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Jazz pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis has died at the age of 85, according to tweets from New Orleans Mayor LaToya Campbell and Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Cases of COVID-19 have appeared throughout the country, but certain areas have been hit harder than others. Find out how many cases and deaths have been reported in each state.

The restaurant industry has been scrambling for solutions to save itself during the coronavirus pandemic. President Trump has floated the idea of changing a provision in the 2017 tax law.

In his daily coronavirus task force briefing, President Trump answered a question about the decision not to reopen the healthcare exchanges for those who are uninsured.

In describing steps the military is taking to confront the pandemic within its ranks, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said a shutdown is "not feasible." He did not say who is recommending such a move.

On this broadcast of The National Conversation, we answer your questions about the economy, face masks, pregnancy during the pandemic and the U.S. Census.

Responding to a scathing critique from the commander of the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, Navy officials were on the defensive at a Pentagon news conference.

Schlesinger, one of the most prolific and decorated songwriters of his generation, died Wednesday.

Mobile carrier T-Mobile has completed its merger with Sprint, creating a more formidable third rival to AT&T and Verizon. CEO John Legere stepped down as part of the merge.

A next coronavirus relief package should require additional pay for workers like nurses, doctors and first responders, the Senate minority leader said.

Major pharmacies had already pulled the popular heartburn drug and its generic equivalents due to a contaminant. Now the Food and Drug Administration says definitively they should not be sold or used.

Some 7,000 volunteers were evacuated in an unprecedented callback. Back home and jobless, they're in limbo — but there's a proposal to enlist them in the fight against COVID-19.

The White House coronavirus task force calls Italy an example of how the coronavirus could play out in the U.S. The European country's death toll is rising, despite a recent slowdown in cases.

The movement of people across borders has halted in much of the world as countries close their borders in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The post More than nine-in-ten people worldwide live in countries with travel restrictions amid COVID-19 appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Americans turn to a wide range of media outlets for political and election news, but Fox News and CNN stand out as especially common sources. The post Americans’ main sources for political news vary by party and age appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Looking at household living arrangements in 130 countries and territories may shed light on how coronavirus-related quarantines are being felt. The post With billions confined to their homes worldwide, which living arrangements are most common? appeared first on Pew Research Center.

A majority of Americans are turning to digital means to stay connected and track information about the coronavirus outbreak. The post Americans turn to technology during COVID-19 outbreak, say an outage would be a problem appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Nearly one-in-five U.S. adults say they have had a physical reaction at least some or a little of the time when thinking about the outbreak. The post People financially affected by COVID-19 outbreak are experiencing more psychological distress than others appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Despite the spread of the conspiracy theories, about three-quarters of U.S. adults say they have heard or read nothing at all about them. The post QAnon’s conspiracy theories have seeped into U.S. politics, but most don’t know what it is appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Nearly one-in-four U.S. workers are employed in the industries most likely to feel an immediate impact from the COVID-19 outbreak. The post Young workers likely to be hard hit as COVID-19 strikes a blow to restaurants and other service sector jobs appeared first on Pew Research Center.

71% of U.S. adults say they are confident that medical centers in their area can handle the needs of seriously ill people during the pandemic. The post Most Americans are confident hospitals can handle the needs of the seriously ill during COVID-19 outbreak appeared first on Pew Research Center.

A majority of Americans say Trump is “not too” or “not at all” religious. Half either say they’re not sure what his religion is or that he has none. The post Most Americans don’t see Trump as religious; fewer than half say they think he’s Christian appeared first on Pew Research Center.

A majority of U.S. households have some level of investment in the stock market, mostly in the form of retirement accounts such as 401(k)s. The post More than half of U.S. households have some investment in the stock market appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Air India pilots say the airline is not adhering to safety protocol on coronavirus rescue flights.

Muslim clerics in Somalia are moving to the front-line of the battle against coronavirus.

China is using its high tech system to tackle the outbreak, but is the state interference justified?

Reality Check tackles misleading health advice being shared online

A key climate conference due in November is delayed over disruption caused by the coronavirus.

Officials are debating their advice on face masks as a CDC memo says simple cloth masks would help.

WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu says deaths have more than doubled in the past week.

With more than 9,000 deaths, Spain has the second-highest number of fatalities caused by coronavirus.

The first face-to-face meeting takes place in the Afghan capital despite a coronavirus lockdown.

The health ministry reports 138 new fatalities and 2,987 more cases in the past 24 hours.

Camps such as those in Bangladesh are a tinderbox for the spread of the coronavirus.

Existence now begins and ends at one’s property lines. We’ve got some advice for navigating these new, reduced perimeters.

Play is children’s language, and parents shouldn’t be concerned if the pandemic has been showing up in kids’ games lately.

America’s political dysfunction is rooted not in ideological polarization, but in the Republican Party’s conviction that it alone should be allowed to govern.

In an inordinately stressful moment, the Barefoot Contessa’s Instagram page has become one of the most soothing and wholesome places on the internet.

Is it any coincidence that the No. 1 song in the country is about loneliness and empty streets—or that it’s making people dance like Richard Simmons in their bedrooms?

How the coronavirus travels through the air has become one of the most divisive debates in this pandemic.

Missing the daily pleasures of pre-quarantine life doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

Arthur Caplan, NYU’s chief medical ethicist, discusses the tough calls doctors have to make on how to ration care.

During the yellow-fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia, doctors dispensed advice that was sometimes quite harmful.

If being out in public were entirely up to them at this moment during the global pandemic, a new Gallup poll finds 14% of Americans say they would resume their […]

“President Trump has repeatedly assured Americans that the federal government is holding 10,000 ventilators in reserve to ship to the hardest-hit hospitals around the nation as they struggle to keep […]

“The Treasury announced late Wednesday that Social Security beneficiaries who typically do not file a tax return will automatically get the $1,200 payment and no longer must submit anything extra,” […]

“Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-diseases expert and the face of the U.S. response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, is facing growing threats to his personal safety, prompting the government […]

“One week after the Senate unanimously passed a $2 trillion emergency relief bill aimed at limiting the financial trauma from the coronavirus pandemic, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he […]

“The death toll in the United States surpassed 4,000 and it continued to far outstrip other nations with more than 200,000 confirmed infections, about 20 percent of the global total,” […]

“The FBI processed a record 3.7 million gun background checks in March — more than any month previously reported, according to the agency’s latest data,” Axios reports. “The spike’s timing […]

CBS News: “Democratic Party leaders across the country are calling on party bosses to curtail, postpone or dramatically rethink the party’s national convention scheduled for July in Milwaukee, concerned that […]

The Daily Beast on President Trump’s change in “tone” this week on the pandemic: “Afterwards, the press noted the difference in ‘tone,’ with several pundits and reporters speculating that the […]

Gabriel Sherman reports that President Trump only shifted his tone as the coronavirus virus spread to “Trump country.” Said one former White House official: “The polling sucked. The campaign panicked […]

President Trump issues sobering coronavirus warning. Models show it will get worse before it gets better. Dozens of sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt are sick after being infected with COVID-19. Renters face first of the month.

President Trump says more coronavirus tests will be made available. Hospitals and their staffs struggle with how to protect themselves and patients as COVID-19 cases multiply. And, Palestinian and Israeli leaders lauded for tight lockdowns.

NPR's new podcast 'Coronavirus Daily' is an afternoon update on the pandemic and how the world is coping. In today's episode: Why more testing remains crucial in the public health fight against COVID-19, and the Idaho town with one of the highest infection rates in the country. Also, what you need to know about grocery […]

President Trump stretches social distancing guidelines through April 30. U.S. health officials have new projections of how the pandemic could play out based on the latest data. New York's death toll climbs as hospitals face dwindling medical supplies and mounting cases.

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic it's tempting to draw comparisons to the most severe pandemic in recent history - the 1918 flu. But as much as we can learn from the comparison, it's important to also understand just how much these two pandemics differ. In this bonus episode of Throughline, what we can […]

In New York, hospitals are inundated with COVID-19 patients. More data from testing is giving researchers a better picture of the disease's mortality rate. And more Americans currently approve of Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis than don't.

While the rich work from home, others are packed on subways or losing their jobs. This pandemic calls for a reckoning

The health of the state is endangered

Pennsylvania lawmakers are following the crucial federal stimulus with changes to unemployment and other steps to help workers during the coronavirus.

As the number of coronavirus cases has grown in the United States -- and is now the highest of any country -- one of the themes of the left is that this increase is the result of the incompetence of President Trump and his administration. Last Sunday, Chuck Todd of NBC asked Joe Biden whether […]

We don't have time to get distracted. We need a complete, scorched-earth change in communication strategy to win this war.

In this time of lockdown and social distancing, it is surprising to find that there are some beneficial revelations reminding us about the real nature of the world, and the impact of people around us.

Old traits - bluster, defiance, implacable self-promotion - that once worked well now threaten to sink a presidency.

On March 2, Bill de Blasio encouraged New Yorkers "to go on with your lives." The mayor of America's largest city went so far as to offer specific suggestions on which films they should go see.

Galen Druke speaks to elections analyst, Geoffrey Skelley, about how the United States has handled elections in times of crisis in the past, from wars to weather disasters.

Some of you may remember the “tragedy of the commons” from a stray econ class you took in school. There’s a pasture open to all. Too many farmers decide to bring their cattle to graze in it, and soon there isn’t enough grass left for anyone. These days, we are the cattle. Hundreds of millions […]

Every sports fan loves to play the “What If?” game: What if Michael Jordan hadn’t retired to play baseball? What if A-Rod had been traded to the Red Sox instead of the Yankees? What if Steve Bartman had stayed home from Wrigley Field in October 2003? What if Mo Lewis hadn’t hit Drew Bledsoe? What […]

Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): Over the weekend, an ABC/Washington Post poll found that most Democrats now back former Vice President Joe Biden, but enthusiasm for his candidacy was, on the other hand, pretty lackluster. Just 24 percent of his supporters said […]

Graphics by Yutong Yuan The 2020 Democratic primary is on the backburner. Many states have postponed their primaries because of the spread of the coronavirus, but there isn’t much question as to who will win the nomination. For all intents and purposes, former Vice President Joe Biden is now the presumptive nominee. He has amassed […]

On Friday, President Trump’s approval rating hit 45.8 percent — the highest since January 25, 2017, according to FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker. The timing suggests that the increase in his popularity is related to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which most Americans think he is managing well. Trump may be experiencing what political scientists […]

Remember back to the beginning of March, when everything still felt normal? It’s been 20 days since the NBA put its season on pause, and the league is talking about how it might come back this year. The Hot Takedown team thinks that the logistics of even a shortened playoff or play-in tournament might be […]

We know our economy is struggling due to coronavirus. But just how much would it cost us to stop quarantine and risk many Americans dying? How do economists calculate the value of a single human life? For more, read What Should The Government Spend To Save A Life?

With sports shut down in the face of the novel coronavirus, two American basketball leagues are working on plans for an early return to the court. But what do “safe” games look like in the midst of the pandemic — and would such plans ultimately get a green light from public health officials? The NBA […]

Here we are, in the middle of a pandemic, staring out our living room windows like aquarium fish. The question on everybody’s minds: How bad will this really get? Followed quickly by: Seriously, how long am I going to have to live cooped up like this? We all want answers. And, given the volume of […]