Sunday's Headlines: Coronavirus screening causes massive bottlenecks at U.S. airports

Infighting, missteps and a son-in-law hungry for results: Inside the Trump administration's troubled response; Surge in coronavirus patients threatens to swamp U.S. hospitals; Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to 'flatten the curve'; 'We'll improvise': A resource-starved rural hospital steels itself for coronavirus's arrival; Life in the U.S.: Startlingly different in some places, oddly unchanged in others; With unprecedented force and speed, a global recession is likely taking hold; I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it.; Coronavirus will linger after the pandemic ends. But it won't be as bad.; The coronavirus is here. Someone please tell us what to do.; For black voters, the 'Democratic establishment' meets in our living rooms; Raise your hand if you have not been sued by Devin Nunes; Our bitterly divided House has done the right thing to address the coronavirus crisis; Sanders lays out plan for campaign amid coronavirus pandemic; Trump and his children ordered to expand document search in suit alleging he endorsed pyramid scam; Fresh rocket attack wounds troops in Iraq, potentially deepening U.S.-Iran tensions

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Coronavirus screening causes massive bottlenecks at U.S. airports

Travelers returning from Europe stood in line for hours in crowded terminals after the Trump administration announced the health checks with little warning.

Infighting, missteps and a son-in-law hungry for results: Inside the Trump administration's troubled response

The White House effort has been as haphazard as the chaotic early days of the Trump presidency — turning into something of a family-and-friends pandemic response operation.

By Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Josh Dawsey ● Read more »

Surge in coronavirus patients threatens to swamp U.S. hospitals

Health-care executives say they are doing whatever they can to plug holes in a system that they acknowledge is not prepared to handle the very worst the pandemic could dish out.

By Christopher Rowland and Ariana Eunjung Cha ● Read more »

Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to 'flatten the curve'

The early trickle of new coronavirus infections has turned into a steady current. By creating simple simulations, we can see how to slow it down.

By Harry Stevens ● Read more »

'We'll improvise': A resource-starved rural hospital steels itself for coronavirus's arrival

The health center in hard-hit Washington state desperately seeks supplies essential to coping with the inevitable.

By Eli Saslow ● Read more »

Life in the U.S.: Startlingly different in some places, oddly unchanged in others

As the outbreak spreads, some people have withdrawn into their homes, separating themselves from contact with strangers. Others insist on proceeding as usual, but even they slam into constant reminders — canceled events, closed schools, shuttered offices, fearful friends — that there is no "as usual" right now.

By Annie Gowen, Arelis Hernández and Marc Fisher ● Read more »