Trump sows confusion with efforts to invoke presidential powers to fight coronavirus
As the virus spreads across the country, there are growing questions about how far his authority extends, and how much he plans to use it.
Experts converge on plans for how to ease restrictions safely
With the White House’s 15-day guidelines on social distancing expiring, experts are drafting proposals for a national strategy.
Japan uses targeted coronavirus testing; South Korea goes big. The U.S. faces a choice.
Tokyo has focused resources on the sick, but Seoul’s success may offer a better model for U.S. officials.
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Tracking U.S. coronavirus deaths and confirmed cases by state and county
The death toll from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, began to rise steadily in early March, then more sharply as the disease spread to every state and most U.S. territories. The virus has killed people in nearly every state.
Guide to the pandemic
There have been more than 690,000 confirmed cases of covid-19. The virus has killed more than 32,000. Access to the following stories is free:
Election 2020Gains by President Trump have shrunk a lead that former vice president Joe Biden enjoyed a month ago, and the president's voters are more enthusiastic than Biden’s.
Base-pleasing cries of “Fake News” have morphed into attacks by the president and his allies on individual journalists. Some supporters wonder if it’s gone too far.
David Wetzl’s condition was frontotemporal dementia. His wife, Diana Daniels, found that sympathy and health-care services were not always extended to them.
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This 18th-century painting by Jean-Siméon Chardin of a teacher and her student is especially poignant now.
