Saturday's Headlines: Trump casts himself as pandemic patron, personalizing the government’s spread of cash and supplies
An attack plan emerges, but it's not from the White House; Businesses awaiting loans face a dilemma about how to spend them; 4 reasons coronavirus is hitting black communities so hard; Rare voices from Iran's epic outbreak tell of stumbling government, deluged hospitals; Coronavirus anxiety starts to invade dreams in quarantines; The coronavirus doesn't discriminate along racial lines. But America does.; We're short on hospital beds because Washington let too many hospitals merge; My dad has covid-19. All we can do is wait.; When you drown the government in the bathtub, people die; Covid-19 has delivered a sudden end to D.C.'s booming economy; 7 principles for a post-coronavirus economy; Trump turns to Mexico in a ploy to end the oil price war; White House attacks federally funded Voice of America, claiming it promoted Chinese propaganda; New Ebola case emerges in Congo, just days before health officials hoped to declare end of outbreak; Stocks have been swinging wildly for weeks. Here's why they often don't make sense.; Coronavirus affects everyone. But black people are still worse off.
States and top experts are pursuing a national strategy against coronavirus. The question is whether their effort can succeed without the federal government.
By Lena H. Sun, William Wan and Yasmeen Abutaleb ●Read more »
The federal loans are meant to keep employees on payrolls, but some shuttered companies want more flexible terms because there's little for their workers to do right now.
Majority black counties have three times the rate of infections and nearly six times the rate of deaths as majority white counties, according to a Post analysis. What we know about the inequities in many black communities can provide insight.
The scale of suffering in one of the world's largest outbreaks has largely been obscured. But aided by Iranian hospital records obtained by The Post, reporters were able to contact covid-19 survivors and the families of victims.
President Trump told the Saudis and Russians that U.S. oil cuts would make up for Mexico's refusal to go along with a global deal. But even he isn't sure they'll accept that.
By Will Englund and Mary Beth Sheridan ●Read more »
The stinging public criticism, which may be unprecedented by an administration since VOA was founded in 1942, took the independent news service's officials by surprise.
The unexpected news means the Ebola epidemic, which began in August 2018 and has killed more than 2,200 people, will go on for at least a couple more months before health workers can be sure it has been exhausted.
Though markets move erratically in the short-term, analysts say their outlook for the next week, month or quarter is generally spot on: "There is some method to the madness."
The stark disparities in how covid-19 affects black Americans, from Robert Samuels. How wearing a face mask in public is different for black men, from Tracy Jan. And navigating the politics of hair during a pandemic, from Jordan-Marie Smith.
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