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Vasi's Cafe is shown closed in St. Clair Shores, Mich., Friday, May 8, 2020. Many restaurants have closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Coronavirus stimulus can’t save manufacturing, hospitality, restaurant sectors, economists say

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Senators and staff listen to Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speak remotely during a virtual Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)

AP Exclusive: CDC docs stress plans for more virus flareups

By JASON DEAREN and MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx listens as President Donald Trump holds a meeting about the coronavirus response with Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House recommends tests for all nursing home residents

By KEVIN FREKING and BERNARD CONDON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump departs after speaking about the coronavirus during a press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, May 11, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump abruptly ends briefing after contentious exchanges

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 17, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence listen as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration’s leading health experts on safely dealing with the novel coronavirus will be testifying in a Senate hearing by a videoconference after three of them and the committee's chairman were exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump faces virus at White House amid push to ‘reopen’ US

By ZEKE MILLER and KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

A member of the U.S. Secret Service, front, stands at her post wearing a mask as other staff member social distance wearing masks, before President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus during a press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, May 11, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House virus trouble is microcosm of what America faces

By AAMER MADHANI and KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

White House senior adviser Kevin Hassett arrives for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, May 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Kevin Hassett, White House economic adviser, expects 20% unemployment rate before recovery

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 21, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump listens as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Some of Trump’s top economic advisers emphasized on Sunday, May 10, the importance of states getting more businesses and offices open. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump advisers cite need to stop ‘permanent’ economic toll

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Anthony Fauci enters coronavirus quarantine

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump's White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller, left, and Katie Waldman, now Miller, arrive for a State Dinner with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington. Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary has the coronavirus, the White House said Friday, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week. Pence spokeswoman Katie Miller, who tested positive Friday, May 8, 2020, had been in recent contact with Pence but not with the president. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Pence spends weekend at home after exposure to infected aide

By KEVIN FREKING and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

In this Sunday, May 3, 2020, file photo, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks during a news conference at the state's Emergency Operations Center at the Boone National Guard Center in Frankfort, Ky., about the coronavirus pandemic. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP) **FILE**

The Latest: South Korea prez says surge no reason to panic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 22, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump passes Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

AP Exclusive: Docs show top WH officials buried CDC report

By JASON DEAREN - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a White House National Day of Prayer Service in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pence staffer tests positive for COVID-19

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Vice President Mike Pence speaks to attendees after a White House National Day of Prayer Service in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

VP Pence’s press secretary tests positive for coronavirus

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

In this July 18, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, center, takes his seat before the start of his meeting with members of his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. Also taking their seats are from left, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, White House deputy chief of staff for communications Bill Shine, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. For years Shine carried out Roger Ailes’ orders, earning himself the nicknamed “the Butler” at Fox. Now, Shine is serving the same role under Trump. Shine has yet to select a permanent office or unpack his stuff. But he has been putting his mark on the West Wing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Personal valet to Trump tests positive for COVID-19, White House confirms

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 16, 2020, file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listen during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration has shelved a set of detailed documents created by the nation’s top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen mass transit, day care centers, restaurants, bars and other public places during the still-raging pandemic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump administration buries detailed CDC advice on reopening

By JASON DEAREN and MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, talks with Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense Spectrum Policy and the Impact of the Federal Communications Commission's Ligado Decision on National Security during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP)

Some senators may be rethinking virus testing for lawmakers

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting about the coronavirus response with Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Washington. Vice President Mike Pence listens at right. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump valet has coronavirus; president again tests negative

By ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

President Barack Obama talks with FBI Director James Comey during Comey's installation as FBI director, Monday, Oct. 28,2013, at FBI Headquarters in Washington. The president said he picked Comey to lead the FBI after interviewing many other candidates for the job. The president said at an installation ceremony for the new FBI director Monday afternoon that it wasn't Comey's educational or professional background that made him the the choice. He said it was a sense that Comey knows what's right and what's wrong. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama discussed Flynn probe with Comey at White House meeting

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump closes his eyes as he prays during a White House National Day of Prayer Service in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump at National Day of Prayer event asks ‘for recovery and for renewal’

By Dave Boyer and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times