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- The Washington Post reports that President Donald Trump is weighing calls from some Republican lawmakers and White House advisers to scale back steps to slow the spread of COVID-19 despite the advice of federal health officials and experts.
- The coronavirus has affected about two dozen Postal Service workers around the country, but their colleagues have to keep working, and there is a growing fear of a greater outbreak.
- Here's a perfect example of how not to social distance: delivery workers and people waiting for takeout crammed on the sidewalk outside famed fancy restaurant Carbone in Greenwich Village several times in the last week.
- A man has died and his wife is under critical care "after the couple, both in their 60s, ingested chloroquine phosphate," one of the anti-malaria drugs that President Trump has mentioned in recent days.
- International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound confirmed the obvious: the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are going to be postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
- Paul Simon performed a special version of "American Tune" this weekend.
- Funerals are starting to happen virtually now.
- "In Your Eyes" is one of the best songs from The Weeknd's new album, and now it has a music video to boot.
- The coronavirus shutdown has made life unimaginably hard for those without housing.
- The Ringer has suggestions for nine extremely long movies you might have the time to watch now.
- The Texas Attorney General has ordered that abortions should not be performed unless the mother's life is in danger.
- Listen to "Martin," a great new single from Car Seat Headrest.
- And finally, if you really don't want to walk your dog right now, there is always another option:

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