Sunday's Headlines: Desperate for medical equipment, states find a beleaguered national stockpile
Trump sows confusion with efforts to invoke presidential powers to fight coronavirus; As U.S. death toll surpasses 2,000, CDC issues travel advisory for New York tri-state region; Inside Trump's risky push to reopen the country ; The Great American Migration of 2020: On the move to escape the coronavirus; 'She's dead, and I'm quarantined. That's how the story ends.'; The coronavirus crisis is exposing how the economy was not as strong as it seemed; Who lives, who dies, who decides; Coronavirus shows the merits of being a career politician; Homeschooling during the coronavirus will set back a generation of children; America's civil religion is capitalism. Trump's coronavirus response proves it.; Politicians blew off Gen Z's climate goals. The coronavirus shows we can act fast.; Trump needs to put commanders in charge of this war; Post-ABC poll shows Trump and Biden in a competitive race for the White House; Large, destructive tornado strikes Jonesboro, Ark., leaving behind 'severe' damage; As demand for necessities rises, truckers step up their efforts while obstacles mount
States seeking masks, drugs, ventilators and other items from the stockpile are encountering a system beset by years of underfunding, changing lines of authority, confusion over the allocation of supplies and a lack of transparency from the administration, said state and federal officials and public health experts.
By Amy Goldstein, Lena Sun and Beth Reinhard ●Read more »
The president's desire pits him against multiple governors, Democratic and Republican, who are striving to mitigate the coronavirus's impact in their communities and marshal medical supplies for their hospitals.
Even as most people stay close to home, millions of others have been on the move, a mass migration that looks urgent and temporary but might contain the seeds of a wholesale shift in where and how Americans live. But virus fugitives often are running into fierce opposition on their routes.
By Marc Fisher, Paul Schwartzman and Ben Weissenbach ●Read more »
Tony Sizemore's girlfriend, Roberta "Birdie" Shelton, was the first person to die from covid-19 in Indiana. The story of how his life went "to this hell in a week."
Voices From the Pandemic●By As told to Eli Saslow ●Read more »
Gains 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.
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