Given that the way out of this crisis seems to be social distancing and quarantine conditions, any economic rescue legislation ought to focus on direct help to average people, not the sort of massive corporate bailouts which were common after the 2008 financial meltdown, according to Robert Reich, former labor secretary in the Clinton administration, and a popular progressive activist in the decades since.

Is the new coronavirus spreading especially quickly at gas stations and gas pumps?

Trump unloaded on NBC News reporter Peter Alexander in the White House briefing room, while Alexander maintains that he was actually only trying to offer Trump the chance to answer a "softball," or easy, question designed to demonstrate leadership.

So, Tulsi Gabbard has finally suspended her moribund presidental campaign. What comes next for her?

Donald Trump should have the US military intervene on behalf of helping alleviate the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and COVID-19 pandemic, not still stuck at the southern border building a wall, according to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Despite declaring himself a "wartime president" amidst the spread of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump continues to prove detrimental at the presidental podium, according to some expert observers.

Circulating around Facebook and various Whatsapp chat groups are purported messages claiming that holding your breath for 10 seconds can be used as a "self-check" to see if you have coronavirus lung infection.

'This is a bat virus, not a China virus. It doesn’t speak Chinese, it doesn’t target Chinese people, it targets human beings who happen to touch their eyes, their nose or mouth.'

Globally there are around 200,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 8,000 deaths so far. In the United States alone, the number of deaths has exceeded 100.

Federal policymakers may have to eventually come up with an almost unbelievable $4 trillion in stimulus in order to avoid a disastrous 20 percent unemployment.