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The White House is blocking Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, from testifying before a House subcommittee investigating the coronavirus outbreak and response, arguing that it would be “counterproductive” for him to appear.

Guide to the pandemic

There have been more than 3.2 million confirmed cases of covid-19. The virus has killed more than 230,000. Access to the following stories is free:
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Companies are launching vaccine trials at an unprecedented pace, but some are worried about the trade-offs between speed and safety.
Belarus has one of the fastest-rising infection rates in Eastern Europe. People are taking measures on their own.
April's coronavirus death toll surpassed the Vietnam War's, and it tested almost everyone. Yet Americans found ways to come together.
The first White House press briefing in more than 13 months picked up where the others left off — with falsehoods and unproven claims and catering to the Audience of One.
The loneliness of lockdown could increase if it only applies to some.
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More than half of U.S. governors are relaxing pandemic restrictions while crossing their fingers that the novel coronavirus doesn’t come roaring back.
An Appropriations subcommittee sought to call the health official to testify next week.
As U.S. deaths approach 65,000, Trump says the Michigan protesters who stormed the Capitol are “very good people.”
He was a smoker with chronic breathing difficulties, according to family — and that made him especially vulnerable to the virus turning correctional centers around the country into deadly hot spots.
A new initiative, advised by retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, seeks to compete with the president’s online megaphone.
A state-by-state breakdown of stay-at-home orders, their rules and when they might end.
The state has the third-highest number of cases and the fourth-highest death toll.
In a deeply struggling part of Washington, the pandemic adds a new layer of pain.
Crowds demanding an immediate relaxation of measures imposed to slow the coronavirus pandemic gathered in Chicago, Raleigh, Los Angeles and Sacramento on Friday. More protests were planned for the weekend.
A House committee wants the world’s largest cruise company to hand over internal communication that discusses covid-19.
More than a dozen states began emerging from their coronavirus lockdowns, leaving business owners, workers and consumers to decide what normal means now.
See the latest coronavirus news and developments Friday in the Washington region.
The White House is a cocoon of safety that does not exist almost anywhere else in the country.
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New York's covid-19 crisis through the eyes of a paramedic
The Washington Post spent a day with the Empress Emergency Medical Service in Yonkers as they responded to coronavirus calls.
New York's covid-19 crisis through the eyes of a paramedic
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