According to CNN and other reports, the White House has not followed social distancing guidelines. The White House said today that a personal valet of President Trump’s has tested positive for COVID-19, after displaying symptoms of the illness. Trump was reportedly upset to learn of the exposure yesterday. Read Full Story

Courageous Conversation Global Foundation flips the script on campaign lawn signs to encourage Americans to vote for victims of police brutality. While the Trump administration has used the White House as part of its messaging around the president’s victory against the COVID-19 virus, another group has also seized the power of the White House backdrop to deliver an election message. Read Full Story

Data experts are using a crowdsourced database to track who in President Trump’s orbit has tested for the coronavirus. Several people in President Trump’s orbit have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 over the last week, including RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, at least three Republican senators, the first lady, and President Trump himself. Read Full Story

Per the Department of Health and Human Services—in underlined font—hospitals should no longer report COVID-19 data to the CDC. Per order from the White House, hospital data on COVID-19 patients will now be sent straight to the Trump administration, bypassing its customary first stop at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read Full Story

President Donald Trump tweeted early Friday morning that he and the first lady, Melania Trump, had tested positive for Covid-19.

The hearing with one of the most respected experts in America will be about the risks of reopening the country too soon while COVID-19 death and infections continue to surge. If there’s a single person who has become a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the point man on the Trump administration’s White House Coronavirus Task Force. Read Full Story

Declaring a national emergency frees up the federal government to release $50 billion to states dealing with the crisis. President Trump held a press conference in the White House Rose Garden on Friday to update the American public about what the government is doing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Here are some of the key points: Read Full Story

The declaration says the young should resume full economic activity while the old and vulnerable should continue to shelter in place. Today The New York Times reported that the White House has embraced a petition from a group of scientists that endorses controversial herd immunity tactics for beating the coronavirus while at the same time opposing lockdowns. Known as the Great Barrington Declaration, the document argues for a fairly laissez-faire approach to tackling COVID-19. Here’s what you need to know: Read Full Story

‘The Way I See It’ charts photographer Pete Souza’s rise to working in the White House under Reagan and Obama—and why he decided to speak out against Trump. As an official White House photographer for both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, Pete Souza always viewed his job as being a historian of sorts, capturing the intimate moments in the personal lives and careers of presidents to illustrate who they were as leaders, husbands, and fathers. Read Full Story

Organizers announced that the debate will take place virtually due to the president's COVID-19 diagnosis.