog by Jenna McLaughlin (Huffington Post)
• Court blocks Trump administration push to make school meals saltier and less healthy by Gino Spocchia (Independent)

Coronavirus: WHO Funding

• Trump says US ‘halting funding’ to WHO over coronavirus response (Al Jazeera)
• Trump announces WHO funding is suspended and blames organisation for coronavirus deaths by John T Bennett (Independent)
• Trump says halting World Health Organization funding over its handling of virus (Reuters)
• Trump to halt WHO funding amid review by Morgan Chalfant, Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Trump’s halt to WHO funding prompts condemnation as coronavirus cases pass 2 million by Jeff Mason, Paulina Duran (Reuters)

Coronavirus: Trump Authority vs. Governors / NY / CA

• Coronavirus: Trump feuds with governors over authority (BBC)
• Trump Defenders Now Argue with Trump Saying He Has “Total” Authority by Luke Darby (GQ)
• FACT CHECK: Trump Doesn’t Have The Authority To Order States To ‘Reopen’ by Brian Naylor (NPR)
• Cuomo Threatens to Sue the Federal Government If Trump Forces Him to ‘Reopen’ New York by Paul Blest (VICE)
• Cuomo: ‘We would have a problem’ if Trump tries to reopen New York by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Trump speaks of mutiny as Cuomo dismisses premature coronavirus reopening by Maria Caspani, Doina Chiacu (Reuters)
• ‘He basically declared himself King Trump’: Cuomo warns of ‘constitutional crisis’ if Trump doesn’t back down on reopening economy by Jake Lahut (Business Insider)
• Trump Falsely Claimed ‘Total’ Authority Over States — Now He’s Backpedaling by Alana Wise (NPR)

Coronavirus: California

• California’s six-phase plan to get back on its feet after coronavirus pandemic by Louise Hall (Independent)
• California Governor Outlines How The State Will Decide To Open Again by Merrit Kennedy (NPR)
• California governor dismisses sporting events, mass gatherings as unlikely without vaccine by Marty Johnson (The Hill)
• California, Oregon outline plans for reopening state economies by Nathaniel Weixel (The Hill)

Coronavirus: Reopening Economy

• Who Will Advise Trump On ‘Reopening’ The U.S.? White House To Set New Pandemic Council by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Fauci: ‘We’re not there yet’ on key steps to reopen economy by AP (Politico)
• Donald Trump Wants to “Reopen America,” but the U.S. Isn’t a Business by Lucy Diavolo (Teen Vogue)
• What we know — and don’t know — about Trump’s task force to reopen the economy by Emily Stewart (Vox)
• Analysis: The 4 plans to end social distancing, explained by German Lopez (Vox)
• Trump’s May 1 target too optimistic for U.S. coronavirus reopening, adviser Fauci says by Doina Chiacu and Maria Caspani (AP)

Coronavirus: Testing / Ending Social Distancing

• How Contact Tracing Works And How It Can Help Reopen The Country by Selena Simmons-Duffin (NPR)
• Most Americans won’t immediately venture out when social distancing ends by Katelyn Burns (Vox)
• Harvard Researchers Say Some Social Distancing May Be Needed Into 2022 by John Tozzi (Bloomberg)
• There’s Only One Way to Get the U.S. Back to Work: Testing, Testing and More Testing by Arthur Caplan, Robert Bazel (TIME)
• We need an “army” of contact tracers to stamp out COVID-19, experts say by Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
• The 4 plans to end social distancing, explained by German Lopez (Vox)

Coronavirus: Stimulus Checks

• How to get your stimulus check, and other key questions, answered by Li Zhou, Ella Nilsen (Vox)
• Debt Collectors Can Seize Your $1,200 Coronavirus Relief Check by Luke Darby (GQ)
• How to Access Stimulus Check Tracker: What to Know About Website by Jenni Fink (Newsweek)
• In unprecedented move, Treasury orders Trump’s name printed on stimulus checks by Lisa Rein (Washington Post)
• Trump’s Name Will Appear On Stimulus Checks by Carla Herreria Russo (Huffington Post)

Coronavirus

• Trump’s Monday Coronavirus Briefing Was His Most Deranged One Yet by Paul Blest (VICE)
• Why Did The World Shut Down For COVID-19 But Not Ebola, SARS Or Swine Flu? by Kaleigh Rogers (FiveThirtyEight)
• New York City to manufacture its own coronavirus testing kits by Erin Durkin, Joe Anuta (Politico)
• The Coronavirus Recession Could Be the Worst Downturn Since the Great Depression by Paul Wiseman, Martin Crutsinger / AP (TIME)
• Trump meets with recovered coronavirus patients by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Tax change in coronavirus package overwhelmingly benefits millionaires, congressional body finds by Jeff Stein (Washington Post)
• Fauci says the marathon White House coronavirus briefings can be ‘really draining’ and prevent him from getting back to work by Kayla Epstein (Business Insider)
• Has Trump finally met his match? The female reporters setting him straight by Poppy Door (The Guardian)
• US coronavirus death toll sees record single-day increase bringing total to over 25,000, says new tally by Oliver O’Connell (Independent)
• A timeline of the Trump administration’s coronavirus actions (Al Jazeera)
• We Cannot Hold an Election Without a Functional Post Office by Richard L. Hasen (Slate)
• Anthony Fauci, Lightning Rod by Peter Nicholas and Uri Friedman (The Atlantic)
• New York City’s COVID-19 Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 by Quil Lawrence (NPR)
• Trump announces hospital-led ventilator exchange program by David Lim (Politico)
• Supreme Court avoids one abortion battle, but new lawsuits are being filed by Robert Barnes (Washington Post)

Other News

• Trump administration declines to stiffen US clean air standards by Emily Holden (The Guardian)

Coronavirus: Trump vs. Governors

• Trump: It’s my decision, not governors’, to reopen country by Quint Forgey, Josh Gerstein (Politico)
• Trump claims he, not governors, has authority on opening state economies by Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
• Governors form groups to explore lifting virus restrictions; Trump says he alone will decide by Tim Craig and Brady Dennis (Washington Post)
• Trump Declares He Has ‘Total’ Authority As President In Defiant Press Briefing by Josephine Harvey (Huffington Post)
• Twitter Erupts Over ‘Emperor’ Trump’s Claim His ‘Authority Is Total’ by Josephine Harvey (Huffington Post)
• Governors Refute Trump’s Claim He Has ‘Total’ Authority on Easing COVID-19 Restrictions by Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller, Geoff Mulvihill / AP (TIME)
• West Coast and Northeast Governors Form Separate Agreements to Coordinate Economic Reopenings by AP (TIME)
• States vs. Trump on economic reopening by Jen Kirby (Vox)

Coronavirus: Fauci

• Coronavirus: Trump retweets call to fire gov’t expert Fauci (Al Jazeera)
• Fauci acknowledged a delay in the US coronavirus response. Trump then retweeted a call to fire him. by Sean Collins (Vox)
• White House denies Trump is considering firing Fauci despite his retweet of a hashtag calling for his ouster by Katie Sheered and John Wagner (Washington Post)
• Dr. Fauci is still the most trusted leader in America on the coronavirus, while Trump and Jared Kushner are in last place by Jake Lahut (Business Insider)
• Trump is not firing top scientist Dr Anthony Fauci: White House (Al Jazeera)

Coronavirus: Supreme Court

• Supreme Court To Hold May Oral Arguments By Teleconference by AP (Huffington Post)
• SCOTUS will hear arguments by telephone conference in several cases because of COVID-19 by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
• Emergency petition asks Supreme Court to allow medication abortions in Texas by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)

Coronavirus

• More than 3,600 U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Have Been Linked to Nursing Homes by Bernard Condon, Randy Herschaft / AP (TIME)
• States still baffled over how to get coronavirus supplies from Trump by Anita Kumar, Gavin Bade (Politico)
• 70 Coronavirus Vaccines Are Under Development, With 3 in Human Trials, WHO Says by Lisa Du / Bloomberg (TIME)
• A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump’s Promises Largely Unfulfilled by Tim Mak, Sacha Pfeiffer, Huo Jingnan, Robert Benincasa, Graham Smith, Joseph Shapiro, Meg Anderson (NPR)
• US coronavirus outbreak could peak this week: CDC director (Al Jazeera)
• Congress Still At Stalemate Over Another Round Of Coronavirus Relief by Igor Bobic, Arthur Delaney (Huffington Post)
• Why Counties Are Handling The Coronavirus Better Than Trump by Richard Thompson Ford (Slate)
• Opinion: The Coronavirus Stimulus Is Playing Hard to Get by Pamela Herd and Donald P. Moynihan (NY Times)
• White House Correspondents’ Dinner rescheduled for August by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Trump admin requests delays in census deadlines by Matthew Choi (Politico)
• Analysis: The reality of coronavirus testing continues to differ from Trump’s claims by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
• Trump likely to announce new curbs on funding for World Health Organization this week by Anne Gearan (Washington Post)
• Analysis: How false hope spread about hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19 — and the consequences that followed by Elyse Samuels and Meg Kelly (Washington Post)
• Anti-malarial drug touted by Trump was subject of CIA warning to employees by Devlin Barrett (Washington Post)
• Analysis: Trump’s propaganda-laden, off-the-rails coronavirus briefing by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Trump’s grand reopening council triggers a slew of new questions by Nancy Cook (Politico)
• These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America by Sam Van Pykeren (Mother Jones)
• Trump Responds to Reports About His Incompetence by Flying Into a Self-Pitying Rage at Press by Ashley Feinberg (Slate)
• Wounded by media scrutiny, Trump turned a briefing into a presidential tantrum by David Smith (Guardian)
• Trump Campaign Sues Wisconsin Broadcaster Over Virus-Response Ad by Andy Monserud (Courthouse News)

Other News

• A Shockingly Long List of Corrupt Officials and Political Allies Pardoned by Trump by Becky Z. Dernbach (Mother Jones)
• Senate hits pause on confirming Trump’s judges by Marianne Levine (Politico)
• Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden after dropping out of the 2020 race by Sonam Sheth and Eliza Relman (Business Insider)
• Trump’s New Press Secretary Is an Apologist for Explicit Racism by William Saletan (Slate)

Analysis

• Trump’s voters will never admit they were wrong — even in the face of national catastrophe by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
• Trump’s Women Are Trapped in a Cult of “Empowerment” by Nina Burleigh (The New Republic)

Opinion

• Trump and the Criminal Culture by Roxana Robinson (Scoundrel Time)

Coronavirus: Reopening Economy

• Trump says he’ll use ‘facts and instincts’ when deciding to push for US to reopen by Justin Wise (The Hill)
• Trump Says He Will Rely on “Facts and Instincts” to Decide When to Reopen the Country by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Fauci says ‘rolling reentry’ possible as soon as next month by David Beavers (Politico)
• Biden unveils plan to ‘safely reopen’ US: ‘We cannot repeat’ Trump administration mistakes by Justin Wise (The Hill)
• White House still has no road map for restarting the economy by Nancy Cook (Politico)
• FDA Head: ‘Too Early’ To Tell Whether U.S. Can Ease Coronavirus Measures On May 1 by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)

Coronavirus: Delayed Response

• Behind Trump’s Botched And Delayed Coronavirus Response by Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / AP (Huffington Post)
• Anthony Fauci: Earlier Coronavirus Mitigation Measures ‘Could Have Saved Lives’ by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
• Fauci: ‘no one is going to deny’ that lives would have been saved if US coronavirus response came sooner by Ellen Cranley (Business Insider)
• Trump reportedly asked Dr Anthony Fauci whether it was possible to allow the coronavirus to ‘wash over’ the US by Tom Porter (Business Insider)
• A new investigation reveals Trump ignored experts on Covid-19 for months by Aja Romano (Vox)
• Fauci confirms New York Times report Trump rebuffed social distancing advice by Martin Pengelly (Guardian)

Coronavirus

• U.S. Has Most Coronavirus Deaths In The World by Nicole Hernandez (NPR)
• U.S. spends Easter Sunday on lockdown as COVID-19 death toll tops 21,300 by Barbara Goldberg, Tom Polansek (Reuters)
• White House’s Answer To Helping Farmers Is Cutting Farmworkers’ Pay: Report by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
• Study: Nearly a third of Americans believe a conspiracy theory about the origins of the coronavirus by Aja Romano (Vox)
• Coronavirus: Trump rejects bailout for ‘devastated’ US postal service by Jacob Bogage (Independent)
• Americans receive first wave of $1,200 stimulus checks — here’s when to expect yours by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• US’s global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump’s coronavirus response by Simon Tisdall (The Guardian)
• Trump advisers doubt swift reopening as WHO official says virus will ‘stalk human race’ by Richard Luscombe, Edward Helmore, Martin Pengelly (The Guardian)
• Trump administration orders insurers to make Covid-19 immunity tests free to patients by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
• Some Patients Really Need the Drug That Trump Keeps Pushing by Maya L. Harris (The Atlantic)
• New York Coronavirus Deaths Pass 9,000 by Matthew S. Schwartz (NPR)
• FACT CHECK: Trump’ misfires in watchdog attacks by Hope Yen and Calvin Woodward (AP)

Other News

• How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief by Jane Mayer (The New Yorker)

Opinion

• The second-most-dangerous contagion in America: Conservative irrationality by max Boot (Washington Post)

Coronavirus

• Coronavirus: US becomes first country to record more than 2,000 deaths in single day by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• The U.S. Now Has More Coronavirus Deaths Than Any Other Country by Trone Dowd (VICE)
• Opinion: The coronavirus crisis: How Trump is failing successfully by Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera)
• WHO Investigating Reports of Coronavirus Patients Testing Positive Again After Recovery by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump Administration Tells Employers Not To Worry About Recording COVID-19 Cases by Dave Jamieson (Huffington Post)
• The New York Times Just Published Documents Showing Trump’s COVID-19 Response Was Worse Than We Knew by Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones)
• NYC Mayor Says Schools Are Closed For Academic Year — But Governor Overrules Him by Colin Dwyer (NPR)
• White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus by Jacob Bogage (Washington Post)
• Abortion providers ask Supreme Court to intervene after Texas bans procedures citing coronavirus by Robert Barnes (Washington Post)
• Some Churches Will Open for Easter Sunday: “God Will Shield Us From All Harm And Sickness” by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• 20,000: US death toll overtakes Italy’s as Midwest braces by Kathleen Foody, Amy Forliti, and Geir Moulson (AP)
• Trump threatened to veto stimulus package if it contained bailout money for USPS: report by Marty Johnson (The Hill)
• Trump Repeatedly Dismissed Coronavirus Warnings as Alarmist for Weeks Before Crisis by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump Reportedly Weighed Letting COVID-19 ‘Wash Over’ U.S., But Was Warned Of Grim Toll by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
• Trump administration requires insurers to provide free antibody tests by Mohana Ravindranath (Politico)
• Trump administration has many task forces — but still no plan for beating covid-19 by Ashley Parker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post)
• Analysis: He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus by Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, Mark Mazzetti, and Julian E. Barnes (NY Times)
• The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus by Eric Lipton (NY Times)
• Opinion: With Each Briefing, Trump Is Making Us Worse People by Tom Nichols (Atlantic)
• Trump administration orders insurers to make Covid-19 immunity tests free to patients by Matthew Yglesias 9Vox)

Other News

Opinion

• Trump’s attack on vote-by-mail is an attack on democracy by The Editorial Board (Washington Post)

Coronavirus: Reopening Economy

• I’ve read the plans to reopen the economy. They’re scary. by Ezra Klein (Vox)
• Opinion: Trump’s new troll: He won’t “reopen” the economy — he just wants someone to blame by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
• Trump dismisses calls for nationwide COVID-19 testing before reopening economy: “Do you need it? No” by Jake Johnson (Salon)
• Trump says he’ll announce members of ‘opening our country council’ next week by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Trump to announce council focused on reopening the US for business by David Smith (The Guardian)
• Trump calls decision on reopening US the biggest of his life by Morgan Chalfant, Brett Samuels (The Hill)

Coronavirus: Testing

• Coronavirus Antibody Tests Expected in the U.S. in Days, Says Fauci by AP (TIME)
• Coronavirus Tests Are Being Fast-Tracked by the FDA, but It’s Unclear How Accurate They Are. by Lydia DePillis, Caroline Chen (ProPublica)
• Trump is woefully confused about why more coronavirus testing is vital by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• America is still failing on coronavirus testing by German Lopez (Vox)

Coronavirus: New York

• Coronavirus: New York has more cases than any country (BBC)
• Coronavirus: New York ramps up mass burials amid outbreak (BBC)
• State of New York Now Has More Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Than Any Country in the World by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Cuomo calls on Trump to use DPA to ramp up coronavirus testing by Jessie Hellmann (The Hill)
• Cuomo Won’t Open New York Until Millions of People Are Tested for Coronavirus by Tess Owen (VICE)
• Nurses Were Promised $10K a Week to Serve in NY Hospitals. They Say It Was a “Classic Bait and Switch.” by Will Peischel (Mother Jones)
• New York’s Inequalities Are Fueling COVID-19 by Clare Malone (FiveThirtyEight)

Coronavirus: California

• California Leads the Nation in Response to COVID-19 by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
• LA County Will Begin Random Coronavirus Testing Today by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)

Coronavirus

• Fox News’ Brit Hume Hits Donald Trump With The Painful Truth About His Coronavirus Briefings by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
• Coronavirus May Reshape Who Votes And How In The 2020 Election by Pam Fessler (NPR)
• Inside NASA’s crash effort to help fight coronavirus by Jacqueline Feldscher (Politico)
• Trump sought a national revival by Easter. Now he has a new Easter message. by Gabby Orr (Politico)
• Opinion: Coronavirus is not some great leveller: it is exacerbating inequality right now by Owen Jones (The Guardian)
• Why Isn’t the White House Using the Nation’s Pandemic Experts? by Roger Pielke Jr. (Slate)
• The Navy Is Losing Its Fight Against the Coronavirus by Mary Harris (Slate)
• Yes, Trump Hotels Do Appear to Qualify for Coronavirus Bailout Benefits by Meg Cramer (Mother Jones)
• The United States Has a Very Low COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
• Fauci: Coronavirus immunity cards for Americans are ‘being discussed’ by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Fauci: Administration discussing immunity cards for Americans by J. Edward Moreno (The Hill)
• WATCH: White House Task Force Briefing On Coronavirus Response by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Trump administration seeks bipartisan coronavirus negotiations with Congress by Burgess Everett (Politico)
• Apple and Google are building a coronavirus tracking system into iOS and Android by Russell Brandom, Adi Robertson (The Verge)
• Schiff unveils bill to create coronavirus commission to review US response by Cristina Marcos (The Hill)
• Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia faces blowback as he curtails scope of worker relief in unemployment crisis by Jeff Stein, Heather Long, and Josh Dawsey  (Washington Post)
• Analysis: Not-that-bad or not-that-high: How advocates of a return to normal misrepresent coronavirus deaths by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
• Live updates: Confirmed coronavirus death toll has reached 100,000 worldwide; Trump’s push to reopen U.S. economy spurs worries over resurgence of infections by Siobhán O’Grady, Rick Noack, Alex Horton, John Wagner,
  Katie Mettler, Brittany Shammas, Miriam Berger, and Eva Dou (Washington Post)
• ‘Speak the truth’: Obama says ‘biggest mistake’ mayors can make in coronavirus pandemic is to misinform the public by Allyson Chiu (Washington Post)
• Trump tweets about ratings for his coronavirus press briefings for the 3rd day in a row as death toll approaches 17,000 and unemployment nears 17 million by John Haltiwanger (Business Insider)
• The White House Pushed FEMA To Give its Biggest Coronavirus Contract to a Company That Never Had to Bid by J. David McSwane and Yeganeh Torbati (ProPublica)
• FEMA Report Warned of Pandemic Vulnerability Months before COVID-19 by Thomas Frank, E&E News (Scientific American)
• A plan to defeat coronavirus finally emerges, but it’s not from the White House by Lena H. Sun, William Wan, and Yasmeen Abutaleb (Washington Post)
• Opinion: How Trump turned ventilators into a form of patronage by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• Fauci: Kids could get ‘infected’ if Florida reopens schools by Matt Dixon (Politico)
• Trump’s Labor Department Fights to Protect Workers From Benefits by Eric Levitz (NY Magazine)
• U.S. allies, encouraged by Washington, said goodbye to their Cuban doctors. As coronavirus surges, some are arguing for their return. by Anthony Faiola and Kimberley Brown (Washington Post)

Other News

• Barr backs Trump on firing of intel IG, calls Russia investigation baseless by Matthew Choi (Politico)
• Bill Barr is back: He wants to “reopen” the country — and undo the Russia probe by Heather Digby Paraton (Salon)
• New Trump Ad Suggests a Campaign Strategy Amid Crisis: Xenophobia by Nick Corasaniti, Jeremy W. Peters and Annie Karni (NY Times)
• Ex-Ambassador, Washington Governor Says Trump Campaign ‘Fanning Hatred’ With New Ad by AP (Time)
• Trump admin looks to cut farmworker pay to help industry during pandemic: report by Brooke Seipel (The Hill)
• Trump says US will cut oil production to secure global deal by Rebecca Beitsch (The Hill)

Coronavirus

• ‘I Don’t Think We Should Ever Shake Hands Again.’ Dr. Fauci Says Coronavirus Should Change Some Behaviors for Good by Amy Gunia (TIME)
• We Still Don’t Know How Many People Are in the Hospital With COVID-19 by Charles Ornstein (ProPublica)
• Peter Navarro Is the Worst Possible Person to Be in Charge of Pandemic Supplies by Stephanie Mencimer (Mother Jones)
• What a Terrible Time to Cut Federal Funding for Coronavirus Testing by Luke Darby (GQ)
• Experts Think We’re Flattening The Coronavirus Curve, But Hospitalizations Haven’t Peaked Yet by Jay Boice (FiveThirtyEight)
• Fauci Says U.S. Coronavirus Deaths May Be ‘More Like 60,000’; Antibody Tests On Way by Bill Chappell (NPR)
• The Two States Where Trump’s COVID-19 Response Could Backfire in 2020 by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
• Trump Removed the Head of the Coronavirus Bailout Oversight Board. Its Members Could Be Next. by Isaac Arnsdorf (ProPublica)
• Coronavirus: Almost 20% of NYPD’s uniformed staff off sick by James Crump (Independent)
• Black People Are Dying From COVID-19 at Higher Rates Because Racism Is a Pre-Existing Condition by Edwin Rios (Mother Jones)
• Coronavirus now leading cause of death in US by Kaelan Deese (The Hill)
• Trump officials lay groundwork for May reopening by Brett Samuels, Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
• Postmaster General warns that Postal Service will run out of money by end of fiscal year without aid by Marty Johnson (The Hill)
• Analysis: Trump vs. the WHO: Breaking down the president’s claims and the WHO’s actions by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Opinion: Trouble Focusing? Not Sleeping? You May Be Grieving by RO Kwon (NY Times)
• The Trump administration is cutting federal resources for coronavirus testing sites, forcing states to run them in the ongoing fight against the pandemic by Tyler Sonnemaker (Business Insider)
• Trump administration wants to reopen as much of the US economy as possible by the start of May, a new report says by Joseph Zeballos-Roig (Business Insider)
• Trump Removed the Head of the Coronavirus Bailout Oversight Board. Its Members Could Be Next. by Isaac Arnsdorf (ProPublica)
• WHO warned of transmission risk in January, despite Trump claims Peter Beaumont and Julian Borger (The Guardian)
• Trump administration pushing to reopen much of the U.S. next month by Matt Zapotosky, Josh Dawsey, Jose A. Del Real, and William Wan  (Washington Post)
• House probes role of Jared Kushner as federal government seizes orders of COVID-19 medical supplies by Igor Derysh (Salon)

Coronavirus: Unemployment

• Jobs Carnage Mounts: 17 Million File For Unemployment In 3 Weeks by Jim Zarroli, Avie Schneider (NPR)
• More Than 16 Million Americans Have Lost Their Jobs In The Past Three Weeks by Neil Paine (FiveThirtyEight)
• Coronavirus: US weekly jobless claims hit 6.6 million (BBC)
• Unemployment claims near 17 million in three weeks as coronavirus ravages economy by Rebecca Rainey, Quint Forgey (Politico)

Coronavirus: Fed

• Mission Critical To Save The Economy: Fed Goes Even Bigger With Massive Loan Help by Scott Horsley (NPR)
• Fed pulls out $2T lending bazooka to boost businesses, cities by Victoria Guida (Politico)
• Federal Reserve Rolls Out $2.3 Trillion Plan to Stabilize Economy by Martin Crutsinger / AP (TIME)

Coronavirus: Aid / Relief Package

• Senate Democrats Block GOP Effort To Boost Small-Business Aid by Kelsey Snell (NPR)
• Partisan battle over US coronavirus aid for small businesses (Al Jazeera)
• Progressives Push for Rescue Package that Puts People Over Corporations by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)

Other News

• Poll finds Biden with 11-point national lead on Trump by Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
• Barr says he supports Trump’s ouster of intelligence watchdog who received whistleblower complaint that helped spark impeachment by Matt Zapotosky (Washington Post)

Opinion

• The Supreme Court Fails Us by Linda Greenhouse (NY Times)

Coronavirus

• After Deaths At Home Spike In NYC, Officials Plan To Count Many As COVID-19 by Gynne Hogan (NPR)
• Poll: Majority of Americans now disapprove of federal coronavirus efforts, Trump’s handling of crisis by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Key U.S. coronavirus death projection revised down to 60,000 by Peter Szekely (Reuters)
• CDC Considers Loosening Guidelines For Some Exposed To Virus by AP (Huffington Post)
• Will Trump and His Enablers Ever Face Accountability for the Coronavirus Massacre? by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• Democrats propose bill to undo Trump move to sideline coronavirus oversight leader by Kyle Cheney (Politico)
• Opinion: There are no ‘America First’ solutions to global problems like pandemics by Max Boot (Washington Post)
• Opinion: The coronavirus is amplifying the bias already embedded in our social fabric by Michelle M. Norris (Washington Post)
• Federal Support Ends For Coronavirus Testing Sites As Pandemic Peak Nears by Jeff Brady (NPR)
• CDC Hospital Data Point To Racial Disparity In COVID-19 Cases by Allison Aubrey, Joe Neel (NPR)
• Democratic Senators Demand Answers on Trump’s Secretive Border Expulsions by Dara Lind (ProPublica)
• White House To Hold Briefing As Economic Relief Debate Escalates by Ohilip Ewing, Barbara Sprunt (NPR)
• Cuomo reports a new single-day record 779 NY coronavirus deaths by Nathaniel Weixel (The Hill)
• Fauci says the coronavirus is ‘shining a bright light’ on ‘unacceptable’ health disparities for African Americans by Jake Lahut (Business Insider)
• Analysis: Birx and Fauci reject Fox News-promoted theory that coronavirus deaths are inflated by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Opinion: The Trump administration blames Covid-19 black mortality rates on poor health. It should blame its policies. by Sean Collins (Vox)

Coronavirus: Essential Workers

• Feds loosen virus rules to let essential workers return by Zeke Miller, Deb Riechmann, and Mike Stobbe (AP)
• White House Announces New Guidance For How Critical Employees Can Return To Work by Laurel Wamsley (NPR)

Coronavirus: WHO

• Under fire for COVID-19 response, Trump says ‘WHO really blew it’ (Al Jazeera)
• Coronavirus: Trump attacks ‘China-centric’ WHO over global pandemic (BBC)
• WHO responds to Trump’s threat to cut funding: ‘Now is not the time’ by Rory Sullivan (Independent)
• Trump scapegoating of WHO obscures its key role in tackling pandemic by Julian Borger (Guardian)

Coronavirus: Stimulus / Relief

• Democrats want additions to Trump’s $250bn emergency virus aid (Al Jazeera)
• Yes, Trump Hotels Do Appear to Qualify for Coronavirus Bailout Benefits. by Meg Cramer (ProPublica)
• For Millions of People, Relief From the COVID-19 Stimulus Package Remains Out of Reach by Alana Semuels (TIME)
• Coronavirus: Democrats want to double Trump’s $250bn relief package by Griffin Connolly (Independent)
• Opinion: Report: Ivanka Trump to Pause Guitar Lessons to Rescue Entire Economy by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
• The U.S. Should Just Send Checks—But Won’t by Mehrsa Baradaran (Atlantic)

Coronavirus: Warnings

• Top Trump adviser Peter Navarro warned coronavirus could kill 1.2 million months ago in leaked memo by Igor Derysk (Salon)
• US intelligence warned in November that coronavirus spreading in China could be ‘cataclysmic event’: report by Justine Coleman (The Hill)

Coronavirus: Voting

• Trump: GOP should fight mail-in voting because it ‘doesn’t work out well for Republicans’ by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Chaotic Wisconsin election signals virus-related voting battles ahead by Simon Lewis and Julia Harte (Reuters)
• New Jersey postpones primary elections until July by Bridget Bowman (Roll Call)

Coronavirus: Medical Supplies

• California to spend nearly $1B for 200 million masks per month by Carla Marinucci (Politico)
• Why Does the Trump Administration Keep Seizing Hospitals’ Coronavirus Supplies? by Luke Darby (GQ)
• GM Will Build 30,000 Ventilators For U.S. Government by Camila Domonoske (NPR)
• FEMA allows export of health protective gear despite emergency by Mark Bocchetti (Roll Call)
• HHS: Federal stocks of protective equipment nearly depleted by Michael Biesecker (AP)

Bernie Sanders

• Bernie Sanders Is Suspending His Presidential Campaign by Scott Detrow (NPR)
• Bernie Sanders suspends his presidential campaign by Holly Otterbein, David Siders (Politico)
• Opinion: We cannot rely on Trump. Congress must lead the way in this unprecedented crisis by Bernie Sanders (The Guardian)
• Sanders quits U.S. presidential race, setting up Biden battle with Trump by John Whitesides and Simon Lewis (Reuters)

Other News

• Trump’s New Press Secretary’s Troubling Remarks Are Coming Back To Haunt Her by Dominque Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
• ‘We won’t see coronavirus here’ … and other gems from Trump’s new press secretary by David Smith and Emily Holden (Guardian)

Analysis

• Trump, who has lied about voting for years, disparages voting-by-mail for self-serving reasons by Phillip Bump (Washington Post)

Coronavirus

• The Real Point of Trump’s Coronavirus Press Conferences by Peter Nicholas (The Atlantic)
• In apparent swipe at China, Pompeo calls for transparency in coronavirus fight by Humeyra Pamuk, David Brunnstrom (Reuters)
• Former FDA chiefs outline plan to reopen the economy — when broad testing in place by David Lim (Politico)
• This Is What It Looks Like When Republicans Use a Pandemic to Disenfranchise Voters by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• How the Coronavirus Bailout Repeats 2008’s Mistakes: Huge Corporate Payoffs With Little Accountability by Jesse Eisinger (ProPublica)
• Michael Lewis explains how the Trump administration puts us all at risk of catastrophe by Roge Karma (Vox)
• Trump’s top health officials predict diminished coronavirus death toll by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Trump should be tried for ‘crimes against humanity’ over coronavirus response, lawmaker says by Gino Spocchia (Independent)
• Trump’s net worth plunges $1 billion in less than a month by Oliver O’Connell (Independent)
• Surgeon General Says ‘Over 90% Of The Country’ Is Doing Right Thing To Fight Virus by Brakkton Booker (NPR)
• Workers at essential businesses like Staples, Costco, and Wendy’s say they’re insulted by ‘pathetic’ rewards of pizza, free lunches, and candy, as they beg for sick leave and hazard pay during the pandemic by Shoshy Ciment and Kate Taylor (Business Insider)
• White House Official Larry Kudlow: This Coronavirus Thing Really Snuck Up on Us! by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
• Coronavirus: These US states refuse to issue stay-at-home orders (Al Jazeera)
• Acting Navy secretary offers to resign over handling of virus-stricken aircraft carrier by Lara Seligman (Politico)
• Acting US Navy secretary resigns amid coronavirus uproar (Al Jazeera)
• Kushner’s team seeks national coronavirus surveillance system by Adam Cancryn (Politico)

Coronavirus: Relief / Stimulus / Bills

• More Aid Coming For Small Businesses, Senate Majority Leader McConnell Says by Susan Davis (NPR)
• Coronavirus: White House rejects bipartisan bills to bring US medical supply chain back home by Griffin Connolly (Independent)
• Trump removes inspector general who was to oversee $2 trillion stimulus spending by Ellen Nakashima (Washington Post)
• Opinion: The Trump administration is trying to shove a bunch of worthless tax cuts for rich people into the next coronavirus aid bill by Linette Lopez (Business Insider)
• Trump Seeks Another $250 Billion for Small Businesses in Virus Aid Showdown by Lisa Mascaro / AP (TIME)

Coronavirus: New York

• New York’s Cuomo sees state nearing coronavirus plateau even as daily death toll hits high by Maria Caspani, Doina Chiacu (Reuters)
• NY records 731 new coronavirus deaths in its deadliest day yet (Al Jazeera)
• ‘New Yorkers are in our thoughts and prayers’: 731 die in state overnight but coronavirus hospitalisations near plateau by Danielle Zoellner (Independent)
• Why New York has 12 times as many coronavirus deaths as California by Gzerman Lopez (Vox)
• New York City Coronavirus Deaths Now Outnumber 9/11 Ground Zero Toll by Marina Villeneueve, Lori Hinnant / AP (TIME)

Coronavirus: Hydroxychloroquine

• How Trump Became Obsessed with Hydroxychloroquine by Luke Darby (GQ)
• Donald Trump Has Stake In Hydroxychloroquine Drugmaker: Report by Ron Dicker (Huffington Post)
• Trump holds “financial interest” in pharmaceutical company that produces hydroxychloroquine: NYT by Matthew Chapman (Salon)
• Trump Just Bullied India Into Allowing Exports of His Favorite Unproven Coronavirus Wonder Drug by Tim Hume (VICE)
• Bureau Of Prisons Recently Purchased Hydroxychloroquine, Controversial COVID-19 Treatment by Walter Pavlo (Forbes)
• CDC removes unusual guidance to doctors about drug favored by Trump by Aram Roston, Marisa Taylor (Reuters)

Coronavirus: Federal Watchdogs

• Trump: Health and Human Services watchdog produced ‘fake dossier’ on coronavirus (Reuters)
• Trump removes independent watchdog for coronavirus funds, upending oversight panel by Kyle Cheney, Connor O’Brien (Politico)
• Trump removes independent Pentagon watchdog overseeing coronavirus funds by John T Bennett (Independent)
• Trump Has Already Ousted The Top Coronavirus Response Watchdog by Kevin Robillard (Huffington Post)
• Trump throws ‘wrecking ball’ across federal inspectors general by John M. Donnelly (Roll Call)
• READ: Schiff plans to investigate Trump firing intel watchdog (The Hill)

Coronavirus: Warnings

• Trump Says ‘Nobody’ Knew Pandemic Was Coming. His Adviser Warned Of It In January. by Dominique Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
• Coronavirus: Trump’s own economic advisor warned him about 2 million dead in February memo president ignored by Alex Woodward (Independent)
• Trump said “nobody could have predicted” coronavirus. White House memos show his advisers did. by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• Analysis: The timeline of Trump’s coronavirus response is increasingly damning by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Trade Adviser Warned White House in January of Risks of a Pandemic by Maggie Haberman (NY Times)
• Trump says he didn’t know of, still hasn’t seen Navarro memos on possible pandemic by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)

Coronavirus: WHO

• Trump threatens World Health Organization funding by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Trump Criticizes WHO And Threatens To Pull U.S. Funding by Laurel Wamsley (NPR)
• Trump says ‘China-centric’ WHO ‘really blew it’ on coronavirus (Reuters)
• Trump Accused the World Health Organization of Helping China Cover Up Coronavirus by Greg Walters (VICE)

Other News

• SCOTUS blocks deadline extension for absentee ballots in Wisconsin by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
• Wisconsin Election: Voters Find Long Lines and Closed Polling Sites by Staff (NY Times)
• Meet Kayleigh McEnany, the combative 31-year-old Trump defender and next White House press secretary by Sonam Sheth and Eliza Relman (Business Insider)
• Trump denounces mail votes as corrupt – before admitting he applied for one by John T Bennett (Independent)
• Trump administration wins legal challenge to restart federal executions by Oliver O’Connell (Independent)
• Trump order encourages US to mine the moon by Oliver Milman (The Guardian)

Opinion

• The Supreme Court’s Wisconsin Decision Is a Terrible Sign for November by Leah Litman (The Atlantic)
• SCOTUS Just Set the Stage for Republicans to Steal the Election by Ellie Mystal (The Nation)

Coronavirus

• The Asian Countries That Beat Covid-19 Have to Do It Again by Adam Rogers (Wired)
• COVID-19 Should Make Us Rethink Our Destructive Relationship With the Natural World by Jane Goodall (Slate)
• Trump’s re-election campaign suggests contributions will help president fight coronavirus pandemic by Travis Gettys (Salon)
• Opinion: To Donald Trump, coronavirus is just one more chance for a power grab by Robert Reich (The Guardian)
• Trump Administration Report Details Havoc For Hospitals Dealing With COVID-19 by S.V. Date (Huffington Post)
• Trump’s coronavirus commentary bolsters attack ads questioning his fitness to lead by Toluse Olorunnipa and
  Annie Linskey (Washington Post)
• Opinion: The covid-19 crisis is going to get much worse when it hits rural areas by Michelle A. Williams, Bizu Gelaye and Emily M. Broad Leib  (Washington Post)
• Supreme Court delays oral arguments for April because of coronavirus concerns by Debra Cassens Weiss
• Opinion: Why the Trump administration’s failure to initially add tribes to $2 trillion stimulus doesn’t shock me by Levi Rickert (Native News Online)
• Who Has Emergency Authority Over Elections? Nobody’s Quite Sure. by Jessica Huseman (ProPublica)
• Coronavirus threatens survival of US rural hospitals on frontlines of crisis by Lois Beckett (The Guardian)
• Opinion: Surprise twist in Wisconsin voting wars points to GOP plot to save Trump by Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent (Washington Post)
• Navy leader calls fired carrier captain ‘naive’ or ‘stupid’ by Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns (Washington Post)
• Opinion: In Right-Wing Media, the Pivot Didn’t Happen by Peter Beinart (Atlantic)
• “You’re a third-rate reporter”: Trump lashes out in response to questions about damning IG report by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• 35 million Americans could be left without health insurance as former Fed chair warns ‘depression levels’ of unemployment by Alex Woodward (Independent)
• Obama touts Elizabeth Warren’s coronavirus recovery proposals by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Trump And Biden Have ‘Very Friendly’ Call On Virus Response by Amsa Khalid (NPR)
• Why Did the Supreme Court Refuse to Even Acknowledge the COVID-19 Pandemic? by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
• Trump Repeatedly Attacks Reporters In Coronavirus Briefing by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (Huffington Post)
• A Tiger Has Coronavirus. Should You Worry About Your Pets? by Laurel Wamsley (NPR)

Coronavirus: Death Toll / Cases

• US coronavirus death toll tops 10,000 as cases pass 337,000 by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• US coronavirus death toll surpasses 10,000 (Al Jazeera)
• Number of coronavirus cases in Indian Country grew rapidly last week by staff (Native News Online)
• Opinion: What the Racial Data Show by Ibram X. Kendi (The Atlantic)
• China reports no new coronavirus deaths for first time (Al Jazeera)

Coronavirus: Masks / Medical Supplies

• The Defense Production Act Won’t Fix America’s Mask Shortage by Elias Groll (Wired)
• Jesus, the Trump Administration Waited Two Months to Order Masks and Ventilators by Luke Darby (GQ)
• You can’t use ventilators without sedatives. Now the US is running out of those, too. by Lois Parshley (Vox)
• Canada says US blocked delivery of three million masks (Al Jazeera)
• White House reaches deal with 3M over mask production by Dan Diamond, David Lim (Politico)

Coronavirus: Trump/Fauci / Untested Treatment

• Coronavirus: Trump stops his top medical expert Fauci from answering question on untested treatment by Samuel Lovett (Independent)
• White House meeting erupts after Dr. Fauci knocks Trump’s promotion of untested Hydroxychloroquine by Sarah Burris (Salon)
• Trump blocks Fauci from answering question about unproven drug therapy at coronavirus press briefing by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• White House Debate Heats up Over Using an Anti-Malaria Drug to Treat COVID-19 by Deb Riechmann, Zeke Miller (TIME)
• White House trade adviser Peter Navarro reportedly blew up at Dr. Anthony Fauci during a fraught coronavirus task force meeting by Sonam Sheth (Business Insider)
• Be Very Careful About Taking Medical Advice From President Trump by James Hamblin (The Atlantic)
• Trump’s Aggressive Advocacy of Malaria Drug for Treating Coronavirus Divides Medical Community by Peter Baker, Katie Rogers, David Enrich, and Maggie Haberman (NY Times)
• What you need to know about the malaria drugs Trump keeps touting by Sarah Owermohle (Politico)
• Opinion: Meet the Ignorant Cranks Behind Trump’s Big Hydroxychloroquine Push by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)

Other News

• Trump floats oil tariffs amid Russia-Saudi dispute by Rachel Frazin (The Hill)
• For the First Time, U.S. Designates White Supremacist Group as ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization’ by Matthew Lee / AP (TIME)
• Inspector general who handled Ukraine whistleblower complaint says ‘it is hard not to think’ he was fired by Trump for doing his job by Ellen Nakashima (Washington Post)
• Trump tries on a fourth chief of staff in the middle of a devastating crisis by Nancy Cook And Melanie Zanona (Politico)