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As President Trump's push to reopen the economy sooner rather than later grows in intensity, the American people are remarkably united in disagreeing with him, according to The Atlantic's David A. Graham who cited polls showing Americans "overwhelmingly back restrictions and do not support reopening most businesses."

New York City has had more coronavirus-related deaths than any other city in the United States, and social distancing is still being aggressively promoted by Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials. But de Blasio is speaking out this week about a video of an NYPD arrest that occurred in the East Village when officers were enforcing social distancing rules.

On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that a company founded in March by a pair of Republican political operatives is under criminal investigation for entering into contracts with state and local governments to deliver medical supplies for the coronavirus pandemic — and then simply never delivering.

MIAMI — Nearly 400 people in Miami-Dade County have died of complications of the novel coronavirus over the last few months. Now, one of those deaths is being investigated as a murder. The unusual case involves a luckless man named Johnny Copeland, 44, who died late last month of COVID-19 with contributing problems of pneumonia, obesity and hypertension. But with all that, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the chief cause of death was from complications of a gunshot wound that left Copeland paralyzed in 1997. With his death ruled a homicide, Miami detectives must try and track down ...

" Trump is gonna ask to see the long form death certificates"

Joe Biden is demanding justice in the case of a black Georgia jogger who was shot and killed in a caught-on-video confrontation with an ex-police officer and his son. The Democratic presidential candidate says a video of the killing shows “Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood,” in the Feb. 23 shooting — and he called for a “transparent investigation into his murder.” Arbery, 25, was running through a neighborhood outside Brunswick, Ga. in broad daylight when ex-cop Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis, apparently started following him in a pickup truck. After Travis McMichael brandished a rif...

A recurring theme in economist Paul Krugman’s New York Times column is that is wrong to single President Donald Trump out as being uniquely bad among Republicans — that he is a reflection of the modern-day GOP on the whole. This week in his column, Krugman asserts that Trump’s coronavirus response is terrible but stresses that he is being encouraged by all his Republican enablers.

There's a growing view inside the White House that the coronavirus death roll is being inflated, according to a report from Axios.

Critically ill children have been ending up in intensive care units with shock-like symptoms in recent weeks, adding yet another mysterious layer to the coronavirus pandemic.

One of President Donald Trump’s talking points in defense of his initial response to coronavirus has been that no one could have predicted that a crisis of this magnitude would be hitting the United States (although, truth be told, everyone from intel experts to former Vice President Joe Biden to Trump’s economic adviser, Peter Navarro, was sounding the alarm). During an appearance on ABC’s “World News Tonight” earlier this week, Trump asserted that there was reason for optimism back in February — implying that some of the optimism came from Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx. And according to Media Matters, interviewer David Muir should have done a better job calling him out.

President Donald Trump drew criticism this week when he declined to wear a face mask while touring a Honeywell plant in Arizona that is manufacturing medical equipment to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.