Covid-19

President Donald Trump demanded an "alternative" to Fox News over the weekend as he accused the right-leaning network of disseminating Democratic talking points "without hesitation or research."

President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force will stop meeting as often as they have been.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been slammed by everyone from New York Times liberal Paul Krugman to Washington Post conservative Jennifer Rubin over his recent assertion that he has no desire to “bail out blue states” and that individual states that are struggling should apply for bankruptcy. Journalist Robert McCartney, in an article for the Post, reports that according to “officials and analysts,” McConnell’s proposal is “a recipe for turning a potentially short recession into a prolonged depression.”

Despite recent progress, the majority of US states don't yet have sufficient COVID-19 testing capacity to consider relaxing stay-at-home orders after May 1, according to an analysis by Harvard researchers and the health news site Stat.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany reversed course Monday afternoon and announced that President Donald Trump will hold a coronavirus press briefing just hours after saying that the event had been cancelled.

A math teacher in New Jersey is under fire after she confronted a group of teenagers who were allegedly ignoring social distancing rules, according to The Trentonian.

An aide to an influential king in Ivory Coast has said the monarch could order a procession of naked women to ward off coronavirus by seeking the protection of spirits.

The Food and Drug Administration is drawing criticism for allowing unreliable antibody tests on the market during the coronavirus pandemic.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said he was not keen on President Donald Trump's suggestion that states run by Democratic governors should be allowed to go bankrupt even as they get slammed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

While broadcasting from his temporary home studio this Monday, radio shock jock Howard Stern tore into President Trump's recent comments where he suggested injecting disinfectant into people's bodies as a treatment for coronavirus, the New York Daily News reports.

The chief physician overseeing the Veterans Health Administration acknowledged that the Trump administration redirected a shipment of masks to the national stockpile after officials denied claims that health care workers were forced to work with inadequate protective equipment.

As of this Saturday, 52,459 Americans have died from the coronavirus. As POLITICO points out, in just 81 days since the first death was recorded, the death toll has now surpassed the number of Americans we lost in Vietnam. Nevertheless, Trump is waging a war of attrition with his enemies, particularly the press.

Writing in the Washington Post this Monday, columnist Jennifer Rubin pointed out that President Trump's polling numbers have dropped as the coronavirus death toll continues to mount -- a polling drop compounded by an attack ad released by the Republicans for the Rule of Law which "perfectly epitomized his presidency."