16 april 2020 was een donderdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♈. Het was de 106e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Donald J. Trump.
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Date: 17 April 2020
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
Families who differ on key political questions — Fox News or MSNBC? — used to change the channel or decide that politics was off-limits. But agreeing to disagree now can seem dangerous.
Date: 16 April 2020
By Elizabeth Williamson
Elizabeth Williamson
Jerry Falwell Jr. has tried to have journalists arrested as he maintains he has been unfairly maligned. But the coronavirus keeps spreading around Liberty University.
Date: 17 April 2020
By Michael D. Shear and Sarah Mervosh
Michael
The president’s stark departure from his message on Thursday night, when he announced guidelines for governors to reopen their states and said they would “call your own shots,” suggested he was ceding any semblance of national leadership on the pandemic.
Date: 17 April 2020
By Daisuke Wakabayashi, Davey Alba and Marc Tracy
Daisuke Wakabayashi
The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist has been attacked with falsehoods that he created the coronavirus and wants to profit from it.
Date: 16 April 2020
By Paul Mozur
Paul Mozur
Hefei, an industrial city, offers tales of hope for a world battling the outbreak. The police tried to make sure they weren’t heard.
Date: 16 April 2020
By Michael M. Grynbaum
Michael
The boys (and girls) aren’t on the bus. That means no face-to-face interviews with swing-state voters, no hotel-bar meetings with political operatives and reports with less texture.
Date: 17 April 2020
By Maria Cramer
Maria Cramer
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a heart surgeon and television personality, said he “misspoke” on Fox News when he said that reopening schools “might be a trade-off some folks would consider.”
Date: 16 April 2020
As the coronavirus escalated to a worldwide crisis, China expelled our journalists — and surveilled our correspondents to thwart their reporting before they left.
Date: 16 April 2020
By Katherine Rosman
Katherine Rosman
Ivanka Trump, Chris Cuomo and all kinds of private citizens are getting roasted on social media for perceived failures of public hygiene.
Date: 16 April 2020
By The New York Times
Taking a walk is a good distraction from an endless stream of news about the coronavirus outbreak. How do you feel when you take a walk? We’d like to hear about it.