“It’s not racist at all,” the president said. But experts warned that the term could result in xenophobia. A shortage in testing has left sick people and health care workers around the U.S. without answers. Yet the list of celebrity patients grows every day, raising questions about privileged access. The matriarch of the large New Jersey family died Wednesday night without ever knowing that her two oldest children had died before her. The continent hit a bleak milestone in the coronavirus epidemic, surpassing China in cases and deaths. A leader who knows something about confinement pleaded for citizens to accept it, for now. Several people who were on a conference call with Olympic organizers said later that there was confusion and dismay over whether and how the Games would proceed during a pandemic. The Met’s executives say the coronavirus outbreak makes painful layoffs likely for every cultural institution. The spread of the coronavirus is shutting down school systems across the country, but the federal government is offering little clarity on when they can reopen and what they should offer meanwhile. With an increasingly narrow path to the nomination, Mr. Sanders and his advisers were weighing his options amid a national health crisis. Mr. Yang championed putting $1,000 a month in the pockets of every American adult during his presidential campaign. Now, amid the coronavirus crisis, “This thing is going to pass,” he says. In state after state, voters say they support liberal policies like single-payer health care, canceling student debt and the Green New Deal. But many are voting for Joe Biden, who has proposed largely moderate ideas. Beijing is mounting a humanitarian aid blitz in countries struggling with their own outbreaks. In doing so, it’s stepping into a role the West once dominated. Western media once served as a useful tool. Now Beijing seeks to shape its own narrative, further widening the gulf between China and the world. Yes, experts say. Equal parts transit alternative and therapy, contemplative strolls are helping people’s mental and physical health. Just stay six feet apart. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. We sat down with the person in charge of New York State’s response to the coronavirus crisis. An informed guide to the global outbreak. The nonprofits that serve vulnerable communities were already stretched thin before the coronavirus. But for the sake of the Democratic Party and the nation, it’s time to step aside and join forces with Joe Biden. Well, there’s always the good old “incomplete.” Unless we fix the system, American taxpayers will get gouged on a vaccine they paid to produce. We run a truck stop. It feels like we’re living in a country on the cusp of something not unlike war. As students and professors converge online, universities shouldn’t just reach for makeshift solutions. They might learn something useful. America’s failed response to the coronavirus is a direct result of decades of starving federal agencies of expertise. Donald Trump’s claims about the pandemic have been at odds with the information shared by his public health advisors. Take a look. Despite its liberal reputation, the state is where insurgent candidacies have come to die. Even if we manage to defeat the coronavirus, that world will not return. Tons of carrots and sweet potatoes have been dropped from a helicopter in Australia to feed the threatened marsupials. The pandemic has clarified the dark bargain of our internet-connected devices: We look to them to protect our bodies and soothe our nerves, and in return, we hand over our minds. Looking for a respite from the news? You might find solace in reading. The census announced a two-week suspension of training and outreach, imperiling the success of a national head count whose meticulous plans took years to prepare. The multiplexes are closed. Marvel’s “Black Widow” is postponed. And the National Association of Theater Owners is asking for relief. Ms. Fairstein, a former prosecutor, claims the series about the Central Park jogger case portrayed her as a “racist, unethical villain.” Netflix said the lawsuit was “without merit.” Union Square Hospitality cuts 80 percent of its work force as restaurant companies around the country shed workers. The change was welcomed by abortion rights advocates, but even in that camp some wondered if lawmakers had gone too far. In a triumph for progressives, Ms. Newman defeated longtime Representative Dan Lipinski, a conservative Democrat, in an Illinois primary. The nation’s banks, long at the center of worries about European finance, look more likely to get a rescue. America’s biggest energy company, Exxon Mobil, made a big bet on a risky oil prospect in Guyana, a small South American nation. Now the oil giant is entangled in the fight for the country’s political future. Brady has been synonymous with New England over his 20-year career with the Patriots. But landing with the quirky Buccaneers might give him an even better shot at success this year. We’re all anxious. Here are ways to cope. Ukraine’s traffic controllers and safety officers are a kind of lighthouse: a symbol of how certain things in this country stand firm in the present as a defiant nod to the past. UEFA moved back the Euros, which was helpful. But setting a hard deadline for its leagues to make up for lost time will only cause new problems. The final season of the IFC series about a debauched play-by-play man takes an eccentric but well-timed jump into the future. 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